The Nineteenth Byte

Erik the Outgolfer

4:00 PM

ouch

Mr. Xcoder

carlos 35, uriel 30, totally 10

@EriktheOutgolfer Do you now have any challenge for 05AB1E?

Erik the Outgolfer

I have 359 helpful flags...I think I'm on the top

DJMcMayhem

@EriktheOutgolfer Mego has 500+ iirc

Lembik

@ASCII-only can you fix the first bit?

Mr. Xcoder

4:17 PM

Were you ignoring me or just didn't have any?

Mego has 527 helpful flags btw

I have... 9 (and Neil 0)

flawr

I have one flag, and that one isn't very helpful at all. I can ask it to do things all day but it never bothers to lift a finger.

Dennis

I have 85, but lots of these were validated by myself...

HyperNeutrino

how do you check your flags

Mr. Xcoder

Profile > Activity?

HyperNeutrino

oh

Mr. Xcoder

4:20 PM

Below Impact

HyperNeutrino

I have 6 lol

then again that doesn't count my old account IIRC

Mr. Xcoder

But what do you all flag when you directly VTC (except the mod attention)?

flawr

Is there a way to see the ratio helpful/flagged?

HyperNeutrino

spam

Mr. Xcoder

@Dennis Ha, nice

HyperNeutrino

4:22 PM

and also I flagged something for edit wars

Dennis

@Mr.Xcoder Unneeded comments, invalid answers, and spam, quite likely in that order.

@HyperNeutrino That's not really required btw. Community already flags those.

Mr. Xcoder

@Dennis What flag can one use for Unneeded comments? Comment flags?

Like too chatty / obsolete?

Dennis

Yes. One of the default options is no longer needed.

HyperNeutrino

@Dennis oh ok.

Dennis

too chatty and obsolete are a thing of the past.

Mr. Xcoder

4:24 PM

Yeah, crossed out 44 is still 44 is one of them :)

Dennis

@HyperNeutrino You can still flag them, just in case. Dismissing a single flag or 100 flags on the same post is the same amount of work. You either validate them all or dismiss them all.

HyperNeutrino

Ah I see. Okay.

Mr. Xcoder

I miss Helka's challenges :(

@HyperNeutrino JHT?

Maltysen

4:39 PM

@Tobi did u get ur thing working?

New Main Posts

4:52 PM

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Q: Cardinal Code Challenge

Task You're in charge of making a compass, of sorts. Imagine your source code as the compass "needle" where running at different orientations produces distinct output. Supported source code orientations are North, East, South, and West. Example Let's say you have source code: ABCD J K WXYZ...

code-golf

MD XF

This is my first CnR challenge, how does it look?

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Hello, World! (CnR) cops-and-robbers decision-problem code-golf Your challenge is to write a program or function that, with a certain input, prints the exact string Hello, World! and a newline. Capitalization, spacing and punctuation must be exactly as shown above. Input may be taken via standa...

totallyhuman

it looks like text

words everywhere

MD XF

ಠ_ಠ

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A: A Room Of Mirrors

Charcoal, 55 bytes ＢＮＮＪＮＮ↷⎇⁼δ/⎇∧⁻⁻θ¹ζＩε⁷Ｉ3⎇∧ＩζＩε⁵Ｉ1ＰψＷ¬℅ＫＫ«¹Ｆ³¿∧κ℅ＫＫ«↷κ¶↷κ Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code.

totallyhuman

@MDXF i friggin knew it

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Q: Cardinal Code Challenge

Task You're in charge of making a compass, of sorts. Imagine your source code as the compass "needle" where running at different orientations produces distinct output. Supported source code orientations are North, East, South, and West. Example Let's say you have source code: ABCD J K WXYZ...

code-golf source-layout

i'm probably missing it, but does the question say that you have to output a different character?

Erik the Outgolfer

5:16 PM

@Dennis abuuuuuse :p

(unless you want to delete spam posts as community or something)

@DJMcMayhem woah

MD XF

@Poke poke :P

Poke

hello

New Main Posts

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Q: Is it a new highscore?

