Day 14: Parabolic Reflector Dish
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Rust
The trick for part 2 is obviously to check when the pattern repeats itself and then jump ahead to 1000000000.
My code allocates an entire new grid for every tilt, some in-place procedure would probably be more efficient in terms of memory, but this seems good enough.