In other news today...
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Bloody thing could eat a bear!
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Iām currently on 6.6.5
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
It took nearly a decade for automatic dependency resolution to come to Linux distributions, and until it did, this just seemed to be an insolubly complex problem. Perhaps it's time for someone to invent some sort of automatic dependency tracking and resolution mechanism for Linux kernel code changes.
Should've used git.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Iām currently on 6.6.5
Embrace the Great Nurgle, mortal. What you call corruption is your salvation.
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only one yacht for Christmas this year Mr Ellison!
āIt doesn't cost us more to run 100 datacenters than it costs us to run 10 in terms of data: DBAs or people running Oracle Autonomous Linux. We can run these things ā we can bring them up relatively quickly, and we can run them very inexpensively and efficiently,ā he said.
Users, however, might question what ratio of these savings could be passed on to them.
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When you have some spare time, read up a lengthy article on the intelligence of farm animals. And then think different about dumb beasts.
https://www.science.org/content/article/not-dumb-creatures-livestock-surprise-scientists-their-complex-emotional-minds
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Well, I'm sure this will make fans of megacorps ecstatic...
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
When you have some spare time, read up a lengthy article on the intelligence of farm animals. And then think different about dumb beasts.
https://www.science.org/content/article/not-dumb-creatures-livestock-surprise-scientists-their-complex-emotional-mindsNow we have no choice but to eat them before they eat us.
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Is Teslaās line really, basically, āfraudulent claims are protected free speech; also no one told us we couldnātā?
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@Arantor To be fair (), if Tesla's lawyers weren't filing motions for dismissal, even though they have almost no chance of succeeding, they wouldn't be
billing their clientsdoing their jobs. Not only are they badpeopleslime, they'd be bad lawyers, even by lawyer standards.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Is Teslaās line really, basically, āfraudulent claims are protected free speech
No, their line is āour fraudulent claims are truthfulā:
they impermissibly restrict Tesla's truthful and non-misleading speech about its vehicles and their features
Tesla has been using the brand names Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability
Fits well in a post-factual society.
also no one told us we couldnātā?
That, too.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Now, warcrimes, on the other hand...
Have you been reading The Completionist Chronicles by chance?
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@Mason_Wheeler Nu-uh, what about it?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
ext4
First of was ZFS, now this?
Someone tell me NTFS also has data loss glitches, I need this bingo!
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@Applied-Mediocrity It's a somewhat bizarre fantasy series about a person who goes into a VR epic-fantasy MMORPG that turns out to actually be a real fantasy world. (It makes sense in context, if you've read the Divine Dungeon series first, but anyway...)
A bunch of stuff happens, and at one point he meets the Dwarven civilization, who have been at war with the Elves since basically forever. And the dwarven army uses the term "war crimes" with outright glee, rather than as the name of something they need to make some effort to avoid.
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@HardwareGeek QOOC thread is
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The puzzles:
(the image ends up not that big because of the second page which is "just" a nice picture except that it's actually needed to solve the last puzzle -- I think, I haven't bothered to get that far)
I've given up on the second (the names), which is quoted at the top of TFA, because I think the link between names is cultural and not mathematical and I suspect I simply don't know the required references. I've not done everything else (I'm supposed to work...) but doesn't seem too hard. But of course the puzzles are designed for kids.
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@remi Well, the most obvious thing to me is that Beverley, Pudsey and Scarborough are all place names...
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@remi said in In other news today...:
I've given up on the second (the names), which is quoted at the top of TFA, because I think the link between names is cultural and not mathematical and I suspect I simply don't know the required references.
The word is pudding.
Pudsey, Scarborough and Beverley are in Yorkshire.
Jasmine rice, sticky rice,DamienDeclan Rice.
Sirius Black, Penny Black (stamp), pitch black.Yorkshire pudding, rice pudding, black pudding.
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My first thought when I saw this was, "Loss, this is another damned 'loss' meme, isn't it?"
Of course, the clock hands aren't at the right angles for that, but it was my first thought, anyway.
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@loopback0 well done. I wouldn't have found it, I was at least right in my assessment of my capabilities.
(btw, you meant Declan Rice, not Damien (Damian actually) which is also a semi-well-known (??) name though probably less-so by kids-these-days)
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Btw the puzzles are supposedly roughly in increasing complexity order and the first one is quite trivial (I think) especially for us number-friendly people.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
(btw, you meant Declan Rice, not Damien (Damian actually) which is also a semi-well-known (??) name though probably less-so by kids-these-days)
Yes I did. Oops.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
My first thought when I saw this was, "Loss, this is another damned 'loss' meme, isn't it?"
