gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

sounds horrorshow to me

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure this person has been watching a lot of very inappropriate anime

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

RAF's aims were explicitely accelerationist - their terror would provoke a ferocious repressional response that would open the eyes of the masses to the repressive government and trigger a revolution.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

being performatively worried about Japanese birth rates is a HN trope, for whatever that's worth

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

This morning I felt a bit burned out on AoC but thought I might as well just do some noodling around on breaks. Turns out it was

day 10

pretty dang easy

So far this is the current standing according to the finishing times of the 1st 100 answers on the global leaderboard

  1. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  2. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  3. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  4. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  5. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  6. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  7. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  8. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  9. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  10. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

ya lost me there bub

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

re: 10 commentary

apparently "everyone" did this. Me too

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

"Our righteous warriors are only supposed to kill brown people and women, not captains of industry!!"

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I had a lot of trouble because my input was truncated, despite the site warning me about that. Did I listen? I did not.

edit

day 9 discussion

Principal Skinner moment

"Did I miscopy the input?"

"No, it is my algorithm that is wrong"

kinda satisfying to figure out I was correct all along.

Part 2 is not as fast as I'd like (14s), but faster than it was. People on reddit are wittering on about search trees, me I just sling Perl hashrefs around

https://github.com/gustafe/aoc2024/blob/main/d09-Disk-Fragmenter.pl

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Time for a new thread for a new week?

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