advent-of-code

[weary topaz]

though I have noticed the colors are alternating...

still

[minor cave]

lol I don't think the color of the embed makes too big of a difference in a FAQ channel like that. It's just alternating red and green

[weary topaz]

idk, without reading too much into it, you get the impression that what the title describes is allowed

and like... people typically don't read and such

[minor cave]

I expect people to read the message and not infer the message based on the embed side color considering the context of the rest of the channel :)

[slender ravine]

I bet day3 input would still be reading line where the order of line doesn't matter 🤔

[signal kestrel]

yess christmas theme! pretty cool

[weary topaz]

that's a tall ask, lol

[minor cave]

it's really not

[signal kestrel]

yea

[slender ravine]

I just realised I cannot use the argument that they have to read the question so they would read 🥴

Gn and see y'all in 6h (I think

[minor cave]

&aoc c

[shut trellis]

Day 3 starts <t:1733202000:R>.

[slender ravine]

Yep, 6h

Hopefully 2 alarm and 1 countdown could definitely wake me up

[marsh current]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied timeout to @rustic cobalt until <t:1733180849:f> (10 minutes) (reason: duplicates spam - sent 4 duplicate messages).

The <@&831776746206265384> have been alerted for review.

[strange zinc]

lol

[slender ravine]

Like why 🥴

[cyan sleet]

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."

[slender ravine]

Did we just have an example 🥴

[minor cave]

they're gonna keep that one

[weary topaz]

why the double quoting?

[slender ravine]

>>> max(Human.attribute.stupidity.range)
math.inf

🥴

[cyan sleet]

pray I don't go further

[slender ravine]

Possibly couldn't underestimate more with this now

[cyan sleet]

!e

stupidity = float('nan')
if not stupidity <= float('inf'):
  print('stupidity is not smaller than infinity :O') 

[marsh current]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

stupidity is not smaller than infinity :O

[rustic cobalt]

sorry about that, a cat decided to stand on my enter key..and a bunch of other keys

[slender ravine]

Precisely all comparisons give False except !=

[jovial jay]

day 2 seem a little tricky. sample works with my code, but not sure what's up

the part 2

[empty gulch]

Is there any people active here?

[strange zinc]

maybe

[low condor]

yes lots of people are here chatting

[slender ravine]

If you send this in #aoc-solution-hints I might give some clue about what mind be the issue from my friend

[slender ravine]

No, I am inactive, certainly and definitely

[cyan sleet]

very consistent cat

[empty gulch]

Oh, I-
WHY THERE IS ELSA PROZNE
(no hate)

[slender ravine]

?

[low condor]

prozne?

[cyan sleet]

are you trying to be too clever?

[slender ravine]

Tbf, backslash and enter is right next to each other so if the keyboard accepts constant multi input, it might happen

[jovial jay]

well, right now, i'm using a for loop and rule set to do this. and I went with using dynamic array to figure out part 1 and 2 at the same time.

my answer is correct for part 1. part 2, dunno what's up

[slender ravine]

Maybe ||You removed item by element value instead of element index?||

[slender ravine]

Also don't forget the spoiler

[strange zinc]

or maybe ||not copying the array when removing elements?||

[cyan sleet]

granted, as phrased it's not much of a spoiler

[slender ravine]

Whatever, need sleep now lul

[jovial jay]

so far, aoc is fun

[hollow wharf]

yup

any one alive

someone

[jovial jay]

bold of you to assume any of us are alive. you are now in the world of ghosts.

[hollow wharf]

do you konww hindi

or are you indian

@jovial jay

[jovial jay]

no to either. not relevant either.

[tepid cairn]

ughhh

i want to do aoc, but there's too much schoolwork this week 😭

[cyan sleet]

you seem to have time for smalltalk

[distant igloo]

Some of the puzzles might take longer than the three seconds it takes to type that

[cyan sleet]

you missed the joke 😔

#aoc-announcements message

[tepid cairn]

killing some time before I start the grind for tonight 😔

[jovial jay]

Day 1 is so easy a caveman can do it

[magic oxide]

i reckon you could do day 1 and 2 in python in like less than 20 minutes

[tepid cairn]

yeah probably

well whatever, I'll catch up over the weekend

im free a total of like, three hours on saturday 😭

[ivory marsh]

It took me 15 mins to do day 2 in rust, massive despair that writing rust takes me twice as long as python

[hollow wharf]

I feel like that is the same with everyone who knows both rust and python. It takes me 5x longer to write stuff in rust vs python.

[ivory marsh]

It’s very nice when I want to be confident my app won’t suddenly crash, but also why my stuff no type check :(

[dusk crow]

it took me 4 hours to do it in python, because how many errors i had

[ivory marsh]

That’s something that gets better with practice. Especially these early days can usually be solved with the same couple patterns

[dusk crow]

day 3 is in 20 minutes

[ivory marsh]

That’s the attitude

[paper folio]

Yeah took me a while to solve day2, might as well wait for day3 release

[dusk crow]

really close to the day 3 release

[earnest forge]

Good luck with today's puzzle everyone

[dusk crow]

ive got vs code prepared

[ivory marsh]

I’m going to have to use online python on my phone ;-;

[dusk crow]

good luck with that

[paper folio]

LOL I read that as food and was very very concerned

[ivory marsh]

It was before I edited it, since I’m eating rn

[paper folio]

lol

[dusk crow]

how do people have 589 stars??

[distant igloo]

Is the top person on the leaderboard from day one still the GPT cheater that committed their cheating code to Github?

[minor cave]

do you mean stars or a score?

[dusk crow]

ooh score

still how do they have that much score

[minor cave]

For the global leaderboard or private ones?

[dusk crow]

on pythons one

[minor cave]

You get points based on how fast you finish. If you finish first, you get X amount of points, where X is the number of people on the leaderboard. If you finish second, you get X-1 amount of points, etc

[dusk crow]

ooh

[shut trellis]

<@&518565788744024082> Good morning! Day 3 is ready to be attempted. View it online now at https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/3. Good luck!

[dusk crow]

yay todays one is released

this one is confusing /:

[frosty zenith]

how do i remove the aoc role from myself

[hollow wharf]

Is 1am rn 😭

[minor cave]

In #roles, you can deselect it

[distant igloo]

https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/851270062434156586

[hollow wharf]

This ping just wake me

[shrewd sentinel]

isnt 3 just regex

[distant igloo]

You're wild for not having do not disturb mode on your phone

[compact wasp]

24/12

yippee

[devout tusk]

68/27!

[minor cave]

#1313370009375998015

[marble talon]

welp i am so cooked

[stable shale]

152/228, so close

Oh well

[compact wasp]

damn tessa really placed 10888869450418352160768000000 for pt2

skill issue

[hollow wharf]

Got it. Yay

That was my first ever aoc.

