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Meh, the math doesn't really check out, for the human experience. Specifically, it only really works if you have all of the candidate words memorized.

That is, you can have fun with the analysis and with playing the game as a human.

I'm interested to know how things change if you require hard mode.
Is it really a game changer? I don’t see the problem it’s fixing or the benefit from using them. Just because a developer technically could change something means some solution to prevent change should be implemented?
Maybe they all switched to Obsidian or org mode.
Nice. Non-compete clauses are nothing more than a tacit admission that they aren’t paying you a fair compensation for the value that you create.

I recently quit a company with a non-compete clause and joined one without, and ended up with a 30% increase in pay for the exact same work.
Great idea! As an aside, I can't help but immediately comment on the name, which kinda seems like a semi-poor choice given that socket.io is a very popular javascript websocket library and your product doesn't seem to have anything to do with sockets or websockets. (I can definitely get really wanting to use socket.dev after snagging such an obviously cool-to-have domain though.)

Also "left-pad Supply Chain Security: 0", lmao.
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Europe. It has no power in Asia, Africa, Americas.
It reads as though you completely missed the fact that Russia has invaded Ukraine and that therefore the situation you describe is technically correct but taken as a fragment of the whole currently utterly irrelevant.
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Apparently not enough for the Ukranians, who actually have no say in any of this.
> (2) What is a winning strategy I can memorize?

> Q: What simple strategy guarantees a win within 6 guesses?

I've seen a lot of analyses of Wordle that pose this question, and I feel like these are not people who play Wordle (not unlikely - these are seemingly people more interested in analysing the game from a statistical standpoint than simply playing directly).

But while the answer to this question is interesting enough, it's not that interesting. People I've spoken to who play have zero interest in winning in 5 or 6 guesses - in fact most would consider a score of 6/6 a loss (or at least a relatively bad score), unless it was a particularly tricky word.

> (1) If I win in two guesses, am I good or lucky?

Q: What first guess maximizes the number of guaranteed wins on the second guess?

Q: What first guess maximizes the number of expected wins on the second guess?

> The probability of winning in two guesses is about 2%, so the answer is: mostly lucky.

These - and the follow-ups I was hoping for for 3, 4 & 5 guesses respectively - are much more interesting questions.

* Yes I can just clone this and edit to find these things out (& probably will later this week) but I'm just commenting on my confusion around why there's so much focus on the least interesting part of a problem.
I'm Greek as well, and now that you mention it, Turks were indeed the people I tended to have very good relationships at work with. They are especially welcoming, at least the ones I've worked with.
You are right of course about LLVM being source of slowness.

In general discussion I see around is that all Rust's perf optimizations are to Rust's credit (nothing about LLVM optimization) while all woes around Rust's compile time lay at step of LLVM and Rust is not be blamed.
Hard mode can really trap you. Got lucky and found all but one letter? Hope that you didn't use a common sequence! :)
They did not build on OpenRISC because it was originally mostly just a chip and it was 32 bit only.

RISC-V started out with the goal of being capable of very small to really large chips and do 32 and 64 bit.

OpenRISC did add 64 bit later but by that point RISC-V was already going.
It’s sad to think about but I feel like one of my greatest accomplishments in life is outliving my parents. I couldn’t fathom the grief they’d have gone through had they had to witness or otherwise deal with my death.
I play Path of Exile. I've sunk 1000's of hours into the game at this point. I discovered PoE because I was so disappointed in Blizzard and Diablo 3 (which had terrible monetization problems - real world money auctions etc.)

I buy in game cosmetic items like skins occasionally. Are they bad value? Yes, however I don't consider that when I make the purchase. I've played this game so much and gotten so much enjoyment out of it I see the cosmetic purchases as a donation to the dev team for their time. If paying $30 for some fancy armor every so often helps fund ongoing development I'm happy to do it.

There is a line between "Pay to win" and "Purely cosmetic" microtransactions. I'm happy with the later but try to avoid games with the former.
> it's very clear from the texts

Not sure that applies to any religious text ever. Regardless, it is clearly not clear, since people are misinterpreting it.
Sorry, I probably should have said 'advisors'. But these are all euphemisms.
>People care about real wealth, which is a physical quantity

Real wealth is in relationships. There isn't any other kind.

For instance, if you have a relationship with someone who has a list of cars, that says you own a car, then that's wealth.

If you have a relationship with someone who has a list of accounts, that says you have $20,000, then that's also wealth.

