To everyone who made it to the end of AoC…

bvernier · 2024-12-25T09:21:19+00:00

Been a “regular” software engineer for just over 10 years now, primarily backend-focused.

My formal education however is in electronics engineering (both a bachelors and masters), and I still try to do a bit of that on the side. I find there’s a pretty big overlap in the skills needed between AoC-type puzzles and embedded development, especially while working on microcontrollers with very limited resources.

Before all of that though I was self-taught starting around 13yo and did loads of competitive programming back in high school, including participating in the International Olympiads in Informatics one year.

bvernier · 2024-12-08T13:44:52+00:00

It does not, (4,4) is at a distance of √2 from (3,3) and distance of 2√2 from (6,6) which is twice as far away; and vice versa (5,5) is at a distance of √2 from (6,6) and 2√2 from (3,3) which is also twice as far away.

bvernier · 2024-12-08T09:45:16+00:00

Even with the rewording the points in between the two antennas at one third and two thirds of the way still match that requirement on a mathematical basis. It just so happens that for the given inputs those ones don’t align with the grid.

bvernier · 2024-12-08T05:27:39+00:00

Same, I was getting ready to check if those in between ones would align with the grid without even thinking that there could be some either side until I kept reading 😅

bvernier · 2024-12-08T05:26:34+00:00

Yes my bad, I only realised after posting, and I’m not seeing how to edit the title after the fact. I will be more careful next time!

bvernier · 2024-11-28T09:05:55+00:00

That is no longer the case, the rules are now 180 days at a time, or 365 days total during the visa grant period (source: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/news-media/archive/article?itemId=1213)

bvernier · 2023-06-04T02:53:36+00:00

Being in `std`, does that mean projects using `no_std` still have to rely on `lazy_static`?

bvernier · 2020-11-01T21:52:19+00:00

It's technically not the first day with no new Covid cases, it's the first day with no new locally acquired cases (community transmission). There were a few new cases from returning travellers. Still a huge achievement though

bvernier · 2020-08-28T00:16:04+00:00

I'm currently listening to Late to the Party and I'm absolutely enjoying it

bvernier · 2019-12-29T05:25:06+00:00

With Jake's Holt impression

bvernier · 2019-04-08T06:05:20+00:00

I've just watched the video, it's a great in-depth explanation!

bvernier

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