Before smartphones people used to use the Sony Camcorders, but even though they still exist today, they’re uber expensive 😂

@kiwu@twtxt.net Only thing i can find that meets your requirements is the ORDRO HDV-V12 HD 1080P Video Camera Recorder Is 80m of video rexorsinimg enough for you?

I’m gonna ask here again because I’m really frustrated and literally no one else is responding anywhere can u guys please help me find a good video camera the biggest think I want is long battery life but I also want it to be cheap like under $200, if you yourself don’t know please ask a friend because I am not a tech nerd and looking for stuff like this is very hard for me

@bender@twtxt.net Haha 🤣 I need a
good break after this insane year 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net dayum! Australians truly know how to vacay! 🥳

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org what’s on the one on the left, back? Looks… enticing! 🤤

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Not for another two weeks i’m afraid 🤣

Let’s hope that the two cakes turn out better than last week: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/tote-und-lebendige-kuchen-2025-12-02.jpg Got some gingerbread as backup. Yeah, best lighting…

@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net Nice! And thanks for the additional info. :-)

Day 2 was pretty tough on my old hardware. Part 1 originally took 16 minutes, then I got it down to 9 seconds – only to realize later that my solution abused some properties of my particular input. A correct solution will probably take about 30 seconds. 🫤

Part 2 took 29 minutes this morning. I wrote an optimized version but haven’t tested it yet. I hope it’ll be under a minute.

Python 1 feels really slow, even compared to Java 1. And these first puzzles weren’t even computationally intensive. We’ll see how far I’ll make it …

https://movq.de/v/f831d98103/day02.jpg

@prologic@twtxt.net Using your own language?! That’s really nice! I hope you get home soon so you can give the code a try. 😅

That’s Bảo Tháp of the Trấn Quốc Pagoda, on a small island near the southeastern shore of West Lake (Hồ Tây), in Hanoi. Oldest Buddhist pagoda in Hanoi.

Saw this thing today 🧐

I actually can’t progress to day two till I get home 🤣 – I haven’t pushed the code for the mu compiler yet 🤦‍♂️ So no-one can check my work even if they were so kind 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Amen and al ha 😂🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Haha 😂 It was such good beer 👌

@prologic@twtxt.net maybe they should dedicate one of their advent days to make sure their site is responsive. 😂

I see beer, and I upvote. I see “amazinf” beer, and I am thirsty already, and it’s not even 07:00! 😂

For those visiting Hanoi in the Old Quarters that are beer snobs like me; highly recommend this place called Local Craft Beer 🤩

Found this place in Hanoi in Vietnam 🥳 Amazinf beer!!! 🍺

completely untested as i have no remote way of running mu code from Vietnam 🤣

AoC Day #1 solution (mu): https://gist.mills.io/prologic/d3c22bcbc22949939b715a850fe63131

Hmmmm the AoC site is not mobile friendly 😢 Can someone post the puzzles as Twts? 🤣

The most interesting part about mu is that the language is actually self-hosted and written in itself. There is a stage zero compound written and go on a stage one compiler written in mu

Thinking about doing Advent of Code in my own tiny language mu this year.

mu is:

• Dynamically typed
  
• Lexically scoped with closures
  
• Has a Go-like curly-brace syntax
  
• Built around lists, maps, and first-class functions
  

Key syntax:

• Functions use fn and braces:
  

fn add(a, b) {
    return a + b
}

• Variables use := for declaration and = for assignment:
  

x := 10
x = x + 1

• Control flow includes if / else and while:
  

if x > 5 {
    println("big")
} else {
    println("small")
}

while x < 10 {
    x = x + 1
}

• Lists and maps:
  

nums := [1, 2, 3]
nums[1] = 42

ages := {"alice": 30, "bob": 25}
ages["bob"] = ages["bob"] + 1

Supported types:

• int
  
• bool
  
• string
  
• list
  
• map
  
• fn
  
• nil
  

mu feels like a tiny little Go-ish, Python-ish language — curious to see how far I can get with it for Advent of Code this year. 🎄

Oh dear god 😱 The level of pollution on Hanoi is insane 🥺 I can’t stop coughing outside 🤯