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 - `frob`: This command will toggle the display of the current node in the browser output upon refreshing the browser. (Reminder that refreshing the page causes `graphputer` to reboot!)
 - `reboot`: This command will "reboot" `graphputer` which creates a new copy of memory and resets the current node to be the initial node in the memory graph.
 
+Note that all commands (in this part and the others) take approximately the same amount of time for graphputer to run. The only exception is that the time needed to display the result of `ls` is linear in the number of nodes being displayed.
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 # Part 2: Animals and Occupations
 Following Part 1, you should infer an occupation and animal based on the text you decrypted. Find the relevant node
 in `graphputer`'s memory embedded after the `mmio` nodes.  There will be a hex number associated with that node.  You should submit that hex number to `gitlab`