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Just how many Wordle spin-offs are there?
I saw the post earlier today about dontwordle and it fun playing it this morning.
It also made me wonder just how many wordle spin-offs are there. From a bit of searching on internet / twitter etc. I have gather this list?

Please add if you know of any more.

absurdle https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html
azordle https://awparr.com/azordle/
boxoffice https://boxofficega.me/
byrdle https://www.byrdle.net/
crosswordle https://crosswordle.vercel.app/?daily=1
dontwordle https://dontwordle.com/
dungleon https://www.dungleon.com/
framed https://framed.wtf/
heardle https://heardle.homestuck.net/
heardle80s https://heardle80s.com/
heardle90s https://www.90s.heardledecades.com/
nerdle https://nerdlegame.com/
passwordle https://passwordle.com/
quordle https://www.quordle.com/
speedle https://tck.mn/speedle/
squabble https://squabble.me/
squareword https://squareword.org/
squirdle https://squirdle.fireblend.com/
susie https://susie.rbrignall.org.uk/
waffle https://wafflegame.net/
wordle https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
worldle https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
That's an awesome early start. You did not say if you have a degree yet. If you don't that can be a great way to step back from working and explore some new topics. Part of the benefit of the general electives at a university is that you have some chance to explore some subject areas in depth that you might not have otherwise had the chance to get interested in. For example I took an archeology class that covered the puzzle of Linear A and it sparked an interest in computational linguistics.

I think a lot of people go to college too early to really benefit from it and it is an awesome experience if you can approach it from more than just a credential gatekeeping you from your chosen career.
Not in today's high fuel costs world but those flights are very cheap, it be like going from LA to Vegas on Southwest. It be $100
Possibly the most efficient and effective method here would be to integrate Lua into the internal data structure used for cells, and let replwoacause do whatever they like with a scripting language. I can definitely see how that would be useful to people.

I would actually be wary of trying to make this too much like a spreadsheet, even in appearance. You'll be pulled into that strange attractor, but you can't hope to compete in that space. Whatever oxygen isn't consumed by Excel itself is long gone between LibreOffice and online spreadsheets.

Another possibility would be integrating with SQLite via CSV export and giving people an SQLite console: https://www.sqlitetutorial.net/sqlite-import-csv/
People should have a right to do with their minds and bodies whatever they want without interference from others.

Keeping drugs illegal harms countless users, who can't be sure the drug they're using isn't cut with something harmful or is what they though they were getting or isn't too pure (all of which are the major causes of overdoses and deaths).

Throwing people in jail also harms them and their families (and risks them getting killed or maimed during arrest or while in jail).

Jail itself is a training ground for criminals, and many inmates come out more hardened criminals, and they're forced in to committing more crimes because once they've been in jails many legal jobs are closed to them because most companies don't want to hire people with a criminal record.

Society also wastes billions of dollars on fighting the War on Drugs, which could be used much more productively, especially as the War on Drugs is so ineffective and actually hurts millions of people world-wide, causes organized crime to thrive, and even destabilizes governments when organized crime gets too powerful and starts corrupting/killing politicians, lawyers, journalists, and judges... etc.

Addiction should be treated as a medical issue, not a criminal one.
PorkBun is definitely my go-to choice. I've used Namecheap and Hover previously, but PorkBun has been the best experience overall.

A very no-BS experience.
Kubernetes can really help bringing more scalability.

All you need is to rewrite your application (think microservices), reduce cold latency (get rid of anything VM based such as Java, or rewrite in Spring or Quarkus), use asynchronous RPC, and decouple compute and storage.

Then you need an elastic platform, for instance Kubernetes, with all the glue around such as Istio, and Prometheus, and Fluentd, and Grafana, Jaeger, Harbor, Jenkins, maybe Vault and Spinnaker.

Then you can finally have your production finely elastic, which 90% of companies do not need. Microservices are less performant, costlier, and harder to develop than n-tiers applications and monoliths, and way harder to debug. They're just better at handling surges and fast scaling.

If what you want is:

- automated, predictable deployments

- stateless, declarative workloads

- something easy to scale

Then Docker Compose and Terraform is all you need.

If you also need orchestration and containers are your goal, then first try Docker Swarm. If you need to orchestrate various loads and containers are a mean and not a goal, then try Nomad.

Finally, if you will need most resources Kubernetes has to offer (kubectl api-resources), then yes, opt for it. Few companies actually have a need for the whole package, yet they have to support its full operational cost.

Most companies just pile up layers, then add yet a few more (Java VMs on top of containers on top of an orchestrator on top of x86 VMs on top of(...)), and barely notice the miserable efficiency of the whole stack. Well it's using Kubernetes, it's now "modernized".
> By definition, "zero income" means you cannot afford anything!

…no it doesn’t. No income AND no assets means you cannot afford anything.
>If you look up lung cancer graphs. You'll find most of them unexplicably cut off around 2006-2011. Conspiracy?

Conspiracy or a lagging indicator of reduced cigarette consumption?
This is not like a retort but more an addendum - Just like healthcare, 20$ flights and shitty food, EVERYONE around that individual or item is paying for the rest of the actual value (or the environment, aka our offspring).
Here's a translation (to British English) using Deepl:

"I'm 34 years old, unemployed with no fixed address. I'm a small, fat, ugly, nice guy in the middle of regretting my life. Just three hours ago I wasn't of no fixed address, just a reclusive veteran NEET, but when I found out my parents had died and I was treated as if I wasn't there because I was a recluse and didn't attend the family council, I fell for my brothers' schemes and was successfully kicked out of the house."

I have no idea what the original means, but at least the translation makes sense.
Surprised to see no mention of LightOn and its Optical Processing Unit !
It's the workload and lack of control, recognition or fairness that's causing your burnout.

You have to start making waves and get the job you want, the life you want. I'm not saying that you will get it, I'm saying that the journey itself, the discoveries you make will worth it.
Rather it's "find wikidata photos needed near you". None of the stuff near me is remotely significant enough to have its own article. I don't understand why anyone at Wikipedia is interested in storing photos of such things as unused twenty foot fishing ponds and tiny back yard creeks.
It reduces work, but imposes a high setup and operating cost. Once you get to the right scale then all the economics look correct. Large teams and organizations and absorb that cost more easily than many who are attempting to use k8s. Of course, being open source, anyone can try k8s, but the mileage is going to vary.
That's still pretty miserable. In Germany, an assistent professor or postdoc makes 60k Euro after a few years, even when they are in the pay scale that only requires a master's degree (TVL-13).
I think we can agree on that resolution. :-)
Fix your CEO/CTO marriage and save your company from further damage
You're wrong and so is the (year-old) article. There is absolutely a labor shortage.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=P0D0

Prime-age employment-population ratio is 100% recovered to pre-pandemic levels and unemployment is near all-time lows. Labor shortage. QED.
'none' is a pretty hard claim to support though.
We use Passwordstate. It's the slowest password manager I've ever used by a large margin, and one of the slowest websites I've ever used period. I don't know if it's inherent to the application or if it's how it's deployed for us.
One could argue that bad software engineering practices are rewarded by academia. If no one can follow your work you drive away competition so why write comments. If you regularly refactor your work no one can use your API but you. Not unit testing ensures that code is cryptic, and people will have a hard time refuting your claims due to errors. The list goes on and on.
Bioactive, slow-flow sand filters remove nanoplastics from the raw water
It comes down to teaching not bringing in money—enrolments (either domestic via the government, or paying international students) and grants bring in money (those requirements are basically "can bring in grants/other funding"). Even with ongoing positions, things like COVID (or even a change of focus) can cause the positions to end (and the ability to bring in grants would play a key roll in who stays and who goes). Any substantial change in the model is a matter for government, not the unis.
New rules ban many single-use plastics in Scotland
> A tool that adds work wouldn't be very useful, would it?

Sure could, if it provides benefits that outweight the additional work. Insurance companies will happily pay a couple more IT-specialists if it reduces the amount of cases they have to cover by an arbitrary percentage. Tools very much can serve other purposes than reducing the friction of human attention.

If you can containerize your infra and thereby mitigate threat vectors that may put your entire enterprise at risk if exploited, that's a good business call to make, even if the cost of your IT-department gets inflated by some margin.
Is it an observation about specific people? I doubt it.

Also it's clearly directed at me. Hard to spin it otherwise because it's using things i said

either whay you are saying sound more like a stereotype. I doubt you observed enough people in person to make a stereotype worthy conclusion.
what a journey, and then that final twist at the end! :chefs-kiss:
Your comment was flagged [dead] for some reason, but I can't see why. I vouched for it.
I believe so. But, most startups like to use insane tech for fun, or something - though in my experience all it does is kill productivity.
Damn. And instead of reinvesting and furthering R&D, product lines, and more - they're just chopping 10% (or 450 people).

That's a hell of a lot of institutional knowledge just gone.

It also goes to show that when I automate, I should keep it hidden. That's because I do not receive the gains of automation. Instead, I receive more work or get laid off.
It's seagrass, if you want to save a click.
Sounds exactly like industry.
Those cops might have walked past those particular users, but that doesn't mean they didn't harass or arrest others.

