it's almost time

It begins

still contemplating if i want to be competitive this year or not

It's a good sign that I actually understand some of the stuff I wrote last year

I'd do it in vyxal but speed issues

i was considering it lol

but i am bad at vyxal

If I'm using vyxal, I'm running the online interpreter locally

i'm worried i'll get fucked by dos issues again lol

last time first day i couldn't even submit for like a minute

oh the ascii art this time looks

interesting

Hopefully eric deals with the dos issues

Although... it only has to deal with 100k people for a few days

i think i'll aim for 5th again

higher is probably unrealistic but i think i can probably get the same as last year?

honestly not sure i might be rusty since most of my coding in the past year has been large scale projects and not solving puzzles or stuff

I think I'll aim for 1923rd.

never done this before but ill try it this year

Probably want to choose a language

my personal recommendation is always python if you're familiar with it

TBH main (only?) reason being you do not have to worry about integer overflow and stuff like that

JS is also nice - reasonably fast and you can run it in the console

yeah JS would be my personal second choice

Main downside is infinite loops freeze it

oh I wouldn't be using browser JS in that case lol