The Nineteenth Byte

Anonymous

4:00 PM

And apparently I was wrong - Peter isn't the closest to Marshal

muddyfish

@ais523 it was the sandbox

Martin Ender

@Mego are you? :P

Anonymous

I have a decent amount of progress (363/500), but I'm fairly certain there's a few people closer than me

Matthew Roh

Marshal needs years of progress

muddyfish

how can you flag so much stuff? I do some flagging and sometimes I think I'm a bit excessive about it yet still only have 83

Anonymous

4:01 PM

Comment flags

Matthew Roh

Yea comment flags work

muddyfish

Whilst I was still active on it, I ran out of flags on SO almost every day

Anonymous

Also shameless plug for Charcoal HQ, the easiest way to get Marshal on every site on the network

quartata

@MartinEnder as nathan pointed out yesterday the strings have to be engineered on some level. if they are truly random it will only take 3 character segments to identify each string

Matthew Roh

I'm trying to make a wireless mouse that is truly wireless and hassle-less by charging the mouse wirelessly

quartata

4:03 PM

@Mego ProgramFox is like 50 away from Marshal I believe

Anonymous

That's who it was

Anonymous

2 days ago, by Mego

I guess that just shows off my bad habit of frequently not actually looking beyond the first letter of a username

quartata

I think I will put an upper limit on the lengths of the strings to make that feasible

muddyfish

@Mego So if I change my avatar, I can be Martin?

Malivil

Or him himself for that matter

Though I would think he would realize that time...

Kritixi Lithos

4:06 PM

@muddyfish And then capitalise your m

muddyfish

@KritixiLithos not happening then :P

Martin Ender

@quartata I was thinking random binary strings

Malivil

Just looking at the people talking there are a lot of us "M"s

muddyfish

@Malivil 'M' is in the middle of the alphabet. That might be a reason why

AdmBorkBork

@MartinEnder But they can't be random-random, since the cop has to be deterministic.

Martin Ender

4:08 PM

@AdmBorkBork you can always fake that with a big expmod or by seeding the PRNG with a fixed value

Malivil

@muddyfish en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency

"m" is 2.406%

But that is english words which doesn't directly relate to usenames

quartata

Oh OK. Random binary is more of a nuisance for regex.

muddyfish

@Malivil I was being sarcastic. Unfortunately sarcasm isn't really easy to convey on the internet

Malivil

I know you were, I was just curious if that was actually true =P

muddyfish

@Malivil The letters in the alphabet should be sorted by frequency of use

Malivil

4:10 PM

You can do that in the wikipedia table

Oh

Matthew Roh

I sometimes find people talking about EE, why's that?

Malivil

That might be an interesting challenge...

letter frequency cipher?

Riker

@muddyfish yeah, I made a bash edit, and now my inbox gets a notice every 10 minutes or so >.< let me know if you figure out how to fix those

AdmBorkBork

@MartinEnder Could just ban randomization/hashing, like most CnR do nowadays

muddyfish

@Riker I'll have a look on mother meta

Riker

4:11 PM

use SO meta

mother meta doesn't support docs

muddyfish

@Riker I keep forgetting that

AdmBorkBork

I just received a spam email from an Adam Brookbook ... O.o

3

Matthew Roh

Adam Brookbook?

0_0

Kritixi Lithos

@Riker You can unwatch/unsubscribe you know

Riker

how

not github

SO docs

Kritixi Lithos

4:13 PM

I know

Malivil

@muddyfish Do you think a challenge based on letter frequency would be interesting?

muddyfish

@Malivil yes you can ping with the first 3 letters

Kritixi Lithos

Click on the message, it will open a discussion. Then you have the option to unwatch all discussions

Matthew Roh

I remember riker was easterlyirk in like 2015 or something

Riker

@KritixiLithos I unwatched the discussion yesterday, but that doesn't stop proposed changes

