grateful_tomato: I think there is a problem with the C# backend. I'm playing https://www.codingame.com/ide/puzzle/code-of-kutulu and I get this error, which looks like it causes the player to die immediately "ERROR: ld.so: object 'libstdbuf.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored."
eulerscheZahl: known error, ignore it
eulerscheZahl: your crash on stream seems unrelated to the error you just pasted
grateful_tomato: ok, but somehow it looks like I die after this error. E.g. I start at 5 6, then the error happens, and next move I'm dead.
eulerscheZahl: try to print the whole stdin given to stderr and debug locally
eulerscheZahl: and hover your cursor over the tooltip in the replay timeline for more information
grateful_tomato: problem solved, was an infinite loop, thanks again eulerscheZahl. Now I'm first in the wood league :-)
jacek: happy Caturday
pharesmostafa: hi all
pharesmostafa: :)
pharesmostafa: https://www.codingame.com/clashofcode/clash/14331075e491f1bb47e399e0060e87f08405672
pharesmostafa: 4
pharesmostafa: 3
pharesmostafa: 2
jacek: :c
TatsuJoestar: how do i check if no input was provided c++?
TatsuJoestar: "Display 0 (zero) if no temperatures are provided. Otherwise, display the temperature closest to 0."
Allis: @TatsuJoestar You can check whether the input stream is at EOF, but probably the problem actually provides 0 as the first line to indicate that there are no further inputs.
dotaicode: hello world
dotaicode: how to compete with friend
dotaicode: ?
yamsunsee: chỗ clash of code có dấu ... á
yamsunsee: ông có tạo room private được đó
dotaicode: ok
dotaicode: thanks
AntiSquid: yamsunsee #VN
AntiSquid: or click username for PM please
yamsunsee: Why am I not allowed to answer here in my native language?
Raper1798: How to use BOOST in coders strike back ?
MSmits: "BOOST"
MSmits: it says in the description
Raper1798: invalid input. Expected 'x y power' but found '12027 5490 BOOST
MSmits: lemme check how i do it
Raper1798: its expecting power
MSmits: you know you can use boost only once right?
Raper1798: yes
MSmits: does this error come on the first use?
Raper1798: yes
MSmits: can you give me the line of code you use to output this?
MSmits: btw for anyone reading this. We went to PM. It was another of those: promotion -> input change thingies. They really should do something about it. Many new players run up against this
MSmits: nvm... was a different issue
MSmits: btw jacek. I'm testing the random move thingy on CG bench. Did a baseline yesterday and will be increasing randomness to the point where it starts to affect my bot too much. So I can find a sweet spot to properly fit params
MSmits: base:
MSmits: http://chat.codingame.com/pastebin/f0a836fd-7d85-414a-9f21-f73e88aa7f5e
MSmits: oh the paste is fixed! Yay
MSmits: hmm I am exactly one "e" beyond saying someting profound about time travel
zTTK: bruh
MSmits: bruh backatcha
zTTK: i will jutsu u :<<<
MSmits: scary
YurkovAS: MSmits do you have some bonus\penalty in bandas? Stuck and can't understand how to improve: continue search bonus\penalty or increase performance (bitboards play same as byteboard).
MSmits: it's actually completely vanilla mcts
MSmits: no eval, just loss/draw/win
MSmits: however, I do have an endgame DB and high performance
MSmits: basically, any board that is 12 squares or smaller, is looked up for L/D/W
MSmits: so 3x4, 6x2 at most
i_iMatt: hey
MSmits: the endgame db got me from rank 7 to rank 2
YurkovAS: MSmits about performance: how many rollouts \ sims in first or second move?
MSmits: Let me go check, sec
MSmits: Rollouts: 55808 in second turn
MSmits: turn 1 is bad comparison, because i lose some time calculating endgame db
MSmits: one rollout is 4 sims btw
YurkovAS: MSmits thanks!
MSmits: oh just to be clear. I calculate the end gam db in game, not offline
MSmits: so it's not some massive string or anything
MSmits: takes me 66 ms in 1st turn
MSmits: you might think I could generate a bigger one, but after 12 squares, comes 14 squares and that's 10x bigger and not particularly interesting (7x2)
MSmits: ohhh
MSmits: i just noticed i do calculate it offline it seems
MSmits: i am confused with oware
MSmits: then it's the string limitation that stops me from doing 14 squares
MSmits: lol... I was looking at my code and thinking: "why is there Chinese in there"
YurkovAS: :smile:
MSmits: it's interesting, in some games you get a bigger db by doing it in the 1st second and in some games it's better done offline
MSmits: cpu vs storage size I suppose
YurkovAS: for strings we may use one big chars pool. each string store in this pool in c-style (with null ending). and in db use char* (unordered_map<char*, uint8_t>).
i'm used this approach in some contest. new string allocation is very fast
MSmits: the problem is the codesize
MSmits: in oware i store around 10 million seed counts
MSmits: there's no way you can store this in 100k characters
MSmits: in Bandas I store L/W/D results that use less than 2 bit each, so i can store more.
