Miri Auri, Exarch

Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:35 UTC

And they all do that, until all the munny is gone! The end~ the world is saved! A little at least~

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:29 UTC

So he does! Time for those last bits... He empties out the last bills and... poof! Done!

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:23 UTC

Looks like XA : 0 is the first to nearly finish! Just 20 bills left..

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:20 UTC

That got a bit of attention, but not from the automated bank - or the alarms! So all is well; we're trynna redistribute some wealth here!

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:19 UTC

Then we gotta check something. Is X less than 10? Because if we sent it through the loop again it'll trigger the alarm! If not, then we jump to the beginning of the loop and keep going!

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:16 UTC

...so let's not do that! The DISPENSE command has our EXA's sending out ten commands of 20 to the register for it, meaning it throws out ten $20's. Then, it subtracts 10 from the value stored in X, and writes that new value to X. Keeping track of how many we've sent out!

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:14 UTC

Then, once they all have that value, it's time to go to work! These old-school ATMS don't really do much besides receive a single value - 20, and if it gets that value, you guessed it, it dispenses a single $20 bill. Neat! Pretty slow, tho... especially if we do them one by one!

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:11 UTC

Now these ATM's are pretty old school; they can *ONLY* dispense 20's, and they can only dispense them one at a time. Boo! that's slow, but it's old tech so Ah well. We'll work with it. First, the EXA's read the CASH register, which is the number of bills (20's) that are in the ATM.

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:08 UTC

Then our first little buddy, once he finishes telling his friends, hops to work! His friends already know where to go, since they were told and that value is stored in their X memory, now! Once there, they see what they're after; the ATM interface!

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:03 UTC

But, being so small means they can do some pretty neat things. Like... construct some more! And give them a little hint on where they're supposed to end up going. (There's some handy ALT text through these, if you're confused~)

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 08:01 UTC

...so let's make some friends! And tell them what to do, ofc. EXA's are able to hold a few values - they're very, very small, so not much!

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 07:58 UTC

But there are a lot of ATM's, and for our purposes we have to *assume* that there are going to be varying numbers of them. But, examining the network, there are only seven possible links for them to connect ATM's too. 800 through 806. Dang! This one little fella might have trouble alone, huh?

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 07:56 UTC

First off, we gotta actually get in the space. Hop, hop!

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 07:52 UTC

So our job is to teach our lil exa's in this simulation, to figure out how to do the job we want even if the variables present aren't exactly how we simulate them. So! Our stage:

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 07:50 UTC

So we gotta figure out how much our ATM's hold, and only get them to dispense the right amount. Sounds pretty simple, but it's not *us* doing it, it's our dumb little robot friends that only know how to do stuff we tell'em too. EXA's!

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 07:47 UTC

We're going to be draining some ATM's for the poor folks in our Cyberpunk dystopia. But these are pretty decent ATM's, so if they dispense all this and have none left, they set off an alarm! Boo, lame.

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Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 07:46 UTC

So, I've been playin' Exapunks in my quest to learn how to code. It's pretty fun! My neurons are making some new connections. So I figured it'd be fun to share a solution or two of what I'm doin'! The game is slow paced so, text is good for it uwu Firstly, our task! (cont)

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