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Dragonrage

00:24

Screenshot of the Week #105 - Happy Holidays 2023!

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SPArcheon

10:21

@Laurel Welcome to the "subscribe to the newsletter to get code" limbo. You can sit here next to the ones waiting for the Amy skin in Sonic Superstar.

SPArcheon

10:44

Wait.....

WUKONG FINALLY HAS A RELEASE DATE!!!

MBraedley

11:34

welp, TFW brute forcing part 1 still takes a while

Wipqozn

12:05

@MBraedley Yeah brute forcing would be nasty when you get rows like this:

> ???????????#??? 5,2,1

Laurel

12:22

@SPArcheon According to Reddit, you probably had to sign up like a week ago or have it from their last event. (Sigh)

SPArcheon

12:53

Fntastic shuts down after the fall of its last scam game

Ronan

13:13

My part 1 is reasonably fast, but part 2 has just completely stalled

Wipqozn

13:32

@SPArcheon Luckily steam is offering refunds to all purchasers

@Ronan I probably won't have time to do this one until tonight. I've got a plan for it though.

Ronan

Yeah I need to think some more about it, because I thought my solution was reasonably optimised already as it did part 1 fast

Wipqozn

@Ronan I suggest just getting a stronger computer

Ronan

Haha, changing language would also work

SPArcheon

@Wipqozn I hope they will find a way to make that money come from the actual devs pockets...

Seems the classic "grab money and vanish" scheme

"Declare bankrupt, your creditors go empty handed."

Wipqozn

13:57

@SPArcheon The devs never get money from refunds. There's about a 1 month delay between when a game is purchased and when devs are paid.

SPArcheon

@Wipqozn good to know.

MBraedley

@Ronan I just optimized my solution and part 1 still takes >400ms in release on my work laptop. Although I haven't parallelized it yet, that might help a bit.

It's nearly 5 seconds in debug.

Ronan

14:10

My part 1 is 45ms, it just really doesn't scale well

MBraedley

Okay, down to <100ms with std::async

Ronan

14:29

Boom! Part 2 finishes in 1.7 seconds

Wipqozn

14:39

@Ronan That's pretty slow. You should try to get that under 0.5 seconds.

Ronan

I'm considering it

MBraedley

My part 2 finishes in 114 seconds... in release... on the sample input.

that's on the order of 5 hours for the full input

SPArcheon

be devious. Since some of us have no context of what this is about other than knowing that it is some code competition... write the message as if more time = better.

Claim that your code "survives" for 114 instead of "just" 0.5 :P

Wipqozn

14:57

@MBraedley So, if it's still a line by line thing, then I have a suggestion. Get 30+ computers, and on each computer, just analyze a single line. EASY.

MBraedley

I'm not sure if trimming branches is going to be enough to solve this.

@Wipqozn I'm already doing some lightweight threading using async calls, so I'm really only waiting on the longest branch to complete.

SPArcheon

Try asking ChatGPT. Based on what the company is telling us it should be good for any job 😇

Wipqozn

@SPArcheon Just tell them about that lawyer that got disbarred.

@MBraedley In that case, just train your cat to do it. Easy.

MBraedley

I'm just going to let it run, and hopefully it completes in a few minutes.

15 and a half minutes...

Yeah, I killed it. I think my string copying might be part of the problem, but I'm not sure how to get around that.

Ronan

15:24

@MBraedley Let me know if you want a hint

MBraedley

sure

Nzall

E3 is dead. ESA finally confirmed they're ending E3 for good

pcgamer.com/e3-is-dead

Ronan

@MBraedley Assuming you're reading the patterns from left to right, the patterns #...??? and .#..??? can share a lot of the work after you've consumed that first #

MBraedley

@Ronan Oh, I can /\.+/\./

Ronan

That wasn't what I was thinking, but yeah I bet that would work

MBraedley

15:44

Ah, yes, I see what you're getting at now. I'm generating a regex to match the entire line, but maybe I shouldn't be doing that.

Ronan

Yeah if you match it in parts you can reuse a lot of the calculations

MBraedley

Yeah, that's going to some concerted effort and thus can't justify doing it at work.

