JRaccoon

Sure. I’m not recommending anything, just stating what has worked for me. For simple use cases, I think most of the DDNS services are pretty much the same anyway and it’s easy to switch to an another one if one stops working for some reason.

I’ve been using No-IP free plan for years without issues. Inputted the credentials to my routers DDNS client and then basically forgot about it. Free users need to confirm their account once a month via email but that’s just one click.

If your domain registrar happens to have an API to update DNS entries, you could implement DDNS yourself by writing a simple automated script to check the external IP (e.g. via ipify.org) and if it’s changed from the last check then call the API to update the DNS entries.

Well, just by looking at responses in this thread, the controversy most definitely still exists. Some seem to like it and others hate it fiercely.

Cool, thanks for the explanation.

a single application that gets bundled with all necessary dependencies including versioning

Does that mean that if I were to install Application A and Application B that both have dependency to package C version 1.2.3 I then would have package C (and all of its possible sub dependencies) twice on my disk? I don’t know how much external dependencies applications on Linux usually have but doesn’t that have the potential to waste huge amounts of disk space?

Sorry to ask, I’m not really familiar with Linux desktop nowadays: I’ve seen Flatpak and Flathub talked about a lot lately and it seems to be kinda a controversial topic. Anyone wanna fill me in what’s all the noice about? It’s some kind of cross-distro “app store” thingy?

I don’t remember the exact article I was reading but doing a quick google search yields this one for example. And here’s the actual research paper: https://www.miyashita.com/researches/1hFnR7TlUO4OXNpQFeuN30

I remember reading an article about how we’re already able to simulate basic tastes, like sweetness and sourness, digitally. So just you wait, we might have lickable HTML elements in the future

TypeScript

GitHub link

It’s nice to have a quick easy one for a change

import fs from "fs";

const rows = fs.readFileSync("./09/input.txt", "utf-8")
    .split(/[\r\n]+/)
    .map(row => row.trim())
    .filter(Boolean)
    .map(row => row.split(/\s+/).map(number => parseInt(number)));

console.info("Part 1: " + solve(structuredClone(rows)));
console.info("Part 2: " + solve(structuredClone(rows), true));

function solve(rows: number[][], part2 = false): number {
    let total = 0;
    for (const row of rows) {
        const sequences: number[][] = [row];
        while (sequences[sequences.length - 1].some(number => number !== 0)) { // Loop until all are zero
            const lastSequence = sequences[sequences.length - 1];
            const newSequence: number[] = [];
            for (let i = 0; i < lastSequence.length; i++) {
                if (lastSequence[i + 1] !== undefined) {
                    newSequence.push(lastSequence[i + 1] - lastSequence[i]);
                }
            }
            sequences.push(newSequence);
        }

        // For part two just reverse the sequences
        if (part2) {
            sequences.forEach(sequence => sequence.reverse());
        }

        // Add the first zero manually and loop the rest
        sequences[sequences.length - 1].push(0);
        for (let i = sequences.length - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
            sequences[i].push(part2
                ? sequences[i][sequences[i].length - 1] - sequences[i + 1][sequences[i + 1].length - 1]
                : sequences[i][sequences[i].length - 1] + sequences[i + 1][sequences[i + 1].length - 1]
            );
        }
    
        total += sequences[0].reverse()[0];
    }

    return total;
}