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m!nus wrote:assume it was.

looked it up, yes it was.
p.s.: your password is hilarious, dont use words

This begs the question - what were criteria for passwords that were not on the list ? m!nus , efe ?
There are passwords like 'oKLCz4317' on the list and it's 8 chars mixed case alphanumeric.

Please let us know when it's safe to change password back to 6 stars.
The stickies are not holding for long
On the other positive side - the only email I got so far was that I just inherited $13,000,000. I didn't know that adum was so rich.

cheers,

I inverted image in GIMP and then used "thresholds" and it looked like someone from Star Trek, just by the way face is turned (plus Outer space hint). I had to look up on Star Trek wiki page as I don't know characters.

Let's just skip those little by little steps and call "Just trash it" challenge - broken keys include :,?,!,/,*,- and numbers 2-9. It's doable although painful. :twisted: Does it deserve a bridge over the river ? [Edit] Let's break also d,v, and spacebar - they are useless here anyway. [/e...

In fact, this challenge was born from efe's code. I had to ask adum to delete the code on the forum when I told him the idea without "-", but it seems I was a bit too late. I deleted my code as well. I just modified mine solution - it's rather easy to do , just shift everything by 2 up an...

OK, here is my solution: ... It's pretty neat, isn't it? :) BTW: To print the minimum without :,? and / instructions I only need 18 instructions: ... Nice. I have similar solution but the loop is in other direction and so it's 60 instructions long. ..... I had to take special precautions for neighb...

I agree with tails. And I think we should also cherish the "hacker" term. Hacker works alone. Don't reduce it to "script kiddie". Discussing the challenges and their solutions is fine but code sharing is a bit overkill, I think. And the crowd here is probably not the one that wou...

I tried first slice the string in 3 chars array and then I saw that some are ok and some don't make sense. So I just manually split it into 3 or 2 char sequences and then if it has 8 or 9 it's dec otherwise it's octal. Most of it was decoded right away.

Yeah, it looks like it was intentional, unless it supposed to be 89
At one place there is 'Y' in octal (131), so not all 'Y' are miscalculated.

BTW, lukas, you code has a bug: it terminates when it encounters a 0, so if that's part of the actual data, and the largest number comes afterwards, the result is wrong. But apparently that case does not occur in the tests that determine whether you pass. And after sitting over this for 3 hours, I ...

As I understand now if you run out of cycles then python HVM throws exception and it is treated as any other exceptions with message "failed to run correctly". To show a different message hackvm.py should have exception handler for max-cycles and that would be overkill . After all, "u...

polyglot program is usually written in more than one language.
What would be the name of the second language here ? Or better put it , how would we call it ?
I think one of didactic texts is using it too. And lotsa-dotsa.
"bit chat" ? "hacker choker" ?

Make sure you get the right corner to start at (I got it wrong...) From bottom left to upper right. I tested it with simple 23,23,0 and with one on the screen and test maze #1. I can trace the output and it is solution for the maze. The error message is different - "failed to run correctly&quo...

I think I have coded it right but I am getting "failed to run correctly"
I saved the test maze html page and converted it into memory init file and my HVM code solves it ok in python HVM.
It takes about 25000 cycles. Is the limit still 40000 ?

shrug... I think you guys are too focused on ranking. It's a warm cozy feeling to be on the top of course but it wears off at some time. And after you solve some puzzles and get to high level you would take a break to catch up on a project or social life and when you come back it's not the same. The...