The Nineteenth Byte

You write code for a bot, which runs around and collects characters. It can collide with weaker bots (with less characters) to kill them. It can use the characters to create worker bots with the source code made out of specific characters collected.

Lyxal

2:11 AM

TIL there are microwaves that don't have turntables inside

Very sad.

Redwolf Programs

2:48 AM

I updated the sound that my copy of modded review stalker makes, and now it sounds like the first few notes of the Super Mario Bros. 3 desert theme and it keeps confusing me.

Lyxal

Lel

Redwolf Programs

I'm using a sawtooth wave, which I figured would sound way harsher than the square wave I originally used, but it's actually quite nice. It helps that I'm using an actual music note instead of a random frequency that "sounded nice" at the time :p

Lyxal

3:19 AM

Dah y'all with your fancy userscripts

I'm thinking of making a app which gives push notifications

Android only ofc

Redwolf Programs

I actually think I'm using almost the exact same note, just with A4=432 and sawtooth instead of noise

The timing isn't too far off, either

pppery

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Q: How should we handle answers that predate standard loopholes?

There was a time—a dark, dark time—in which there were no standard loopholes. Since we began classifying certain things as loopholes and banning their use, the overall quality of the content on this site has improved. However, answers from the Dark Ages remain, answers which violate loopholes but...

(I don't have 10k rep here, so can't see the answer)

Razetime

3:53 AM

@pppery it says nevermind..

pppery

Sorry, I'm completely failing to understand you.

Razetime

4:05 AM

@pppery that's the whole answer

the single deleted answer there just has that one word

Lyxal

4:39 AM

@Razetime lol

CMQ: What's the colour of your sky rn

Redwolf Programs

Black, although now that I look it's sort of a dark grayish blue because of some light pollution

CMQ: Do you consider infinity to be a number?

I know it's not from the perspective of "typical" math, but honestly I really like the way most IEEE 754 type floating points handle it, with 1 / 0 being Infinity (works even better with signed zero).

Razetime

4:55 AM

@Lyxal bluish

Lyxal

Mines gray

Because rain

Redwolf Programs

Lucky :(

Lyxal

It's been raining for the last 3 days

@RedwolfPrograms y'all don't get rain?

Redwolf Programs

We do, it's just been a while.

Winter hasn't been as dreary as I'd hoped

Lyxal

Well here's something to make you feel better: rain + previous heat = extremely humid

Redwolf Programs

5:00 AM

Good point

Lyxal

Because this is rain after a heatwave

Redwolf Programs

I just realized Texas has a higher population than Australia

Lyxal

How do you have more than 25 million?

Are states really that populous?

Redwolf Programs

Some big cities (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio), plus tons of people from other states moving here

Lyxal

Wow imagine having 50 States.

Made by 5 state gang

Redwolf Programs

5:09 AM

Oh hey I'm back in all the queues

Lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms gg

well played gamer

What is a prime string?

As in, how could a string theoretically be prime?

Redwolf Programs

Where'd you see that?

Lyxal

The is prime built-in in vyxal currently does nothing useful with strings.

And I want to think of what a prime string could be

Redwolf Programs

Has no duplicated characters?

Lyxal

okay then

sounds good

Razetime

5:21 AM

or just takes only the prime indices

Lyxal

@Razetime I'm looking for something more boolean

Razetime

hmm

self=nubsieve sounds good

Lyxal

nubsieve?

Razetime

uniquify

Redwolf Programs

That just checks for duplicate items, right?

Razetime

5:33 AM

yes

Unrelated String

6:06 AM

you could also vectorize it over codepoints
not uh
very generally useful
but it is an option

Anush

9:06 AM

Python coding question... I have code that runs a loop and sometimes finds a word I care about. It then prints it to the screen. I would like instead to print the word to the centre of a blank window for more dramatic effect. What is the simplest way to do this?

Anush

9:16 AM

tk was suggested but it seems to need me to learn about event loops :(

Unrelated String

i forgot everything i ever knew about tk but it should be relatively simple

...i think the tutle library might have some kind of built in text functionality come to think of it

*turtle

lmao

Lyxal

@Anush not if youre only displaying text once iirc

Lyxal

10:57 AM

@Razetime 5.5 hours later and I still have no clue how you got nubsieve from uniquify

Neil

11:19 AM

@Lyxal one that contains only the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol) character?

@RedwolfPrograms which one? there are several

@pppery it says to handle them on a case by case basis, which is basically what the question is asking, so somewhat pointless? (although, how do you even know that the answer exists?)

Razetime

11:37 AM

@Lyxal another idea: rot13

Lyxal

Eh

That's looking a bit misspelled

Razetime

ok

Lyxal

Ahofvrir

Oh wait

You weren't answer the recent question

But the original one

Lol

But that doesn't explain how nubsieve = uniquify

Like I'd understand unqiduy

Or something that has some resemblance to the word

But how the heck did you manage to get every letter wrong and make it longer?

@Razetime

Explain yourself

Razetime

no

Lyxal

dang

I thought that would have worked

Razetime

12:54 PM

@Lyxal it would've worked if you learned APL

caird coinheringaahing

1:47 PM

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Q: Cast your vote for Best of CGCC 2020

Final phase You have chosen the categories and the nominees for CGCC's annual “Best of”. Now it is time to pick the winners! Each of the fourteen categories is represented by an answer to this question, and each of these answers contains all nominations by the members of our community. Voting mec...

discussion featured best-of

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Voting is now live for the Best of CGCC 2020!

