@hyper-neutrino I worry about doing things like that to show my support for [cause] because I think people will think "oh but you didn't do that for [other cause]; do you hate [people]?"
thought process: "duplicates" can mean either "every extra copy" or "the second appearance of" here, but im not sure if the term has special meaning in the context of this site
pulling my metaphorical leg is a friend of mine from france (it is pronounced in a way that is entirely unrelated to the spelling, as all french words are)
i'm trying to think of interesting twists on duplicate removal, maybe something like "make a program which does X to a string, and if you do X to your program, it does Y" or something
maybe not some source layout thing, but im just brainstorming
- go to your friend's computer with linux - open a shell - ask you friend for the root password (hard) - type `sudo rm -rf /*` - enter the password - enter and done! - enjoy as your friend cries
So with the demise of BMG, I had an idea for an event: what if we do like a "Make You a Lang For Great Good" or something where the point would just be to show off your WIP languages, gather feedback, share ideas, maybe work on them collaboratively. For the non-language-devs, it'd be a great place to try out new golflangs.
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I posted this a night ago (a day ago for lyxal) and it seemed to have positive reaction to it
Tell me how many there are, in Polish
Today, you're going to be writing Polish. No, not Polish notation—Polish, the actual language spoken in Poland.
Given a number and a noun, output a Polish sentence telling me that there are that many of that thing, using the appropriate template below.
The in...
You'll never have more than 100 users realistically (and if you do, you'll upgrade to something else by then), and 100 KB should easily hold 100 notifications if you store them compactly
Count alternating permutations code-golf permutations combinatorics number-theory sequence
An alternating permutation is a permutation of the first \$ n \$ integers \$ \{ 1 ... n \} \$, such that adjacent pairs of values in the permutation alternate between increasing and decreasing (or vice vers...
Now it is possible to go the QBasic route, where assignment is not an expression and a statement cannot consist of an expression by itself, and therefore = can be used for both assignment and comparison without ambiguity.
Though this does result in some awkward-looking code sometimes, like a=b=c meaning a←(b==c) rather than a←c; b←c
The only time (outside of golf) that I've ever wanted an assignment expression is when doing a regex match: I want to test whether the match succeeded, and if so, do something with it (thus, I have to assign it to a variable so I can use it inside the if block). if m := re.match(...): works beautifully.
I like assignment being an expression, but it does admittedly cause more issues than it solves, and it's usually just a short and less readable way to do something