[compact wasp]

w

[devout tusk]

this is the best rank i've ever gotten. spare me 😭

[slender ravine]

Done ||easy with regex||

[late frigate]

ok wow i was not that good at regex

[hollow wharf]

Um... Just noticed that there is a part 2.

[compact wasp]

😭

i feel that lol

[void ocean]

going crazy trying to find what's wrong with mine for part 2

[devout tusk]

me when i wake up and realize this isn't day 25 💀

[void ocean]

bruh

nvm i forgot we have a dedicated channel for this

[hollow wharf]

Well, my part 1 solution had an eval so I can only imagine what madness I will come up with for part 2

[compact wasp]

[mellow girder]

aoc day 3 was easy

i spent an hour for yesterday's one

[compact wasp]

what's your rank

[mellow girder]

and 8 minutes for today

[compact wasp]

oh

[mellow girder]

global or priva

[compact wasp]

global

[mellow girder]

im at school lmao

[compact wasp]

lol

rip

[mellow girder]

its rly bad bc i had to go home yesterady

im doing it in class becacuse aoc > learning

[compact wasp]

dude yesterday was so bad

bc the thing wouldn't load

😭

[topaz coyote]

Is the advent of code server off by 5 minutes or is it my computer?

[mellow girder]

11th on pydis

[mellow girder]

idk

[hollow wharf]

yo when aoc 3 come out?

[mellow girder]

wow

what did you do

i just ||used regex||

[compact wasp]

same

[mellow girder]

fair

[hollow wharf]

and it looks like a regex

[mellow girder]

i probably woulda gotten 2 minutes for the first one

if

i came in earlier

but

school

[modern terrace]

ooo

[compact wasp]

i did it in ruby though since i feel it's a bit more ergonomic than python

[mellow girder]

haii

[dusk crow]

yay im 18th on the leaderboard

[compact wasp]

sheesh

[mellow girder]

imagine learning at school when you could do aoc smh my head

[modern terrace]

hiii!!

[mellow girder]

private or public

[mellow girder]

:3

[dusk crow]

private leaderboard

[modern terrace]

:3

[topaz coyote]

I used an function made last week called unformat that compiles a format string into a namedtuple maker. because I didn't have access to a regex manual when I needed one.

[compact wasp]

found jimmy's real name

[dusk crow]

most people on the public used chatgpt

[mellow girder]

private not globa

hol up is jimmy xelf

jimmy = xelf confirmed

[dusk crow]

apprently chatgpt slowed down whenaoc day 3 released

[compact wasp]

nah they have multiple boards

[compact wasp]

lmfao

[mellow girder]

lmfao

[devout tusk]

pretty similar... there is nothing but worse ranking from here on for me lmfao

[somber trench]

For day 3, if a digit Is more than 3 long then don't accept it right?

[mellow girder]

using chatgpt is

skill issu

[mellow girder]

yeh

[mellow girder]

okay chat

what are these timezones

[compact wasp]

pacific

[mellow girder]

im in class when aoc comes out 😭

[gilded osprey]

It’s midnight not good morning sir

[devout tusk]

timezone? where did that come up in the ss

[mellow girder]

ss?

[devout tusk]

screenshot

[mellow girder]

no but like

aoc comes out at different timrs for everyeon

so

you can be in class when it comes out (like me)

or aslep

or smth

[devout tusk]

comes up at 10:30 am for me. I'm in UTC+5.5

[magic oxide]

i am not having fun trying to run elm

[slender ravine]

Oh what? I didn't even notice and check that
But well, it work :)

[somber trench]

For day 3, should mul only be accepted or can Mul/mUl etc be accepted too?

[frosty zenith]

thanks

[slender ravine]

They never said accept other casing so assuming no

[somber trench]

Alr cool

[topaz coyote]

utc -5 here

[somber trench]

Also, were able to solve these literally any way other than Ai right?

[topaz coyote]

Sometimes I'm up at midnight and do them, sometimes I play before breakfast.

[slender ravine]

I mean, most people here won't solve it with AI

[topaz coyote]

I get few enough fun puzzles in my life, why would I share with a bot who won't enjoy them?

[mellow girder]

so you get a bigger number compared to everyone else

[somber trench]

My solution is gonna be scuffed af

[twin widget]

oh

i think i shoujld use #aoc-solution-hints

[tender swallow]

@twin widget please delete your message, you're going to spoil it for people

[twin widget]

yess i just noticed it

[somber trench]

Dang, this day is confusing

[peak willow]

oh ffs 🙄 people are so ridiculous

[twin widget]

did you already did part 1 ?

[somber trench]

Nope

I'm on that one rn

[twin widget]

do you know about regular expressions?

[somber trench]

Regular expressions?

[twin widget]

yeah re

[twin widget]

everyone do that with re it's kinda hard to learn it but it's worth it

[somber trench]

I'm using splits lmao

[twin widget]

split("mul")

?

[somber trench]

Yea

[compact wasp]

dang a lot happened when i was gone

[tender swallow]

@twin widget @somber trench discussion of solutions and techniques goes in the relevant #1047673173447020564 thread, or in #aoc-solution-hints if spoiler-tagged

[compact wasp]

your name's green now

[twin widget]

aight man sorry

[somber trench]

My bad g, sorry

[twin widget]

stickie had the green name since i joined here

hahaha

[twin widget]

btw i just posted something could you help me ?

[tender swallow]

sure

[magic oxide]

my name is green solely because i asked for it to be green

doesn't mean much

thought it'd have time to help out, and then uni came in

[slate berry]

Can anyone guide me how to learn regex for CPP and python

[stiff prism]

bharadwaj are you still on valorant

[magic oxide]

i still haven't even started coding in elm yet

just trying to run hello world

[tender swallow]

never was

[compact wasp]

real

bro time passes by so quickly

2 yrs ago i was a high school patzer

now i'm in grad school 💀

undergrad goes by fast

[stiff prism]

matrix

[modern terrace]

challenge language is functional

scary

[magic oxide]

ok for anyone else doing roulette

it's probably easiest to just write an elm file that exposes a String, and then in the repl import your module and look at the string

i kinda don't wanna deal with the whole "make an html file etc" so that's how i'm doing it

[modern terrace]

i'm doing elm in the official website's TIO

[forest apex]

W3Schools got me far enough in Python.

[sullen ruin]

You know that it's one of the worst sites to lear anything, right??

[forest apex]

Can be. But their regex stuff was great for a problem like this.

[slate berry]

Ohh okay I will try then

I just wanna get knowledge of regex

[modern terrace]

nvm

[quasi forge]

Who pong me :(

[magic oxide]

wtf

[magic oxide]

wtf elm https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773

[low condor]

I have literally never heard of Elm

Another lang I will ignore

[floral hare]

also is it just me or the number of people participating has drastically decreased

[modern terrace]

public execution

[tender swallow]

it's normal for participation to decrease each day
https://adventofcode.com/2023/stats
https://adventofcode.com/2024/stats

[slender ravine]

You mean compare to last 2 day or?

