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I'm yet again attempting AoC. I've never completed one yet. Mostly I get too busy on the run up to Christmas but sometimes I just get stuck.

This brings me to my question. If you are stuck is it OK to just look at a solution?

For me, I got stuck on Day 1 Part 2. No amount of hints worked, so I just found a solution. I managed to get the code to produce the correct answer. I still don't understand why, I'm not good at maths. AI can't ELI5 either.

So is it good to see how others solved the problem? Or just remain stuck, and not understanding why?

Personally I feel better about knowing a solution to the problem even if I didn't solve it myself, mostly because not knowing is worse.

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Hi everyone, I built a new actor framework based on `std::execution`.

This framework turns your C++ class into a stateful async service by one line of code. All method calls to it will be queued and executed sequentially, you don't need any locks in your class. It offers a simple way to build highly concurrent programs - just write plain classes.

Compared to other C++ actor frameworks, it has cleaner non-intrusive API, pluggable scheduler, and can compose with everthing in the `std::execution` ecosystem.

It only requires C++20, the core functionality is tested in our company's production, feel free to have a try.

I'll appreciate it if you could have a look. Any question/feedback/criticism is appreciated. Leave a star if you find it's interesting, it'll encourage me a lot :)

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