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December 19, 2024 at 3:42 AM
I just completed "Warehouse Woes" - Day 15 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/15

Fun.
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December 18, 2024 at 1:06 AM
I just completed "Restroom Redoubt" - Day 14 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/14

Part 1 - fun and straight forward
Part 2 - ???? (I guess we're looking for a bell curve)
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December 17, 2024 at 4:41 AM
I just completed "Claw Contraption" - Day 13 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/13

... better late than never ... damn that took some maths
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December 16, 2024 at 11:33 PM
I just completed "Garden Groups" - Day 12 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/12

Part 2 was hard, took some (more than some) trial and error, and error, and error, and ... and then finally giving up and seeing how others solved it because my brain just refused to go on 😭😭
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December 13, 2024 at 5:15 AM
I just completed "Plutonian Pebbles" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/11

TIL a valuable AOC lesson; if they ask for something to run N times in part 1, they will ask for it >N times in part 2, where part 2 N is too damn big for your naive algorithm from part 1
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December 12, 2024 at 1:07 AM
I just completed "Hoof It" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/10

That was really fun, I made part two way too hard for myself when in the end all I needed was a .copy() on the visited set 😅😭
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December 11, 2024 at 12:17 AM
I just completed "Disk Fragmenter" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/9

If you asked me to get back into the flow state required to solve pt 2 of this, I think it would take me just as long as solving it anew ... wonder if a real defrag algo is anything like this
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December 10, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Maybe instead of one big thermonuclear judgement day a la Skynet, we just get a bunch of these until any semblance of humanity is wiped off the main stream internet. This timeline sucks.
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I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
December 9, 2024 at 1:17 PM
I just completed "Resonant Collinearity" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/8

Rise-over-run, the grade school math concept that keeps on giving
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December 9, 2024 at 12:06 AM
I just completed "Bridge Repair" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/7

Love me a math problem! Had to figure out how to generate my operator combinations in Python but once that was done it was smooth sailing.
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December 8, 2024 at 3:59 AM
I just completed "Guard Gallivant" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/6

This was the most fun yet, I love simulation problems ... my part two solution is painfully slow, am curious how other people solved it 🤔
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December 6, 2024 at 8:56 PM
I just completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/5 ... who doesn't love a good old fashioned sorting problem amiright 😅
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December 5, 2024 at 10:57 PM
I just completed "Ceres Search" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/4

... they're starting to get fun
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December 5, 2024 at 5:04 AM
I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3
December 3, 2024 at 11:45 PM
I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2
December 2, 2024 at 10:58 PM
I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1
December 1, 2024 at 4:47 PM