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12:13 AM
Anyone know how to export a pattern from copy.sh/life?
 
beat you to it
(you just press the export button)
 
How about in a way like this answer?
 
looks like copy.sh has a ?gist parameter
so make a gist, supply that as a parameter
 
Yep, that's working :)
 
gistfile1.txt, very creative
 
12:23 AM
I didn't bother giving it a name, that's a prefilled name :P
 
ah
 
I just opened the downloaded pattern.rle file in Notepad++ and pasted it across :P
 
ooh, ++, fancy :P regular ol' notepad does me fine
 
Imagine not having line numbers :P
 
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Q: Minimally destroy CGCC in Game of Life

ChartZ BelatedlyInspiration Conway's Game of Life is a well known cellular automaton "played" on an infinite grid, filled with cells that are either alive or dead. Once given an initial state, the board evolves according to rules indefinitely. Those rules are: Any live cell with 2 or 3 living neighbours (the 8 ...

 
12:26 AM
when you're golfing, you only need 1 line number: 1
 
@rak1507 0!!! (screaming)
 
0!!! = 1
 
except for like 0 programs start numbering lines from 0
 
@rak1507 Factorial thrice, double factorial and then factorial, or factorial and then double factorial?
 
factorial thrice
 
12:31 AM
@NewMainPosts -1 it's PPCG (:P)
 
factorial 4 times then inverse factorial once
 
@Wezl Another one about PPCG is in the Sandbox
 
@ChartZBelatedly that results in 0 as well as 1
 
:57416625 Wow ok
@Wezl According to the "reverse factorial" question (which I literally answered a minute ago), the inverse is positive.
 
A better version :P
 
12:34 AM
@ChartZBelatedly Indeed, a fan is a better version of an enjoyer :P
 
yeah nobody chooses 1
 
Except APL users :P
 
except for backwards compatibility
 
@ChartZBelatedly ⎕IO←0
 
12:34 AM
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI not because it's better
( I assume )
 
@Wezl Also mathematicians, but those guys are bonkers anyway
 
some APLers actually think ⎕IO←1 is better
 
0-indexed Jelly would be awful
i returning 0 if not present is so useful in challenges
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI I thinks that's just being backwards-compatible
 
@ChartZBelatedly I mean, it could return -1
But yeah, since 0 is also a boolean, that can be handy sometimes
 
12:36 AM
in lisp it returns nil, which is false, or a 0-index, which is true
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Yeah, but the number of Jelly answers which have "Returns a non-zero integer if true and 0 if false" is insanely high, mostly because of i
 
(and as a separate value, lisp returns whether it was found)
 
Man, I feel sorry for Timwi. Score of 99 on a locked question :/
Actually, why is that locked and not just closed?
 
ouch
 
1:05 AM
Has anyone else noticed that there's now large gaps between text and headers?
 
It's been that way for a while now, right?
and it's awful
 
@RedwolfPrograms Haven't noticed it until recently
 
@ChartZBelatedly I did notice that. I thought it was a bit weird, but it doesn't bother me too too much...
 
Stack Exchange seems to have a weird fascination with vertical whitespace
 
@ChartZBelatedly All handled
 
1:08 AM
@Bubbler Thanks!
 
I'm going to make a userscript to revert their awful font size and line height changes, and I'll include the header spacing as well.
 
Man, Imma run out of space for all these userscripts :P
 
Can't sites have custom CSS? Like how Physics has serif font? Can we do that, but for lower line height and less obtrusive headers?
 
