Thread 107010946

I'm still mad.

>>107010946 (OP)
Spend time with your family.

>>107011072
.... what now ... ?

>>107010946 (OP)
what happened did they make something unbeatable?
i only did AOC 2023

>>107011152
it's only 12 days this year

>>107011167
maybe theyre putting more effort into each challenge. like designing it to make llmslop generate bad code if you just copy-paste the challenge which could be interesting

>>107011181
"They" = "Him" and it's one person who refuses to pass the torch.

>>107011207
oh i had no idea
probably ran out of ideas/busy

>>107011217
No he just got greedy, got more paying sponsors and makes less days for more money. What a little bitch

>>107011167
i like that better

>No more Christmas day shit-posting about AoC
It's so over.

>>107011596
You can shit post about the big booby latinx version.

>>107011596
>goofy JS-snow
>all I want for chrismas is you
>no aoc brooteforce to wait for to finish

we'll keep the general going until the 25th though, right?
we can all just pretend there's new puzzles after the 12th still, right?

>>107011072
i dont have a family, eric robbed me of the chance to have a family but making me do 25 puzzles every year. and now hes abandoning me??? he cant get away with it

>>107011072
>negros
>family

kek

/aocg/ memes ranked by retardedness:
1. unwashed ass
2. showtime cancer music
3. FUCK
4. the dog fucker namefag
5. retards not being able to read and then blaming eric
6. retards coming into the threads and LARPing as non-neets who are too busy getting paid 100 bucks / hour to waste their time doing AoC
7. retards claiming that you aren't filtered if you've spent more than 1 hour on a problem or if you've looked at other solutions
8. code screenshots with tranime background
9. big boys that change the rules of the problem
10. code screenshots made with carbon without disabling window controls
11. calendar
12. cniles posting their shit code with fixed sized arrays, integer overflows, etc.
13. quirky solutions (e.g. excel)

>I have a puzzle idea! Can I send it to you? >Please don't. Because of legal issues like copyright and attribution, I don't accept puzzle ideas, and I won't even read your email if it looks like one in case I use parts of it by accident.
Is it so difficult to make a form with a terms & conditions section where users must agree to surrender all ownership when submitting the idea? Or the answer simply that Eric is too self-righteous to accept that other people might have better ideas than he.

>>107013781
some goober is going to post a puzzle ripped from a game made by some very easily rustled dev like ps and pass it off as their own gift to eric

>>107014383
ok, so?

>>107014406
therein lies the problem with your proposal

i vibecode it

>>107014406
so they'd get mad

>>107014418
what problem though?

>Please don't use AI / LLMs (like GPT) to automatically solve a day's puzzles until that day's global leaderboards are full. By "automatically", I mean using AI to do most or all of the puzzle solving, like handing the puzzle text directly to an LLM.

what stops me

>>107014467
the absence of a global leaderboard

>>107014467
Dignity and self respect for yourself. Also global leaderboard is dead so you won't even get clout for your retardation.

>>107014467
The fact that there's no global leaderboard anymore

>>107014483
>>107014480

why did eric get so mad at ai?

Honestly I'm glad for this shit ass puzzle crap.
Forcing me to actually use bfs, dfs, dijkstra and other dp shit really made me a better programmer. Nowadays I just try and do visualizations of the puzzles because it's the only area I really need practice in. Last year was mid, but it still had bangers like the robot arm keypad one.

>>107014519
>bangers
fuck off nocoder zoomer tard

>>107014529
I got all 50 stars anon...

>>107014534
By using Ai maybe

>>107014538
Nope. Unless you know good AIs for rust.

>>107014466
re-read your original post

>>107014614
>dumb retard thinks that everyone replying to him is the same person
anyways, you can't copyright ideas. dumb retard.

