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12:00 AM
@cairdcoinheringaahing ²Sġ= for 4 bytes in Vyxal, exits with error if falsey, returns 1 if truthy
In 2.6rc2, it should work without erroring
(²øE in theoretical 2.6 :P)
 
12:13 AM
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Q: Harmonic divisor numbers

caird coinheringaahingConsider the \$4\$ divisors of \$6\$: \$1, 2, 3, 6\$. We can calculate the harmonic mean of these numbers as $$\frac 4 {\frac 1 1 + \frac 1 2 + \frac 1 3 + \frac 1 6} = \frac 4 {\frac {12} 6} = \frac 4 2 = 2$$ However, if we take the \$6\$ divisors of \$12\$ (\$1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12\$) and calculate ...

 
12:39 AM
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Q: Panic! at the Golf Club

AlyI was pondering today about how many characters it would take in each language to throw an exception, and noticed there wasn't any existing collection of answers, so: The task Throw an exception in the least amount of characters. If your language does not have exceptions, then a panic is valid. A...

 
12:49 AM
@NewPosts Surely a dupe of Goodbye Cruel World?
... probably not, because the damn bonus
 
Wait, why isn't it a dupe even with the bonus?
@NewPosts OP seems to use Scala though, nice
 
Sandbox posts last active a week ago: Lexigolf: Is this number a prime?
 
@user i keep forgetting you can even do that
 
@user heh, I just watched a YouTube video where another player in the mmo used that as their username
 
1:07 AM
@hyper-neutrino haha organisation membership goes brrrr
 
at least the edit this time was funny and not just stupid
 
know someone who can answer
 
@NewPosts i could have 7 bytes for this if precision weren't so garbage
 
What tf is 05ab1e modulo?
28 D ÑÅA Ö -> 1
28 9.33333334 Ö -> 0
28 9.333333333333334 Ö -> 1
Tf?
Ö is a % b == 0 btw
 
1:30 AM
@hyper-neutrino What?! When did I ever make any stupid edits? I am always funny*
*for some definition of funny
 
@hyper-neutrino Btw, I had Try it online! for my 9 byter
 
2:18 AM
For anyone interested, please regularly visit the AoCG2021 event sandbox and leave feedback before December.
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My sister has an Amazon Echo in her room, which she now has playing christmas music 24/7. I now have found a new hobby: sneaking into her room and making it play MCR's cover of "All I want for Christmas Is You" on loop :p
 
2:32 AM
@RedwolfPrograms what music service does she use? Prime music / Spotify or something else?
 
I think it's prime music
 
Dang
I don't know much about that because I don't use it
I was going to suggest a little trolling by making a Spotify playlist of trolling
But idk if prime music goes off playlists
Anyhow, second idea for trolling: make alexa skill that allegedly plays Christmas music but actually does a little trolling
 
She might not notice I've messed with her music this time, but when I get to "Every Snowflake is Different" she'll probably get suspicious
 
Third idea: place remote controlled audio recording of you saying "alexa play <however you get mcr songs to play idk it's been a while since I last used my echo dot>" and you can just play it every now and again when you think she won't notice
Because that exists
 
Ooh, perfect
 
2:36 AM
Rickroll her without actually rickrolling her
 
will we have a vote for answer of the year?
 
We'll have Best of 2021, where there's lots of categories
 
ok
 
So there'll usually be things like most creative, best golfing, etc.
 
2:54 AM
@lyxal Why?
My class has a "song of the week" thing, where everyone requests things and a random one gets chosen. And this week... Well, you can guess exactly what got chosen.
 