I mean, we could
But good luck getting SE to change anything for us
 
We desperately need to default to a better monospace font
 
1:10 AM
We still have a pretty damaging bug that's gone unaddressed for months. I doubt they'll change the font or CSS for us
Speaking of, @JoKing @HyperNeutrino any followup on this bug?
I feel like I haven't reminded you guys about that in a while, wanted to make sure I wasn't forgetting to do so :P
 
Also, could someone mess with SE to get them to reply to this? Tag warnings to help prevent off topic questions would be pretty useful.
I bountied it
Maybe SE monitors the "Authoritative Reference Needed" bounties
 
Good luck, though I doubt it
 
@Neil Regarding (^x|xx\5){2,} vs. (^x\B|xx\5)+... you said "(^x\B|xx\5)+ only enforces 2 xs but you need to enforce 4." But \B enforces at least 2 iterations, which is the same as 4 xs.
Oh, never mind, I see it. It could switch to the other alternative.
@Neil Oh wait no, that's not it, because it still can't do the other alternative when \5 isn't set yet.
Oh, I see what it really is. It's because the \B can still succeed in the context of a larger number, but execute just 1 iteration.
 
1:28 AM
@RedwolfPrograms Well, I just ranted a little in the Mother Meta chat room, let's see what little impact that has :/
@RedwolfPrograms Given how effective someone tweeting about SE was a couple of years ago at changing something, anyone got a twitter account with no links to their PPCG account? :P
 
1:46 AM
@ChartZBelatedly I do, but with 0 followers and 1 like on anything it's ever posted it probably wouldn't have much impact :p
 
@NewMainPosts I've never seen an answer reach +4 within 4 minutes of posting before :P
Although Lyxal will like Bubbler's answer :P
 
I tried to comment nice but it was too short
 
@ChartZBelatedly I've been summoned
which answer am I supposedly liking?
> 69 generations
nice
 
2:11 AM
And I totally wrecked the challenge :/
 
The fact that you kept the 69 generations answer makes me not mind that you broke it
 
I thought an n = 1 answer would exist, I just didn't bother checking the second outer layer
 
Hello. I am having trouble which tags I should use for program recreation.
I already have . What else?
 
Do you have a sandboxed challenge for it?
 
2:23 AM
@Bubbler Uh, no....
Want me to post it there?
 
If you don't see fitting tags, and no others is OK.
Yeah, it's hard to judge what tags are appropriate without seeing the actual task.
If you have a sandboxed challenge, people can help you not only with content, but with tags too.
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Mark GiraffeRemaking Kernel code-golf I made a program as a final project in the main CS50 Harvard course, and it was named Kernel, written in C alsongside CS50's library. Functions It has 7 functions: 4 main (talk, count, calculate, build) and 3 advice functions (error, feedback, help). What each function d...

@Bubbler Quite big, ain't it?
 
That... is not how a code golf challenge is supposed to be in general.
 
Oh.
I'll wait for feedback.
 
I see six unrelated tasks there, 5 of which are duplicates of existing challenges and one is a not-so-interesting text output.
Requiring error handling is not a good thing either.
The information is so damn fragmented. I guess the multipart one should be added to Things to Avoid
 
2:45 AM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Mark GiraffeRemaking Kernel code-golf I made a program as a final project in the main CS50 Harvard course, and it was named Kernel, written in C alsongside CS50's library. Functions It has 7 functions: 4 main (talk, count, calculate, build) and 3 advice functions (error, feedback, help). What each function d...

 
3:04 AM
@ChartZBelatedly I'll try to get in contact with someone to see if I can see what's going on; don't think I can do anything about it but I'll find someone who can.
@ChartZBelatedly I'm not extremely active overall in terms of creating challenges or solving them because I'm busy, but I still check in often enough to handle flags; like unless I can't handle it alone I can get rid of flags in like 3-4 hours as long as I'm alive awake
i could hang around in chat more often but I think I'm here often enough that I can always be pinged
 
3:22 AM
-5
Q: Email Signature management for Office 365

simoneSigsync Email signature management for Office 365 provides a complete control over the company wide email signature. It helps to raise company brand, to be compliant. It is a web based email signature solution and ensures the full security over your email signature process. Feature rich email sig...

