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[final eagle]

so you compare the sum of numbers in window B and the sum of numbers in window A, and see if there is an increase

[pine tiger]

yeah

i solved it

[final eagle]

mm

[brittle ivy]

.aoc join

[pine tiger]

i just got really tripped up on that part

[bold locust]

.aoc join

[pine tiger]

the explanation was kinda crap imo

[gloomy kernel]

Can I do this aoc later after 2 or 3 hours

I will do it for fun

So not a problem

[somber crow]

You can do it any time, even next year if you want

[gloomy kernel]

Lmao

Alr

[somber crow]

You can access all previous aocs

[gloomy kernel]

Imma go eat breakfast

[somber crow]

Under the events button

[lucid oyster]

well, ive successfully discovered another thing im shit at lol

[minor cave]

challenge: make the most cursed roundabout solutions on purpose

[lucid oyster]

i wish i could

[gloomy kernel]

I will probably do these challenges with java

[lucid oyster]

but that would require me to understand the question first

[whole veldt]

Whew I actually did it

Did not expect it to be this easy

[minor cave]

Honestly, a lot of people nickname this challenge "Advent of Reading" because 75% of the challenge is reading it and understanding what to do

[whole veldt]

You're just supposed to find the number of times the previous value increases

It's a simple for loop

[somber crow]

This is day 1

[peak dock]

no spoilers in this channel please

[hearty shuttle]

#advent-of-code-spoilers-archive for any solution discussion

[lucid oyster]

welcome to 'autism sucks' volume 666: understanding written shit is hard

[topaz summit]

im having intrusive thoughts about using a different language for each day, but like stfu brain, you dont even know 30 languages

[north silo]

Reading AoC questions is kind of an art. There's a lot of text which isn't relevant to the question.

[lucid oyster]

its an art I'm genetically destined to suck at

[wicked kiln]

||advent of code spoiler||
Oh no!

[sharp panther]

I wonder if Eric does that on purpose

[lucid oyster]

why do you have my old pfp?

[wicked kiln]

Why did you have my new pfp?

[gloomy kernel]

I won't look at #advent-of-code-spoilers-archive at any cost lol

[brisk briar]

which lang do we have to write the stuff in

[minor cave]

whatever your heart desires

[sharp panther]

whichever one you want!

[gloomy kernel]

Any

[brisk briar]

lets goo

[lucid oyster]

in theory you can do it by hand

[prisma sundial]

you have to leave the server if you don't use python

[somber crow]

All that matters is that you turn the input into the output

[sharp panther]

that sounds like a pain

[signal grotto]

Raise your hand if you forgot about AoC until exactly the start time and didn't have anything ready

🤚

[minor cave]

some people have for previous years too!

They were like "fuck this code shit" and sat down with pen + paper for like an hour

and got the right answer

[sharp panther]

I remembered, but I haven't done it before so I didn't really know what to do

[peak dock]

same

[sinful agate]

I just setup aoc helper and stuff before 20min

[brisk briar]

and how do i write multiple lines, whenever i click enter it tries to submit it

[sharp panther]

.aoc lb

[hidden copper]

Here's our current top 10! 🎄🎄🎄

     | Name                      | Score | ⭐, ⭐⭐
--------------------------------------------------
   1 | francisdbillones          |     0 | (0, 0)
   2 | Paritosh_Singh            |     0 | (0, 0)
   3 | mbaruh                    |     0 | (0, 0)
   4 | Jack92829                 |     0 | (0, 0)
   5 | codephile1221             |     0 | (0, 0)
   6 | Shakya Majumdar           |     0 | (0, 0)
   7 | Xithrius                  |     0 | (0, 0)
   8 | neumond                   |     0 | (0, 0)
   9 | Hassan Abouelela          |     0 | (0, 0)
  10 | HyTurtle                  |     0 | (0, 0)

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[prisma sundial]

pro tip: skip any text that appears before numbers

[signal grotto]

I have before, but I'm better with Python now lol

[lucid oyster]

time for a 6 hour livestream of my hand

[sinful agate]

damn

[sharp panther]

You don't. You only need to submit the answer.

[peak dock]

you don't submit your code, you run your code on the input provided and submit the output of that

[brisk briar]

oh

alright

[sinful agate]

is this from private lb?

[somber crow]

I haven't done it before either, I did some of last year's last month

[tardy onyx]

i put the input into a .txt file personally did i overcomplicate?

[prisma sundial]

just do whatever feels the most natural/quickest

[somber crow]

I did the same but without the extension

[woven solar]

bot is sure struggling to fetch that LB 👀

[somber crow]

It caches

[tardy onyx]

i was gonna do it in the shell but i didn't want to paste too many times

[signal grotto]

It's on a cooldown

[somber crow]

They don't want spam on the api

[sharp panther]

me too, I had a with open() or whatever

[woven solar]

there we go

[tardy onyx]

yeah same

[woven solar]

.aoc lb

[hidden copper]

Here's our current top 10! 🎄🎄🎄

     | Name                      | Score | ⭐, ⭐⭐
--------------------------------------------------
   1 | Oliver Ni                 |  1460 | (1, 1)
   2 | RundownRhino              |  1457 | (1, 1)
   3 | Defelo                    |  1455 | (1, 1)
   4 | asishm                    |  1455 | (1, 1)
   5 | Starwort                  |  1451 | (1, 1)
   6 | Artemis                   |  1451 | (1, 1)
   7 | artcz                     |  1450 | (1, 1)
   8 | godlygeek                 |  1444 | (1, 1)
   9 | Zeyu Chen                 |  1442 | (1, 1)
  10 | salt-die                  |  1441 | (1, 1)

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[tardy onyx]

and i messed up once already because i didn't understand the question

[sinful agate]

I forgot how to see the time

[woven solar]

who was 3 points faster than me

[sinful pawn]

I'm literally cursed

  79 | Cypheriel                 |   666 | (1, 0)

[tardy onyx]

how do you tell?

[sharp panther]

what's your username?

43 for me, not bad

[woven solar]

RundownRhino

[sinful agate]

69 | Arnav-2004 | 1315 | (1, 1) B)

I need to hold that position

[sharp panther]

ahh

[tardy onyx]

91st

top 100 at least :D

[minor cave]

Oliver placed on global

[somber crow]

This isn't what the website says?

[sinful pawn]

well, I feel incredibly sad now

[void ocean]

bruh

[minor cave]

WAIT WTF YOU PLACED ON GLOBAL

[rotund light]

there's multiple leaderboards - the bot consolidates all of them together to a single one

[minor cave]

👏

[sinful agate]

damn

[north silo]

Interesting you say that actually, as that's something I have trouble with too 🤔

[sharp panther]

great job reptile!

[woven solar]

I was absolutely correct about the seconds thing

[somber crow]

?

[minor cave]

we have many people participating from our server, so we need multiple leaderboards

[somber crow]

Oh

[woven solar]

I probably was like seconds later than Oliver, and that's the difference between #30 and #78

[somber crow]

I thought the leader board looked small

[minor cave]

We technically have 7, we then combine them all and re-score them for our big community leaderboard

[north silo]

Nice!