3:47 AM
@RedwolfPrograms Ooh, YT's found a new way to classify it: "alternative metal"
 
@RedwolfPrograms ಠ_ಠ
 
alternative metal = mtl
 
I thought I was just going crazy at first, but no, it's finding a new genre name every other day lol
So that's now exactly 10 genres lol
(Since it's also given me "alternative" and "independent music")
 
Like, you can attach "alternative" or "progressive" to almost any music genre to get a new one
inb4 alternative alternative alternative metal
 
Alternative post-progressive hard rock
 
3:56 AM
i am back at my house
 
@RedwolfPrograms idiot all rocks are hard
 
Not necessarily
 
Then send me a soft rock and I'll believe you
 
Asbestos is a rock that can be made into cloth
 
@lyxal foil
Progressive alternative post-modern pre-alternative anti-protestant hard rock
 
3:57 AM
> alternative
pre-alternative
 
Ok, what about this:
 
Alternative rock? Why tf are we writing fanfics about minerals?
 
Are you into alternative medicine? Well, try alternative rock!
 
Pseudo-rock
 
That actually sounds like it'd be a genre lol
 
4:00 AM
Asynchronous alternative anti-aging diverging post-pre-modern suffix tree pasta with mushroom souffle and Javascript.
 
@RedwolfPrograms antidisestablishmentarianism rock
 
Progressive alternative post-modern experimental 9-bit classical electronic pop-punk hard rock
 
You need to add "punk" in there
Maybe even "pop-punk" for double the keywords
 
And electronic for the lols
 
Asynchronous rock
 
4:04 AM
Meme rock
 
Asymmetric public-key rock
 
Jelly rock
^ is what caird listens to when fgitwing
 
Flute rock
 
CMQ: Instrument that is least likely to make you think of any sort of rock
 
Kazoo
 
4:05 AM
^
Wait no vibraphone
Wait no
Microwave
 
@lyxal purely because of the connotations to the kazoo kid
 
CMC: Only use the names of sorting algorithms to get the most music-genre-like thingy
 
Odd-even block music
 
Postman shaker
 
@Bubbler Can we remove "sort" from the end?
 
4:08 AM
Yes
 
Spaghetti pancake bucket
 
Bubble merge
Quick counting
Comb insertion
 
Quick slow stooge
 
Cycle merge
Smooth tree
Bogoburst
 
Bitonic quick slow flash burst patience
 
4:11 AM
Just a quick diversion from music for a second but I have something interesting to share
user image
5
 
Bubble cube
@lyxal Lol. Seriously, I actually laughed out loud upon seeing that.
 
4:46 AM
 
also 0.1*3
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

BubblerWorst case of Slowsort code-golf sequence sorting Background Slowsort is an in-place, stable sorting algorithm that has worse-than-polynomial time complexity. The pseudocode for Slowsort looks like this: procedure slowsort(A[], i, j) // Sort array range A[i ... j] in-place. if i ≥ j ...

 
@lyxal apl outputs 0.3 or is that truncated
      ⎕PP←20
      0.1+0.2
0.30000000000000004
haha
 
APL sidesteps the problem by making 0.3=0.1+0.2 actually mean |0.3-(0.1+0.2)|<0.3*1e-12 (in math, not APL) or something similar
 
@Bubbler ah the subtraction then compare with small value
 
absolute value of subtraction, but yes
 
i have to start offline classes from tomorrow (technically 18th november but i was out of station)
 
 
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6:22 AM
The security guys seem to have fixed the websocket problem (apparently it wasn't actually intended), so gitpod works here again
 
 
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7:54 AM
Hm
Useful
Is manual git still blocked?
 
Idk, when I have gitpod I don't care about manual git push from local :P
 
8:10 AM
@lyxal What if all rocks are actually soft, but they tense up just before someone touches them?
 
hey I've seen that meme too
 
What if all rocks are shamrocks?
 
At the top, prefix of (5*4)+3 would be more like +*543, no?
 
True, I'll edit it
 
There's another +3*54 above the code block
Other than that, take your necromancer :P
 
Thanks :)
Well, if five people like it, probably good to post.
Ugh...
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Q: Convert from postfix notation to infix notation

PhiNotPiThis question may not be that creative, but I believe that it is different enough to pose a new challenge. The Challenge Your challenge is to write the shortest program possible that can take any valid expression in Reverse Polish Notation and convert it to infix notation that obeys the order o...

