musicman523

at least as far as i understand

TLDR is that SE is (1) trying to assert that they have the right to change licenses on content, and (2) remove their mods willy nilly

it won't die, it will just become something in which I will have no desire to participate

@Dennis haven't been here for awhile but thanks for all you've done for PPCG. hoping stackexchange gets their feet out from their backsides and you'll come back when they do

Both good ideas

:P

@ASCII-only sure, you write the program that solves the halting problem, I write the challenge, we split the karma 50-50?

I came up with a fun challenge idea. Unfortunately, it involves solving the halting problem :/

That is one definition of free. :P

Honestly that sounds kind of good

@flawr true, what I mean is "the golfiest a turing machine language could possibly be" (i.e. no extraneous delimiters and symbols)

Know if there's a golfier one?

Hm yeah that does seem to be what I want, but not very golfy...

Does anyone know if there's an Esolang that's literally just a turing machine?

too far for me :/

just make it a CMC, no one will find out :^)

Darn, 6 hours no answers...

Let me know if you guys have thoughts on my question in the sandbox :)

Just saw. Thanks!

@user202729 I really think you should stop telling people "we are not a question and answer site". First of all it does not answer any of their questions, i.e. "Why is my challenge being downvoted? Why is it not valid? What can I change to make it valid?". Second much of the language of the site uses the word "question", so your statement seems quite contradictory.

Thanks @ConorO'Brien ! Working on test cases now, trying to figure out how to solve my own challenge first so I can have a reference implementation :P

Hey guys, any thoughts on this? codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2140/…

Trying to award the bounty

@LeakyNun Your answer seems to be the earliest to claim O(n) + O(1), but there's a note about it being cheaty?

What's wrong with using Object?

@StepHen makes sense. if you have older friends who have already taken the courses (I'm guessing calc 1/2?) you can buy or borrow their book. But if you are not obligated to bring the book to class then you don't need to buy the physical book (and that's something you can ask the prof)

@StepHen if you can study from a screen you may be able to locate cheaper alternatives, if not then you can probably rent it for around $35 if you don't want to keep it

@DougCoburn it's possible, but it is an interesting question

Is [] a valid input?

@StepHen good catch, thank you

Is the list guaranteed to have all elements in [1, length] at least once?

We typically have pretty lax I/O on our challenges; is it okay to throw an exception instead of returning -1?

thank you :)

Yeah you can script that with awk, sed, etc

the hex values in the .text section

OH wait, that's the code right there

Hmmmmmm that's werid

That's so weird. It's not documented online or in the version of spim I have.

@ASCII-only I don't see the -assemble flag in any of the documentation

There has to be a better way, but it's more complicated especially if you're using macro instructions

Actually, I don't think you can put a full MIPS program into a C function. I don't think that will work because you'll be past the header already, so you can't put anything new in the header

@AndrewSavinykh The only way I can think of at the moment is to feed the assembly into the main function of a C program (that is otherwise empty) and use the version of gcc that compiles to MIPS (or clang with the LLVM backend for MIPS), then get the length and hexdump of that. But that's a lot of effort

I would love if there were an easy way to see the hexdump of the assembled machine code and its byte count

@Dennis Looks great, thank you so much! :D

If you need help, let me know - I'm no expert in MIPS but I have programmed in it before and have some reference material

Gotcha

Also, this program should work as a Hello World. (I'm sure you tried it, but I can confirm it works in MIPS on Red Hat)

@Dennis You may be able to use one of the available installers on their SourceForge. It looks like they don't have an rpm installer, but you may be able to convert the deb to an rpm using this tool - haven't tried it myself so no idea if it will work reliably

Thank you!

@Dennis I think I may have asked this before, but do you have any intention of supporting MIPS assembly on TIO? There is a simulator available for Linux called SPIM.