advent-of-code

[hollow wharf]

leaderboards take a lil bit of time to update right?

[narrow crown]

lol for day 1 i started a bit late

[somber crow]

Only a bit late

[stable heron]

yeah me too

[hollow wharf]

hell yeah!

[minor cave]

Okay things are going well and nothing's on fire. Good night y'all

Leaderboards are on a 30 minute cooldown and please keep all spoiler talk in the spoiler channel.

Good night~

[final eagle]

and who can read faster haha

[stable heron]

check the aoc lb in #aoc-bot-commands

[normal umbra]

Good night 👋

[hazy pendant]

Good night!

[hollow wharf]

was not updated lol, so i checked site.

[stable heron]

good night

[ripe ingot]

I finished it!

both done

[sharp panther]

Night kat!

[final eagle]

ye gotta wait a while for the overall board to update

[sharp panther]

Great job!

[ripe ingot]

thanks!

[stable heron]

nicee

[hollow wharf]

yeah lol thats why i checked site.

[stable heron]

but the site doesn't have all people

cuz the leaderboard is split into 7

i was #10 in my leaderboard

now im #62

[normal umbra]

me too

[stable heron]

lmao

[hollow wharf]

hm? for private too?

[stable heron]

yeah

[hollow wharf]

aw sad!

[normal umbra]

I am 12th now :(. From 4th to 10th to 12th

[sinful agate]

the time

[stable heron]

yes very

[sinful agate]

day 1 was me unprepared and site getting timeout

[normal umbra]

altho sorting by stars brings me back to #4

[hazy pendant]

my AOC setup:

- computer
- bindows terminal
- google chrome
- alt-tab```

[rough siren]

how do i join the lb?

[sinful agate]

.aoc join

[woven oriole]

wait does our yesterdays time elapsed affect the current 😢

[rough siren]

.aoc join

[stable heron]

alt-tab be OP

[hazy pendant]

yessss

also i might consider using a raspberry pi for aoc

[sinful agate]

in lb I went up so high

private lb

[stable heron]

sadly yeas

[hazy pendant]

why isn't there an AOC CLI

[rough siren]

i am 9th in this server

[crystal shard]

I am proud!

[rough siren]

noice

[ripe ingot]

really cool. I am 14th

[woven oriole]

yeah #9

[rough siren]

i am kinda a kiddo here

[ivory ravine]

wait i thought i was 14th

[sinful agate]

me?

[ripe ingot]

now I am apparently

[woven oriole]

me

[frank maple]

lol so i got the number right but put a negative sign for part one

[sharp panther]

@ivory ravine @ripe ingot There are multiple leaderboards that the bot compiles, you should be looking at this one. https://paste.pythondiscord.com/raw/afuxiherum (fetched by .aoc lb)

[ripe ingot]

ahh okay

[sinful agate]

idk why but lb on site and lb on the link are different

[woven oriole]

they are different

[ripe ingot]

this hasnt updated yet.

[woven oriole]

one is global lb

[sharp panther]

indeed, it only updates every 30 minutes

[sinful agate]

58 | Arnav-2004 | 2898 | (2, 2)

[sharp panther]

Basically, each site lb can only have 100(?) people, so the bot takes scores and combines them to a single list

[sinful agate]

ah

[signal grotto]

I think it might be 200, not sure

[somber crow]

Iirc it's 200

[sinful agate]

anyways cya off to study

[sharp panther]

Oh, maybe

[remote oyster]

.aoc join

[ripe ingot]

#aoc-bot-commands would be recommended for this

[woven sable]

Where do you find this?

[jade root]

oh cool i got up from 83 to 68

[somber crow]

Leaderboard > personal stats

[remote oyster]

Sorry was trying to join this leaderboard

[sinful agate]

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

[thin minnow]

.aoc join

[summer kraken]

The winner's the one with max score?

[sinful agate]

yes

[summer kraken]

So i have 0 score right now

[woven sable]

oh my

[sinful agate]

ye

[steel oyster]

is day 2 is easier than day 1? i think it is

[sinful agate]

ye

[pine tiger]

same difficulty

[ripe ingot]

surely

[sinful agate]

yep but for most people this one was easier

[summer kraken]

People were more prepared on day 2 😂

[noble dew]

Day 1 over?

Oh shit

I forgot to do that

Can I submit now?

[summer kraken]

Day 1 was yday..

Yes

[hollow wharf]

You can submit for all past days

even previous years

[noble dew]

OK so I will submit both today

[noble dew]

Then it is great for practice I think so

Thx

[hollow wharf]

https://adventofcode.com/2021/events for reference

[tardy onyx]

how can you tell where you are on the global leaderboard if you aren't top 100

or can you just not tell

[hollow wharf]

you can see https://adventofcode.com/2021/leaderboard/self

if your rank is 100 or less you're in

(at least I assume that's global rank)

[iron reef]

I'm higher on the ranking now, but starting day 1 near the end of the day probably set me way too far back

only hope is that everyone above me can't solve some problems

[compact hazel]

does back still do what it did?

[hidden copper]

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

[compact hazel]

lol just realised there are no backs

[craggy wraith]

The problems are released at like 5am where I live

[digital ember]

anyone can fit a good christmas hat on my pfp

the current is a bit weird

[steady berry]

quite upset

the python ver on my phone is less than 3.10

couldnt use match case

😩

[sharp panther]

the fact that you did this on your phone gives you 300 more points automatically

[steady berry]

ooo, so it detects the os on web?

[sharp panther]

no, not actually, I was just saying that

300+ internet points for aph

[idle rivet]

I do it on my iPad on repl.it at least, huge respect for phone users!

[steady berry]

yay

300+ social credits

[iron reef]

I just calculated it by hand

It's only a couple thousand multiplications

[digital ember]

😔 adventof"code"

[steady berry]

hmm, you are too smart, i couldve do this instead

[prime ermine]

hi

how to import flask

in python

/pip

is not workking

[steady berry]

probably wrong channel

unless your solution requires flask

[iron reef]

import numpy as flask

[prime ermine]

ok

[craggy wraith]

Bruh lol

[gloomy kernel]

I suck at problem solving sometimes

Aoc needs it tho

Tips?

[proud cosmos]

Do more things like AOC to train your skill for example

[hollow wharf]

so currently if i do .aoc lb it does not give me my name like in some people it does, how did they connect?

[gloomy kernel]

Alr

[hollow wharf]

i can do .aoc lb my_username which works but how does it work for them in just .aoc lb

[hollow wharf]

uhm just do aoc? take your time to do it, if you can do it, you are already improving.

also yeah leetcode

[sharp panther]

You need to click the little hastebin link in the bottom of the embed I think

[rancid creek]

keep doing them, read the answers for the ones you can't do, and then try again, keep doing this until you don't need to read the answers.