[icy thunder]

I didn't know about it last year so participating this year

[slender ravine]

Yes, that's quite normal tbf

Cuz the question is getting harder and not everyone have the extra time to solve it or even know how to

And more could just:
Oh, AOC start now? Let me try it
And forget about it the next day

[magic oxide]

that was actually my use case tbf

so that actually helped

[scenic kernel]

guys why does this give me 1 even though 4-4 = 0

which is not in 1 <x<3 or -1>x>-3

[modern terrace]

if all() receives an empty iterable, it returns True

also go to #aoc-solution-hints and spoiler the code

[scenic kernel]

how would my input have empty iterables?

[modern terrace]

!e ```py
numbers = """
4 4
"""

print(numbers.splitlines())

[marsh current]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

['', '4 4']

[scenic kernel]

ok ty its coz of the newline

[floral hare]

oh yeah, it is

[floral hare]

oh nice

I always wanted to join in, but didn't find the time to last year

[icy thunder]

But now you've found time to do so!

[floral hare]

yeah

Also, is the Puzzle Input different for everyone?

[torn sapphire]

yeah, everyone gets their own puzzle input (and so everyone has a different answer)

[grand perch]

how do i search for anything with mul(xxx,xxx) using the re module?

[limpid grail]

:D

[grand perch]

ik

thats what i need it for

my main problem is that i want to search for the ( )

I tried this: print(re.findall("mul([0-9],[0-9])", RawData))

but it only searches for one digit numbers and the ( ) seem to confuse it

[shrewd matrix]

add backslash)

[grand perch]

it still doesnt find anything

how can i search for more than one digit?

[grand perch]

oh

so its this easy

i read about the + but didn't know how it worked

like if it alone was enough

i also thought i did something wrong when i added the \ on my own as it didn't find anything

[shrewd matrix]

well do you know how it works now

[grand perch]

thank you

[cyan sleet]

(there usually are a few inputs that are manually checked, not everyone gets a unique one)

[grand perch]

Is it possible to save the location of the m from mul(x,x) using the re module and save all the occurences of mul(x,x) in a list of dictionaries?

like [{mul(15,76), 87}, {mul(86,755), 123}, {mul(966,66), 165}, {mul(965,706), 198}]

[ivory venture]

What happened last year on day 21 👀

[torn sapphire]

Match objects do store the indices where their match starts & ends in the given string

!d re.Match.start

[atomic cairn]

Wasnt that the super hard gnome problem?

[torn sapphire]

cmon python bot, be faster 😠
https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.Match.start

[ivory venture]

I don't know, I didn't do much of last year

[atomic cairn]

Ah

From what i remember day 21 was quite difficult

[ivory venture]

lol what did you do

oh I didn't do last year at all lol

[torn sapphire]

i think i broke !d (it also looks stuck in #mod-spam)

[modern terrace]

python bot is still typing..

[modern terrace]

hidden link!! >:o

[torn sapphire]

mb, that link should be to the #secret-python4-beta-test channel, idk if you can see that one tho

[icy thunder]

Whoa wowsers!

That's cool actually

[modern terrace]

(if you find someone with the same input, you're immediately fated together /j)

[marsh current]

re.Match.start

Match.start([group])``````py

Match.end([group])```
Return the indices of the start and end of the substring matched by *group*; *group* defaults to zero (meaning the whole matched substring). Return `-1` if *group* exists but did not contribute to the match. For a match object *m*, and a group *g* that did contribute to the match, the substring matched by group *g* (equivalent to `m.group(g)`) is

```py
m.string[m.start(g):m.end(g)]
```  Note that `m.start(group)` will equal `m.end(group)` if *group* matched a null string. For example, after `m = re.search('b(c?)', 'cba')`, `m.start(0)` is 1, `m.end(0)` is 2, `m.start(1)` and `m.end(1)` are both 2, and `m.start(2)` raises an [`IndexError`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#IndexError) exception.

An example that will remove *remove\_this* from email addresses:

[hollow wharf]

woopwoop

[modern terrace]

it's there

the long-awaited invocation of the ancients has been dutifully answered

[slender ravine]

🤣

[mental raven]

Where is the golden star of day 3? It should be there right?

[slender ravine]

Oh no, I just noticed, ye, there are no star :(

[limpid grail]

wdym?

you mean in the ascii diagram?

[mental raven]

Yes.

[limpid grail]

hmm

[modern terrace]

AoC 2022 has no star too anyway

[leaden tartan]

Am I crazy or was day 3 like 1000% easier than day 2

[mental raven]

Yes. Got curious because we have stars for day 1 & 2 but not for 3. Wondering what might be the reason. Something related to this year's puzzle plot?

[modern terrace]

probably..?

[ripe meteor]

yea idk, day 2 was pretty comfy

[leaden tartan]

I had so much trouble with pt 2 of day 2 yesterday, this was so nice and easy!

[ripe meteor]

premature optimizations?

first solve should always be brute force

[leaden tartan]

When you say brute force do you mean just manually figuring out the answer?

[ripe meteor]

no i mean the simplest way imaginable, compute all the possible arrays and check them one by one

also you should start the puzzle with looking at the input

like, with your eyes

lol

flashbacks to last year

[leaden tartan]

Gotcha. I thought iwas doing that tbh. I was printing out each line along with whether my script thought it was "safe" or not but I just COULD NOT get it to reliably give me what I expected. Eventually I did by ||trying to remove each item from each list|| but it took me an embarrasingly long time

[torn sapphire]

for day 2 part 2, ||brute forcing seemed immediately fine, since my input seemed to at most contain 8 numbers per line, meaning a worst-case bruteforce check was as costly as checking 8 lines, which isn't actually that much||

[low condor]

Day 2 Part 2 makes me think of that bell curve meme

[torn sapphire]

even just the very very first check of part 1 felt like that lol

||you either handroll some code to check if the numbers are sorted, or you let xs == sorted(xs) or xs == sorted(xs)[::-1] do its thing||

[low condor]

||https://imgflip.com/i/9cflr6||

[grand perch]

I just bruteforced it

[trail remnant]

Yeah same, ||day 2 part 2 had two edge cases that weren't covered by the example||

[ripe meteor]

it did?