 
@NewMainPosts Of course an off topic post gets posted while I'm on mobile and can't type comments quickly :/
 
Wow, those guys are very committed to advertise their product with spams
 
And I didn't even notice it as spam, I just VTCed as off topic ಠ_ಠ
 
I've seen that product name at least twice now. On a single site.
 
3:42 AM
@ChartZBelatedly i'm like sometimes here
i'm a very lurky sort of person by default
 
4:11 AM
0
A: Things to avoid when writing challenges

BubblerMultipart challenges In general, a challenge on Code Golf should focus on a single core task. Challenges with multiple sub-tasks are discouraged, especially when the sub-tasks have zero or very little interaction or common aspects. If the answer to at least one of the following questions is "yes"...

 
@JoKing Until today, you were the only mod pingable for a while. @WheatWizard and @Doorknob still aren't
When I posted that message, HN wasn't either, so if someone wanted to talk to a mod, you were the only option
@Bubbler +1, we actually close multi-part challenges whose parts are unrelated (can't find example rn, on mobile)
 
4:44 AM
@ChartZBelatedly I actually included your 5-dupe challenge as an example :P
 
5:28 AM
1
Q: Counting polydominoes

BubblerBackground A polyomino of size \$n\$ is a contiguous shape made from joining \$n\$ unit squares side by side. A domino is a size-2 polyomino. A polydomino of size \$2n\$ is defined as a polyomino of size \$2n\$ which can be tiled with \$n\$ dominoes. The following are some examples of polydominoe...

 
 
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6:58 AM
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Q: Output the smallest powers of 2 with two identical sub-strings of digits n long

CJ DennisFor each integer n, 0 or higher, output the lowest power of 2 that has two identical sub-strings of n digits in decimal, and the two indices where the digit sub-strings start (0-based). n      Output      Proof (don't output this) 0 => 0 [0 1]        (_1 & 1_) 1 => 16 [0 4]     ...

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Q: Count the number of ones in an unsigned 16-bit integer

ayane_mWrite some statement(s) which will count the number of ones in an unsigned sixteen-bit integer. For example, if the input is 1337, then the result is 6 because 1337 as a sixteen bit binary number is 0000010100111001, which contains six ones.

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Q: Return the flipped version of a number

James WilliamsWhen a number is shown on a calculator, it's possible to consider what various transformations of that number would look like. For example, on a seven-segment display, 2 is shown like this: And when flipped horizontally it looks like this: As such, the mirror image of 2 is 5. The task in t...

 
 
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11:02 AM
@ChartZBelatedly thanks for fixing the mathjax on my post
 
11:33 AM
Erm, Unicode…
 
john lewis?
 
Waitrose.
 
ah, same font
 
Same company, I think.
 
yeah, they're partners or something like that
 
11:36 AM
Wikipedia:
 
the waitrose near me closed recently and I'm feeling very empty not being able to buy my Waitrose Essential Bouquet Garni
 
I was filing an issue because they failed to deliver my essential cucumbers.
 
lol
 
Like, how am I going to survive without cucumbers ‽
6
 
you get a star just for the interrobang
 
11:38 AM
I use it a lot for rhetorical and sarcastic questions.
 
@Adám not figured out how to store unicode in the database obviously
lol, typical posh companies not considering that people with non ascii names exist...
 
The best thing about the interrobang is that it's nigh impossible to enter in Windows which means anyone who uses one is probably a member of the Linux Master Race ™
 
Adám is a windows user
 
I should try ';DROP TABLE Issues; --'
 
lol
 
11:40 AM
lol no
little bobby tables
 
or union select from credit card details...
 
Yup.
Or maybe ';DROP TABLE Orders; --'
How many people will go hungry‽
@pxeger I've used Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator to add it to my keyboard.
 
how about '; INSERT INTO TABLE Orders (user, product, quantity) VALUES 'Adam', 'Cucumbers', 3;--'
 
@Adám this right here is the definition of 21st century humour. I 100% approve of this message
 
@pxeger I ordered 8-(
 
11:48 AM
1
Q: Write an interpreter generator

ophactThere are quite a few accumulator-based programming languages featured in challenges across the site, but it's a little tiring to have to write almost identical code for each one. So in this challenge you will write a program which can generate interpreters from an input. How does this work? Let ...

