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"One thing I would recommend is if you’re going to cancel your subscription to the Washington Post, don’t entirely remove those dollars from the news space. Take that money and at least invest it in an organization or a publication that you think is aligned with your values."

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In this season's performance of "MAGA Presents: Third Reich Revisited", the role of Dachau will be played by Guantanamo, and the role of Poland will be performed by Mexico. www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-...

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Remember that scene in "Handmaid's Tale" where the women in the coffee shop suddenly find that their credit cards no longer work?

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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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[snorts]

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I just completed "Reindeer Maze" - Day 16 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/16 #perl Finally. This shouldn't have been that hard.

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It's not that we couldn't satisfy the poor, it's that the rich can never be satisfied.

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I donate $26/year to Wikipedia, because I'm positive I get 50 cents/week value from it. Now that I know it pisses off Elon Musk, the value just went to infinity.

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#AdventOfCode Day 24, part 1. Took a hot minute to remember how to do a cheap-and-easy recursive descent parser.

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I just completed "LAN Party" - Day 23 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/23 #perl

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#AdventOfCode Day 21. Uh oh. Short input, long problem.

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Impressive how fast Wikipedia updated its article on the fair catch kick rule.

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I just completed "Linen Layout" - Day 19 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/19 #perl Did not expect an easy one this far into the event. Recursion with caching for the win.

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I just completed "RAM Run" - Day 18 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/18 #perl Another shortest-path on a grid. Spent all day thinking about how to do part 2. Finally realized I don't need to write any code; just use part 1 solution to bisect the problem.

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I just completed "Chronospatial Computer" - Day 17 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/17 A little assembly language emulation for part 1. Part 2 took a while to reverse engineer and see the pattern of 3-bit sequences. #perl

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Day 16. Oh look, it's a twisty little maze of passages, all alike. Or maybe it's a little maze of twisty passages, or possibly a twisty maze of little passages.

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I just completed "Restroom Redoubt" - Day 14 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/14 #perl Big WTF moment when I read part 2. No idea how to detect a sort-of-random shape. Gave in and got a clue from Reddit. Simplest thing that might work, does indeed work.

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I've completed "Claw Contraption" - Day 13 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/13 #perl. A source and destination on a grid, with varying costs per move. This must be a shortest-path search problem, right? No, it's not.

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I just completed "Garden Groups" - Day 12 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/12 #perl I had the concept of a plan from the start, but the execution was terrible. Flood-fill and edge detection. Wasted so much time worrying about nested regions.

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I just completed "Plutonian Pebbles" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/11 #perl Part 1 emulates the description. I paid for that memory, and by God, I'm going to use it. Part 2 calculates with recursion. Caching makes it really fast.

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I've completed "Hoof It" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/10 #perl Search algorithms. Stack vs. recursion. Third cup of coffee got it right.

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I just completed "Disk Fragmenter" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/9 #perl Got on the right track quickly, but couldn't nail it down all day. github.com/boblied/aoc-...

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I've completed "Resonant Collinearity" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/8 #perl An easy one for Sunday morning, helped by having developed a Grid library object from last year to take care of the fiddly bits at the edges. github.com/boblied/aoc-...

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I just completed "Bridge Repair" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/7 #perl github.com/boblied/aoc-... Stupid ways to fail: stashed the input in a hash, which eliminated duplicate values, so the sum was always too small.

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I just completed "Guard Gallivant" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/6 Brute force, in the end. Done beats pretty. #perl

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I just completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/5 #perl Well, that took longer than I thought it would. github.com/boblied/aoc-...

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I just completed "Ceres Search" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/4 #perl

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DuckDuckGo is a better search engine, and they have ethics too. Bonus: they support #perl. spreadprivacy.com/2024-duckduc...

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I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3 #perl

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Tomorrow’s lesson on statistics will be “regression to the mean.” Wordle 1,257 2/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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