Flikken Maastricht. Not because it’s so good but we always try to match the drum beats in the intro

Go read The Freeze Frame Revolution!

A cop once asked me to shake my backpack to make sure there were no graffiti cans in there. Obviously there weren’t.

Now I’m involved a bit in activism get searched on the regular. It’s mostly procedural, I have the privilege of being not really considered a criminal.

iPhone SE2:

1. Use until it turns off due to empty battery
2. Put on charger, wait for it to boot.
3. Unlock at the earliest opportunity.

Problem: after unlocking, the background disappears (goes black).

Only the home screen though, the lock screen wallpaper works. ‘Fix’ is to change the wallpaper.

No it isn’t, just checked my copy to be sure. I played it on my regular 3DS XL.

What a beast of a trailer. There seems to be so much in this game - deliveries, mecha-like stuff, really excited!

Don’t tell them about baby powder!

I did get the M30. It’s delightful but there’s one problem - it looks like The Lion King is one of the few games the Retro Receiver has a problem with. Any button presses while holding a direction on the D-pad interrupt the direction on the D-pad. So a roll becomes a crouch and a running jump becomes a standing jump. I’ve reached out to support, hopefully they can help, otherwise I’ll have to return it.

I ended up applying something called Liquiwire, which seems to work well so far! I can finally play The Lion King properly again ^_.

That looks interesting and worth trying. I’ll have a look to see if I can find anything like that locally

Is buying a used controller out of the question?

The backup plan is to do either that or get an 8bitdo M30 with a retro receiver!

It’s how non-Latin Unicode domain names are encoded, in this case one made out of Japanese characters. I suppose it depends on the browser whether or not it shows them.

“Nationalists of all nations: unite!”

The A12 protest is very willing to coordinate emergency routes, in any case they allow for emergency service passage (this regularly happens), and their location is easily routed around. Overall their impact is less than run of the mill roadworks and not comparable in the slightest to a major event.

I hope they don’t organise marathons or street fairs where you’re at, or worse, resurface a road.

It was surreal to read about talk of extremism, social disruption and the calls for corporal punishment (by police), long jail sentences and more, all for a 5-10 minute delay caused by the A12 blockade, when the day after I was helping out at the Egmond Half Marathon there was real disruption, where people really couldn’t go places with their cars… not to mention events like the Dam tot Damloop or Amsterdam Marathon that effectively put parts of our capital city on lockdown. No calls for water cannons there.

People might say “Those are not the same!” and that’s true - sport events are not a constitutional right.

To balance it out, they should have 1 Israeli patient for every 39 Gazan patients.

The sad irony of that site asking me to accept tracking by them and their 214 partners.

I used the last of my leave days for the work mandated time off between Christmas and New Years Day. We have plenty, but I used so much for holiday and activism. So I haven’t taken the customary full two weeks off and will be back at the office on 2 Jan. Don’t mind it, I like the quiet office.

C

Merry Christmas everyone!

#include "common.h"

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	static char buf[7];
	static short h[500][5];	/* heights */
	static short iskey[500];
	int p1=0, nh=0, i,j,k;

	if (argc > 1)
		DISCARD(freopen(argv[1], "r", stdin));
	
	for (nh=0; !feof(stdin) && !ferror(stdin); nh++) {
		assert(nh < (int)LEN(h));

		for (i=0; i<7; i++) {
			fgets(buf, 7, stdin);
			if (i==0)
				iskey[nh] = buf[0] == '#';
			for (j=0; j<5; j++)
				h[nh][j] += buf[j] == '#';
		}

		/* skip empty line */
		fgets(buf, 7, stdin);
	}

	for (i=0; i<nh; i++)
	for (j=0; j<nh; j++)
		if (iskey[i] && !iskey[j]) {
			for (k=0; k<5 && h[i][k] + h[j][k] <= 7; k++) ;
			p1 += k == 5;
		}

	printf("25: %d\n", p1);
	return 0;
}

https://codeberg.org/sjmulder/aoc/src/branch/master/2024/c/day25.c

Made the 1 second challenge with most of it to spare! 😎

$ time bmake bench                                                                                                      
day01  0:00.00  1912 Kb  0+88 faults                                                                                            
day02  0:00.00  1992 Kb  0+91 faults 
day03  0:00.00  1920 Kb  0+93 faults
day04  0:00.00  1912 Kb  0+90 faults 
day05  0:00.00  2156 Kb  0+91 faults
day06  0:00.03  1972 Kb  0+100 faults
day07  0:00.06  1892 Kb  0+89 faults
day08  0:00.00  1772 Kb  0+87 faults 
day09  0:00.02  2024 Kb  0+137 faults
day10  0:00.00  1876 Kb  0+87 faults 
day11  0:00.00  6924 Kb  0+3412 faults
day12  0:00.00  1952 Kb  0+103 faults
day13  0:00.00  1908 Kb  0+88 faults
day14  0:00.05  1944 Kb  0+92 faults                                                                                            
day15  0:00.00  2040 Kb  0+89 faults
day16  0:00.03  2020 Kb  0+250 faults
day17  0:00.00  1896 Kb  0+88 faults
day18  0:00.00  1952 Kb  0+107 faults
day19  0:00.01  1904 Kb  0+91 faults
day20  0:00.01  2672 Kb  0+325 faults
day21  0:00.00  1804 Kb  0+86 faults
day22  0:00.03  2528 Kb  0+371 faults
day23  0:00.02  2064 Kb  0+152 faults
day24  0:00.00  1844 Kb  0+89 faults
day25  0:00.00  1788 Kb  0+89 faults  
                                                                
real    0m0,359s