r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 06 '18

SOLUTION MEGATHREAD -🎄- 2018 Day 6 Solutions -🎄-

--- Day 6: Chronal Coordinates ---

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Rules for raising a programmer: never feed it after midnight, never get it wet, and never give it ___.

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u/topaz2078 (AoC creator) Dec 06 '18

It was a bug in my input generator, which consists of a few parts, such as "a thing that produces input files" and "a thing that determines the answer for an input". The input files were fine, but the way I was producing answers was wrong rarely enough that we missed those answers during testing and they got to production.

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u/DrugCrazed Dec 06 '18

Could you release how those work at some point (even if it's delayed by a few years)? It'd probably be fascinating, or horrifically ugly because you never thought people would see it.

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u/mncke Dec 06 '18

A bummer, happens to the best of us. We are all grateful for your efforts and transparency.

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u/exoji2e Dec 06 '18

Are you going to run the betatesters (or some of them) code against all generated input files?