Property is always abstract and dependent on other people.
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Eh, that's a highly uncharitable statement. Frameworks like "differential equations" or "group theory" or "quantum mechanics" also don't make falsifiable predictions (till you build a system-specific model which you can then compare against experiment) -- but that doesn't make them any less useful.

String theory in this unusual place between a physics model and a mathematical framework (that's what makes it so "fundamental"), and we are still in the process of figuring out how to construct predictive physical models using this framework. But OTOH it's been enormously useful in helping us theoretically probe and understand structural properties of quantum field theories, the implications of special symmetries, the geometry of manifolds, etc.
No, the US is not particularly offensive. 'The Ukraine' specifically is offensive, because it is how Russia calls Ukraine, (kinda like implying it's The Ukraine of Russia)
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You've got it exactly right. Years ago, I wrote "Any sufficiently important information must be indistinguishable from plain text", and your point is what I was trying to get at: if it's that important, make sure the format you use has tools that are as helpful, flexible, and degradation-resistant as those available for plain text.
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My background is mostly in government and customer-service oriented work where I've had a lot of time to develop my soft skills, so I believe I'd be a unique asset with many teams or companies who need someone both technical and people minded.

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Then pick a standardized dialect. Commonmark is the lowest common denominator; GFM is useful for when you need some extra features. Markdown also allows HTML for whenever you need something fancy.

The advantage of markdown isn't robustness, it's simplicity. Preteens can get a handle on it in minutes when using Reddit.

The main benefit that all these markup-shorthands serve IMO is getting people to add meaning semantically rather than with presentation. Word processor users typically adjust font size and color to make headings, even when given a list of headings right in the ribbon. Markdown is just an HTML shorthand: you can only work with semantic meaning.
In the case of the navy, the beauty of their randomized code book solution was the Achilles heel. Once the code book was compromised, there wasn't any easy way to replace it that didn't involve recalling every ship at sea. A one-time pad is completely worthless if the enemy has the pad, and the code book was essentially a sequence of one time pad entries (sort of; technically, just a sequence of random seeds for an algorithmic encryptor... Point is, if you're compromise would break a one-time pad it will break everything else too).

But hilariously, I'm pretty sure the main thing that dragged out the length of time that the navy codes were broken was the fact that the German admiralty spent more time executing high ranking officers suspected of espionage after the codes were broken than coming up with an actual solution ;)
Serious question: how do you square your third paragraph with your first? That is, if you're using Obsidian's features like [[square bracket link syntax]], or #tags, or inline images, aren't you effectively locked in to editors that support the same set of features?
Wow the Colorado tech scene looks more appealing all the time.
The better way is to actually change such undocumented stuff unpredictably and automatically every release. Write a script to randomize the structure layout. Append random text to names. Don't document any of that, and don't keep the scripts to do so in the same repo.

"This might change or break at any time" isn't nearly as good a deterrent as "This will change every release. Don't use it directly, use the public interface at <insert location>".
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I always fall prey to popular knowledge management apps or fads. And I still somehow come right on back to .txt files.
Well, then we can certainly say he wasn't hired based on a review of past performance. Lamps has had a terrible managerial career.
I use something similar for the presenter view in It's A Live, for example:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/itsalive
I'm assuming it means executive secretary.
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Tinydomain can help you find good one word domains under 8 characters. It's very fast and of course free to use

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Most of these differences are managed rather easy.
Thanks, but there's so many such services out there already.
> Sometimes I need more flexible layout of fonts and graphics

That’s the key. For much of my writing, all I need is text with a little formatting, and markdown is great for that as a user. (It’s less nice if you’re writing a parser, but that hasn’t come up for me yet :) )

For some of my writing I need professional-grade layout. There I either use LaTeX directly, or I use pandoc then LaTeX.

But sometimes I need to:

- Include images that don’t have a public URL

- Use more than one font

- Have a recipient be able to edit the document

- And the recipient isn’t a developer

Markdown doesn’t check all of those boxes. Word files do (as do Google Docs links, ODF files, and some others).

Markdown is great, but it’s not enough all of the time.
The united states of America has the definite article in it's name so in that case it is correct.

For Ukraines case it would be more like, in my case, "the Norway" which to us would sound really weird. But not more than weird really.

I think Ukrainians also feel it makes the country name sound like a territory, and I suspect there is some history here that we're not aware of.
Historically peoples names included their village name, son of x and their caste/jaati - which indicated their profession or specialization. That meant getting new business when introducing themselves in the neighboring village.

This is true with European names too (masson, taylor, carpenter, miller ....), and has the exact same origin.

However, today due to the politicization first by the colonialists and the church, and now mostly by a leftist-church nexus it has become politically incorrect if it feels like they have an agenda behind it.

Strangely at least among the current generation, I have experienced probing questions about my diet as well as probing hands (pretending to be a friendly shove or pat) not from Hindus but from Christians.

In my understanding it is a way for them to ensure that I am not an "evil Brahmin" and can be trusted enough to part take in what every gossip they have and an assumption I would have to submissively accept their "righteousness".
California has proven for decades now that getting rid of non-competes is good for the economy and good for workers. It's bizarre that this move hasn't been copied in every other state, especially among those who routinely invest large amounts of money to try and become "the next silicon valley".
I'm a big believer in this, but I use https://bear.app/. It supports the Markdown format and can export to .md files, but it uses SQLite under the hood, I believe.

What's amazing about this is that your thought archive is now searchable (which is fast in bear).
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OK, I'll buy that. Disaster as a consequence of incompetent operation is a failure mode common to all nukes that other systems don't have.
Do you know how many vehicles are in the convoy?
Exactly, the only way to get people to accept everyone as they are is to see that they're exactly the same as them. If a person can't put this sort of thing aside and work with a basic dose of professionalism then they should frankly be fired. You can't tolerate intolerance.

You'd think that a nation as varied as the US would know that.
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Obsidian is great. I use Syncthing to share my "database" between all my devices. I can do some quick edits/take notes on the go and when I get home the changes are already mirrored to my desktop.
> Acting Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an unexpected gesture to the West, suggested in a television interview today that Russia would consider joining NATO if the Western alliance agreed to treat Russia as an equal partner.

I'm surprised that some people still haven't learned that his words don't mean anything.

I remember this interview; even at the time it came across as trolling.
Key words: "unexpected gesture", "would consider", "treat as equal partner".

For reference, "treat as equal partner" is the putinspeak for "recognize our right to control half of the continent".

No wonder nobody took him seriously.
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> I’ve heard the term “the Ukraine” is offensive since it implies it’s an area, not a country.

I've heard it's offensive because that is how the Russians
said it in soviet times before Ukrainian independence which made it simply "Ukraine" in its constitution.
Can we please stop conflating casteism as racism? While both equally horrible, one is not same as the other. One can possibly hide their caste. But a person cant change their racial phenotypes.
Same thing with my dad. I don't talk to him, but I can clearly see his face smiling at me, and hear his laugh, and it helps.
I'm a bit of a fan: https://every.sdf.org/
This is so intellectually stimulating!
Same logic would apply for 3 etc turns but different numbers.
Probably a result of them rendering it from scratch in WebGL.
^ India is like 3 different countries when sliced by caste. The highest castes are about as privileged as the typical Chinese. The middle are at sub saharan Africa levels. The bottom 25% constitute probably the most deprived population in the world. Better off than the Rohingyas but not by too much.

Not true, at all. It depends on your state of birth and the caste. A Dalit from a poor state like Bihar is underprivileged than a Dalit of Kerala or Tamil Nadu.
I can't help that you "read" something I did not write, and can not follow the context of the discussion.

In context it's clear I was talking about this situation of the separatist regions contrasting with the situation of Russia occupying Ukraine. So you're totally out to lunch if you think I completely missed that.
There are few trading firms in california because of the non-compete situation. There are costs to everything even feel-good populism that seems like a no-brainer.
Considering you will not be able to exercise your skills in your profession, and that skills rot, even a "paid year-long vacation" is not a good deal for the employee.
This is exactly why I switched to Obsidian after trying a few others like Bear, Notion, and Craft. Let me see the files on disk! Don't abstract it away or hide it from me.
Of course Signal's feature set is lacking. It's lacking by design. Signal makes different tradeoffs than Telegram; that is the entire premise of Signal: if there is a reasonable choice to be made in favor of security at the expense of UX, Signal will choose security, and Telegram will choose UX. It's literally part of the identities of the two different services.

This really twists people up in knots, but it's not hard to understand, even if it frustrates you that you get a poorer user experience in the messenger that has the cryptography you want (or poor-to-nonexistent cryptography in the messenger with the user experience you want).
> It's bizarre that this move hasn't been copied in every other state, especially among those who routinely invest large amounts of money to try and become "the next silicon valley".