>>107014636
in that case you are arguing something else than the original poster

>>107014656
I don't care about the original poster. The "problem" you mentioned does not exist.
dumb retard

>>107014668
the premise here is that eric has decided his morals prevent him from using ideas without attribution and that he does not want to deal with the hassle of attribution
this is completely separate from whether it is legal or not wherever eric lives

these should not be tricky inferences to make

>no leaderboard
What's even the point

>>107014694
>t. retard whose highest rank was >1000

>>107014699
it is SOVL to see the completions drop off like a rock on hard days you struggled on to see that you were not alone

>>107014730
what the fuck is "sovl"? dumb retard.

>>107014699
I got global points on at least one day most years

>>107014756
lvrk more and get twoned

Do you think Eric will backtrack next year after engagement drops off with no global leaderboard and only half the content?

>>107014793
yes

>>107014781
>getting filtered by the first day
holy shit. stop writing like a retard btw, dumb retard.

>>107014798
bet you hate showtime and fuck too

>>107014820
of course, see >>107013566

>>107014832
the post is filtered so it must have said something to trip one or more of my spamfilters

>>107014858
>snowflake gets triggered by words
pathetic

>>107010946 (OP)
woops! lets fix up that calendar there OP

>>107014911
That's still too many. Can we just do a single week next year? Or a one day event with multiple puzzles?

I wonder if he will keep it so that the last day's part 2 is just "click here if you've done all the puzzles", now it's not falling on Christmas day.

>>107016071
>the last day requires using the solutions for all the previous days

Intcode was pretty sovl, but also really easy. Why did people seethe about it so much? Even the esolang wiki page describes it as a language to annoy users. Was really easy to impl imo.

>>107016177
>sovl

>>107011167
maybe it will be interesting this time; most puzzles were bad and more about parsing.

>>107016447
I still think that if you use regex you did not really solve it

>>107011207
what torch there is to pass? it's a bunch of leetcode problems with some lore about elves and a leaderboard, you can replicate that yourself

Sure was fun getting controller reading purely in assembly working.

>>107011608
please tell me more about this big bobby latinx

>>107011207
>>107016733
No one writes problems as sovlful as Eric
It wouldn't be the same

eric gets:
>13 less puzzles to create each year
you get:
>every puzzle builds on the previous one, like intcode for the whole event

is it worth it?

>>107012149
He's only half abandoning you. Spend half time with your family.

>>107013566
>13. quirky solutions (e.g. excel)
Quirky solutions are the third best reason for paying any attention to AOC. Sorry you're dead inside.

>>107016447
what parsing?

2016 was a pretty good year, worth checking out if you missed it.

>>107019343
Only if it's so difficult that people have meltdowns.

>>107020439
This is 5D chess to BTFO the "I stopped after 2 weeks because the holidays are so busy with family and kids you know :) I totally could have finished I just didn't have time around Christmas" brainlets

>>107020512
>AOC used to be fun, but now that the puzzles have increased in difficulty I will not dedicate time away from my other obligations to solve puzzles, which I'm not being paid for.

>>107019343
>>107020439
i think we all know this isnt going to happen, eric has completely given up and is now just trying to figure out how little effort he can put in while still making bank off sponsorships every year

>>107020564
Redditors will double their donations too.

now i think about it, hasnt it just been going downhill ever since redditors shat on the intcode year? maybe they killed erics spirit

>>107020636
That's exactly what happened. He spent a massive amount of time on it, and redditors were just complaining to him that it was too hard, or that they felt they couldn't continue because they were so far behind, etc.

Interesting. This means I can just take the second week of december off and sperg out on all the fun days and also keep up with the /a/ streams.

>>107020636
I literally just did intcode. What the fuck was so hard about it? I have full test coverage and the whole interpreter is like 250 LoC.

>>107021328
People had bugs that became apparent in the next intcode day.

lol, you can see which days were intcode by how hard it filtered the dumb retards

>>107019428
The guy who was using that on a traffic light control box only posted a couple of days. Wish he would have done the entire AoC that year but it sounded like a real pain to upload and debug the code.

only 853 hours and 42 minutes until advent of code!

>no global leaderboard thanks to AI
>only 12 days because FAANGjeets turned this shit into leetcode striver shit
>can't even post about it on /g/ without having to do this bullshit anti-bot test or whatever the fuck this is
I'm not mad AT Eric but I'm still fucking mad.

