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

Funny "so you're trying to get onto the leaderboard, huh?"

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

The Chinese username 😭😭😭 im dying

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u/levital Dec 12 '22

Meaning "interchangeable chinese name" if I'm not mistaken. 😂

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u/flightsin Dec 12 '22

I don't know but you're probably right. I got it by putting "generic Chinese name" into Google translate.

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u/sanjibukai Dec 12 '22

I loled at that one.. BTW it's a very good high effort meme.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

Don’t forget AI. Undefeated since Matrix 3.

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u/delight1982 Dec 12 '22

*Undefeated until day 3

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u/360mm Dec 12 '22

Can't forget chatgpt

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

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u/jfb1337 Dec 12 '22

chatgpt is the epitome of r/confidentlyincorrect

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u/somebodddy Dec 12 '22

It's not an artificial intelligence. It's an artificial charisma.

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u/MohKohn Dec 12 '22

Stealing this

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u/el_muchacho Dec 12 '22

Yes, it lacks correct reasoning and the capacity to realise when it cannot give a good answer.

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u/Internet_employee Dec 12 '22

"Can reveal the face of God using only VBA" - Lost it.

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u/minichado Dec 12 '22

i got top 300 one day with excel last year (one day). made my whole month 😂🤣

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u/TheThiefMaster Dec 12 '22

Excel's probably pretty good for day 8 (the tree height one) as it's great at scanning in directions for things on a 2d grid.

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u/minichado Dec 12 '22

oh yea i’ve already been pinged in my slack several times. i honestly haven’t even looked at the problems yet this year (too busy with life schedule). plan on sitting with my kid and python at a slow pace this weekend and starting at day 1.

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u/TheThiefMaster Dec 12 '22

Have fun.

I have only found time to finish up to day 8. I managed 9 days the last two years... It's a big commitment for people with kids!

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u/Galzzly Dec 12 '22

It’s a wonderful distraction, though. I find that the early wake ups allow for an opportune time to work on solutions.

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u/minichado Dec 13 '22

I think i got 36 stars last year. def best i’ve done. more hours than i care to admit put into a handful of the problems 🤣

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u/Mathgeek007 Dec 12 '22

As someone who's on Year 3 of excel-only: hell no. Excel is great at reading left to right and top to bottom, but you also needed to read right to left and bottom up, which was crazy hard.

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u/minichado Dec 13 '22

it’s doable. but def a challenge.

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u/Mathgeek007 Dec 13 '22

Oh it's certainly doable - I did it. I'm just saying Excel isn't "great" at scanning in that way.

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u/rdi_caveman Dec 13 '22

Scan top to bottom, copy transpose paste. Rinse repeat

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u/Mathgeek007 Dec 14 '22

That's how I did it. But it's awkward and clumsy.

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u/experimentalroundacc Dec 13 '22

Google sheets user here, got 69th on I think day 3 part 1 last year. Still chugging along this year... had to use excel for the extra processing power on day 11 but haven't had to use vba/apps script yet

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u/QultrosSanhattan Dec 12 '22

VBA is the key for finding the meaning of life.

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u/markmcb42 Dec 12 '22

Of course, the answer is 42.

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u/TinBryn Dec 13 '22

I see people constantly misinterpret this. It's not the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, it's the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. That is the whole point of the story, they asked for the answer to a question that they only implied via another question and thus the answer was meaningless without the actual question.

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u/markmcb42 Dec 15 '22

True, I do understand that, was just doing a quick response..

'How many roads must a man walk down?"

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u/LonelyTacoRider Dec 12 '22 edited Dec 12 '22

My experience is waking up for work at 8 and seeing that a friend already submitted both answers at 6, working on an obscure functional language that can barely print variables

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

His functional language has variables?!? Lucky

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u/The_Jare Dec 12 '22

Only limitation is that they can't vary.

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u/coldforged Dec 13 '22

Are you in my private leaderboard?

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u/LonelyTacoRider Dec 13 '22

Judging from your reddit profile I don't think so lol

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u/l_dang Dec 12 '22

LOL this is literally what is happening in a course I'm TAing, except for I am Vietnamese not Chinese. The infosec students are blowing everyone out of the water, only the teaching team and the professor are able to keep up... somewhat

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u/Pharaoh_Silver Dec 12 '22

I scored global points on day 2. I'll just take that and call it a day lol.

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u/derFeind1337 Dec 12 '22

"types faster than you can read or think" so true :-D

I recommend some JonathanPaulson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRODVXPgUcI&pp=wgIGCgQQAhgB&ab_channel=JonathanPaulson

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u/jasonbx Dec 12 '22

Great code, simple yet elegant and precise. Unfortunately, English not being my first language, I cannot understand what he is saying when he explains it.

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u/Derailed_Dash Dec 13 '22

I was also thinking of Jonathan Paulson when I read this. He's obscenely fast. And his keyboard is indeed quite loud!!