[gloomy kernel]

I did almost complete last year

[gloomy kernel]

Alr

[hollow wharf]

which?

[gloomy kernel]

This Oliver Ni guy is in 1st place from yesterday

Lol

[proud cosmos]

Some people are really good at this

(and live in the right timezone)

(no way I'm standing up that early lol)

[sharp panther]

"Python Discord Leaderboard"

[hollow wharf]

i did that sire but that just gives me full leaderboard

[proud cosmos]

Oliver ni is actually #27 on day 2

Impressive

though it was pretty easy to do fast if u tried

[sharp panther]

Oh wait. Are you trying to find your name on the full lb, someone else's with the command, or what?

[hollow wharf]

i want to see my name on lb by doing .aoc lb which some people can do, of course it's not a big deal but I'm not sure why it does on theirs and not mine.

[sharp panther]

Did you run .aoc join and follow the instructions in the DM that lance sends?

[hollow wharf]

see that's the precise example
#aoc-bot-commands message

i did. yeah.

[strange zinc]

Use your AOC name

[hollow wharf]

@strange zinc read this.

[hollow wharf]

.

[sharp panther]

Oh. I dunno, hm

doesn't show up for me either

[strange zinc]

Well, your name is the first passed one. Placement is 127

[pure saddle]

anyone know how do i get my session cookie for advent of code?

i want to use wget

[sharp panther]

dev tools -> storage -> cookies -> session

[hollow wharf]

i used requests, if you want the code.

[sharp panther]

I don't think I missed anything there

[pure saddle]

how do i open dev tools? im on firefox

[proud cosmos]

F12

[jovial pebble]

just press F12

[proud cosmos]

or CTRL+SHIFT+I

[proud cosmos]

Looks right though I don't recommend sharing it

[pure saddle]

ohh i didnt know this was called dev tools hahah

[proud cosmos]

In firefox it's under Storage -> Cookies

[pure saddle]

yep found it, the cookies dont change right?

[proud cosmos]

Session should change relatively frequently if done right

Not sure how adventofcode handles it to be honest

[pure saddle]

oh ok

[sharp panther]

Should stay for 25+ days according to kat

[hollow wharf]

i think kat mentioned they don't cahnge it for 25 days or something, lemme find refs.

[proud cosmos]

I mean that makes sense for adventofcode I suppose

[sharp panther]

this ^

[pure saddle]

oh then i shouldnt have to change it for the duration of aoc

thanks!

[hollow wharf]

I have written Semantic Code™️

very proud of myself

probably nicer than my day 1 solution actually

though tbf my day 1 solution was hot garbage

[warm grail]

#aoc-bot-commands message works noww

[hollow wharf]

noi bruh the last arg when not given on that time.

[sharp panther]

I think prashant wants it without having to type out the name

Which I don't really know how that would work, accounts don't get linked

but it looks like it worked for someone

[warm grail]

hmm, i remember that yyou could link your gh acc using a command

last year

no mb

that was for hacktoberfest

[strange zinc]

Could link your AOC to discord if they stored it in DB

[proud cosmos]

What if

[sharp panther]

this was opened a couple hours ago https://github.com/python-discord/sir-lancebot/pull/964

[proud cosmos]

they did .aoc lb

Cause there is someone with the name " " as far as I can see

[strange zinc]

Lul

[nimble furnace]

Did somebody here ghost ping me?

[proud cosmos]

Not that simple but someone has a weird name

[warm grail]

message link? (dont bother if you're busy or wtv)

[nimble furnace]

Or was there an @ everyone or something

[sharp panther]

the one prashant linked earlier: #aoc-bot-commands message

@nimble furnace ^ that, perhaps

[proud cosmos]

Yeah

the person is named ‎

which looks like nothing

If you do .aoc lb ‎ it shows up the person that has "no name"

Seems to be a LTR mark

[hollow wharf]

aw shit yeah that seems like case

[nimble furnace]

Yep that seems to be it, thanks!

Mobile app should really get the inbox feature

[sharp panther]

It does have a mentions thing

at least on android

[warm grail]

yep

!charinfo .aoc lb ‎

[marsh current]

Character Info

\u002e : FULL STOP - .
\u0061 : LATIN SMALL LETTER A - a
\u006f : LATIN SMALL LETTER O - o
\u0063 : LATIN SMALL LETTER C - c
\u0020 : SPACE -
\u006c : LATIN SMALL LETTER L - l
\u0062 : LATIN SMALL LETTER B - b
\u0020 : SPACE -
\u0020 : SPACE -
\u200e : LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK - ‎

Full Raw Text

\u002e\u0061\u006f\u0063\u0020\u006c\u0062\u0020\u0020\u200e

[hollow wharf]

whats a left to right mark

[pure saddle]

i get 400 error trying to wget :/

[proud cosmos]

It tells your computer that the text goes from left to right

[hollow wharf]

and how do we write that?

[proud cosmos]

You usually don't write that at all

[nimble furnace]

Yeah, I tried the same thing as well. Using curl will tell you why - the data is tied to your account.

[proud cosmos]

I did last year and now I'm doing this year

maybe it's time to actually get the input programmatically

instead of just pasting it at the start of my file

I mean it does work though

[halcyon pulsar]

guys

if the question was the example, the answer would be 150?

they phrased it weirdly

Calculate the horizontal position and depth you would have after following the planned course. What do you get if you multiply your final horizontal position by your final depth?

[proud cosmos]

The short example given in the question results in 150 yes

[twilit gorge]

yep. find the multiple

[proud cosmos]

they always give a short example with a solution to it

[halcyon pulsar]

okay

should be straight forward

[wide dust]

.aoc lb

[hidden copper]

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

[halcyon pulsar]

jesus christ

am i the only one who got a massive number

[pure saddle]

nop i got a massive one too

[halcyon pulsar]

eh i got it right anyway

[hearty shuttle]

That's usually how these tend to go, massive number is no indicator that it's wrong.

[pure saddle]

could someone in theory brute force the answer of will aoc block the user?

[twilit gorge]

isnt everyone using brute force?