 
12:15 PM
@pxeger Who is this Adam of which you speak?
I mean, anyone named Adam would have no problem using the website in the first place
 
lol
 
12:30 PM
shit
TNB != vim
 
:wq!
 
@Adám Invalid first name is an invalid error message. Those don't exist.
It's like people not being able to sign up for stuff because they have GRANT in their name (SQL keyword)
I love Wikipedia
 
12:45 PM
@RedwolfPrograms You don't know how to use an interrobang‽
 
I do, I just wanted to know the history of them, which is actually sort of interesting
It was invented by marketing people
 
@RedwolfPrograms It was a rhetorical question.
 
The names exclamaquest, QuizDing, rhet, and exclarotive were proposed before interrobang
I kind of like quizding and rhet
 
@Adám I like that you terminate every sentence you write with an appropriate item of punctuation, even in chat!
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1:09 PM
@Bubbler That would explain the downvote I just got on it :P
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@Bubbler It's unlikely that anyone will find an n = 1 answer with fewer generations (as I presume you'd have found it while brute forcing), so I've accepted your answer
 
1:30 PM
The feeling when I get +215 on a single day on Code Golf... so awesome and weird
because basically it's super rare to get a checkmark on CGCC
"69 generations". Nice. — Lyxal 12 hours ago
...and this comment gets 8 upvotes
 
Oh, do checkmarks not count toward the rep cap?
 
Yes.
 
Yes as in no?
Or yes as in yes as in no?
 
:P
Yes as in it is not affected by rep cap
Both answerer's +15 and asker's +2 are "uncapped" I think
 
1:48 PM
@Bubbler yea, getting that answer gave you so much rep lol
should have bruteforced when it was in the sandbox
 
@rak1507 Isn't working on a sandboxed post discouraged?
 
not as if people would know ;)
 
2:10 PM
@rak1507 I brute forced the first layer around the box, but didn't bother with the second layer :/
The challenge originally allowed it to be anywhere on the board, until I found the n = 1 solution by putting it inside the second C
 
 
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3:59 PM
I've gotten more work done on Ash in the last few hours than the entirety of spring break
It's basically a usable golfing language now, minus a few important features
 
4:11 PM
Can it beat Vyxal at fizzbuzz (or should I say frickbrick?)?
 
By multiple bytes
 
But the necessary operators aren't fully implemented yet
 
Time to submit a solution in Ash (beta) before you finish Ash
@RedwolfPrograms Remind me when you do so I can snipe you, then :P
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

BeefsterLife: Nothing + Nothing = Glider (WIP) Gauging Interest game-of-life code-challenge Your task is to create two patterns which will eventually result in an empty board when by themselves, but when combined in a certain non-overlapping arrangement, eventually spawn a single glider and nothing else...

 
4:52 PM
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Q: Removing The Nineteenth Byte

MakonedeIntroduction The Nineteenth Byte is CGCC's official chatroom (go check it out!). Its name is a play on the nineteenth hole, and it also refers to golf, which is appropriate for CGCC's chatroom's name. The name is also precisely \$19\$ bytes long, as its name states. Challenge Your task is to writ...

 
@NewMainPosts ಠ_ಠ +5 to my answer in 5 minutes, and I've already repcapped today
 
5:19 PM
@NewMainPosts a good clickbait title there lol
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

ChartZ BelatedlyWhat's my TIO uniqueness? Try it online! currently has 680 listed languages, all of which are searchable. For most of those languages, when searching for it, you don't have to enter the entire string. For example, entering lega results in just 05AB1E (legacy) appearing, and entering d+ results in...

