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Shall we showcase our trees?

        *
        |
       /.\
      /o..\
      /..O\
     /.o..o\
     /...o.\
    /..O..o.\
    ^^^[_]^^^

cluckindan 3 months ago [ - ]

I knew I should have invested in that fancy self-balancing one, oh well.

basilikum 3 months ago [ - ]

Ah, don't worry. If you just append to one side always and do an anti-balancing one, you get a string of lights.

contravariant 3 months ago [ - ]

Hey we have the same tree!

    (()(()((())((())(()())))))

thiht 3 months ago [ - ]

Mine looks weird but it's decorated:

    @star
    @lights
    @balls
    def christmas_tree():
        n1 = Node()
        n2 = Node()
        n3 = Node()
        n4 = Node()
        n5 = Node()
        n6 = Node()
        n7 = Node()
        n8  = Node(n1, None)
        n9  = Node(n2, n3)
        n10 = Node(n4, n5)
        n11 = Node(n8, n9)
        n12 = Node(n6, n7)
        n13 = Node(None, n11)
        n14 = Node(None, n12)
        return Node(n13, n14)

    christmas_tree()

culi 3 months ago [ - ]

Pinus newickii

encomiast 3 months ago [ - ]

May you have a perfectly balanced Christmas

                 h
            _____|______
          /             \
         r               t
       /   \           /   \
      e     .         i     a
     / \   / \       / \   / \
    M   r y   C     r   s m   s

frunkad 3 months ago [ - ]

hahaha, Merry Christmas to you too!

properbrew 3 months ago [ - ]

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              /_/_/_/Merry Christmas HackerNews__/_/\_\
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KellyCriterion 3 months ago [ - ]

This one is really cool!

qingcharles 3 months ago [ - ]

               DOOM BSP (XMAS) TREE :p

                     . * .
                    (IDKFA)
                  ---\ | /---
                      \|/
                  ( ROOT NODE )
                  ( Partition )
                 /`--...___...-`\
                /                \
               /                  \
        o--( Node 1 )--o      o--( Node 2 )--o
          /  Front   \          /   Back   \
         /      |     \        /      |     \
        /       o      \      /       o      \
   [SUBSECTOR]    ( Node 3 )     [SUBSECTOR]
   | (Leaf A)|    /        \     | (Leaf B)|
   |_________|   /          \    |_________|
     [SEGS]     /            \     [SEGS]
    ( Gift ) [SUBSECTOR]  [SUBSECTOR] ( Gift )
             | (Leaf C)|  | (Leaf D)|
             |_________|  |_________|
               [SEGS]       [SEGS]

necovek 3 months ago [ - ]

Just you mentioning Doom makes me wonder how fast will we get someone to run Doom on individually controlled Christmas LEDs on a Christmas tree.

Flere-Imsaho 3 months ago [ - ]

Love the cheat code at the top

dxdm 3 months ago [ - ]

idkfa iddqd idspispopd

This is etched into my mind.

cluckindan 3 months ago [ - ]

IDKFA = id kicks f*king ass

IDDQD = id delta quit delta (apparently some kind of inside joke)

IDSPISPOPD = id smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris

rhubarbtree 3 months ago [ - ]

Not keys full ammo?

sallveburrpi 3 months ago [ - ]

           @
          ***
         *****
        *******
       *********
      ***********
     *************
    ***************
           |
           |

Best I can do ;/

LeoPanthera 3 months ago [ - ]

I love your player character tree topper.

properbrew 3 months ago [ - ]

It's the thought that counts

xandrius 3 months ago [ - ]

etothet 3 months ago [ - ]

           *       
          /^\ 
         /* *\
        /+@o* \
       /o*+*o+*\
      /* @+*o@+*\
     /+*o*+@*o*+*\
    /@o+*o@+*o+@o*\
   /*+@o*+@*o+*o@+*\
  /o*+@o*+@o*+@o*+o*\
 /@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@\
          |||
          |||

user_7832 3 months ago [ - ]

That's the first tree that rendered properly on my mobile, Merey Christmas and good job! Also nice bottom layer of ampersands, looks really festive for some reason!

keepamovin 3 months ago [ - ]

  `        _\/_          .
     -      /\
            /|\     `
  .   /    /*|O\.        .
          /*/|\*\
         /X/O|*\X\
        /*/X/|\X\*\   .
       /O/*/X|*\O\X\
      /*/O/X/|\X\O\*\
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
            |X|
            |X|
     Merry Christmas!

merry Christmas to all you people out there :)

user_7832 3 months ago [ - ]

Merry Christmas! Nice touch with the snow, makes for a cosy and homely atmosphere! (It's 25⁰C here. Please send help >.<)

gerdesj 3 months ago [ - ]

Lovely idea but please spare a thought for people using a screen reader! Imagine having ASCII art spelt out to you character by character, line by line.

This really is a job for a LLM.

With apologies to screen reader users: "space tab space space asterisk new line space space tab space new line space space space tab pipe new line ... forward slash o full stop full stop backslash ..."

phyalow 3 months ago [ - ]

                    *
                   /|\
                 [ROOT]
                n=25000
              /    |    \
           [N]    [I]    [C]
          .33    .51    .94  <-- UCB1 winner
           |      |    /   \
         [OH]   [MEH] [E]   [E]
         coal   socks NICE  NICE
           |             \    \
          :/              :)   :)

       MCTS: Monte Carlo Tree Santa

   "in the limit, all children converge 
        to the nice list" - S. Claus

Merry Xmas Nerds!

Insanity 3 months ago [ - ]

Class ChristmasTree extends Tree{}

randallsquared 3 months ago [ - ]

Not always! Sometimes `extends Plastic{}`

Timwi 3 months ago [ - ]

Or `extends Aluminum{}`!

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AluminumChristma...

Hobadee 3 months ago [ - ]

So Tree is an interface then, not a class?

devsda 3 months ago [ - ]

I'm pretty sure its called a Trait these days.