[trail remnant]

Yes

[grand perch]

||Today I just used regular expressions||

[trail remnant]

||the start and end having differing directions to the rest of the values||

[modern terrace]

||that's not really an edge case to part 2..?||

[torn sapphire]

||this is where bruteforce comes in handy||

[trail remnant]

||yes it is, in fact the examples don't test it, I saw someone wrote their own test cases on reddit that check it||

[modern terrace]

it should be expected though

[ripe meteor]

do you have an example

[trail remnant]

||48 46 47 49 51 54 56 being safe||

[grand perch]

||my program just cycled through the values and removed each one once and then checked if the list of numbers held up to the criteria||

[modern terrace]

although ||it is an edge case.. since it's the start and end... okay i'm leaving bye||

[trail remnant]

||it's an edge case that's not covered by the examples, the examples pass without the case being covered||

[trail remnant]

||yeah that's the brute force way but I didn't want to do that||

[grand perch]

||How did you do it?||

[modern terrace]

||there's plenty cases that aren't covered by the examples though||

[trail remnant]

||I let it skip over one value without failing, but it means you have to handle the case where the first is the only wrong direction separately||

[modern terrace]

||i think it's more of an insufficient generalization from the context and the cases that were tested :p||

[trail remnant]

||no, that's the only case that isn't covered I think||

[ripe meteor]

im not sure this counts as an edge case

[torn sapphire]

the example can only really give so many test cases, hell sometimes the point is that trying something on example input doesn't work on proper input (though that's usually due to complexity slowing stuff down over anything else)

[trail remnant]

||it's literally an edge, being the first, the edge of the list||

[ripe meteor]

its only an edge case because of your solution lol

Now, the same rules apply as before, except if removing a single level from an unsafe report would make it safe, the report instead counts as safe.

[modern terrace]

||i'd define an edge case as one that the explanation doesn't cover, either by ambiguity or by complete miss||

[trail remnant]

||Huh? That's definitely not what an edge case is||

[ripe meteor]

An edge case is a situation that occurs outside of what's normal or expected, and can be a problem or situation that falls outside of normal procedures.

[grand perch]

||just do the edge case manually :D||

||very bad idea||

[modern terrace]

reading the instructions, it's not really an edge case

[trail remnant]

||Yeah that's what an edge case is, just something that has to be handled separately from the rest of the logic||

[ripe meteor]

but this is part of the logic

[trail remnant]

||no it isn't, it's a special case that has to be tested separate from other inputs, that's what an edge case is||

[grand perch]

||I think the bruteforcing would have covered that||

[torn sapphire]

this "edge case" you're on about can be handled using the same code as everything else

[trail remnant]

It depends on the solution

[modern terrace]

simply ||removing a single level|| normally for ||all of the levels|| works

[ripe meteor]

you handle it separately

[trail remnant]

Yes because my solution is not the brute force one lol

it's an edge case for me but not for others

becuase of my choice of solution

[modern terrace]

how does it become an edge case anyway..?

[ripe meteor]

i mean, if the simplest solution covers it i dont think you can call it an edge case

[trail remnant]

I explained that above when I explained my solution

Something can be an edge case for one solution but not for another one

[grand perch]

||bruteforce is the way to go||

[ripe meteor]

anyway, i was looking at the stats for day 2 yesterday and it was at 1/3 solves compared to day 1 💀

[trail remnant]

I wanted an O(n) solution

[modern terrace]

i'm curious as to what algorithm that becomes an edge case in

[grand perch]

it only takes like 0.5 seconds

[trail remnant]

Scroll up, I explained it

[trail remnant]

Well just out of principle I wanted O(n)

not O(n^2)

[grand perch]

I understand

If it takes less than 5 seconds I would just bruteforce it

[modern terrace]

i think i did the same thing when doing the language roulette challenge in smalltalk

i wouldn't really consider it an edge case

unless

[trail remnant]

Well I do but who even cares? Not sure why you guys are all grilling me tbh

[modern terrace]

hmm

[trail remnant]

Just chill out really

Anyway day 3 was easy

[ripe meteor]

theyre all easy

waiting for day 5

😭

[modern terrace]

day 5...

yay...

[trail remnant]

AoC in general?

[modern terrace]

the heavy train of advancement and smooth sailing derails somewhere along day 5

[trail remnant]

looks like day 5 is where I stopped in 2019

didn't do one since then

[ripe meteor]

someone needs to illustrate all our shenanigans in the north pole

over the years

[magic oxide]

idk i feel like day 15 is usually where things start to go downhill

[grand perch]

at what time do the new "tasks" release for you?

[modern terrace]

- stickie, professional programmer and math enthusiast

[modern terrace]

tasks?

[magic oxide]

i am hardly professional

[modern terrace]

if you're talking about AoC, each day releases at the same time

[magic oxide]

arguably you're more professional than i am

[grand perch]

yes

aoc

my english isnt very good

[grand perch]

in your timezone

[modern terrace]

1 pm

[modern terrace]

i guess i won't use that word

it's more like
knowledgeable in writing the code's algorithm i guess?

[grand perch]

thats actually not bad

for me its 6am

[magic oxide]

i just know a bit of dsa

[modern terrace]

if you know just a bit, then i know almost nothing :p

[magic oxide]

mine release at 4pm, but i'll soon be in 1pm territory

[trail remnant]

same

[native oak]

guys I just finished problem1 day1, considering the fact i am beginner beginner ahh I feel proud of myself 🥰

differences = 0
pos = 0

for l in left:
difference = l - right[pos]
differences += abs(difference)
pos += 1

(i felt so sigma coming up with this basic ahh logic)

[hollow wharf]

For spoilers => #1047673173447020564

or #aoc-solution-hints with spoiler tags

get out of my temporal lobe house

[floral hare]

who here used RegEx?

same

who here wrote, an entire parser?

[mortal bronze]

Yoo the day 3 is pretty high jump of complexity from the day 1 and day 2 😂

Never really got into world of parsing 😂 anyone can give me some good source that is perfect for noob like me 😂

[tender swallow]

Crafting Interpreters has a good intro to making a practical parser

[mortal bronze]

Well I made some interprets but it either use only one character or it has some proper syntax for each function like proper spacing or indication of end argument

[mortal bronze]

I think the thing I made is called emulators.....

Wait sorry for ping idk what happened there

[trail remnant]

Me

I think it was probably easier than using regex tho

[topaz coyote]

I made a general purpose parser last week, used it for this, it was great, given me some ideas for features to add.

[floral hare]

oh nice

[floral hare]

is it?

[trail remnant]

Yeah I think so

[floral hare]

ok

also

is the Puzzle Input different for everyone?

[trail remnant]

Yes

[floral hare]

oh cool

so, do they generate on spot or is it premade ones?

[low condor]

Pre-made because the site knows if you put in the answer for someone else’s input

[peak dock]

yeah theres some pre-made sets

[floral hare]

I wonder how many are there?

[floral hare]

oh cool

[tender swallow]

huh, what does it do in that case?

[trail remnant]

It tells you

[trail remnant]

It could still be generated in that case

[modern terrace]

generated, but not on the day of the puzzle :p

[trail remnant]

It could still be

I can't find out if it is though

[gritty gyro]

oh what happens if you enter the answer for someone else's input?

[gritty gyro]

what does it tell you

does it tell you it's wrong or that it's someone else's answer?

[modern terrace]

that you got the answer for someone else's input

(and tells you you're wrong)

[trail remnant]

The latter

[native plover]

is everyone here doing aoc in python?

