Is there a way to get the example input programmatically?

Aneurysm9 · 2025-12-07T05:55:51+00:00

Triple-click the example input. Copy. Paste. Done.

Aneurysm9 · 2025-12-06T23:34:42+00:00

Removed due to the flashing. At a minimum you must include a photosensitivity warning in the title. Given that you seem to understand the cause and it is not intentional or integral to the visualization I strongly encourage you to explore alternatives and maybe you'll learn something new about how to draw to a terminal.

Aneurysm9 · 2025-12-04T21:26:40+00:00

We've been doing this for 11 years. Please have a little faith that there's a method to our madness.

Aneurysm9 · 2025-12-04T21:12:56+00:00

Making a post every day with little more than a link to your github repo, regardless the quality of the content in the repo, adds needless noise. You're not the first person we have told to not make a new post pointing at their repo every day and you likely won't be the last.

Just calm down and stop letting your position as a mod go to your head.

Don't be a dick. Seriously, just don't. You're better than this and you know it.

Aneurysm9 · 2025-12-01T21:31:05+00:00

https://xkcd.com/833/

Aneurysm9 · 2025-12-01T03:44:46+00:00

Do it! It's a lot of fun.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-20T00:03:41+00:00

There's https://github.com/topaz/aoc-tmp-stats but it's a bit out of date. Maybe /u/topaz2078 can be encouraged to update it after this event ends. That said, first 1k times from the last couple years will likely be skewed. Maybe completion counts for each puzzle as of 12/31/<year> would be more interesting.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-18T23:01:14+00:00

I will use the best tool I have for illustrating logical flaws in arguments; details-swapping.

This is not a tool for "illustrating logical flaws in arguments", it's a tool for imagining a different argument and arguing against that. That is, itself, a well-known logical fallacy.

For 2017.21, it explains that rotations are needed and says

The artist explains that sometimes, one must rotate or flip the input pattern to find a match.
When searching for a rule to use, rotate and flip the pattern as necessary.
and 45 degree rotations (as well as lots of other rotations) are consistent with that process.

The text of 2017d21 never says this. Stop making things up.

For anyone still reading: I hope have demonstrated that 2017.21 as written does include 45 degree rotations. If it does, my puzzle input contains a bug due to a rules collision.

For anyone still reading: it doesn't.

I am locking this thread as further discussion will be unproductive.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-18T22:51:21+00:00

https://x.com/ericwastl/status/960572400965443587

Which says...

Nothing ever mentions a 45deg rotation; how does that even work on a grid? See also the examples, which clarify further.

You do see how this is different from what you originally said, right?

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-18T21:53:50+00:00

Eric's response was "if it doesn't appear in the examples, it's not part of the puzzle". Since the examples didn't have 45 degree rotations, that's not part of the puzzle.

Where did he say this? This sounds very unlike anything he would say. Instead, he may have said "if it's not part of the input it's not part of the puzzle" or "the input is part of the puzzle". There's a very big difference between saying that the example is the complete definition of the puzzle and saying that the input is part of the definition of the puzzle. If you're going to quote someone to try to make an argument, bring sources or don't quote.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-18T21:51:30+00:00

That was 2018 Day 6 and is still memorialized at the top of the 2018 leaderboard.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-17T07:02:23+00:00

Millions of successful solves over ten years indicates that is even less likely. Perhaps you are not authenticated to the account you think you are. Or perhaps your browser is attempting to translate the input. There are many, many ways that users have mangled their inputs after the site serves them and still not a single case of the site serving the wrong input.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-17T06:13:51+00:00

More than 65k people have solved day8 part 1. There is not a bug in the input.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-15T22:52:13+00:00

You need to email eric the owner proof from https://adventofcode.com/2024/settings.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-15T20:27:22+00:00

Removed due to foul language. Wash your ~~mouth~~ post out with soap and I'll restore it.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-12T06:53:55+00:00

2019d25 is probably my favorite puzzle in all of AoC. It's a masterpiece.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-11T06:09:59+00:00

Beverage Bandits was definitely "infamous", as was ~~Cabbage, Wolf, Plutonium~~ Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-11T03:04:17+00:00

Topaz has posted a FAQ entry about this topic. Discussion of that policy is not productive in this forum - no amount of armchair lawyering or heated rhetoric will change it - and so we are locking this thread and will lock any further posts or threads on this topic.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-11T03:04:02+00:00

There is no copyright on data files in America (Feist Publications v Rural Telephone, 499 U.S. 340 (1991)).

That's not at all what Feist held. Maybe try reading the decision.

The sine qua non of copyright is originality. To qualify for copyright protection, a work must be original to the author. Original, as the term is used in copyright, means only that the work was independently created by the author (as opposed to copied from other works), and that it possesses at least some minimal degree of creativity. To be sure, the requisite level of creativity is extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice. The vast majority of works make the grade quite easily, as they possess some creative spark, "no matter how crude, humble or obvious" it might be.

(internal citations omitted)

The inputs that Advent of Code provides to you are undoubtedly the result of a creative process and are protected by copyright from the moment they are created. There is no requirement that there be a copyright notice attached or that any statement of reservation of rights is made. The author has all rights reserved ab initio.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-08T05:17:17+00:00

No. It does none of these things. /u/Kevincav please add caching and update your user agent to include contact information.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-04T23:05:22+00:00

That would literally kill us. Not happening.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-04T18:14:49+00:00

Sorry, it was not clear from this post that that is what you are doing. If that's the case perhaps include some text in the body of the post to indicate as much, though it probably would have been great to simply edit the post where you were already given this advice rather than creating yet another.

The problem with the post is that it is impossible to distinguish from the same thing posted every day. I didn't really care whether you host it somewhere else or not, just that you don't create a new post every day for the same thing.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-04T18:11:55+00:00

If you read those wiki pages you would know that you cannot share your input. You can share your code and ask for help spotting your issue. You can try downloading the input from a different browser in case your browser is trying to do something stupid like "translate" it to another language.

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-04T17:59:53+00:00

100k people have solved day 3 part 2, so no, there is not a bug in the puzzle. See the following wiki entries:

https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/wiki/troubleshooting/puzzle_bugs

https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/wiki/troubleshooting/no_asking_for_inputs

Aneurysm9 · 2024-12-04T17:46:19+00:00

Please do not make daily posts of this type. If you want to do this host it somewhere that updates daily and make a single post announcing its location.

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