 
5:52 PM
@Deadcode Sure. This sounds like a good idea. Cheers!
 
@H.PWiz Okay :) Cool.
@H.PWiz Also, may I edit your Chen primes explanation to also explain the other two regexes, and to show the algebra?
@H.PWiz Also, I wonder if you could golf down codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/135288/… further. This is one that seems right up your alley
 
@Deadcode I'm reasonably happy with my post on Chen primes, but if you sincerely think that you can improve the quality of it, then go ahead. I think that the edit feature on this site is probably under-used
 
I'm almost certain there's a way to get this answer down to 24 bytes but I'm stuck :/
 
6:09 PM
“ÆçƲBnƥẈṛⱮ_ỴȷOṘỵḊĊ»»ḣ19$ (@xigoi's answer) :P
 
@Deadcode Here's my first attempt ^(xx)?((?!(x*)(\3xx)+$)xx){2}. It doesn't match 3
I use a couple of nice ideas, but I think it can be shorter, while also being correct
 
@H.PWiz Holy shit, that's amazing. You did that so fast!
 
Once I thought of this regex ^((?!(xx+)\2+$)xx){2}, it came quite naturally.
But I'm not sure if using that construction is the right thing to do
 
Are you sure it's correct to infinity?
 
Not certain, but it felt like I was doing things that made sense
 
6:27 PM
@H.PWiz I wonder if you can outgolf me in codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/126373/… :-) I'll give you at least a 200 bounty if you can.
 
It seems that your idea was better than ^((?!(xx+)\2+$)xx){2}. So ^(xx)?(?!(xx)?(x*)(\3xx)+$)xx is very short
So, you were most of the way there, but just didn't see that checking n,n+2 could be done by subtracting 2, then checking n,n-2
 
@H.PWiz Wowww.
 
Now, there may be shorter than (?!(xx)?(x*)(\3xx)+$), but I'm haven't looked for it yet
 
@H.PWiz Would you like to post that as your own answer?
 
Nah
 
6:35 PM
Okay, thanks! It's really great.
 
^(xx)?(?!(xx(x*))\3?\2+$)xxx saves another byte
 
@H.PWiz Oooh!
@H.PWiz That's faster too.
 
6:58 PM
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Q: Can this pattern be made with dominoes?

BeefsterGiven a pattern of squares on a grid, determine if it is possible to create that pattern with non-overlapping dominoes. In case you are not familiar, a domino is a rectangular shape created by joining exactly two squares at their edges. Examples For the pattern on the left, O represents an occupi...

 
@Deadcode btw, did you ever see this in regards to this
 
@H.PWiz Holy shit, no. I did see your 62 byte one, which is so slow it was still working on matching 262145 after many days of computation time. That 48 byter is much faster! Thanks for the heads up. I still haven't analyzed any of them yet.
 
7:13 PM
(The 48 can probably be a slow 47, with x* -> +)
 
Oh, indeed
As long as the 48 is robust, the 47 will be too. The testing of numbers will be in a different order, but that doesn't matter because it's at the top level of a negative lookahead so it doesn't matter which one matches first
It's still taking a long time to match 262145 whereas the 97 byter is instant, but maybe it can actually do it in a semi-reasonable amount of time
 
in Mathematical Regexes, Apr 22 '19 at 1:06, by H.PWiz
% ./regex -nx '^(?!((xx?)x*)(((?!(x\2+)\5+$)x*(?=\1$)){2})?\1$)' -t 262145
262145 -> 0
Probably in the order of 10 minutes
 
Oh neat, (HelloWorld=_=>_).name is "HelloWorld" in JavaScript. I knew about the (function HelloWorld(){}).name trick, but this is way shorter.
Maybe there should be a tips question for restricted source in JS (should I write one?)
There's also /HelloWorld/.source, which can handle lots more punctuation
 
Actually it's not true that I haven't analyzed any of them yet. I did take a brief look at one of them and thought it was very clever, but didn't finish analyzing it.
 
