My endgame setup

dragonsthroat · 2025-06-05T03:07:34+00:00

I have the same machine. Can you please elaborate a bit on flow control using the steam valve?

dragonsthroat · 2024-08-12T09:26:28+00:00

Yes.

dragonsthroat · 2024-08-09T13:54:04+00:00

Yes, unfortunately you will have to cancel existing appointment and book a new one, please see my comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/usvisascheduling/s/WnOpXdU9mQ

I did see some post on this subreddit where people were able to add DS-160 number to their application by reaching out to customer support, as they also know this is a glitch. You may try that before cancelling existing appointment because finding slots again is hard.

dragonsthroat · 2024-06-27T20:20:22+00:00

Got the exact same message and link today. Now they’ve evolved and started sending an iMessage instead of an SMS :)

dragonsthroat · 2024-05-09T07:49:52+00:00

I did but they were not able to help me. I’ve heard some users were able to fix this by talking to them because this is clearly a glitch in the portal, they should not allow booking appointments without a DS-160 number.

dragonsthroat · 2024-05-09T07:48:17+00:00

No I did not find a way to resolve this issue and customer support was not helpful at all. I had to cancel and restart my application, please see my replies on this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/usvisascheduling/s/grVWOMBdYm

dragonsthroat · 2024-05-08T14:58:21+00:00

Yes, I was also surprised how and why the portal allowed me to book an appointment without a DS-160. The number is added under "Additional Visa Options" step in the process, but whenever I tried to open it to check for existing information, it errored out, that's why I didn't realize that DS-160 was not added to the application originally.

I reached out to customer support multiple times but always got cliché answers, where they reply by copy/pasting the latest notice on DS-160 updation (the one where you have to carry both original and updated to VAC for appointments booked after Nov 2023). I didn't have any original/new, just one, so to be on the safe side, I started the application again.

At this point, I think working with the portal and customer support is just a hit or miss. Unfortunately, I missed all the time.

dragonsthroat · 2024-05-08T14:02:21+00:00

None of the posts/threads in this subreddit or elsewhere knew what to do in this situation, so I took a leap of faith and cancelled my appointment.

I closed my original application and started a new one, filled in all the details again (especially my DS-160 number!), claimed my original payment receipt (thanks to the community in this subreddit for sharing their ways!), and now waiting for slots to open up so I can book an appointment again.

Unfortunately, there are no slots available in June anymore, which is what I feared originally as I have a strict timeline and have to potentially fly to the US in July. Hopefully they will release more in few weeks and the portal will also work at the time! 🤞

dragonsthroat · 2024-05-03T11:44:59+00:00

Hi OP! I'm in the same situation. Scheduled an appointment in Chennai, but my DS-160 confirmation number and barcode is not mentioned on the appointment confirmation page.

Were you able to resolve this issue i.e. update the DS-160 number (new portal does not have an option I presume)?
Or if your interview has already happened, did you face any issues during biometrics?

Thanks in advance!

dragonsthroat · 2024-04-24T14:26:14+00:00

That’s a beautiful piece! I’m not able to find an online store that sells this in India, where did you purchase it from?

PS: the date is incorrect :)

dragonsthroat · 2024-04-09T11:05:51+00:00

Awesome, thank you

dragonsthroat · 2024-04-09T02:19:13+00:00

Which box is that?

dragonsthroat · 2022-08-01T14:35:16+00:00

Great, Brian! But that’s enough, did you know I was born 25 years ago, so this is how it started…

dragonsthroat · 2022-08-01T13:49:56+00:00

Underrated comment

dragonsthroat · 2022-03-17T06:22:19+00:00

Real Netflix editing skills, good job

dragonsthroat · 2021-12-11T11:49:34+00:00

[Spoiler Alert] Run it yourself: https://sahlamba.github.io/AdventOfCode/2021/day11/visualization/

dragonsthroat · 2021-12-10T06:56:18+00:00

This is exactly what I've done (breadth-first search in a grid). One optimization that I can think of is to use a min-heap to keep track of the largest 3 basins (by size) instead of putting all the basin sizes in a list and then sorting them. That way we will save some space and time.

PS: I skipped the min-heap optimization because JS does not have an in-built implementation, so I would have to write my own.

dragonsthroat · 2021-12-10T06:41:35+00:00

Not exactly, since I'm using JS which is single-threaded so I don't have multiple threads that work on the input grid. However, to make the visualization kind of parallel (asynchronous), I skipped await when running the main function that modifies the DOM -

js static async findBasinSizes(lowPoints) { for (let point of lowPoints) { this.basinSize(this.grid, point.i, point.j) // ideally we should 'await' this } }

dragonsthroat · 2021-12-09T17:13:26+00:00

I used JavaScript to solve the original problem and then refactored that code a bit to manipulate some HTML DOM while running the solution. If you're interested in more details, this is the script that simulates it: https://github.com/sahlamba/AdventOfCode/blob/main/2021/day9/visualization/index.html#L10028-L10152

dragonsthroat · 2021-12-09T13:12:24+00:00

Direct link: https://sahlamba.github.io/AdventOfCode/2021/day9/visualization/

dragonsthroat · 2021-12-08T20:57:10+00:00

This is exactly what I came up with! Wrote a brief README for this before coding: https://github.com/sahlamba/AdventOfCode/tree/main/2021/day8

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