They also order from Acme

Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.

It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

Sorry, but I really hope people who love THE WILD ROBOT movie know it was inspired by my book. It's mentioned in the credits but most people don't read that stuff. If you love the movie you should check out the book! There's more to the story and it's a quick read.

You married well

Yeah, there's no way in hell. Someone who was really good in networkx or something similar could do it in a couple of minutes, but I don't think you can grok the problem statement/file format fast enough to do it in 30 seconds.

A screen shot of my Advent Of Code events page that show that I have 500 starts (which means I've completed all 10 years)

I've completed "Code Chronicle" - Day 25 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/25

My completionist side is happy, 500 stars!

This was a fun year. Days 17, 21, and 24 were all especially nice challenges

I've completed "Crossed Wires" - Day 24 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/24

It's been a while (decades) since I did a bitslice architecture, but I managed to make it work. Also my most manual answer in a long time.

github.com/lvaughn/adve...

That last bullet point takes some real work, but it sounds like he managed it.

I'm doing a lot of technical analysis these days and nothing raises red flags higher than the overuse of buzzwords to explain commodity technologies.

Boring technologies that just work are exciting. It means your customers can buy your product and move on to something else. Focus on that.

I just completed "Restroom Redoubt" - Day 14 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/14

Oh I see, we're going to have one of *those* puzzles today

Scores from Advent Of Code, showing on day 11 that part 1 took 8:59 (and ranked 1897), but part 2 was done by 9:40 and the rank was down to 300.

I've completed "Plutonian Pebbles" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/11

What happens when you over-engineer part 1 of your solution: part 2 goes really quickly and your rank improves a lot.

Frost on the spider web this morning

I did one small optimization that cut my runtime by 70%. I have a path in my head to improve it well beyond that. Or, I could sleep, which is sounding like a good idea right now :-)

I just completed "Disk Fragmenter" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/9

Top 1000 for the first time this year. Part 2 was running slow, so I got up to get a drink and think about how to make it faster, and when I got back it was done. Still, I should improve it.

It’s hard work for sure.

If you’re going to be like that…

advent/2024/5/part_1.py at main · lvaughn/advent Contribute to lvaughn/advent development by creating an account on GitHub.

I actually wrote a bubble sort for the first time since the early 1990's: github.com/lvaughn/adve...

I just completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/5

Got my editor fired up, I'm logged in, and I'm ready to start #adventOfCode 2024.

Let the nerdery begin!!!

GTNP is my happy place.

The ribs are how you know it’s authentic

I feel for your crew at The Onion. How do you do satire after news days like today?!

At this rate I'm honestly a little scared about any Friday afternoon news dumps this week.

When I think they've hit rock bottom the bust out a pick axe and keep on going

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,490!

Got to see the aurora tonight

I miss having that kind of metabolism