🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

#toyprogrammingchallenge

Second Freebie!!! This one is marked as "easy"

This problem was asked by Google.

Given two singly linked lists that intersect at some point, find the intersecting node. The lists are non-cyclical.

For example, given A = 3 -> 7 -> 8 -> 10 and B = 99 -> 1 -> 8 -> 10, return the node with value 8.

In this example, assume nodes with the same value are the exact same node objects.

Do this in O(M + N) time (where M and N are the lengths of the lists) and constant space.

#toyprogrammingchallenge

https://git.qoto.org/Absinthe/listoverlap

Castelvittorio (IM), Liguria, Italy - una vista del paese

@adidasJack lol ok

@billstclair

I am mostly concerned with transparency and if he lives up to his own rules.

So far the question felt a bit like an accusation based entirely off gossip without one shred of evidence (in fact our ToS which we actively up hold directly states harassment is not permitted).

I also replied asking for even a single instance where a trans person was negatively confronted on our instance that didnt result in some form of intervention. Obviously they would be unable to find a case.

So I am mostly curious to see if they actually objectively and honestly hold to their own stated (publicly) rules for inclusion in the list or not. Obviously if they make a decision based on gossip without one shred of evidence to back it up then that is very worrisome and will likely indirectly cause a lot of fall out and more popularity towards free speech instances including gab.

@Surasanji @arteteco @Gargron

actually maybe that scene is ace of wands? castaway has so many scenes that could be the hermit. obviously

a tarot deck (very sincere and beautiful, NOT ironic) themed entirely on the cinematic work of tom hanks

so far i know that the hermit is the scene from castaway where he makes fire

I never would have anticipated that @pixelfed would have grown to what it is today.

This shoutout from Cambodia made me tear up, I'm so happy that I can make a difference in the fediverse!

Dolceacqua (IM), Liguria, Italy - Località Morghe

#toyprogrammingchallenge

Here's a freebie. They labeled it as "Hard"

This problem was asked by Google.

Suppose we represent our file system by a string in the following manner:

The string "dir\n\tsubdir1\n\tsubdir2\n\t\tfile.ext" represents:

dir
subdir1
subdir2
file.ext
The directory dir contains an empty sub-directory subdir1 and a sub-directory subdir2 containing a file file.ext.

The string "dir\n\tsubdir1\n\t\tfile1.ext\n\t\tsubsubdir1\n\tsubdir2\n\t\tsubsubdir2\n\t\t\tfile2.ext" represents:

dir
subdir1
file1.ext
subsubdir1
subdir2
subsubdir2
file2.ext
The directory dir contains two sub-directories subdir1 and subdir2. subdir1 contains a file file1.ext and an empty second-level sub-directory subsubdir1. subdir2 contains a second-level sub-directory subsubdir2 containing a file file2.ext.

We are interested in finding the longest (number of characters) absolute path to a file within our file system. For example, in the second example above, the longest absolute path is "dir/subdir2/subsubdir2/file2.ext", and its length is 32 (not including the double quotes).

Given a string representing the file system in the above format, return the length of the longest absolute path to a file in the abstracted file system. If there is no file in the system, return 0.

Note:

The name of a file contains at least a period and an extension.

The name of a directory or sub-directory will not contain a period.

What I find particularly alarming about this conversation is how much it mirrors the election which got him in office int he first place. The left was so cock sure that Trump's support was too low to ever stand a chance that the left convinced themselves they had a sure win, as a result their voter turnout was lower than it would ottherwise have been and trump, actually having a decent amount of support, won.

Here we are again with someone stating a very objective and obvious fact that Trump had a peak approval rating around 58% and currently passes Obama's approval rating now.

By denying yourselves the facts and fooling yourself into the idea that no one likes him (which sadly isnt true) you will just garuntee him another 4 years. Then again I'm not sure a strong enough democratic politician will the primaries anyway. The few democratic politicians who werent particular extreme in their policies and thus stood a good chance of dethroning trump seem to also be WAY behind in the primaries.

So while I really really want Trump to loose and be replaced with a competent politician, if this thread is any indication, he will likely get another 4 year ssadly.

@djsumdog @saxnot @thegibson