Time to finish previous editions. Currently at 311 stars.
I might get to 400 come december, and then I'll find help in /aocg/ threads.

>>107021498
>That day 16 body count.
It rivals OP’s mom, and wasn’t even IntCode.

>>107021722
Truly a marvel that these things survive in an “urban” environment. If the doctors and engineers knew they contained such neat equipment it wouldn’t last a second.

>>107010946 (OP)
where is the 2024 version?

>>107013566
non coder rant

>>107014544
There is none because they/them delete themselves.

>>107017326
>No one writes problems as sovlful as Eric
>It wouldn't be the same
oh you have no idea

>>107025681
>sovl
stop writing like a dumb retard

>code works for sample dataset
>doesn't work for the input dataset
WHY DON'T YOU ADD ALL NUANCES AND GOTCHAS TO THE SAMPLE YOU SHITTER
this shit makes me want to quit aoc every year

>>107025561
>rust calender

>>107025732
filtered

>>107025734
so?

>>107025732
Which day?

>>107026088
this for example for a lesser extent: https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/6
part 2:
in the sample the guard touches the newly created wall only once
so in my initial solution I did not make my newly created wall permanent, I only simulated it by diverting the guard to the next direction
but it turned out there are scenarios where the guard bumps into the newly created wall multiple times, coming from different directions, to complete a loop
so what I had to do is I had to actually put a # on the map and run the simulation from the start again
it's just a little thing that tripped me up, but would have been nice to include it in the sample

>>107014519
robot keypad was fun

>>107014534
I hope to god that you meant to write all 500 stars you no-coder

>>107014538
>>107014544
>inb4 openAI makes an official video and/or github repo for each solution for this year, for advertisement

>>107025762
Do you miss having a penis?

>>107010946 (OP)
can i play?
>if you want to play you have to sign up and log in.
can i just see the test case data?
>no
fuck
off

>>107026451
filtered

>>107026451
>can i just see the test case data?
Yes.

>>107026451
>He can’t create a throwaway.

>>107026298
The "fuck you Eric!" moments are the true spirit of Christmas. Especially when you get passed them and watch everyone else struggle in the thread.

>>107026423
You never answered the question. Do you miss having a penis?

>>107026451
cope excuse

>>107026451
>he can't do a simple github search

my new favourite aocg meme is the anon who gets bent out of shape over sovl

>>107025732
Maybe I'm just psychotic but I usually just "know"
>>107026298
I kek because I knew double rotation had to be possible so I never had this issue.

>>107010946 (OP)
this year will be a transition period for us to create advent of /g/. (Ill make the logo)

I'm sort of bummed. But I'm also kind of relieved. I have junk like shoelace and topo sort memorized now, but I still struggle all day on some of these. Eric is the biggest brain in town.

>>107026298
>I did not make my newly created wall permanent, I only simulated it by diverting the guard to the next direction
Surely the guard would have noticed the change in the timeline if a wall he bumped into wasn't there when he revisited that space.

what will the calendar ascii art look like this year? will it also only be 12 lines tall?

>>107028966
We can make AI write the puzzles. AI taketh, and AI shall giveth.

less aoc means more time to go watch the christmas stream on /a/

>>107025732
>code works for sample dataset
>code works for the input dataset
>code shits itself for the Big Boy
Yeah, I'm not the best coder around but usually with some time I can get whatever Big O fuckery I had going on fixed.

>>107030424
>comparison sort in O(nlogn) is bad

2016 days 11 (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators) and 22 (Grid Computing) are fun problems.

>>107030424
In practice nlogn is just as good as n because logn is always <100
If you have a working logn solution just throw more compute at it

>>107030398
>christmas stream on /a/
gib links
there's always like a dozen that they keep changing the links and passwords
every year I find one or two and then miss it by a day
fucking sekrit club bullshit

>>107030424
>O(n2) is bad... because it just is, ok?!?!?
In reality O(n!^(n!)) is neither good nor bad. The only thing that matters is your execution time using real data, not how it theoretically grows using theoretical data.

