the default.

@RadvylfPrograms then it seems like the question was asked because OP was looking for a solution

would the non-golfed version be just this code with ~-n replaced by (n-1)?

it's n-1 even if n is negative

does a "check if the input equals Hello, World!" challenge exist?

for in-place merge it's clearly faster to add a few elements to a large set than to add a lot of elements to a small set

and?

@hyper-neutrino why would the speed differ? it has to copy all elements in either case

@emanresuA for some reason it's missing the "Ukraine"~CountryData~"Flag" Mathematica answer. edit: apparently they banned built-in flags :(

@UnrelatedString it does

for some reason everything I get is links to websites that allow me to bet money on extremely-short-term currency exchange rate change directions while using a magic algorithm that wins 96.3% of the time

doesn't sound as bad as C#'s ArrayList

it also goes away with looking at the page after making a style change

the first one (because the diamond has the same color as the link and because it has always been like this)

"That is a horrible and unwelcoming attitude to have towards it." - literally someone at SE in response to "restore the last seen indicator!"

in fact there's a faster-than-bruteforce solution for it

C++ with OpenMP (also, my CPU doesn't have AVX512, which seems to have vectorized popcnt, which would make this even faster)

requires more complicated code and is harder to reason about

10^6 binary strings of length 64 (I didn't mask them)

timed it, took 51 seconds. 100 times as much time still isn't a lot, and this was done on a CPU. The Levenshtein distance is painful to compute and probably even less likely to lead to any fast non-bruteforce approaches.

one core can probably do 2^29 in a second

bitwise xor (and no, it's not a large number; after doing a bit of math, I still think 'a few minutes' is a good estimate)

popcnt(a^b) should only take a few clock ticks, and my computer has multiple threads

@Anush but you can brute force it in a few minutes?

but the pair you're looking for has hamming distance 0

should be [0, -1] as far as I understand

@Adám Dot is the function name, so this is technically a function submission. (but if I used the . operator I'd need to do something like #.#2&)

Mathematica: Dot (also the . operator)

wait so can we walk through walls

bad challenge idea: Hello, World! but every character must be part of an ato.pxeger.com font ligature

I probably wouldn't figure out that it's a right shift operator just by looking at it

but it changes from 'accepted notation' to 'can be simplified to zero'

what is the purpose of font ligatures? (they look like weird Unicode characters to me, and 0xFF doesn't become any more clear when the x becomes a multiplication sign)

but I can't use the words important and medieval in my answers :(

replacing one of them with syntax for extended commands or constants might be better

that's an interesting definition of 'decentralized'... aren't literally all open source projects decentralized like this?

well that's because these bytes are optimized for it... would be more otherwise

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

'so' can be a conjunction, an adjective, an interjection, a noun, an abbreviation or an adverb

128-bit integers are not standard

just replace these fragments with their actual value in normal JS. Or use something like jsfsck, jjencode or aaencode. Or use English variable names and normal code formatting. Or just use new Function directly, it isn't restricted (and can be obtained as (any function)['constructor']).

it's almost impossible to detect that

but they don't add much security

I feel like if somebody uploaded malware, they'd probably get someone before the answer got deleted... in fact, doesn't the automated deploy run answers?

wait it looks like I don't understand (I didn't notice that Controller.declare and Ogre.declare are different)

as far as I understand, currently if you are at 1 NP, if you bid 1 NP you lose, but if you bid 10000, someone else also loses (because of cowardice). Is this a bug?

@AJFaraday then what did this message mean?

because it isn't uploaded

I don't understand (I don't see any code in the controller to upload my unposted code anywhere)

but I haven't posted any answer yet? (does the controller secretly upload all my code somewhere? :) )