MSmits: to be exact, I store 10 L/W/D results in 1 character
MSmits: only use 20-30k characters total, for my 12 square DB. If I were to try 14 squares, it would take around 200k characters
MSmits: gtg visitors today
starmaq: is there any way to get the link to a challenge you did on clash of code
LastRick: Try this site created by EulerscheZahl: http://eulerschezahl.herokuapp.com/codingame/puzzles/
jacek: mhm
SnAp: why is it asking after every round about 'not a robot confirmation' ?
jacek: youre clash addict
jacek: https://www.wired.com/story/how-30-lines-of-code-blew-up-27-ton-generator/
AntiSquid: use https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract for captchas it's part of the clash challenge :P
AntiSquid: SnAp
SnAp: :thumbsup:
Presac: How do you approve or reject a contribution?
eulerscheZahl: reach lvl20 for puzzles or play 50 clashes to moderate a clash contribution. then go to https://www.codingame.com/contribute/community
zTTK: does anyone know if i can disable noti's for when anyone accepts or rejects any contribution?
eulerscheZahl: https://www.codingame.com/settings/notifications
Presac: It is because I have reached that point I'm asking. Just don't see anywhere to actually do it.
eulerscheZahl: namely "Enable community contributions notifications"
but all are better set OFF
eulerscheZahl: Presac try a contribution that doesn't have a WIP in the title
eulerscheZahl: https://prnt.sc/v5zdhf
eulerscheZahl: you might miss those two buttons. level up and you'll unlock them
Presac: ah, apparently I have only been looking at ones that was wip
eulerscheZahl: the purpose is that you see some puzzles and know how a good contribution should look like
PkZ: Does anyone possibly know how to deal with a gradient exercise where you have multiple points and you have to rearrange them?
eulerscheZahl: WIP = work in progress
author wants to get some feedback but not ready yet
PkZ: Or if a name for something similar even exists
Presac: Does red text in chat mean a whisper or something?
eulerscheZahl: red = your name was mentioned
eulerscheZahl: only red for you
eulerscheZahl: Presac => red
Presac: ok. good to know
eulerscheZahl: also: you can autocomplete
eul[tab] => eulerscheZahl
Presac: eulerscheZahl
Presac: smart
Presac: Do the "Win three reverse clashes" only start counting after you reach that point?
eulerscheZahl: no, works all the time
Presac: Apparently I'm bad at reverse. Only 1/(50+) won...
Presac: And that was some n*n*m solution
icecream17: i just made up a very bad pun
aabbccsmith: Hey
wyattsell: hi
yusuf007: Hello
yusuf007: I'm new in development
yusuf007: can you guys help me with logic
yusuf007: I want to build my logic
icecream17: uh.. you mean the idea of logic or some "thing"?
yusuf007: Hmmm... How can I explain it
icecream17: do you mean you want to improve your logic
yusuf007: yes
yusuf007: right
yusuf007: skils
icecream17: ive never reasearch that before wait a second
yusuf007: okay waiting....
yusuf007: btw thanks
Presac: A good start is searching about 'and' and 'or'
Harrogin: Logic puzzles are a fun way to learn
icecream17: great answers here yusuf007
icecream17: i guess just do stuff that requires logic
yusuf007: wow thats right
yusuf007: Thanks bro @iceream17
icecream17: i think presac and harrogin put the better answers
yusuf007: Ohh sorry Just read those messages
yusuf007: Thanks harrogin and presac
yusuf007: harrogin I think your right let me try one of the puzzle game
Matrix007: what does this mean and why does this happen?An error occurred (#705): "You are not allowed to access to this solution".
icecream17: logic puzzles are actually a game but there's other ones too, like sudoku and nongrams. coding somewhat...
icecream17: matrix what did you do beforehand
icecream17: usually you can access solutions to a puzzle when you have solved the puzzle already
Matrix007: no it was not mine
Matrix007: it was on coc
Presac: Are there a way to see stats from all clashes you have participated in?