@MatthewRoh I was easterly about a month ago

:P

Malivil

4:13 PM

@muddyfish Sorry, I hit enter too early =P I edited it

Matthew Roh

Oh

Kritixi Lithos

I unwatched it and everything's normal

muddyfish

@muddyfish I hope I'm not annoying anyone when I ask for avatar pulls with @mod

Martin Ender

@AdmBorkBork is expmod hashing though? with some simple number theory it's always possible to generate large numbers with quasirandom digits

muddyfish

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Q: Make All Documentation Notification Subscriptions Configurable in One Place

For a while now, I have been receiving inbox notifications for "proposed change", "topic request", etc. for topics on Documentation that I am not interested in. When digging deep enough through the interface for those topics, can find where to disable the notifications as detailed in this answer...

Riker

4:15 PM

thank you so much

muddyfish

Haven't tried it yet

Matthew Roh

I recently thought 0 divided by 0 is every possible number

AdmBorkBork

@MartinEnder Yeah, that's true enough.

muddyfish

@Malivil Maybe as long as it is sufficiently golfable (eg not printing out the alphabet sorted by frequency in english) but maybe sorted by a frequency of an input

Malivil

@muddyfish I was considering a cipher based on letter frequency

Matthew Roh

4:19 PM

In 0x=0, x is 0/0, but the equation is always true independent of x so 0/0 is every possible number confirmed

muddyfish

@Malivil I think that might already be posted

Malivil

I looked, but I'll look around some more

Riker

@MatthewRoh not true

you can't solve for x in that situation

Matthew Roh

Oh

Riker

to rearrange the first equation into the second, you divide both sides by zero

Matthew Roh

4:19 PM

But its just my small thoughts

:P

Kritixi Lithos

@muddyfish T Hanks (pun intended)

Matthew Roh

Didnt mego tell u to stop puns

Riker

i doubt it

Martin Ender

@quartata did you see my suggestion to involve a reference (regex) solution by the cops which should be short?

Kritixi Lithos

s/ H/h/

Malivil

4:24 PM

@muddyfish codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/24739/…

That one does the opposite of what I said but it's basically a dupe

Oh well

Matthew Roh

In this you have a half of a keyboard, what about your mouse? Is that halfed too?

Cause if then you just cant normally use the mouse

betseg

> You connect your keyboard to the BOMB

no mouse i think

Christopher Peart

Anyone know if jelly can return the input with one byte?

LliwTelracs

@MatthewRoh You don't have any other hardware than the keyboard and the screen (a mouse for example)

Matthew Roh

Eh

LliwTelracs

4:26 PM

That is spec 3 in the question

Matthew Roh

Ok

Is the bomb halfed too

Imagine the bomb got halfed by a bullet

LliwTelracs

Read the question

Christopher Peart

@MatthewRoh (Censored salt) It is just noise and not funny.

Matthew Roh

:\

Christopher Peart

I had to sensor the huge dose of salt I was about to post

Matthew Roh

4:30 PM

Isnt the correct word there "roast" instead of salt

Riker

@MartinEnder thanks for linking that crafting interpreters ebook, new chapter is 10/10

Christopher Peart

@MatthewRoh no it was just salt

If I make a file in python called a.py and have the code be import a.py wouldn't it never compile?

Riker

python doesn't compile like that

muddyfish

@Riker yes it does

Matthew Roh

iirc It interprets instead of compiling

muddyfish

4:35 PM

@ChristopherPeart it might be compiled when if run import __main__

@MatthewRoh no, python actually has a compilation stage

that's what *.pyc files are

Matthew Roh

Meh

Martin Ender

@Riker oh sweet, new chapter :)

Christopher Peart

@muddyfish but I don't want to compile :P

Riker

@MartinEnder yep!

Matthew Roh

Youre doing the slack off challenge arent you

muddyfish

4:36 PM

@ChristopherPeart why not?

Christopher Peart

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A: Shortest Code to Legitimately Slack Off

Python 10 bytes import a.py Save the file as a.py Compile and........