IMO mine's better scoped and probably easier tho
What do y'all think?
 
IMO postfix->infix is quite different from prefix->infix
 
8:55 AM
Isn't prefix just postfix reversed?
 
It... also works but adds some extra effort
plus using one-char tokens surely makes things simpler
 
@Bubbler Oh true, you have to reverse tokens. I did not think about that.
Guess I'll post then. Tags aside from ?
 
string?
btw prefix is postfix r flagged and then reversed
We surely need to get the "r flag transform" into algorithms textbooks
 
use the oppurtunity to promote Vyxal
Anyway, have fun!
 
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Q: Convert prefix to infix

emanresu AInfix notation is a method of printing mathematical expressions where each operator sits between its two arguments, such as \$ \left(5 \cdot 4\right) + 3 \$. Prefix notation is a method of printing expressions where operators sit before their arguments. The equivalent of the above is +*543. It's ...

 
9:02 AM
Hm, I beat the bot.
(I sent ^^^ after posting the question)
 
9:29 AM
codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/237497/100664 is really annoying me - I've got within one byte of golfing it to two stanzas, but I can't get it any further.
 
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Q: The airplain codegolf

Yorrryiii Try to develop this code with as little characters as possible. The low-cost plane and air taxi airline VOLASO operates in multiple airports throughout length and width of the world. The company, although it offers ridiculous prices on its ultra-small flights, has with an expensive baggage check-...

 
I'm not even sure hoow too VTC this.
It sorta looks like a homework problem but makes no sense.
 
9:47 AM
You probably want to add a timeout on the server - It's currently printing millions upon millions of A to STDOUT with no sign of stopping anytime soon. — emanresu A 5 mins ago
How to crash server :P
 
10:01 AM
> There are two numbers: "zero" and "anything that overflows your datatype"
 
@emanresuA I flagged.
I have a question: how many rep is necessary for VTC.
 
Wait. Why 1k rep to see upvotes and downvoted?
 
Because it apparently puts substantial load on their server :P (Why? No idea.) You can just use a userscript, and there's several longstanding meta proposals.
 
10:20 AM
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Q: How hacker can intrusion and take over my computer by wifi free or more

phu phancompanies network used to warning for me: "Computer of me used to hacker attack with virus and you should do something!"

(Post deleted by mod, I think)
 
3 currently (Me, Bubbler + I'm assuming Lyxal)
 
@emanresuA wdym?
 
Spam post that turned up on meta, posted here 'cos it's kinda funny
 
Hacker?
 
10:33 AM
It's a joke :P
 
Closed. Who?
 
WW / GG, who just got back online and picked up your flag, it appears
 
My flag was helpful.
Flagging to close is faster than VTC.
@emanresuA what's the funniest question you ever seen?
(in CCGC)
 
11:29 AM
@emanresuA nope
I was too busy grinding subway surfers to be in the champion league for the week
Even though realistically I'll probably just end up top of diamond league
 
posted on November 23, 2021 by Lundin‭

The task is to create a program which displays a golf score as text. It takes 2 numbers as input, separated by space or new line: The first number is the par of t...

 
12:02 PM
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Q: Check for Wonky numbers

MSS2001Task : Wonky numbers are 3-or-more digit numbers that meet one or more of the following criteria: Any digit followed by all zeros: 100, 70000 Same digit throughout the entirety of the number : 1111, 777777777 The digits are in ascending order : 1234, 1234567890 The digits are in descending order...

 
12:28 PM
@emanresuA n.b. graph of blink tag is wrong
 
1:03 PM
funny userscript moment
 
Language names are becoming more and more ridiculous
Jan 9 '18 at 20:55, by Wheat Wizard
Ok we have selected a name it is "Jelly, 3 bytes"
 
1:19 PM
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Q: Fetch the answer from the Internet

CreaZyp154So, normally, this is a forbidden loophole to fetch the desired output from an external source. But this challenge is an exception ! In this challenge you will have to fetch data from the internet and output it to the SDTOUT. The task For the purpose of this challenge, you'll be the owner of the...

