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Question 1

Follow-up to On Rules, and the Mandate of Heaven. On the linked post, I wrote: When it will be apparent consensus is reached on this post, I will make another meta post discussion the result of this ...

Question 2

When writing an answer to any type of challenge, what information must an answer include?

Question 3

I noted there is only one question with the polygon tag, and is it closed. This suggests the tag is not really that useful, and it might be a good idea to remove the tag. Question: When there are tags ...

Question 4

First, the definition of consensus from here: 5 net votes and at least twice as many upvotes as downvotes. Suppose a meta question has two conflicting answers that are both a consensus (score at ...

Question 5

It's certainly no secret that our rules are a mess. In fact, a lot of our posts that create the rules for submissions and challenges mention this problem. This is bad for newcomers, who must sift ...

Question 6

Is there a name (and hence, tag) for this kind of challenge? Continue the spiral That is, given an input which represents some step fn in a sequence, output fn+1? (Obviously they require two tasks: ...

Question 7

Moderator election #5 on Code Golf has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are: They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...

Question 8

Some programming languages, like Scratch, have an option to change the underlying human language of the program. Thus code such as define say(direction can be ...

Question 9

The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...

Question 10

We've got 4 tags on main that have synonyms, but are currently pending merging with their synonyms. The end goal of tag synonyms is, eventually, to merge them, and so, after a few years, I think it's ...

Question 11

A year ago, after resolving the meta FAQ bloat, I said For the three faq-proposed questions, as well as potentially converting important policy questions into faq, refer to a soon-to-be posted meta ...

Question 12

The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here. Code Golf Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...

Question 13

If I go to the moderators tab, I don't see Jo King any more: They used to be a moderator here, but now they're not. What happened?

Question 14

Speaking of underhanded questions, I wonder how this one managed to evade the closed/locks that all others had faced: Pathological Sorting I thought underhanded stuff was off-topic and closed or ...

Question 15

Required reading: The state of the underhanded tag Has underhanded been getting too much like code-trolling? The state of the popularity contest tag And the motivation for this discussion of course: ...

Question 16

I'm always amazed by some of the techniques used in normal languages, as well as the density and conciseness of the manipulation done in golfing languages. Are there any recommended entertaining talks ...

Question 17

Is challenges which are generally1 hard to solve like this challenge not good and will downvoted? I assume the question is well and no problem on itself, just hard to solve. 1: A hard challenge is ...

Question 18

Stack Overflow have started a beta "challenges" page - see https://stackoverflow.com/beta/challenges Have there been discussions about how that overlaps with this community, or if we want it ...

Question 19

It looks like there used to be a bot that tweeted out problems until February 2023. https://x.com/StackCodeGolf What happened to it?

Question 20

First time posting on Meta, while being an absolute (probably) seasoned user here. I have been posting challenges here randomly when finding time based on finding and developing my personal curiosity....

Question 21

I keep coming across JavaScript solutions that use the print() function as if it behaved like console.log(). (Random example ...

Question 22

In this question (which is tagged kolmogorov-complexity), many answers used x for ×ばつ. I was wondering if this is generally ...

Question 23

This standard loophole, disallows "Using the program name to store data without counting those bytes". However there is something curious about the "without counting those bytes" ...

Question 24

Due to some unwanted circumstances around the domain and the domain manager, I lost ownership of bubbler.one a couple days ago. As soon as I got aware of this, I ...

Question 25

It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of ...

Question 26

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 ...

Question 27

Voting has closed, and five out of six candidates have surpassed the vote threshold (≥ 10 upvotes, at least ×ばつ upvotes vs. downvotes) and have been elected as room owners for CGCC's main chat room, ...

Question 28

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: att chat profile | main ...

Question 29

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 ...

Question 30

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. ...

Question 31

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 ...

Question 32

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 ...

Question 33

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 ...

Question 34

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 ...

Question 35

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 ...

Question 36

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 ...

Question 37

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. ...

Question 38

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 ...

Question 39

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 ...

Question 40

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'...

Question 41

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 ...

Question 42

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 ...

Question 43

I'm working on my custom golfing language Hussy.Net, built on top of C#, to address a lot of its pitfalls around verbosity: ...

Question 44

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 ...

Question 45

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: ...

Question 46

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 ...

Question 47

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 ...

Question 48

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 ...

Question 49

I'd like to shorten my answer below by applying this tio.run technique from this C example. Here's their C example Code ...

Question 50

Please unprotect Largest Number Printable so my answer may be considered and create discussion.