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wish I didn't eat a one minute penalty
oh well
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A: Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned

badpI think Peter's answer has the right spirit, but the wrong implementation. We might need to get comfortable with this technology being around in the long term, and one way to stop the abuse it might generate is to build it into the system with the necessary precautions and abuse prevention mechan...

I just wanted to feel the heat of meta whinging one more time
 
Yeah that might have been the easiest one once I worked out what it was asking
Especially part 2 which took me 39 seconds
 
 
7 hours later…
11:52 AM
@Unionhawk Yeah, this is one of those days where Part 2 is just about ensuring your Part 1 solution wasn't really inefficient.
I just used sets. Made it quick and easy. Then all I had to do for part 2 was change "4" to "14".
 
I'm not sure how inefficient you could make checking 14 characters for repeats though
 
Me either. I feel like even a very basic looping over and over of the list would be quick enough sitll.
 
Even n^2 is less than 200 checks
 
Yeah, the more I think about it... you're right, ha. 14 is just super low.
In that case I can't help but wonder if we're going to get a really brutal problem soon, leveraging this, ha. Just weird to give a part that's so easy, to that it only requires adding a single character.
 
Maybe it's to catch people who wrote the 6 comparisons for part 1 out by hand?
 
11:59 AM
oh maybe
 
I was going to say it's still early days, but last years day 6...
> Your puzzle answer was 1693022481538.
Definitely a complexity check
 
Last years day 6 was on a monday... so I don't think that would factor into it. Creator has said he makes weekends harder.
Then again it's not like previous days were hard, but this just seems way easier than the 5 days before it
 
 
2 hours later…
2:32 PM
@badp I forgot a "\n" between my part 1 and part 2 output. My gut instinct was "that doesn't seem right" but I put in the 8 digit number without a second thought.
@Wipqozn It was an algorithms/data-structures step-up. If you didn't set up part 1 well, part 2 would force you to throw away a good chunk of that work.
 
No Gravity Games is giving away free Switch games.
*US only
 
2:58 PM
@Wipqozn I have no idea how you could make part 2 fail
Both of mine ran in <0.5s
Probably less than 0.1
I forget
 
Hi, open question to the room...
Does anyone else feel like this tune is kinda familiar?
For some reason it reminds me of some other game but I can't remember what exactly.
I thought it was something related to Mario, but didn't find anything - it is not Mario 2 ending theme nor the hidden aquarium music...
 
3:16 PM
Makes me think of something like Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy
 
@Batophobia well, FF was the second thing I thought of. After all there are some shared composers there.
 
It doesn't sound like a specific song, but parts could match up nicely
 
The specific passage at about 47 seconds...
that is the point that gives me a "already heard this" vibe
 
Yea that's the part that made me think KH
 
already tried with the various themes, it is not Simple And Clean, not My Sanctuary nor Let Me Face My Fears
@Batophobia anyway, don't lose time on this, just asked in case someone recognized it on the fly.
I even relistened to obscure things like Terraenigma
 
3:29 PM
It's not one of the themes, but I think it's a reoccurring bit, kinda like you might see in Hikari
 
unless it is actually this one...
not THAT similar, but it could be the one that is playing tricks on me
I mean.. Mario Galaxy is the game that gets constantly mentioned in comments on that tune
 
ATTENTION
VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
 
3:47 PM
Happy for them, it deserved a decent UI. Only issue, I basically moved to console games only for sake of convenience.
 
@Unionhawk Update: part 2 runs faster than part 1 which I don't understand but it's been that way for a bit idk
but latest run was Part 1: 00:00:00.0277526 Part 2: 00:00:00.0018293
But it's faster by about the same as like, Day 1 is faster (about one order of magnitude, a few hundredths of a second)
 
4:16 PM
@SPArcheon The only thing I can match between those two would be that is a solo-piano melancholic song
Like that one too could be considered close
 
@Fredy31 I know, that is why I discarded that option.
 
Damn thats what i get for skimming chat
didnt realise you were talking about a specific part
could it be Midnas lament?
 
@SaintWacko Oh wow, that's more than I expected. I mean it's fair, but damn.
I figured it would be around $20
@MBraedley I guess I just don't understand how you could sovle part 1 in such a way you'd need to toss part 2.
then again. I suppose I need to remember that Advent of Code is also being done by students, and I've been coding for over 10 years sooo.
 
I literally just used .Substring, .Distinct, and .Count
and a for loop
 
4:27 PM
> The flying ruin drakes can fly out of melee range and stay there until they are brought down by an aimed shot. In 3.0 (iirc) I had to quit an Abyss stage with ruin drakes where I was using my Diluc vape team, which relies on Xingquiu, and start over with a team that had an archer on it.
^ @Fredy31 They said Electro was weak. I said "you realize that Dendro is still missing right?"
And now they discover that EI + Nahinda is scary good.
 
4:44 PM
@Unionhawk You fool, reading in the entire string
 
Broke: Reading the whole string up front
Woke: Only reading as much of the string as you need
Bespoke: Creating a new file handler every time you need to read a single letter
 
Apologies for the intrusion - Is there a section to view all the protected questions on this site?
 
4:59 PM
@AlbertFD option 1) Get 10k rep.
option 2) Sede query.
 
Ah, I see. Thanks.
 
@Ronan Granted, my solution probably doesn't scale well
 
@AlbertFD refer to this one.
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Q: Can we have a "isprotected" search operator?

dmckee --- ex-moderator kittenPlease add a search operator that selects for (or against) the protected status flag.

 
Thank you.
 
5:31 PM
@MBraedley I always use ReadAllText or ReadAllLines
usually ReadAllLines
 
5:49 PM
@Unionhawk back in my day, you had to read a file one byte at a time
 
It's even more cheating too because I always exclude the file read from my timing
 
6:17 PM
Ugh, why is .split removing leading whitespace?
Oh
 
7:17 PM
Okay, finally got caught up on AoC
Always fun (re: today's) when Part 2 just requires changing a number
 
Today's was surprisingly short code
 
 
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8:38 PM
@SaintWacko Interesting. I just went with a slice().filter()
 
And that's 70 prayer on the ironman
Now I can finally do barrows
 
@Batophobia Oh, that's much cleverer! I like it
 

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