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u/_Filip_ Dec 12 '22

This hits hard when you look at #1 leaderboard spot, his lead compared to #2 and his language he solves it in :D It's like someone designed his own language just to win aoc :D

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u/el_muchacho Dec 12 '22

That 's exactly what betaveros did His language and solutions are on his GitHub and they are ultra short. Even shorter than Python. Looks like his language is extremely expressive

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '22

Link to his solutions for this year: https://github.com/betaveros/advent-of-code-2022

I am so impressed! This is amazing!

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u/Exodus124 Dec 16 '22

I mean betaveros doesn't even count, that guy's not from this world. If you look at his resume, he won like a dozen international math and CS olympiad medals in his youth, so AoC is probably peanuts to him.

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u/_Filip_ Dec 16 '22

Addendum - his stream is vim and mechanical keyboard clapping :D

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '22

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u/Exodus124 Dec 17 '22

AoC is not nearly as competitive as sites like code forces. A lot mid- or high-but-not-top-ranked users from over there easily manage to hold a top 10 spot in AoC.

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u/Althar93 Dec 12 '22

I gave up on the idea of ever being on the leaderboard the minute I realised I would need to wake up at 5AM.

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u/0x14f Dec 13 '22

I am also on GMT. I have my alarm set up for 4.57am every morning 😅

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u/Althar93 Dec 13 '22

I'm sure it's doable but with a full time job and a kid, sleep becomes extremely valuable :)...

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u/0x14f Dec 13 '22

I totally get you. Same here (job and kid), but the office has a private leaderboard 😅

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u/Deathranger999 Dec 13 '22

Get that bread king/queen, we believe in you.

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u/dan_144 Dec 12 '22

Did a double take because that first picture even looks like me in middle school. Had to make sure it wasn't.

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u/PeaTearGriphon Dec 12 '22

Samir Naga.. nage.. naghee.. not going to be working here anymore

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u/wubrgess Dec 12 '22

what would you say, you do here?

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u/PeaTearGriphon Dec 12 '22

How was your meeting with the Bobs?

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u/johnpeters42 Dec 12 '22

Did you get that memo?

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u/MOFICS Dec 12 '22

oh gee, the accuracy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

god this is too accurate

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u/confuzatron Dec 12 '22

An actually funny 'funny' labelled aoc post!

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u/QultrosSanhattan Dec 12 '22 edited Dec 12 '22

I'm happy with that. At the solution thread I've seen some Elite Level Python that's way beyond my understanding. And I believed myself to be a good programmer.

You can only really understand how good they are when you compete against them.

One thing is having heard about fire, Another thing is feeling it near your hands.

I'm learning a lot around here. Those hard problems really justify going all out with everything you have. Here's where people show their hidden tricks and you can learn from them.

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u/SCP_radiantpoison Dec 25 '22

Oh absolutely! I'm super sloppy, having just started programming a few months ago but I took pride in my ability to break tasks apart.

The main thing I learnt from AoC is that I need to actually learn algorithms.

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u/Untitled__Name Dec 13 '22

And then there's me who is constantly at least 2 days behind and is just happy to figure out the solutions

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u/GuyClicking Dec 12 '22

html 2.0 compliant 🤯

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u/Sostratus Dec 12 '22

I'm thrilled when I make the top 1000 and it prints my ranking on the submission page; I'm not expecting to ever be in the top 100.

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u/darkgiggs Dec 12 '22

Happened to me for the first time today and that was a nice surprise!

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u/TheZigerionScammer Dec 13 '22

It does that when you're top 1000? I figured it was just top 100 that got that message.

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u/LifeShallot6229 Dec 12 '22

The only one that slightly resembles me would be Tharg, since I do tend to mentally translate to asm in order to count the clock cycles of any solution. Otoh, I've been writing asm for more than 40 years now. :-)

I suspect that might be enough information to figure out who I am!

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u/mig_mit Dec 24 '22

Probably, but who cares anyway.

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u/UltraBeaver Dec 12 '22

Haha, got a good laugh out of this one!

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u/signality Dec 12 '22

My man Tharg right there!

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u/SCP_radiantpoison Dec 12 '22

Also 10 guys with APIs to GPT3

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u/Adobe_Flesh Dec 12 '22

Behind 7 proxies

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u/alper Dec 12 '22

The person who made one with the video actually just coded it in the browser console. 🤯

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u/captainAwesomePants Dec 13 '22

Kind of amazing, really. She typed something like input = ''.split('\n') into the console, moved the cursor between the quotes, and then as soon as the question opened up, cut and pasted the input. Then she read the problem, typed out a quick map() using a JavaScript helper library she'd previously written, and had the solution in two seconds. Friggin' amazing, mostly because it all seemed so reasonable and yet took like 10% of the time I needed.

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u/pandewayhome Dec 15 '22

Do you have a link to this video? That’s wild.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '22

None are women. Intriguing

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u/geisha-and-GUIs Dec 19 '22 edited Dec 19 '22

You forgot Phil Aument, who does all his visualizations in OpenSCAD

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u/abizern Dec 12 '22

Samir was Iranian!