[sinful pawn]

how on Earth do you leave the leaderboard

[minor cave]

We have space up to 1200 if I did the math right bit just under 800 currently joined

[somber crow]

So I'm not 8th :( it was just an illusion

[tardy onyx]

.aoc leaderboards

[hidden copper]

Command Help

**```
.adventofcode

**Can also use:** `aoc`

*All of the Advent of Code commands.*

**Subcommands:**
**`about `**
*Learn about Advent of Code*
**`countdown `**
*Return time left until next day*
**`join `**
*Learn how to join the leaderboard (via DM)*
**`subscribe `**
*Notifications for new days*
**`unsubscribe `**
*Notifications for new days*

[woven solar]

How does the community leaderboard work, by the way? What's the "score" there?

[minor cave]

If you go to Private Leaderboard, there's a list of the ones you've joined. You can leave them from there.

[tardy onyx]

oh that's how to get there

[sinful pawn]

oh, I see

thank you

[minor cave]

N points for 1st, N-1 for each following, N = number of people who completed that day iirc

[woven solar]

huh

[dawn kindle]

Hey guys can someone help me with python coding exam?

[woven solar]

so the points will increase?

also, how come there are equal scores then?

[signal grotto]

!rule 8 - No.

[marsh current]

Rules

8. Do not help with ongoing exams. When helping with homework, help people learn how to do the assignment without doing it for them.

[minor cave]

mhm, which is why this year I'm going to do a secondary leaderboard scoring and only include people who completed each day. That way the first few days aren't weighted so heavily

[woven solar]

hmm, I see

[ripe ingot]

did the first question already get over?

[minor cave]

flip flopped on the stars or tied

[signal grotto]

You can still solve it!

[ripe ingot]

where?

I DONT SEE IT

[signal grotto]

The questions stay up permanently, https://adventofcode.com

[signal grotto]

What do you see?

[ripe ingot]

plain blank screen with a timer still running

[lucid oyster]

I'm gonna make my own aoc next year but like... not so many words

the words make it impossible

[signal grotto]

Refresh? What does the timer show?

[woven solar]

ah there we go, Personal Stats have the timings. Apparently all of my score is from part 1, whereas part2 I fumbled, by like 2 minutes.

[ripe ingot]

23 hours 25 mins

[minor cave]

I can take a look at the individual scoring, but I'm pretty sure the scoring algo is right. We checked the math a lot last year

[somber crow]

Is there a 1 above the timer? That is the puzzle

[signal grotto]

That’s the timer for tomorrow. Click on the 1.

[crystal shard]

This is harder than I thought

[minor cave]

ACTUALLY

[ripe ingot]

ahh got it

[minor cave]

DID Y'ALL KNOW

[ripe ingot]

done!!!

[signal grotto]

Yes

[lucid oyster]

no

[ripe ingot]

thanks @somber crow and @signal grotto

[minor cave]

RUN .aoc daystar for #aoc-bot-commands for some funness

[woven solar]

...the scoring algorithm is linear?

[minor cave]

we now show the times submitted for each day + star, so if you want to see how you placed per star and per day you can

Big shoutout to @bright mantle for this feature

[mossy basin]

how do you join the pydis leaderboard

[minor cave]

.aoc join

[junior hinge]

it felt like a eternity but i did it in the end 😄

[minor cave]

you should already be on it iirc

[mossy basin]

how else

[junior hinge]

freakin 14 degrees celsius here 😄 first time programming with a jacket and beanie on

[minor cave]

absolutely

[mossy basin]

i think i have to turn on dms to use the dot command

[signal grotto]

Yep.

[jade root]

lol how the heck did i manage to be on the top 10 of the leaderboard

[mossy basin]

is there another way

[minor cave]

I can just give you the join code in staff channels

[signal grotto]

Was about to say the same 😂

[jade root]

wtf

thats absolutely insane

[lucid oyster]

insert joke about touching grass

[jade root]

lmao

[summer kraken]

Do we have only 1 try for each question?

[somber crow]

No

[woven solar]

nah, any number

[mossy basin]

i would've finished below a minute if i didn't have a 30 second timeout on part 1, i don't think it's too bad for day 1

[signal grotto]

Nope, you have as many as you need! There may be a cooldown though

[jade root]

still

what a speed demon

[woven solar]

Looking at the times for part2, I did really bad on it

some people finished part2 within 2-3 minutes

[junior hinge]

did you also create a nested loop?

[shrewd thicket]

w h a t

[lucid oyster]

i still havent finished lol ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[peak dock]

lmao i cant even navigate the damn website

[woven solar]

nah, my mistake was trying to use [REDACTED] which I don't have the right numpy version for 😩

and then I did it the simple way

[minor cave]

#advent-of-code-spoilers-archive

[lucid oyster]

my mistake was writing a whole class to do half of the shit which didnt work

(3 times)

evidently none worked

[minor cave]

Anyhow, I am off to bed. If anything breaks profoundly ping devops pls

[woven solar]

last year, there were like 2 or so game of life tasks

so maybe make sure you have the sliding-window utility methods for the next tasks

though... it's unlikely, this is day1 after all

[sinful agate]

:)

[woven solar]

The creators be like: I wonder how many days in a row can we base on that concept before they start catching on?

[steady berry]

aaa it started already

time to do it on my phone

[lucid oyster]

right I'm gonna go write this in brainfuck brb

[peak dock]

did my discord bork or did this message not ping anyone

[sinful agate]

ended too

[signal grotto]

Samee

[lucid oyster]

p sure lance doesnt have perms to ping roles

[steady berry]

;(

[peak dock]

rip

[lucid oyster]

(as it shouldnt)

[signal grotto]

I'm gonna look into that rn but yeah that may be it

[minor cave]

oh my god I think we disallowed mentions

[somber crow]

I didn't even know that message existed and I have the role

[lucid oyster]

I'd be immensely concerned if lance has the ping everyone permission tbh

[sinful agate]

lol

[minor cave]

I guess I can just manually ping.

[lucid oyster]

thats a huge nono in the world of discord bots on big servers

[minor cave]

[woven oriole]

input for second part?

[lucid oyster]

trust me I've had experiences...

[void ocean]

same as first part

[woven oriole]

it does not have a b c d

[lucid oyster]

it took me longer to find how to access the input file than it took some people to finish

[sinful agate]

same input

[void ocean]

those are just examples

[winged trellis]

good luck everyone, im off to work

[sinful agate]

aoc helper ftw

[woven oriole]

this

[lucid oyster]

i like not cheating /shrug

[sinful agate]

automating to it's finest

[woven oriole]

how will one get the sum of tripplets without letters being marked \🤔

sus

[sinful agate]

think

[signal grotto]

        await aoc_channel.send(
            f"{aoc_role.mention} Good morning! Day {tomorrow.day} is ready to be attempted. "
            f"View it online now at {puzzle_url}. Good luck!",
            allowed_mentions=discord.AllowedMentions(
                everyone=False,
                users=False,
                roles=[aoc_role],
            )
        )

yeah @minor cave I'm guessing this part didn't work right or something (that or permissions)

[brisk briar]

alright! im done with both the puzzles!

