Day 5 saw indeed another use if Intcode, so i did not prepare the module in vain. But the new tasks added some annoying features, which made it necessary to rewrite a lot of the code. Besides adding a bunch of opcodes (which would have been easy to implement), day 5 added parameter modes. Previously, the arguments to an opcode always pointed to ...
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As you hopefully are aware of, Advent of Code has started again on the 1st December. On day 2 you have to write an interpreter for something called Intcode (I won't repeat the specs here, so you might want to read the details on adventofcode.com). After solving the first part you get this hint: "Keep [your code] nearby during this mission - ...
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A story of an old-school backend dev using vue & vuetify to build admin UIs; contains praise, grief, ranting and lots of source code. Slides: English slides for Vue.js Vienna November Meetup; ...
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Yesterday we had our monthly TechSocialMeet: wolmers talked about his work on fuzzy queries on large word-lists and various algorithms for similarity string matching. Interesting! happy-barney (who visited us from Brno) showed us his perlbrew-travis-yaml.pl script which you can use to run your tests against various `perlbrew`ed version of Perl. ...
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A short story about how a small DB change made me question google cloud, Postgres, and my sanity. SPOILER: It was all my fault! A simple change Recently we had a very strange problem with a postgres database running in google cloud: A rather trivial change to the DB schema, which took <1sec on my laptop did not finish after a few minutes. In
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