Matrix007: anthers guy code i wanted to see
icecream17: oh, they have to click
icecream17: some button that lets other people view their solution
icecream17: wait
Matrix007: no i see VIEW CODE but now its not a problem
Matrix007: i am able to see
icecream17: ohh
icecream17: hmm, guess something with the server, idk
midoo: Hello there
Skynse: Just solved one problem except, everyone got either 80% or 60%
Skynse: probably a problem with one of the test cases
AntiSquid: clash? reverse? everyone got it wrong then imo
Skynse: it was a clash, but a non reverse one
GreatPanda03: tfw you know what to do in a reverse clash
Skynse: lol
Skynse: Most of the time I can solve those, but sometimes I just bail because I have no idea what to do
AntiSquid: i doubt it's the puzzle, but you can report it on the forums .
Skynse: cool bio quote
LastRick: Skynse: do you remember the puzzle, if so we can probably look it up
AntiSquid: ya thanks
trying to remember something more catchy from a sci-fi book i've read
Skynse: I dont remember the name of the puzzle, but it had to do with raising the last digit of a number Nto a power P
Skynse: N to a power P*
LastRick: Is this it? https://www.codingame.com/contribute/view/451883b077fe733859abfc66885dff5debc2
Skynse: yeah that was it actually
Skynse: ok I see why I got 80 now
LastRick: Glad to help
Skynse: the process timed out meaning my code was inefficient
Skynse: lol print(str(n**p)[-1]) is pretty inefficient
AntiSquid: kinda lame puzzle imo, you need to know some of the power tricks when you're in a rush .
LastRick: One change I would like to see in the submission page is perhaps clarifying why you missed a problem. Instead of it saying 80% and turning the option red, why not replace the title with TimeOut or incorrect? Would be a lot more informative.
AntiSquid: agree with visual's comment lol ... where is visual, haven't seen him in a long time#
Skynse: broooo, I forgot I was in a clash
AntiSquid: if you get a mini leaderboard with % at the end it's clash .
AntiSquid: < 15 min timer ? = clash
Skynse: dang, this one was easy af
AntiSquid: ya if you know the trick already it is easy .
Skynse: This one was about some chocolate bars and the minimum number of times it could be divided
Skynse: where m*n is the dimension of the bar
LastRick: Whats the title?
Skynse: I don't remember lol
Skynse: Do you guys have calculators by your side when solving puzzles?
AntiSquid: you can use your OS calculator no?
Skynse: That's too slow for me
Skynse: I mean clashofcode puzzles btw
Skynse: tfw you get 0% in a clash because of a typo
Skynse: I worked so hard on that dict and and didn't check for errors(which would be a comma instead of a column)
Majeck: Hellooo
Skynse: whatsup
Majeck: If someone could help me with using the Stub Generator that would be cool
Majeck: (Ideally someone that's used it a lot before)
Majeck: I need to create a loop that loops N times and reads two ints separated by a space on one line and THEN reads a new string
Majeck: I'd like it look like this for python: for i in range(N):
a, b = [int(j) for j in input().split()]
line = input()
RohanasaurusRex: hey im relatively new to programming. Since a lot of you seem pretty experienced, would you say doing the puzzles or clash of code is more beneficial? Thanks
Majeck: Oh, no pastebin?
Burritos33: Rohana, start with some puzzles to get the basics down. You can see results better.
Majeck: I agree with Burritos33
Skynse: I prefer clashofcode, but puzzles are really fun for interactive challenges
Majeck: Start with some easy puzzles first then move on to medium puzzles or CoC
LastRick: Rohan: The puzzles are going to give you more time (more than 15 minutes) to work. So you'll get to learn the code at your speed. The downside is you can't see the solution code until you solve it. So feel free to ask for help here if you're stuck.
AntiSquid: http://chat.codingame.com/pastebin/cb17930b-561a-454c-97f8-f639ff2da7cd
AntiSquid: works lol
LastRick: I completely agree with Majeck: Easy, then start mixing in CoC with medium
Burritos33: But once you get some basics going, try some CoC indeed. Its easy and fun!
LastRick: Yep, I do CoC as a change of pace break when I'm stuck on a puzzle, they're pretty fun
Skynse: I like the puzzles way more however since they are visual
Skynse: gonna solve the escaping the cat one right now to rank up
Skynse: I came up with a literal showerthought solution
LastRick: Sounds about right, always when you're doing something else
RohanasaurusRex: Thanks for the help
RohanasaurusRex: Ill try some of those puzzles
Skynse: haha broo wtf, my shower idea actually worked, but the cat and mouse just move in circles lol since the cat is faster
Majeck: Yeah, the answer is more complicated than just move to the opposite side from the cat
Majeck: sadly
Skynse: yup
RohanasaurusRex: so about how long have you guys been programming for
Skynse: almost 5 years
zTTK: 2-3 years
inoryy: 10 years
Skynse: dang
jacek: meow
Skynse: so random
jacek: its still Caturday
RohanasaurusRex: dang nice
LastRick: Many many years.