Challenge: In the language of your choice, write a program that generates a leaderboard with random scores and outputs it, then take a new score as input and check if it can be placed in the leaderboard, and output which place it is in. Specifications: You must generate a list of 50 "random" ...

code-golf random

Dennis

@EriktheOutgolfer That can't really be avoided. The only proper way to delete a post as spam is to raise a spam flag, and a mod's spam flag is binding.

Erik the Outgolfer

only community can delete posts as spam or offensive?

MD XF

5:25 PM

Hey, we could set up a gang for close-voting/spam-deleting, like SOCVR :P

Erik the Outgolfer

@MDXF umm, no

Step Hen

@MDXF at that point just set up bots :P

MD XF

I was joking btw :P

I think gang close/delete-voting is as bad as up/down-voting rings and serial voting

gtg o/

AdmBorkBork

What's it called if a language's integers can be arbitrarily large? Infinitely precise integers? Infinitely large integers? Arbitrary integers?

totallyhuman

arbitrarily precise

AdmBorkBork

5:31 PM

thank-you! I couldn't come up with the term.

totallyhuman

;-; challenges that are impossible in practical languages

MD XF

Ok this is ridiculous

When I put a puts call in my code, when I remove it it works

totallyhuman

your code is putsist

Leaky Nun

0	 	1	 	10	 	63	 	324	 	1485
 	1	 	9	 	53	 	261	 	1161
 	 	8	 	44	 	208	 	900
 	 	 	36	 	164	 	692
 	 	 	 	128	 	528
 	 	 	 	 	400

totallyhuman

cmc?

Leaky Nun

5:35 PM

the top line is the sequence 0 1 10 63 324 1485

the left side is the sequence 0 1 8 36 128 400

the triangle is computed by repeated difference

the top line is the binomial transform of the left side

CMC: binomial transform

ppperry

@totallyhuman Every challenge that can be done in practical languages can (technically) be done in estoric ones.

totallyhuman

@ppperry yes but i'm talking about the other way around

ppperry

the reverse is true, too

totallyhuman

not necessarily

ppperry

(with the exception of unimplementable languages)

MD XF

5:37 PM

Write a cubically quine then

totallyhuman

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Q: Cardinal Code Challenge

Task You're in charge of making a compass, of sorts. Imagine your source code as the compass "needle" where running at different orientations produces distinct output. Supported source code orientations are North, East, South, and West. Example Let's say you have source code: ABCD J K WXYZ...

code-golf source-layout

do that in a practical language

MD XF

Or a Deadfish~ one

ppperry

I guess, the quine is one exception

MD XF

No it's not

There are some more exceptions on this cool site I found the other day

Erik the Outgolfer

@totallyhuman actually it's true, since esoteric languages were made using practical ones

MD XF

5:39 PM

380

Q: Build a digital clock in Conway's Game of Life

Since my Tetris question seems to evade being answered even to this day, I thought I'd create a slightly easier challenge, one that doesn't need any user input. Your task is to build a Game of Life simulation representing a digital clock, which satisfies the following properties: The clock d...

code-challenge game-of-life

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Q: Regex that only matches itself

There are some pretty cool challenges out there involving regex (Self-matching regex, Regex validating regex) This may well be impossible, but is there a regex that will ONLY match itself? NOTE, delimiters must be included: for example /thing/ must match /thing/ and not thing. The only match p...

code-golf string decision-problem regular-expression pattern-matching

Step Hen

@ppperry * can theorectically be done in esoteric Turing complete ones

ppperry

Yes, but there are turing complete estoric languages

MD XF

why would the quine be one exception?

the quine is not the hardest programming puzzle

ppperry

"Since every Turing complete language has at least one quine, this is guaranteed to eventually return a result." There are some caveats to this. I can easily design a Turing-complete language that cannot output its own source code (consider a language whose source code is written entirely with letters, but which can only output 0s and 1s). Some TC languages don't have traditional output at all. The statement is only true if you define some encoding for arbitrary strings on whatever the language's output is. Then you can always find a program which produces output that encodes the source. — Martin Ender ♦ Jun 1 at 6:41

