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Re: Advent of Code 2024

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Why? Solving interesting problems to learn is a worthwhile goal. Why should it matter to you that others are "cheating"?

Because competing against other people is the fun part for some people. Why not allow everyone to use stockfish at chess tournaments?

This is stupid though. Advent of Code Leaderbords were always full of cheaters. At least since 2020 when I first started. If you want competitive programming, AoC is not the place for that.

Re: Advent of Code 2024

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Is there a way to override the CSS (on Chromium)? The body font and weight, Source Code Pro is far too thin and far too wide and gives me a headache (and has regularly turned me off AoC). I'd like to change it to `sans-serif`.

You can hit the "Reader" button on Firefox (ctrl-alt-r), I think Chrome also has that? Or an extension that does the same thing would probably work.

Bit simpler than writing an override or fetching the HTML.

Re: Advent of Code 2024

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Is there a way to override the CSS (on Chromium)? The body font and weight, Source Code Pro is far too thin and far too wide and gives me a headache (and has regularly turned me off AoC). I'd like to change it to `sans-serif`.

There are CLI tools to fetch and submit solutions. At least one of them allows you to download the puzzle description as markup: https://github.com/scarvalhojr/aoc-cli

Re: Advent of Code 2024

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And then allow aimbots for counterstrike, stockfish at chess tournaments and Epo on the tour de France. The leader board is intended for people to compete against each other, one could make a separate leaderboard for LLM, kind of similar to the chess AI leaderboards.

> allow aimbots for counterstrike I'm not played counterstrike in over a decade, so you got me wondering - are there matches where everyone uses aimbots? What does the game look like then? I suppose there's a new mix of strategies evolving, with a higher focus on the macro movement planning?

> are there matches where everyone uses aimbots?

Yes

> What does the game look like then?

I have only observed the games, it requires a lot of hiding.

Most of the time the winning method is to act at the very last second and hope the other player is distracted.

Re: Advent of Code 2024

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Solving interesting problems to learn is a worthwhile goal. Why should it matter to you that others are "cheating"?

Because competing against other people is the fun part for some people. Why not allow everyone to use stockfish at chess tournaments?

“For _some_ people” is at odds with “_completely_ worthless”, don’t you think?

Re: Advent of Code 2024

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9 seconds to get both stars is absolutely insane - there had to be some AI assistance here. Come to think of it, a pipeline that feeds the problem text into an LLM to generate a solution and automatically runs it on the input and attempts to submit the solution, doing this N times in parallel, could certainly solve the first few days' problem in 9 seconds.

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Re: Advent of Code 2024

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Is there a way to override the CSS (on Chromium)? The body font and weight, Source Code Pro is far too thin and far too wide and gives me a headache (and has regularly turned me off AoC). I'd like to change it to `sans-serif`.

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Re: Advent of Code 2024

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9 seconds to get both stars is absolutely insane - there had to be some AI assistance here. Come to think of it, a pipeline that feeds the problem text into an LLM to generate a solution and automatically runs it on the input and attempts to submit the solution, doing this N times in parallel, could certainly solve the first few days' problem in 9 seconds.

As with real life, the speed generally doesn't matter as long as you get a working solution and you find it fun. If you find "copy and paste into an LLM and then copy and paste the answer back out" fun, then I suppose you do you.

I didn't realise it was be timed, which is good because I casually set up a new rig to give future puzzles some kind of rig. I used C# which, although probably more wordy than other solutions, did the job and LINQ made light work of the list operations. Ended up with about 6.5 minutes for each one but most of that was refactoring out of pedantry.

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