 
1:44 PM
@NewPosts someone should have answered that in jelly lol
 
2:15 PM
hm, im trying to google fictional programming languages but even with quotes im getting like 9 results, 2 of which are relevant at all
first time i tried, it /insisted/ i meant "functional", which was like, wow google way to look up the thing i typed in.
idk how to word this concisely but like you know how itll be like
"showing results for [what we think you wanted]. click here to search for [what you explicitly typed in]"
 
I get 11 million results for exactly that with no weird suggestions
 
it didnt even do that, it just insisted on what it thought i wanted
wtf
can you uh
share the google link lol
 
ok, admittedly, not all of the results are really relevant
just https://www.google.com/search?q="fictional"+programming+languages
 
i guess nobody's done the good work and catalogued them yet
else thatd likely have shown up by now
or they did it in a non googleable space
 
anyone know a golfy way to remove the most significant bit from a number?
 
2:23 PM
@thejonymyster though i will say that i have a sneaking suspicion that there also just arent that many, since most people nerdy enough to include a programming language in their fictional work would just write a real one since it isnt that hard
@pxeger doesnt that depend largely on the language?
also is this like one of those situations where it can be 1 or 0 but you know which bit it will be, or like is it just some binary number and you need to get rid of the largest power of 2, whichever it ends up being
like do you have a bunch of 8 bit numbers you need to turn to 7 bit numbers no matter what it does to the number, or do you have a bunch of n bit numbers that you need to make n-1*bit numbers
*(or more)
 
2:40 PM
@pxeger ez, just do /s
 
3:24 PM
oh my god
omfg
I just necromancer'd my old laptop
It was lying in a drawer and looked like it'd just been stomped on by a large animal, and somehow it works now
The first time I tried to boot it up it said some sort of weird checksum had failed (and it surprised me the thing didn't just catch on fire), but after a reboot it worked
So I have all my stuff back!
 
You can probably reverse that by letting a large animal stomp on it.
 
I now have two near-identical and working (somewhat expensive) laptops lol
First thing I'm going to do is make a full backup of this thing
I thought the SSD was totally destroyed
I was just putting this together to use it as a prop to make my parents think it was my real laptop, so I could hide it other places
I might've messed up something battery related
Okay, it's doing some weird stuff, but given how much damage its internals have taken, that's expected
 
@AaroneousMiller is that half?
cause unironically, wouldnt reversing the number then halving it work lol
edit: and then reversing it again duh
 
Okay the SSD just went into read-only
Booting from what I think is an Ubuntu USB, I might've just used my math homework as a bootloader though
Well now the SSD's back to doing weird stuff
Won't show up in lsblk
 
3:54 PM
Gonna let it cool off for half an hour I guess
Maybe it booting that one time was just like when a dead body twitches
 
4:05 PM
lol digital convulsion
 
@thejonymyster Remove the first character (it only works if the number is already in binary, but it was a joke anyway)
although you could do bḢB
 
are there any tools for geolocating tweets based just on their content?
 
4:24 PM
idk why you'd want that other than for doxxing
 
4:42 PM
@hyper-neutrino trying to find where you left your phone w/o find my iphone maybe
@AaroneousMiller ah lol
 
 
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5:52 PM
@Mayube hey what's the funniest question in CCGC you ever seen?
 
6:09 PM
16 mins ago, by Fmbalbuena
@Mayube hey what's the funniest question in CCGC you ever seen?
3
 
6:44 PM
@Adám but uhh question is in CCGC questions, not chat.
(challenge)
 
7:00 PM
CMC: Given positive integer n, output the number of ways to put letters labelled 1 to n into envelopes labelled 1 to n such that no letter goes to the matching envelope
 
that is an enigmatic problem
 
@LeakyNun Derangement, you mean?
 