MD XF

Ok?

ppperry

5:41 PM

(ignore the last sentence of that comment)

AdmBorkBork

@totallyhuman I bet it can be done in Perl

MD XF

@AdmBorkBork Perl is pretty much an esolang lol

AdmBorkBork

Sure, but it's still a practical language

a good chunk of the web is written or backended in Perl

totallyhuman

>>> oeis.query([0,1,2,3,4,5,6])
[<Sequence [A007953: Digital sum (i.e., sum of digits) of n; also called digsum(n).]>, <Sequence [A001477: The nonnegative integers.]>, <Sequence [A002113: Palindromes in base 10.]>, <Sequence [A004086: Read n backwards (referred to as R(n) in many sequences).]>...

*scratches head*

Wheat Wizard

5:57 PM

@DJMcMayhem I golfed the Brain-Flak down to about half the size. I thought you might want to take a look at it.

New Main Posts

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Q: Can these primes make squares?

Let's take a prime number, such as 7. If we square that prime, we get 49. Notice, however, that we can take the decimal expansion of that square and split it so that we also get two or more squares, in this case 4 and 9. Whoa, neat! We can do the same for 13, which turns into 169, or 16 and 9. F...

code-golf arithmetic primes

Erik the Outgolfer

@NewMainPosts Jelly, 9 bytes: oh wait I already posted that lol

AdmBorkBork

@totallyhuman Umm, what's different between A002113 and A004086?

oic, nvm, lol

DJMcMayhem

@WheatWizard My only regret is that I have but one upvote to give

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Erik the Outgolfer

@DJMcMayhem that's sad

MD XF

6:08 PM

@DJMcMayhem which answer?

totallyhuman

@EriktheOutgolfer why'd you delete it?

Erik the Outgolfer

I'd rather post it to the original

totallyhuman

wat

Erik the Outgolfer

(not completely the same)

DJMcMayhem

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A: Cardinal Code Challenge

Brain-Flak, 29 bytes ## # #) (()()())#) #( ( Try it online! Brain-Flak, 38 bytes ###### (# (()()())#))(( #( ## Try it online! Brain-Flak, 41 bytes ##(#####(# (()()())# ##))()(( ####((#)#)# Try it online!

AdmBorkBork

6:12 PM

Diggity-dang. Use the sandbox, people. lol

Erik the Outgolfer

that's why sandbox problems are a big deal

MD XF

Speaking of sandbox, is this ready to post?

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Hello, World! (CnR) cops-and-robbers decision-problem code-golf Your challenge is to write a program or function that, with a certain input, prints the exact string Hello, World! and a newline. Capitalization, spacing and punctuation must be exactly as shown above. Input may be taken via standa...

totallyhuman

mm a nice combination of words

+1

AdmBorkBork

@MDXF Are the robbers trying to guess the input that makes it print Hello World?

MD XF

@AdmBorkBork yep

AdmBorkBork

6:16 PM

OK, that's not clearly specified

MD XF

Ah

DJMcMayhem

@MDXF Definitely not. The idea is fine, but C&R challenges require waaaaay more detail

MD XF

@DJMcMayhem Oh I pretty much just copied the rules from Will it halt?

DJMcMayhem

For example, will it have two threads, or will robbers crack with comments? What will the winner of the robbers be?

Heck for that matter, you don't even describe what a robber should do!

MD XF

Yes editing

DJMcMayhem

6:21 PM

Also, FWIW, I think the Your program cannot simply print whatever string it's given is pointless. Sure, a print(input()) submission would be horribly boring, but I don't see any reason to disallow it.

Also, another thing you should describe is What information is revealed, and what information is hidden.

Oh, and one other thing. decision-problem is not appropriate for this challenge

MD XF

Edited everything except the your program cannot simply print whatever string it's given because you have a point but I don't see any reason not to disallow it

Erik the Outgolfer

@MDXF I don't see any reason to disallow it

that's downvotes' job imo

MD XF

I don't want a bunch of boring submissions

It's a waste of my time and robbers' time

DJMcMayhem

You won't get them. I guarantee it

maaaaybe 1 or 2?

