Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Congratulations to the new TNB Room Owners!
Voting has closed, and, with the votes being a dead tie, all three candidates have been elected as room owners for CGCC's main chat room, The Nineteenth Byte:
They have been appointed, effective ...
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CGCC Blog Post #5: How to get reputation quick
You've probably seen the privileges list, and you've probably looked at it and found some quite useful stuff (and some complete garbage) that you may not have. So... how do you get reputation?
Bounty ...
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Vote for the new TNB Room Owners!
The Nineteenth Byte is getting new room owners. You've had a week (and a couple of hours) for nominations, and now it's time to vote. In alphabetical order, here are the nominees:
emanresu A
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Are we still deleting sandbox posts?
The Sandbox currently says:
When you think your challenge is ready for the public, go ahead and post it, and replace the post here with a link to the challenge and delete the sandbox post.
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CGCC Blog Post #6: My First Impression on Code Golf Stack Exchange
How I got here
I saw a few sites of Stack Exchange elsewhere. Exactly where I forgot, but it made the first impression of Stack Overflow to me: they were indeed very sophisticated. I learned about ...
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Nominations for new TNB Room Owners
In response to the increase in off-topic discussion in TNB, we've decided to appoint more ROs. Here's how we'll be deciding the new room owners:
For one week (until 14:00UTC, on the 15th of May 2022),...
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Should we rehash Add A Language To A Polyglot?
Add a language to a polyglot was fun while it lasted. However, it's kinda stagnated due to the difficulty of running all the languages. I propose that we repost this challenge, maybe with stricter ...
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Language of the Month for May 2022: Desmos
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout May 2022, our Language of the Month will be:
Desmos
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Using compression tools
Are you allowed to use compression tools (e.g. gzip, xz) in your code?
For example, a shell script with:
cat script.sh.gz|gzcat|sh
(25 bytes)
where the content of ...
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Should we make a room for TNB's off-topic discussions?
The Nineteenth Byte, CGCC's main chat room, is no stranger to silliness. However, especially recently, I've felt there's been a much larger volume of off-topic conversations. In order to prevent ...
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Can We Make 0-NAND OR Gates in [logic-gates] Challenges?
Some logic-gates challenges require you to use only NAND gates to solve a problem. Usually, constructing an OR gate from NAND gates requires 3 NAND gates.
However, an OR gate can also be constructed ...
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Byte counting for BASIC style DATA / READ inputs
Background
Many BASIC dialects idiomatically use DATA and READ commands to store and read input data from the source code. We ...
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Language of the Month for April 2022: Curry
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout April 2022, our Language of the Month will be:
Curry
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What happened to Doorknob?
Before anyone asks this question I'd like to get it out of the way:
If I go to the moderators tab, I don't see Doorknob any more:
He used to be a moderator here, but now he's not. What happened?
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Source for bfbrute?
Apologies if this isn't the right thing to post in codegolf meta, but I have no idea where else to post this.
A while back, KSab wrote a tool that brute forces Brainfuck code. I'd like to codegolf ...
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Language of the Month for March 2022: PARI/GP
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout March 2022, our Language of the Month will be:
PARI/GP
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Functions throwing exceptions: an exception to the rules?
I'm seeking greater clarity around whether we currently allow functions to throw exceptions, and if so, under what circumstances. There seem to be contradictory posts on this topic—several highly ...
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How should taking in string input be scored in GeoGebra?
I have recently started to use GeoGebra for some code golf challenges involving strings, and have come across a conundrum which I want to ask the meta about, and prompts the more general question of ...
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How can we get new users to use the sandbox properly?
The problem
Often, when we get new users, this happens:
they post their first few challenges, which receive negative feedback
they are instructed to use the sandbox, which they do
not long after (...
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Questions with the longest shortest answers?
I'm just curious about any pure code golf questions (ie, not ones that build on other answers, just straight up, solve the problem with fewest bytes) where even the shortest golfed answers (especially ...
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Golfing Language Based on Excel
The LAMBDA function is going to be released to Excel eventually. This presents an opportunity to create a set of user-defined functions in Excel. If a standard ...
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What should we do with ast-golf?
The ast-golf tag is a winning criterion where the program with the least AST nodes wins. This seems like a subset of atomic-code-golf, where the program with the least operations by some definition ...
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How to type unicode letters? [closed]
I am looking for a way to type letters with dot only using keyboard (without any applications). For example, an US keyboard with international layout has letters like this ...
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Should we get rid of [new-years]?
The new-years tag's description is:
A new year's puzzle is any puzzle that is posted around the first day of any year that has to do with that specific year or calendars in some way.
This isn't ...
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Should graphical-output challenges accept straight up image files by default?