Ooh, my PSAT score will be available on Dec 6th. Let's hope I get a funny number.
 
@RedwolfPrograms priorities, amirite?
 
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Q: Why is a language identification challenge off-topic in CCGC?

FmbalbuenaSome questions like this are obviously off-topic, but some what sees on-topic but not on this site (CCGC)? Like: “ What programming language is? +[.+] Prints ascii table. but what programming language is? ” Is off-topic in CCGC but why? Edit: not including cops-and-robbers

This is the only CCGC question, and therefore the funniest.
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7:08 PM
@emanresuA yeah, exactly
 
@LeakyNun Jelly, 11 bytes: RŒ!=J$€Ẹ€¬S (Try It Online!)
almost def could be better
oh wait for starters the leading R is totally unneeded oops
wait, why am I not using filter
anyway Jelly, 9 bytes: Œ!=JẸƊÐḟL (Try It Online!)
Jelly, 8 bytes: Œ!nJẠƊƇL (Try It Online!)
 
huh, that's a cool formula
 
just stolen from wikipedia lol
 
@pxeger Am I corrrect that floor(x+.5) = round(x)? (Because if so, 5 bytes )
 
7:19 PM
@emanresuA no, round behaves differently on values that end in .5, but given that e is irrational and the factorial function always produces an integer, that 5-byter is valid anyway
round is Banker's Rounding, where odd number + 0.5 rounds up but even number + 0.5 rounds down
 
it's a shame rounding takes 3 bytes in Jelly lmao
so +.(floor) would've been the same
 
Lol :P
(Although rounding is mostly useless on non-strict-output challenges)
 
@pxeger 44 bytes: ato.pxeger.com/…
 
7:35 PM
I was going to suggest gamma, but that's better.
 
8:00 PM
ø⁄
 
@pxeger 48 bytes with round, no?
oh, ninja'd
 
@Neil "the two most difficult things in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors"
I mentally miscounted when considering that option
but yes
 
I always thought the three most difficult things in CS were cache invalidation and naming
 
@pxeger I was going to write "off-by- one -two errors", but I decided it would be funnier to leave a meta-off-by-one error in there
It appears not even zwsps will appease the SE chat markdown gods
or, non-gods, perhaps
 
8:19 PM
@Adám but... non-meta please.
 
@Fmbalbuena There are no main CCGC posts.
 
@Adám What?
There are 237593 questions.
 
I'm making fun of CCGC vs CGCC. Sorry.
 
CGCC
 
CMP: old name or new name
 
8:22 PM
oh thanks for typo
@hyper-neutrino old name.
because PPCG is programming puzzles but this is closed
 
8:40 PM
CMC show to make the input number as a sum of four squares
 
@Anush Flag to close as off-topic.
 
@Anush is 0 allowed as a square here
 
@hyper-neutrino yes
@Fmbalbuena boooo
 
@Anush Jelly, 8 bytes: Ż²ṗ4§=¥Ƈ (Try It Online!)
or if you only want one output, Ż²ṗ4§=¥Ƈ³Ḣ for 10
 
@Anush I don't understand.
CMQ: what is the name of Removed user mod?
 
8:50 PM
@Fmbalbuena Mego.
 
@Adám Mego?
 
Yes.
 
@Adám profile pic?
 
Penguin?
 
8:58 PM
1. wait that network profile still exists?
2. wait I thought they deleted all of their accounts
 
@hyper-neutrino 1) Yeah
 
Oct 14 '16 at 3:36, by Downgoat
Jul 20 at 10:30, by Mego
I am male penguin
 
@hyper-neutrino 2) only CGCC
45 secs ago, by Adám
Oct 14 '16 at 3:36, by Downgoat
Jul 20 at 10:30, by Mego
I am male penguin
 
I had to get a quote of the message to include the author name at the time.
 
@Adám When Mego removed account?
 
9:02 PM
Nov 15 '19 at 13:55, by Adám
@DJMcMayhem Will Mego's content also be deleted? Has SE ever deleted a user's content before? Anyway, if SE doesn't fix its Monica debacle, then I'm not going to run.
 