MD XF

Fine, I'll put it as a "please don't as it would be really boring"?

Erik the Outgolfer

6:25 PM

better remove it altogether

DJMcMayhem

But an answer like that is so mind-numbingly boring and horribly obvious, I can't imagine anyone who understand the challenge trying it

MD XF

@DJMcMayhem newbies

DJMcMayhem

@MDXF Even then...

Erik the Outgolfer

such answers would still be invalid btw

MD XF

I'd rather just say "don't do it" (either as a rule or just a please) than DV noobs

DJMcMayhem

6:27 PM

You don't have to remove it

Erik the Outgolfer

under the consensus of "serious competitors"

DJMcMayhem

It would be kinda like saying for a kolmogorov complexity challenge Please don't submit an answer of print("the answer"). Sure, you don't want anyone to, but not very many people would in the first place, and it's not really worth explicitly disallowing IMO

MD XF

@EriktheOutgolfer Oh okay. Removed

DJMcMayhem

@MDXF One more thing you should definitely do. Make sure to disallow answers along these lines:

import some_crypto_library

if super_secure_hash(input()) == ...:
    print("Hello, World!")

Maltysen

@DJMcMayhem ah shucks....

Erik the Outgolfer

6:30 PM

better require a unique output for each input

@Maltysen :p

DJMcMayhem

@EriktheOutgolfer But then...

import some_crypto_library

i = input()
hash = super_secure_hash(i)
if hash == ...:
    print("Hello, World!")
else:
    print(hash + i)

MD XF

@DJMcMayhem done

Maltysen

@DJMcMayhem i was gonna encrypt helloworld with a key and then decrypt it with the input

Erik the Outgolfer

@DJMcMayhem hash isn't unique

DJMcMayhem

But hash + i is?

@EriktheOutgolfer You could also do else print(i)

AdmBorkBork

6:32 PM

Crypto functions and the like are already a loophole on CnR, but it's good thing to mention it explicitly.

Maltysen

@DJMcMayhem no, but multiple things could hash to the "correct" hash. so multiple inputs give hello world

Erik the Outgolfer

@DJMcMayhem boooriiiing

DJMcMayhem

@Maltysen Nothing wrong with that.

> Your program must print Hello, World! for at least one input

Maltysen

@DJMcMayhem but Eriks proposed rule was that all inputs give unique output, which wouldn't be broken by ur idea because of this

Erik the Outgolfer

@Maltysen not a rule yet though

DJMcMayhem

6:35 PM

@MDXF I'd say go more broad. Just ban cryptographic functions in general, rather than just hashing.

Which is (in a good way) more subjective, therefore less open to rules-lawyering. (in a weird way)

Maltysen

^

4 mins ago, by Maltysen

@DJMcMayhem i was gonna encrypt helloworld with a key and then decrypt it with the input

totallyhuman

do we have a challenge to output a leaderboard given a question url?

Lembik

any assembly people in? I am trying to understand what clang is doing in these two examples godbolt.org/g/CXorJP and godbolt.org/g/B27ftV

totallyhuman

also i just thought of the title "take me to your leader" for that

Lembik

why does it use vmulpd in one but not the other? it seems to forget that it can optimize complex multiplication.. unless I am reading the assembly incorrectly

AdmBorkBork

6:43 PM

Yay, my sequence cop submission is safe. Likely because no one else golfs PowerShell.

On an unrelated note, more people should golf PowerShell.

Erik the Outgolfer

or sogl

Business Cat

True someone should learn SOGL

AdmBorkBork

PowerSogl

HyperNeutrino

does anyone know how to use python's socket module

totallyhuman

you're trying to do websockets with builtin library?