[pure saddle]

yes thats true

[twilit gorge]

I am just traversing through the list of input. No fancy data structure or optimisation

[sonic silo]

that only worked for 2020 day 20

but

every time you post a wrong answer, you cant post another answer for a small period of time

[pure saddle]

oh no i ment something like manually inputting say 50, then 50000 then doing binary search

[sonic silo]

which increments every time you post another wrong answer immediatelly

up to 10 minutes

[pure saddle]

i didnt get through the bags problem in 2020 and just rage quit

[sonic silo]

at some point they dont even tell you whether youre too low or too high (if youre kidna close)

so that wont work

in 2020 day 20 it worked cause the space of valid answers was realllly small

[proud cosmos]

The tile puzzle

[pure saddle]

ahh i didnt think about that but thats a good measure

[sonic silo]

theres only so many monsters you can fit into the image

and you can make an assumption there will be at least a certain amount of monsters

so

[proud cosmos]

Phew it was aaaaaaaaaaaa

[twilit gorge]

oh you mean that. Even if you try, after each trial you have to wait 5 mins so you have to be very lucky

[proud cosmos]

Yeah

Considering my number had >7 digits

Very lucky

Pretty sure they try to make answers big

[sonic silo]

its quicker to actually solve the puzzle tho

[proud cosmos]

You often multiply stuff to make huge numbers

[bright spindle]

Does the cooldown cap at 5 minutes?

[proud cosmos]

Took me forever

Was a ride that one

[halcyon pulsar]

oh i realised there is a part 2 of day 1

[sonic silo]

oof

[dull hill]

Is day 2 available yet

[proud cosmos]

There's always two parts

Yes

[dull hill]

Thanks

[halcyon pulsar]

uh

i dont get part 2

[pure saddle]

day 2?

[halcyon pulsar]

part 2 of day 1

[pure saddle]

what the question wants you to do is, say we have input

100
200
300
400
500
600

what it wants us to do is, in simple terms devide this in sections of 3 for each element in input for ex
section 1

100
200
300

section 2

200
300
400

then it wants us to check if section 1 is less than section 2 repeat this for whole input and check how many times section 2 is greater than section 1

[past kite]

i wonder whats the art for this year's aoc

[wicked elm]

day 2 was much easier than day 1

[bright spindle]

A sideways view of under the sea, I imagine.

[wary wigeon]

yea actually

[winged trellis]

i found day to be more a hint of what to come

[steady berry]

uhh im confused

why does the order of mine in the leaderboard drops?

[mint hornet]

yea, the part two took me a little long tho because I made a typo and debug it

Btw how long do y'all take to complete these challenges?

[wicked elm]

It took me more than I want to admint for first day probably around 20min? Because I made a typo and then debugged for 15m

day 2 (both) took me around 2min

[mint hornet]

First part of day 1 took a bit more than 5 mins. Part two took an embarrassing 20+ mins lol.

[wary wigeon]

I hate when my code's logic is correct but something unexpected happens :/

[hot gate]

it looks like I am in 9500th place LOL

took me so long on the second day

cos i kept messing up my variables

im doing my first advent of code this year

[bright spindle]

Do you know how scores are calculated?'

[steady berry]

i don't know actually

[trim rain]

why was day2 so much easier then day1

also who was pinging me in this channel... they deleted their messages but

[pure saddle]

part 2 took me so long to just understand, i laughed when i actually got it

[trim rain]

i just read the actual points
and ignored everything below

so was fairly simple

looking at non-code examples like that only confuses me atleast :x

[blissful sorrel]

I have a quick question regarding the Day 1 challenge. It says "There is no measurement before the first measurement." - does that mean that my first measurement is larger than before and counts into the total amount of larger measurements?

Because I'm comparing to 0?

Or N/A?

[pure saddle]

it means that you consider the first measurement as starting point, that is it is not compared to anything

second measurement compared with first, third with second and so on

[earnest forge]

The first measurement is the baseline

[blissful sorrel]

Thank you

[bright spindle]

For a given leaderboard, if you are the first person to solve a puzzle, and there are N people in the leaderboard, you get N points. If you are second, you get N - 1 points. Your total score is the sum of points for all the puzzles you solved.

So, let's say there are 100 people in the leaderboard. Say you were the last person to solve a puzzle yesterday, so you got 1 point then, but you were the first today, so you got 100 points, so now you have 101 points.
Say another person was the first to solve the puzzle yesterday, but they haven't solved today's puzzle yet, so they still have only 100 points. This means you're first on the leaderboard with 101, and they are second with 100.
But, now they decide to finally solve today's puzzle, and they are kinda slow but not super slow so they get 50 points. Now they suddenly have 150 points and they are way past you in the ranking.

So, the order of the ranking can change quite a lot even after you solved all your puzzles.

But, if you solve all puzzles, and another person has also solved all puzzles, you can at least be sure that that person won't pass you, or that you won't pass them, because there are no more points to be had for either one of you.

[hybrid portal]

wow day 2 was easier then day 1 in my opinion, shame I cant wake up earlier :D

[quick glacier]

Is there a way to curl the input files? It requires login, so presumably I have to get cookies from google or something first. Anyone gotten it to work?

[pale heath]

I think they got their API or something

there should be some docs

[sonic silo]

theres no doc for the API, you can just curl it directly from the endpoint tho

[hollow wharf]

are the sample same for everyone?

[pliant comet]

no, there are different inputs for different people

[bright spindle]

!pypi aoc-helper You can use this to do that, among other things.

[marsh current]

aoc-helper v1.2.2

A helper package for Advent of Code

[pliant comet]

but the problems themselves are the same

[hollow wharf]

lmao same

[bright spindle]

The example in the problem description is the same, I think.

[hollow wharf]

i literally

ignored the bulletpoints

🤦‍♂️

and tried to script based on the examples

[hollow wharf]

alight cool, thanks

[hollow wharf]

[idle rivet]

I should really go to bed one hour earlier and wake up one hour earlier so I can do the AOC

[outer chasm]

There's no time limit is there?

[idle rivet]

No, but I want to grind the leaderboards a bit

[bright spindle]

No upper time limit

But the quicker you are, the better you place on the leaderboard

[outer chasm]

Cause I missed yesterday

Oh ok

[idle rivet]

You can still do it, even the problems from the last years (2015:)

[open basin]

does anyone know the answer to day 2 part 1 ?

[outer chasm]

Sure, I just wanna see how far I can get

[open basin]

please help me

[outer chasm]

I think everyone gets a different input

[open basin]

no problem, what was your answer ?

[signal grotto]

Everyone gets a different input, and therefore a different answer.

[open basin]

ok

[outer chasm]

Have you tested your code with the example given?

[open basin]

yeah

im failing everytime

[wary wigeon]

Hah, didnt know that

[signal grotto]

Yeah, technically speaking the inputs/answers come from a big pool so they're well-tested and not generated on-the-fly for the more complex problems, but it's enough that two people likely don't have the same input

[open basin]

fine, thank you.

i've got it wrong 5 times, how many more times can i try ?