Majeck: zTTK same, 2-3 years
jacek: pump those number up
Majeck: Doing so one day at a time
jacek: do it faster
Majeck: Oof, don't have my time machine with me
Majeck: Maybe Doc Brown can help me
inoryy: rookie mistake
RohanasaurusRex: lol
Majeck: In any case has anyone here worked with the input generator before?
Majeck: I'm literally on the border of tears because I can't do a simple thing lol
Majeck: Maybe I'll go mad who knows?
jacek: stub generator?
Majeck: Yeah, for puzzles and contributions you use a special sort of pseudocode to generate the input stub
jacek: its pretty straightforward, isnt it
Majeck: I just need to read two different lines in the same loop
Majeck: And I haven't figured out how yet
Majeck: I need it to generate something like:
for i in range(N):
a = input()
b = input()
RohanasaurusRex: does anyone else keep getting security checks after doing a puzzle or clash or code?
LastRick: "its pretty straightforward, isnt it" HAH! Literal lol. That thing is the reason I've yet to submit a single puzzle. Every time I look at it, I think, not today, Satan.
Majeck: Or in C#: http://chat.codingame.com/pastebin/fa490a5e-cdee-4b3f-822f-d357a626df17
zapakh: I get security checks on every clash if I play a whole, whole lot.
Majeck: Hey! Pastebin detected it this time!
Majeck: Nie
Majeck: *Nice
Majeck: It's not even my own puzzle that needs this, I volunteered to help out someone else (boy do I regret it lol)
Skynse: lol
CHackerBoy: try the live stream clashes - great fun
Unkmar: And they do NOTHING for you leaderboard status.
chinoto: I found it fun to, not everything is about status :P
chinoto: I found it fun too, not everything is about status :P
chinoto: That is not an edit function...
icecream17: yes!!!! https://www.codingame.com/share-replay/495209842
RohanasaurusRex: sorry im pretty new to programming can someone please tell me what's wrong with this:
if l in ["olzeasgtb"]:
whenever i try with just ["o"] or just any singular letter it returns true
RohanasaurusRex: and i thought the in operator could check for substrings in a string but i may be wrong
RohanasaurusRex: Thanks
Majeck: You don't need to make the string a list
Metanoob: if l in "olzeasgtb":
Majeck: if I in "olzeasgtb":
Majeck: Lol
Metanoob: :p
Majeck: Yep, that's the problem
Majeck: Cause if you do ["abc"] then the "in" operator will only check if I == "abc"
Majeck: An open question to the CG community:
What's your opinion on the statement: "Python shouldn't be the first language you learn."
Majeck: Do you agree, disagree, and why?
LastRick: I think it depends on why you code. It seems these days Python is dominating numerical problems but if I'm developing mobile apps, probably wouldn't start with python.
Skynse: To be honest, I use python for most of what I do because it has readily available in-built libraries that make a lot of tasks easy and not in requirement of from-scratch algorithms. However, if I'm looking for speed, I'll throw python away for the task lol
123456789LL: Hi
123456789LL: wowowowoo
123456789LL: Trecrvtbyunmiko,mikjuhdgum
Majeck: HI 123456789LL
Majeck: Nice name
Skynse: A bit sus don't you say
Majeck: Vote 123456789LL
Majeck: I saw him vent
Allis: I saw him doing the murder task.
Majeck: LOL
VusalShahbazade: Hi, I am new here. How I can go to the next boss, I have defeated current boss and got on top of ranking on areana.
Majeck: Allis is the other imposter no cap
Majeck: VusalShahbazade what game?
Skynse: bruh
VusalShahbazade: coders strike back
Majeck: I'm rubbish at that game, but almost anyone else here can help you
Majeck: Consider slowing down before you reach a checkpoint, that's as far as I could get lol
Skynse: lol, the current puzzle on coc is one involving poker
Skynse: I haven't played poker before
Majeck: Nooooo, I love poker, why didn't I click play again ;(
VusalShahbazade: Before it was kinda automatical, It was just skipping to next boss when you get some results in arena
Skynse: Im out lol, poker isn't my thing
VusalShahbazade: Idk is this end of the game?
VusalShahbazade: I am on boss 4
Majeck: Up and to the left it should say your league
Majeck: And your ranking
Skynse: when you see a community success rate less than 70%, you know you're in for a ride
Majeck: You need to get to be like in the top 5 of your league AND beat the boss in order to ascend
VusalShahbazade: bronze league, rank 1/25,319
Majeck: Praise be to you, I could never get out of bronze
Majeck: Just wait a little
Majeck: In 30 minutes you'll receive the update
Majeck: it's not instantaneous
VusalShahbazade: K thanks a lot, gotta check tomorrow, gotta sleep now. Bye
Majeck: Skynse I disagree, a lot of really easy puzzles have community success rates of less than 70%, especially the beginner ones.
