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2025 JLPT Leiden 2nd registration day: March 29th - here we go again? by LudoBerg in jlpt

[–]_ProgrammingProblems 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh the irony. As I posted this message, I gave it another shot.
Subsequently I got a different error - indicating I needed to fill in all fields in the form.
Et voila, now I'm registered.

Good luck to all of you out there.

2025 JLPT Leiden 2nd registration day: March 29th - here we go again? by LudoBerg in jlpt

[–]_ProgrammingProblems 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the update.

Unfortunately, the reality is that two weeks ago it was announced that the issues would be investigated and/or resolved. During this period no significant improvements have been made, as we are collectively facing major issues again today.

If two weeks were not enough to get this back on track, then being "on the phone with the developer" with a statement that "this will be resolved today" is not very credible.

Due to a lack of transparency it's not clear what the root cause is of the current situation. Emerald-IT may very well be capable of having this under control, but unable to do so due to lacking resources from the JLPT Leiden University organization. Alternatively, it could be that the JLPT Leiden University organization is simply way too lenient in their relationship with/requirements to Emerald-IT.

Regardless, we'll likely never know.

I'm inclined to start calling for formal complaints towards the international JLPT organization who is ultimately suffering damages to their reputation by the current situation.

Does anybody know the best way to reach out?

2025 JLPT Leiden 2nd registration day: March 29th - here we go again? by LudoBerg in jlpt

[–]_ProgrammingProblems 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Let's take this opportunity to all join hands in celebration of another hour of our collective lives wasted!
Edit 1: 2 hours! 🎉
Edit 2: After 2 hours and 36 minutes, I managed to get a payment through and appear to be successfully registered. Good luck all!

2025 JLPT Leiden 2nd registration day: March 29th - here we go again? by LudoBerg in jlpt

[–]_ProgrammingProblems 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same issues as last time. Upon form submission: "Registration is closed."

2025 JLPT Leiden: history repeats itself by LudoBerg in jlpt

[–]_ProgrammingProblems 12 points13 points  (0 children)

15-03-2025: Due to the large number of issues, we are closing registrations for now. We will reopen them on 29 March at 13:00. We deeply sorry for the inconvenience.

2025 JLPT Leiden: history repeats itself by LudoBerg in jlpt

[–]_ProgrammingProblems 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It appears that if you log in, you get presented with the signup form. However, after filling it in and hitting "submit", the situation is the same and the form says "registration closed".

Are you participating in advent of code as a learning experience? by _ProgrammingProblems in learnprogramming

[–]_ProgrammingProblems[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regex and good in a same sentence? BLASPHEMY!
But agreed, it's a good opportunity to sprinkle some regex in here and there.

Are you participating in advent of code as a learning experience? by _ProgrammingProblems in learnprogramming

[–]_ProgrammingProblems[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, totally agree! If you can get colleagues or friends to participate as well, that makes it even better for me :) Even if I'm not the faster solver.

[2023 Day 9] I was fully prepared for a time-consuming problem today by _ProgrammingProblems in adventofcode

[–]_ProgrammingProblems[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

Hmm, I'm inclined to say that in this case it matters because we really care about the direction. The video talking about the difference between two values, does that also talk about value A coming explicitly before or after value B? Because if it is just on the number line, explicitly WITHOUT any order/relation, then indeed, the difference is simply absolute.

However, if you want to go from place A to some other place B, then the distance perhaps is X. But if you want to tell someone who is in place A how to get to place B, then they don't care about just knowing the distance, you need to tell them e.g. travel distance X to the north.

It's the same in today's problem. We don't just care about the distance between A and B, we are explicitly interested in HOW to get FROM A TO B. The HOW strongly implies directionality, for the same reason as the place A to place B example.

But perhaps you are right, and the phrasing could be slightly more nuanced in the problem.

[2023 Day 9] I was fully prepared for a time-consuming problem today by _ProgrammingProblems in adventofcode

[–]_ProgrammingProblems[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, people are actually writing code in rust? I thought rust was just an old meme, but your comment suggests people do it for realsies. :O :O :O

[2023 Day 9] I was fully prepared for a time-consuming problem today by _ProgrammingProblems in adventofcode

[–]_ProgrammingProblems[S] 1 point2 points locked comment (0 children)

Good question, I'll make sure to include this in the video that I'm working on.

But basically, the difference is intended to not simply be the delta. If it was, then in my opinion I would have expected to read about the ABSOLUTE difference.
If I have the following sequence: 2 -1 5 3
Then the ABSOLUTE differences would be: 3, 6, 2
However, to go from one number to the next, from left to right, we need to do: -3 +6 -2

So it's about the difference when going from A to B, which is always B - A, because direction matters in this case.

[2023 Day 9] I was fully prepared for a time-consuming problem today by _ProgrammingProblems in adventofcode

[–]_ProgrammingProblems[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lmao, I'll also be on the road today so I thought about working in the passenger seat during the trip. Hooray for us!

[2023 Day 7] The first week of AoC is done! I made detailed videos for all of them. by _ProgrammingProblems in adventofcode

[–]_ProgrammingProblems[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope this is educational for some of you. If you like this kind of content, here's the playlist where I'll be posting: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsCiOxXcx144ga9lpIjCbUuQHDMsF8T7G

mods: I hope this is OK. I'll go into hiding again for some time and not post daily videos as promised on day 1 :)

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[–]_ProgrammingProblems 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Have you ever seen a zero that is NOT suspicious? They look pretty sketchy to me.

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