[wary wigeon]

As many as u want ig

[idle rivet]

But you have to wait one minute.

[signal grotto]

Yep, there's no limit but there is a cooldown.

[signal grotto]

Feel free to share your code so far in #advent-of-code-spoilers-archive and someone might be able to help.

[open basin]

im just a beginner and im trying with lists and strings, so it's terribly long
but still if anyone is ok to check it, i can share it there

[past kite]

might be, in these two days we got submarine themed puzzles tho

[outer chasm]

Nice username

[past kite]

lmaoo

[open basin]

can anyone please help me ?

[past kite]

this is aoc channel, try going to py general or the help channels

[open basin]

oh

but i wanted some help on aoc though

anyway thank you

[past kite]

oh lol i thought you were searching for help about general lists and strings

[steady berry]

ooo thanks

[gusty perch]

How could I avoid "\n" when using readlines()?

[bronze vault]

file.read().splitlines() Is what I do

[gusty perch]

ok, thanks a lot

[brittle mauve]

Todays challenge is difficult

Is there a max distance increase

[torpid karma]

wdym?

If you mean how big the number at the end is, it was technically not specified but it looks like they only gave out single digit numbers excluding 0

[brittle mauve]

Like the number given after the positional change

[torpid karma]

Like after each directional command (forward, down, up) it looks like they use numers 1-9 inclusive.

[brittle mauve]

Im thinking of doing it in an extremely unoptimal but simple to understand way

[brittle mauve]

Ok

[bronze vault]

That shouldn't be a factor

How come you're asking

[brittle mauve]

||its not like im gonna right 27 while loops for each positional change||

[bronze vault]

hm looks like we should go to #advent-of-code-spoilers-archive if we finna talk about the answer

[brittle mauve]

Oop sorry

Ill spoiler it just to be sure i spoil it

[hollow wharf]

Maybe shoulda spoilered part 2

[devout monolith]

how should I read from an iso if I wanted to alter .dat files inside of it?

[hollow wharf]

Hello @devout monolith , this is the wrong channel for that. Please go to #❓｜how-to-get-help

[devout monolith]

oh mb

[trim rain]

? that's just the question

and those are public so i didn't think it was a problem

it if is tell me and i'd remove it 🙂

[wet yoke]

I'd consider part 2 of any day spoiler material. Knowing the second half would influence how you code the first half, potentially.

[bright spindle]

Part 2 is a spoiler, yes.

You can't access it without solving part 1.

[trim rain]

removed

[arctic fiber]

can you still join advent of code?

[charred plaza]

Yes!

[clear cairn]

this year looks a lot like last year already - where I'm in nearly-last-place among the people who have completed both parts :p

today took me <10 minutes but I guess y'all all woke up early :p

[warm berry]

This is so fun

[minor cave]

Advent of Code is such a good time honestly~

[warm berry]

I have mixed feelings for when it gets difficult lol

[hollow wharf]

I finished todays in like 10 minutes before I left for school lol

[hollow wharf]

Where are you on the leaderboard?

[warm berry]

Same, knocked them out while catching up on emails. For the PyDis leaderboard I'm 243 currently

[clear cairn]

Is this PyDis or is there another one?

[warm berry]

This is the Python Discord (PyDis)

[final eagle]

guilty haha it is afternoon for me when the challenges are released

[clear cairn]

oh okay, I figured that's what the abbreviation was but there's no reason there couldn't be "PyDis" server and "Python" server :p

[hollow wharf]

.aoc lb kronifer

[hidden copper]

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

[clear cairn]

luckyyyyyyyy :p

[hollow wharf]

Goddamnit, 269th

[bronze vault]

it's opposite day, so people at the bottom of the leaderboard are coolest

[pure saddle]

I really need to move to a better timezone hahaha

[bronze vault]

B)

[hollow wharf]

That makes me cool

[warm berry]

nice.

What I like the most about it is that unless you are super serious about "competing" the rest of the event is really whimsical and fun

[hollow wharf]

It is

Doesn't release till 11 pm here 😔

[clear cairn]

lol the leaderboard did its refresh between my part 1 and part 2 XD

[minor cave]

For some extra motivation for folks in non-ideal timezones or those with non-compatible sleep schedules, people who finish every single star by some point in January will get a cute role + role icon in this server for the month of January!

[pure saddle]

It's all fun and games till like day 7-9 after than I can't solve em

[hollow wharf]

Wowie I can be cool

[warm berry]

[pure saddle]

Ohh nice

[clear cairn]

This is only my second one - I know I completed 20 before tapping out last year? Just got to the point where I couldn't catch up on weekends if needed

[fathom lichen]

I've been trying to stay up (midnight here) to solve them when they come out. I'm not nearly as fast as some of the others here. They are very impressive.

[open magnet]

There was someone using SQL last year lol.

[fathom lichen]

I used SQL for day one. 🙂

Well, I used python first, then moved to SQL to see if I could.

[sonic silo]

neat

[unique remnant]

Hi, I just finished day2. Can anyone give me some tips on how to improve the code by any chance?

[azure spoke]

Do we have a private leaderboard?

[hollow wharf]

Yep

Use .aoc join

[azure spoke]

.aoc join

[fathom lichen]

That depends on what you mean by improve. I suggest you head over to #advent-of-code-spoilers-archive to see what others have done.

[devout spire]

if id known day 2 was gonna be easy like this i wouldve done it before school

so about 7hrs ago 😭

[summer kraken]

I was preparing for tomorrow since the past 2 hours..

[stray cedar]

I'm new on this advent of code, I just completed day 2, the time on the day 3 is the time remaining or the time until the challenge starts?

[woven solar]

time until day3 is posted

[stray cedar]

I see, thanks :)

[acoustic sparrow]

i dont know what advent of code is

can i still participate?

[sonic silo]

ye

of course

[minor hamlet]

Basically a load of programming challenges that are gradually released every day up to christmas

[stray cedar]

I personally think it's pretty fun since it has a story

[minor hamlet]

Each year is a fun little storyline that goes on with each day

quite enjoyable

[acoustic sparrow]

ohh

so its not a big deal if i start from day 3?

[minor hamlet]

Nope

though you really would want to start at day 1

[acoustic sparrow]

also cool, thank you so muchh

[acoustic sparrow]

aa i am just trying out things ; - ;

just got into uni so yay me

[minor hamlet]

Also you can code the solutions in whatever language you like

though here in the python server we ofc only talk about python solutions 🙂

I'm pretty sure though some will be more than helpful to talk about other languages

[acoustic sparrow]

ahh ofc, i main python but uni decided to throw c++ on me LMFAO but they have python for data science too

[minor cave]

(sort of ... a lot of our staff are attempting it in other languages so the spoilers channels tends be to half python half other languages)

[acoustic sparrow]

:O

[sonic silo]

we've been posting solutions in rust and haskell... and i think ruby

[craggy wraith]

Anyone doing Python one liners?

