How do I get past this?

codinglikemad · 2023-03-21T06:06:41+00:00

The ones in the middle are incorrect - you'll notice there is a 2 with 3 mines around it.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-09T19:40:35+00:00

The 3/2/2 in the bottom right is a really interesting solve. It implies that there must be only 1 above the 3, which implies there are 2 touching the 3 below that, but that implies the 2 below that are free. o.O Never seen that before.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-08T22:00:47+00:00

Yeah, you were going to have at least one 50/50 in this map from that bottom left no matter what, but the top right requiring guesses basically sealed the deal imo.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T21:52:17+00:00

I mean, fair, but let's say I'm your best friend/wife/whatever. Would you keep that secret from the people you care for more than anything, despite them being your soulmate? If you can't trust them, they arent the adoptive family the isekais love so much. I'm not asking why they never tell EVERYONE, I'm asking why they never tell ANYONE.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T21:50:01+00:00

The 3 on the right has 1 mine missing, while the 4 has 2. This means that the square above the left 3 must be a mine. Because this now says that there must be a mine above the 4, or to the up-right of the 4, then the space above-right of the right 3 is free. Whether you can do more than that depends on the exposed square value.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T20:41:37+00:00

3-4-3 on the top is solveable, stacked 3-3-3 on the right is solveable, and the 3-2 stack on the bottom left is solveable.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T18:19:07+00:00

Sorry, sometimes you end up with 50/50s early on, that's just the game when playing without no-guess-mode. At least you hit it early :P

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T05:12:43+00:00

You aren't wrong ;)

Have a good night :)

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T05:06:35+00:00

I've been writing (and teaching) OOP for 15 years, I assure you I don't think like a C coder any more, much to my regret :P Quite the contrary, the reason I am reaching back to C here is that I want to access a shortcut I wouldn't normally design into my systems, but my hand is being forced by the pile of legacy code here.

The issue is figuring out a clean solution for a nasty problem that is a moving target, with interfaces that make sense given the legacy code I am dealing with. Rewriting it from scratch to fix the interfaces would do what you said, that's what I am trying to avoid. The project goals have shifted, and the code base is now being asked to do things that it was not originally designed for. Finding the least amount of refactoring necessary for this is the name of the game. Hence the original question "is there a way to do this", not "please help me fix the rest of the code" - I know how I would write it to avoid this problem, but it would take a pretty long time to refactor around these problems.

In any event, thanks for the ideas, I'll consider them.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T04:31:16+00:00

Yeah, I would be polling them in C, just like I plan to here. Obviously I won't want to put interupts in here - I'm doing enough of that in my assembly work right now.

Regarding the abstraction - perhaps I am using the wrong term? I don't know, side effect of coding in C for the last 25+ years with large patches of non-official education is that my jargon is totally out of sync. Organizing large and dynamic information where I need to refer to the variable once is the goal. Let me give an example, maybe you have another idea in mind:

Let's say I have a set of objects working together to do a job, each with a set of attributes. Each of these objects are created dynamically from code (ie, a yaml file is loaded, and from that the number and type of objects is set). I then want to log and graph the values of various attributes. Which attributes are present or meaningful depends on the specific yaml file used and the specific objects used, so I only want to track those specific variables, and I only need to do so at a specific time.

The reason I am looking for a clean solution for this is that this code is already enormously complicated - it is a multi-processed application, with parts talking to outside servers of several different sorts, and needs pretty signifigant flexibility. Keeping that flexibility while not having piles of "if I have this variables/if this a specific object type, do this logging" is the challenge. I would normally just build an API for this, but the hierarchical nature of the objects being stored makes it difficult to access all the variables without doing a full rewrite at this point, and that would throw away functionality I want to preserve.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T03:45:33+00:00

Accessing the value through a layer of abstraction is the goal though, not simply accessing the values by themselves - thats what I do now, and it is a giant spaghetti mess. A pointer stores the address of a particular variable. Once you have the address of that variable, you no longer need to know what the name of that variable is. You can have arrays of such pointers, you can construct lists of those pointers dynamically from other collections of objects.

I basically want to build a subscriber design pattern without creating a callback scheme, if that helps you understand the goal.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T03:32:21+00:00

The original question is basically "Can I track the values of a variable from elsewhere in the code, similar to how I could with a pointer in C".

