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Incredibly sad
By Whimpers, history, 2 years ago, In English

Yet again I fail the USACO competition. This time I used repeated subtraction instead of floored division which caused me to TLE. I checked my code with the floored division instead and it ACes. Unfortunately I wouldn’t have been able to change it in time since I ran out of time just as I was about to submit the solution. Now I must wait another month for the next competition. I guess all I have to do now is just work on implementation skills but it’s kinda disheartening to be so close to promoting to gold, something I’ve been working towards for over a year. I don’t really have any questions, I’m just venting.

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I participated on a contest a few years ago, that was my first onsite contest on a competition and I forgot to add '\n' on a printf of a block of else if. so I got WA, after several submission I realized, I hadn't added the '\n'. After contest, I was so angry with myself but I never did this kind of silly mistakes again (As far as I can remember). So, rather than viewing this as a failure, I believe it will teach you to be more cautious when making dumb mistakes.

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    exactly the same error I did on my first contest ever. After that, I just added this thing in the comments of my template and never forgot to handle output format.

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what is the purpose of this blog

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Good luck next round, you are only gonna get better!

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Never give up!

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Ok..?

I think Codeforces blog are for more CP-related stuffs, but not for asking mental support.

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You have to watch demon slayer now Tanjiro suffer but in the end everything will be different

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don't be sad, don't give up. this is just a training, and if you fail it — that's a chance for you to improve yourself!

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Give up on your dreams and die

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All these materialistic things in the world cannot true happiness. True happiness lies within. Try to make your life fruitful be contemplating on your inner self and aim to merge with the one who created us all.

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I also failed to promote gold since some people managed to cheese multiple test cases of the absurdly difficult problem 3, taking advantage of its weak data. The silver cutoff this month was way too cruel.

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