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• Food

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 3 hours

  

  I remember it being a little wet when cooking the chicken, so it was hard ti get the slight crisped edges (I think I over-yoghurted the marinade).

  Here's another one that's been good enough it's written up (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle­/2010/dec/11/game-recipes-hugh-fearnley-­whittingstall)

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 20 hours

  

  These are nice houses (we are round the corner), and it's a lovely neighbourhood. I think that was about the same amount of time we spent thinking.

• Food

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 1 hour

  

  Also Felicity Cloake, this chicken tikka recipe: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle­/wordofmouth/2014/apr/24/how-to-cook-per­fect-chicken-tikka-masala

  can confirm the korma recipe is good.

• How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 weeks, 3 days

  

  Where is the prep space meant to be? If to right of hob, is there enough space to the sink (so that someone could use it without getting in the way, or leave some pans there)? If on island, will you be rotating to wash hands/go to hob too often? Relatedly, where do you serve up from?

• Any question answered...

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month

  

  I like Richard Baxter's work https://www.richardbaxter.co.uk/ranges#/­111/

• Any question answered...

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month, 1 week

  

  If you don't actually need a regular expression, eg you're using PCRE or similar, then you want a negative lookahead:
  (beatrix(?!ie)|(?!bea)trixie)

  It is possible to do it with standard regular expressions (since every regular language can be negated), but it's much more painful.

  Edit: for completeness, here's what that would look like:

  (?:(?:(?:[^b]|b(?:b|eb)*?(?:[^be]|e[^ab]­))*?(?:b(?:b|eb)*e?)??(trixie))|(?:(beat­rix)(?:(?:[^i]|i+[^ei])*?i*?)))
  

  (?: ) is a non-capturing group, *? and ?? are lazy (rather than greedy) matching, negations constructed using this tool http://www.formauri.es/personal/pgimeno/­misc/non-match-regex/

  As you can see, it gets messy fast.

• The working from home thread: tips and advice

  in COVID-19 • 2 months, 1 week

  

  I have a refurbed (all but as new) humanscale world, which didn't break the bank at ~£150; has been very comfortable, from https://studiomodern.co.uk/product/human­scale-graphite-diffrient-world-chair-2/

• Advent of Code - adventofcode.com

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 months

  

  16 days in to 2022 and I'm at 305ms so far, with Day 16 taking most of that (~240ms)

  I managed, with some judicious magic numbers in A-* pruning to get day 16 to under 4ms (Python), so more is on the table!

• Advent of Code - adventofcode.com

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 months, 2 weeks

  

  Bitsets ftw

  #[inline]
  fn unique(s: &[u8], n: usize) -> bool {
      s.iter()
          .fold(0u32, |acc, &c| acc | (1u32.wrapping_shl(c as u32)))
          .count_ones()
          == n as u32
  }
  
  fn solve(inp: &[u8], n: usize) -> usize {
      if let Some((i, _)) = inp.windows(n).enumerate().find(|(_, win)| unique(win, n)) {
          i + n
      } else {
          unreachable!()
      }
  }
  
  pub fn part1(inp: &[u8]) -> usize {
      solve(inp, 14)
  }
  
  pub fn part2(inp: &[u8]) -> usize {
      solve(inp, 14)
  }
  
  

• Advent of Code - adventofcode.com

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 months, 2 weeks

  

  The thing to note is that the "stack" part of the input has trailing whitespace, so you can go from line-by-line based input to column-based input with zip(*stacks.split("\n")), then it's just a question of picking out the bits you need.