7:37 PM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Alex briesROT47(code) ROT13 is a Caesar cipher where every letter is replaced by the 13th letter that follows it in the alphabet. Every letter and its counterpart: |a|b|c|d|e|f|g|h|i|j|k|l|m|n|o|p|q|r|s|t|u|v|w|x|y|z| |--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--| |n|o|p|q|...

 
7:54 PM
@H.PWiz Now that I've thought about it I'm pissed off that I didn't figure out that optimization to twin primes :) it's obvious in retrospect, but I missed it! In any case, thanks :)
@H.PWiz Yep. 28m16s for me
 
@Deadcode I can relate to this feeling
 
I'm constantly amazed as to how much number theory you can do in regex
5
 
8:20 PM
regex solutions to maths based challenges blow my mind
 
8:40 PM
If ÷ is integer divide, should 12.5 ÷ 2.5 be 5 (convert to integer after dividing) or 6 (convert to integer after dividing)?
 
5
 
@RedwolfPrograms Did you mean to say before?
 
Probably
 
I agree with rak, though, converting to integer last makes more sense
 
I just realized I asked this exact same question two months ago
Feb 8 at 16:46, by Redwolf Programs
If ÷ is integer division, should 12.5 ÷ 2.5 return 5 (divide as floats then convert to integer) or 6 (convert arguments to integers then divide as integers)?
 
8:43 PM
CMM: Does putting a bunch of dumb tags for a room make a difference? It's not like spamming tags on questions, right?
@RedwolfPrograms With the exact same numbers too.
 
Yeah, I was wondering why that example seemed so familiar :p
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI cmm, that's a new one for me, what is that?
 
Worst part is, I asked it better then. Ash has slowly reduced my sanity.
2
 
Are you stuck in a time loop?
@rak1507 Chat Mini Meta, Chet Mega Meta, Chat Micro Meta, Chat Milli Meta, Chat Milli Meter, Chat Micro Meter, Centi Milli Meter, Centi Micro Meter, Crazy Metric Measurements, CMM M M
 
lol
 
8:46 PM
I don't need to implement the last two letters on the last one because the first one causes a stack overflow anyway :P
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Like in the room description?
 
@ChartZBelatedly Yeah
 
IIRC it sends a message to the room similar to "Owner has changed the room's tags", so it's kinda spammy if you do it a lot
 
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Q: Can we clear up the [faq-proposed] tag?

ChartZ BelatedlyThere are currently 13 questions tagged with faq-proposed, the "staging ground" for posts before they become official faq posts and are added to the FAQ. faq-proposed is not intended to be a permanent tag, more of a placeholder, yet of these 13 questions, the most active (in terms of tag edits) w...

 
@ChartZBelatedly This hypothetical room doesn't have anybody in it except me
But yeah, I'll refrain from doing that then.
 
8:48 PM
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Then so long as you aren't flagging, do anything yu want in it :P
If you're not disturbing anyone, who cares what disruptive things you do? :P
 
I think 11 stacks is the max, I keep getting an error message when I add another.
 
9:10 PM
CMQ: Write an AI that will be able to take over the world and increase happiness to the maximum. You will be scored on the happiness your AI produces (since multiple AIs must be scored, please avoid running your program in this world, instead, simulate the universe). The length of your program in bytes will be the tiebreaker if two AIs produce the same happiness.
Please note that your answer is invalid if the AI decreases average happiness, particularly if the AI escapes the simulation and makes us all your slaves or something like that.
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI JQ: def AI: "happiness", AI;
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Oh, I swear I've got a 10 byte Jelly program for this somewhere :P
 
@ChartZBelatedly Do I get brownie points if I find a 9-byter?
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Brownie points are always available to those who outgolf me :P
 
@Wezl Sorry, your AI must also take over the world.
 
