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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Thinking about it a little more, the answer is a number, and the site tells you if you are too high or too low, so a modification of a binary search might be the answer? I’m not sure if there is a submission limit but if there isnt then that could result in a fast submission.

    Say the answer is 400 and you guess 100, the site tells you it is too low, you guess 1000, the site tells you its too high, now you know its between 100 and 1000, so you can narrow it down with a guess in the middle until you get to the answer. With some automation this would be pretty quick but it would defeat the point of the challenge.




  • I was using it as a free domain for local things. I had a local address stored in duckdns as *.example.duckdns.org -> 192.168.1.x which pointed to an nginx reverse proxy that I then used to point at different services I host locally. It worked with letsencrypt so I could use https. I bought a domain from namecheap yesterday and have since switched to using them, with the benefit of the new domain being much shorter to type lol. I’m still working on getting letsencrypt working so that I dont have to pay for an ssl, but regular http works fine since its all internal to my network.