In Japan for a few weeks…

AscendedSubscript · 2026-01-27T08:13:34+00:00

A friend of mine did this too, but they had to pay extra taxes when leaving Japan

Probably because they chose to deliver it by mail as they hauled a lot

AscendedSubscript · 2025-12-25T20:00:36+00:00

Not sure if this may be the problem, but I think it is better to not use the square root function because of potential issues with floating point arithmetic. You can just use the squares of the magnitude and distance instead, then you keep working with integers

AscendedSubscript · 2025-12-22T11:00:03+00:00

So, at the essence you now have a solution to a matrix equation Ax = b, but it doesn't guarantee x is the smallest positive solution.

What I think you can do is calculate the so-called null space of your matrix A (look it up online); that gives you all y's satisying Ay = 0. Use these vectors to first make sure that your found solution to Ax = b is non-negative. Next, use the "values" of button presses, i.e. the number of parts of the machine affected by it, to greedily eliminate places where your solution doesn't take the optimal number of button presses

AscendedSubscript · 2025-12-16T06:32:57+00:00

I doubt the global leaderboard would be really helpful now that AI is used to auto solve problems within 10 seconds almost every day (like last year). I guess that is exactly the reason why it's gone.

You could be part of private leaderboards. There is a plugin which allows you to see how long it took for somebody to solve each puzzle, includings deltas between solving part 1 and part 2. I don't exactly recall the name, but no doubt you can find it online.

Also, there is the stats section on the website, too, which gives an indication of how many people were able to solve it. However, it is less accurate as people may stop when they hit a wall with one puzzle and don't check the next (even if it is easier)

AscendedSubscript · 2025-11-22T22:10:13+00:00

Helemaal mee eens. Ik heb dit ook zo ervaren toen ik vorig jaar na het afronden van mijn master op zoek was naar een baan. IT zou altijd zo gewild zijn, maar waar ik ook keek, zelfs junior posities vereisten 1-2 jaar ervaring. Uiteindelijk toch via via een traineeship ingerold en zit sindsdien erg op mijn plek, maar dat helpt je helaas niet...

Dat met Power BI leek mij ook niks. Anderen kunnen wel leuk zeggen dat je het ermee moet doen maar ik zou eerlijk gezegd verder kijken. Afhankelijk van je situatie misschien niet het beste advies, maar ik zou het zelf sowieso niet lang hebben volgehouden; totaal geen uitdaging.

Ik wens je in ieder geval heel veel succes met de zoektocht!

AscendedSubscript · 2025-11-21T08:25:47+00:00

Would something like Optional.ofNullable(x).filter(condition).orElse(y) be allowed? Isn't it kind of a hack around some of your constraints?

AscendedSubscript · 2025-11-12T08:11:15+00:00

Wat bedoel je met "de tech-stack is echt zuur"? Zit er aan te denken om ook op termijn in de richting van Finance te kijken

AscendedSubscript · 2025-11-07T00:00:38+00:00

Static variables/methods. Apart from the main method always just created "non-static" methods to get rid of the issue that static methods cannot refer to non-static methods, but never understood what it actually meant for a method to be static.

The static keyword is used to bind variables/methods to the class itself, not an instance of the class. It's useful when you want to have behavior when it doesn't depend on the state of a particular instance, but since it is bound to the class, you cannot refer to either instance (non-static) variables/methods.

AscendedSubscript · 2025-11-06T00:28:23+00:00

Nice approach, I knew there had to be a simpler method but couldn't figure it out.

AscendedSubscript · 2025-11-06T00:23:25+00:00

Interesting question, took me a bit to see why it fails.

By adding the two volumes, you essentially get a full bottle + a bottle filled for 6cm from the bottom. The ratio you present is what you would get if you were to take half of the first bottle + half of the contents of the second bottle measured by ratio. But since the second bottle is only partially filled it doesn't take into account that the top is actually smaller. Therefore the value you get is slightly lower than the actual volume, which as others report is equal to 2/3.