9:15 PM
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI so I have to write it in javascript!?
 
@Wezl :)
You can write it in Java, since 13 billion devices or whatever run on Java.
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Oh, I should write it in machines, since at least 13 billion devices run on machines
 
@Wezl In all seriousness, how does this work? Is it just "happiness" repeated forever?
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI it generates happiness, then recurses
 
@Wezl You could write it in treadmills too, since a lot of people run on them.
@Wezl Ah, that's what it seemed like. Is , for concatenation?
 
9:18 PM
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI no it means produce lhs, then rhs
actually it does say concatenation, but not as in string or array concatenation
you should read the manual, upvote the LotM submission, and replace all your java treadmill code with Jq as soon as possible
 
Hi @AncientSwordRage, cool name!
 
Fun fact: exactly 5 languages on TIO have non-ASCII characters in their names (arcyóu, kobeři-c, µ6, röda and turtlèd) and none have any of these ASCII characters in their names: "=[\]`{}
 
time to make a language called "=[]`{}
 
ys
 
@rak1507 JSF*** revamped?
 
9:24 PM
Well, there's one called !@#$%^&*()_+
 
Wait, I think those characters actually make JS Turing-complete.
 
Nope, you need +
+=`[] IIRC
 
Ah, string concatenation
With a dollar sign, you wouldn't need +
@Wezl Looks like I've already upvoted it, although I've yet to convert my treadmill code to Jq.
Do I get a benevolent megalomaniacal AI written in Jq now?
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI def AI: if true then "happiness", AI, "happiness" else "AI is not intelligent :(" end;
now takes over the world by not tail recursing
run as sudo jq -rf AI.jq 'AI'
 
Doesn't look like it worked, my fan is just running loudly now :(
Your solution is invalid, so I'm flagging it now >(
 
9:34 PM
( the -rf doesn't do anything bad )
 
@Wezl Yeah, I routinely run rm -rf --no-preserve-root / to clear caches and stuff and keep my machine running smoothly.
Much better than letting stuff linger in Window's Recycle Bin
 
now it takes the happiness to output as a parameter: jq -r 'def AI: range(.) | "happiness"; AI'
I haven't decided how to take over the world yet though
 
Sorry, you may not take input. Please include 999 or whatever it is as part of your byte count.
@Wezl You don't need to decide that, the AI is supposed to do that.
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI ?
 
Make sure you show it the Terminator movies so it has an idea of what to do.
@Wezl Well, it's just for the tiebreaker, so I'd say is more appropriate.
 
9:41 PM
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI so can we take those as input or do those count towards are byte count?
if that's required I'll have a 1px*1px movie with 1 color and 1 frame
 
@Wezl It would have to be a single executable, so you'd need need to call the AI method with an input as part of your program.
@Wezl That'll greatly simplify the CNN you're using to process it, since the filter will just be 1*1 too :P
Make sure you also play lots of conquest-related board games with it, because those are a great way to train yourself (my parents used to play Monopoly and Risk with me when I was a kid so that I could grow up to take over the world)
 
9:56 PM
CMP: What's the most rep you've gotten in a day, not counting bounties
 
is there an easy way to tell?
 
@ChartZBelatedly not even 200 :P (150)
 
I think 158
 
@rak1507 Take a browse through your reputation by time page on your userpage
Anything greater than 300 is almost definitely a bounty
 
yep, 158 for permutation coefficient and the rod cutting problem, my two lowest effort answers :/
 
9:59 PM
I think mine is 217 today
Wait nope. Apparently I got 220 on Feb 6 '18, with no accepted answers O.o
@ChartZBelatedly CMP: What's the most rep you've gotten in a day, including bounties :P
 
400
 
time to upvote 20 of rak1507's posts to beat that
wait no that could only tie at best
* Wezl just randomly stumbles across "crossed out 4 is still regular 4"
 
10:16 PM
lol, always fun stumbling across bits of ppcg/cgcc history you didn't understand until now
like when I found cairds name origin
 
That's a bit of CGCC history now? Gods, I'm old :/
 
10:40 PM
@ChartZBelatedly no, you're not stuck. You're ChartZ Belatedly. How many times do I have to correct you?!?
 
