Happy 2024, twtxt community!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I think there is a problem related to the fitting around a corner that is unsolved. I watched a video about it a little while back.

Moving sofa problem

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org They sure are silly at times. :-) You really have to combine this event with something else, like learning a new language. Otherwise it gets boring real quick.

What I absolutely love about AoC is that it’s – indeed – a bit like school. 😅 The problems are well-defined, the inputs are well-defined, and there is a definite answer. It’s either right or wrong – period. Compared to real life and work, I welcome this very much. 🤣

@xuu@txt.sour.is Despite that these AoC math text problems are rather silly in my opinion (reminds me of an exercise in our math book where somebody wanted to carry a railroad rail around an L-shaped corner in the house and the question was how long that rail could be so that it still fits — sure, we’ve all carried several meter long railroad rails in our houses by ourselves numerous times…), these algorithms are really neat!

Happy Twixmas everyone (new word I just learned 2 min ago)

I have finally gotten around to implementing a gallery feature to timeline.

http://darch.dk/timeline/gallery?profile=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt

There is still some hiccups, like the limited caching is making it difficult to make links back to older posts not working. Maybe @eapl.me@eapl.me you can help me with that?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de So.. i eventually made it to the end on this one.. was able to reuse code from days 8 and 9!

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https://git.sour.is/xuu/advent-of-code/pulls/13/files

@movq@www.uninformativ.de so the pathfinding puzzle has arrived?

@johanbove@johanbove.info hope all goes well. my Buddy did the same but alcohol was involved so that falls on him.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de you are probably right.. there seems to be a final 10 trend found over on Reddit.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de tossing around inline ASM for the AoC..

@bmallred@staystrong.run this was a really fun run

In the holiday spirit i have donned my Santa hat. (shamelessly stolen from @movq@www.uninformativ.de)

@New_scientist@feeds.twtxt.net I hate to break it to you but that’s not really “A” I?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I wish they just muted them out instead of making it an awfully loud meep sound.

@johanbove@johanbove.info i like this

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de s/twitter\.com/nitter.net/

@prologic@twtxt.net day 6 is super easy if you have int64 and some binomial theory. Skip ahead for the easy stars and catch up!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de it shouldn’t need a full bignum implementation right? Just some left and right shifts for the sq/sqrt and carry for the addition right?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It took a little over a minute on my machine.. i should try to make it multi threaded.. 🤔

Executed in   68.96 secs    fish           external
   usr time   60.84 secs  242.00 micros   60.84 secs
   sys time   12.52 secs  252.00 micros   12.52 secs

@prologic@twtxt.net The “game” will involve racing and exploding cake - I think he got inspiration from SuperTuxKart. So will see how far we can go. He’s only five still..

@eapl.me@eapl.me I have many fond memories of Turbo pascal and Turbo C(++). They really did have a great help system. And debug tools! Its rare for language docs to be as approachable. QBasic was great. As was PHP docs when I first came into web.

@johanbove@johanbove.info With pygame or something else? 🤔

@jason@jasonsanta.xyz if you do see this.. Welcome back! 👋🏼

I am back on twtxt for now. I am using twtwt client. Don’t think that it does replies so I should try jenny with mutt again.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de haha! I’m sure they had fun working around stuff like nineight

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Dang. Really going overboard with this!

@prologic@twtxt.net I didn’t have to do much backtracking. I parsed into an AST-ish table and then just needed some lookups.

The part 2 was pretty easy to work into the AST after.

https://git.sour.is/xuu/advent-of-code-2023/commit/c894853cbd08d5e5733dfa14f22b249d0fb7b06c

Day 3 of #AdventOfCode puzzle 😅

Let’s go! 🤣

Come join us! 🤗

👋 Hey you Twtxters/Yarners 👋 Let’s get a Advent of Code leaderboard going!

Join with 1093404-315fafb8 and please use your usual Twtxt feed alias/name 👌

Twtxt/Yarn AoC > Leaderboard

@xuu@txt.sour.is Ah, you went with the “scanning” approach as well. I did that, too.

It’s quite surprising to see (imho) how many people on reddit started substituting strings (one becomes 1 etc.). That makes the puzzle much harder by introducing nasty corner cases.

