Neil @bpeel@mastodon.social

I made the solution a bit less naïve and posted it to Reddit so that I can advertise VkRunner :p https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/a53r6i/2018_day_11_solutions/ebk1x5m/

Today’s #adventofcode is a good day for VkRunner and compute shaders. A really naïve solution runs in 14 seconds on my GPU.

À cause d’une petite confusion avec un ami français, mon plat anglais préféré s’appelle désormais un chapeau de paille et non plus un shepherd’s pie :p

Trying to do #adventofcode in a sort of absurd mix of compute shaders and Python via vkrunner. It sort of worked for part 1 of the first two days but part 2 for both seems harder to parallelise.

Is everybody going to do adventofcode.com tomorrow?

The last Doctor Who seemed like a nice attack on Amazon and Bullshit jobs. But I’m not sure whether they came to the conclusion that “we shouldn’t give jobs to robots so that people can still work” or that “yay, now robots can do all the work we can abandon capitalism and do whatever we want”. Definitely should have been the latter :p

« Presque 60% des Français se rendent sur leur lieu de travail en voiture alors qu’ils vivent à moins de 15 minutes à pied. »

Les #giletsjaunes semblent un peu moins convaincants avec cette statistique triste :/

https://ptitlibe.liberation.fr/p-tit-libe/2018/11/23/pourquoi-est-il-si-complique-de-se-passer-du-petrole_1693466

J’ai pas fait grande chose de ma vie mais je peux taper à 87MPM dans ce test https://bpeel.github.io/tajpad/ #bépo

Meanwhile in France, motorists are driving their cars into other motorists because they are blocking the route while protesting in favour of motorists.

What is it about being in a little protected metal box that makes people lose all humanity?

https://www.liberation.fr/france/2018/11/17/gilets-jaunes-une-manifestante-tuee-par-une-automobiliste-en-savoie_1692683

The detailed instructions for this card game are written like a programming language. One with line numbers and GOTOs :p

Oh, the Conservative MPs have a transferable vote to internally elect the PM, but I guess they think STV is too good for us plebs on the electorate 😔

Genius translation by the Libération:

«We're in the Brexshit», titre en une le tabloïd britannique The Sun aujourd'hui, qu'on pourrait tenter de traduire par «On est dans la merdEU».