That is why

@MatthewRoh yep

muddyfish

As far as I know, it's impossible to get python into an infinite loop whilst compiling

Christopher Peart

I check my code with TNB when it is super short and I can't check it right now. I avoid doing large things that actually involve more then y/n

DJMcMayhem

@ChristopherPeart Python is not a complied language

muddyfish

the closest you have to control of that step is with __future__ imports

Christopher Peart

4:38 PM

Hmm

SO is it invalid?

muddyfish

@ChristopherPeart yes

Christopher Peart

Dang it

muddyfish

You can't run arbitrary code in the compilation stage of python

Christopher Peart

dang

Trying to find a way to loop

muddyfish

I'm taking the compilation step to be the bit where the text gets converted to virtual machine code

Matthew Roh

4:40 PM

@ChristopherPeart main or something

__main__

Damn markups

@muddyfish So just before each run?

Christopher Peart

So import` __main__` would work?

muddyfish

@ChristopherPeart no, that's at runtime

Christopher Peart

brb drinking bleach

AdmBorkBork

That seems a little drastic.

Christopher Peart

Mmm lemony fresh

@AdmBorkBork every challenge seems to go: Me: "I found a easy and small answer!!" TNB: "hahaha u thought"

muddyfish

4:44 PM

IMO, code that would be valid would send compile(string_containing_code, "", "exec") into an infinite loop

LliwTelracs

Python converts it to a .pyc file (bytecode) and then it will run it. Even if they .py file self calls. The only way you can get it to freeze on compiling is if you find something similar to the Perl answer

muddyfish

@LliwTelracs (or a bug in python)

AdmBorkBork

@ChristopherPeart OK, that's fine you feel like that. I'm just saying that jokes about suicide aren't all that funny.

Christopher Peart

Ok sorry it went that way

AdmBorkBork

/em thumbs-up

Christopher Peart

4:48 PM

?

muddyfish

from __future__ import barry_as_FLUFL
1!=1

is a syntax error in python 3

from __future__ import barry_as_FLUFL
1<>1

is not however
kind of cool right?

PEP 401

AdmBorkBork

@ChristopherPeart Sorry. /em is a somewhat-standard command in MMOs for "emote", as in "do this action <action>"

muddyfish

@AdmBorkBork I thought that was either *thing or *things*

Kritixi Lithos

@ChristopherPeart Closely related with the other xkcd challenge

Christopher Peart

@KritixiLithos yeah but different input

Different output

LliwTelracs

4:52 PM

Aren't meta-tags not supposed to be used?

AdmBorkBork

@muddyfish There are various conventions (warning: TVTropes link). I played a lot of WoW, and /em was the one in use there.

Christopher Peart

Didn't use a meta tag did I?

LliwTelracs

beginner-question is a meta-tag

Christopher Peart

@AdmBorkBork heh

muddyfish

@AdmBorkBork Does movies.SE automagically add that warning to a TVTropes link?

AdmBorkBork

4:53 PM

I dunno.

muddyfish

Because every time I've found one, it's had exactly the same warning

AdmBorkBork

It's a very sensible warning. Also, this post is relevant to the newest challenge on main.

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Q: There is an XKCD for that

There is an XKCD for that If you ever are on this website much, you will see a comment with a XKCD link. The challenge is when given the title of an XKCD (check the archive for titles) then print the URL of the comic and mouse over text of the comic. Rules Standard loopholes except: You may ac...

code-golf beginner-problem

muddyfish

@AdmBorkBork I think the first time I found the site, I spent literally the whole day looking at it. I was not given a warning at the outset though.

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5:14 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Hack a Lottery A Good friend of yours has recently purchased a 'mystery ticket' to entitle him to a 'random' amount of dollars, between 0 and 50, to be transferred to his bank account immediately following the draw, however, the ticket was sold to him by a small town lottery/gambling company, wh...

