I am attempting Advent of Code this year for the first time and posting my solutions in Rust. I welcome beginner questions on the issue tracker!https://github.com/BurntSushi/advent-of-code …
Basically my approach to AoC is to find the simplest solution that works in a reasonable time. If I ruminate too much, I won't have time to do all the puzzles. :-) But yeah, I briefly thought about smart ways to do the overlap, and the realized that brute forcing would be simple.