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trichoplax‭

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Coding challenges
🎲 My challenges
🦀 My answers
❓ My unsolved challenges
📈 My highly answered challenges
⁉️ My challenges unsolved for over a year
📌 My non-code-golf challenges
🫵 Your own unsolved challenges
🌐 Everyone's unsolved challenges

Puzzles
🧩 My puzzles
💎 Your own puzzles
🪩 Everyone's puzzles

Writing challenges
📎 My writing challenges
📋 Your own writing challenges
📦 Everyone's writing challenges

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## Examples of how to link to things

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| Coding challenges |
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| [🎲 My challenges](https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/search?search=user:53890+post_type:1+category:49) |
| [🦀 My answers](https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/search?search=user:53890+post_type:2+category:49) |
| [❓ My unsolved challenges](https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/search?search=user:53890+post_type:1+category:49+answers:0) |
| [📈 My highly answered challenges](https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/search?search=user%3A53890+post_type:1+category:49+answers:>=8) |
| [⁉️ My challenges unsolved for over a year](https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/search?search=user:53890+post_type:1+category:49+answers:0+created:>1y) |
| [📌 My non-code-golf challenges](https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/search?search=user:53890+post_type:1+category:49&exclude_tags[]=4274) |
| [🫵 Your own unsolved challenges](https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/search?search=user:me+post_type:1+category:49+answers:0) |
| [🌐 Everyone's unsolved challenges](https://codegolf.codidact.com/?max_answers=0&predefined_filter=Unanswered&sort=score&status=open) |

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| Puzzles |
| --- |
| [🧩 My puzzles](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/search?search=user:53890+post_type:1+category:67&include_tags[]=8367) |
| [💎 Your own puzzles](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/search?search=user:me+post_type:1+category:67&include_tags[]=8367) |
| [🪩 Everyone's puzzles](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/search?search=post_type:1+category:67&include_tags[]=8367) |
 
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| Writing challenges |
| --- |
| [📎 My writing challenges](https://writing.codidact.com/posts/search?search=user:53890+post_type:1+category:20) |
| [📋 Your own writing challenges](https://writing.codidact.com/posts/search?search=user:me+post_type:1+category:20) |
| [📦 Everyone's writing challenges](https://writing.codidact.com/categories/20) |

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Meta On self-answered questions, is it inappropriate to mark my own answer "Works for me" immediately?

Bear in mind that unlike on some other question and answer sites, the "Works for me" reaction is not restricted to the author of the question. Anyone can add that reaction, whether they posted the ...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta I comment on an answer on my question, and get this error: "New users can only comment on their own posts and on answers to them"

Raised on Codidact Meta Thanks for raising this. It turns out this affects other Codidact Communities, so it's not specific to Software Development Codidact. There's a post on the main Meta commun...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Are software recommendation questions on-topic?

Two types of software recommendation When someone says "software recommendation" they may mean one of two quite different things, for which the answer to your question will be different. Recommen...

posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭ · edited 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Differences between SO and Codidact for NEW USERS (first impression feedback)?

Thank you for raising this. It's particularly useful to get a new user's perspective, because it's easy to forget how things were after getting used to them. I encourage you to continue raising any...

posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Can I repost here the answers to questions I get answered elsewhere?

Your own questions If the original question was your own, then you own it and there is no restriction on also posting it to Codidact. Other people's answers For a question or answer posted by so...

posted 3y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Are there other reasons why useEffect might not be defined apart from not importing it?

Including the full file in the question The question states that useState has been imported, but the codeblock does not include import { useState } from 'react';. Is this the full file or just an ...

posted 3y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Queries to count points lying on arbitrary line

Some answer-specific terminology to make describing things simpler: I will refer to the N points as candidate points. I will refer to the integer points inside the bounding box of the N points ...

posted 3y ago by trichoplax‭ · edited 3y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Email alerts for notifications

This feature has not yet been implemented. However, there is a feature request on Codidact Meta that requests it for all communities. You (and anyone else who would like to see this) can add your ...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Code Reviews Vanilla JS Functions Review

Without seeing the HTML and CSS for the page I'm going to be making assumptions about the effects that the JavaScript has. Feel free to include the other files if the lack of context leads me to in...

posted 3y ago by trichoplax‭ · edited 3y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How do I return ISO day of week in Redshift?

Quick answer (DATE_PART(dayofweek, my_datetime) + 6) % 7 Slow answer For avoidance of doubt, here is what I believe you currently have (assuming an input called my_datetime): DATE_PART(dayofw...

posted 3y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Reaching to a directory in git-bash

You can narrow down the problem by using cd to navigate to the different nested directories in the path one at a time, starting from the one on the left. The first one that gives you an error tells...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta codidact profile editing requires 30 characters but has no error message

This has now been indirectly fixed for all Codidact communities by removing the minimum character requirement altogether. See Is there a reason for preventing user profile content being less than 3...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Issue with the Monospace font

What's wrong As Moshi's comment points out, single backticks only work for inline code (code that appears within a paragraph of other text, and contains no line breaks). The following raw text: ...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭ · edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Should we merge the scope, on-topic and off-topic meta tags?

Different tag sets per category It is important to be aware that the Q&A category and the Meta category have distinct sets of tags. This question is about the Meta tags only, which cannot be u...

posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta What’s the point of Q&A sites anymore?

Although I was tempted to add a sarcastic comment suggesting you could just ask this Meta question of an LLM, I do think it's a useful question, which gives the opportunity for answers that explain...

posted 2d ago by trichoplax‭ · edited 2d ago by trichoplax‭

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