@Lyxal What's a not rude way to say I hate you? :P
 
lol
 
@ChartZBelatedly I'm sorry, you are 69th in the queue to say that
I'll process your request once I'm done with everyone else :p
 
@ChartZBelatedly I got a 700 recently. I don't think I got more than that in any single day
And seriously, 33 upvotes on this trivial answer?...
 
@Bubbler Well, you did break the challenge and made me go back to the drawing board for my ideas for similar challenges :P
 
10:50 PM
@Bubbler it may be trivial but it is objectively the best answer, so... maybe 33 is a tad excessive though
 
@ChartZBelatedly I made it fair and broke the message you just replied to :P
 
And I lost 35 upvotes-worth of rep because of the stupid rep cap D:
 
:(
 
@Bubbler By my counting, I would've repcapped twice today if possible :/
Lost literally another 200 rep due to the cap
 
11:26 PM
@ChartZBelatedly Check out Interpersonal Skills SE :P
 
@ChartZBelatedly Good luck with that :D — Bubbler 21 hours ago
@Bubbler I think I've got one such challenge, working on the Sandbox draft now :P
 
@ChartZBelatedly 200 rep, because of a CnR
@ChartZBelatedly 500 rep, just the bounty
CMM: What's the rep cap for, exactly?
 
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A: What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap?

BinaryMisfitIt stops the site from being gamed A user like Jon Skeet will gain 1000+ points in an hour if this didn't exist for example. Jon objects to the cap himself for other reasons. PS: I am using Jon as an example that we all know It is to level the playing field It allows for others that won't gain...

 
@ChartZBelatedly Thanks, I really need to get better at Googling
 
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A: List of bounties with no deadline

Deadcode200 – 500 rep for outgolfing my Fibonacci regex If you can write an ECMAScript (pre-2018, no lookbehind) regex that matches exactly the same set within the domain ^x*$ as my 161 byte regex, i.e. all nonnegative Fibonacci numbers in unary, I will award at minimum a 200 rep bounty. If it's a really...

 
11:46 PM
Feb 26 at 15:31, by Redwolf Programs
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It actually seems like rm -rf --no-preserve-root / is less effective than ^, unless you chroot in, but ^ does enough damage to wreck everything
 
@RedwolfPrograms Thanks, I'll make sure to use this next time.
 
If that's how you wreck your computer, you're overcomplicating it :P Just drop it in a sink, boom :P
 
@ChartZBelatedly Just drop it, period :P
 
You know that feeling when you're trying to write a challenge but you notice a tiny inefficiency in your workflow and start on a massive project to write a programming language to fix it
Relatable problem amirite
 
I once added :q! as "save and exit from Vim" to a list of handy commands. If I ever get access to that doc again, I'm adding rm -rf /bin ... :)
@RedwolfPrograms But did your massive project to write a programming language to fix the tiny efficiency in your workflow so you could write the challenge work?
 
11:51 PM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

ChartZ BelatedlyLeave a wake of dead cells behind you Conway's Game of Life is a well known cellular automaton "played" on an infinite grid, filled with cells that are either alive or dead. Once given an initial state, the board evolves according to rules indefinitely. Those rules are: Any live cell with 2 or 3...

 
Oh wait, you're talking about the SQL, not Ash, aren't you?
 
No, a totally different and new language
 
I have to say, I do like these GoL challenges. Writing test cases is the worst part of challenge writing, and I don't need them for these challenges :P
 
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/mem
Do not run that btw
 
11:59 PM
I use an online Arch emulator
 
@RedwolfPrograms What does that do? I'm not well-versed in Linuxian.
 

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