ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider [they/them]

I think I found a decently short solution for part 2 in python:

DIGITS = {
    'one': '1',
    'two': '2',
    'three': '3',
    'four': '4',
    'five': '5',
    'six': '6',
    'seven': '7',
    'eight': '8',
    'nine': '9',
}


def find_digit(word: str) -> str:
    for digit, value in DIGITS.items():
        if word.startswith(digit):
            return value
        if word.startswith(value):
            return value
    return ''


total = 0
for line in puzzle.split('\n'):
    digits = [
        digit for i in range(len(line))
        if (digit := find_digit(line[i:]))
    ]
    total += int(digits[0] + digits[-1])


print(total)

Those overlapping spelled out numbers were rough

You may be able to find a repository of example inputs and outputs to work with, but that’s generally frowned upon since organizing AOC involves so much work.

We also experienced an initial explosion followed by a major drop and then steady growth. It’s healthy growth because it shows we’re keeping genuine daily users to compete with natural user churn.

It’s good to know amp sims and VSTs on Linux have come far! The drums still aren’t where I’d like them to be to switch and I’ve tried several times to get Steven Slate Drums and Superior Drummer working with a VST bridge in Ubuntu Studio, with no luck. Still sticking with Apple for now, but at least I finally have Windows out of my house.

Why? I don’t understand what it is

The risk of running a business? It’s not like owning a company makes you responsible for that company’s loans if the business goes under or something.

I think you are correct. I didn’t know the exact numbers but I was aware of general reasoning. The economic forces that push unethical design decisions range from mildly annoying to horrifying depending on which decision you’re talking about. Facebook using A/B testing with neural imaging tech to minimize users’ opportunities to disengage from the platform is probably on the more extreme end. Regardless, I don’t think the decisions being objectively correct when optimizing for the continuation of capitalist firms makes them any less morally onerous.

I have held a vendetta against YouTube Premium for nearly a decade. I will never use it. I don’t give a shit how cheap it is or how many features they take away. I will stop watching YouTube entirely before I pay a single cent for Premium.

You used to be able to lock your phone on iOS and continue listening to YouTube. I always had audio playing, but I was still connected to my environment. They took that away just so they could add it back in as a feature in Premium. Maybe it seems overly petty to be this upset about it 9 years later, but I don’t care. I’m a treat addict and they fucked with the product. I let go of most things when it comes to enshitification because the alternative is to drive yourself mad. But this is a hill I will die on every time forever.

Fuck YouTube Premium.

Those of us who work in tech need to have a serious reckoning about our contributions to this sort of dynamic and the sort of social environment it incentivizes us to gravitate towards, maintain, and create.

There also needs to be some discussion of class in tech and how the bull pen tech support grunts are going to have very different incentives from the senior technician making 7 figures on top of mad stock options.

To the tune of We Didn’t Start The Fire

Good bot

That’s fair. For what it’s worth, I don’t know any socialist schools of thought which define socialism as equivalent to government social spending.

No need to reply since you’re ducking out, but if you don’t mind me offering a couple videos on the subject of central planning, these are well done and measured analyses in my opinion:

• Cybersocialism: Project Cybersyn and the CIA Coup in Chile (just over an hour long)
• Former Socialism’s Faults (whole video is good, but relevant bit is 16:05-17:45)

The historical reality is that the word’s meaning has changed over time and the meaning currently being used by GreenTeaRedFlag has also changed words. There used to be “social democrats” who would be more recognizable as Marxists nowadays and who bear little resemblance to what we call them nowadays.

“Actually Existing Socialism”