DJMcMayhem

5:24 PM

CMC: print every ASCII character whose hexadecimal representation does not contain any letters

Any order is fine

Riker

hm

Riley

@DJMcMayhem 11 bytes: tio.run/nexus/05ab1e#@390X2BZ5eH2jJSEzEqd//8B

Kritixi Lithos

@DJMcMayhem s/hexa//

ais523

@DJMcMayhem is outputting characters with codes in the 0x80 to 0x99 range legal?

note that they're all nonprintable

muddyfish

Pyke, 13 bytes, ~K#.ob16GL{s!

ais523

5:33 PM

if not, I can do it in 9 bytes of Jelly: Try it online!

if 0x80 to 0x99 are legal then it's a bit shorter

DJMcMayhem

@ais523 I didn't think about that. Probably not

@KritixiLithos no, I meant hexadecimal

ais523

right; they don't have letters in the hex representation, but they aren't ASCII

Kritixi Lithos

@DJMcMayhem I was trying to find a loophole :P

DJMcMayhem

@KritixiLithos that would be too easy :P

<M-,> <DEL>

muddyfish

Pyke, 12 bytes, ~K#.ob16~u-!

Kritixi Lithos

5:38 PM

@DJMcMayhem I thought you needed to specify two argument to the range operator

mbomb007

@Pavel The accepted answer on your challenge isn't the shortest.

Business Cat

CJam, 18 bytes: '~),32>{iGb:e>A<},

DJMcMayhem

@KritixiLithos I did. Space and del

Kritixi Lithos

How did I miss that?

ais523

@mbomb007 it is, @Pavel declared the shorter answer noncompeting

mbomb007

5:44 PM

ah, right

Business Cat

CJam, 17 bytes: 8,A,m*Gfb{31>},:c

Riley

@DJMcMayhem Brain-Flak, 311 bytes: tio.run/nexus/brain-flak#@69BIdCEQM3qWigCsnEiuFp8iga/uv///…

DJMcMayhem

Noice

@NewSandboxedPosts brain flak would be great at this

betseg

6:00 PM

@DJMcMayhem C, 48 bytes i;f(){for(i=32;i<127;i++)if(i%16<10)putchar(i);}

Riker

woah tio has gcc now?

10/10

mac is so stupid, almost all ppcg answers use gcc but macs only have clang by default

betseg

tio has clang too

Riley

@DJMcMayhem Even better, Brain-Flak in 102 tio.run/nexus/…

Riker

@betseg yeah, but clang things don't work often in gcc

or have stupid warnings

Kritixi Lithos

What's the difference between clang and gcc?

Riker

6:05 PM

> ~~311~~ 102 bytes

well that was a big golf

@KritixiLithos no clue, but apparently many errors worth

Kritixi Lithos

When I compile C programs, I run gcc filename.c

Riley

@Riker I switched from hard coding to actually generating the numbers

It still doesn't actually convert to hex or anything

mınxomaτ

clang avoids GCC specific options that don't belong in a standard compiler and gives warning when you are doing stupid things. It's meant for production.

DJMcMayhem

Yeah, converting to hex would be a nightmare

mınxomaτ

@KritixiLithos gcc on macOS is just an alias (by default).

Kritixi Lithos

6:07 PM

I've been lied to ~~my whole life~~ the past few years

Riker

@Riley oh cool

@KritixiLithos for most things, it works, but clang seems to be stricter about some of the tricks people use to golf C/C++ code

Riley

@Riker Basically it prints 32, then (adds 1 and prints) 10 times, then adds 7 and repeats

Riker

oh cool

@flawr omfg did you know this is a thing

r/planecrashcorner

mınxomaτ

Trivia: Some time in the past they adopted a few C++ type traits from Boost. However, even Boost didn't describe the actual implementation, which resulted in huge inconsistencies between C++ compilers. GCC 7 removed them altogether, even though they are already used by a few projects. So you get issues like this: github.com/01org/tbb/issues/12

Jan Dvorak

After all I've been through, after I went to the hell and back, after I collected the finest wine under the hyperbolic sun, after I saved the princess and my love kept her alive ... a high tide is what kills me?

DJMcMayhem

6:19 PM

Hahaha, spotted on HNQ:

3

Riker

the stereotypes are real

i.imgur.com/ssezjCW.gifv

Jan Dvorak

@Riker [sheets of suns start stacking up] "as expected..." [sun cubes start multiplying] "holy sh..."