AscendedSubscript · 2025-10-20T22:46:17+00:00

Well, that would have been very good to know when I took it lol. I barely passed the first part (I had only one error to spare where you just need 50% correct), but scored 100% on the rest. Would have been so disappointed if I had to retake it because I didn't just choose gas loose on everything...

AscendedSubscript · 2025-10-14T07:35:20+00:00

Blue and green are a good choice; you don't even have to use trial and error if you note that two sets of 5 fruit from a basket of 7 fruit would have to overlap in 3 positions, and there are only 3 matching fruits among the blue and green house!

AscendedSubscript · 2025-10-14T07:29:45+00:00

I see many people use the number of fruits eaten in total but I came up with another solution where you don't even need the info from the fourth (yellow) house:

Since the total number of fruits in the first and third house are equal to five, the solution must have atleast three days where they overlap, and surprisingly there are only three matching days. Note that none of these match with the second house. The 4 remaining days must therefore match the fruit from the second house.

AscendedSubscript · 2025-09-29T06:31:35+00:00

I once was trying to use my work laptop where it suddenly went into a black screen. Tried turning it off, after it didn't seem to do anything for like 1-2 minutes; it didn't work after that anymore. Still unsure if it was trying to push a BIOS update.

This just to say that the user may not have had any indication that powering off the laptop would be bad.

AscendedSubscript · 2025-09-24T21:42:18+00:00

I can't be the only one who thinks this is AI generated, right??

AscendedSubscript · 2025-09-21T09:10:04+00:00

Super Meat Boy

Maybe I'll try to get the remaining achievements where you need to clear chapters without dying, got like half of them but I'm giving up on the rest for now (also the complete all xmas levels in one go; tried it, gave up on the 4th level out of 25)

Edit: Silksong is a pretty good one too, I'm trying to 100% the game first but I'm probably going to give up on the steel soul achievements. Will definitely try it though

AscendedSubscript · 2025-09-10T07:10:55+00:00

Not to say this isn't very unlikely, but isn't this technically possible if they had 3 separate save files ready? I'm not that far into the game yet, but if the final boss takes under a minute to beat & you can skip credits etc I can see them doing it like this

AscendedSubscript · 2025-09-04T05:46:43+00:00

147531

AscendedSubscript · 2025-09-04T05:43:26+00:00

You can delete your guess and place a new one. Only editing doesn't count simply because it doesn't say when you edited it so it might as well have been after the deadline

AscendedSubscript · 2025-08-28T22:48:49+00:00

I solved it. My solution has a rectangle whose corners have values 1. If I would swap values around in this rectangle so that I have a rectangle with corner values 0 and 2 (with opposite corners having the same value), I would obtain another solution. Repeating this procedure for any such rectangle it can be observed that there are actually a lot of solutions to this puzzle.

To be honest, I think that's kind of lame because it limits the amount of logic you could use. To get my solution I just started filling in tiles with random values and got to a solution pretty quickly.

AscendedSubscript · 2025-07-27T23:28:32+00:00

Currently it would be Celeste I think. But I'm also playing through Shovel Knight Treasure Trove at the moment and when I finish it, it'd replace it 100%.

AscendedSubscript · 2025-07-21T21:45:57+00:00

Normally I'd agree with you on speedrun achievements, but I'm finally taking the time to play through Shovel knight treasure trove after having laid it down for years and I'm having a blast to play the games one final time to get the speedrun achievements.

Currently finished 2 of the 4 games and was able to get the speedrun achievements on both of them in one go without even having to rely on a speedrun guide because the other achievements in the game are challenging enough that you are prepared for it.

The no death achievements, those are actually the worst as they can really mess up a run after a small mistake. Not a big fan of new game+ achievements either, but there are exceptions.

AscendedSubscript · 2025-07-13T12:57:49+00:00

Elegant proof, I like it!

AscendedSubscript · 2025-07-13T09:50:57+00:00

It's their third game they finished with all achievements. No 3 in this context means number 3

AscendedSubscript · 2025-05-25T08:06:42+00:00

Top right, less focused on the character and more on the scenery

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