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Posts by Quintec‭

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Meta Who should the temporary moderators be?

With equally great hesitation, I'll also throw my hat in the ring if Jo King does not respond. (If he does, I'd rather Chris be the second moderator.) I was on the PPCG SE site for a relatively lo...

posted 4y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Quintec‭

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Meta Under which condition is a function that takes arguments other than those specified by the challenge by itself a valid solution to a challenge?

What you said a function is a valid solution to a challenge if and only if it can be called with no more than the specified input of the task This sounds reasonable to me. If you want to make...

posted 2y ago by Quintec‭

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Challenges Tile pyramids on top of each other!

Python 2, 57 bytes a,x=1,input() exec'print" "*(x-a)+"/"*a+"\\\\"*a;a+=1;'*x Prints it out line by line Try it online!

posted 4y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Quintec‭

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Sandbox Point Game KOTH

posted 4y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Quintec‭

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Sandbox The Camelot Wheel [FINALIZED]

posted 4y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Challenges Guess the language! (Cops' Thread)

Canvas, cracked by Shaggy, 129 bytes /bin/bash > echo "Cops and Robbers"; #Testing, testing 1 2 3 Segmentation Fault > echp "Cops and Robbers"; #Huh? Cops and Robbers This version of ...

posted 3y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Shaggy‭

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Challenges Make my value binary

Python 3, 3 bytes bin Try it online!

posted 3y ago by Quintec‭

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Meta Reactions on Code Golf Codidact

New reactions are up "Works for me" is gone, "Outdated" is now invalid, and "Dangerous" has stayed the same.

posted 3y ago by Quintec‭

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Challenges Compute the determinant

Python 3, 29 bytes import numpy numpy.linalg.det Yeah, this is really boring, but I'm curious if this can be beat in Python. Try it online!

posted 3y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quintec‭

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Meta Reactions on Code Golf Codidact

Interesting! / Cool! / Wow! Any of these names would work, I think. This would be the dark green reaction in place of "works for me". Intended to be used for answers that are extra unique/impressi...

posted 3y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quintec‭

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Meta How should we handle incorrect answers?

Lock it Locking a post disallows edits, comments and votes. I am not sure if it allows the original poster to edit or not, but this would be one way to preserve the answer while preventing interac...

posted 2y ago by Quintec‭

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Meta How should we handle incorrect answers?

Do nothing It's wrong but well intentioned. The best we can do is leave a comment saying why its wrong.

posted 2y ago by Quintec‭

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Meta Default Rules: Flags and Other Compile-Time Options

IF flags take arguments, those arguments count for the code length For example, in Japt, -F"string" is a flag that prints "string" if the output is falsy - in my opinion this should add 6 bytes on...

posted 3y ago by Quintec‭

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