[grand perch]

Yes

It's the Python Discord

[low condor]

Not necessarily. We have a roulette where people do every day in a different language (announced by pydis staff)

[grand perch]

Oh

I didn't know that

[low condor]

Also people choose to code in other langs as well just because

[minor cave]

We do like Python obviously, but for a lot of people AoC is a good opportunity to try other languages they've been meaning to

[charred flame]

this cooldown sucks bruh

[limpid grail]

me

[gritty gyro]

how Bharadwaj raju felt after reacting ✋ :

https://tenor.com/view/how-bro-felt-writing-that-how-bro-felt-writing-gif-2816109107878310570

[distant igloo]

You can write tests against the examples which allow you to test your answers many times without manually submitting the answer. That's what I do

Most of the time if the example works, the real input will work as well in my experience

[charred flame]

ok

[slender ravine]

so people cannot bruteforce and have no incentive to bruteforce to get into the leaderboard
-> You actually played the puzzle -> fun
-> You didn't DDoS the server -> Other have fun as well :)

[tender swallow]

I'm seeing people speculating that day 3's challenge may evolve into a full-blown parser/VM like 2019
personally I'd love that possibility

[rapid wolf]

it would end my uiua streak rather early.

[ivory venture]

The similarity score on day one felt like it was going in a different direction

Maybe a parser for vector operations 🙃

[ripe meteor]

No, i hate these challenges

Was it 2021 that had you do this

The opcode thingy

[mossy basin]

intcode computers were 2019

[hollow wharf]

why is aoc so difficult

[night fractal]

Well, todays one involved regexes, but the yesterday and the day before it were easy ones

[low condor]

a bit of challenge is good

it shouldn't be so easy that you learn nothing :)

[strange zinc]

anyone used Koka before?

[ripe meteor]

Old man mar truly 💀

[unique osprey]

I loved intcode. I wanna do it again

[rapid wolf]

I did a couple basic examples a while back, could be interesting to shoehorn some effects into some of the later solutions.

[slender ravine]

VM? Any examples from previous?

[tender swallow]

2019 day 2, then every alternate day starting from day 5

[rancid creek]

There's a wide variety of languages being used, even here. If you check the spoilers channel there's been smalltalk, perl, c#, and rust solutions. (and also python)

[rancid creek]

intcode was my first year of AOC, and I still look back on it fondly.

[rancid creek]

Today's problem using regex was on the very easy side of things, some of the later aoc problems will be quite a lot harder and may involve researching things you've never heard of.

[weary topaz]

wow, today's puzzle was like wayyyy easier than yesterday's

[weary topaz]

uh

uh oh

[normal dragon]

It's only easy if ||you already know how to do regex. But eric was pretty open about his intention from Day 3 being to get people to learn regex.||

[hollow wharf]

Honestly ||never really used regex nor have lots of knowledge about them, just knew it exists and a little bit of documentation reading was enough||

[normal dragon]

Yeah! It's not too bad, but for some people it can be a pretty significant hurdle. Kind of like how pointers are a significant hurdle for a lot of people learning CS.

[ivory venture]

I feel like people say we're gonna have parsers again every year every time there's a regex day

[hollow wharf]

Honestly i hate regex but it was screaming at me

[normal loom]

haha I gave my friend a crash course in regex, when you use a tool like regex101 they go from scary strings of text to something you can logically break down and understand quite easily

[slender ravine]

I should probably write a comma separated cursor then

[weary topaz]

now annotate tap

[tender swallow]

the str.split, int pipeline can't work

[hollow wharf]

it doesn't

[rancid creek]

You can get by with 15 minutes of studying ||regex|| and never need more than that, or you can spend years learning all the really in depth possibilities.

[hollow wharf]

don't think you need years

[rancid creek]

not if you focus on it, but I think most people just pick up a little bit more here and there over the course of years.

discounting those truly sick people that use https://regexcrossword.com/ daily. 🙂

[normal dragon]

I really like this site for testing regexs: https://regexr.com/

[hollow wharf]

can't figure out whats wrong

me when spoilers not spoiler

me when small mistake

[weary topaz]

oooh, what a lovely site

[hollow wharf]

yeah, but im assuming pretty much everyone knows about regexr at this point

[normal dragon]

I don’t assume that at all! Lots of people have no experience with regex

[weary topaz]

personally, I prefer https://regex101.com

[hollow wharf]

being rate limited

you code golfers are so cool

[compact wasp]

why would this require familiarity with that

||regex|| is overkill

for the problem

[ivory marsh]

I always run in pcre2 mode since their python regex is out of date with the fancy new features ;-;

[ivory marsh]

A bit of fun, I tried the hardest levels they have but it's still mostly comparing character sets

[compact wasp]

try regex golf

[ivory venture]

I wouldn't call it overkill, it's a great tool for the job. You definitely don't have to use it though

[compact wasp]

i say it's overkill bc you can literally just do one pass lol

it's nice to use here but the problem is fairly easy even without

though it'd still be fsm-like ig

[jovial panther]

:v

@compact wasp do you speak Japanese

[compact wasp]

a little

[jovial panther]

I see

Asked because of the katakana name

[ivory marsh]

It's a shame the leader boards are cheated out the wazzo, but those are some very fun puzzles, thanks

[normal dragon]

You should post this here! https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1312645339609694359

(And also delete the original from this channel)

[hollow wharf]

advent of

advent

ahhh

kill the mouse

the killer died

revenge of mouse

[topaz coyote]

So, because all of the discussion of whether to use regex or some other parser, as I was driving to work today I thought, if I hadn't had unformat() what would I have used? The obvious answer was multi_replace() so when I got home I tried it, new solution was .5k smaller, so!

[shrewd sentinel]

watch day 4 be really ward

[bronze wadi]

What's this channel for?

I'm getting something wrong for Day 2, part 2, but I don't know where to ask

I feel like #1035199133436354600 isn't the right place

[peak dock]

#aoc-solution-hints

[dusk crow]

Do the puzzles get harder as we go

[earnest forge]

Generally yes

Good luck everyone

[dusk crow]

well im screwed day 2 and day 3 were hard

[covert arrow]

GLHF!

[covert arrow]

It isn't always a perfectly straight line because difficulty is subjective

[shut trellis]

<@&518565788744024082> Good morning! Day 4 is ready to be attempted. View it online now at https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/4. Good luck!

[dusk crow]

god luck

[compact wasp]

21/11

[onyx flicker]

no ||regex|| today 😔

[compact wasp]

stop trying to overthrow korea smh

[onyx flicker]

mb

[long egret]

word search is crazy

[tiny tendon]

Yall the answer should be the steps right?

[karmic sequoia]

it physically pained me looking at the question and knowing i cant do it because i have to learn about the quadratci formula

rip

[tiny tendon]

😂

[buoyant hatch]

im not doing it cuz im studying for exams but my first thought it to just treat it as an array and transform it into a reverse list a vertical list and 45 degree list

and then just search as normal

[karmic sequoia]

chat its not that deep

[devout tusk]

bruh-

49/38!
I keep improving!

