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Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver

208 points by mildbyte 1y ago

stared 1y ago
Next step: playing Doom with uv's dependency resolver (reference to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184291)
- deleted 1y ago
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- slightwinder 1y ago
  Extra points when it runs on an oscilloscope (because pregnancy testers are boring now).
  - falcor84 1y ago
    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-to-play-doom-on-an-analog-oscilloscope-using-only-lissajous-figures.126232/ https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/is-it-possible...
  - contravariant 1y ago
    Drawing images on an oscilloscope is fun, but I'm not sure if I would count it as a novel hack.
  - voidUpdate 1y ago
    I'm still waiting to see doom run on a pregnancy test
- Fuzzy1000 1y ago
  Yes please
kibwen 1y ago
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 https://github.com/pubgrub-rs/pubgrub
usernamp 1y ago
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Joker_vD 1y ago
I express my deepest gratitude to the author for not publishing all those "wordle-*" packages to the PyPI. Thank you!
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simonw 1y ago
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 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://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku/ https://web.archive.org/web/20080823224640/https://algebraic...
- mildbyte 1y ago
  Funnily enough, I did a Sudoku one too (albeit with Poetry) a few years ago: https://github.com/mildbyte/poetry-sudoku-solver https://github.com/mildbyte/poetry-sudoku-solver
spelunker 1y ago
Ok, now do npm!
- chatmasta 1y ago
  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.”
  - spelunker 1y ago
    Yeah, turns out I should have read TFA: >The short summary of the Sudoku + Poetry post is that unlike Rust or JavaScript, a single Python project cannot use more than one version of a specific Python package.
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davejagoda 1y ago
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 instead of this: LETTERS = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" It's a few more characters to type, but easier to examine for correctness.
- jeremyscanvic 1y ago
  That's really neat. I didn't know about those string constants!
remedan 1y ago
This is off-topic, but I use the Firefox extension Foxy Gestures. When I draw a gesture on the featured website, a pop-up shows the gesture I'm drawing. I have never seen that before. Is that some JS/CSS trickery? Or a bug in the extension?
- greenmartian 1y ago
  So I use the same extension and this piqued my interest. On a standard website, FoxyGestures will pop a status box at the bottom, with the gesture you just drew (UDUDLRLR etc). This is done by appending a div at the end of the html body. It so happens that the website has a CSS style[0] for the last div in the body with no class and no id (search for `body>div:last-child` in the css) - and use it to indicate "admonition-danger" (maybe to show errors?). [0]: https://mildbyte.xyz/main.css https://mildbyte.xyz/main.css
wordglyph 1y ago
I'm wondering if one could be done for https://WordGlyph.xyz https://WordGlyph.xyz?

208 points by mildbyte 1y ago

Next step: playing Doom with uv's dependency resolver (reference to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184291)

deleted 1y ago
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slightwinder 1y ago
Extra points when it runs on an oscilloscope (because pregnancy testers are boring now).
- falcor84 1y ago
  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-to-play-doom-on-an-analog-oscilloscope-using-only-lissajous-figures.126232/ https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/is-it-possible...
- contravariant 1y ago
  Drawing images on an oscilloscope is fun, but I'm not sure if I would count it as a novel hack.
- voidUpdate 1y ago
  I'm still waiting to see doom run on a pregnancy test
Fuzzy1000 1y ago
Yes please

kibwen 1y ago

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 https://github.com/pubgrub-rs/pubgrub

usernamp 1y ago

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Joker_vD 1y ago

I express my deepest gratitude to the author for not publishing all those "wordle-*" packages to the PyPI. Thank you!

deleted 1y ago
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simonw 1y ago

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 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://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku/ https://web.archive.org/web/20080823224640/https://algebraic...

mildbyte 1y ago
Funnily enough, I did a Sudoku one too (albeit with Poetry) a few years ago: https://github.com/mildbyte/poetry-sudoku-solver https://github.com/mildbyte/poetry-sudoku-solver

spelunker 1y ago

Ok, now do npm!

chatmasta 1y ago
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.”
- spelunker 1y ago
  Yeah, turns out I should have read TFA: >The short summary of the Sudoku + Poetry post is that unlike Rust or JavaScript, a single Python project cannot use more than one version of a specific Python package.

deleted 1y ago

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davejagoda 1y ago

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 instead of this: LETTERS = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" It's a few more characters to type, but easier to examine for correctness.

jeremyscanvic 1y ago
That's really neat. I didn't know about those string constants!

remedan 1y ago

This is off-topic, but I use the Firefox extension Foxy Gestures. When I draw a gesture on the featured website, a pop-up shows the gesture I'm drawing. I have never seen that before. Is that some JS/CSS trickery? Or a bug in the extension?

greenmartian 1y ago
So I use the same extension and this piqued my interest. On a standard website, FoxyGestures will pop a status box at the bottom, with the gesture you just drew (UDUDLRLR etc). This is done by appending a div at the end of the html body. It so happens that the website has a CSS style[0] for the last div in the body with no class and no id (search for `body>div:last-child` in the css) - and use it to indicate "admonition-danger" (maybe to show errors?). [0]: https://mildbyte.xyz/main.css https://mildbyte.xyz/main.css

wordglyph 1y ago

I'm wondering if one could be done for https://WordGlyph.xyz https://WordGlyph.xyz?