Keeping drugs illegal allows selective enforcement, where people are treated differently at the whim of law enforcement.
Woof. I feel your pain. That paper by Lindahl and Sagonas is pretty decent at exploring some of the theoretical limitations of the system. (DM me on Matrix if you can’t find it: I’m @ashton314:lambdaland.org Email is also in my resume which is on my blog; see bio)

Beyond that… er no, unfortunately. I’ve done many a web search trying to figure out some funky behaviour. :-P
Jes, kvankam mi ankau povis paroli Esperanto antaue legi la libro (or rather, listened; audiobook), so when that line happened I recognised it even faster than Martin did.
You can use the weather or a bucket of water or well, any sufficiently complex chaotic system, as a reservoir computer though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_computing
“Pure market thinkers say that when you pollute a river, it will create a new market to clean up the river.”

Surely there is no one this naive.
Kubernetes is raw material, like concrete and lumber. It needs to be massaged/crafted/assembled into something that fits the use case. A 'devops' engineer would leverage Kube to build a system, the same way a builder/contractor would leverage raw materials, subcontractors, off the shelf components, etc to build a home or office.
> Anyone saying "Good riddance! Go enjoy your life without Facebook!

I didn't expect anyone on Hacker News to say anything _but_ this. Even your take isn't quite right. You're saying it's all but mandatory in certain circles. Can't a person simply like Facebook for what it is?
Not entirely true for many apps. The app I work on does not need a working mobile site, because we don't think our consumers are going to use it on mobile.

However, we do very much care about our UI - and I think react at this point helps with that. But I don't think React complicates the stack too much. It may even make things easier, tbh - I don't have to test pages on backend tech, just endpoints.
What is this? An argument for actual decisions based on merit? That's not the cargo cult i signed up for!
https://pistonvault.com
If you could then they likely would have been quite a bit more expensive and thicker... That's the problem with all this stuff the form factors and other trade offs regarding cost have relentlessly pushed us in this direction.
I have an instagram account that got locked out because I signed in from a new device. The email I used to register the account 12 years ago was deleted, so I'm unable to receive the security code to unlock it. This account is also apparently ineligible to ID verification because it was registered pre-facebook acquisition.

I couldn't find anyone at FB/IG willing to help me with this. There are pictures of my friend who passed away years ago and apparently this is going to stay online forever...
Doubt. What kind of person is down to try meth but is opposed to breaking the law?
> This would be only true if businesses weren't posting record profits. But they mostly are.

Mostly?

Source needed.

I ask because a lot of businesses are going under, which is inconsistent with "record profits."
High-performance GLQuake fork using modern graphics pipeline
This is still easier with Kubernetes than with other tools. Installing e.g. fluentd and Kibana is again a configuration / chart which you apply to the cluster. For monitoring and visualization again you have an operator / chart that you can apply to the cluster. Yes there is a lot of complexity and learning involved but overall I was still pretty amazed at how quickly I was able to get a cluster up to speed with the available tools.
As a Python developer, yes, there are differences - and those differences are sometimes a huge PITA.

The only reason I don't run Linux is due to other MS tech - Teams, Outlook, and primarily office products.
This is why successful startup founders are often as persuasive as cult leaders.
Felt, a visual map-making tool for the masses, out of private beta, raised $15m
meh, it's good enough man
> Regrettably, this will have an intended impact on approximately 500 employees in our Maps unit, equivalent to around 10% of our total global headcount.

At least they are honest about it.

I am currently reading the first chapter of 21 lessons for the 21st century and it fills me up with a bit of dread. People having been losing jobs for a long time, but in the future it will get harder to get new ones due to the amount of specialization you need to acquire.
Is she making weapons?
An addictive formula is "hard to win entirely + easy to win a little bit"

examples include arcade machines/roguelike, gotcha/lootboxes/gambling, crosswords

psychologists have found that the most effective reinforcement strategy is a combination of continuous and random rewards. For example, in World of Warcraft, enemies have a small amount of gold, but only a chance of carrying a good item.
> Maybe I should start my day with a line instead?

Bad idea.

Once, when I was less than a year out of school, I was in a design meeting with two of the most senior engineers on the project. They were WIRED, difficult to reason with, and sent me on an obviously wrong direction. I thought they drank 4-5 cups of coffee.

A few hours later I realized that the nonsense email that I got 10 minutes before the meeting, from the department head, titled "Lines in the conference room" meant that they probably snorted cocaine right before the meeting.

About a week later I had to redo all of my work using the exact design I pushed for. 2-3 weeks later I was relieved when I was laid off.

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If you want to legally and safely know what cocaine feels like, take 600mg of caffeine pills (3 No-Doze) as soon as you wake up in the morning, on an empty stomach. Don't do it before you need to do something important, or if you're doing something where you could loose your temper. Also, don't do it if you have heart problems.
This year-old article is definitely wrong and we definitely have a labor shortage.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=P0D0

Prime-age employment-population ratio is exactly where it was pre-pandemic and UNRATE is near all-time lows. Population growth is slowing and retirements rose substantially. Everyone keeps looking for these cultural shifts or policy failures, but all our economic troubles (labor, housing, inflation) are still easily explainable by simple supply and demand.
There's an important meta-lesson here. You should check all your expired domains to make sure any email address using them wasn't involved in a data breach! And review your backup email addresses on everything.
Does Manhattan suffer from heat soak in the underground?