[karmic sequoia]

go to square
is X?
check diagonals, up, down, left, right

[buoyant hatch]

ig yea

[compact wasp]

dang how'd you get 523022617466601111760007224100074291200000000 for pt2

[tiny tendon]

Same but my thought was to first find all "XMAS" in the grid and then we shoulld check every letter and look in all 8 directions then count how many times it appears but I am not sure

[buoyant hatch]

thats ho i solve them irl too lol

just go to all occurences of x and check those conditions

[devout tusk]

😭

[compact wasp]

your placements are insane

[tiny tendon]

[compact wasp]

i'm so lucky i had grid traversal stuff in my template 😭

[buoyant hatch]

mfw template? 😭 ranked aoc i never actually participate cuz its always around exams

[dusk crow]

people are on part 2?

[tiny tendon]

ong bruh I didn’t even finish pt1

[dusk crow]

im still thinking of soluations

[tiny tendon]

This was mine @dusk crow

[outer hazel]

is answer 18? why its say its not currect

[compact wasp]

dude you really think i typed everything in 40 seconds?

💀

[tiny tendon]

No

[normal umbra]

guys what does overlapping worsds mean?

[dusk crow]

I'm thinking of turning it all into numbers and just + all of it

[normal umbra]

i get the other directions

but what does overlapping mean

for day4

[buoyant hatch]

it never occured to me ppl would have a big ahh template lol

[devout tusk]

bruh, i just realised i'm top 50 on the global leaderboard 💀
WTH

[dusk crow]

and then if it equals a certain awnser then

[tiny tendon]

But the result will be very very long

[compact wasp]

lmao

same

how am i #12 💀

i literally failed first 2 days

[tiny tendon]

Yeah you can try that

[compact wasp]

what are ppl doing

[devout tusk]

i'm #46

[devout tusk]

damnn

noice!

[compact wasp]

sheesh

epic username

[earnest forge]

That went badly

[compact wasp]

totally not the anon one

[devout tusk]

NOT ME LMAO

I gotta make a username nmh

[compact wasp]

whatever you say RangerMcSexy

[buoyant hatch]

is that it

it says 46 for me

[earnest forge]

(I'd guess)

[devout tusk]

yep. gotta make a username lmao

how do you do that btw?

[dusk crow]

yay i solved the first one

[tiny tendon]

Was it a long answer

[obsidian shell]

wtf

[compact wasp]

bro doesn't know the yoon martial law lore

[obsidian shell]

what is a yoon

what is a martial

[compact wasp]

korean president

[obsidian shell]

what is a law lore

[dusk crow]

it gave me a soluation

[obsidian shell]

oh wait

OH WAIT

THAT INCIDENT

bruhhhh

[compact wasp]

lmao

[covert arrow]

I spent longer than I'd like to admit realizing str.find is not str.count

🥴

[compact wasp]

🥴

[earnest forge]

Your username is the name of whatever account you tie to your AoC account

[tiny tendon]

The answer is 18 why is it saying incorrect?

[compact wasp]

💀

[earnest forge]

(if you want to tie a different account you can make another account with a different login method and then transfer to that)

[magic oxide]

wtf god

[devout tusk]

the only 2 options I get and the latter is my real name 😅

[compact wasp]

can i take a guess

[earnest forge]

Make another account and then

[dusk crow]

because your not using the input data it told you

[paper folio]

oh man I missed the time, lost track of time working

[devout tusk]

that is what I got the first time. Definitely not lmao

[covert arrow]

My answer was around||the thousands|| so probably not

[compact wasp]

+1

both parts

[devout tusk]

LOL

[tiny tendon]

Ohhhh

[tiny tendon]

Dat’s why

[compact wasp]

does it start with n and end with l

[devout tusk]

same

[earnest forge]

Yeah, about ||2.5k and 2k|| respectively

[compact wasp]

same

[magic oxide]

i lost like a solid 3 minutes because ||i was matching against xmas and not XMAS||

[compact wasp]

😂

happens

[earnest forge]

Nice one

[devout tusk]

no, but my first name does end with it weirdly

[compact wasp]

[devout tusk]

||2.6k and 1.9k|| for me

[magic oxide]

||2.4 and 1.8|| for me

[covert arrow]

||2.5 1.9|| for me

[feral hazel]

you might still be running your code on the example input? you get a custom input different to the examples shown in the problem

[buoyant hatch]

@onyx flicker holy freaking shit the thing in ur bio is insane

[devout tusk]

are yalls ||grids 140*140|| too?

[compact wasp]

yes

[tiny tendon]

Okok

[tiny tendon]

I got 38 no difference 😂

[rancid creek]

||XMASAMX
the S is used by both||

[normal umbra]

ah

well i've solved it by now

but thanks!

[onyx flicker]

ye there's plenty more unfortunately

[hollow wharf]

i just looked at it...

i think i found my 13th reason

[cyan sleet]

||or not been meaning to||

[grand perch]

todays aoc is hard

[native oak]

hi

i have a question

do people only upload a solution to their github after the whole day is over

cuz i only did day1 problem1 and i uploaded

??

[shy lintel]

Hi can anyone help me with deepface lab please?

[cyan sleet]

jfc, read channel names and channel descriptions

[native oak]

guys someone answer me ple

pleas

[cyan sleet]

people do whatever they feel like

[floral hare]

is it just me or is today's Part 2 easier than part 1?

[native oak]

oke

[tender swallow]

AoC guidelines say to upload/stream your solution only after the leaderboard is full. which, if you're not a speedcoder, it will be full by the time you finish and upload.

[native oak]

okay, so like i should upload it only after i do both problems right?

[tender swallow]

if you're not going to affect the leaderboard it doesn't matter what you do

[native oak]

or do people upload code for the first problem then another for the second problem

okay

[cyan sleet]

you can do whatever you want

[hollow wharf]

Doesn't matter, just upload once it won't affect the global leaderboard anymore

And don't upload your personal input with the code

[native oak]

okay thanks guys

[native oak]

wdy,?

wdym*? i dont get u

[hollow wharf]

A request of the owner

[native oak]

ohh

[tender swallow]

you're not supposed to upload the full input file you download

[hollow wharf]

If you're posting a code repository somewhere, please don't include parts of Advent of Code like the puzzle text or your inputs.

[native oak]

yes yes im too lazy to even do that

[sullen adder]

i must have been the only person who couldn't figure out how to search through a string in eight directions, huh? 🥲

[cyan sleet]

my awk solution is pretty terrible

if you munge the input enough you only ever need to search in one direction 🙃

[native oak]

someone help me w my aoc

🙏

[compact wasp]

untrue, i'm not a speedcoder; people are just slow this year /hj

[magic oxide]

says 21/11

[mossy basin]

just woke up, let's go

[silent forge]

where can i find python solution of someone top in the leaderboard? I'd like to comapre, why it took me ages to do the code. 😄

[hollow wharf]

Not everyone shares their code

Some have their GitHub linked, so you can check it out if they have a repo - sometimes they publish after the event, so wait for 2025. And yeah, some never share their code

Not everyone may want their techniques or helper functions to be known 🤷‍♂️

[limpid grail]

my ranking finna drop

ill only be doing AOC in the night tonight 😔

[silent forge]

Yeah. makes sense.