>>107030674
not to mention n^2 could be faster than O(1) for small inputs due to overhead of O(1)

>>107030800
It is trivially easy to create a O(1) algo that is slower than an O(n!) algo for quite high inputs

Free book covering algorithms and basic mathematics you need for competitive programming. Looks mathlet friendly.

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf

>>107032031
just skimmed it, it's shit

>>107032031
this is better: https://cp-algorithms.com/

>>107032049
Not retard friendly enough?

>>107032067
There’s so much there that a beginner wouldn’t know where to… begin. If you’re doing Russian programming contests, it’s probably great. The resource I posted is for anons who fall apart if these see “chinese remainder theorem”.

>>107032067
>no pdf

>>107032350
pdf isn't responsive

ok, everyone said le intcode was fun, but day 17 part 2 was pure ass.
>find all valid traversals based on convenient construction
>ok, now find 3 repetitive substrings in these traversals
>500loc later
ffs

>>107034032
filtered

>>107034032
>500 loc
I hope for your sake that you are writing in assembler. My solution is in C++, is 170 loc and that includes lots of empty lines and lines and Newline style for all curly fries

>>107034290
you're literally full of shit unless you're using magical algorithms library.

>>107034423
>not import-ing solution
You have no one to blame but yourself.

>>107034032
I'm pretty sure I originally solved that one by hand

>>107034423
I'm literally not and I'm not using any library except the standard lib in C++

Daily reminder: If you took more than 25 milliseconds to complete year 2017, you are filtered and have failed to complete the challenge. Eric was very clear about this.

>When your eyes can focus again, everything seems a lot more pixelated than before. She must have sent you inside the computer! You check the system clock: 25 milliseconds until midnight. With that much time, you should be able to collect all fifty stars by December 25th.

>>107036226
You're working in compressed time.

>>107036226
But it takes longer than that to even start the Python interpreter

>>107036579
Cope. Also the restrictions are somewhat tighter, you'll notice that on some days they have an explicit 1ms limit. 25 ms in total, and some days cannot exceed 1ms.
>>107036598
Into the trash it goes. Your python solutions may be wonderful, but if they cannot even get going before 25ms then Christmas is ruined.

>>107036938
>Apparently, you only get one millisecond to solve the captcha: too fast for a normal human, but it feels like hours to you.
We are in compressed time.

>>107036993
Compressed time passes really, really, fucking quick. That's why it's compressed.
>Look at my hydraulic press! With it I can compress everything!
>Cool, that means that it gets very big and feel very long, right?
I can buy that it takes hours for you to process what takes a ms for another

>>107036993
It's almost as if the puzzle takes place in the machine in front of you.

What language are we using boys?

>>107038809
Odin though I'll probably give up after a couple of days and go back to C#.

>>107038809
Mathematica

>>107036226
>>107036938
taking hours to write the code is fine, due to the lore we are inside of the computer and one millisecond "feels like hours to you".
if the execution time of your program takes more than 1ms though you were filtered, I agree.

>>107040294
If you're sticking to the theme that much then spending hours writing the code means you've wasted the time you had to run your program. The longer you spend writing the program, the faster it has to run.

>>107041262
true
for every 24 hours you experience inside the computer, the outside world experiences 1 millisecond
this is about a 86,400,000x time dilation
therefore to not be filtered and adhere to the lore, for the year of 2017, you must start a 24 hour timer upon opening the problem
after writing your code, the quantity of time it takes your program from start to finish has to be multiplied by 86,400,000 and then subtracted from your timer
if the timer runs out of time before you get both stars for that day/millisecond then you were filtered

>>107038809
esoteric memelang until I get filtered (day 3) and go back to python

>>107041317
>dilation
Keep your RUST propaganda out of this thread

>>107041806
too late, see >>107025561 and >>107025762

> Your contributions support things like:
> - My sushi addiction

>>107038809
fortran

>>107014493
Eric didn't accept btc donations because of the hecking environment of course he sneeds over ai

>sift through 1000s of lines of output
>finally find the bug in my code
I both hate it, but love it when I can figure it out.

