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Back from Tahiti!!! Finished Day10 part 1 in the airport, but not sure how to handle part two. Nor, how to handle being 10 days behind!

wow, I seriously misunderstood the problem. Tip: make sure you understand what they are asking for before trying to accomplish it :)

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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 adventofcode.com/2019/day/2

And thanks to @ericwastl for adding in the ability to use the mastodon for brag tags!!

@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...

@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 😁

@Absinthe Very pleased that you are doing this! These first puzzles are just a warm-up... It will get interesting (and tricky!) soon enough 😃

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 adventofcode.com/2019/day/1

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.

adventofcode.com/2019

@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: theverge.com/2019/7/12/2069195

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.

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