Fredy31

16:00

@SPArcheon One of the major reasons i was looking for another job (i quit last week) was my boss telling me that because he can quickly make chatGPT scripts, that he's basically the same as me (12 year experience in webdev)

bitch if I wanted chatgpt to code my stuff, I'd spend hours to explain to him what ive got

and it probably would be wrong

SPArcheon

@Fredy31 Well, I think there is one thing that chatGPT could maybe be useful for.

Fredy31

Small contained python scripts sure

But a deep JS code that calls upon 10 different libraries? Unsure

SPArcheon

@Fredy31 I was going to say "chat-able videogame NPC"

like... generated basic replies for things like background NPC in a Harvest Moon / Animal Crossing style game.

Fredy31

yeah that could work

but it would have moments where it would probably fuck up and give you something that is REALLY out of pocket

SPArcheon

@Fredy31 obviously you DON'T want to use chatgpt itself

Fredy31

16:11

Like have a discussion with Childe, suddenly

DONT YOU THINK IM CUTE? UWU

SPArcheon

@Fredy31 based on the memes, that would be perfectly in-character.

As it would be Ayaka suddenly saying "You need only me Traveler. No one else. Just Ayaka"

Ronan

16:31

@SPArcheon There's a whole host of reasons why that's a bad idea

SPArcheon

17:14

@Ronan I confide in the ability some devs studio have to craft worse ideas yet. Rest assured, a well made, non generic LLM model that was trained on SAFE content would probably do less harm that some games manage to do.

also, it doesn't need to be free-form chat.

I was just thinking of some sort of procedural message generation.

Keep the meaning, change the wording.

so that now the npc has "infinite" ways to ask you why you are playing that late at night.

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Ronan

18:32

@Wipqozn I got it down to 620ms, I hope that lives up to your standards

Wipqozn

@Ronan Close enoguh at least.

I look forward to my solution being much slower.

working on part 1 in bits while my code compiles at work.

Lazers 2.0

18:57

Q: Baldur's Gate 3 Barbarian Build Question: GWF & Savage Attacker

While enjoying my morning coffee, I stumbled upon a Baldur's Gate 3 Barbarian build guide. The author claimed, as you can see from the title, that Great Weapon Fighting (GWF) and Savage Attacker don't work well together. Unfortunately, I don't have the video URL, so I'll paraphrase the context. T...

baldurs-gate-3

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Fredy31

20:00

@SPArcheon lol was trying to think about a vilain from genshin and was blanking hard

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Wipqozn

21:48

So I had one bug, which resulted in an off by 1 error in two of the tets. I fixed that, and now another row is off by 10.

FUN

I blame @Yuuki (RIP)

← 3 messages moved from This Is Fine

SaintWacko

Man, I miss things getting moved to Android Enthusiasts

Wipqozn

→ 1 message moved to Android Enthusiasts

← 1 message moved from The Bridge

@SaintWacko You're welcome

SaintWacko

@Wipqozn <3

Wipqozn

@Fredley (RIP ) was the worst one for that.

Unionhawk

22:03

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Wipqozn

I'm in troubleshooting hell

19 was my first bug

fixed that, 31

now I'm back to 19 after fixing that bug

ah there we go

now to run on th ereal input. I'm sure it'll work perfectly with no problems at all.

too high. Of course.

Wipqozn

22:30

Oh, I know the issue

a string like: ###???? 3 ... would consider: ###.### valid.

I'll just toss in a final sanity check and that should fix'er up.

Narrator: There were probably another problem.

there we go

SaintWacko

@Wipqozn <3

Wipqozn

22:49

> separated by ?

ALWAYS READ

My part 1 was instant, was I was feeling confident about my part 2. I was wrong to be confident.

Wipqozn

23:18

I think there must be a bug in my program based on just how slow this is taking.

Oh, maybe I should try to fix that initial thing smarter. That would help.

Actually that wouldn't help at all with the first line which is taking so long

Which is also just: ???????????#???

Ronan

23:44

@Wipqozn I had exactly the same thing, part 2 is so much larger than part 1 in terms of possibilities

Wipqozn

@Ronan yeah I'll need to leverage caching I think

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