onion2k 6 days ago

Pretty sure it's a regex to match email address strings.

  • snarf21 6 days ago

    Thank you kind stranger for a wonderful laugh on Christmas!

devsda 6 days ago

Challenge issued.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with obfuscated C code that looks like a christmas tree and prints out wishes by the end of the day/season.

Merry Christmas!

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  • epicureanideal 6 days ago

    Let's ask an LLM as a test!

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    • Wyverald 6 days ago

      Gemini 3 Pro gave some rather unimpressive answers: https://gemini.google.com/share/3cbcbe1fd64c

      • jb1991 6 days ago

        ChatGPT did much better but I cannot paste it into this text box no matter how many times I try with different formatting to get the white space preserved. chatGPT also could not figure out how to format it for pasting here.

    • mckn1ght 6 days ago

      I did recently try to use an LLM to make a twinkling christmas tree quine in the style of qlobe. It didn’t get close, maybe next year!

  • DrewADesign 6 days ago

    Perl time

    • Jnr 6 days ago

      Exactly, looks like Perl code to me. :)

      • DrewADesign 5 days ago

        It’s tragic that having a language as flexible and unopinionated as Perl is admittedly terrible for novice programmers because Learning Perl is easily one of the greatest introductory programming books.

marginalia_nu 6 days ago

It's a red-green tree. Your task is to invert it in O(n) operations.

cs02rm0 6 days ago

I thought it was unobfuscated perl code. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals.