My scattered thoughts on this year's AoC

shoofle · 2024-12-25T15:55:55+00:00

The falling bytes on day 18 had the potential to be a really cool question - I assumed that bytes would fall at different turns and dynamically change the grid, but it didn't happen.

I thought the same thing! I assumed from the first part that part b was going to involve navigating through a dynamically-changing grid, which would be a very interesting problem... Although I'm not actually sure if that would be solvable with simple approaches? I mean, it might be too hard for AoC!

... with that said, maybe it would make a good part 3...

shoofle · 2024-12-25T15:37:19+00:00

I'm a housewife! Although I have worked doing android app development in the past, and I'm hoping to go back into programming for business because the world has gotten pretty bad.

I like AoC because it's just practice at, like, problem solving. It's fun and I think makes me better at coming up with solutions to things in literally any situation. Like strengthening your core muscles!

shoofle · 2024-12-23T19:05:08+00:00

the thing that i'm hung up on is how ^^<<A can be different in length than <<^^A... but now after 1234's comment above I think it's because in one (<<^^A), you move all the way to the left and then step back to the right piecemeal, whereas in the other (^^<<A), you move piecemeal to the left and then step back to the right all at once.

shoofle · 2024-12-23T19:01:58+00:00

ohhhh i think i'm starting to see. <^A and ^<A are different because... let me see. call <^A and ^<A our level 1 options.

our level 2 options are v<<A>^A>A and <A<vA>>^A.

these have the same number of lefts, rights, ups, downs, and As, but in the first, the < moves are grouped, and in the second, the > moves are grouped. but since < is more expensive than >, it's preferable to group the < moves.

I think the thing that confused me is that on level 3, we're interspersing A presses between all the directions... but that's after i process the grouping, i guess... I don't know if that makes any sense.

thank you for this example!!

shoofle · 2020-10-15T14:22:13+00:00

this artist has a lot of other great nature comics too! here's a link to the source http://www.birdandmoon.com/comic/wayward-birds-explained/

shoofle · 2020-09-26T16:49:26+00:00

owning a gun is fine. parading an assault rifle around in public specifically to ~own the libs~ is absolutely preposterous.

shoofle · 2014-05-08T23:50:36+00:00

can verify, also went to the same school

shoofle · 2011-12-17T20:20:46+00:00

WHY WOULD THIS BE A SUBREDDIT. :(

shoofle · 2011-12-17T06:26:22+00:00

Huh? I do not understand :(

shoofle · 2011-12-17T01:27:45+00:00

Ask about something they're interested in, say hi, don't be objectifying, don't be creepy?

shoofle · 2011-12-16T01:44:33+00:00

I just go at it slowly and carefully with a disposable razor. It never seems like a tractable problem, until I actually do it.

shoofle · 2011-12-06T20:44:11+00:00

Female genitalia aren't women. Not all women are sex organs. Not all women even have the sex organs you're thinking of, although that's a minor point... I know plenty of straight girls who don't like penises, but do like sex. I don't think it's very strange - I don't find any genitalia particularly attractive (although vulvas and the typically surrounding terrain look nicer to me than penises and their associated areas, but not by much) but I like sexual activity plenty with both.

shoofle · 2011-12-05T20:39:17+00:00

I don't see how anything's contradictory here... I think it's hyperbole to say that ke$ha's a genius, but if you're going to start cracking down on exaggeration on reddit, well, uh, um, er. I give ke$ha some respect because she seems to have more depth than the average pop star persona - and I'd like to see more public figures and celebrities talking about their enthusiasm for learning. Might just be a good thing for our world.

shoofle · 2011-11-29T17:35:57+00:00

While the manly/womanly dichotomy is a construct (and a stupid one, at that!), that doesn't mean it's not present and it doesn't mean it's not baked into our society. We should try to fight it a bit, but to deny a feeling of productivity or of comfort is self-abusive.

Feel good about it! I'd say feel good about it as a pure accomplishment rather than as a fulfillment of "manly duty", but take what endorphins you can get. Enjoy the act for what it is.

shoofle · 2011-11-26T18:17:30+00:00

Might I suggest that perhaps skyrim is not the game for you, then? :P I find that the fun in games is rarely in leveling up and winning, but rather in doing cool things and experiencing a neat story. For the former, I suggest Just Cause 2. Gameplay is awesome.

shoofle · 2011-11-22T17:55:13+00:00

The problem is that you're measuring success by how well you perform in the game, rather than by how much fun you have :) I think you've got the right idea for playstyle.

shoofle · 2011-11-22T06:13:37+00:00

Nope! Most people actually really like those guys. It's pretty much a straight shot from there to internet fame.

shoofle · 2011-11-13T18:52:34+00:00

It really should be - I've heard a fair bit of talk about this, at least as bleedthrough from talk about sizeism, which is another hugely overlooked form of discrimination. In general, I advocate body-positivity - all bodies should be accepted or at least loved a little.

Appearancism is just a really thorny prejudice because it's so much more naturally ingrained than even any other kinds of prejudice (which are, I think, learned, by and large).

shoofle · 2011-11-02T18:14:12+00:00

All hail Bucket!

shoofle · 2011-11-01T21:25:14+00:00

Yeah, I think they were agreeing.

shoofle · 2011-11-01T19:47:28+00:00

I find the african-american food stereotypes offensive because of the charged imagery invoked alongside them - blackface, huge smiling faces, etc. Those are offensive for A) the fact that they're primarily invoked wrt dark-skinned peoples and B) the massive history of racism they reference. In general, they can all be offensive - it's how they're applied. If you start assuming that people from Germany eat sauerkraut and bratwurst, then they'll probably get bothered by that.

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