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@cairdcoinheringaahing i would be interested to see it if so

@RedwolfPrograms hmmm yeah that also sounds good

@RedwolfPrograms can you link the ascii art numbers challenge

i opened a beer earlier and forgot to finish it. excuse me.

also what tags would it need aside from code-golf and ascii-art

definitely not a dupe of that

if so, please link the dupe

it may be. that was my main question

@SandboxPosts please feedback my proposal

i don't know. never tried. probably should take any further such questions to the esoteric programming languages room, or #esoteric on Freenode.

there's a button that does it for you

i believe one space at the beginning of a line

of course you can do code blocks

check the help guide

it supports standard wikimedia markdown

yeah MD, just search for the name of your language

registration is the only tricky part--lots of steps

you just register and create a page for it, add the categories, add it to the language list, you're good to go

yes

hmm. yeah i think i've seen them too

I think we should rename the sandbox "two-on-one challenge criticism forum with Peter Taylor and ais523". You can't really get anyone to read anything there...

so it's just a subjective assessment of whether it's devolving into something not ... stackexchangey enough? i guess?

what are the qualifications to make a discussion SO offtopic that it has to go to Trash?

please look at my challenge and make sure it is okay to post so i can post it in the morning: codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12569/47050

hello people

@ASCII-only Sometimes just one change can remove a surprising number of bytes without changing the algorithm at all

@ASCII-only just to copy someone else's answer with a bit of extra golfing done to it? kind of a waste.

have you ever been bothered by proposing a way for someone to substantially shorten a code golf entry and having the suggestion ignored entirely?

@HyperNeutrino I searched "code block" in two separate words and "block" itself. :P

@ais523 ty

@HyperNeutrino Seems like overkill? I figured someone here would know...

Does anyone remember enough of the name of the challenge about prepending four spaces to each line of the input that I can search for it?

@HyperNeutrino My only question was whether it was deleted because it was plagiarized, or if it was deleted because it was illegal for other reasons.

Should I repost the deleted answer from codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/118435/… ? It would be legal if I posted it, right?

What. I'll never get used to time zones, and their way of making April fools come a day early each year.

ah

which kind of edits require approval

@Dennis Thanks

does SE have a mechanism to thank someone for a good edit?

Thanks @ais523

@Moogie example added as requested

@user1502040 thanks

@Magenta I wouldn't trust the Python runtime to point out the incompatibilities. Also, you need every fire in the repository in that folder for it to work

@Magenta you need to run it with Python 2.7, or else go through and fix all the compatibility issues. I'm not doing anything special to run it. Just the command I said.

@user1502040 yes, each match will be all against all. I will run some of the examples, or if you insist, all of them. However, some of them are really bad, so if there are a lot of good entries, I might leave out the worst of them. Lurker, for instance, cannot have any effect at all on the rest of the competitors.

@Magenta CWD is the current working directory. I would suggest running it from the command line, as that's what I do. I think editing the source file would be going against the spirit of the challenge (the same reason I outlawed saving files). Out of curiosity, what exactly is the information you intended to save?

@Magenta make sure you run as "python bankheist.py 1000" with the folder that contains competitors.txt as your CWD. I could change it to look in the folder bankheist.py is in instead of the CWD if that would help.

@RobertFraser it sat in the sandbox for two weeks without comment. It is long, but thorough. If anything doesn't make sense, just ask, I'll try to reword.

@user1502040 I realize this. Unfortunate that I have to sacrifice speed in order to prevent bots preserving state, but that's the challenge.

I haven't tested tournamentrunner.py at all yet, because it doesn't implement any game logic. If you want to run a single tournament, do "python bankheist.py 1000"