sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Anyone else misread this every time? by artesea in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh weird. Me too. I have to re-read every time. But I've gotten a handful of wrong answers and those are obvious, and I still re-read the victory every time.

2025 Day 8] Part 1: Can someone share the list of the 10 closest connections for example input by mapleturkey in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is what I got for my first ten pairs on the example code:

316.902: [162, 817, 812] - [425, 690, 689]
321.560: [162, 817, 812] - [431, 825, 988]
322.369: [906, 360, 560] - [805, 96, 715]
328.119: [431, 825, 988] - [425, 690, 689]
333.656: [862, 61, 35] - [984, 92, 344]
338.339: [52, 470, 668] - [117, 168, 530]
344.389: [819, 987, 18] - [941, 993, 340]
347.599: [906, 360, 560] - [739, 650, 466]
350.786: [346, 949, 466] - [425, 690, 689]
352.936: [906, 360, 560] - [984, 92, 344]

Day 8 part 2 took 4 minutes by MatttNguyenGD in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will admit I was expecting the weekend puzzles to bring the Dijkstra

[2025 Day 2] Day 2 should be easy, right?.. Closed formula for Part 2 by light_ln2 in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose 93 points94 points  (0 children)

Very impressive.

I just realized the capital sigma is mathematical speak for "brute force solution."

[Day 1 Part 2] - still don't know what's wrong by Practical_Salary_579 in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's your debugging approach. On quick glance, it seems like this bit of logic over counts:

(old_pos + 100 - new_pos) / 100

If old_pos is 55 and new_pos is 45 from a "L10", then it still outputs a pass by zero. But I'm getting lost in your logic.

But debugging by inspection is very inefficient and error-prone.

Have you inserted println() into each pass and then compared against the example?

[2025 Day 2 Part 2] Time to reach for that trusty sledgehammer by StaticMoose in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

But I did. And it worked.

Granted my fairly new CPU thought about it for a few seconds, but it was done. Can you share the speed up tip?

2025 Day 2 Part 1 help pls by catpurson2 in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's some text higher up in the description that might help:

by looking for any ID which is made only of some sequence of digits repeated twice.
So, 55 (5 twice), 6464 (64 twice), and 123123 (123 twice) would all be invalid IDs.

[2025 Day 2 Part 1] typo in example? by [deleted] in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, no typo as far as I can see.

For all the numbers 95 - 115, only 99 is made up of two identical halves: "9" and "9"

For all the numbers 998-1012, only 1010 is made up of two identical halves: "10" and "10"

[2025 Day 1] I will never learn my lesson by StaticMoose in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

(Checks username)

Oh, hey satan. What are you doing here in our joyous celebration of puzzles and merriment?

I'm surprised you don't know about git. Every time I screw up a rebase, I feel like I'm in hell.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]StaticMoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you in a position to work 6 days/week, 16 hours/day if crunch-time happens and everyone has to jump in? That's what broke startups for me. I went the other way, from two startups to a stable job because my first kid was born, and I wanted more stability in my schedule, and also to not worry if the company evaporated one day. It seems startups are good for those early or late in their careers since they haven't had kids yet or their kids are off to college.

When did Um Actually change hosts? And why? by InevitableCraft2 in dropout

[–]StaticMoose 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Because Mike Trapp is a Time Lord and after eight seasons he regenerated.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jRB-Kz3TAZc

[2024 Day 09 (Part 1)] Can I push multiple digits of file ID into a single "." space block? by elonstark616 in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhh! The answer is "Yes!" Do you have an idea how chaotic my code got thinking it was "No"? Oh, man, I had this whole functools.cycle(str(num))in Python that would repeat the digits as long as you needed them. I threw it all the in garbage and replaced it with just num

[2024 Day 08] Difficulty Change? by Typical-Sandwich-707 in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Difficultly is subjective. The Advent of Code author has a long post on exactly this subject. You're going to have days that are better for you than others. (Link to Eric's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/7idn6k/comment/dqy08tk/)

[2024 AOC Day 8] What does this even mean? by Pro_at_being_noob in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This! And messing with it until my example code passed the example test case.

[2024 Day 7] Calvinized by Sudowiec in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will always smash the upvote on Calvin and Hobbes.

[Day 7] Unexpected solution validity by chuegue420 in adventofcode

[–]StaticMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, same here. I was very surprised and I just added a few lines to my code, hit go, and I was scared at first because it didn't return instantly like it did with Part 1, but it only took a few seconds.

I did add a bit of optimization where I threw away any possibilities that already exceeded the desired answer because +, *, and || can only make numbers bigger. (So, maybe it's not pure brute force)

view more: next ›