Chris Sears @OmegaLimit@qoto.org

I just completed "Scratchcards" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2023 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/4

Old school looping FTW. I think I've used regular expressions in every puzzle this year.

Solution: https://editor.p5js.org/Prof-Sears/sketches/8vroArJcz

I just completed "Gear Ratios" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2023 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/3

Grades are submitted. I've decided to go back to Javascript. I may yet finish more than a dozen days.

Solution: https://editor.p5js.org/Prof-Sears/sketches/qvir3se0J

The worst part of grading a math exam is that you must first take a math exam.

(To write the key, that is.)

Wordle is now giving life advice.

Wordle 901 4/6

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Days 3, 4, and 5 will have to wait until after grades are submitted.

I've completed "Wait For It" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2023 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/6

Part 1 was easy. Part 2 would have been quicker in Python or another language I'm more comfortable with. Due to some clumsy debugging, I managed "off by one" errors in both directions.

I've completed "Cube Conundrum" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2023 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/2

I've completed "Trebuchet?!" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2023 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/1

This year's Advent of Code challenge is to solve the problems with GNU Octave. I managed 16 days and 32 stars last year while teaching myself functional programming in JavaScript. Hopefully, I'll make it to day 20 this year. #adventofcode

I just completed a job application for the first time in 16 years. Such a strange feeling. The hardest part was updating my CV. I haven't had to write a real CV since finishing my Ph.D.

BTW, Fatdog64 worked pretty well. MX Linux and LMDE didn't detect the keyboard. I was about to try Linux Mint, but when I rebooted Arch to download the install ISO, the sound was working. Since sound was the only issue with Arch, I let it stay.

Took one more step away from Google. I'm posting this from a Chromebook running Arch Linux. (acer CB3-532) With XFCE4, it's surprisingly light on it's feet. With two browser tabs and a couple of other programs running, it's using 1.6 GB of the available 4 GB of ram. The only real drawbacks are the tiny internal storage (16 GB) and the non-standard keyboard. The hardest thing to configure was sound. A little searching lead me to the right packages to install. For my purposes, it's working well. #ArchLinux #Chromebook #byebyegoogle

... And the site is back and running. My account is approved. Time to go exploring.

... and the day after I request an account, the site goes down with a 502 error. It's almost back up now.

Seconded.😜
QT: https://mas.to/@NoTwit/111303730235039056

I'm waiting for approval of my account request on spectra.video. It'll be nice to get away from "big video".