[woven oriole]

o letters have a fixed pattern

lmao

amiright

[minor cave]

yeah, I need to bother admins about it

[woven oriole]

nvm

[ripe ingot]

Hey! The input is just too huge to copy and paste or something so I try to web scrape or something it tells me everyone has different input so you must login... @minor cave how do I access the input then? Is copy paste the only way?

[somber crow]

I just copy-pasted it into vim

[rancid creek]

The input is just too huge to copy and paste
What?

[signal grotto]

You should definitely be able to copy/paste into a file

[woven solar]

You can grab the session cookie from your browser, and then you'll be able to request the inputs.

[signal grotto]

Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C

[frank maple]

you can also right click and save link as

[woven solar]

see https://github.com/salt-die/Advent-of-Code/blob/master/2021/aoc_helper/__init__.py for an example

[ripe ingot]

I mean, isnt that kinda.. wrong

[rancid creek]

it's 2000 numbers. It's small.

[void ocean]

just press CTRL + A

[signal grotto]

Not at all, why?

[void ocean]

it'll select everything

[peak dock]

you can also ctrl S to save as a txt file

[ripe ingot]

okay Ill just do that

nvm

thanks

[signal grotto]

👌

[void ocean]

eh, but then you have to navigate through your file explorer

[peak dock]

bold of you to assume i dont save everything on my desktop

[sinful agate]

lol

[somber crow]

Lol

[rancid creek]

You can also get the file by it's link: https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/1/input
right click and save link as....

[frank maple]

tfw preset file explorer b/c i didnt prep and other way to download

[ripe ingot]

i know but then it says its unauthenticated...

[narrow crown]

wait this thing came out!

[ripe ingot]

everyone has different inputs

[fathom lichen]

When does the timer start counting? Is it when you click the link for the day, or is it based on the actual time?

[ripe ingot]

yeah right click and save as

[woven solar]

see my messages above

[narrow crown]

aww man i might have to do it tmrw

wait is the leaderboard time based

faster u finish itt the better

[minor cave]

timer starts when the puzzle is released. Midnight EST

[peak dock]

yeah

[woven solar]

yeah, and for this day the global leaderboard was filled within like 90 seconds

[rancid creek]

One of the many reasons the leaderboard does not matter.

[dim oracle]

finished

[narrow crown]

wow.

[woven solar]

ours can technically fill indefinitely (right?)

[fathom lichen]

Oh well... that means i'll never have a chance to get on the leader board 😦

[stable heron]

IT STARTED YAY

[dim oracle]

bruh i lost over 40 minutes on the second one because i messed up a for loop slightly

[narrow crown]

how to check the server leaderboard

[void ocean]

you can probably try on the latter days

[dim oracle]

one small number haha

[void ocean]

since those'll take more than a few minutes

[minor cave]

the global fills very fast, the Python Discord one fills much slower and there's a lot of drop off as we get past the first week

So by the end, even completing a day could earn you top 25

[woven solar]

.aoc lb (probably best to do it in #aoc-bot-commands or something)

[narrow crown]

ok thank you

[rancid creek]

That's why we have private leaderboards for discord and for reddit, so that we can play amongst ourselves and not be wrecked by the speedcoders.

[dim oracle]

im 16th on the leaderboard 🥳

[fathom lichen]

I don't usually stay up this late. I wont get to do them until the next morning. 😦

[narrow crown]

this is super cool

[woven solar]

note that you need to join the server's leaderboard to be there (get a code with .aoc join and input it in the Leaderboard tab of the site)

[rancid creek]

You'll find that that is fine, just doing them at all is where the fun is.

[fathom lichen]

It is fun tho - i'm not worried about the scoring.

[narrow crown]

i already joined :D

[charred plaza]

Is the leaderboard different from last year?

[summer kraken]

In the private leaderboard, what are the numbers?

[somber crow]

The python discord leader board is split into multiple leader boards

[summer kraken]

168 here, for eg.

[rancid creek]

@charred plaza my new nemesis!

[charred plaza]

Great to meetcha

[frank maple]

the later puzzles are where the speed spazzes will start to get tempered a bit by difficulty

[rancid creek]

likewise!

[dim oracle]

how do i access the others i just see this

[fathom lichen]

What is the code for a leader board in here?

[minor cave]

(also, another fun feature, .aoc lb <aoc name> will show you your rank in the leaderboard embed

[woven solar]

Your rank from the end, AFAIK. In other words, it's the number of people who finished the task minus your position in the list of people who finished the task

[signal grotto]

Run .aoc lb in #aoc-bot-commands

[somber crow]

.aoc keaderboard

[minor cave]

do .aoc join to join to the leaderboard

[fathom lichen]

.aoc join

[severe crater]

.aoc join

[floral monolith]

.aoc join

[orchid quest]

.aoc join

[severe crater]

.help aoc

[fathom lichen]

Very cool. I placed on that one. 🙂

[signal grotto]

#aoc-bot-commands also exists 😉

[fathom lichen]

Sorry!

[signal grotto]

No worries at all!

[fathom lichen]

How hard do the questions get?

[woven oriole]

.aoc lb

[hidden copper]

:x: Please use #aoc-bot-commands for aoc commands instead.

[woven oriole]

oop

[narrow crown]

how in the world can ppl finish the first thing in 90 seconds

[signal grotto]

They get pretty difficult, but it depends on the year to be honest

[signal grotto]

People get competitive with this, plus the first few days are always easy (compared to later days)

[woven oriole]

seems like too many have not joined the private leaderboard

[minor cave]

they skim the question and already know which function they want to use and most likely automate their input and submission

[narrow crown]

whoa

i want to get that good at programming at some point

[fathom lichen]

I'm pretty old. The first two are pretty easy.

[minor cave]

so, we technically have 7 leaderboards. You can see the full list be going .aoc lb in the bot commands channel

[woven oriole]

yeah just saw

[narrow crown]

why 7?

is there a cap

[halcyon fox]

.aoc subscribe

[hidden copper]

Okay! You have been subscribed to notifications about new Advent of Code tasks. You can run .adventofcode unsubscribe to disable them again for you.

[minor cave]

There is a cap of 200 per private leaderboard

Across all our leaderboards we have 700+ joined

[narrow crown]

coolio

i think i have something for the first task it should be easy

[minor cave]

We have 7 for a bit of padding so we don't need to make a new leaderboard every year

[narrow crown]

so theres 25 days each day has 2 parts?

[frank maple]

yep

[minor cave]

mhm

[narrow crown]

each day has only one input, not 2?

so one input for both parts

[woven oriole]

i think so yes

also the difficulty would increase eventually

\😋

[winged trellis]

yes

[woven oriole]

assuming it will be utc-5 everyday

[narrow crown]

cool

[winged trellis]

Goes up and down, but on average it increases

[woven oriole]

yeah

[mossy basin]

now we can spend the rest of the day speculating on if we get to make another intcode computer

[haughty basalt]

.aoc subscribe

[hidden copper]

Okay! You have been subscribed to notifications about new Advent of Code tasks. You can run .adventofcode unsubscribe to disable them again for you.