Step Hen

6:56 PM

I regret that I have but one upvote to give. — Steve-O 4 hours ago

:P

Wheat Wizard

CMC: Solve this in 2 lines of Brain-Flak

Lembik

I need to ask some low level challenges to flush out the assembly experts :)

Wheat Wizard

Scratch that CMC, its not possible

Or maybe it is

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Take me to your leader code-golf internet stack-exchange-api Have you ever found a good code-golf challenge to answer, answered it and then found out somebody posted a shorter solution in the same language? Challenge Write a program/function that takes a PPCG question ID and outputs a leade...

totallyhuman

oh wow that was fast

Erik the Outgolfer

7:04 PM

@WheatWizard no

totallyhuman

*cleans up sand*

Wheat Wizard

@EriktheOutgolfer It is, I have one

(I think, I'm checking now)

Erik the Outgolfer

oh wait...it's not jelly lol

Wheat Wizard

I don't have one, but I still think it is possible

Erik the Outgolfer

if source code is like this

(##########)
)##########(

Mr. Xcoder

7:08 PM

Can anyone do that challenge in Pyth?

totallyhuman

aw man I thought there was a language named yth

Erik the Outgolfer

what about xth?

Mr. Xcoder

Come on, don't exaggerate

Erik the Outgolfer

or zth?

or ath? or bth?

totallyhuman

anyways pls gib feedback on sandbox

and on NSP for being super fast today

Mr. Xcoder

7:10 PM

@EriktheOutgolfer Is this really necessary?

totallyhuman

yes

Mr. Xcoder

@totallyhuman ಠ_ಠ

New Bounties With No Deadlines

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A: List of bounties with no deadline

Some Cubically things I'm willing to give variable amounts of rep for solving some challenges in Cubically. Quine - 1000 or 1100 rep, see individual post here Print every character your program doesn't have - 200 rep Hello, World! (Every other character) - 200 rep More will be added as I find ...

totallyhuman

ok

Wheat Wizard

@EriktheOutgolfer Try it online!

And its shorter than any 3 line one I've come up with.

Oh wait that's not what I meant

Erik the Outgolfer

7:14 PM

you have some (()()))()() on the footer...unintentional?

Wheat Wizard

Try it online!

That works

@EriktheOutgolfer Yeah I was using the footer as scratch

Erik the Outgolfer

good luck with (()()))( on the footer

@WheatWizard it works O_O

Maltysen

@Mr.Xcoder I doubt it because newlines in Pyth print

Mr. Xcoder

@Maltysen I know. That's why I asked. May be possible with single-line code...

But no...

It is kind of impossible.

Maltysen

@Mr.Xcoder but when u rotate it it becomes newlines

Mr. Xcoder

7:27 PM

@Maltysen Yeah, I figured

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Q: Would I be allowed to use this language?

The language Today I was thinking about brainfuck, there are only 8 instructions (+-,.[]<>) these could fit in side 3 bits. So in 3 bytes (24 bits) there could fit 8 instructions. But with normal brainfuck each instruction is a byte. So I wanted to make my own language that compresses brainfuck...

discussion asking-questions reviewing

totallyhuman

my teacher just accused my pseudocode not being pseudo enough >_>

MD XF

@totallyhuman I really wanna write a versatile pseudocode interpreter

Mr. Xcoder

@totallyhuman >_> Really?

Erik the Outgolfer

@totallyhuman your teacher is subjective :p

DJMcMayhem

7:38 PM

VTC totallyhuman's teacher as primarily opinion based.

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AdmBorkBork

Thanks @WheatWizard ... I played around with the comments every which way and the one I posted was the smallest I could find, lol.

totallyhuman

"this is not really pseudocode Should be more English like"

c'mon

I don't see why my teacher has a problem with it, it looks mostly like python

Downgoat

@totallyhuman is this university/college or HS?

totallyhuman

7:58 PM

HS

New Main Posts

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Q: Triangle a number!

We are used to say that we square a number n when we compute n2. We are also used to say we cube a number when we compute n3. That being said, why couldn't we also triangle a number? How to triangle a number? First off, let's pick a number, 53716. Position it in a Parallelogram, whose side len...

code-golf number array-manipulation

New Bounties With No Deadlines

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A: List of bounties with no deadline

100 rep for beating me in the Cardinal code challenge What it says on the tin. Beat my Brain-Flak answer (in Brain-Flak of course) and I'll give you 100 rep.