Riker

ye

Mistah Figgins

@Riker (Holy crap value = 100)

muddyfish

we don't flag answers that are incorrect as NAA do we?

quartata

6:34 PM

@MartinEnder Elaborate?

Riker

@muddyfish mod attention iirc

Martin Ender

@quartata I think ideally you want cops that have patterns but are hard to find. This ensures that interesting robbers solutions exist. The way to do that is to have cops provide their own (secret) solution and have the robbers try to match or beat it.

quartata

@MartinEnder Ah, I see what you mean.

Riker

that would be a bit more cnr-ish

DJMcMayhem

@Riker No, I think NAA is correct

Riker

6:37 PM

shrug

DJMcMayhem

It's much better than VLQ

Riker

@DJMcMayhem not sure tbh

@DJMcMayhem ye

though iirc VLQ puts them in the review queue

quartata

So instead of having the upper bound be just the naive regex the cops actually set the upper bound, in a sense.

muddyfish

I'll go for NAA then

quartata

Hmm, that really changes the scoring though.

Martin Ender

6:39 PM

@muddyfish @Riker @DJMcMayhem I prefer a custom flag, which tells me why the answer should be deleted (pointing to existing comments is fine)

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Q: Find initial ranks

Assume there is an array A of N elements. A contains every number from 1 to N. We are given an array B of N elements. If we move each element A[i] left by B[i] places starting from i = 0 until N-1, in the end array A will be sorted in increasing order, i.e. it will be A = {1, 2, 3, ..., N}. Given...

code-golf sorting binary-tree

muddyfish

@MartinEnder I'll do that in the future then. Sorry but for now you've just got an NAA

Martin Ender

That's fine, thanks

LliwTelracs

If the robbers have to beat it the cop should have to select a regex which is slightly longer than the shortest valid regex they found.

Martin Ender

If this CnR isn't about cracking cops but about beating them as well as possible then it's not even necessary to use the cop solution as an upper bound, but simply as a scaling factor in the scoring or something.

quartata

6:43 PM

Hrmmmm.

Riker

@MartinEnder ah, okay

ais523

according to Meta, the correct flag for an incorrect answer is VLQ but I'm not sure I agree with that

Martin Ender

@quartata if the cops prepare a solution, you don't even need to involve a generating program for the strings.

quartata

I know which is why this is kind of morphing into a different challenge

Martin Ender

Fwiw, I don't really like that part as it means regardless of how good my cop idea is, I need to know a golfy language to maximise the score I can get with it.

(without the language otherwise affecting the robbers at all)

quartata

6:51 PM

Yeah I think regardless I'm probably going to take out the byte count of submission factor -- people are already going to have to golf with the byte limit so

Wheat Wizard

If I wanted to brain-storm a challenge around a general theme where would be a good place to do that? The sandbox? A chatroom?

quartata

I wanted the byte limit so that people didn't go completely crazy but I question how much it'll affect it

Pavel

What does the path to a network computer look like in Linux? I remember in Windows it was just \\NameOfDevice, but that doesn't work here. >_>

DJMcMayhem

@WheatWizard Probably a chatroom. It would be fine here or in a custom one, either one would work

Kritixi Lithos

@WheatWizard Start it here. If it starts to get crowded, then create a chatroom

Wow, I'm getting so many +1s from SO (documentation) recently (3 in one day, that's a record)

ais523

6:54 PM

@Pavel a network mount will be given a path on the filesystem that's just a regular path, typically starting /media/ if it's just temporary

if the network drive isn't mounted, it won't have a path, so you'd need to mount it first

Wheat Wizard

I actually wanted to Brain-Storm a challenge for Brain-Flak's Birthday so will do it in the Brain-Flak chatroom.

