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   screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 13:36:39 JST screwlisp

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   • Wilfred Hughes

   @wilfredh interesting fact. My crowning moment back when I did Challenges was realising an advanced problem had an analytic solution that I just happened to be aware of, though this wasn't necessary to get the points. Now I'm a bit suspicious of what Challenges are.

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     Wilfred Hughes (wilfredh@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 13:36:40 JST Wilfred Hughes

     TIL Advent of Code and Project Euler will deliberately look for puzzles where the naive solution is worse than quadratic.

     This ensures that people can solve them with any programming language. You don't want fast languages to be able to use the naive solution.

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