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simont ([personal profile] simont) wrote2003-05-09 02:50 pm
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*snigger*

My ex-boss just wandered over to brag about a neat piece of machine code hackery he'd just worked out (specifically, single ARM instructions that set the N, Z and C flags to any meaningful combination of values).

I promptly flicked over to my editor window, and opened up a text file I wrote within a month of arriving at ARM (i.e. four and a half years ago) containing exactly the same analysis. Then I showed him the timestamp. He was a bit put out >:->

(Somewhat spookily given there are many equivalent instructions for most possibilities, we turned out to have produced exactly the same table. Evidently I absorbed the ARM groupthink excessively fast…)

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Smug

[identity profile] hilarityallen.livejournal.com 2003-05-09 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
It's always nice to feel smug, and smarter than anyone else.

Talking about smart, I have just managed to break G's Darkness Bounces. It only took about 3 weeks of very cunning and very _nearly_ right solutions to find one that actually worked. I did Longitudinal Thinking in no time, as I'd seen the solution. Am currently quite stuck on Simply Explosive.

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Re: Smug

[personal profile] simont 2003-05-09 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, well done. I have yet to play the final version of DB; I've only played the interim version.

Shame LT was spoiled for you; I thought it was particularly nice. Good luck with Simply Explosive...

(I did SE a week or so ago, and I've been resting before making a serious attempt on Lack of Substance.)

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[identity profile] hilarityallen.livejournal.com 2003-05-10 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
I've broken one part of SE already - the room you have to get 7 8s out of, I managed to get 8 8s out of it. The creator wasn't particularly amused.

In a way I was glad I knew the solution to LT, as otherwise that would have taken me a week or so, rather than the hour or so it actually did. SE is quite quite tricky; that will probably take me a lot of time again. [livejournal.com profile] drswirly has tested my first level - I'm less happy with it each time I see it, and I'm not convinced I can solve it anymore, but there you go.

Obviously I'm doing such a lot of work on my degree. I'm beginning to think I should have done something that required less work.
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