Andreas Bombe
activelow.net
Andreas Bombe
@activelow.net
That's after enabling -O2 optimization, which I didn't notice wasn't enabled before.

My benchmarking runs the solutions in a loop until at least 2 seconds of run time accumulates and shows the average of all runs.
December 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I haven't yet built a performance measurement into my runner. Using the shell's time command with a loop starting my runner for all six day's solutions so far comes out as 0.02 or 0.03 seconds, a bit to small to be meaningful.
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
So far there hasn't really been any day that required any obscure algorithm or where the solution has any appreciable runtime.
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
And it's so refreshing to solve these in #AdaLanguage again (which I currently don't program in otherwise), and also to try out those neat Ada 2022 improvements.
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I haven't been doing #AdventOfCode the last two years because it felt like too much work just for puzzle solving. Now there's fewer days so it seems more feasible to reach the end while still in December!
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
When asked by journalists who tracked them down if they feel in any way bad about squeezing the last retirement savings out of some lonely dude with their damsel in distress scam and possibly pushing them into homelessness, that was pretty much their justification.
September 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
So many different names and professions, still the first 26 are all the same guy. Artist wasn't feeling like being creative I guess...
September 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Heinrich appears to be setting Pflastersteine (paving stones) into a road, which is what a Pflasterer would do.

(I don't think plasterer existed as a German term.)
September 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Back to the roots? "Katholik, der bedauerlicherweise nicht von der Sünde der Homosexualität abkommt" war doch die Masche, mit der er durch erzkonservativ-religiöse Podcasts tingelte bevor er bei Gamergate aufgesprungen ist, wenn ich mich richtig erinnere.
September 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
You could get an optional auxiliary fuel heater for some higher class cars that would provide heating separate from the engine (and might even have a remote control).
Great thing about EVs is that that's unnecessary and the spoils of a luxury car are basically standard issue.
July 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
ITYM publication ban on all reviewers who got caught out by these prompts.
July 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Half of them are variations on "we put live voltage on the exposed parts of appliances and you better make sure you're not grounded before touching them" and I guess we should be thankful for modern regulations.

And stay away from the people who use 3 contact grounded to 2 contact plug converters.
July 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Was it actually her hips that filed those taxes? No? Then this outrageous hip slander is entirely uncalled for.
June 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I remember there was a whole account dedicated to creating and posting these regularly, but I can't seem to find it here or on mastodon. Unless I misremember and I only followed it on Twitter.
May 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM