2025-12-03 22:08:48
I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/3
I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/3
I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/2
progress continues - goal today: complete Day 3 both parts and Day 4 part 1 🤞
Finally pushing back dawn. Almost gaining a minute per day now, and it will keep accelerating through late March @… https://<…
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I always love it when I make part 1 general enough that all I have to do for part 2 is change a parameter. #gleam
I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
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Day 3 Senior Bowl winners for the Las Vegas Raiders on offense https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/30/day-3-senior-bowl-winners-for-the-las-vegas-raiders-on-offense/884289…
Well, I guess we are now in the first day of WW-III.
With US military forces occupied with internally deporting people and the Army and Navy occupied with occupying Venezuela, not to mention the recent reports that in a war China would beat the US....
1. China will use this US weakness to take over Taiwain.
2. El Cheato will further extend US forces to try to take Greenland - which will split NATO and destroy any remaining EU sympathy for the US.
3. Russia will push h…
The #nim solution looks very similar to the Python one, but that works out well enough as the method works great on both. Didn't check to see if Nim had a `for/else` construction, but a friend threatened me with death if I tried.
Solution:
For day 3 of #AdventOfCode I outsmarted myself by using `each` on an array to get the index and the value, but forgot that #Perl does not reset the counter when you exit the loop early. (It worked for part 1, though..). After switching to a stupid c-style for loop it was easy (because I agai…
NBC says the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade drew a record 34.3M viewers across NBC and Peacock, up 8% YoY; NBC's live broadcast averaged 25.4M viewers (Kimberly Nordyke/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne
Dallas Cowboys Ideal 2026 NFL Draft Day 3 Safety Target Identified https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-ideal-2026-nfl-draft-day-3-safety-target-identified
"That's it. That's why every government in the world allowed US Big Tech companies to declare open season on their people's private data and ready cash.
The alternative was tariffs. Well, I don't know if you've heard, but we've got tariffs now!
I mean, if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders. So…Happy Liberation Day?" - @…
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
Just a normal day at the beach
Season 3 Episode 18 "Stakeout at Surfrider Beach"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch
Day 3 Senior Bowl winners for the Las Vegas Raiders on defense https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/30/day-3-senior-bowl-winners-for-the-las-vegas-raiders-on-defense/884290…
Nielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Ooooo, I knew that my initial solution for Part 1 was going to get absolutely discarded for Part 2 (which inevitably came true). Lots of string sorting, grabbing an index, and a moving window to find the largest value.
Pretty proud of the solve, it's fast and it's all that janky.
Solution: https://<…
The Cchoir is back! https://www.ccchoir.de
Rehearsals day 2 at 3pm and day 3 at 4pm in Hall 6, performance at Späti on day 3. come sign with us and spread the word!
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"In 1990, 943 million people [in China] lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. Unfortunately, the United States was not as successful. More than 4 million Americans – 1.25% of the population – must make ends meet with less than $3 a day, more than three times as many as 35 years ago."
3 Senior Bowl standouts at OT that should spark Cowboys’ interest https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/30/3-senior-bowl-standouts-that-should-spark-cowboys-interest/88430357007…
For one day only - Morning Star subscriptions for 3 months at half price.
The MS is Britain's socialist daily.
Morning Star Subscriptions #MorningStar
I've been working on a toy project that analyzes local ADS-B traffic (next to YUL), and alerts when planes are taking off and landing.
It's surprising to me how much the number of commercial planes at YUL changes throughout the day. There are clearly morning/evening/night rushes.
Looks like there's only one (or two) commercial plane(s) at YUL right now, but in 3 hours, there will be dozens of take-off/landing events in that hour.
Pope calls for Christmas Day truce, laments Russia’s rejection - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251223-pope-calls-for-christmas-day-truce-laments-russia-rejection
Born on this date, 1757
William Blake
The copy of The Tyger going to auction in Christie’s
Old Masters To Modern Day Sale
on December 3 is the only one in private ownership
and was once owned by
The Wind In The Willows author Kenneth Grahame
https://www.
OMG, it's Patch Tuesday
Microsoft January 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 114 flaws
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-january-2026-patch-tuesday-fixes-3-zero-days-114-flaws/
Haven't blogged about #photography for about 3 weeks! I felt it was time to change that and write about our walk near #murnau .
It was a really good day for experimenting and practicing my photography skills. Enjoy!
Hey um let's run a #Chaos event at Dorian Lounge (FRA)!
https://www.dorian-lounge.com/
They can host 300 people, and a 3-day event would cost about EUR 8k including gear, so that's easily covered…
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 186
🏛 #Venus statuette from
NFL betting trends — Week 13: 3 Thanksgiving Day games https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/nfl-betting-trends-week-13-3-thanksgiving-day-games-3587440/
Nielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Good Morning #Canada
It's a balmy -22°C here in beautiful Belle Ewart Ontario. Apparently, with the wind chill, it would feel like -26°C if I were to stupidly wander outside. Now before you start reporting colder temperatures in your area - it ain't a competition people - let's remember our country's coldest day in history.
Canada's coldest recorded temperature was a staggering -63°C in Snag, Yukon on February 3, 1947. The temperature was so extreme it broke thermometers and made Snag famous for the record for North America's coldest spot, caused by stalled Siberian air. Other extremely cold locations included Fort Vermilion, AB (-60.6°C) and Old Crow, YT (-59.4°C). Nobody was tonguing steel poles that day.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Weather
https://www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/coldest-day-in-canadian-history/
Want to see some fluffs at #39c3 ?
chaosfurs will do two fursuitwalks on day 2 and 3
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/assembly/detail/chaosfurs
'Extremely serious' — Ukraine's battered energy system faces worst day in 3 years, Shmyhal says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/extremely-serious-ukraines-battered-energy.html
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Not gonna lie, I was kinda suprised the massive snowstorm missed Arisia this year; it’s happened a BUNCH of times. https://wandering.shop/@arisia/115958250441332083
Projecting the 3 Closest Games on Sunday in Week 17 https://insidethestar.com/projecting-the-3-closest-games-on-sunday-in-week-17
It wasn’t the best day for photos with lots of low cloud but it was really lovely out on the Bogong High Plains today. Spotted a nankeen kestrel and a gang gang cockatoo. A handful of hikers and 3 other runners out there, otherwise had the place to myself. #trailrunning #bogonghighplains
@… coincidentally also Pie in the Face day. Has a real 3 Stooges vibe to it.
Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said its Guangzhou operations had broken even per car, as it targets a 3,000 global robotaxi fleet in 2026 (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
recent-ish reading/rereading. #books
Falcons-Colts takeaways: Jonathan Taylor's 3 TD day bolsters MVP campaign in Germany https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6791776/2025/11/09/falcons-colts-score-result-takeaways-nfl-berlin-germany/
Progress! Now 3 VMs to upgrade to Trixie in the next day or two, plus my office workstation and core router which are scheduled for upgrade during the maintenance outage later.
And I only have 8 VMs to switch over to the new storage setup before I can work on upgrading the hypervisor.
DHS ICE plans to serve breakfast for lunch and dinner sometimes? Like they failed a word problem in grammar school.
Ordered: 16K breakfasts, 26k lunches/dinners.
Intending to feed people 3 meals/day, contract covers 16K breakfasts, 13K lunches & 13K dinners.
So... 3K person days of only 1 meal that day or breakfast for lunch or dinner?
42K meals, but odd way to order them.
Contract already awarded:
I never ask for a code review before I review the patch myself before, often 2 or 3 times.
And I ask an average of 2 to 3 code review per day.
And yet, they still find issues. The system works and I'm not wasting my coworker's time.
Today’s pain started at 3:30am and it’s 6:30am now… gonna be a long day!
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Slightly dramatic day. Husband has a scary fall in the bathroom. Help him up, provide ice pack for his wrist and a cuppa while he regains his equanimity. Wee one is here so try to keep him occupied while looking after husband. Hospital is at least 5 hour wait. Rush to walk-in clinic before x-ray closes. X-ray taken but no one in attendance who is officially qualified to read it. WrIst is splinted. We go home. Grand-dog arrives. 3 hours later - phone call from clinic - DO NOT REMOVE SPLINT. T…
Who's ready to clean some floppy drive heads? Not really the way I planned to spend my day off but things are reaching dire straights for available floppy drives. Starting to hold up other projects.
#retrocomputing
The good thing to know is even when I go senile one day, my love of cats will stay :3
That shit is programmed in my lowest brain functions.
#3GoodThingsToday
1. My wife and I got to see her beautiful sister one last time today before she died.
2. I didn’t have to shovel snow from my roadway because there was a blizzard all day.
3. I got to squeeze in a practice on my tuba today.
Last month, FASPE and the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS hosted a day-long clergy symposium on Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism. Videos of the main sessions now available, including this recording of Session 3 https://youtu.be/WgmfW4caDbM?si=g9gVe9G-ihSU6ryt
Super happy with my solution for today's #AdventOfCode problem!
It initially took me a little bit of time to find a suitable strategy, but it all clicked when I noticed that the left-most selected digit had the most significance in the final value. Thus, I maximized the value of that left-most digit, leaving enough digits on the right side to be able to pick the required total number of batteries in the bank.
The solution is relatively short and sweet:
#AdventOfCode2025 #AoC #AoC2025 #RustLang #rust
Don’t get me wrong - while using the fountain pen I am still trying to maintain good writing posture and I’m continuing to do my regular hand stretches.