[hollow wharf]

you can look at #1313732973274599464 to see solutions

[limpid grail]

That being said, some of them do post it 😛

[hollow wharf]

That's not necessarily the top players of the global leaderboard

[limpid grail]

the green ones link to their github

current top is secemp9

but yeah their AOC doens't seem to be on it

but the top 100 are really good, so im sure you'll find SOMEONE

maybe even a python user

actually, probably a python user

[hollow wharf]

yeah, but the first messages are most likely players from the top

[hollow wharf]

here is solution for someone that ranked 5th today, but its in rust
https://github.com/50SACINMYSOCIDGAF/AdventOfCode2024/blob/master/src/solutions/s04.rs

Well until you compare someone of the solutions and the top leaderboard..

Like the post in the solutions was after 16 ish minutes

Top ones finished after 6 ish minutes

yeah today wasnt a good day apparently for python community

past days there were solutions after like 4mins but problems were easier tho

[magic oxide]

nah the people who finished early just didn't post their sols

there were a few people here who were finished way before i was

[hollow wharf]

Yeah, so good luck comparing the solutions and when they actually finished to know if they're amongst the first ones

someone posting in 1 hour may have been the first one to solve, hence much faster to get the top leaderboard and look for their github

[glad cairn]

💀 ** **

[oak flax]

I finally did it

[elder quest]

Urgh

once again I find myself with correct test cases but an invalid answer

[ripe meteor]

i hate grid problems

[elder quest]

I think this is my least favorite part about AoC

In the real world, I'd know which output is incorrect

[slender ravine]

Negative indexing 🥴

[gritty gyro]

shiit you know it's gonna be annoying when you see this

[calm cedar]

I felt the same when I saw it, but it turned out to be not so bad

[gritty gyro]

whoa

guys

i never knew

that

python has

yield from <iterator>

[brisk briar]

wait till you hear about ```py
raise Exception from e

[ripe meteor]

im getting someone elses answer with my shit code 💀

[glad cairn]

it's pretty easy actually

[gritty gyro]

i actually wrote a really nice solution for part 1

i'm proud of it

but now i have to scrap all that for part 2

wait, aint no way

all i have to do is remove some code and i'll have part 2

OMG

I"M SO SKIBIDI

[obsidian mirage]

wait what does this do

is that not the same as raise e?

[brisk briar]

it's similar, but no not the same

similar to an extent where I've only ever seen it used once

[thorn inlet]

it sets e as the cause of the new exception you raise, like, keeping context

[ripe meteor]

i tried to be smart

aoc was smarter

surprisingly not an off by one issue

[trail remnant]

part 2 was much easier than part 1

[thick bluff]

I had so much issue in part 1, because I wasn't able to visualize the directions properly, part 2 was fairly simpler once I did part 1.

[leaden tartan]

Legit had to open up an excel sheet so my brain could understand what was what lol

[thick bluff]

True, I am bad at matrix based calculations, when I gotta calculate vertically or diagonally, my brain farts

[leaden tartan]

sameee

But I really enjoyed todays

[thick bluff]

Yup ! It finally taught me, how to do grid based calculations, made a quick util for it, so I never have to do it again XD

[leaden tartan]

Share in the spoilers chat! I want to see if yours is similar to mine

[thick bluff]

Sure, at work rn, will share later 🙂

[karmic sequoia]

welp i wasnt able to do today's aoc because no time

[ripe meteor]

Its the middle of the day

Next puzzle in 15h

[karmic sequoia]

i have curfew 10 minutes ago

oh and school tmrw

[ripe meteor]

🤨

[snow ice]

Ugh, one of those days misreading. I interpreted any direction to be a step in any direction and found all the 'XMAS' strings boggle style. Both harder and wrong.

[civic wyvern]

def part_two() -> int:
    tinkered_input = [list(x) for x in input.split('\n')]
    counter = 0
    for line_no, line in enumerate(tinkered_input):
        for x,y in enumerate(line):
            try:
                available_ = ('MAS', 'SAM')
                possibilites = [
                    tinkered_input[line_no - 1][x+1] + y + tinkered_input[line_no + 1][x-1], 
                    tinkered_input[line_no + 1][x+1] + y + tinkered_input[line_no - 1][x-1]
                ]
                
                if possibilites[0] in available_ and possibilites[1] in available_:
                    counter += 1
            except IndexError:
                ...
    return counter

print(part_two())

For some reason, i keep getting 3 more than the actual answer. If someone could point out where I went wrong, would really appreciate it. Thanks

[short sedge]

https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/1 in this how to submit the answer

[atomic cairn]

There is a box at the bottom of the page where you can put in your answer

You might have to log in first

[snow ice]

I think you need to account for the possibility of matching wrap-arounds with negative indices.

[trail remnant]

No

I don't think so

Also that would give more positives and he says he has too many already

[civic wyvern]

ye that was it

[trail remnant]

You shouldn't allow it to wrap around

surely your IndexError catches that

[snow ice]

some_list[-1] is not an index error.

[trail remnant]

Oh right, that's the issue then

[civic wyvern]

it extends the X to the last line thus prolly why i got 3 false positives

[trail remnant]

I don't know what you mean by "extends the X to the last line" but nevermind

[hollow wharf]

#1313732973274599464

[grand perch]

I don't want a full solution

I just can't find the error in the provided code snippet

[stable olive]

dude im like 4 days late

[limpid grail]

💀

[short sedge]

same bro

@stable olive

[short sedge]

wtf

[stable olive]

thats crazy

[trail remnant]

I had that on day 2

[minor cave]

We keep this channel strictly spoiler free. If you're looking for help, open a thread in #aoc-solution-hints

[grand perch]

sorry

[grand perch]

I deleted my message

[minor cave]

Thanks, appreciate it!

[hollow wharf]

but you posted some part of the solution

[grand perch]

sorry

my solution seems to have spilled @hollow wharf

[grand perch]

How do I prevent numpy from jumping from the left to the right side when i check for a negative value and instead just return none or something in a 2d array?

