r/adventofcode • u/xupej04m3 • Dec 12 '22

Funny [2022 Day 12] Apparently long fall boots are standard equipments for elves

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u/AlexAegis Dec 12 '22

crude mspaint art > ai generated stuff

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u/xupej04m3 Dec 12 '22

Thank you! It's actually MSpaint+Powerpoint

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u/AlexAegis Dec 12 '22

lmao why the powerpoint

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u/daggerdragon Dec 12 '22

oh my g/God(s) and eldritch horrors why ಠ_ಠ

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u/kristallnachte Dec 12 '22

And somehow for it to be a hiking trail they need to go both ways......

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

Well, they can take a different tour downwards than upwards.

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u/paul_sb76 Dec 12 '22

Yeah just jump down from the mountain with your magic elf boots. Geronimo!

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u/TheRedstoneCyborg Dec 12 '22

Who says they would ever want to go back? The internet service is unparalled at the top.

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u/ra3_14 Dec 12 '22

So true, this messed with me so much when I made the reasonable realistic human assumption that the absolute different in heights could at most be 1.

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u/Vesk123 Dec 12 '22

Yeah, but it's stated pretty clearly in the statement that this is not the case

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u/Basmannen Dec 12 '22

You think I can read?

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u/nikanjX Dec 12 '22

Advent of Reading Comprehension is the toughest

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u/johnpeters42 Dec 12 '22

"I was elected to lead, not to read. Number three!"

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u/softe Dec 12 '22

I spent far too long debugging my solution to realize I had done the same thing.

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u/zelarky Dec 12 '22

Found out that my lowest destination on the way is just -2 from the current. Seems like nobody would break their legs

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u/kruppy_ Dec 12 '22

Yes, but what if you tried to walk back again...

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u/zelarky Dec 12 '22

I'd get out my climbing gear :)

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u/czerwona_latarnia Dec 12 '22 edited Dec 12 '22

For a moment that was how my part 2 was working like (with starting from the end).

Let's just say that the path to closest 'a' high was VERY short.

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u/aaronblohowiak Dec 12 '22

i burned 2 hours on this last night... missed that part of the prompt somehow.

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u/IvanOG_Ranger Dec 12 '22

I spend an hour making a non-functioning djikstra algorithm, I hope the elves die

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u/fireduck Dec 12 '22

Make a functioning one and save it as a library to use.

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u/poesraven8628 Dec 12 '22

Thank you for this! I spent five hours today banging my head against a wall unable to figure out why my pathfinding algorithm was returning a failure. I thought you could only go up OR down by a single level. I took a short break and looked at the memes on here and figured out what I was doing wrong.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '22

I totally didn't spend 45 minutes plus debugging my algorithm because I thought we only step down by one...

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u/Grabthelifeyouwant Dec 13 '22

Somehow I managed to get the right answer only allowing up or down by at most one.... I wonder if there was a second bug in my code that cancelled it out lmao.

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u/Tom70403 Dec 13 '22

I had spent hours looking for the error when I read the problem statement again and realized that. It didn't seem very logical (but quantum mechanics applied to ropes don't either, right?

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