@Lyxal It wasn't a typo. nub is "deduplicate" in languages like Haskell and nubsieve = nub + sieve: aplwiki.com/wiki/Nub_Sieve

New Main Posts

2:58 PM

-1

Q: Worlds Smallest Hash Function

In which programming language does the following code reduce to the lowest amount of binary octets? ECMAScript function FMHash(obj, CaseInsensitive) { let hash1 = 42;//prime let hash2 = 42;//prime for(let i = 0; i < obj.length; +...

javascript c c++ c# go

Razetime

Feedback before I post this?

New Main Posts

3:24 PM

0

Q: Write a Deadfish Interpreter

A rewrite of this question with a simpler input format and guidelines. Challenge Deadfish uses a single accumulator, on which all commands are to be performed. It has the following commands: Command Description i increment the accumulator d decrement the accumulator s square the value...

code-golf interpreter

Anush

3:38 PM

@ngb How did you work out how to extract the word list?

caird coinheringaahing

Docs and dev started on a new language: Hatred, a language designed to make you hate it :P

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New Main Posts

4:42 PM

-1

Q: Worlds Smallest Hash Function

In which programming language does the following code reduce to the lowest amount of binary octets? You can use any language you want but here are some examples ECMAScript function FMHash(obj, CaseInsensitive) { let hash1 = 42;//prime let hash2 = 42;//p...

code-golf

Razetime

@cairdcoinheringaahing ooooooooo

I want to try solving your questions in it

btw thanks for the edits

caird coinheringaahing

@Razetime Well, I've still got a lot of dev to do :P

Redwolf Programs

6:44 PM

Ugh I hate weekends

Adám

6:58 PM

@RedwolfPrograms y?

Redwolf Programs

I can never get any work done

ngn

9:57 PM

@Anush experience with cyrillic + a bit of duckduckgoing

Anush

10:23 PM

@ngn it was very useful.Thank you

user

10:53 PM

@cairdcoinheringaahing Is this just a version of Jelly with more complicated rules and less atoms/quicks?

caird coinheringaahing

@user It's tacit based (most complicated language structure I could think of) + builtins that don't do what you expect

user

Ah

Redwolf Programs

Y'know what would be way worse than tacit? Give every single operator a randomly assigned precedence.

user

Nah, math does this already.

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms scribbles down notes

Redwolf Programs

10:58 PM

Make GOTO the only method of control flow :p

user

COMEFROM is much more powerful, as this SO answer states.

caird coinheringaahing

@cairdcoinheringaahing I'm the only person on the site who can't cast a vote for CGCC Best of 2020 :/

Doesn't help that both of the categories I'm competing in are tied :P

Redwolf Programs

Oh, we're tied for the commenter one?

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms Last time I checked

Redwolf Programs

I wouldn't be surprised if one or more categories tied, is there a precedent for what would happen?

Or would you just be the tiebreaker :p

caird coinheringaahing

11:11 PM

@RedwolfPrograms If there's a tiebreaker, I think either we talk with all the nominees and they decide who deserves it, or someone tie breakers

I'd be happy to tiebreak on anything that didn't involve any of my submissions :P

Redwolf Programs

I think you'll probably end up winning the commenting one, mostly because I didn't start paying attention to the review queues until a few months ago

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms TBH I always think I should be commenting more than I do :/

Maybe 1 in 4 first post reviews I just don't bother adding a "Welcome to the site" comment

Redwolf Programs

I'm thinking about updating the commenting userscript to have a directory of useful links that can be auto-inserted, like loopholes and tips questions

caird coinheringaahing

CMQ: This is a language designed to make you hate it that I'm working on. It's tacit (e.g. Jelly/J/APL, because I've found that the hardest programming paradigm to learn), but I'm looking for JS/PHP style type weaknesses and more. What is a feature in a language you use that you hate?

For example, JS's .sort working lexographically, or PHP's very weak type system

@RedwolfPrograms That'd be very helpful

Redwolf Programs

How about a whole bunch of different == operators with confusing type casting rules

caird coinheringaahing

11:19 PM

@RedwolfPrograms I like it. Like 5 or more different versions of == and === in JS?

e.g. 5 1= "5" but 5 2!= 5 and 5 3= 101?

Redwolf Programs

Yep

caird coinheringaahing

Sounds excellent :D

@RedwolfPrograms Think I'll add a command to scramble the quick/atom arities :P

Redwolf Programs

Maybe make some operators use their arguments, some use a stack, and some use both :p

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms Nah, I want it to be somewhat consistent. Like, the rules aren't arbitrary, they're just the worst possible versions of that functionality

Like .sort sorting on number of primes in the input, or input() returning the rot n of the input without telling you which n

user

@cairdcoinheringaahing Those are kinda arbitrary.

Redwolf Programs

11:28 PM

Maybe have mostly normal operators for string/array, except no arithmetic stuff so you have to do it BF style with loops and incrementing

caird coinheringaahing

@user Yeah, but they make sense with the function. Having .sort sort on the value of a randomly generated integer is just downright unusable, whereas having it sort on some deterministic but unhelpful function makes it usable but irritating

Why is it that most flags get handled within 2 hours, but as soon as I flag my 80th flag (and get a silver badge for it), it's still pending after 2 days? :/

user

@cairdcoinheringaahing Karma.

That's what you get for designing a language like Hatred.

caird coinheringaahing

@user I've made enough half decent languages to offset Hatred :P