[tender ravine]

is it intermidiate friendly

[haughty basalt]

.aoc join

[signal grotto]

probably 😂

[woven oriole]

i was literally not prepared with the procedure so that wasted much of the time 😩

[narrow crown]

each input is 2k lines long?

[winged trellis]

Ofc there should be opt codes this year

[signal grotto]

Some problems are easier than others!

[tender ravine]

thats good

[open yoke]

Why do I seem to have a different Private Leaderboard?

[rotund light]

no intcode this time please

[signal grotto]

There's likely a huge number of people visiting right now, give it some time

[somber crow]

Last year had 1 with 2 lines iirc

[signal grotto]

We have 7 leaderboards, the bot combines them into 1

[minor cave]

We have multiple leaderboards due to our community's size. You can see the full lb with .aoc lb

[tender ravine]

.aoc lb

[hidden copper]

:x: Please use #aoc-bot-commands for aoc commands instead.

[signal grotto]

Depends on the problem, some are very short and some very long

[tender ravine]

ah

[open yoke]

Ah ok, that makes sense

[frank maple]

i wonder why they capped the leaderboard

[fathom lichen]

This is so much fun - reminds me of homework from long ago.

[proper lynx]

How do i play an advent of code thingy? I've logged onto the website idk what to do now

[woven solar]

click on the 1, and that's the page of the first task

[proper lynx]

Ah, thanks

[hoary canyon]

Finally

[summer kraken]

How did I go back in leaderboard?

[minor cave]

if you left it, just .aoc join for the join code and re-enter it

[summer kraken]

i mean ... my rank fell

[minor cave]

Oh, what you placed is what you placed. You can increase your score on later days.

[summer kraken]

so the rank is also dependent upon time when u submitted the puzzle - the time when u opened the puzzle

[minor cave]

the time the puzzle is released (midnight East coast US) to when you submit it

[jade root]

oh man im on 83

[summer kraken]

so... i did it earlier. but i still fell in rank for some reason

[craggy wraith]

has it started?

[sinful agate]

1hr passed

[signal grotto]

I've never seen the scoring to be inaccurate, sometimes others just beat you to it 🤷‍♂️ You can catch up tomorrow!

[signal grotto]

Yep! https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/1

[hazy pendant]

i finished day 1, well that was a good start

[summer kraken]

okay..

[minor cave]

It could be someone placing very high for the first part, then taking longer for the second, so you don't see their points until later. It could also be some oddities for how much each point is worth as people complete it

[hazy pendant]

is it really that good to solve these puzzles on Python REPL instead?

[minor cave]

I can double check, but I'm preeeetty sure it's right. It's just a bit funky because of the scoring metric. It produces some non-intuitive but correct results

[pearl needle]

are you referring to the private leaderboard?

[summer kraken]

Ohh okay..

[signal grotto]

I'd recommend a code editor instead, but it's certainly possible.

[craggy wraith]

Would I still get stars if I do them on like Saturday

[hazy pendant]

Ah, thanks!

[signal grotto]

Yep! You get stars regardless of time, even if you do these problems next year.

[hazy pendant]

Also, https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/25/ is literally the Diffie-Hellman key exchange

[marble tiger]

#11 place yay

[gloomy kernel]

Before I join

Will there be any dsa

[minor cave]

AoC is just dsa in disguise if I'm being honest

[signal grotto]

No one really knows what to expect from each day until it's posted, but yeah probably.

[gloomy kernel]

Oh god

I can try

I have been practicing dsa

[hazy pendant]

it's all about algorithms

[minor cave]

but like.... it's fun cause 🎄 it's ~themed~ dsa ❄️

[gloomy kernel]

Aoc gives me Christmas spirit

[hazy pendant]

||why is santa from AOC going places?||

[gloomy kernel]

https://c.tenor.com/pB8LCNy2ZL0AAAAM/santa-claus-santa.gif

I did aoc day 2 in 2020

I was #13

Then let's just say

My brain decided to head out

[royal bison]

but what is dsa

[void ocean]

data structures and algorithms

[gloomy kernel]

I love it

[royal bison]

ah, okay

[stable heron]

yayyy #17

[gloomy kernel]

Is GitHub co pilot allowed

Lmao

[stable heron]

I did till like day 10 in 2020

and then my brain passed out

[hollow wharf]

has it started

[stable heron]

yea

https://adventofcode.com/2021

[gloomy kernel]

1:30H ago

[hollow wharf]

DUCK

[gloomy kernel]

1 hour 30min

[gloomy kernel]

Duck it I haven't started

Lol

[ripe ingot]

Hey! I found the answer to the first question but is there a way to know if its correct. I mean I wanna crosscheck if its correct or not...

[gloomy kernel]

I will do later

[gloomy kernel]

#advent-of-code-spoilers-archive

[signal grotto]

Just submit it on the website!

[ripe ingot]

I just wanna crosscheck before submitting.I am kind of nervous

[signal grotto]

Don't be! You have as many chances as you need.

[woven solar]

you can't submit answers too often, but you can do at least two in quick succession

[signal grotto]

FYI to those confused about time zones: the next day will open up at <t:1638421200>, shown in your local time (<t:1638421200:R>)

[ripe ingot]

okay thanks

Ill submit it now....

drumrole...

[steady berry]

finally got my access to computer 😩

don't know how the phone ui works but i just can't see anything there

[signal grotto]

I wouldn't expect much from a coding challenge site on a phone tbh

[steady berry]

true true

[hollow wharf]

I'm so stressed waaaaaaah

help mea

[signal grotto]

You got this!

[sinful agate]

lol why do you need pain

[hollow wharf]

actually im not doing it to win

im going to get dressed quickly

[ripe ingot]

no.. I failed 😅

It says my solution is lesser than whats the correct one

found it!!!!

I solved it!

[signal grotto]

Nice!

[ripe ingot]

I used 0 for start which was wrong

[hollow oyster]

it has alrd began?

[signal grotto]

Yep!

[hollow oyster]

where's the website again?

[kindred sundial]

only 100 people joined the lb for this server or are there more lbs than 1

[signal grotto]

See #911684406605930496!

adventofcode.com

[void ocean]

.aoc lb

[signal grotto]

We have 7 private leaderboards. @hidden copper combines these leaderboards into one for you to see. Just run .aoc lb in #aoc-bot-commands!

[hidden copper]

Here's our current top 10! 🎄🎄🎄

     | Name                      | Score | ⭐, ⭐⭐
--------------------------------------------------
   1 | Oliver Ni                 |  1486 | (1, 1)
   2 | RundownRhino              |  1483 | (1, 1)
   3 | Defelo                    |  1481 | (1, 1)
   4 | asishm                    |  1481 | (1, 1)
   5 | Starwort                  |  1477 | (1, 1)
   6 | Artemis                   |  1477 | (1, 1)
   7 | artcz                     |  1476 | (1, 1)
   8 | godlygeek                 |  1470 | (1, 1)
   9 | Zeyu Chen                 |  1468 | (1, 1)
  10 | salt-die                  |  1466 | (1, 1)

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[kindred sundial]

ah that makes so much more sense thanks

[hollow oyster]

and where are the challenges at?

