cabidaher

My brain overheated just reading the words at first. Great puzzle!

Pitching in to your and parent comment but from the junior side to say that yes, this definitely helps :)

Thank you for sharing this. Many laughs were had!

The company you were applying to sure missed out!

Where can one find a list of those watches/manufacturers?

> just solving the problem for the input data

I think a lot of people here would be surprised how much of a step up this is from classic leetcode or DSA stuff. I have been involved in introducing people to AoC and helping them and the amount of people who have basic knowledge of algorithms but struggled to parse the input from a file was a little shocking to me at first. Of course, I do not blame anyone for not knowing something, classic academic courses can be misguided sometimes.

This doesn't negate the fact that there is somewhat of a lack in problems with more outside world interaction and it would be cool to see more of that.

I think this is because for a long time on the internet there was this intense discussion of "introvert vs extrovert" and memes about what it means to be in each camp that we have forgotten that it can vary greatly from one person to another and from one setting to another. It was also somehow "cool" to be an introvert on the internet, in some circles.

These days I feel like those conversations have dies down. And I've also realized that I', more social that I'd previously liked to admit. Maybe age also plays a factor here.

As a non-architect, I would love if you could explain some of what makes the non-duck designs _so_ horrible. Some of them looked more than fine to me at first glance. It's also something that can be rerun over and over with little interaction in-between runs so one could generate a handful of designs starting from different seeds and get inspiration.

Thanks for the tip!

Thank you for your reply. I had suspected it was the second chance pool but I had never seen that mechanism in action so I thought it'd get re-posted, not that it would appear as if it had just been posted. I had read it when it first appeared.

Wasn't this posted here a few days ago?

Did you experiment with different ways to format those included headers? Asking because I am doing something similar to that as well.

Anthropic publishes quite a lot too though.