Deadlifts.

I had never heard of the (frankly horrible) band “Train” until recently.

A colleague pronounces it “Postgré”

It’s obviously kubecontrol! I will die on this hill.

Also, Containerd … Not helped by the cli nerdctl.

The biggest: Denali

Either https://musicforprogramming.net/ , some vaporwave, some really extreme/cavernous death metal or noise rock. Free jazz. Possibly some instrumental kraut rock if I feel like it, the motorik beat is great for focus.

Don’t eat fast food, make your own.

Elixir

Total noob, but it’s fun to learn.

{left, right} =
  File.read!("./input.txt")
  |> String.split("\n", trim: true)
  |> Enum.map(fn line ->
    String.split(line)
    |> Enum.map(&String.to_integer/1)
    |> List.to_tuple()
  end)
  |> Enum.unzip()
  |> then(fn {left, right} ->
    {Enum.sort(left), Enum.sort(right)}
  end)

diffs =
  Enum.zip(left, right)
  |> Enum.map(fn {l, r} -> abs(l - r) end)
  |> Enum.sum()

freqs =
  Enum.filter(right, fn r -> r in left end)
  |> Enum.frequencies()

freqsum =
  Enum.map(left, fn n ->
    freq = Map.get(freqs, n, 0)
    n * freq
  end)
  |> Enum.sum()

IO.puts("part 1: #{diffs}")
IO.puts("part 2: #{freqsum}")

It was actually a line break that broke the regex. Changing from a “.” to “[\s\S]” fixed it.

Yes, I guess I held myself to too high expectations. I haven’t even studied CS and learned programming on my own… I’ve been trying to do some exercises and a few courses on algorithms but of course that can’t be compared to going to university. Thanks for the tip, I won’t spend hours in frustration in the coming days for sure. Maybe I should post my attempts even though they are incomplete or fail, to spark discussion.

Ah, yes, that’s it. The lazy solution would be to add a “do()” to the end of the input, right? Haha

Go

package main

import (
	"bufio"
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"sort"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	input, _ := os.Open("input.txt")
	defer input.Close()

	left, right := []int{}, []int{}

	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(input)
	for scanner.Scan() {
		line := scanner.Text()
		splitline := strings.Split(line, "   ")
		l, _ := strconv.Atoi(splitline[0])
		r, _ := strconv.Atoi(splitline[1])
		left, right = append(left, l), append(right, r)
	}

	fmt.Printf("part 1 - total diff: %d\n", part1(left, right))
	fmt.Printf("part 2 - new total: %d\n", part2(left, right))
}

func part1(left, right []int) int {
	diff := 0
	sort.Ints(left)
	sort.Ints(right)

	for i, l := range left {
		if l > right[i] {
			diff += (l - right[i])
		} else {
			diff += (right[i] - l)
		}
	}
	return diff
}

func part2(left, right []int) int {
	newTotal := 0

	for _, l := range left {
		matches := 0
		for _, r := range right {
			if l == r {
				matches++
			}
		}
		newTotal += l * matches
	}
	return newTotal
}

Elixir

First time writing Elixir. It’s probably janky af.

I’ve had some help from AI to get some pointers along the way. I’m not competing in any way, just trying to learn and have fun.

~~Part 2 is currently not working, and I can’t figure out why. I’m trying to just remove everything from “don’t()” to “do()” and just pass the rest through the working solution for part 1. Should work, right?

Any pointers?~~

edit; working solution:

defmodule Three do
  def get_input do
    File.read!("./input.txt")
  end

  def extract_operations(input) do
    Regex.scan(~r/mul\((\d{1,3}),(\d{1,3})\)/, input)
    |> Enum.map(fn [_op, num1, num2] ->
      num1 = String.to_integer(num1)
      num2 = String.to_integer(num2)
      [num1 * num2]
    end)
  end

  def sum_products(ops) do
    List.flatten(ops)
    |> Enum.filter(fn x -> is_integer(x) end)
    |> Enum.sum()
  end

  def part1 do
    extract_operations(get_input())
    |> sum_products()
  end

  def part2 do
    String.split(get_input(), ~r/don\'t\(\)[\s\S]*?do\(\)/)
    |> Enum.map(&extract_operations/1)
    |> sum_products()
  end
end

IO.puts("part 1: #{Three.part1()}")
IO.puts("part 2: #{Three.part2()}")

Thanks. I felt very deflated after struggling with something seemingly so simple. I was using Go and couldn’t figure out part 2, at least without nesting loops three layers deep.

Today I decided to try to learn Elixir instead and allowed myself some assistance from Claude.ai, which was much more fun.

I’ve started with Go, but I think I’ve realised AoC isn’t for me. I feel so incredibly dense.

I concur. It’s like HN but with less AI/VC BS.

Blatant rip-off of the Norwegian invention “roller burger”, which was a turd shaped hamburger invented to be served at gas stations using their hot dog rollers and a hot dog bun.

WSL

As for music production on Linux, I use Reaper. Check it out and see if it meets your needs.

I like his little wiener.