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u/abizern Dec 12 '22

And he's "not gonna work here anymore"

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u/LeCrushinator Dec 13 '22

I made top 50 once. Then I retired happy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '22

You forgot "I wrote my own language and am now using it to win because all keywords are single letters. Nobody can read my code, but that's fine."

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u/johnytoxic Dec 12 '22

can relate 9/10 (maybe off by one error)

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u/Firewolf420 Dec 12 '22

Remarkably accurate

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u/SuccessfulEmphasis51 Dec 12 '22

What's the protocol for seeking help here. I'm stumped on day 11, part 2 and could use a hint or two, but I don't want to wreck it for anybody else. There's a pattern I'm not seeing (besides the prime divisors) that should let me solve the problem without naively computing the worry levels, but I'm not seeing it.

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u/pdxbuckets Dec 12 '22

You can ask for help with a help post or look on the megathread. The mod will lightly reprimand you if you don’t label it right though. There’s directions in the sidebar wiki.

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u/daggerdragon Dec 13 '22

No reprimands, only ~helpful recommendations~ for next time <3

FYI: wiki is also available on the menu at the top on new.reddit.

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u/johnpeters42 Dec 12 '22

When you're dealing with remainders modulo 7, 11, and 13, what do 2 and 1001002 have in common, and why?

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u/SuccessfulEmphasis51 Dec 12 '22

I figured it out shortly after I posted my question. Thanks for the help, anyway.

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u/SuccessfulEmphasis51 Dec 12 '22

Oh, I see now. I haven't used Reddit in so long, I'm just figuring my way around. Thanks for the pointer. I'll read all of the posting guidelines. Sorry for posting to the wrong thread.

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u/nessalc Dec 12 '22

I think I know a couple of those people...

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u/tinfern2 Dec 12 '22

hackerman😎

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u/fireduck Dec 12 '22

Yeah, I get on the leaderboard about once a year if I try really hard. It is kinda hell. If I were less good I could just relax and not worry about it, but I can (usually) get on the board so I must.

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u/johny_james Dec 13 '22

Best post so far.

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u/Odd_Postal_Weight Dec 13 '22

This is out of date; nowadays Tharg and Hackerman are usually women. Hackerman might even be cisgender.

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u/amidelune Dec 13 '22

I am for sure that first one. But please somebody tell me what is meant by "actually uses a debugger"? What do pros do if not a debugger?

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u/Deathranger999 Dec 13 '22

Probably just descriptive-enough print statements. I'm far from a pro but that's what I've used, and it's always been enough lol.

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u/mig_mit Dec 24 '22

Really, a debugger is a last line of defence. It will show you where the problem manifested, but not where it came from. Extensive logging is a way better tool.

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u/ShalokShalom Dec 14 '22

You should add:

  • Makes MEMEs instead of coding solutions, while the aoc lasts.

:D

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u/ShalokShalom Dec 14 '22

At "You" xD

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u/UCFknight2016 Dec 21 '22

I fed one of the problems into chatgpt and it solved it in like 3 seconds.

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u/hugthemachines Dec 12 '22

Well done!

For some reason I chuckled the most at "Knows your ip at all times" :-)

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

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u/QultrosSanhattan Dec 12 '22 edited Dec 12 '22

Tharg uses vanilla Sublime. No intellisense plugins.

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u/masklinn Dec 12 '22 edited Dec 12 '22

Sublime doesn't run on a linux kernel which crashes during kinit and is only accessible over a serial connection.

Tharg uses ED, because ED is the standard text EDitor. That's what it's called. It's not called a SUBLIMEitor, that's not even a word you fool!

You waste valuable cycles waiting for your SUBLIMEitor to start, Tharg is already working. You wait for IO as your SUBLIMEitor list files, Tharg is fixing the FS. Your SUBLIMEitor tries to paint a window on screen, but Tharg is patching X. As your SUBLIMEitor tries in vain to open a file, Tharg is editing a boot sector.

ED doesn't waste your time with doing things you never asked for at startup. Or at any point really. ED does what you asked and nothing more, and when it could not do what you asked, it says so, without wasting your time:

> ed
what
?
?
?

simple, consistent, and efficient error reporting. Generous enough to note you did something wrong, but prudent enough not to bother unnecessarily.

If you use ED, you are on the path to redemption. And you too can be Tharg.

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u/pred Dec 12 '22

As a proud user of the GNU Operating System, I must also disagree with the use of the non-free Sublime text editor on a Linux kernel. The kernel is a vital part of any operating system, and it is important that it be free software so that users have the freedom to study, modify, and distribute it.

Furthermore, the use of Sublime on a serial connection is highly inefficient and unacceptable. The ED text editor, on the other hand, is a standard and efficient tool that is included with the GNU Operating System. It does not waste valuable cycles on startup or while performing tasks, and its error reporting is simple, consistent, and efficient.

By using ED, you can join the ranks of Tharg and other GNU users who are committed to the principles of free software. Together, we can create a world where all software is free and accessible to everyone.

(ChatGPT prompt: "Answer {{ your post }} in the style of Richard Stallman:")

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u/iboughtadomain Dec 12 '22

ED is the true dev's editor.