[shut birch]

I may or may not have done day 2 in PowerShell. But don't tell the mods. 🤫

[pliant comet]

many people are trying to golf 👀

[minor cave]

several in #advent-of-code-spoilers-archive. I know @void ocean had a pretty golfed solution

[pure saddle]

Golf?

[serene gale]

Doing it in as short a manner as possible

[pure saddle]

Ohhh

[minor cave]

you try to get the solution to be as small as possible. It's usually measured in the size of the file/script in bytes.

Others like to try to get it in one line specifically, even if it means a bigger file size

[acoustic sparrow]

do the website have like previous events questions? or something

[pure saddle]

Is there a purpose to it or just for fun?

[minor cave]

yup! You can do previous years. This link should let you select which year you want to do: https://adventofcode.com/2021/events

[serene gale]

usually just for fun. you sometimes get yelled at if you try it in a professional setting lolol

[minor cave]

entirely for fun, esoteric and golfed code is NSFW

[acoustic sparrow]

alr, thank you so muchh

[serene gale]

"what do you mean you can't read my l33tcode"

this is me to myself 6 months later

[pure saddle]

When you don't write a single comment in your code 😵

[clear cairn]

It's nice to start at the beginning because the puzzles get more difficult over time

[acoustic sparrow]

ahh i see

[rancid creek]

I've left comments before for future me. future me hates past me and the crap I do. 🙂

[young willow]

hi

[dusk ibex]

idk if the creater allows share solutions?

[rancid creek]

Yes, you can share solutions. As long as the global leaderboard is full, which happened at about 3 minutes in

[crisp coyote]

You mean the advent of code creator? I think they're fine with sharing solutions as long as it's after the global leaderboard has filled, they say a bit about it on the website

Can I stream my solution? 
Please try to avoid giving away the solution while people are competing. If a puzzle's global daily leaderboard isn't full yet and you're likely to get points, please wait to stream/post your solution until after that leaderboard is full. If you are unlikely to get points or the daily leaderboard is already full for the puzzle you're working on, streaming is fine.

And we follow that here, no sending solutions (or hints) while the global leaderboard isn't full, but after it's ok as long as you send it in the correct channel

[dusk ibex]

oh ok!

[rancid creek]

If you check the official subreddit, every puzzle has a solutions thread unlocked where people post solutions in a wide variety of languages.

[dusk ibex]

oh alr! sry I had misunderstood some stuff

[rancid creek]

Here we share them in #advent-of-code-spoilers-archive

[simple bison]

I did SQL last year for the first week or so

This year I'm doing web assembly

[junior hinge]

wohooo

it was a bit later today 😄 but i finally got time to sit down after work and 1 and half hour workout 😄

[wide dust]

Yes. Go to [EVENTS]

[dense lily]

.aoc join

[sleek lark]

.aoc join

[ornate radish]

.aoc join

[ornate zinc]

I'm working on yesterday's advent calendar problem. So I got my data ready in a clean list. I know I can use enumerate to find the item's index and thus find out if there is a proceeding item. But I want to actually iterate each item in a list and see if there's a proceeding element. I've done several google searches and can't find exactly what I'm looking for. Maybe I'm doing it the harder way but I just want to iterate through my list. Can someone point me the right direction?

[junior hinge]

just check if index is > 1

[topaz summit]

there's a handy premade function called itertools.pairwise

[mystic rain]

🖱️

[topaz summit]

using the index and checking whether its in-bounds is another approach

[topaz summit]

you could also create your own by zipping together the list with itself offset by 1

[mint hornet]

🎊

[tidal locust]

So for the part 1 for today my program calculated as -1989265 the answer and the website said no. why?

the depth is -955

and forward was 2083

oh wait

its up is decrees

no problem then 🙂

[final mica]

Why did the challenges seem easier today than yesterday?

[main gate]

Both days seemed quite easy tbf, I'm hoping it gets harder as it goes on

[final mica]

Yeah, me too b

[hollow wharf]

I like advent, even though I am doing the tasks after more than half day of the task released I am still in the mix hehe

[final mica]

The mix?

[spring cloak]

so is advent of code still goin?

[final mica]

Yea

[spring cloak]

Finally this time I'm not too late

[indigo yoke]

hiho, how to use this command? trying to get https://libraries.io/pypi/aoctools working

[ornate zinc]

I wrote a program for yesterday's problem. It works perfectly on the sample but when I run it on the long list it tells me my number is off.

I wonder if I am one off

[tidal locust]

can I see it?

[clear cairn]

Mine did the same, I'd made a silly mistake. (I'm a beginner so won't try to guess without seeing yours though 😉 )

[hollow wharf]

Finally got a nice dev environment set up :D

lsp is working, and I have a nice multi-executable setup with my toolchain so I can run each day independently

[sonic silo]

meanwhile i had to rewrite te bash function for submitting in python

[hollow wharf]

The trick is not doing it in Python :P

[sonic silo]

bash good

[hollow wharf]

bash alright

[sonic silo]

yes, i know that its awful for complicated stuff but, even so, i like it a lot

[hollow wharf]

also I got AoC++ 😁

[sonic silo]

nice

[hollow wharf]

yeah. I should set up a curl script to grab my puzzle input

but I'm not really trying to go especially fast so eh

who gives a shit

[hollow wharf]

Yeah, maybe you can show the code , we could check out what could be the problem. I put my code to github as soon as I do the task. Just to practice some more.

