℉ⅈℕℹℸℽ @finity@qoto.org

And here is a guy who has figured out a considerably better way to solve #AdventOfCode day 16. Lots of spoilers here: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zo21au/comment/j0nz8df/?context=3

It's that comment by zopatista that I'm talking about.

@EinPhysiker You're better than me - mine took 20 minutes to run (Python).

#AdventOfCode Day 16 was a doozy and took me a while because I tried a "dynamic programming" solution when I (think I) shouldn't have. Oh well! Got it in the end:
https://blog.notmet.net/2022/12/advent-of-code-2022-day-16/

One of my neighbors got creative. Love it. #santa

Smitten apples are some of the best apples.

@brk I agree, it seems to work really well, and the user-mode type modification possibilities seem like a good compliment to containers. It's the first time I've used nix, I'll have to try it some more.

@finity@bookwyrm.social you don't have to ID all the actions that will get you to "complete", just the next one. Later you can ID the action after that (but you probably accomplished several actions instead of just one at a time, if you're like me, so you can skip all those in the middle that you did).

Too often I've tried to ID many/all the actions needed, and that's just a bad use of effort.

And the reason I posted anything at all - a note to myself for the future. I'm working with people trying to provide this type of environment at work, and it seems to be an open problem for them.

Next time we interact I will now ask better questions

For years (decades) I have ssh'd in and vim'd and tmux'd my way to success. This has been great, and I still love it as a way to work. Last two days my desktop has been turned off (home maintenance has necessitated I move it), and I've been using repl.it for Advent Of Code. Which is awesome.

It made me curious about the maturity of open source self-hosted versions of the same thing. It looks like they're very mature.

Just learned yesterday that Visual Studio is (essentially) open source (as code-oss), and also how easy it is to setup a self-hosted dev-in-browser experience for a group of people using "coder" and code-oss.

The benefits of lazy evaluation when getting ice from Sonic:
https://blog.notmet.net/2022/12/the-benefits-of-lazy-evaluation/

My favorite part is when Christopher Lewis's version of Philip Glass's "Metamorphosis 3" kicks in. It sounds super cool on harpsichord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuyiJpr9ORQ

Listening to: my favorite part of Music for Programming Episode 3, by Datassette

https://musicforprogramming.net/three

@wxheather That was my first thought too, just for the verbosity. I felt better when I dug in.

#AdventOfCode day 11 WHOOP WHOOP!!! Feelin good! 1787/1196 This guy knows how to do part 2 🙂 First finisher on my private leaderboard.

Alright. Now to chillax a little.