The Nineteenth Byte

The Nineteenth Byte: General discussion for codegolf.stackexc...
Apr 29, 2020 19:38
A wild AdmBorkBork appears!
Mar 13, 2020 15:20
Can't wait to start trying those out.
Mar 13, 2020 15:20
Ternary operator: a ? b : c
Pipeline chain operators: || and &&
Null conditional operators: ?? and ??=
Mar 13, 2020 15:20
Nifty new features in PowerShell 7.0 --
Mar 11, 2020 17:50
I suppose I should either say n>3 or change my initial 3 to a 1 ... /shrug
Mar 11, 2020 17:47
@AdmBorkBork PowerShell, 47 bytes Try it online!
Mar 11, 2020 17:40
CMC ^ but with "Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below n" where n is input integer.
Mar 4, 2020 13:36
@flawr I guess it's a start ...
Mar 3, 2020 21:27
You didn't encircle it: you enpolygonned it! — Paul D. Waite 8 hours ago
Feb 28, 2020 19:12
@Adám Not so much "skip" as probably "gloss over." I know that David Haas or Marty Haugen or other contemporary composers pull pieces from Psalms for their liturgical music, but even "happy" tunes have a somber feel to them. I'm not old enough to have been around pre-Vatican II, but I suspect that some of the "old" traditions still stick around.
Feb 28, 2020 16:20
> vacuity be damned
Feb 28, 2020 14:29
Certainly, I can't recall anything like Purim Torah.
Feb 28, 2020 14:29
Interesting. I grew up Catholic, which is a Very Serious™ religion. Even the happiest days, such as Easter (when Catholics believe that Jesus was resurrected), the music and worship is still extremely solemn.
Feb 28, 2020 14:20
Not very well, and the interaction between the three (reporter, translator, and Dalai Lama) was very, very awkward.
Feb 28, 2020 14:19
My favorite example was a reporter speaking with the Dalai Lama, trying to tell a joke about a Buddhist monk who went into a pizza shop and asked to make him "one with everything."
Feb 28, 2020 14:16
Fascinating. I'm always interested in puns in other languages, just because the translations never seem to work. Excellent explanation - thanks!
Feb 28, 2020 14:10
@Adám Completely unrelated to Code Golf, is this a pun of some sort?
Feb 27, 2020 21:14
Safe from me, anyway. I don't plan on doing anything.
Feb 27, 2020 21:12
lol, I didn't actually expect a response, twas more of a joke
Feb 27, 2020 21:09
@Adám What's your public IP address? Asking for no particular reason ... >.>
Feb 26, 2020 20:01
OK, you convinced me.
Feb 26, 2020 19:31
So, I'm looking at one of my older answers, and saw that I can golf some more bytes off. Since the challenge has been "dead" for years, is it worthwhile to update my answer, or should I just forget it?
Feb 26, 2020 14:20
@Adám I don't get why some of those posts were vandalized after the asker got their answer...
Feb 25, 2020 18:10
I would say yes, that's allowed. Submissions can crash without outputting anything as a falsey value ...
Feb 25, 2020 18:02
@PeterCordes Yes, that's intentional. People tend to complain a lot about truthy-vs-falsey challenges, so that's the best compromise I've come up with. — AdmBorkBork May 3 '19 at 12:54
Feb 25, 2020 18:02
Also relevant:
Feb 25, 2020 17:58
> Given an input number, x, output a distinct and consistent value if x is a congruent number, and a separate distinct and consistent value if x is not a congruent number. The output values do not necessarily need to be truthy/falsey in your language. (source)
Feb 25, 2020 17:58
@BradC Most modern challenges (i.e., the past two years or so) allow submissions to define distinct and consistent values for output instead of literal truthy/falsey values. For example,
Feb 21, 2020 14:22
@Calvin'sHobbies There's this, which is pretty close
Feb 20, 2020 15:43
@Veskah I still feel that there's a couple bytes to be save somewhere. Sub-130 seems doable. I'll wait for mazzy to see it, lol.
Feb 20, 2020 14:54
@Veskah Gotta go fast. ;-)
Feb 20, 2020 14:31
It's not really outgolfing if it's in a different language
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Feb 13, 2020 19:44
Jeez. A little harsh, killing someone just because the website broke.
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Feb 13, 2020 19:44
> Server error in '\' Application. The requester has been terminated.
Feb 13, 2020 14:41
PowerShell is great and does all things.
Feb 12, 2020 15:39
Yeah, I think so. The obvious bummer is going to be something like Lenguage, but that's impossible to avoid.
Feb 12, 2020 15:37
@JPeroutek Yes, that reads much better.
Feb 12, 2020 15:01
@JPeroutek It feels like the first paragraph is missing. I had to infer from the examples that the challenge is to output the most common character.
Feb 7, 2020 15:43
Well, there's lots of "in theory" going on with parallel programming
Feb 7, 2020 15:40
I've not written parallel code since Uni, and even then it was little
Feb 7, 2020 15:30
Doing alright. Really quiet day at the office so far.
Feb 7, 2020 14:42
Hi Anush, how are you doing today? Still playing around with Hamming distances?
Feb 5, 2020 13:49
You don't iterate through arrays? What do you do, then, perform the operation on all of them simultaneously?
Jan 31, 2020 21:25
@WilliamFluck Another thing to try is to search for questions that have a high number of answers -- codegolf.stackexchange.com/search?q=answers%3A10 -- because those tend to be "easier"
Jan 31, 2020 21:23
lol
Jan 31, 2020 21:23
> don't worry about the fact that it was like 50k hits/day
Jan 31, 2020 21:10
I especially like decommissioning the last of a server generation, it's like powering off an old friend.
Jan 31, 2020 21:09
(I kid, I kid)
Jan 31, 2020 21:08
Killing the last of anything feels good. Like rhinos, for example.
Jan 24, 2020 21:21
:D