[hollow wharf]

Yeah, I meant I can see my self in the leaderboard 😄

[daring cave]

what leaderboard how mcuh did you have to work

to have to be in

that leaderboard

[hollow wharf]

Check #911684406605930496 it says how to receive ID to add it to your private leaderboard

[daring cave]

oh cool

thats very nice

[hollow wharf]

You only need to join the private leaderboard of this server and that is it, and your score will be marked for your self, just interesting to see your self in the mix with all other players 🙂

[brittle mauve]

I love the advent of code

One reason why is that if you do every day and since theres 2 parts you basically get 50 programs you can put in your portfolio for a job

[hollow wharf]

Since I only recently joined this server, I only got to know about advent-of-code maybe a week ago, so also enjoying the advent task. Looks interesting and put a lot of thought into making those task. Since I have not participated in previous years of advent-of-code, when I have free time I am doin last year task just because it is fun 🙂

[final mica]

Yea ok, but nice

[shadow heron]

Can someone help me understand the second part of yesterday's challenge it's very confusing

[brittle mauve]

Ok

Basically the down and up are now aim instead of depth

[hearty harness]

.aoc join

[brittle mauve]

And the way you find depth is by taking the aim value and multiplying it by the foward value

So say your aim is at 4 and you get a foward value of 5, 4*5 is 20 thats your depth

And horizontal stays the same

[shadow heron]

where do the aim and forward value come from

[sleek cave]

day 2 seems like a fun puzzle, getting to work :D

but first of all, updating my virtual environment to 3.10 interpreter

so i can use that sweet pattern matching

[brittle mauve]

oh wait

you're asking about yesterdays challenge

[humble escarp]

Curious to know the localisation repartition of this discord server. I was thinking that Europeans had disadvantage for leaderboard because of the timezone but it depends if Americans like to code after 12AM

[shadow heron]

yeah, part 2 of day 1

[brittle mauve]

well basically you add chunks of three values and then you take the next chunk of three values and add them and then you subtract those sums to get the difference

did you read the problem

[shadow heron]

so I just take the first three numbers from the input, add them up, then do the same to the second three and subtract?

[brittle mauve]

yeah

[strange otter]

To clarify, add numbers: 1, 2, 3 then 2, 3, 4 etc

[brittle mauve]

yeah

[shadow heron]

tysm

[mossy basin]

Day 2 visualization!

[hidden musk]

:o

[loud yew]

d a a a a n g

[hidden musk]

now part 2 👀

[mossy basin]

it would look the same, but the boat would tilt

[brittle mauve]

how did you do that tho

[rancid creek]

now replace the graphics with subnatutica graphics.

[signal grotto]

Hiya, .aoc lb now handles usernames with spaces nicely :D

[sleek cave]

insane

[narrow crown]

how do u do that in POWERSHELL

wha-

like how do u do stuff in terminalss like that

most i can do is print text

[void ocean]

libraries

[velvet stag]

[expletive deleted]

[mossy basin]

this is nurses_2 and a fluid solver a wrote a week or two ago

[narrow crown]

you wrote thatt?

bro how

[stiff kraken]

Salt is a god

It’s something that has been well established here already

But he does have a set of libraries that do a lot of the heavy lifting meaning for him it’s a lot simpler to make it

[tight dune]

wow

docs pls

[loud yew]

salt is not good, salt is [explicitive removed] g o d

[sinful matrix]

bro this is cool

[hazy pendant]

sick fluid visuals!

[pliant comet]

huh, i don't understand how 5 minutes made that much of a difference, given that it was 7 hours after the challenge came out... ?

[mossy basin]

probably means a lot of people didn't finish part 2

[pliant comet]

oh, i meant the difference bteween my times for the first day and my times for the second day

[shrewd ridge]

.aoc subscribe

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[shrewd ridge]

.aoc leaderboard

[hidden copper]

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

[twin parrot]

.aoc subscribe

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[mossy basin]

had a bug in my fluid solver for vorticity that was creating line artifacts, i think i fixed it though. downside, is it's less swirly:

[final ocean]

palindrome date uwu

[narrow crown]

salt-die more like salt-god

[wet yoke]

.aoc subscribe

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[summer kraken]

Why do people visualize?

the parts

[mossy basin]

why do people do anything

[fathom lichen]

Because it's fun?

[summer kraken]

[summer kraken]

No, I meant is it necessary? I didn't do it...

[mossy basin]

yes, you get bonus stars

[sharp panther]

:o how?

[mossy basin]

you caught me, i lied

[sharp panther]

ahh, okay, that makes sense

[summer kraken]

How do we get helpers role? not an aoc question

[mossy basin]

you get bonus karma though

[sharp panther]

well regardless, you get +150 internet points from me

[digital ember]

See #roles

[sharp panther]

see #roles

[hollow wharf]

Oi sir make it more yellow!!
We all live in a yellow submarine 🐠

[mossy basin]

it should have christmas lights

if we're following the story

[hollow wharf]

Yellow submarine with Christmas lights

[mossy basin]

i'm looking for an animated sub somewhere though for future visuals

[hazy pendant]

the LEDS caught water

[hollow wharf]

Noi they're salt-y, nothing happens to them.

[hazy pendant]

isn't salt and minerals the one who cause havoc to electronics not water

[hollow wharf]

Uhm

Yeah basically pure water can't pass current iirc

[sleek cave]

insane

[final eagle]

aight i shall take my time for today's

[steady berry]

what if i do visualization on my phone 👀

[pure saddle]

one up, visualization on paper

[steady berry]

do the challenge with pen and paper

its just a few thousands of number

wouldnt be a hard job

[mossy basin]

if anyone draws me a submarine with christmas lights, i'll use it for future visuals

[final eagle]

what art style 👀

will pixel art be fine

[steady berry]

send the submarine here :)

[sonic silo]

ok so

this 3rd day

i will predict its a parsing puzzle

[mossy basin]

any art style, but the resolution will be adjusted to work in a console

[steady berry]

i predict that it is a puzzle

[sonic silo]

parsing as in a la year 2020 day 4

for example

[steady berry]

wait, will it be dangerous if you put christmas light on the submarine

like it is in water and you are giving it electricity

[mossy basin]

no, the magic of christmas protects the submarine

[final eagle]

e.e i havnt touched any of the past year aoc stuff

[steady berry]

interesting

[mossy basin]

i asked a physicist, so we know it's true

[mint hornet]

AI generated image.

[final eagle]

sick

[sonic silo]

underwater treeS?

[pure saddle]

damn ai is getting smart

[final eagle]

the art style is pretty cool too

[mint hornet]

ai not so smart, yet. But pretty good.

[steady berry]

is the whole event about submarines btw

[signal grotto]

So far, yeah

[final eagle]

i would like to say it looks surrealist but it isnt

[mint hornet]

Probably not.

We'll see hows day 3 in a few mins

[steady berry]

finally i can have a good timezone

[final eagle]

day 25: crack USA's submarine codes

[mint hornet]

sadly, the time aoc resets is the time I'll be @ school. Today is an exception tho.

which is why I'll never make it to the leaderboards

sadge.

[steady berry]

day 24: make nasa's rocket turn to submarine

[final eagle]

day 23: make elon musk's rocket into submarines

[steady berry]

day 22 turn subway to subwarines

[mint hornet]

.aoc countdown

[hidden copper]

Day 3 starts <t:1638507600:R>.