DJMcMayhem

@WheatWizard by the way, I have a really interesting idea for a new flak. I'm gonna work on it a little bit more to see how feasible it is before sharing details, but i think it'll be really interesting to work with. :)

ais523

networked storage on Linux is normally accessed via remote-copy programs like scp, though, rather than remote mounts

Wheat Wizard

Ooooooh

can't wait

Pavel

@ais523 I can get the computer to show up in Files by going to Other Locations -> Windows Network -> WORKGROUP -> ComputerName but it's not in /media/. (I'm trying to add a printer)

ais523

6:57 PM

ooh, printers :-(

I don't know how you add a network printer in Linux but IIRC it's really complex

you might want to try a search engine, that's likely to produce better results than asking here

quartata

@MartinEnder I also worry this is going to end up to much like this

Pavel

Having just visited the fourth page of Google, I did indeed find what I needed, yes.

Apparantly there's a package you have to download for that.

mınxomaτ

@ais523 Well actually not. scp is only for transferring files. The common way to use network storage is to mount it. iSCSI for fast and local links, SMB in a linux/Windows mixed network. Specialized network targets (like S3 or B2) have fuse modules to mount them as normal file systems even though they aren't.

ais523

right, if you have specialized storage, you'd mount it

most people don't though, at least outside business and maybe academia

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Reverse Insertion sort Inspired by this question Objetive Generate the original scrambled list, from the movements that an Insertion Sort would do to sort it. The original list will have all numbers from 0 to N-1(inclusive) where N is the size of the input. Input A list containing the necess...

mınxomaτ

7:09 PM

Even if you don't have specialized storage. You need to mount something for it to be a storage medium. Using only scp is like manually doing all IOPs. Though you can use scp (or even FTP) as a ledger in fuse to mount network target, but that would be an insane thing to do, as it adds all kinds of overhead. The most popular NAS protocol is still SMB via cifs, scp is something different entirely.

scp is nice for deploying code to a cluster though.

Pavel

;-; I just used up the last of my black ink printing a test page.

muddyfish

@ais523 I wouldn't be surprised if a large percentage of people here have specialised storage

mınxomaτ

@muddyfish I would be if anyone here did.

ais523

scp's for quickly copying a file to or from a remote machine, and it's also commonly used (via rsync) for backups

muddyfish

@mınxomaτ what do you mean by specialised storage?

mınxomaτ

7:12 PM

> Specialized network targets (like S3 or B2)

ais523

it doesn't do much else, but that covers the vast majority of networked file interactions I actually need

Pavel

@mınxomaτ what do those alphanumeric mean..?

mınxomaτ

@Pavel Amazon AWS S3 and Backblaze B2

Anonymous

Yeah all this is potato to me

Jan Dvorak

I have storage specialized for permanent residence inside a hard drive. It's called a MicroSATA HDD.

mınxomaτ

7:13 PM

These are object-storage systems (compare: Swift).

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Q: Draw an asterisk analog clock for hour N

Create a function or program that will take an input N (a number from 0 - 24) which represents the HOUR. Output should draw an analog clock out of asterisks showing the hour N. 🕛🕐🕑🕒🕓🕔🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙🕚🕛 Notes: •The minute hand must be longer than the hour hand (in terms of number of aster...

code-golf ascii-art

muddyfish

I just have a server that lives in my house that I use for backups

mınxomaτ

For my home setup I have a few ZFS RAIDs glued together by GlusterFS.

DJMcMayhem

CMC: Print a checkerboard.

*B*B*B*B
B*B*B*B*
*B*B*B*B
#*#*#*#*
*#*#*#*#
R*R*R*R*
*R*R*R*R
R*R*R*R*

Anonymous

Actually, 28 bytes: "R*"4*;;R@"*#"4*;R"*B"4*;;R@

flawr

7:26 PM

@Riker my church

Martin Ender

@quartata "this" being the my proposal or the current version?

Riker

@flawr I'm actually not surprised it exists

@DJMcMayhem FOG, 27 bytes: "*B"4*XzX"#*"4*XzX"*R"4*XzX

AdmBorkBork

@DJMcMayhem PowerShell, 45 bytes: '*BB**B#**#R**RR*'-split'(..)'-ne''|%{$_*4}

Might be able to golf it more

Riker

7:43 PM

explanation?