Mr. Xcoder

8:13 PM

Brownie points for solving this in less than 8 bytes in Pyth

Maltysen

@Mr.Xcoder 6

pyth.herokuapp.com/…

Mr. Xcoder

@Maltysen Post it

Maltysen

oh lol its an actual challenge

Mr. Xcoder

@Maltysen You have my 🍪

Maltysen

@Mr.Xcoder ss._sM also works

Mr. Xcoder

8:18 PM

@Maltysen Let me try to golf that, didn't know ._ existed

I won't succeed, obviously, but...

AdmBorkBork

Expected brownie points, instead received cookie. Hmm.

bait-and-switch

totallyhuman

the brownie is a lie

Mr. Xcoder

@HyperNeutrino Thanks for the edit.

Cows quack

@fergusq thanks, giving a dummy input stream does the trick. Btw, in the parser I've noticed you have try/catch statements. How do they work? (afaik there is no docs for using it in roda-documentation)

HyperNeutrino

@Mr.Xcoder no problem :P

Maltysen

8:21 PM

@Mr.Xcoder oh wait u can do digit list

as input

Mr. Xcoder

@Maltysen That's what I was typing right now. Do you read minds?!

Maltysen

ss._

ETHproductions

@Maltysen tfw you realize this isn't some weird emoji

totallyhuman

lambda n:sum((i+1)*n[-i-1]for i in range(len(n)))

HyperNeutrino

@Maltysen Is that Pyth code?

Maltysen

8:25 PM

@Mr.Xcoder there's a nice 6 byte one that doesn't use the prefic builtin

s*V_Sl

@HyperNeutrino yeah lol

HyperNeutrino

Ah :P

Mr. Xcoder

@totallyhuman lambda n:sum(-~i*n[-i-1]for i in range(len(n))) for -2 bytes

totallyhuman

oh shiz nice

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A: Triangle a number!

Python 2, 48 bytes lambda n:sum(sum(n[:i+1])for i in range(len(n))) Try it online! Takes input as a list of digits. Another cool solution I found (49 bytes): lambda n:sum((i+1)*n[-i-1]for i in range(len(n)))

Mr. Xcoder

@totallyhuman And ~i instead of -i-1 for -2 bytes

totallyhuman

>.> stupid bitwise

thanks

Mr. Xcoder

8:28 PM

@totallyhuman It does not work

I have to go to sleep now, sorry!

totallyhuman

what doesn't work?

Mr. Xcoder

Oh sorry

@totallyhuman My mistake

Bye!

totallyhuman

bye

AdmBorkBork

@ETHproductions Glad I wasn't the only one.

ETHproductions

Perhaps it doubles as a Pyth program and an emoji response to the previous message

totallyhuman

8:31 PM

s._.s

they're squiggly arms

AdmBorkBork

Ram horns

totallyhuman

squiggly ram horns

fergusq

@Cowsquack The syntax for try-catch is try do ... catch e ... done. You can raise an exception with the error function: error("a message").

e is a variable that contains an error object (iikka.kapsi.fi/roda/reference/Error.html)

here is an example of the try-catch syntax

Wheat Wizard

Does anyone know why this fails to compile?

Step Hen

totallyhuman

8:50 PM

hey I finally have a good post on meta :)

@StepHen well they do have lord in their display name... lord of the HNQ? :P

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A: Do we need leaderboards on all challenges?

Not all challenges require leaderboards The reason leaderboards are used at all is to find answers based on byte count, based on language, based on user, etc.. Finding answers is not a big problem on challenges that only have a page's worth of answers or less. However, challenges with over 30 a...

DJMcMayhem

@WheatWizard I'm super proud of this one. See any improvements?

fergusq

@totallyhuman Weren't your previous posts good?

totallyhuman

nope

I had two meta posts, both about fibtraction

a lot of people disagreed

well I don't mean good by good

i mean well-received

fergusq

That people disagree doesn't mean that your posts aren't good, it only means that you have your own opinions, which are as valuable as other opinions.

