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> Is there a human out there who would just magically type all the right things - no errors - first try?

If they know what they're doing and it's not an exploratory task where the most efficient way to do it is by trial and error? Quite a few. Not always, but often.

That skill seems to have very little value in today's world though.


Regarding electricity, it depends on what you mean by “we”, I guess

https://www.voronoiapp.com/energy/-China-Generated-More-Elec...


> Here's the live assignment requirements: [1] https://i.imgur.com/aaiy7QR.png & [2] https://i.imgur.com/aaiy7QR.png.

These are the same link


You can check all the teams and their members here: https://cphof.org/advanced/icpc/2025

It's rarely the case that looking at school names is useful (for many things in life) when there are more data points.

In this case, without any insider knowledge, just by looking at their profiles, the relevant name would appear to be Benjamin Jeter (https://codeforces.com/profile/BenjaminJ) rather than ASU. Currently 5th active American in the top competitive programming platform, top 200 worldwide (https://codeforces.com/ratings/country/United%20States). That's elite.

In teams of 3, even one "super player" can make a big difference. Almost certainly carrying that team.


*St. Petersburg

I guess, like a lot of other sports at the college level, having a reputation that attracts the best competitive programmers (and a great coach to go along with it) doesn't hurt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Stankevich


This one has "Advent of code" vibes


When the driver and the platform are different entities (like Uber) you end up with these weird incentives. How would that happen in the Waymo case?


Some analyst will figure out the robots have less billable time on task and they’ll find some way to avoid the problem.

There’s a million ways to do it. Shadow ban locations, mistakenly pull up to the wrong location, etc.


> The fact that is is needed at all of course highlights a weakness in the language. The import statements themselves should be able to convey all information about dependencies

What languages convey the version of the dependencies in a script’s import statements?


^ fyi, this comment reveals you didn't RTFA


Correct, but my goal was just to get the same result than JS `eval()`except for -n * m because in my opinion this shouln't require parenthesis. It's still a good learn to do this, I don't want to deal with floating points things etc..


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