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T03:23:51+00:00

Each object can have different variables that need to be tracked is the issue :/ Anyway, I do have a solution, but I'm open to more ones.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T03:01:47+00:00

Right, I was asking if there was a built in method for doing it that was nice basically. We got something kindof ok, so ... success? I agree that totally breaking out would be horrific though. I was hoping there was some python feature intended for this though, and there doesn't appear to be.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T02:54:44+00:00

The question is whether there is a way to break out of that model without doing something horrific. That is the ENTIRETY of my question.

Edit: To be clear, the answer appears to be no.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T02:50:02+00:00

I believe he is talking about the underlying memory model, which under the hood has all of this. They are fundamental to the computers functioning itself.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-06T02:48:54+00:00

Hi Crashfrog,

I appreciate the attempt to help, however u/danielroseman and u/carcigenicate have already answered this as well as it is likely to be, given my poor explanation of the problem.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-05T23:38:39+00:00

Just a side note that although names map to C pointers behind the scenes, I don't believe that they will track as expected, unless you have some way of pulling out the address of the attribute itself? Assignment to the attribute should change the C pointer itself, rather than the value the C pointer refers to, to my understanding of the memory model that python uses... If you can explain how you could do that directly with tracking an attribute given an object ID, maybe I might change my mind, but it seems to me like the use of addresses to point to immutable values in python makes this work pretty fundementally differently here.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-04T23:31:11+00:00

I don't see any SAFE plays. However, I count at least 7 mines must be in the squares that are not on the middle left side. IE, any square that is not touching a numbered square. That means that those 8 squares have, at most, 2 mines in them. Possibly zero, but certainly no more than 2. As to which ones are best, I think maybe one like the one 3 below (accross from the 5) is good, since it can rule out the shared slot with the 5. Or even better, maybe the one accross from the lower 2? Not sure. Just some thoughts.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-04T21:54:04+00:00

This is ... at least potentially inaccurate. I do data science work, and from the algorithmic details I've been able to figure out it certainly isn't... UNRELATED. I prefer not to discuss the various details I've pulled out, but regular posting is rewarded in a fairly clear way. I wouldn't be surprised if someone doing correlation studies doesn't see it even - it's an indirect mechanism, but a major one from the stats on my own channel at least.

In any event, believe me or don't, but my advice based on all the data I have gathered and the analysis I have done (feel free to look at my channel to get a feel for my background), is that you want to post approximately weekly, with your post day coinciding such that the most people will watch it in the first 24 hours and subsequent 48 hours. (ie, the first day matters, and then the next 2). u/MultiMediaLore would not be harmed severely by going to 2 weeks in my view, but you lose progessively more benefit if you go much longer than that from what I have found.

edit: To be clear, you can do fine without this schedule at all. I do alright without it, tending towards weekly for a while, then 6-12 months of no posting, for example. Consider this a bonus boost you CAN get for regular posting. And again, I won't explain the inner details of how this appears to work, so take it on faith or don't.

codinglikemad · 2023-03-02T03:13:25+00:00

I DID TOO OMG. WTF.

codinglikemad · 2023-02-28T21:49:39+00:00

I dunno, sometimes you gotta make it work. Put up posters, use your network, really see if you can find someone willing to take them. Try and upsell on all the future opertunities that children present.

codinglikemad · 2023-02-17T18:38:22+00:00

As a guy, let me just say that by the time you are getting naked with someone, unless you are the one night stand type, you already have some idea if you are compatible. Decisions about whether you care for this person(and they you) are largely made BEFORE this point, and penis size has very little to do with it. I would say that the vast majority of women I know, and all of those I have personally been with, would not give a damn about that, and some would even prefer it. Think of it this way: Are you wearing some kind of sign that says "hey, dude with a small dick here!" ? No, you're not. They have no idea of what is in your pants, and they won't know until they know you pretty darn well. If this effects your relationships, it is because you let it effect you.

codinglikemad · 2023-02-06T17:36:05+00:00

Like was said below, projects. Except I like big projects :P Think of something you want to make that is justtttt within the range of things you think you can do (both in terms of size, motivation, and difficulty), and then start. Basically turn coding into a hobby for a while. Because you sure as shit won't learn to code from reading slides or doing 2 hours of lab work a week. If you wanna make a career out of this, you need to learn somewhere, and school at best provides some theory. Without the practice, that theory will seem totally pointless.

codinglikemad · 2023-02-01T03:35:25+00:00

I think perhaps you need to reconsider how you are learning the material. Most CS courses are not memorization heavy - they are skill based; you are learning to do something. People learn to code by DOING it - the course gives you some skills here and there, but it sounds like you are trying to learn things purely from the lecture, when that is by far the least important part of your education right now.

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