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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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