Step Hen

@totallyhuman sorry singular "they" confused the crap out of me, as always

totallyhuman

9:04 PM

:P

i don't like it much either but it's the best solution

Step Hen

@totallyhuman I always found this interesting

totallyhuman

huh

Step Hen

I wish the data went further back

It seems to go against people that say genderless he started in the 20th century at least

DJMcMayhem

o_O Woah

I have more than half of the stars on the board. :D

(46/79 visible for me)

Step Hen

@DJMcMayhem I had half the starred messages yesterday, but they all had one star

HyperNeutrino

9:38 PM

tfw the 4 most recently active users aren't the last ones to talk/edit

flawr

@Mego Can black box functions have side effects?

I'd define a black box functions as pure functions

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

I've got a challenge, but I'm not quite sure how to implement it in a way that's on-topic. It's possible this type of question just doesn't mesh with PPCG, but that's what the SandBox is for, right? The gist is that I want a sort implemented lazily. So lazily that you don't actually write one, ...

Wheat Wizard

Why'd I only get 2 rep for an upvote?

Tobi

so, what are the questionable results? — philip_0008 12 hours ago

DJMcMayhem

9:58 PM

@WheatWizard Rep cap?

Wheat Wizard

Nope, haven't hit it yet

Only 170 for the day

asked on the meta

Downgoat

could it be upvote + downvotes. with a net upvoteness of 2?

Wheat Wizard

Nope, no downvotes on the answer in question

totallyhuman

but it says "upvote"

Wheat Wizard

And also that shows up in the rep chart differently

totallyhuman

10:06 PM

aw maaan the PPCG vs CR challenge was declined

Conor O'Brien

10:20 PM

Hiya, ppcg member here. I think this challenge idea is such a bad one, and am thoroughly happy that you declined. I had thought the alleged "PPCG vs CR" thing had died a while ago, but someone thought it was a good idea to bring up fake hostility again. — Conor O'Brien 1 hour ago

totallyhuman

i honestly think we're civil enough to avoid any of that

but whatever

maybe i'm overestimating the community

Conor O'Brien

this community can't even handle site-related memes, what makes you think they'll handle this civilly?

DJMcMayhem

The biggest problem was that it wasn't ready to go when it was announced

totallyhuman

imo we handled memes fine :P

Wheat Wizard

I still don't get why the meme question is deleted

totallyhuman

10:24 PM

^

Wheat Wizard

I feel the moderators should have at least had a discussion before deleting it.

Conor O'Brien

the memes there were less than desirable I suppose

Maltysen

@ConorO'Brien +1

(I don't have a CR account cant actually +1)

Conor O'Brien

lol, thx

totallyhuman

getting fanatic in a few hours lol

Wheat Wizard

10:29 PM

@totallyhuman Congrats! That was my first gold badge.

totallyhuman

mm i'd say it's the easiest gold badge to get lol

CMC: output ""Hello, World!""

(yes, with the quotes)

Wheat Wizard

Electorate might be a bit easier, but that depends on who you ask

I haven't gotten electorate yet myself.

Maltysen

IIRC fanatic is the most gotten gold

even if electorate seems easier

Wheat Wizard

Is that site specific?

Maltysen

i think its global

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Polyglot OEIS! code-challenge polyglot sequence Introduction We all know and love the on-line encyclopedia of integer sequences (OEIS). So what if we made an off-line version? Well, that would be kinda too easy, wouldn't it and how would you select a sequence with our standard interface!? No...

SEJPM

:o that was quick from the bot

Conor O'Brien

@totallyhuman p"Hello, World!" ruby, shorter than default hw :P

Destructible Lemon

hi guys

MD XF

11:05 PM

o/

Downgoat

lol, there's this stock photo of a boat in the ocean and it's described as: "Boat in very large body of water"

New Main Posts

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Q: tail: troll: file truncated

Background When you run tail -f file in bash, the file is outputted and then any subsequent appends. However, when you remove something that has already been displayed, tail outputs: tail: nameoffile: file truncated Your Challenge When given an input f, append tail: [value of f]: file trunc...