@Adám so why he deleted?
 
> because I do not believe the network has the best interests of its users in mind. So, I am following in the footsteps of Dennis and resigning as a moderator, effective immediately.
 
@Fmbalbuena Nope, all accounts, except for network. Not quite sure why the network one wasn't deleted
 
I never did end up getting an answer to that...
 
9:11 PM
If only you had a super secret mod way of asking CMs stuff :P
Rather than, like, me just pinging Catija and asking her :P
 
what do you think I did last time :P
solution: ping more CMs this time
 
There are at least two more than last time you pinged :P
(I'm guessing you last asked further back than October)
 
i last asked early september, so yes :P
 
I was about to ask/go find out when Slate and Vanny joined, then remembered that V2 and Spencer are the "second" most recent, not Slate/Vanny ಠ_ಠ
I'm getting rusty
Aug 28 at 0:38, by emanresu A
Can someone tell Mego about https://stackexchange.com/users/2927268/mego?tab=accounts
 
9:38 PM
@hyper-neutrino how is it taking the input?
 
@Anush through the first command line argument like most jelly programs do
 
Oh I can see it in TIO
too slow for 32 :(
 
well, it is O(n^4)
 
10:06 PM
looks like we learning Zsh today
 
Don't tell pxeger
 
Sorry not sorry.
 
10:30 PM
Are we just gonna get a new "<rhymes with red>wolf programs" meme every day then? :P
There's "dead", "ed" (maybe?), "fed", "head", "led"/"lead", "ned" (???), "said" (I guess?), "ted", "wed" at least :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing deadwolf programs is hopefully not for a while, and same with wedwolf programs lol
 
Wedwolf Programs: what Redwolf will be tomorrow, and then again every week after :P
 
Ooh, so it's the perfect meme for tomorrow.
@cairdcoinheringaahing Don't forget about shed and tread and stead and fled
and cred and dread and fred and sled
 
Nice, I was only varying the first letter :P
 
puts all the redwolfs into the shipping container and puts the container on the slow shipping boat
 
10:42 PM
Are we going to have an AoC room this year? I think I'd heard someone mention that was a possibility
Since TNB tends to get flooded during the event
(Although personally I'd rather keep it in TNB, since it's not too off-topic)
 
good idea
 
So long as we don't have the same irritating countdowns that happened last year, I'm fine with it being here
 
This is the worst code I've ever read
 
This and the resulting messages, every day, count as noise to me. Announce it starting in 10, then start comparing scores once it's open adn you're done
 
I like the countdowns :(
 
10:46 PM
If you don't take part, it's just pointless noise. If you do, you don't need TNB counting down for you
 
It's just fun though :p
I see why it would be noisy to others though
Maybe an AoC room is a good idea
 
@RedwolfPrograms apparently, this is what it does:
1. Find all tiles that have no edges.
2. Find all tiles that have an edge that is adjacent to a tile that has an edge.
3. Find all tiles that have an edge that is adjacent to a tile that has an edge and that tile has an edge adjacent to a tile that has an edge.
4. Find all tiles that have an edge that is adjacent to a tile that has an edge and that tile has an edge adjacent to a tile that has an edge and that tile has an edge adjacent to a tile that has an edge.
5. Find all tiles that have an edge that is adjacent to a tile that has an edge and that tile has an edge adjacent to a tile that 
 
correct
 
(Has to be, no way you could bully a human into reading that lol)
This year I'm going to focus on readability and a large variety of useful functions, instead of packing a bunch of functions into one or two letter names
 
10:55 PM
i'mma gon see how far i can get with vyxal
 
@RedwolfPrograms is this for that one star i gave up on last year
 
This is gonna be my first AoC, I’m looking forward to it
 
Ooh, nice!
Last year was my first
Permanently ruined my sleep schedule but 10/10 would recommend
 
Mine’s already ruined so that works out great :p
 
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