Talk:Matrix with two diagonals: Difference between revisions
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(I am reverting this, again, because our anonymous friend calls history "urban legend" See also cve-2010-0517, CVE-2011-0217, https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/862, etc.) The politics might matter, but not while ignoring history.
m ((I am reverting this, again, because our anonymous friend calls history "urban legend" See also cve-2010-0517, CVE-2011-0217, https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/862, etc.) The politics might matter, but not while ignoring history.) |
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:Fortunately (if you haven't guessed already) you can work out what's required from studying the Ring code which is drawing a square matrix which has 1's on both diagonals and 0's elsewhere. --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 09:38, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
:: I wonder if there isn't a line that needs to be drawn at the point where the quality of task descriptions declines so far that they are not even secure (let alone adequate). [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 10:40, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
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:: '''Suggestion 1'''. Delete that link to a JPEG. Some of us may well feel sufficiently protected by our assessment of CalmoSoft personally, but we know nothing about the security of the hosting site.
:: '''Suggestion 2'''. Replace the JPEG link with a textual matrix and an adequate description. [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 11:05, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
:::Well, the author has been criticized many times in the past for posting tasks with inadequate or unclear descriptions and my advice to him would be to write them first in Hungarian and then use Google translate (or similar) to translate them into English.
:::Personally, I don't regard ANY image hosting site as being 100% secure and that's why I avoid posting links to such sites in my own solutions. This is an unfortunate situation but, as I'll be surprised if RC ever allows images to be uploaded again, we're left with only posting text-based solutions or, if graphical solutions are posted, leaving it to people's discretion whether they want to risk clicking on links or not. --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 11:25, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
:::: My view is that "leaving it to people's discretion" is '''not''' acceptable as a central dependency in a task description. Solutions are a different issue – there's no need to read them. [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 11:28, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
:::: (and I see you've made that edit to the description – thanks) [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 11:32, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
:::::I agree, of course, with what you've just said and my earlier remarks pre-supposed that the task description was already reasonably adequate. However, if I can understand the language it's written in, I generally read the author's solution (or at least its 'textual' output, if any) to make sure my understanding of the task is correct. --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 11:49, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
:::::Having said that, there was a task a day or two back where I didn't understand the author's solution (written in Quackery) but I still managed to achieve the same output even though it later turned out that my understanding of the task was incorrect! --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 12:06, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
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