AdmBorkBork

The string is just the first two columns, concatenated. The -split'(..)' splits the string into chunks of length two, keeping the match. The -ne'' is needed due to how regex matching works so we don't get empty strings. Then we loop over each of those two-character strings |%{...}. Each iteration we string-multiply it out to the correct length. Those strings are left on the pipeline, output is implicit.

Riker

ah, cool

Business Cat

CJam, 25 bytes: "B**BB**##**RR**R"2/4f*N*

DJMcMayhem

V, 28 bytes Try it online!

Business Cat

Actually I printed it mirrored horizontally by accident

AdmBorkBork

7:52 PM

Nope, I can't seem to get it any lower. 45 bytes it is.

Riker

@DJMcMayhem aha! a shitty lang that I wrote most of in less than a day beat V in a string-generation challenge!

DJMcMayhem

Careful there, you know how competitive I am

Riker

imma enjoy it while it lasts :p

Business Cat

Retina, 30 bytes

DJMcMayhem

@Riker V, 26 bytes

I might be able to take a couple more off if I consolidate the two loops

Riker

8:06 PM

damnit

nj tho

ATaco

Try it online! RprogN, 32 bytes.

DJMcMayhem

25 now

Riker

3 mins ago, by Riker

damnit

3 mins ago, by Riker

nj tho

LliwTelracs

@Riker are you just going to quote the last time you said it each time @DJMcMayhem manages to reduce the size of his code?

AdmBorkBork

PowerShell, also 45 bytes: 'BBB##RRR'[0..8]|%{("$_*","*$_")[++$a%2]*4}

primo

8:11 PM

perl, 35 bytes
say$_ x 4for'B*B*#*R*R'=~/.\G.|../g

Riker

@LliwTelracs prolly not bc flags

AdmBorkBork

Wait, that's 43 bytes

woohoo

Wait, dangit, my previous one was also 43

Apparently I can't count, even though TIO has a bytecount on the page. :-/

primo

tio.run/nexus/…

i think that's it

quartata

@MartinEnder Both to some extent, but primarily your proposal

Martin Ender

Hm I guess, although I think doing the same thing as regex golf is still an interesting twist.

quartata

8:39 PM

@MartinEnder By the way something is still up with your avatar -- it only shows up with certain sizes

For the size that shows up in the user bar and when you post more than one message it's your identicon

But the smallest size is fine

AdmBorkBork

@quartata worksfineforme.com

quartata

@AdmBorkBork I've tried it on 4 devices now

AdmBorkBork

if(user = 167070){messUp(avatar.GetRandom())}

Kritixi Lithos

s/=/==/

AdmBorkBork

Translation from pseudocode to real code is left as an exercise for the reader.

DJMcMayhem

8:50 PM

@KritixiLithos Wa=

Pavel

s/=/===/ 'cause that's clearly JS, right?

Kritixi Lithos

if((new Integer(user)).equals(new Integer(167070))){
  messUp(avatar.getRandom());
}

LliwTelracs

@Pavel Oddly enough dividing things by regex doesn't give any useful sort of answer

Pavel

@KritixiLithos == is overloaded for Integers though, isn't it?

Kritixi Lithos

@DJMcMayhem WHat's the difference between w and W? The vim help menu wasn't really helpful

quartata

8:54 PM

@Pavel It is, they will unbox.

Kritixi Lithos

@Pavel I want verbose code

Pavel

We can do better than that, then.

loop: while(new BigInteger(new String(user)).subtract(new BigInteger("167070")).equals(BigInteger.ZERO)) {
    messUp(avatar.getRandom());
    break loop;
}

ATaco

Avatar.get(new User(new Integer(167070))).setImage(Random.nextInt());

Kritixi Lithos

@ATaco java.util.Random

Pavel

I'd say that the while loop is stretching it, but I've actually seen people do that...

Kritixi Lithos

8:59 PM

@Pavel java.math.BigInteger to make it more verbose

Pavel

TY

muddyfish