(Maybe I was just lucky this time to pick the correct approach right from the start. 🤣 Or maybe it’s a bit of experience from doing past AoC events …)

~22h to go for the 3rd #AdventOfCode puzzle (Day 3) 😅

Come join us!

👋 Hey you Twtxters/Yarners 👋 Let’s get a Advent of Code leaderboard going!

Join with 1093404-315fafb8 and please use your usual Twtxt feed alias/name 👌

Twtxt/Yarn AoC > Leaderboard

@prologic@twtxt.net oh snap!

Starting Advent of Code today, a day late but oh well 😅 Also going to start a Twtxt/Yarn leaderboard. Join with 1093404-315fafb8 and please use your usual Twtxt feed alias/name 👌

Fun! Loved it. Certainly there’s a M-x for twtxt as well. Gonna check later. https://xkcd.com/378 :-P

Does twtxt append new twts??

@prologic@twtxt.net you must not have any friends with plex shares. I got one.

@prologic@twtxt.net I long ago moved my evernote content to joplin.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net I feel like this is a bit of a common pattern? Company builds an awesome product, makes it free for a lot of users, then create additional features and paid plans, makes a tonne of money. But then later decide they need to make more money, so focus on converting the free users to paid users. Hmmm 🤔 Surely this can’t be the only viable business model? 🤔

Obligatory Twtxt post: I love how I can simply use a terminal window and some very basic tools (echo, scp, ssh) to publish thoughts, as they pop up, onto the Internet in a structured way, that can be found and perhaps even appreciated.

Recived webmention from http://algorave.dk/bbs.txt#2023-11-27T15:54:08Z mentioning http://darch.dk/twtxt.txt

@eapl.me@eapl.me This is cool Windows history. Thanks for sharing

@darch@neotxt.dk webmentions are dispatched from here https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/src/branch/main/internal/post_handler.go#L160-L169

@prologic@twtxt.net its not.. There are going to be 1000s of copy cat apps built on AI. And they will all die out when the companies that have the AI platforms copy them. It happened all the time with windows and mac os. And iphone.. Like flashlight and sound recorder apps.

@prologic@twtxt.net the new product was GPTs. A way to create tailored bots for specific use cases. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts (fun fact: I did an internal hackathon where we made something like this for $work onboarding. And I won a prize!)

The competed project is poe https://quorablog.quora.com/Introducing-creator-monetization-for-Poe which is basically the same idea. Make a AI bot tailored to a specific domain of knowledge. And monitize it.

The timing fits very well as openAI announced it just a few weeks ago.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I guess so. It’s weird and obsessive. They are compulsively monopolistic anymore.

Talking in the local dev group about twtxt. Let’s see if new hackers join the conversation.

@prologic@twtxt.net the going theory is that openAI announced a new product that pretty much blew up the project of one of the board members. So that board member got 3 others to vote to fire Sam.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I played that DOS Tetris game too over and over on my PC, mezmerized over the 3D graphics.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks for reaching out - just general wonkiness with the Epson printing job configuration UI. They offer Fedora software, but it seems that not all features are supported

I have added a webmention endpoint to https://darch.dk using https://webmention.io - let see if it work from neotxt.dk to @sorenpeter@darch.dk

@Phys_org@feeds.twtxt.net We’re going to be killed by these people’s excesses, almost literally. This ratio is indefensible.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I lasted for a long time.. Not sure where or when it was “got”. We had been having a cold go around with the kiddos for about a week when the wife started getting sicker than normal. Did a test and she was positive. We tested the rest of the fam and got nothing. Till about 2 days later and myself and the others were positive. It largely hasn’t been too bad a little feaver and stuffy noses.

But whatever it was that hit a few days ago was horrible. Like whatever switch in my head that goes to sleep mode was shut off. I would lay down and even though I felt sleepy, I couldn’t actually go to sleep. The anxiety hit soon after and I was just awake with no relief. And it persisted that way for three nights. I got some meds from the clinic that seemed to finally get me to sleep.

Now the morning after I realized for all that time a part of me was missing. I would close my eyes and it would just go dark. No imagination, no pictures, nothing. Normally I can visualize things as I read or think about stuff.. But for the last few days it was just nothing. The waking up to it was quite shocking.

Though its just the first night.. I guess I’ll have to see if it persists. 🤞