With the command print(array[-1,5]) for example

[terse comet]

for returning None: manually check if it's within the bounds
for looping around in a 2d array: view(-1) before indexing might work
not sure if I get the second part

[grand perch]

How would I integrate that in this function for example?:

def check_location(check_array, check_x, check_y):
try:
return check_array[check_y, check_x]
except:
return None

[terse comet]

x_size, y_size = check_array.dimensions
if (not (0 <= check_x < x_size)) or (not (0 <= check_y < y_size)):
    return None

[grand perch]

it's working with the example but not the real input

[unique osprey]

I have 2 more sets of example data:

XMASQQSAMX
MMQQQQQQMM
AQAQQQQAQA
SQQSQQSQQS
QQQQQQQQQQ
QQQQQQQQQQ
SQQSQQSQQS
AQAQQQQAQA
MMQQQQQQMM
XMASQQSAMX

and

SAMXQQXMAS
AAQQQQQQAA
MQMQQQQMQM
XQQXQQXQQX
QQQQQQQQQQ
QQQQQQQQQQ
XQQXQQXQQX
MQMQQQQMQM
AAQQQQQQAA
SAMXQQXMAS

Both should yeild a count of 12 for part 1

It checks all edge cases at the corners

[gritty cedar]

Got this on both parts

still confused about part 2

I might be misinterpreting part 2

Oh nevermind, I just had to change the -3 to -2

[grand perch]

both output 12 but the real one won't work (too low)

[grand perch]

can i have your real input to see if it works for me?

[unique osprey]

nope

iirc that's a security risk

[grand perch]

i mean to input it into my script

[grand perch]

why?

[ivory venture]

Please check the channel description and don't post solutions here

[gritty cedar]

Oh my bad

[warm flicker]

Can I still join the game if I hadnt done anything yet?

[distant igloo]

Of course

You can even do previous years if you want

The only thing that is impossible at this point is to be on the leaderboard of previous days

[warm flicker]

Okay

Thank for help

[hollow wharf]

interesting

[paper folio]

wait, you are telling me input is different for different individuals?

[weary topaz]

ikr, I thought it was the same for everyone too ("too" because I'm assuming your question is not sarcastic)

[low condor]

there are a handful of different inputs. It's to help prevent someone ripping the entire site off

for that reason Eric doesn't want you to upload the inputs to Github

It's official - my new hated language is Smalltalk. I am giving up on GNU Smalltalk and going to try Squeak tomorrow

[marsh current]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied timeout to @zenith ferry until <t:1733359041:f> (10 minutes) (reason: duplicates spam - sent 4 duplicate messages).

The <@&831776746206265384> have been alerted for review.

[sullen adder]

i hope today's AoC is easier than the previous one 🙏

[terse comet]

It typically increases in difficulty every day, with the exception of weekends being slightly tougher than weekdays and the last day only having one part

in particular, it ramps up a lot in the middle of the month (~14ish)

[mossy basin]

17-23 will test your resolve

[paper folio]

was not being sarcastic, in hindsight it makes sense so people don't cheat

[atomic cairn]

Day 21 and 24 last year were just crazy lol

[sullen adder]

well, a properly programmed solution should work on any input, so i don't know how it would stop cheating

[paper folio]

Can I copy/redistribute part of Advent of Code? Please don't. Advent of Code is free to use, not free to copy. If you're posting a code repository somewhere, please don't include parts of Advent of Code like the puzzle text or your inputs. If you're making a website, please don't make it look like Advent of Code or name it something similar.

well oops

gotta go and scrape off my commits

[paper folio]

i think people can just share the final answer if all inputs were same

[drifting rain]

Whats the advent of code?

[sullen adder]

unless their solution is wrong or inefficient, they can share the code and get a correct answer for any input.

but still a good idea to respect the AoC devs wishes

[atomic cairn]

There is a pretty good explenation in #aoc-faq

[sullen adder]

it is a yearly event, where a new two-part programming puzzle is released every day for 25 days. good opportunity to improve problem solving skills or learn a new programming language 👍

[neon ore]

guys

who knows python codes

[paper folio]

that's acutally a good point

[sullen adder]

most people in the server, probably

[neon ore]

can sm1 help me

so

i gt code

and i wanna turn it into a bot

can sm1 help mew that

[drifting rain]

oh sounds fun

[neon ore]

bc its a gen

[sullen adder]

try asking in a help channel. this channel is for AoC discussion. #❓｜how-to-get-help

[neon ore]

i have

[sullen adder]

yeah, i have heard the puzzles can get difficult later on, but so far i am enjoying it quite a bit 👍

[neon ore]

wry can u answer my tiket

its in python-help

[drifting rain]

got no idea what im doing but need too keep myself busy

[neon ore]

can sm1 help me w python code idk how to use it

[sullen adder]

good luck :-)

[drifting rain]

Wait so for the answer do I paste my code orrrr

[neon ore]

@sullen adder look at my thing

[pure sphinx]

what does day 4 mean by "or even overlapping other words."

[atomic cairn]

You code up a solution and then put your answer in the little box on the bottom of the page

[neon ore]

can some1 help me in my help ticket

[pure sphinx]

can the diagonal be backwards?

[paper folio]

Yes

[pure sphinx]

oh god

[long egret]

its not that bad

[paper folio]

It's actually not bad

yeah

[sullen adder]

eight directions :'-)

[pure sphinx]

im doing diagonal check first

[atomic cairn]

Why lol

[pure sphinx]

because i hate diagonal

[rancid creek]

big spoiler:

[atomic cairn]

Valid

[pure sphinx]

ok so im getting all the diagonals

(for backward)

[rancid creek]

or 1 direction with 3 rotations. 🙂

[drifting rain]

corect me if im wrong

from what im guessing finding the difference (Distance) between the two numbers in 2 lists starting from the smallest number

And it wants me to save the distance of each number apart ( 2 -> 5 = 3) and then add all the distance togther

[rancid creek]

yes.

[pure sphinx]

i have got all the diagonals

now

which direction is next

[rancid creek]

Pair up the smallest number in the left list with the smallest number in the right list, then the second-smallest left number with the second-smallest right number, and so on.

Within each pair, figure out how far apart the two numbers are; you'll need to add up all of those distances.

[pure sphinx]

ima do vertical

[drifting rain]

alr ill do this problom after I do my spring lab

[pure sphinx]

im almost at 1000

[rancid creek]

no ||spoilers|| 🙂

[pure sphinx]

now time for horizontal

[drifting rain]

oh sorry mb

[rancid creek]

no worries, day 1 spolers here: https://discordapp.com/channels/267624335836053506/1312645339609694359

[pure sphinx]

aww its not right 😦

this is soooooooooooooooooo hard

bruh its SOOOOOOOOOOO HARD

[compact wasp]

small tbh

https://tenor.com/view/ав-gif-22051246

[lusty rover]

[paper folio]

Watching this while waiting for day5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oNOTknRTSU

[warm heron]

Is it possible to get the stars after 00:00 of next day?

[sullen adder]

you can get the stars any time after the puzzle is released

[warm heron]

Okay, thankyou

Day 4 seems disproportionately harder lol. I have a way out in mind, but I wanted to take some time to go about it

[lapis pilot]

is it just me or are the first four days this year like 100x easier than last year?

[paper folio]

this is my first year but does it feel that way for you?

[lapis pilot]

last year was so difficult right out of the gate

day 5 ratcheted way up last year though… so i’m a bit concerned about tonight

[peak dock]

maybe youve become better /j