xkcd: Machine
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  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
    32·
    7 months ago

    I solved one. Kinda sorta. It didn’t work consistently, but it worked well enough to count apparently.

    Then I reloaded and got this?

    • 7heoEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      It’s being DDOSed. Too many users. Too many submits. The rendering code is light enough on the server that it still works (most of the work is client side, the sever just serves a bunch of json files), but the submitting code definitely crashes.

  • SanguinePar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    7 months ago

    That’s amazing. Possibly the cleverest thing I’ve ever seen on XKCD, and I don’t say that lightly.

    What a fun tool, and I was embarrassingly proud to finally solve my first section!

    • ValiantDust@feddit.deEnglish
      13·
      7 months ago

      Wow, yours looks much more difficult than mine. I just had red balls coming out on top and having to leave at the bottom. Guess I’ll try another one.

      • cron@feddit.deEnglish
        6·
        7 months ago

        Same for me. I was wondering if there is another difficulty or so

      • SanguinePar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        Yeah, it was really tricky, I had to start again like 5 times!. Then the next one was like you describe, just one colour, one entrance at the top one exit at the bottom :-)

  • Tolstoshev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    7 months ago

    I remember XKCD #1. I just did the math in my head and it’s been ~20 years. Fuck I’m old.

  • 7heoEnglish
    10·
    7 months ago

    Cool, but it’s now impossible to submit anything, as the server is being DDOS’d. Not out of malice, mind you, there are just too many geeks out there, and this is a Sunday…

    Still, one can read the titles of the already posted rooms with:

    env URL=https://incredible.xkcd.com \
curl -SsL $URL/machine/current \
| jq .grid[][] | grep -v '^null$' | tr -d '"' \
| while read uuid; do printf '%s: ' "$uuid"; \
curl -SsL $URL/folio/$uuid \
| jq .blueprint.title; done

    (Useful to find out if your room made it to the public set)

    • 7heoEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      It should be, but the server is overloaded.

  • SecretPancake@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    This is fun! Unfortunately it’s always overwritten by someone else. I guess too many people playing at the same time?