>>107044690
>Eric didn't accept btc donations
He did previously accept crypto, but encouraged other methods instead.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201201054351/https://adventofcode.com/2020/support

>>107029730
12 lines wide vertical benis :DDDDDDDDD

>>107025665
fantastic calendar btw, props to whoever made it

>>107044797
I think the joy of problem solving is emerging from a state of increasing belief that you may indeed be the most retarded person on the planet, all the way to feeling euphoric (in this moment) after finding the solution.

>>107045527
The threads last year were generally quite good. Minimal drama, no tripfags/namefags, draw anon, no real fighting over the calender. I hope the shorter run doesn't impact them this year, as in my eyes the threads were always better in the latter half once things had quietened down and all the codelets were filtered.

>>107045805
Benefit of this year, filtering will happen faster.
Downside, not quite as many days after.

The everybody.codes competition starts in November, we should have a thread for that one.

>>107046382
i tried some of the 2024 ones, the puzzles suck ass

>>107046382
I've been working my way through 2024, although given only a few thousand started it and not even 200 people have managed to finish it so far I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't enough activity to sustain a thread.

>>107046522
I did the first two sets, seem decent enough. Part of the tradition is to complain about the puzzle anyways.

>>107046382
>Additionally, your publicly visible username, profile link, and avatar from the connected platform are stored
Jesus fucking christ, so do I literally have to make a leddit alt account to participate anonymously?

>>107046824
No. Those are stored but you choose what is displayed.

>>107046824
You can set your displayed name once you've logged in

>>107046890
>>107046891
I can see adventofcode does this too. This is insecure as fuck. Every site will get its data leaked eventually.

>>107046824
its github oauth asks for your email as well completely unnecessarily, and i didnt see any way on the site to delete your account / clear your personal data

>>107046911
>This is insecure as fuck.
Like it says, those are publicly visible on those services anyway.

>>107046382
If you make the thread(s), I'll give it consideration.

>>107046824
I just use a completely different persona for these things. That way no one knows I'm Elon Musk.

>>107046382
>>107046669
I will participate if there's a thread. That's half the fun of these coding competitions anyways.

Everybody.codes has a different start time than we’re used to for AOC. Not great for the US West coast unless you’re NEET.

>>107046824
He decided to use hashed email as an account ID, that way you can use multiple OAuths to log in to the same account. If that's really what he did, could that be a vulnerability if any of those services don't require email validation, or at least let you oauth with your email in an unvalidated state? Someone could make an account on a service you don't have with your email and take over your account.

>>107049547
sorry meant to reply to >>107046930

>>107049547
oh, and read closer and saw that idea of email matching he abandoned. seems kinda dumb to only use it to set your account name.

>>107049215
>6:00 pm
>return home from programming work to do more programming work
Somehow I hate this more than the midnight start time. Bet that would just feel like an extended work day during the holidays.

>>107049215
>8am
I'm gonna get up, shit, and be ready to code.

>>107025362
They're made to look as plain as possible and blend into the background. It helps that the contents would be difficult to fence but of course pavement apes sometimes destroy things just for fun.

>>107049547
i dont care what bs reasons he comes up with for why he "needs" your email, it completely defeats the purpose of having some oauth / 3rd party login option

>>107011167
Very nice, 12 days of Christmas is a banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVSgyVz85MU

I hope this year there's a puzzle that's more than 2 parts with absolutely no indication until you've already solved the first two parts
because seeing the posts in the thread at the revelation would be a riot

ok, so, will the last day have two parts at least?

>>107055013
The last day will have 14 parts.

One anon said he'd run a /g/ AoC, I sent a problem in and never heard back. Guess he got bored and dropped it.

>>107011072
I like telling my family about AoC

>>107055299
Now it's up to you.

>>107055299
>>107056936
Who'll make the logo?