[signal grotto]

Right below that

[kindred sundial]

also what is the function for calculating score

[sullen sable]

Commandline?

[kindred sundial]

2*n -p +1?

[signal grotto]

For the global leaderboard or ours?

[signal grotto]

What do you mean by that?

[kindred sundial]

yours

[sullen sable]

also 1 question is my name nsfw

[kindred sundial]

or in general too

[sullen sable]

just to be safe

[pearl needle]

our private leaderboard gives you 1 point for every person you beat, plus 1

[kindred sundial]

Hmm I see

[pearl needle]

global gives you 100 points, minus how many people were faster than you

[hollow oyster]

;-; this sounds like a pretty basics but still too hard

[signal grotto]

I wouldn't be the one to ask, not a moderator.

[steady berry]

came in too late 😩

could've get a better score

[sinful agate]

I thought it only gave points to top 100

[jade atlas]

I am confused why do we have 7 leaderboards instead of just 1?

[sinful agate]

I have 0

[pearl needle]

yes. if you're position 100, you get 100 - 99 points. If you're position 101, you get 100 - 100 point. i.e. 0

[sinful agate]

ye

[pearl needle]

yes, that's your global score

and rank

[steady berry]

do i get neg points

:(

[jade atlas]

Where did you get this stat?

[pearl needle]

luckily not lol

[steady berry]

wait there is a part 2?

oh no

[sinful agate]

https://adventofcode.com/2021/leaderboard/self

[pearl needle]

yes, you see part 2 when you complete part 1

[sinful agate]

no negative points just 0, you can still join the pydis lb and rank up there

[steady berry]

yeah not gonna do it

already ended

got your meaning there

lolz

[void ocean]

How do I see this?

[sinful agate]

#advent-of-code message

[woven solar]

personal stats

[void ocean]

Ah, I was looking under Stats

Weird that Personal Stats is not under Stats

[sinful agate]

I am at 69

[steady berry]

blame school 😩

[pearl needle]

our private leaderboard gives you points based on how many people you beat plus 1, so you can still compete with everyone else in this server who is participating

[void ocean]

haha

[sinful agate]

bruh now I am at 73 f

how

[void ocean]

Every time I have to deal with raw indices / slices I die

[ripe ingot]

hey if I have solved only the 1st part and many people have too done that but how are they ahead of me in the leaderboard?

[simple bison]

they did it quicker?

[ripe ingot]

umm... How does the platform know if its quicker?

[tired zealot]

heyy

it started?

[simple bison]

It's from when it unlocks

[twilit gorge]

they solved before you

[simple bison]

I'm waking up at 5 am every day so I can get try for the global leaderboard

[ripe ingot]

wtf

alright

[twilit gorge]

.aoc join

[hidden copper]

:x: @twilit gorge, please (temporarily) enable DMs to receive the join code

[hollow wharf]

I'm going to not be able to do it until 3pm lmao

idrc tho

[surreal sigil]

how are @twilit gorge

[hollow wharf]

I'm not doing it for the global leaderboard

[twilit gorge]

.aoc join

[hollow wharf]

it's entirely for fun for me

[surreal sigil]

what do I have to do now, I logged in and joined the private lb

[twilit gorge]

im fine

[twilit gorge]

solve the first prob

[balmy dome]

Can i join

.aoc

[twilit gorge]

.aoc leaderboard

[hidden copper]

:x: Please use #aoc-bot-commands for aoc commands instead.

[balmy dome]

.aoc join

[steady berry]

😩

that moment when you typed the wrong answer

*not the wrong answer, i know the answer already but i typed it wrongly

[final eagle]

imagine they add captchas for submitting ur answer

[steady berry]

😩

the sad part is my english isn't good, i can't read the question too well

dumping it to google translate makes it worse

advent of english

[tawdry radish]

.aoc join

[steady berry]

next time prob in saturday i'll get better score

[frozen plume]

.aoc join

i swear it was harder last year maybe its just the first question, im smarter, or i was stupider lol

but it was fun looking forward to the next few days

[quick glacier]

Is a small clarification of the problem statement considered spoiler, or is that fine here?

[gloomy kernel]

#advent-of-code-spoilers-archive

[pearl needle]

asking about what the problem is asking for is not a spoiler

[gloomy kernel]

I am gonna to aoc in 30min

[molten fulcrum]

@mossy basin I'm always impressed by the simplicity of your solutions. This year (technically, day), is no different

[halcyon pulsar]

i made a typo the first time i entered it in :(

my code i mean

do you lose points if you get it wrong the first time?

[peak dock]

i dont think so

but you definitely lose out on time

[quick glacier]

The problem says what to do if one number is larger than the previous, and what to do if one number is less than the previous. Presumably, they are never equal, but I haven't looked through the input thoroughly. What way would two consecutive equal numbers count?

[gloomy kernel]

Imma start the aoc

Ok this is challenging

But not hard

Will take some time

[summer kraken]

Can I upload solutions for day 1 on github public repo?

[gloomy kernel]

Yep

Not sure tho

[sinful agate]

do you think the depth will be same?

[hollow wharf]

sucks that im going to college rn

ive got maths for 1 hr 30

actually 3 hours of math

[royal bison]

Are the private leaderboards not reset?

ah nvm

[dull hill]

What time does this start?

[noble dew]

Same question

[twilit gorge]

what? AOC?

[noble dew]

Yeah

[pearl needle]

.aoc countdown

[hidden copper]

Day 2 starts <t:1638421200:R>.

[pearl needle]

the website https://adventofcode.com/ also shows a countdown for the next day

[hollow wharf]

time to do aoc

morning warmup

where do i do it

what do i click on on the website

[pearl needle]

click the first row for day 1

[quick glacier]

I had the same problem. Click on the 1 in the middle column of the front page.

[twilit gorge]

12:00 (UTC-5). If you are Indian, then 12:30AM (00:30) everyday

[hollow wharf]

a little question, what do the blue and grey ~~ mean in the image?
i have the similar thing showing

[jovial pebble]

They'll form an image later on

[pearl needle]

it's the top row of an ascii image

[hollow wharf]

cool

[bright spindle]

I'm doing Rust this year and turns out I'm not good at Rust.

And I haven't written any Rust in a long time.

[jovial pebble]

This was last year. I didn't finish all days, but I think it'll have colors when all days are done

[bright spindle]

So that took me practically forever.

[hearty shuttle]

oh hey dem. im doing the same.. turns out, its surprisingly challenging. im already stuck 😛

[bright spindle]

Took me about an hour and a half.

But this is good, I am relearning Rust, which is what I wanted.

[hollow wharf]

no problem
those big bois did it in 10 mins, its fine if your stuck
just understand what it wants and its easy after that

[molten fulcrum]

Day 1 has been solved in Gurklang

[idle solstice]

hi

[hollow wharf]

ty

[idle solstice]

what is this place

[hollow wharf]

who knows

[molten fulcrum]

We’re discussing Advent of Code here. Check out #911684406605930496

[bright spindle]

Rust is very unforgiving, so it might not be the best choice if you want to be competitive in AoC.

