Fun for nerds - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2018, 05:40:07 pm
content: https://abstrusegoose.com/578

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2018, 06:27:57 pm
content: Pretty neat except for the password part, which even through tearing apart the underlying scripts, I can't find the password for, so either I am missing something obvious, or just stupid.edit: found it out, as it turned out I was stupid.

author: onesixright
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2018, 08:35:38 pm
content: Cool.

author: Macbeth
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2018, 08:40:14 pm
content: This was fun until the password stage. I tried all the obvious including 'hunter2' then decided this is no fun whatsoever and had a brief dip into the javascript but couldn't find anything worth my time so ended it there.ETA: Did another run through and it's obvious what the password is, no digging through code needed.

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2018, 10:25:55 pm
content: I spent some time, too, looking under the hood for that password.Then I wasInteractive comics is something very original, never seen such a thing before.As for the rest of the comics, Abstruse Goose is brilliant. I don't know anybody to be better. Look:https://abstrusegoose.com/482https://abstrusegoose.com/587https://abstrusegoose.com/183https://abstrusegoose.com/249https://abstrusegoose.com/297https://abstrusegoose.com/324https://abstrusegoose.com/562

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2018, 10:45:49 pm
content: One thing I did find, if you are particularly bored, is that the maze's collision detection is pretty broken, so if you just try at the right angle, you can go through all the walls, and even exit outside the map. After looking at the source code, as it turns out, it's actually using a raycasting engine, something pretty neat for JavaScript.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2018, 11:32:48 pm
content: Yet another xkcd?

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2018, 11:34:37 pm
content: This is broken to the point of not doing anything on the various devices I tried it on. It seems to not cope very well with any blocking of any kind.

author: sokoloff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 21, 2018, 01:29:34 am
content: Works OK for me on Mac OS Chrome 69.0.3497.100 with uBlock Origin. That blocked two Google syndication ads, so it doesn't seem like it's littered with crapware.If you have Javascript disabled, well, it's a Javascript puzzle so yeah that's not going to work.

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 28, 2018, 07:51:34 am
content: Just Excel

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2018, 04:39:30 pm
content: Plateau's Rotating Drops, Euler-Lagrange Equations and BifurcationsSatisfying

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 14, 2019, 10:08:50 pm
content: You got five days!

author: apis
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 12, 2019, 09:29:09 pm
content: That RCS thruster control mechanism was ingenious.

author: edy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2019, 02:11:04 am
content: Quote from: Macbeth on October 20, 2018, 08:40:14 pmYes same here, I rummaged around for the code in Javascript, ended up even finding some pages here:https://abstrusegoose.com/sa-comics/578/scripts/login_scripts/login.jsI looked and looked and ended up guessing the password anyways... I won't give away the secret, except to say we have read some of the same Sci-Fi books.Still, just as an exercise I am still curious where the compare is being done to see where they stored the password (or are they doing it via calculation which would be a better way to obfuscate it rather than just a string).

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2019, 09:01:44 am
content: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/SquareWaveFourierArrows.gifArrows are the fundamental frequency plus the first five harmonics of a square wave.Magenta dot is the sum of them. Blue dot is the ideal square wave. Looks funny.

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2019, 10:16:55 am
content: The classic,https://xkcd.com/356/Tim

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 01, 2019, 07:41:56 am
content: Move along, move along, nothing to see here!(experimental fun with microwaves starts at 8:43 - never before seen them all in one place)

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 01, 2019, 09:15:31 pm
content: Quote from: RoGeorge on March 26, 2019, 08:53:06 pmWholly crap, I had no bloody idea at all that this was even near possible by any means at all.

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2019, 12:46:44 pm
content: Quote from: RoGeorge on April 01, 2019, 07:41:56 amClassic stuff, I remember being taken to a Chemistry lecture at the Royal Institution while at senior school. The Christmas lectures were required viewing in our household.I had forgotten Mr Coates, he was a permanent fixture at the Royal Institution lectures for many, many years!https://www.rigb.org/our-history/people/c/bill-coates

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2019, 01:27:08 pm
content: Vooom-Vooom-Vooom-Vooom!

author: Neilm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2019, 04:42:06 pm
content: Filming the speed of light

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 06, 2019, 11:07:21 am
content: Party!