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How can I get my challenge reopened?
This question is closed as off-topic.
I am really angry that my recent edits have not been successful in reopening the question.
So, I am waiting for a satisfactory edit to reopen this question. How ...
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Please welcome The Nineteenth Byte's newest room owners (2024)!
Voting has closed, and five out of six candidates have surpassed the vote threshold (≥ 10 upvotes, at least 3× upvotes vs. downvotes) and have been elected as room owners for CGCC's main chat room, ...
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Voting for new TNB room owners 2024
The Nineteenth Byte is getting new room owners. You've had a week (and one hour) for nominations, and now it's time to vote. In alphabetical order, here are the nominees:
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Nominations for new TNB Room Owners 2024
By community consensus, we've decided to elect new room owners for The Nineteenth Byte, CGCC's main chat room. The process will work as follows:
For one week (until UTC midnight on Monday 11th ...
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Proposal for a 2024 room owner election for The Nineteenth Byte
Currently, The Nineteenth Byte (CGCC's main chat room) has seven room owners, who are responsible for certain moderation actions, including pinning messages, clearing stars, and maintaining feeds. ...
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Does this count as hard-coding the output?
This question has several answers that involve hard-coding the output.
The rule says
Hard-coding the output
Unless the question is an obvious exception (the primary exception being those tagged ...
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Why did my post just get edited? Why is meta full of old questions?
We're doing it again. This isn't really a question, more just an update for why meta doesn't look like it normally does.
In short, the meta FAQ was just updated to remove a bunch of bloat. As this ...
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The meta FAQ bloat
We currently have 29 questions tagged with faq. The faq tag is meant to be a category of up-to-date community consensuses on various aspects of the site, but having 29 of them indicates that perhaps ...
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In memory of Razetime
Alternatively, a post I never thought I'd be writing.
At 17:47 on the 29th of June (UTC), the following was posted in the J Forums:
[Hi],
I am the father of Raghu Ranganathan.
Raghu my son who was 22 ...
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What do we do with an abandoned challenge that requires the author's participation?
When the author of a challenge makes a commitment to a challenge posted (e.g. "The timing will be done on my machine") but then clearly gives up on the challenge (e.g. by attempting to ...
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Can I post comments on [tips] questions with golfing tips if I don't understand the tip myself?
Disclaimer: I am the author of the posts mentioned here.Disclaimer: Sorry if the title doesn't make a whole lot of sense, I will try to clear up any confusion below.
So recently I posted the tips ...
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How to define a question that will attract "useful" answers?
After some time of programming in Python, I have learned that many tasks, which previously I performed in several lines, could be solved in a much more succinct way by one-liners, e.g. these ones. ...
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(permanently) Make Chat Great Again!
The Sand Trap is now frozen for good. No more golf balls getting stuck in the bunker!
This is the last one about freezing The Sand Trap I promise. There might be more about ensuring TNB doesn't go too ...
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Is Chat Great Again?
Last month, I proposed an experiment to freeze The Sand Trap (TST) for 3 weeks, to see whether The Nineetenth Byte can handle being the primary chat room again. And 3 weeks ago, TST was frozen so that ...
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Searching the Sandbox is somewhat broken
When I try to search the Sandbox for proposals with a specific word in them, using a query like inquestion:2140 interleave, I get this error message:
Oops! We can'...
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How To Filter Out Code-Golf tagged questions
The problem:
I am interested on coding challenges and puzzles on this site, but not in Code-Golf. However, code-golf questions appear to be over 95% of the threads on the main forum, and make it very ...
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Make Chat Great Again
Edit: The Sand Trap is now frozen unfrozen. Come and discuss the results of the experiment.
To quote myself:
normal TNB chat rules still apply, obviously, but for general programming things, general ...
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Are there minimum age requirements for languages?
I'm working on my custom golfing language Hussy.Net, built on top of C#, to address a lot of its pitfalls around verbosity:
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Should AI generated questions and or answers be banned?
Relevant discussion that inspired this question
Questions and answers (content) generated by AIs like LLMs (e.g ChatGPT, Google Bard, character.ai) are not prohibited on the StackExchange network by ...
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Do we want a banner warning about our policy on AI generated content?
Since January 10th, sites have been able to request to opt in to have a banner shown on answers reminding answerers on their site's policy regarding AI generated content.
This leads to two questions:
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Please convert [tag:conversion]
The tag conversion is a bit of an oddball. Its description is "This tag indicates that the challenge involves converting from one format to another", which is extremely vague, and could ...
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How can I know when to stop golfing?
For example, I've spent several days reducing an assembly submission from an initial 456 bytes down to 330 322 bytes.
How can I determine when a code golf solution has reached its most compressed or ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Using tio.run, how does this C function return a value?
I'd like to shorten my answer below by applying this tio.run technique from this C example.
Here's their C example
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Please unprotect Largest Number Printable
Please unprotect Largest Number Printable so my answer may be considered and create discussion.
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Can I use my SBCS for Uiua? [duplicate]
I just made a single-byte encoding for Uiua.