[hollow wharf]

wait i cant find it

the place where i can

click

[hearty shuttle]

i dont particularly care, but dawn gave a good suggestion earlier, and so im doing the challenges first in python and then trying it in rust. it seems to work out well

you get a little bit of gratification before the suffering 😛

[hollow wharf]

can someone send me a screen on where i click to get the first puzzle

[hearty shuttle]

you need to be signed in, and then its on the homepage. just click the 1 number

[bright spindle]

I don't really have any interest in competing, I know from previous experience that I have no chance whatsoever, so I'm using this as an opportunity to improve my Rust skills instead.

[hollow wharf]

I know from previous experience that I have no chance whatsoever
is it really that hard

[bright spindle]

To place well on the leaderboard? Yes.

[pearl needle]

global leaderboard seems very competetive

[hearty shuttle]

if you care about getting top rank then yes

[idle solstice]

This can be done in any lang?

[pearl needle]

yes

[idle solstice]

oh ok

[hollow wharf]

it took me i guess aroung 20 to do day one

[idle solstice]

ngl i still have no clue whats happening

lol

[timid kraken]

only the output matters, as you need to submit the output not the code

[hollow wharf]

i clicked on the 1

[proud cosmos]

The finished image

with a cool tornado

[proud cosmos]

animated

[hollow wharf]

and i dont get anything

[idle solstice]

ah ok

[hollow wharf]

daily two stars
looks good mate

idk what do from clicking the 1

[proud cosmos]

I actually finished barely on time too

[hollow wharf]

read :)

[proud cosmos]

||(the 2nd task of day 25 is basically just have everything else)||

[hearty shuttle]

can you share a screenshot of what youre seeing on the site

[hollow wharf]

ah i got onto it

nvm

[proud cosmos]

Wonder if that counts as a spoiler not sure

[hollow wharf]

i clicked on the top left

and found the one

[hollow wharf]

have everything else?
can you please elaborate?
or actually dont, why ruin the fun

xd

[bright spindle]

Kinda.

[proud cosmos]

yeah I also think kinda

[bright spindle]

So, err on the side of caution and avoid mentioning it here.

[proud cosmos]

I mean you could do day 25 part 1 of last year and see what I mean

[pearl needle]

i spent some time getting a 3.10 env set up, looking at last years' questions I think match might come in handy

[hollow wharf]

oh i can? let me see

[proud cosmos]

Yeah day 25 of last year wasn't that hard if I remember right

[hollow wharf]

cool

[proud cosmos]

I think day 20 was the one that I found hardest last year

Yeah that one was phew

[twilit gorge]

yeah Midnight at UTC -5

[devout spire]

did aoc day 1 😃

[rancid creek]

Rotating pieces of seamonsters was the hard one last year.

[bright spindle]

Which day was that? I forgot

[muted sand]

Where did you guys put your aoc input?

[shy tulip]

At the bottom of the page there's a link after logging in.

[normal pendant]

if you miss a day can you go back and do it after?

[shy tulip]

yes, you can even do previous years

[normal pendant]

okay, thank you ^^

[hybrid portal]

.aoc subscribe

[hidden copper]

Okay! You have been subscribed to notifications about new Advent of Code tasks. You can run .adventofcode unsubscribe to disable them again for you.

[stray coral]

Hey can someone DM me part 2 of day 1? (Not the solution but the problem itself). I don’t currently have access to it although I have already completed part 1

[shy tulip]

If you've completed it it should appear on the same page as part 1, under part1

[stray coral]

No I mean I’m not able to access the website atm

[muted sand]

Is it a good idea to put input in your github

[gloomy kernel]

Sup

[bright spindle]

I don't think it really matters. Nobody but you can use it.

[bleak sable]

question about aoc bot: how is the score calculated? it's way different than on the leaderboard directly on the website
and there are much more users who completed the tasks according to bot than there is on the leaderboard website?

[bright spindle]

The leaderboard on the website has a user limit

'The bot one is the aggregate of multiple aoc leaderboards

[muted ether]

After you've done the task, do the blue and greyness of the ~ mean anything lol?

[bright spindle]

It's the first row in an ascii image

When you complete a day, that row becomes colored

[muted ether]

oh so its the same for everyone

[bright spindle]

So when AoC is over, you will see a "black and white" image if you haven't completed any days, and a colored one if you completed all of them

[muted ether]

makes sense

[bleak sable]

how is it scaled? does bot manually keep track of current number and assign score to people who appeared during the update?

[bright spindle]

iirc, it works the same as the regular ones, only it scores based on the virtual aggregate of all PyDis private leaderboards.

[bleak sable]

2015 had a xmas tree (I did some a few days ago :D)

[wary wigeon]

What is the score based on?

I mean the leaderboard

[muted ether]

pity that the next one comes out at 4am I'm never gonna be on the leaderboard lol

[bleak sable]

yep, I guessed how the score is kept. but I meant... bot only gets the leaderboards once a few minutes so it cannot do the accurate score

[muted ether]

who does it first

[wary wigeon]

Sooo thats impossible for me to be there lol

[bright spindle]

I mean, I assume it recalculates all scores whenever it gets new data

[bleak sable]

for private leaderboards: we have n people
first person gets n points
second n-1
and so on

[bright spindle]

So it'll be accurate based on whatever data was available at the last update'

[bleak sable]

but it cannot compare score m from one sub-leaderboard against score m from another because they could've been assigned at different times. that's why I was curious about keeping internal count and using it

!src aoc lb

[marsh current]

Bad argument

Unable to convert 'aoc lb' to valid command, tag, or Cog.

[bright spindle]

It doesn't use scores from the subleaderboards

[bleak sable]

!src aoc leaderboard

[marsh current]

Bad argument

Unable to convert 'aoc leaderboard' to valid command, tag, or Cog.

[bleak sable]

!src aoc

[marsh current]

Bad argument

Unable to convert 'aoc' to valid command, tag, or Cog.

[bright spindle]

It treats everyone in all subleaderboards as part of one big leaderboard

And calculates scores based on that

[bleak sable]

yep. I said that I assumed that much

[bright spindle]

Ok, just making sure we're on the same page

[muted ether]

can you only be in one private leaderboard?

[hollow wharf]

how to participate

[bright spindle]

No, you can be in any number of private leaderboards.

[bright spindle]

#911684406605930496

[muted ether]

ok cool

[muted ether]

Google advent of code... lol

[hollow wharf]

ty

[dull hill]

Can someone put a link to day 1 for me. Or tell me how to get there

[modern oracle]

https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/1

[dull hill]

Thanks

[steel oyster]

im legit stuck on part 2 😦

[proud cosmos]

Go through your code and check what exactly it is doing

Reconsider what you have to do and how you'd accomplish it

Try the test case as well

[bright spindle]

Do you have a solution that doesn't work, or do you have no idea how to even approach the problem?

Please keep solutions to #advent-of-code-spoilers-archive

[muted sand]

But, would you put yours?

