Posted: https://awful.systems/post/3026384?scrollToComments=true
Be there, or not.
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.
being performatively worried about Japanese birth rates is a HN trope, for whatever that's worth
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
ya lost me there bub
re: 10 commentary
apparently "everyone" did this. Me too
"Our righteous warriors are only supposed to kill brown people and women, not captains of industry!!"
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
Time for a new thread for a new week?
relevant to this sub's interest is this Reddit thread about "LLM cheaters" in AoC:
https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/1h9cub8/discussion_on_llm_cheaters/
Pretty sure this person has been watching a lot of very inappropriate anime