I've often seen some questions tagged graphical-output and kolmogorov-complexity that have some answer being image files, and they are often disagreements in the comments.
examples:
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Using resource exhaustion with a semi-deciding algorithm
Let's say that there is a standard code-golf question where you:
Have to find a solution that satisfies some constraints (eg. a math equation, etc.)
Or, if a solution doesn't exist, output the ...
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Language of the Month for February 2022: tinylisp
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout February 2022, our Language of the Month will be:
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Turns out that you might not write the fun main for kotlin even if the post asks so because of this:
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/101563/
as you can see, as the OP explains at the answer, if ran as a .kts file (kotlin but script) it won't need a main ...
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Tag proposal: [self-scoring]
I'd like to propose self-scoring or a similar tag, but I'd like to get some feedback on whether this is useful and how the tag might work.
First the proposal:
self-scoring is a scoring criterion ...
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How should be some mathematical functions that you need to import to directly use without adding the library name be treated as? [duplicate]
like the Float.pow function in kotlin, in normal cases, which the pow function is not a part of since it is an extension function, you do it by doing, kotlin.math.abs for instance, should import ...
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What are the standard guidelines for calling the function that does whatever the post says?
like for languages that need a starting point, like c++, c#, java and kotlin.
I always post my answers in the function form instead of also calling it from the starting point. If we need to actually ...
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What if someone posts a translated answer of another Answer?
For example, if an answer takes an existing brainfuck answer and rewrites it in another language like Ook! which is the same underlying language with different symbols.\$^1\$
What I should do if there ...
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Best of CGCC 2021 - Voting is now open!
Final phase
You have chosen the categories and the nominees for CGCC's annual "Best of". Now it is time to pick the winners!
Each of the 22 categories is represented by an answer to this ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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What is our consensus for fractional byte functions?
In a discussion about SBCSs and other code pages, fractional byte counts were briefly brought up. I brought up our consensus that fractional byte programs are disallowed, and it was pointed out that ...
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Should I post non-language specific KOTH?
Can I post KOTH challenge, but non-language specific?
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Best Of CGCC 2021 - Call for categories [duplicate]
Well, 2021's come to an end, and so that means: Best of 2021!
In this thread, we'll consolidate the categories for our Best Posts of 2021, and eventually we'll vote on which posts will win for each ...
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Language of the Month for January 2022: Add++
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout January 2022, our Language of the Month will be:
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Advent of Code Golf 2021 is over! (Stats, Hall of Fame)
Advent of Code Golf 2021 is over!
Thanks to everyone who participated in and/or helped me run the Advent of Code Golf 2021 event. It wouldn't have been so successful without the help of the community.
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Is there a rule about Questions asking to print a specific text?
Mine got closed because it was the same as the Hello World Thread, which isn't the case since the text contains a lot of repeating words and symbols, which are easily compressable. I also got ...
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New Codegolf language: Nibbles [closed]
I'd like to announce Nibbles. My goal was to create something as simple as golfscript but as short as any modern golf language. My hope was that by having few enough instructions, they could be ...
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CGCC Blog Post #4: Impact of CGCC on Code Golf
Just over a year ago, Omar Tuchfeld posted High throughput Fizz Buzz, a fastest-code challenge where answers should aim to output Fizz Buzz as quickly as they can. Their challenge was nominated in ...
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Should we let Vyxal Bot into TNB when Vyxal is the LYAL
Context: Given that Vyxal is roughly under a month away from being selected for LYAL (at the time of posting, my calculations place it as being 1-2 LYALs away), I figured I'd write this so it can ...
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Does Baba Is You belong here?
Introduction
Baba Is You is a puzzle game. In this game, a level is a grid that consists of objects and texts, and the objective of the level is to, if there are texts ...
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Why are golfing languages allowed?
I'm a bit confused about the use of golfing languages in golfing challenges. In the standard loopholes there is a point about using self-made languages that solve the problem in one symbol. And it's a ...
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Should we make a 2048 tag?
Currently, we have at least 12 questions relating to the game 2048. I think it would be worth creating a 2048 tag, as there are a non-insignificant number of these questions now. We have tags for ...
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Language of the Month for December 2021: BQN
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout December 2021, our Language of the Month will be:
BQN
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Why is a language identification challenge off-topic in CGCC?
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not dupe of this because all are different answers.
Back to start
Some questions like this are obviously off-topic, but some what sees on-topic but not on this site (CGCC)?
Like:
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Announcing Advent of Code Golf 2021! (+ Event challenge sandbox)
Originally from caird coinheringaahing's idea, I thought about how we could do it this year with such a short time before December, and I decided to gather some ideas from previous AoC events. (There'...
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What loopholes should be assumed when a name-specific file is used for code golf?
I have posted this golfing tip for Bash before:
In Pure Bash (or any other pure shellscript), use . for looping.
It's a tip that recomments using a file whose the ...
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