Not an algorithm or theorem, but specializing to the input is a good general tip to at least get an answer ime

In terms of algorithms: flood fill is useful, a few other graph algos like min-cut/max-flow come in useful sometimes.

… Huh, hold on. Hunter fell into a pit of bones, no? Whose bones are they? This Belos is a good guy so…

Edit: they appear to be animal bones instead of human/witch/grimwalker

Sounds like you want https://diyhrt.wiki/. I’d also look around for places specifically for that (avoiding the “PM a random person”), and ask them what you posted here.

Be warned that depending on your identity and all that you might end up dysphoric (depending on your dose and genetics), but maybe not since you said you’re nb/agender, idk how it works for y’all. Be careful is all.

There are a lot of people participating. Some of 'em are bound to be really really good, and also get lucky!

The timeouts are 1 minute for the first 5 attempts, then 5 minutes.

People are just really used to AoC’s format and use languages/frameworks that are extremely concise

I’ve got a really nice setup with benchmarks, auto-input-fetching and solution upload and such, written in Rust, so I’m sticking with that. I kinda wanted to try Odin, but december really snuck up on me, and I didn’t have time to set it up or really get familiar with it.

Iterators and slicing and such are all just… so nice for parsing streams.

Do advertisers maybe require a bit of JS to be run to validate a click? I can’t imagine they’re happy to lose money to completely invalid clicks…

That’s okay

Nope, western Europe.

I’m left-handed and really good at it

Actually that “brain stops developing at 25” is a misconception, the study that spawned it just ran out of funding when the subjects were 25 and didn’t see the brain development slowing down, iirc (no source on hand it’s past midnight here).

Yeah, did:web exists, but I still called it centralized because it still relies on did:plc pretty much everywhere (though honestly domain name handles might actually be did:web, not sure). Didn’t know about that dual setup by Bluesky though!

I did notice the @handle.invalid! Thanks!

My understanding was that activitypub was basically a rough formalization of existing protocols, designed to be as flexible as possible. More a template than a real protocol. Unfortunately mastodon’s popularity basically made a bunch of things de-facto obligatory but not well documented, and there’s still a bunch of ways to do… anything.

That link doesn’t work for me, but I ended up finding a post by them that seems to correspond. Good to know, thanks! Seems like it’s realistic but expensive still (150$/mo?), and it’s not gonna get cheaper… I hope they figure out a way to make them less centralized.

I believe that’s your handle, not your identity. Your handle resolves to your identity, but your identity isn’t directly tied to it, in case you lose the domain.

The aggregator is called the Relay, and I haven’t even found anything suggesting one could realistically selfhost it. Then you need to handle the massive stream of data coming through it with AppViews, which are tough to handle too (there are a few but not many iirc).

That said, I am also impressed with the thought behind ATProtocol. It seems much more robust and defined than ActivityPub.

Bluesky’s federation model is actually quite interesting, they go for a very portable approach vs activitypub’s instance-basis. Unfortunately, there’s still a massive centralization point (the main relay, the only thing that can really handle the firehose), and identity is also centralized, albeit has mechanisms to be decentralized.

How the hell does Vee know that lmao

He did, but that could reasonably be explained away as “incredibly naïve and it’s not direct harm”. That said he probably would have instead tried to talk to Belos if he really was that naïve… hm.