Whom, however, got their knowledge from World of Tanks encyclopedia and stats 😂

By the way, my non-computer related big interest is film photography

Well, just discussing online about the Hammond could qualify as an hobby by itself 😂

… inside a branch, just edit the same “creational” migration until it has a good looking shape (I usually refactor DB schema too), and having just one merge with one migration only.
How would you manage those situations without feature branches? Probably I am missing something

… base. We apply changes to the DB with the migrations facilities of our web framework, but if the changes are spread over many days (and usually they are) I’d end up with so many migrations just for a single table.
I find in these case feature branch as a viable solution: isolate those changes…

Let me ask a question from real scenario. I work on a non-saas web product that has one installation per client.
Often I need to create a new feature that also involves some changes to the DB schema, eg a new table.
When the feature is not small, I’m usually not ready to push to main on a daily…

Do you also play it 😅?

a solution. I then discovered git and a git-svn integration to use git locally and svn as remote. It worked and never switched back to anything else.
Btw changelog in source files was then normal even when using a source control. I did that and always found a pain 😅

In my first programming job, we barely used a version control system. Btw it was subversion. Then it came the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake and I wandered remotely for some months with intermittent internet connection. I wasn’t able to connect to SVN server every time I needed to, so I searched for

I had the same computer! It was my first one, but it came with color display. I should recover it from y my parent’s attic

With some improvements, I was able to cut the function calls and went from 2.9 seconds to just 1.5 for part 2.

Part 1 solver was basically unaffected, going from 0.09 to 0.07 seconds.

What’s wrong with C# arrays? Never learnt the language, but cannot imagine.

So, if you have

function x() { a = 321 }
a = 123
x()
print a
=> 321

"a" is changed from inside x() because the var inside and outside x() are the same. But:

function y(a) { a = 666 }
a = 123
y()
print a
=> 123

"a" in y() is a local var, so it shadows the original "a" and don't change its value

One thing I found about awk is that if a function uses a "local" variable BUT that var name already exists in the calling scope, the two vars are SHARED.

To make sure a variable is not shared, you have to declare all the local variables as function parameters.

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Just a question to a more experienced like you: did you found some country-based differences? I think here in Italy unwillingness to delegate to software is more pronounced