I know in London, the Underground has generated so much heat over so many years, it no longer cools in Summer but instead retains heat overnight meaning it's sweltering even deep underground in many stations for much of the year.
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cooling-the-tube-engine...

It's always somewhat surprising to me that given a bit of time, a seemingly inexhaustible resource like heat capacity of the ground or ground water can actually be depleted once we put our minds to using it.
Neither Fermi Paradox nor mind control implies extinction.

If civilizations turn inward to entertain themselves they are not detected.
Kubernetes is a bad approximation to the infrastructure solution at a place that has different problems than you have. It only complicates and makes everything worse and more expensive to maintain.
How we improved our Rails app’s performance with Conditional Get Requests
Conditional Get Requests offer an easy and potentially powerful way to improve the response times for a given endpoint
It's also an indicator that quality of maps isn't necessarily viewed as a differentiator by the TomTom organization. If I suddenly had a sufficiently-good automated product and hundreds of domain experts, I'd work to have the domain experts refine the automated product, hopefully turning my (just pulling numbers out of thin air) 97% quality automated solution to a 99% quality solution. Those incremental gains on the tail are often tremendously valuable for customers.
Essentially explained by the timing of Git adopting this policy (and actually having a trademark to enforce): https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...
Edit: yeah, totally the wrong thread, sorry. Implementation of the icicle thing is really simple, divert the creek (or parts of it) onto a wooden contraption that would split it into many small trickle-streams. Trickle streams small enough to make them freeze into icicles. Occasionally, take some plank or pole to bang the icicles off the wooden contraption, this needs to be done before they grow so heavy they overload the frame. Have a cellar/chute deep enough to not fill up to the top in of winter. Do a Google image search for eisgalgen (none of the examples are from a natural stream and also no directly above the chute implementations)

(original reply) In Excel, a cell with a formula has two faces, the formula and the result. An implementation of "plain csv, but with a way to run formulas" could simply branch out to using separate files, particularly if you already have an a UI that's good at working with more than one file. Technically, the additional input file would be unnecessary, because all input data could all be in the formula file, with some shorthand for "identity transformation".

(still original wrong thread reply, nothing new below) The more I think about it, the "hashbang part" could even be designed to work as an actual script, sending the file (or files) to an interpreter that produces the result stream to stdout. Add an interface for doing cell by cell interactive updates and you'd have full independence between the implementations of UI and formula syntax.
The uncomfortable truth is that selective enforcement is a way to deal with homeless people causing trouble and leaving those that are just staying in their corner alone.

This will not lead to a quality of life improvement for people in Vancouver.
Bad analogy.

In this case you have a finance industry trying to get congress to give them free rein to experiment with crypto. They're asking for latitude around things like securities law, financial disclosure requirements, anti-money-laundering, consumer finance protection, etc. - with the excuse being 'we have to be allowed to explore innovative technologies!'

And what this letter represents is technologists trying to say, there's nothing sufficiently interesting here technologically speaking to justify granting that license.

There's simply no equivalent to this in 'internet' regulation terms. ARPAnet wasn't opened up to commercial use based on finance industry lobbying over the objections of technologists.
Kudos to "Emily Pantuso and Jameson Williams" for writing so honestly.

I would have been too ashamed and embarrassed.
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> I find the online voting part convenient, but I'm afraid people will not trust it because they cannot understand it.

Forget about having a trustworthy system: regardless of mathematical proofs or observers or anything else you can come up with, many people will not trust the election system after last time. You need a system that helps take into account this lack of trust.

Regardless of the voting system, one potential big missing ingredient IMO is individual auditability, and I don't mean the ability by a state to perform a "recount" that could be just as flawed or rigged as the original count.

There should arguably be a private method using cryptography where citizens should be able to individually privately verify that their vote was registered, and to see that their votes counted towards their intended candidate. People should be able to do this instantly and repeatedly after any vote cast. If you have 84 people who say their vote was registered wrong after a state election, maybe you chalk it up to user error and somebody choosing the wrong field. But if you have tens of thousands of people for one party come out in a state after an election and sign some legal document that says that they checked and their vote wasn't registered or went to the wrong candidate, you'd at least know there's likely some big flaw somewhere in the system.

Of course, even this doesn't guarantee an accurate election because votes could always be manufactured out of thin air using fake people and that's where things like observers might help, but at least you can largely deal with the issue of votes being changed with an individual audit system.
If you get more and more users do you say sorry, we are an exclusive club of 2m[1] we won't let you have a chat/group/event with your other friends who were late to the party.

That sounds wrong.

[1] rando number, large enough to brag about probably small enough to have easier support problem