Jfc, when I saw the headline I thought this would be a case of the city being too cheap to hire an actual artist and instead use autoplag, but no. And the guy they commissioned isn't even some tech-brain LARP'ing as an artist, he has 20+ years of experience and a pretty huge portfolio, which somehow makes this worse on so many levels.
mii
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Yay, day 3 with Regexp magic.
Day 3
open(FH, '<', $ARGV[0]) or die $!;
my $sum = 0;
my $sum2 = 0;
my $enabled = 1;
while (<FH>) {
while ($_ =~ /(?:mul\((\d{1,3}),(\d{1,3})\)|(do)\(\)|(don\'t)\(\))/g) {
$enabled = 1 if $3;
$enabled = 0 if $4;
$sum += $1 * $2 if $1 && $2;
$sum2 += $1 * $2 if $enabled && $1 && $2;
}
}
close(FH);
print "Part 1: $sum\n";
print "Part 2: $sum2\n";
That conversation reads like from a variation of Mafia/Werewolf where you have to figure out who in your circle of rationalists is secretly e/acc and wants to build the torment nexus.
1 day old and over 1000 kudos. Holy shit.
No beta we die like Brian Thompson.
Day 2, Part 1
use strict;
use List::Util qw( min max );
open(FH, '<', $ARGV[0]) or die $!;
my @lines;
while (<FH>) {
my @report = split /\s/, $_;
push @lines, \@report;
}
close FH;
sub in_range {
my $diff = max($_[0], $_[1]) - min($_[0], $_[1]);
return $diff >= 1 && $diff <= 3;
}
sub is_safe {
my $prev = @$_[0];
my $dir = 0;
for (my $i = 1; $i < scalar @$_; ++$i) {
my $el = @$_[$i];
if ($el > $prev) {
return 0 unless $dir >= 0;
$dir = 1;
} elsif ($el < $prev) {
return 0 unless $dir <= 0;
$dir = -1;
}
return 0 unless in_range $prev, $el;
$prev = $el;
}
return 1;
}
sub part1 {
my $safe_reports = 0;
foreach (@_) {
$safe_reports++ if is_safe @$_;
}
return $safe_reports;
}
print 'Part 1: ', part1(@lines), "\n";
My part 2 solution didn't work with the real input but worked with all the test cases I threw at it, so I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it and I'm too lazy to debug any more right now.Advent of Code is one of these things I wanna do every year and then I end up in fucking end-of-the-year crunch time every December and work for 10-12 hours and really don't wanna code after work anymore.
But hey, here's a quick solution for day 1. Let's see how far I make it.
Day 1
use strict;
use List::Util qw( min max );
open(FH, '<', $ARGV[0]) or die $!;
my @left;
my @right;
while (<FH>) {
my @nums = split /\s+/, $_;
push(@left, $nums[0]);
push(@right, $nums[1]);
}
@left = sort { $b <=> $a } @left;
@right = sort { $b <=> $a } @right;
my $dist = 0;
my $sim = 0;
my $i = 0;
foreach my $lnum (@left) {
$sim += $lnum * grep { $_ == $lnum } @right;
my $rnum = $right[$i++];
$dist += max($lnum, $rnum) - min($lnum, $rnum);
}
print 'Part 1: ', $dist, "\n";
print 'Part 2: ', $sim, "\n";
close(FH);
Promptfondlers too lazy to even fondle prompts anymore. I’m sure this is the prime target demographic for Elon’s brain chips.
I'd say lol but I'm like 72% sure this is straight out of the video game industry's playbook and very much intentional to create hype because everyone has forgotten this shit even exists.
Also, I'm still waiting for just one use case for video-generating autoplag that is, even in theory, not either morally reprehensible or outright criminal.
So there's apparently a memecoin site with the not-at-all suspicious name pump.fun and Coffeezilla made a video about it on his second channel.
Also: Epilepsy warning for that site. It's full of flashing colors and moving elements like late 90s Geocities.
I have no idea what the fuck is even going on there, but apparently people threaten to kill themselves or their animals if you don't invest in their shitcoin there, or run actual cockfights where they murder the chickens live on stream if the line doesn't go up.
This is fucked even without the hallucinating Clippy in the backend.
If your desktop is idle for more than 30-60 seconds (no "meaningful" mouse & keyboard movement), you get a red flag
People getting ~~flogged~~ flagged for being lazy for a few seconds reminds me of something …
That was a great read.
The point of all of this is to say: the tech utopia fantasy is truly dead to me. The image of the cool, hippie, leftist Silicon Valley tech is wrong.
I feel this in my soul, because I was that leftist hippie who got into tech because he believed all this shit and getting disillusioned over time was just fucking painful and made me hate those goons with a passion.
The straw I have left is that I’m not alone and that more people realize this and we make our own communities again that don’t suck. There’s still a long way to go, and Fedi has its own problems, especially when it comes to kick out the racists, sexists, and other bigots, but I try to stay positive that we’ll get there. At least to a degree.
(I mean, we have Awful and it’s an example that you can keep the bar nazi-free if you want to.)
That's gotta be one of my favorite Zitron piece to date. Ed managed to articulate some points which have been floating around in my mind for a while which I did not have the words to explain. Especially how using any form of out-of-the-box computer these days is just a completely user-hostile pile of steaming horseshit, and why I am anal-retentive about what software gets installed on my devices and how exactly my window manager has to work, &c.
I mean, it's probably because I'm an obsessive nerd, but the fact that it makes me feel in control when I can rip shit of the source code that bugs me (or put shit in that I miss) is a major factor, too.