2024-12-02 00:02:28 Pretty good, though it's the end of my time off of work. Back to it tomorrow. How are you? 2024-12-02 00:24:08 Not dead yet! 2024-12-02 00:49:29 Chairman of the board of a company I used to work for said that "if my feet hit the floor in the morning when I wake up, it's a good day." I figure that sounds pretty right. 2024-12-02 00:58:13 *crack* keep working, serf! you should just be happy to be alive. 2024-12-02 01:00:06 you should, yes 2024-12-02 01:00:11 most people aren't alive 2024-12-02 01:02:32 however, counter point: i'm the most important person in the universe 2024-12-02 16:30:56 Anyone going to do some Advent of Code in Forth this year? 2024-12-02 16:31:06 I've just been busy and ill recently, and now my wife's going down with it, so there's not much chance of me keeping up 2024-12-02 16:31:06 But I might do some later 2024-12-02 16:31:30 I think with Forth it's okay to submit late, submitting at all is a feat :P 2024-12-02 16:38:03 the idea of having time to work on somebody else's made up programming challenges is completely foreign to me 2024-12-02 16:39:03 Well the point of this thing is to be fun, which I think has been lost on a lot of participants but I am forgetting that 2024-12-02 16:39:35 I think there's a lot of kids doing it desperate for stuff to put on their CV, who will over-engineer it all in Rust or something 2024-12-02 16:39:58 I won't judge because I started my career in a *much* more favourable job market 2024-12-02 16:40:26 but even if for fun, i have an endless backlog of my own unfinished projects that i could be working on instead 2024-12-02 16:40:29 If you don't enjoy small programming problems then don't play 2024-12-02 16:40:42 Likewise if you'd rather do something else.... 2024-12-02 16:41:25 Some years I've not done them because I've been more interested in what I was currently doing, but I do enjoy the idea of an advent calendar of programming problems 2024-12-02 16:42:00 My issue is they get a little bit too much, I think it would be better if they were all short/sweet 2024-12-02 16:42:56 There's also a social aspect zelgomer 2024-12-02 16:43:34 Some people like to do stuff with other people, foreign as that may sound :P 2024-12-02 16:45:51 that's disgusting 2024-12-02 16:47:37 I really hate the way the whole job selection process has changed. When I was young it was enough to go to school, do well in your classes, and graduate. These days it seems like the kids have to have a whole ream of accomplishments just to get considered. 2024-12-02 16:48:09 Which leads to all kinds of "accomplishment markets" trying to rope people in. 2024-12-02 16:53:49 ACTION ticks off "make snorting noises about kids these days" off daily accomplishments list 2024-12-02 16:54:49 Yeah there is a lot of competition and the criteria isn't that smart because hiring isn't exactly perfect 2024-12-02 16:55:53 Also states back certain kinds of education more than others, like loans or grants for degrees that cost more and more, and are quite often irrelevant to work 2024-12-02 16:56:10 Or not that relevant, probably also depends on country 2024-12-02 19:27:10 veltas: Get well soon. I just looked at the first day of AOC2024 and I can already see different ways to solve it, using >R R>, two pointers with HERE, just inserting each pair to a linked list with insertion sort, that's it. 2024-12-02 19:37:59 ACTION has been watching too much of PirateSoftware streams where he is playing Ashes of Creation 2024-12-02 19:38:36 I went, wut? what is Ashes of Creation 2024? But is of course Advent of Code 2024-12-02 19:39:17 i thought maybe alexandria ocassional cortex had decided to run for president and nobody told her it's already over 2024-12-02 19:39:34 CS.. computer science, or counter strike? 2024-12-02 19:40:10 I recall of hearing of old board game called Counter Strike. 2024-12-02 19:40:27 but it involved counters 2024-12-02 19:40:34 Clock Smash, if you've ever watched certain chess grandmasters 2024-12-02 19:59:22 gives 'Punch out' a new meaning. 2024-12-02 20:00:21 i remember that game 2024-12-02 21:07:13 I started doing AoC in Forth - just to have little projects to help me learn Forth. Tbh the somebody else's project helps with the time. No endless optimising. If I've solved the solution move on. Forth is very different to my day job which makes it fun puzzle 2024-12-02 21:08:04 Is anyone posting their solutions to AoC in Forth? I'd be interested in seeing much better ways to solve the problems than my own 2024-12-02 21:08:17 Which is any other solution written in Forth