[somber crow]

If a rocket is submarine that usually means it crashed

[final eagle]

wait thats illegal

[mint hornet]

🧠

[steady berry]

nothing is illegal if you change the law

[pure saddle]

what if a submarine becomes a rocket

[final eagle]

btw talking about subwarines @mossy basin theres this super mario subwarine art

[mint hornet]

Submarines are rockets if you're upside down

[final eagle]

https://www.mariowiki.com/Subwarine

do submarines actually use spinny fans to propel forward

[mossy basin]

yes

[final eagle]

aw thats kinda cute

[mossy basin]

even the nuclear ones, as far as i know

[potent pumice]

@mossy basin what's the helper you made?

[mossy basin]

https://github.com/salt-die/Advent-of-Code/tree/master/2021/aoc_helper

[potent pumice]

ah i saw a rewritten version

[mossy basin]

it's not a package, just a module included in my 2021 repo

yeah, starwort has a version that's a package

[potent pumice]

#advent-of-code message

[steady berry]

got 10 mins to set up aoc-helper

[potent pumice]

you okay with that one?

[mossy basin]

yep

i don't maintain it though, but i assume it's still in good working order

[final eagle]

help where do i get it

[potent pumice]

updated 27 minutes ago so lmao

!pip aoc-helper

[marsh current]

aoc-helper v1.2.3

A helper package for Advent of Code

[final eagle]

do i just run setup.py

[steady berry]

you need to input the token afterwards

[mossy basin]

for the one in my aoc repo, setup.py will create all the templated days and create the input and submission files

it does nothing if those files already exist

[final eagle]

ahhh, so i throw my token into a .token file?

[mossy basin]

yeah

[steady berry]

aaa where is that file

[potent pumice]

where do you get the token from

like, link on the website

[steady berry]

from aoc web

grab the cookie

[signal grotto]

You have to inspect and look for the cookie/header

[steady berry]

with extensions

[mossy basin]

i described how to get a token here: #advent-of-code-spoilers-archive message

[potent pumice]

this doesn't have it? https://adventofcode.com/2021/settings

[signal grotto]

Nope

The dim section at the bottom is just for confirming to an AoC admin that you own the account if needed

[steady berry]

aaa 5 mins so intense

[crystal shard]

6 mins bois, lets do this

[signal grotto]

.aoc countdown

[hidden copper]

Day 3 starts <t:1638507600:R>.

[final eagle]

the token is my Cookie header right

[woven oriole]

what do you want the token for?

[somber crow]

5 mins

[late frigate]

5 min pog

[woven oriole]

vsc at the last moment

[hollow wharf]

aoc data package is there right which fetches input data automatically

[potent pumice]

well that lasted an entire single day

[crystal shard]

lol

[potent pumice]

day 3 and #advent-of-code-spoilers-archive isn't locked at the start

[unique osprey]

better fire up notepad++ just in case

[woven oriole]

lol

[mossy basin]

yeah, under Cookie tab, should say session=XXXXX where the X's are a long token

[crystal shard]

that sucks

[final eagle]

aight thanks, got it running

[woven oriole]

it working

[hoary canyon]

.aoc coutdonw

[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*

[hoary canyon]

.aoc countdown

[hidden copper]

Day 3 starts <t:1638507600:R>.

[steady berry]

lemme drink some water

[idle rivet]

Does aoc_helper work instantly?

[woven oriole]

i got one problem in my text file , it leaves one blank line after dumping the text smh

[sonic silo]

bmnes

[steady berry]

submarine goes brrr

[mossy basin]

you need to grab the session cookie and put it in a .token file

[woven oriole]

just use the session cookie with requests to fetch for the moment

[idle rivet]

I did this yesterday. I mean, will the fetching work right after the new problem starts or will it need 1 or 2 minutes?

[potent pumice]

i've skipped day 1 and 2 for right now

just doing day 3

[woven oriole]

right after

[earnest forge]

Good luck everyone

[mossy basin]

works as soon as the countdown is over

[idle rivet]

Ok, thanks!

[signal grotto]

Hey good luck y'all!

[woven sable]

GL everyone!

[wispy ice]

t -60, i have run out of unique launch callouts

[steady berry]

1 min countdown aaa

.aoc countdown

[hidden copper]

Day 3 starts <t:1638507600:R>.

[steady berry]

aaa

[prisma sundial]

gl

[mint hornet]

good luck getting into lb, everyone!

[tulip elbow]

hf

[potent pumice]

@mossy basin your tool is great

[idle rivet]

Oh it even says Waiting for puzzle unlock!

[woven sable]

30 seconds left!

[pure saddle]

30 seconds

[woven oriole]

.aoc countdown

[hidden copper]

Day 3 starts <t:1638507600:R>.

[steady berry]

15

[woven sable]

10 seconds!

[woven oriole]

10

[steady berry]

9

[idle rivet]

gl!

[steady berry]

5

[fathom lichen]

dos attack in 5 second

[final eagle]

aight imma do this slowly this time

have fun

[hidden copper]

<@&518565788744024082> Good morning! Day 3 is ready to be attempted. View it online now at https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/3. Good luck!

[potent pumice]

wtf i have a .token file

[deep ferry]

lol

[prisma sundial]

wow i actually did really well this time

[median juniper]

.aoc leave

[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*

[prisma sundial]

which is surprising considering how much i was panicking at that wall of text

[median juniper]

.aoc unsubcribe

[hidden copper]

Command Help

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.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*

[median juniper]

.aoc unsubscribe

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[prisma sundial]

rank 45 for part 1, rank 13 for part 2 today 🙂

[hazy pendant]

ADVENT OF CODE PROTIP:
||Least is the opposite of most||

[brazen cape]

does day 2 have two parts?

[hazy pendant]

yup

[potent pumice]

.aoc lb

[hidden copper]

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

[hazy pendant]

every day has 2 parts

[dim oracle]

this is hard

[narrow crown]

gah i forgot about this ;-;

[potent pumice]

why am i having such a problem with this

my code literally works this is not a spoiler because this is the input data's result, which is shown on the page itself

[signal grotto]

i have part 1 done but 2 is... what

[potent pumice]

oh i can't read

[narrow crown]

bruhhh forgot to convert from binary to decimal

[steady berry]

yay part 1 one

[earnest forge]

I did that like 5 times lmfao

[steady berry]

yay i dont want to do part 2

ima eat

[narrow crown]

o2 generators and co2 wtf

[potent pumice]

wtf

[pine tiger]

woooooo 22nd place for pt 1

malded hard on p2 tho

wwwhat the hell how am i in second

[narrow crown]

bro white on black text is painnnn

[earnest forge]

Use Dark Reader :)

(You can force things into light mode as well)

[wary wigeon]

:/

[narrow crown]

my brain isnt comprehending what this thing is saying

part 2

[potent pumice]

can someone gimme a tldr on all of the text

[narrow crown]

literally i am rereading the same thing 20 times

[earnest forge]

Filter by most/least common first digit. Then filter those by their new most/least common second digit. Etc. etc.