[glad tartan]

oh there's a channel for that this year?

[bright spindle]

Yep

[glad tartan]

cool!

[bright spindle]

I did already in fact

[muted sand]

Aight I'll do it too just for contributor count

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/613185229653409883.png?size=64

[bright spindle]

I mean, I did it by accident. I don't think there's any harm or benefit to it.

[steel oyster]

Yea my solution doesent work

[earnest forge]

Do you mind if I steal this and add it to aoc_helper btw?

[hollow wharf]

!subscribe

[brittle mauve]

I dont understand what the answer box wants me to input

Do i put in code

Or just an input

[viral radish]

just the answer

a single number

[brittle mauve]

Its asking how many measurements are larger than the previous measurements but it already said seven

[earnest forge]

For your real input

Click the link that says 'get your input'

[brittle mauve]

Do i have to click get your puzzle inout

Input*

[earnest forge]

Yes, that gives you a big text file of numbers

[brittle mauve]

Oh ok

[wary wigeon]

alr solved the first puzzle

[brittle mauve]

So am i supposed to write a program that solves the problem when i input it

[wary wigeon]

wonder what the best solution was

[earnest forge]

Yes

[brittle mauve]

Ok

Ill try

[earnest forge]

I mean there are only 2000 numbers you could do it manually :P

[runic glen]

What is this?

[brittle mauve]

This is a difficult challenge

Im thinking its gotta be something with lists or for loops

[bleak sable]

#911684406605930496

[hybrid portal]

hey I'm sorry for asking what might be a silly question, but when posting or answer do we just paste the code into the answer box or can I link a repl project?

[brittle mauve]

Now i dont know if this is the solution or not but just incase it is ill spoiler it ||i was thinking that you have to make the input values into a list and then make a loop taking the next value and the previous values which would be variables cause you can do that with lists, and subtract them and if its larger than 0 it adds to the overall count, then it will add the previous value variable and next value variable 1 so it takes the next values||

Sorry for the confusing statement

[sonic silo]

it wants the result itself

[hybrid portal]

ah thanks

that is very handy

[hollow wharf]

Time to do aoc instead of my schoolwork 😎

[woven sable]

There probably isn't a "best" solution

[wary wigeon]

why not?

[woven sable]

but I'm sure there's a solution that took the shortest amount of lines

[woven sable]

Because "best" is really subjective and it depends on who you ask

[last egret]

just a list and a gen comp

[paper plover]

Hello

[woven sable]

shortest amount of chars*

[bright haven]

fastest to write? (gets you on the leaderboard). Fastest to run? Cleanest code? Has tests? Generalizes to larger problem spaces?

[woven sable]

Maybe this AOC is when I learn how to use tests ooh

I'll set up some tests for my solutions when I actually solve the puzzle

[bright haven]

in past years, i would write tests using the sample data from the problem statement

[woven sable]

ah

[wary wigeon]

I see

[woven sable]

do they just give the real input and the sample data?

[bright haven]

i'm not sure what you are asking

[wary wigeon]

and what do you mean by tests? do you write unit tests for your code..?

[woven sable]

for if you want to make tests

like those are the only two inputs they give?

[bright haven]

yes

[bright haven]

yes

[woven sable]

ah alright

[wary wigeon]

uhh

srsly?

[stiff kraken]

day 1 question 1 done yay!

that wasn't that difficult

[bright haven]

if i'm unsure that my code is working, yes.

[wary wigeon]

did u write unit tests for first day?

[bright haven]

i didn't today

[wary wigeon]

can you explain more pls?

do you by tests mean asserts?

[bright haven]

i might write the code, but have some question about whether it's working. I can write a test using the sample input and answer, and check it.

[bright haven]

I mean pytest-style tests with asserts, yes.

[wary wigeon]

alr

thanks

[brittle mauve]

I might not know enough about python to do this

Im just gonna look at the solution for today

[woven sable]

Hm, how does scoring for AOC work? Is it who gets it correct + who finishes first

[hidden musk]

#911684406605930496

[woven sable]

ah, thanks!

[steady berry]

hmm i could write a selenium that automates and send the answer to there, probably will be faster

but wouldnt be if the answer is wrong

[iron shadow]

I used salt's aoc-helper last year

!pypi aoc-helper

[marsh current]

aoc-helper v1.1.0

A helper package for Advent of Code

[iron shadow]

I'm doing it in rust this year so haven't check it still works

@mossy basin I'm guessing it's still fine?

They haven't made any breaking changes to the site? 😄

[last egret]

just refined mine using asserts with long solution against reduced

[mossy basin]

i don't maintain it, starwort does, i think it's fine, i have a vendored version that i use that works

[iron shadow]

Ahhh cool

[mossy basin]

i just had to update my token is all

[placid lake]

yeah, mine from last year still works as well

[steady berry]

hmm that one looks good

[final mica]

Am i the only one that thought it was every time the depth increased from the last highest depth and not the last depth

[bright spindle]

I find that with AoC, your greatest enemy is usually your inability to read the problem description properly. 😛

[craggy wraith]

what does the number before the star in the leaderboard represent

[woven sable]

Right, theres quite a bit of filler text that the actual problem statement sometimes gets lost in it

Or rather an explanation of the story, not filler text

[viral umbra]

hey how u guys put that string into a list?

[bright spindle]

If you're the first person to solve a puzzle in a given private leaderboard, and there are n people in the leaderboard, you get n points.

If you're the second person to solve it, you get n - 1 points.

[digital ember]

Is there are any good rust Aoc helper crate/script?

[bright spindle]

The number before the stars is the sum of points over all days and stars so far.

[steady berry]

can others join aoc late?

[bright spindle]

Yes

[steady berry]

ooo, so n will change

[bright spindle]

You can join at any time and you can continue solving puzzles indefinitely

You can solve puzzles from previous years as well

[steady berry]

interesting

[livid forge]

hello, can someone advice me how to upload photo using webdriver and selenium ? - i want to upload photo on facebook

[bright spindle]

Oh, yeah, it gets recalculated if people join or leave the board.

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[stiff kraken]

The only complaint i have about AOC is that score is time based, which means that there are MUCH more beneficial timezones. For me (western europe) it releases at 6AM which is just a nop for me meaning my scores will probably be very low

[wary wigeon]

it's 5am for chris lol

[bright spindle]

Difficult to implement a better solution that's guaranteed to be fair, though.

[earnest forge]

and me lmao

[bright spindle]

You can't really make the start time user-dependent.

[wary wigeon]

u got a point

[stiff kraken]

the only thing i could imagine is that it detects when you load the question page and times it based off that

[earnest forge]

But what if someone else loads the page for you

[fathom lichen]

nah, cheaters...

[bright spindle]

Welcome to exploit city.

[earnest forge]

Then you just solve the puzzle and hammer through it

[stiff kraken]

oh yeah cheaters

you make 2 accounts, solve with 1 then try to hand it in super speed with the second one

[bright spindle]

Yeah

[steady berry]

no worries, time travel always works

[fathom lichen]

I was trying to think of a better solution to the scoring as well, but i am not smart enough.

