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Bits & Pieces

Here you may find some random posts! Even more dubious takes and notes.

Advent of Code inspiration: Day 17 pt. 2

Day 17 has brought a surprise to me. AOC always seemed a bit monotone but this year's day 17 part 2 made me change my mind. Here is some inspiration from some people's solutions.

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Typescript Will Not Save You

What do you thing this function does? Excuse the imperfect usage of value destruction.

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Notes on Notes on Notebooks

We were given a simple "preparation" task for our next "programming language design" class. This paper (despite me being an "inexperienced" reader, programmer, and academic) made my guts twist. What follows is just a quick summary of my ruthless critique and perhaps a reminder for my future self.

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Trying out C++26 Reflection

In this tiny post I will briefly expose you to the C++26's upcoming reflection feature by sketching an extremely simple "serialization" skeleton.

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Intel Simics

A little gem I discovered while looking for a way to properly debug my amd64 implementation of PCIDs (more widely known as ASIDs)...

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(Somewhat) Exotic Ways To Run A Minecraft Server

A tiny (bittersweet) writeup on my attempt to reuse my old phone to run a Java and a Bedrock server and the other time I tried to run a Minecraft server for crossplay with Nintendo Switch.

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Spaceman Of Bohemia

Quite a long time ago, I've read the book Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař. And today, I've discovered it's got a Netflix adaptation [insert meme]!

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Quickie - LoL Spellcasting

A quick info dump/set of comments regarding the spellcasting series of the League of Legends techblog (24. April 2024). There are some very interesting tiny details!

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C++ Notes

Here, I keep a note list of C++ features that I find interesting or useful. Beware that I've written those notes down on the fly as I understood them and my understanding might be incomplete or incorrect!

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Sleep

This is a gentle reminder to myself that I should really go to sleep and AVOID any kind of "productivity" tasks.

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XZ

Scary.

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The End of an Era

I manage a Spotify Family subscription while keeping a chart of a price per subscription member (assuming there are alwas 6 members). This is because Spotify bills in EUR while my local currency is CZK, thus a conversion takes place and the price fluctuates. On August 1st 2023, Spotify has emailed me they will start charging in CZK and therefore my data-collection becomes pointless.

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Dune quotes

Here goes a simple collection of sentences which I've detected while reading Dune. Either profound or touching on personal level. In chronological order, after finishing Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune.

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Great minds think alike

Reminded by the passing of Milan Kundera, I wanted to expand my library with one of his books. I knew I saw the books being sold in second-hand online book stores. So I opened the browser...

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