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@Absinthe This is amazing! I had a feeling he would basically snob Mastodon, so happy I was wrong! 😃
Have you had a look at today's puzzle? 😁 Part 1 seems easy, I fear for part 2...
I've completed "1202 Program Alarm" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2019 https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/2
And thanks to @ericwastl for adding in the ability to use the mastodon for brag tags!!
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@Absinthe I completed all the previous editions, that's all 😁
Of course, not all by myself, I shamelessly got "inspired" by looking at other people's solutions on the AoC subreddit 😁 I'm doing this to learn, not to compete, basically, so...
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@Absinthe 😄 I fear for this saturday... On weekends the puzzles are surely more complex, it is assumed that one has more time to solve them 😁
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@Absinthe Very pleased that you are doing this! These first puzzles are just a warm-up... It will get interesting (and tricky!) soon enough 😃
I just completed "1202 Program Alarm" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2019 https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/2 #AdventOfCode
Well, it lets me post to Twitter, or Reddit but no option for posting here so here is my brag tag..
I just completed "The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2019 https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/1 #AdventOfCode
Okay, this isn't me, but consider doing this this month:
It is the Advent of Code for 2019
Unfortunately the fediverse is not a supporter or OAth so you will have to use Twitter, Google, Github to login.
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@Absinthe I think you did well, explained your reasoning, and even compared to your personal experiences in the past.
I would suggest that an administrator should have a look him/herself at any instances they consider potentially objectionable. I visited some front end pages for instances on gab's orbit, and was dismayed with what was being said and posted there.
Users do have the option of blocking not only a user, but a whole instance in their personal profile -- something I have done and documented here in the past, showing people screenshots and how to do it.
That is rich, that we can set our own limits.
There is a good article on Verge about what happened when the gab people realized tehy could use mastodon as their operating software, and so avoid their past bans for site specific apps -- for atrocious content and the impact on users who sometimes went on to commit criminal acts. The Verge article is here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-gab-migration-fediverse-app-blocking
AS long as they stay in their own very large instance (the largest atm, just over a million accounts listed), it's not a problem.
With the election in US coming closer and closer, that might change. If they went raiding into people's federated conversations and attempting to inhibit them (like it's common in Twitter), then the response from instances administrators would likely be much more active.
The next year is going to be a tough one, no matter the results.
The Atlantic had a recent issue, analyzing the situation and comparing it to what they saw in the US just before the Civil War got started.
Personally, I am not interested in their 'discourse' and prefer not to spend my time and energy in arguing.
I went on to suggest blocking Gab merely because he had heard "bad things" about them might be a bad idea. I went on to suggest he might just wait and see if he had problems and block then for reason, rather than rumor.
I went on to defend myself to someone that didn't like my use of "slippery slope" and other aspects of linguistic choosing. But, remembered that of the instances I have had problems on they were more likely to be "safe space" or "activist" rather than open general, with a free speech open bent. As well as the origins of problem persons also being from some of the more "woke" places. I have experienced far more in cw sexual imagery from anime persons than from persons on the big Japanese instance, and though I have had some suggestive stuff, none of it came from switter.
I then went on to State that unless those on your instance are following and or boosting stuff from an instance that might be objectionable you would be unlikely to see any.federated activity from that instance. Is my understanding of the way federation works accurate?
Just responded to someone on Reddit asking about setting up his own instance and wanting opinions on his "Rules". Part of the page that had the rules also has his intent to specifically instance block Gab right off the bat. No others, just Gab.
I stated that I thought getting very specific with rules was a slippery slope, later comparing it to the 3 wishes from a genie scenario.
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Why is it every time I hear johnny cash since "Hurt" particularly the last recording of it he did before his death, it always makes me cry. I'm not even a Cash fan, and his voice wasnt at his best, it wasnt anything remarkable in terms of vocal talent... but it gets me every time.
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art hot take:
black and white photography is overrated
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Built this quick-and-dirty, very questionable but quiet linear power supply for avoiding RFI from SMPS. Takes power from an old AC wall-wart, no large heatsink, so I used a ton of dropping diodes just to prevent the LDO from overheating itself.
> The use of 9 diodes and a power-wasting resistor delivers unprecedented scale of system inefficiency, ideal for radio amateurs who have too many junkboxes, free energy advocates and climate-change deniers alike! 
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@Absinthe I have a feeling the emoji meant something more suggestive (like peach and aubergine), but there's some nice recipes on Bing : https://www.bing.com/search?q=Aubergine+and+taco
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Aubergines 🍆 and tacos 🌮
I shall be lazy and only do a freebie.
This problem was asked by Microsoft.
Given a 2D matrix of characters and a target word, write a function that returns whether the word can be found in the matrix by going left-to-right, or up-to-down.
For example, given the following matrix:
[['F', 'A', 'C', 'I'],
['O', 'B', 'Q', 'P'],
['A', 'N', 'O', 'B'],
['M', 'A', 'S', 'S']]
and the target word 'FOAM', you should return true, since it's the leftmost column. Similarly, given the target word 'MASS', you should return true, since it's the last row.
And this seems appropriate as well:
"And the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations
Well, I have really good days" Mother Blues ~ Ray Wylie Hubbard Listen!!
