Sherclod Holmes @wallhackio@cat.family

@lapis yes

@vaporeon_
golfing is a skill and is hard. on the topic of whether C is good at it or not, I can't say for sure as I am not an expert in golfing or C. I would think it is difficult because newer languages come with bigger standard libraries than C which gives you all sorts of tools and shortcuts

But then again when I look at entries to the C Obfuscation Contest thingy, I forgot what it's called, it's absolutely insane the concise and cursed things people can do with macros

@vaporeon_ hello, vap

@aschmitz what do you mean exactly?

@aschmitz yeah thats what it is

@aescling reported for lying

I encountered a fun coding challenge while programming today.

Suppose you are teaching a class and you brought with yourself a bag of candy to hand out to your students. You want to hand out every piece of candy, but do it in a way that disperses the candy provided to each student as evenly as possible. No student should have more than 1 extra piece of candy than any other student. Exactly which students get the extra pieces of candy does not matter.

Task: Write a function that takes N students and M pieces of candy, where M > N, and returns an array of length N showing the amount candy given to each student.

Followup Task: Generate this array in O(N) time, where N is the number of students (NOT the amount of candy!)

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@alas delete this

wow i just had a program fail because of floating point error, i have never had to deal with this before lol

@The_T @aescling oh how so

@aescling SA1 to 06 sonic was a personification of freedom and agency while post-unleashed sonic is an impetuous dumbass

@Taweret yeah I liked it it was good

@aescling i get it

@aescling bash and shell are the same thing what are you talking about

@alas I don't know shit about perl, unfortunately

I stitched two scripts together using python and it was weirdly annoying to do, when in bash it would have just been a simple one-liner with a command substitution

sometimes bash really is just the best way to do something

@The_T @vaporeon_ so when you buy a domain apparently the two parts are called the "Top Level Domain" (TLD) and "Second Level Domain" (SLD)

in example.com "example" is the SLD and "com" is the TLD

www.example.com is a subdomain of the domain example.com