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Re: Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

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Post by [deleted] »

skywhopper wrote: post #19
stiray wrote: post #12

I am looking at advent of code for years but never tried. Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account. I will wait for the next year, maybe 2024 Advent of Code will be less intrusive. If not... I can live without it. A hint to the authors for simple load/save, far simpler than what you have now, without use of intrusive 3rd party providers: use Digest::SHA qw(hmac_sha2…

I would hardly call it intrusive. The premise of the game involves tracking stats over days and years, so they need a login system. Using external trusted identity providers is a lot safer for their users than if they tried to implement their own login system. Anyway, don’t hold your breath.

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Re: Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

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Post by Aurornis »

stiray wrote: post #12

I am looking at advent of code for years but never tried. Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account. I will wait for the next year, maybe 2024 Advent of Code will be less intrusive. If not... I can live without it. A hint to the authors for simple load/save, far simpler than what you have now, without use of intrusive 3rd party providers: use Digest::SHA qw(hmac_sha2…

> Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account.

So take 30 seconds to create a throwaway Reddit account with a throwaway 10 minute email account and use that?

I guarantee you’ll be spending 100X more time on the problems than you would in creating a throwaway login if that’s your concern.

Using 3rd party login providers is just a simple way to run a website without having to build, run, and maintain your own user accounts and login system. You can see that the permissions they ask from GitHub are minimal.

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Post by Aurornis »

rschiavone wrote: post #14

Opening up a tab to quickly solve the problem with ChatGPT in order to climb the leaderboard is the modern Tragedy of the Commons.

I suspect they tested their problems against ChatGPT while working on them.

ChatGPT doesn’t magically solve everything. There are a lot of cases where it will choke or lead people astray. If I was building a challenge like this in 2023 I’d test the problems against ChatGPT and put the ones where ChatGPT fails at the beginning to weed out the ChatGPT players.

Re: Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

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Post by berkes »

Part two was exceptionally hard.

Many people on reddit reporting they were hit by one edge case that's not covered in the examples. But my implementation passed these edge cases too. I was hit by another edge case. So there are at least two edge-cases (which are in the actual data) that aren't covered in the examples or the description.

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Post by Waterluvian »

Every year I want to love this. Every year I get four days in before it feels like work.

I think I’m just the wrong audience, but I really do want something this well-produced but with perhaps a very shallow diff little curve, bordering on just effortless fun.

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Post by zerr »

berkes wrote: post #24

Part two was exceptionally hard. Many people on reddit reporting they were hit by one edge case that's not covered in the examples. But my implementation passed these edge cases too. I was hit by another edge case. So there are at least two edge-cases (which are in the actual data) that aren't covered in the examples or the description.

Generally, such edge-cases usually make the solution ugly and the process unpleasant.

The aim of such puzzles should be a pleasant process culminating with a beautiful solution.

Re: Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

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Post by Xeamek »

skywhopper wrote: post #19
stiray wrote: post #12

I am looking at advent of code for years but never tried. Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account. I will wait for the next year, maybe 2024 Advent of Code will be less intrusive. If not... I can live without it. A hint to the authors for simple load/save, far simpler than what you have now, without use of intrusive 3rd party providers: use Digest::SHA qw(hmac_sha2…

I would hardly call it intrusive. The premise of the game involves tracking stats over days and years, so they need a login system. Using external trusted identity providers is a lot safer for their users than if they tried to implement their own login system. Anyway, don’t hold your breath.

Parent calls the auth providers (google, github, etc.) as the intrussive ones, not the AoC itself

Re: Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

#30

Post by probably_wrong »

stiray wrote: post #12

I am looking at advent of code for years but never tried. Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account. I will wait for the next year, maybe 2024 Advent of Code will be less intrusive. If not... I can live without it. A hint to the authors for simple load/save, far simpler than what you have now, without use of intrusive 3rd party providers: use Digest::SHA qw(hmac_sha2…

I logged in with my Reddit account in a previous edition. This year I deleted my Reddit account in protest. Therefore, goodbye AoC history.

It put a stark ~~contrast~~ focus on why I don't use those signups options: because the two times I've used it it came back to bite me (the other one being when Google blocked my account for months).

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