Some states are more friendly to labor exploitation than others.
What about PDF/A?

Considering that every browser, OS and printer has a reader implementation, and there is a spec defined, surely this makes it on par with plain text?

You could use any document editor (Word, Pages, Apple Notes etc), and as long as it can export to PDF you are no longer tied to the note taking companies proprietary software for reading and writing. Future indexing systems will surely support PDF.
Real question: what is the use case for viewing notes from 30 years ago?

Things that come to mind are evidence in a court of law and having fun looking back on old memories, neither of which seems worth the sometimes incredible amount of trouble.
Nice! Also seems to be written in more recent php versions/idioms.
or just as a territory e.g the Balkans
I really am finding new layers to this game. I play hard mode, and when entering my initial guess, I try to put common letters in uncommon positions. I'd much rather get a bunch of yellows than a bunch of greens at this stage.
How can I hide me caste without changing my last name?
This is not so cut and dry. The US has a long history of people “passing”.
It’s likely Apple would have done it regardless.
A lot of people like to play competitively with friends and strangers. The major free to play games with microtransaction models I think of are League of Legends, Hearthstone, and Dota 2 which feed off the competitive multiplayer aspects that single player games lack entirely. It often takes a bigger budget company to be able to support the servers and development hours needed to support big multiplayer games.
uhm, what do you mean by that?

When we talk about the risk of a nuclear escalation we talk about the risk of this or that country launching nuclear armed missiles at an other country.

How would the posession of nuclear reactors factor into that?
It’s still all plain text.

Best practice for tags is just include them in the plain text file, and inline images in Obsidian is like Derek said — just keep them in your folder structures just like your text.
I think the most relevant history is the autocrat leading an invasion saying their nation is not sovereign. Agreeing with that statement would be rightfully upsetting.
True, but in diffrent indian states people from diffrent caste can have the same surname.
“The US” or “the Netherlands” are not offensive to either.

Ukraine specifically asked/ stated through official channels that it considered using “the” was inappropriate around the time of its independence and it should be fair enough to respect that. It seems to come from the transition to independence and trying to assert its brand of being more than just a region as “the Ukraine” was a sort of informal way to refer to the soviet republic, an image they are and have been obviously motivated to distance themselves from.

Other places don’t have this historical reason to dislike “the” or equivalents in other languages.

The US constitution even begins “We the People of the United States”, so we’re probably fine with it :)
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non-compete laws seem like something out of a gilded age nightmare. Saying an employee is not allowed to work in their industry even when they quit is absurd. It is totally pro-employer and extremely anti-employee. How these laws are even around in the 21st century in the US is beyond me. Glad CO took a step to stop this horrific practice.
It completely depends on your definition of success, if you want an open ISA with open implementations (maybe on open process nodes) that are available, cheap and running open firmware, we aren't there yet. The closest to that seems to be SiFive, but they don't have open firmware and I don't think they do open implementations.
> "Git for everything“ would be a multi-billion dollar startup easily.

AIUI, git is already prepared to be that, it just needs diff programs that can handle whatever format. I mean, other than git's interface being its own impediment to non-technical users.
Did he? It sounded more like he said you'll lose the audience if the games aren't actually good. That seems disconnected from monetization.
> The number of files with names like “Report Final Final draft v3.docx” is truly staggering.

iirc this was the original pitch for Dropbox

> “Git for everything“ would be a multi-billion dollar startup easily.

Dropbox is valued at 8.5 billion
"Ukraine" means outskirts, so one way to read it is that "Outskirts" is clearly the proper noun of a country, where-as "The outskirts" is a territory.

"The US", however, means "The United States", which makes it really clear that you're talking about the States as a nation (or at least as organized states) and gives it a lot of resistance to this nuance. The cleanest equivalent would "America" vs "the Americas", but because that's clearly too broad. Where a single article is all it takes to change the implication in the case of Ukraine, here we'd need more explicitly refer to the land, like "the continental US territory".

It's also worth noting that no one would be scrutinizing statements about the US in the same way because it doesn't have a context that puts it in dispute. At least in casual contexts, inaccuracies are often overlooked when what you meant to say is clear and uncontroversial.
I understand your overall argument but one anecdote does not a rule make, whether in this scenario or any other scenario.