But for a sense of the difference: before, I was happy with the fact that I managed to develop a good pain management routine to allow me to write like 2-3 pages at a time without convulsing in pain.
And now I can write 6 pages nonstop without even thinking or feeling anything. A short 5–10 minute rest and I can come back for more.
This is such a big deal to me. I was able to draw yesterday with a relaxed hand after spending hours writing notes. Before I’d only be able to do one or the other in a day!
And then I finished the evening by writing out a chapter of my novel by hand.
And today my hand is totally fine!!
Day 3 of the NYSNA #NYCNurseStrike at the Mount Sinai picket line ✊ #PatientsOverProfits
The Cchoir is back! https://www.ccchoir.de
Rehearsals day 2 at 3pm and day 3 at 4pm in Hall 6, performance at Späti on day 3. come sign with us and spread the word!
Misread this as stages of life first time round...
#CarpeDiem
https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115542629623463860
cmconseils@mastodon.social - The four stages of a day off:
1. I will do so much stuff
2. Later I'll do lots of stuff
3. Eventually, I'll do some stuff
4. Oh no
Exactly one year before Dr King was assassinated, on 4 April 1967,
he gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside church in New York City.
More than 3,000 people were in attendance.
At the time, King had come under intense fire for having renounced the Vietnam war;
his outspokenness put him at odds with Lyndon Johnson,
who felt King should have been indebted to him for his efforts in pushing through civil rights legislation.
It also put King at …
NFL Week 17 betting trends: 3 Christmas Day games scheduled https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/nfl-week-17-betting-trends-3-christmas-day-games-scheduled-3599783/
Apropos of a gas station exploding in my neighborhood: Fossil fuel infrastructure is an ecological disaster every day, especially when there isn't an accident, when everything is "working" "safely."
https://theonion.com/millions-of-barre
> M-PESA created a payment rail with near-zero transaction costs. Which means you can economically collect tiny payments. $0.21 per day payments.
> You’re replacing $3-5/week kerosene spending with a $0.21/day solar subscription (so with $1.5 per week half the price of kerosene) that’s cheaper AND gives you better light, phone charging, radio, and no respiratory disease.
climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening
one of my friends just caught a 3 day suspendo from bsky for saying "fall down the stairs now" bc per their email that is a "serious violation" that gives "4 strikes"
very serious website
For those tracking my rehab: today was a great day!
Over the course of the day I drove to Costco and picked up a few things✱, assembled a really nice sofa table we bought on Etsy, and did 3 laps around the family room without aid.
Rn, 11 days post op my pain is a 1-2. (Probably 3–4 at bedtime which is the most painful part of my day.
✱ got there before regular member access (we upgraded to executive membership to reward their DEI position) I also used an electric scooter/c…
RE: #FrugalComputing
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just pitched the " 1" idea that each publicly funded media outlet should have at least one open channel like the #fediverse at he #fediverse demo table at #SFSCON.
I…
Here We Goooo: 3 keys to the game for Cowboys-Commanders https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/here-we-goooo-3-keys-to-the-game-for-cowboys-commanders
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Raiders Target Fernando Mendoza Makes Decision on Combine After Skipping Senior Bowl https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/fernando-mendoza-combine-senior-bowl-pro-day/
It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Ganymedes, who excelled all men in beauty, was snatched up by the gods to serve as the cupbearer of Zeus."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.75.3
🏛️ #Zeus and
Here We Goooo: 3 keys to the game for Cowboys-Commanders https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/here-we-goooo-3-keys-to-the-game-for-cowboys-commanders
At least 3 killed, 35 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/13/at-least-killed-injured-in.html
Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day.
https://www.
Beautiful night in the woods. It didn't rain at all and we woke up to an awesome sunrise instead of the pouring rain we usually get. I'm not used to packing up my shelter and having it be dry.
Should be a good day of training.
#SearchAndRescue #SoOthersMayLive
So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.
https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/
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3 Bold Predictions for the NFL Coaching Carousel https://insidethestar.com/3-bold-predictions-for-the-nfl-coaching-carousel
Russian attacks kill 3 and injure 18 in Donetsk and Kherson oblasts over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/09/russian-attacks-kill-and-injure.html
GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-te…
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Source: Ant Group's Ant International grew revenue by 20% to 25% in 2025 to an estimated $3.7B, or ~10% of Ant's total 2025 revenue, as it competes with Visa (Jing Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ant-…
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- 25/12/2025
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Cowboys take measures to save players' bodies ahead of tough stretch https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/20/cowboys-taking-care-players-bodies-thanksgiving-stretch-game…
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Breakfast
- Ease into the day with classical music
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
Relisten now 👇
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Breakfast
- Brighten your day with classical music
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Breakfast
- Start the day with classical music
Hannah French presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
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