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This is the ninetieth sixth part of the ILP series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Boolean algebra Today we are going to solve the basic version of Uwież (Rook it). We are given a chessboard with some fields highlighted. These fields act as … Continue reading ILP Part 96 — Rook it!
Typical dating apps let you specify a location, so you can look for people from your proximity. You can specify the “range” of how far you want to look for them. Most importantly, these apps do show you the distance to the person you want to chat with. And this poses a security risk. Not … Continue reading Privacy concerns with dating apps
This is the ninetieth fifth part of the ILP series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Boolean algebra Today we are going to solve this riddle. There is a board with yin and yang symbols on it. We need to cut the board in … Continue reading ILP Part 95 — Yin and Yang
Recently I was debugging a memory leak in a Java 11 code running in AWS Lambda. Here are two tricks you may find useful if you need to do similar. Taking a memory dump There is no direct way to take a dump from outside of the lambda. You can use the following code and … Continue reading Debugging AWS Lambda and taking memory dumps
This is the ninetieth fourth part of the ILP series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Boolean algebra Let’s solve Horrendum. It’s a fancy sudoku. First, we need to make sure that numbers in rows and columns are unique (as always). We also need … Continue reading ILP Part 94 — Horrendum