[stiff kraken]

damn why didn't i think of that

[bright spindle]

Nobody is. If they were, we'd be using that system now.

[earnest forge]

But your island will grow weeds!

[steady berry]

which island of mine?

[wary wigeon]

i don't think there's an easy way to dewit

[earnest forge]

Never mind I assumed it was an animal crossing joke (because people do that frequently to access events they missed)

[final berry]

Hii

[earnest forge]

o/

[stiff kraken]

hello

[final berry]

Hru guys??

[earnest forge]

Not bad

[stiff kraken]

doing fine, recently finished my day 1 questions

and made VERY dirty code

[final berry]

Gtk

[stiff kraken]

like PEP 8 no longer exists

[final berry]

Nice

[stiff kraken]

i wrote it in 2 lines for both questions

so 4 lines total

[final berry]

Well I have my exams day's Im really busy

[stiff kraken]

ah good luck!

[fathom lichen]

I bet you could get that down to one line each.

[final berry]

Thx

[stiff kraken]

i'll show you in #advent-of-code-spoilers-archive see if you can compact it down

[fathom lichen]

I saw it already

[stiff kraken]

ah okay

[earnest forge]

I could get that down to a single line for both parts with no problem 🙃

[stiff kraken]

the only way i can see it going to a single line is by making your dataset inside your code

[earnest forge]

Nope

Hold on

[graceful mesa]

is there any way other than copying to take those numbers to my code

[earnest forge]

I'll tag you in the spoiler channel

[stiff kraken]

just copy paste to a .txt file

if you select all and press ctrl c

[graceful mesa]

i did that but i was wondering what professional coders would have done something like fetching it from web

[stiff kraken]

everyone has different input

so you need to add autorization tokens and whatnot

[graceful mesa]

ic

[noble dew]

The input would be array of those numbers or just numbers?

[placid lake]

yeah, you can automate and download the input

[noble dew]

Simple webscraping

[placid lake]

no, you don't need to scrape anything

just a simple get request

[stiff kraken]

don't forget your authorization headers

[placid lake]

cookies!

[earnest forge]

Yeah several of us do - salt wrote a tool for it two years ago I think, last year he and I rewrote it; we've pushed it to PyPI if you want to use it (aoc_helper) - he rewrote it again this year and vendored his new version in his aoc repo

[timid kraken]

So I was wondering that is their a time limit to solve the problems in aoc? Like do i need to solve the first problem before the 2nd problem comes out?

[earnest forge]

Nope

[stiff kraken]

ofc salt-die did

[earnest forge]

Do it whenever

[stiff kraken]

you can even do it years later (assuming the website still exists then). just if you want to be competitive, you should solve them asap

[summer kraken]

Hello, I'm trying out this question https://adventofcode.com/2015/day/5#part2

Here's what I wrote:

numNiceStrings = 0

with open('2015/Day 5/input.txt') as f:
    strings = f.readlines()

for string in strings:
    try:
        for index in range(len(string)):
            doubleLetter = string[index] + string[index + 1]
            modifiedString = string[:index] + string[index + 2:]

            if doubleLetter in modifiedString and string[index] == string[index + 2]:
                numNiceStrings += 1
                break
    except:    
        pass

answer = numNiceStrings
print(answer)

Can anyone find out any errors in the code?

[bright spindle]

There's a competition to see who can solve them the fastest, but there's no upper time limit.

[graceful mesa]

yup thanks

[summer kraken]

I got 20, which is incorrect.

[earnest forge]

If you need any help with setting it up just gimme an @

[summer kraken]

Can someone help, I can give the answer for part 1 or share the question if you want.

[graceful mesa]

can i access questions of advent of code later?

[bright spindle]

Yes, you can access puzzles from all previous years

[summer kraken]

Yeah, I'm trying to solve a 2015 question, right now.

And I am not able to 💀

@bright spindle Can you help?

[bright spindle]

Nope, I'm working, sorry.

[summer kraken]

No Problem.

[summer kraken]

Hey, I needed some help.

[earnest forge]

o/

[wraith ravine]

yey

I did aoc day 1

[earnest forge]

Nice

[summer kraken]

.

[stiff kraken]

i hope you noticed there are 2 questions right?

not that you only did half

[wraith ravine]

My code is [CODE REDACTED PER ANTI-CHEATING ACT OF 2021 C.E.]

[earnest forge]

That's not related to the library and I haven't done 2015

[stiff kraken]

#advent-of-code-spoilers-archive

[summer kraken]

So, if I share you the question, can you tell if it's right?

my code

[bleak sable]

you're only looking at the same index for both rules. this basically means you only check for triple letter (double letter would be index and index+1, and spaced letter is string[index] == string[index + 2])

easy fix: keep two flags (booleans) and mark completion of the rule separately. then after the loop check if both are true

wait, no

... wtf I'm saying

I don't remember this task well

despite doing it a few days ago

[bleak sable]

no, I'm right, but not with triple letter, but close

you check for xyx with xy repeating in whole string
but those don't have to be the same

[summer kraken]

I'm doing this.
In the string, take out two consecutive strings.
Then remove it from the original string (modified string)

For example
original string = xyxy
modified string = xy

Now i'm checking if xy (the string I removed) is in modified string. If it is, then it accords to the condition.

[bleak sable]

with qjhvhtzxzqqjkmpb (nice) you'd check qj (true) with q-h equality (false) and qj (true) with q-k equality (false)
because you do both checks at the same index
but in here it's qj pair but zxz spaced letter

as I said, your problem is doing both checks at the same index. instead of doing them separately - one trait can be in any place of the string, the other trait in another

[fluid pebble]

hi

could anyone debug my code?

[summer kraken]

aoc 2021?

#advent-of-code-spoilers-archive

[summer kraken]

Ohhh I got your point..

[hollow wharf]

.aoc join

[zenith fern]

how does answering work? this is my first time participating and i'm lost lol

[bleak sable]

you get your own input, and then you post your output (number) in the box on the website

[zenith fern]

oh ok

i was assuming you put code or something in there

[bleak sable]

nah, only answer. so you can do it in any language or even manually, as long as you get your answer

[stiff kraken]

since you can use any programming language you wish, or you could even calculate by hand, it's very difficult to be able to grade the code

[nocturne blaze]

you need to code to get the output tho

[stiff kraken]

pen, paper, small calculator and a LOT of patience...

[summer kraken]

Can you tell in #help-cheese ?

[earnest forge]

Yeah there are only 2000 numbers in the problem today, people have done worse puzzles with pen and paper

[stiff kraken]

like trying to crack enigma

[bright spindle]

Most of the time. There are exceptions.

[bronze vault]

Is there any consequences to submitting wrong answers?

[bright spindle]

No, but iirc, there's a cooldown

So you have to wait a minute or so between attempts

[bronze vault]

Aight

[stiff kraken]

i made a typo for question 2 and had to wait a minute before i could resubmit

[lilac ivy]

.aoc join

[velvet stag]

it's not a minute forever, it grows

[stiff kraken]

exponential backoff

[sonic silo]

hi