Allis: @Skynse Aww, it was a really simplified version and Python's sorted() is clever enough to make it pretty straightforward.
Skynse: Im pretty sleep tbh, so I just decided to bail out
Allis: Fair enough.
Majeck: Now I feel even worse for skipping the poker clash knowing that Allis programmed it
Allis: I didn't?
Majeck: I love your clashes XD
Skynse: wut
Majeck: Oh
Majeck: Lol
Skynse: imagine playing your own clash
Majeck: I have, it's awesome
Skynse: I should solve more classic puzzles
Skynse: I coc too much lol
Allis: It's good to strike a balance.
Skynse: But I'm in a better position thatn 3 years ago
Skynse: Before, I couldn't solve the simplest of problems on my own
Majeck: Allis I misunderstood your comment, so I thought you had made the clash, sorry lol
Allis: Ah, okay; no worries.
Skynse: So what applications have you guys made?
Skynse: My current one is a text editor
Majeck: Skynse Yeah same thing, I joined around 2018 and I'm appalled and impressed at the same time by how I coded
Allis: I had considered submitting a Clash puzzle like Project Euler #54, but probably too much for fifteen minutes.
Skynse: ...
Majeck: I remember the temperature puzzle took me days to complete way back when and it was super complicated over 60 lines hahaha
Allis: @Skynse Have you implemented wrapping yet?
Skynse: The text editor engine handles that for me
Allis: Well, that's just cheating.
Skynse: lol
Majeck: Right now I'm developing an app for a friend (and school)
Skynse: what can I say, I was still learning c++ and qt5
Skynse: but it's fun to implement things that have already been implemented
Majeck: I coded it in Java using Swing (How I regret not learning C# GUI) and so far it can communicate with a database to handle his' students grades
Skynse: Java feels like lava for me when I use it to be honest
Majeck: Different courses, different tests, different grading styles, all that sweet stuff
Skynse: different languages have different feels for me
Majeck: Skynse I HATE Java
Skynse: lol, I dumped java 4 years ago
Majeck: Well only in locker room talk
Majeck: Cause I love C# and C# is identical to Java lol
Majeck: It's like liking one twin sister over the other hahahah
Skynse: C++ feels lightning fast and native, python feels like a rusty cog, java feels like hot coffee (see what I did there)
Majeck: Nice
Skynse: I refer to python as a cog because well, bruh, you can't make native builds
Majeck: Skynse id you don't mind me asking, how old are you?
Majeck: *if
Skynse: dm
Majeck: Sure
Harrogin: C# is amazing for the string structure
Harrogin: Scanner in java is pretty annoying imo
Skynse: yeah
Majeck: Harrogin could you elaborate further?
MACKEYTH: Speaking of Scanner, I'm trying out using System.in.read() instead in code golf. Has anyone had any luck with that?
MACKEYTH: So far, it looks like catching IOException & the extra logic wipe out any character savings
Skynse: Java makes it really annoying to golf
MACKEYTH: Eh, at least you get to compete against other Java. Java = suicide in CoC.
Skynse: most people use python for CoC
Camto: Python and Ruby are mad good for CoC
Skynse: ruby is even better
Skynse: waaaay shorter solutions
MACKEYTH: Hm, I'll have to try that.
MACKEYTH: Have to learn ruby first.
Skynse: I once clashed with a ubisoft programmer
MACKEYTH: That's pretty cool. How'd you do?
Skynse: Well it was a normal clashofcode actually
Skynse: the problem was simpele
Skynse: simple*
Skynse: He's pretty active on this site
Skynse: Im going to solve the easy puzzles, then rank up from there
Skynse: I love how the puzzles lists the concepts that will be learned from solving them
Lachrymosa: Yea, I love this site and recommend it to anyone I come across interested in coding
grateful_tomato: I understand that the bots might be useful to make the clashes look like there are more real people, but in this clash there were 2 bots, and they didn't leave after real player came in (usually they leave when the 5th player joins). Is this a bug? Might be better to disable the bots anyway. https://www.codingame.com/clashofcode/clash/report/1434219499b94184653d382a4cc85993581fd2a
grateful_tomato: Once I started a clash with 3 other bots and no other real player, and started another clash before ending the bot clash, to get more people, might be a workaround :-)
TatsuJoestar: how do i check if no input was provided c++?
