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Advent Of Code
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An unofficial home for the advent of code community on programming.dev! Other challenges are also welcome!
Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.
Everybody Codes is another collection of programming puzzles with seasonal events.
EC 2025
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
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- Keep all content related to advent of code in some way
- If what youre posting relates to a day, put in brackets the year and then day number in front of the post title (e.g. [2024 Day 10])
- When an event is running, keep solutions in the solution megathread to avoid the community getting spammed with posts
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I can't speak for the other guy, but I definitely don't!
OP is talking about advent of code day 8 part 2 solution. I can't give you details of the problem (because that's just to long) but you're not supposed to brute force the solution because it would take trillions of iterations to get to the right combination.
But the guy in the picture did it anyway.
I forgot to add, you're in the advent of code community so that alone should be enough context to understand OPs post. The questions the other guy asked are the equivalent of going to a formula 1 community and asking "Who the fuck is Toto Wolff and what does Mercedes have to do with anything?"
Did you visit that website you linked? Do you know how little information I can see there, next to seemingly random symbols?
Also, making a community exclusive is okay. But expect people to ask if you then choose to go public.
I don't think you can have private communities currently?
So? It is public.