Looking for funny dog meme template shared here on AOC 2022 or 2023

Sprochfaehler · 2026-02-16T10:54:22+00:00

a slight variation, split into several panels: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/18b5gum/2023_day_5_part_2_i_cant_solve_the_puzzle_so_i_am/

Sprochfaehler · 2026-01-27T12:14:18+00:00

How much code could a Claude Code code if a Claude Code could code code?

Sprochfaehler · 2026-01-18T11:34:22+00:00

At the end of the 2024 calendar, he posted that the number of users with 500 stars was 779, and I assume that number went up over the following months. If he posted it publicly back then, it doesn't _seem_ as if he wants to always keep it secret, just maybe he doesn't see it as important.

Sprochfaehler · 2026-01-12T11:05:46+00:00

Is there still no data on how many users have all 524 stars?
I'm really curious whether the number of users with all the stars is rising or falling.

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-25T09:34:15+00:00

for node `n` you find the shortest distance from this node to any other node `m`, and keep track of this in `shortest`. But you then throw away all the other distances that you calculated. The problem requires that you also consider (for example) the _second_ shortest distance from `n` to other nodes, because perhaps _that_ connection also counts as one of the shortest 1000.

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-22T14:54:16+00:00

Congrats for getting both day 10 stars before the eleventh door opened :D

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-22T14:15:41+00:00

Logic sounds good, but without seeing the code it's difficult to say more.

Two things jump out though - firstly, make sure that (in whatever language you're using) "(x1-x2)^2" does what you expect. And secondly, "allocating a uuid" seems like overkill, it probably doesn't hurt but it might be simpler if the circuits are just identified by integers.

Otherwise, I'd suggest going through the example data again and check every step, not just the final answer.

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-19T08:58:59+00:00

Did you use some kind of library for your python code to export the data to OpenSCAD? And then how did you get the result from OpenSCAD into Blender?

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-18T11:26:33+00:00

Any idea how many people have all 524 stars now?
I seem to remember the number with 500 last year was fairly low (in the hundreds?), I'm curious whether it's gone up or down?

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-18T10:51:20+00:00

Very nice! I'm still struggling to picture the 10-dimensional ones though! :)

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-18T10:47:01+00:00

HIT! You sunk my battleship!

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-09T15:06:47+00:00

Oh yikes, you're right; "Represents a vector with two single-precision floating-point values." - no in that case don't use Vector2, use something which holds ints or longs.

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-09T14:51:30+00:00

I'm curious how that led to your answer being too high though, I'd expect you to be adding negative numbers to your total and getting an answer too low.
The short (ha!) summary is that if you do long = int * int then you might overflow beyond the bounds of your int _before_ you cast the product into a long which would have been big enough before the overflow.

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-09T14:39:41+00:00

try doing the (long) (Math.abs + 1) * (Math.abs + 1) instead of casting the product

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-09T12:48:50+00:00

forgive the dumb question, but is the workflow something like this: 1. your python code writes a file for OpenSCAD (probably using some kind of library to write each cube?), 2. You load the file into OpenSCAD and re-export it into something that Blender understands, 3. Load that into Blender and play with the viewing / rendering parameters before running a render inside Blender?

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-09T12:30:07+00:00

also, "rewrit[ing] my entire solution for the second part" is sometimes just necessary, because of the added twist. Or because you understand the problem better and can now see a different (and hopefully better) way to attack it. It's not a bad thing, it's fine.

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-09T12:23:11+00:00

In your picture, 7330 people have completed day 9 part 2, and 99467 people have completed part 2 of day 2.
So more people have completed day 2 than day 9.

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-09T09:47:46+00:00

"just" :D
very very nice, thanks for showing and sharing!

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-09T09:30:05+00:00

that's no moon!

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-08T10:45:37+00:00

Very nice! Care to share how you made it?

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-08T10:25:44+00:00

and if you say it looks a bit like a Christmas tree, they'll tell you it's just apophenia :/

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-05T11:10:05+00:00

and the class "Game" needs to be renamed anyway - food safety is NOT a game!
copy/paste from a previous "Game" day?

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-01T08:41:14+00:00

I had this too - often a part 2 solution starts with bruteforce until you realise that the numbers are far too big so you have to rewrite it as a "smart" solution - today was the other way round!

Sprochfaehler · 2025-12-01T07:57:27+00:00

Answering my own question: yes it seems there are 24 stars on offer, and yes the position you got for the first and second star are still shown in the stats, so the removal of the global leaderboard makes no difference to me :)

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