You see people complain about "made up numbers" and it's always stuff like "ten million". That's not made up. Use your imagination, give me "cornteen" or "fifty-blung" or "treem villion and flunkty-boop"
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https://xkcd.com/3044/
I saw one of these once criticising a "hand warmer" iPhone app for using up the battery
Which is kind of fair, it's a terrible app, but
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Ultimately, nobody can really prove whether there's a god. Stalemate, atheists
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Please help me, Reddit, I 41M can't get a present delivered to my GF 39F because Argos say it's not a valid postcode
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This might still be a bit broken, but it seems silly not to release on the puzzle day. (OK, it is just after midnight here so we're on Cell Tower 1001 already, but it's America's National Puzzle Day and that has a few hours left.)
I've bundled all the code for handling streaks, saving, options, archives, etc into a library so anyone should be able to make a feature-packed daily game without building it all from scratch
https://www.npmjs.com/package/daily-game-kit
There's probably still a bug or two in it, and I'll probably improve it if I make a new game and use it myself, but there doesn't seem much sense keeping it locked away until it's Perfect
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Per @KarenCampe, today is National Puzzle Day in America, and due to my amazing planning (read: by total coincidence) it's also Cell Tower number 1000! To celebrate, I promise there are no pesky British spellings in today's puzzle.
https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/
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The adverts for the new Disney+ Goosebumps thing really makes it look like they're doing a live action version of Gravity Falls
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It's my experience that technology is good but technologies are bad.
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I'd give you about 3:1 odds that right now Russell T Davies is writing about a trilllionaire manufacturing a new kind of shiny, angular dalek in a "terafactory"
Then, 39 minutes in, when all hope seems lost, the Doctor smirks to the camera without doing anything, and all the new daleks just catch fire for no particular reason
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imagine if A Problem Squared were called Extreme Battleships Royale but otherwise exactly the same and then everyone at work was talking about whether or not Bec had anything on G5
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The Mole was a gameshow where each week the contestants would do a challenge together, to win money for the prize pot that one person wins at the end. The twist was that one "contestant", the titular Mole, was a plant working for the producers who would try to sabotage the game without being caught. Then at the end of the episode the contestants did a little quiz about who they thought the Mole was, and the person who did worst was eliminated until only one real player was left. The audience weren't told who the Mole was so we got to play along.
The Traitors sounds like it's exactly the same show except that we all know who the Mole is and also the Mole is not sabotaging the games? Is that right? Everybody works together to do a challenge and then, totally separately, they also play a game of Werewolf with basically zero additional information?
It sounds like they've just put a bunch of people in a big castle and randomly labelled some of them as the Out Group purely to create drama. That's not a quiz, that's the Stanford prison experiment.
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Well those numbers are very close to what you'd get for independent variables considering the number of responses — you can't prove a negative, but this is really pretty strong evidence that the null hypothesis is probably true.
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look, i try not to be too down on modern software practices, but i would say as a general rule of thumb, if you ever find yourself programming a tiny loading spinner to sit inline in a text editor, it's a sign that it might be time to throw the whole project in the bin and start over
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My guess is that these things aren't related, because I like both for wildly different reasons.
I like "natural" scrolling just because I had a touchscreen laptop, and if you insist the touch scrolling and the mousewheel should work opposite ways to each other then the trackpad puts you in the Brexit paradox — you need to put a hard border between A and C, but not between A and B or between B and C.
Meanwhile I like "invert" mouse for the simple reason that it is not actually inverted — if you move your mouse vertically up your character just sits there doing nothing because mice don't work that way. The convention that "forwards = up" is useful for roadsigns and mouse pointers, but there's no particular reason it should apply here. It makes more sense to me that moving the mouse back should tilt your character's head back, which is to say, make them look up. This is also how aeroplane controls work, which is nice.
On the other hand, "never open a settings page" and "bloody-minded contrarian" are absolutely real personality types and that might sway it.
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I wonder if there's any correlation between who likes "natural" scrolling (where you push the mousewheel away from you to see the next part of a page) and "invert mouse" (where you push the mouse away from you to look down in a 3D environment)
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I feel like there were about 100 easier ways of doing this but I fully buy that OK Go actually went to these lengths because it's no fun otherwise and this is why I don't believe that anyone will ever give a shit about AI art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOEULOSVNK4
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You never hear about Properly Cooked Sienna
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What Starmer's AI announcements sound like if you know "AI" is an extremely broad umbrella term:
"Last year, Jane had a health problem, and the NHS treated her with Stuff. British engineers use Stuff every day to build innovative products. The UK has a long history of Stuff, and is committed to investing in Stuff to ensure that companies choose us as their base to make and do Stuff. We're proud to announce that the next generation of Lockheed Martin's intercontinental ballistic Stuff will be designed and manufactured in the UK."
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BBC Television Service launched on November 2, 1936. The first programme shown on the new channel was Points Of View
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The ISS is the only man-made structure that can be seen from space
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