If you are interested, here is the Pad.
According to this answer (which seems to be commonly linked to),
An answerer can use whatever encoding they want ...
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Why was my flag disputed on an invalid joke answer?
A long time ago I posted a cops-and-robbers challenge in which I (perhaps foolishly) permitted unicode solutions but included the following rule:
You may use any Unicode characters for these, but ...
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How is Subleq code counted?
How are "bytes" counted in Subleq, in which code is a list of integers with no fixed size?
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Are there specific types of code golf challenges on this site?
I posted a question in hope of starting a shortest code challenge, but it seems to attract lots of downvotes and the only answer tried to help as a programming problem. One comment on the question ...
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Why is the site logo a medal?
What does a medal have to do with codes and computers? Is it a reference to the site badges and privileges? Or maybe a reference to the Olympiad awards? Also, why is it between two accolades?
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Meta question: counting bytes [duplicate]
Sorry if this is the wrong way to ask this...
Many languages used here have characters outside the ASCII character set, yet the headlines of answers written in such languages often say n bytes, when ...
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Do we need an "I f the sourcecode, you f the input" tag?
A somewhat common pattern in source-layout is to have competitors write a program which does task A (usually cat or printing a constant), but when a transform B is applied to the program the modified ...
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A clarification on Vyncode [closed]
This was prompted by the recent meta post about byte compression in scores, as well as other bits of confusion and uncertainty I've seen on the site.
If you've been around on the main site in the last ...
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What are our policies about this exotic I/O format about integers?
Please refer to this post on Sandbox. (EDIT: The challenge is posted on main.)
Basically, the proposed challenge is about a new numeral system I made. Though the proposal doesn't require the I/O ...
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Byte compression in scores
I am asking this because Vyxal, and mainly Vyxal has a compression algorithm to shave bytes off. I think of this as a bit unfair, so I would like to propose the following:
If a programming language ...
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Equivalence between strictly increasing integer sequences and decision problems
I have noticed that sequence questions are often looking at strictly increasing integer sequences. For these types of sequences, the sequence task of outputting the values in the sequence is largely ...
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Is code golf going to be opting into the voting reputation requirement test?
Over on Meta Stack Exchange, there's a question asking for sites to volunteer for a trial of removing reputation requirements for voting.
Is that something the Code Golf and Coding Challenges ...
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Code golf wrapped in a puzzle
Puzzle golf (Polf, Pulf, Gozzle, Golfzzle)
I would like to propose a challenge involving two SE sites. Code Golf and Puzzling. To solve, one has to decipher the specification riddle, and then golf the ...
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Let's get a special 404 page!
Very related, but not the same
I would like it if someone could make this a community wiki.
In The Nineteenth Byte, mousetail posted a message:
Petition to make our 404 page a quine in "Lost&...
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Fast and Golfiest Season 2 Looking for Advice
Season 2 is coming! Season 1 was fun and relatively well-received, but the main problem was that the scoring system is very broken. Hence I'm looking for advice about how to improve the system so that ...
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Is splitting a challenge into multiple categories a good way to have an optional difficulty without bonuses?
Sometimes, in a challenge you might want to create some variations. You might want to encourage some extra constraint or limitation, but don't want to obligate everyone to attempt the extra difficulty,...
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Scoreboard: Searchable, sortable answers with preview
Not sure if this is suitable for the main page so I post it here.
Example:
Say What You See ->
https://hunaphu.github.io/g/q/70837.html
Type to filter on a language. Feel free to use it or include ...
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Can the binary representations of argv[n] be used for numeric input?
TL;DR: Is int d = *(int*)argv[1]; allowed to obtain a integer input?
A special case of this question: Can numeric input/output be in the form of byte values?
This ...
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What counts towards the byte count in a code golf answer?
I use Racket as my primary programming language and have been having fun the past week solving challenges using it. I came across a few answers from other programming languages that use TIO's header ...
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Size in DB ？for opcode submission
If an opcode solution uses but doesn't rely on value of somewhere
At the beginning/end of program
In the middle of program
, then do these count as program size?
Example where placed at end:
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Can I write sequels to one of my created problems?
I recently wrote up Landmine Number, and I'd like to write more problems in the style of the story of this problem. Is it okay if I continue naming the sequels like LN II, LN III, LN IV? Side question,...
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What is the stance on challenges that are supersets of other challenges?
I have this challenge in the Sandbox at time of writing. I want to add some more requirements that can potentially majorly change how some solutions can work (dakuten, handakuten, small kana).
Should ...
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Desmos Active Sliders
The Desmos Graphing Calculator, or Desmos, has sliders, which can run, animating a graph.
Also, they can have multiple animation modes: (default) loop forwards an backwards, repeat in one direction, ...
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What’s the point of voting to close for “Needs details or clarity” without telling the author what detail or clarity it needs?
Posting in question
Apparently 4 people have voted to close this, but not one of them thought to leave a comment.
Let’s say it gets another vote and gets closed. What do you expect the author to do? ...
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