Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver
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stared
Next step: playing Doom with uv's dependency resolver
(reference to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184291)
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Extra points when it runs on an oscilloscope (because pregnancy testers are boring now).
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Drawing images on an oscilloscope is fun, but I'm not sure if I would count it as a novel hack.
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Not directly related to uv, but I started looking into this now and stumbled upon this discussion about how it's easier to have Quake "render" onto an oscilloscope than Doom:
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/is-it-possible...
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Yet another reason to use `uv`!
I try to avoid bugs like this:
By accident, at first, I omitted the letter u in my list of letters that I was generating packages for, which caused extremely cryptic and long (500KB of uv painstakingly explaining to me why I was wrong) dependency resolution errors on specific guesses:
by doing this:
import string
LETTERS = string.ascii_lowercase
LETTERS = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
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Here's my favorite of the Soduku attempts at this (easier to get your head around than Wordle since it's a much simpler problem): https://github.com/konstin/sudoku-in-python-packaging
Here's the same Sudoku trick from 2008 using Debian packages: https://web.archive.org/web/20080823224640/https://algebraic...
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Funnily enough, I did a Sudoku one too (albeit with Poetry) a few years ago: https://github.com/mildbyte/poetry-sudoku-solver
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Ok, now do npm!
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npm allows you to have multiple versions of one package installed, so I’m not sure it will work for this, unless you use a package manager that allows you to set constraints like “only one version of this package can be installed.”
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If you wanted to leverage uv's package resolver for a less deliberately silly purpose, note that it's using the pubgrub-rs library under the hood: https://github.com/pubgrub-rs/pubgrub