[prisma sundial]

its actually pretty insane theres a 4-10 minute spread on day 3 for pt2

[pine tiger]

can't, everything in there is like 99% necessary

[potent pumice]

😔

[stable heron]

NOOO

I STARTED SO LATE

😭

[unique osprey]

.aoc lb

[hidden copper]

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

[modern harness]

I used aoc_helper for the first time tonight! Loved it! Had a nice surprise when I submitted a second try too quickly and it auto resubmitted 2 seconds later (my timer was almost done). It had resubmitted it before I even realized what happened.

[signal grotto]

PSA: leaderboard command isn't updated for like 5 more minutes

[potent pumice]

cc @mossy basin

[signal grotto]

https://i.imgur.com/JJXdSLa.png moved up a bit more on the staff lb 😎

[potent pumice]

👀 i don't see salt on that

[narrow crown]

hes too good for it

[ashen lichen]

I’ll have to play catch-up when I get home

I haven’t done any yet

[narrow crown]

hmm is it day for you

[earnest forge]

FYI salt seems to have abandoned the version of aoc_helper on pip (he's rewritten and vendored his version)

[signal grotto]

(salt has 1 done)

[ashen lichen]

Yes, I’ve just been away for a bit over a week

[sinful pawn]

I did part of the first... and then gave up

[narrow crown]

ahh

[ashen lichen]

I’ll be home in two days though

[narrow crown]

try again for the first, the second is pain tho

to read mostly

[sinful pawn]

simply because I didn't feel like noticing how many people are better than me

[narrow crown]

havent trtied it yet

[sinful pawn]

I know I could solve it... it's just... sheesh, I get it, y'all are pros

[narrow crown]

erm its very popular so theres ppl who r full sweat mode

i think i understsand one secntence of part 2!!!

[sinful pawn]

idk, I don't like reading that 2 minutes is apparently ages for some people

[wary wigeon]

Ima dewit in rust

[wary wigeon]

Day 3?

[dim oracle]

question

when it says first bit

[ripe ingot]

the first one was okay but second seems to be a killer

[dim oracle]

do we start from the front of the binary number or the back

[wary wigeon]

Havent read any, but apparently it is

[dim oracle]

bc binary goes 8,4,2,1

so which is it?

[wary wigeon]

First bit of what?

[ripe ingot]

trust me. It is!

[sinful pawn]

day 1

[wary wigeon]

Lol

[tight dune]

ayy im done

[wary wigeon]

Both?

[humble copper]

finished both parts of day 3

second part i made a stupid mistake and it cost me like 7 minutes lmao

[potent pumice]

@candid berry @signal grotto sir-lancebot#966

[hidden copper]

GitHub

aoc buff: remove the leaderboard command, and make it an updating message

[tight dune]

me2 man me2

i spent so much tim

[dusk steppe]

Using the advent of code to learn python!

[wispy ice]

oh god whats the second part

[signal grotto]

been brought up previously, will comment with details

[potent pumice]

cool

[kindred sundial]

.aoc lb

[hidden copper]

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

[kindred sundial]

oops

[unique osprey]

Filter the data based on if the current bit position is the most or least common

[hearty shuttle]

PSA, please use #advent-of-code-spoilers-archive for discussion about current day's problem or approaches

[unique osprey]

I figured understanding the problem statement would be cool here 🙂 I'll keep it over there though

[potent pumice]

when

[signal grotto]

just now 😉

[stable heron]

GAH

I STARTED LIKE 20 MINUTES LATE

😭

[signal grotto]

had to find the message link first

[signal grotto]

You're good! There will always be someone starting after you 😉

[stable heron]

i forgot it even started lmaoo

has the leaderboard updated?

[pure saddle]

well part 2

[signal grotto]

every 30 minutes, due for another update in about 8

[pure saddle]

i dont like it

[idle rivet]

Well I'm bad.

[signal grotto]

neither did I

[idle rivet]

But just got both parts.

As last person here, probably, but it was fun anyway

[potent pumice]

@signal grotto I have a solution that would keep calls to aoc down

[pure saddle]

i spent 15 mins coming up with this really verbose recursive function with tons of temporary variables, just for it to break in main input

[stable heron]

oh well

[signal grotto]

sure, like I said totally open to solutions

[stable heron]

for now ive dropped one rank

[potent pumice]

full explanation on the issue, tldr: buttons

[signal grotto]

OOH buttons ok ok

[potent pumice]

yeah 🙂

[mint hornet]

Just completed day 3 part 1, there is so much to read in part 2.

[fathom lichen]

I'm still stuck on part two. It looks like it should be working but it's not...

fun stuff

[hollow wharf]

wow day 3 part 2 seems hard

[narrow crown]

i give up im gonna have to do this tomorrow

i have math hw anyways

[hollow wharf]

.aoc

[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*

[hollow wharf]

.aoc leaderboard

[hidden copper]

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

[jade root]

yay i somehow got up from 68 to 58

[hidden copper]

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

[queen python]

day 3 part 2 hmm...

[pure saddle]

i hate part 2

im seeing other solutions and all of them are so easy to understand while i have a file of 120 lines of just 1 single functions

[jade atlas]

Take care of the part that when 0 and 1 comes similar number of times.. 1 has to be prioritized

[queen python]

I'm going in that direction lol

[queen python]

Yeah need to take that into account

[jade root]

part 2 is a pain tbh

[dim oracle]

i cant do it

it doesnt even work on the test sample

[pure saddle]

i didnt read that at first and it was a pain

[jade atlas]

Try printing every step like in the example

[fathom lichen]

you can do it.

[woven oriole]

part 2 lmfao

time to golf it now

my code looks horrible

indices everywhere

[steady berry]

with golfing it will be even horrible

😫

[woven oriole]

i hate using more lines 😩

smh

[dim oracle]

if theres more than 500 1s then 1 is the majority, what if they are equal, what should be the majority

i think it would be 0 from the instructions

but im not sute

[woven oriole]

for oxygen , 1 will be taken for co2 0

in case of equality

the json provided here for private leader board is refreshed right

[velvet stag]

pretty much

it's rigged so you don;t get several survivors at the end

oh i get it, the rigging is just having different numbers

omg

[woven oriole]

:brain_explode:

[fathom lichen]

finally... 125 minutes.. got both.

[woven oriole]

gg

[mystic plover]

bruh i got the same answer for both parts

[woven oriole]

ifkr

i did the same mistake