Of course, the clock hands aren't at the right angles for that, but it was my first thought, anyway.
Been some time since we had one of those.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gsC-vtSyvo
Because YT embeds suck,
Despite the TV reporter's weird eyes in the thumbnail, this is neither parody nor comedy. Weird Al is extremely nearsighted, 20:1000. He had laser surgery ā not ordinary LASIK, but a procedure done at only 5 hospitals in the country; he rattles off the long, complicated name in the video ā and a few minutes later, he could read the eye chart well enough (with at least one eye) to, as the doctor said, "Congratulations, you just passed your driver's license eye exam."
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@remi I got 1 and 4.
1 - TIME
4 - TREE = 3600
12 x 12 = 144
T2 + T2 = R4That makes T 3 or 4 and R 6 or 8, but only 3/6 leaves unique digits left to satisfy the third equation.
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@coderpatsy ITYM 1 and 5 (4 is the riddle, not the letters=digits).
I got those two and also 3 (the music notes), then got bored with the rest and skipped to the very last (the boxes below) which, with a little help from a dictionary to fill in the gaps in the first line, gave me 4 (the riddle), 6 (the pairs of letters) and 7 (the scrambled letters). 2 (the names) was posted above.
I have to admit that for 6 & 7, I know the solution but not the reason.
The way I worked 5 out is that the second equation can be fully solved as T can't be 4 as this is already allocated to A so T=3 and R=6. The third one then becomes DO-SO+20 = 6E i.e. 10.(D-S+2) = 6E (the O's cancel out) which means E=0.
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I'm not good at these kinds of puzzles so I usually don't even try. I would have gotten the first one, but I carelessly misread the first clock as 7pm instead of 8pm, got an answer that wasn't a word, and figured my guess at the trivial "encryption" algorithm was wrong. It turns out I had the right algorithm but fed it invalid input.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@coderpatsy ITYM 1 and 5 (4 is the riddle, not the letters=digits).
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
My first thought when I saw this was, "Loss, this is another damned 'loss' meme, isn't it?"
Of course, the clock hands aren't at the right angles for that, but it was my first thought, anyway.
I thought it was a rorschach test. All I saw was hello kitty giving me the finger.
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I, uh, used FORTRAN 2D arrays indexing rather than C.
And somehow was totally blind to the big fat numbers very visibly printed facepalm
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
My first thought when I saw this was, "Loss, this is another damned 'loss' meme, isn't it?"
Of course, the clock hands aren't at the right angles for that, but it was my first thought, anyway.
I thought it was a rorschach test. All I saw was hello kitty giving me the finger.
Try looking at it sober.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
(the image ends up not that big because of the second page which is "just" a nice picture except that it's actually needed to solve the last puzzle -- I think, I haven't bothered to get that far)
Each letter in the final puzzle has a texture and number pair. Use the back of the card to look up the object with that texture, then use the question numbers to look up the question with that object. Fill in the number-th letter of that answer.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
I have to admit that for 6 & 7, I know the solution but not the reason.
6 is a binary encoding (but not ASCII) hidden as the colour of the notes (the pitches don't matter). Each bar is a single letter. I think the word is appropriate for the surface of the puzzle.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Iām currently on 6.6.5
dogsb@dogsb-surface:~$ uname -a Linux dobsb-surface 6.6.6-surface-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Dec 13 22:43:57 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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@DogsB At least it wasn't built on Friday 13th.
P.S.
dobsb
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@remi said in In other news today...:
I have to admit that for 6 & 7, I know the solution but not the reason.
Nobody can do 7. This is BS.
code | abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz text | fnaod ilb rsechkt u vw ym
First solve the code.
Identify a 4-letter word.
Look everywhere.
Maybe itās very obvious.āobviousā. So what is it? I thought āGCHQā but treating that as a code just gives nonsense, even though it does put an L in the third position. And there isnāt enough information to do it backwards.
No silly, you have to transpose itā¦
text | abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz code | cinema og phybd tkl suv x
ācinemaā isnāt four lettersā¦ and itās supposed to be āobviousāā¦And yet, as best I can tell, the word is āfilmā
But only by filling in gaps to the second final word.SOLVING THE CODE DOES NOT IDENTIFY A FOUR-LETTER WORD WHARRGARBL
edit: waitagoddamnminute it's right down the first column but Iād only thought to try that with the ciphertext
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@kazitor did you find any logic behind the letter substitution? I just broke in using the second row.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
I have to admit that for 6 & 7, I know the solution but not the reason.
6 is a binary encoding (but not ASCII) hidden as the colour of the notes (the pitches don't matter). Each bar is a single letter. I think the word is appropriate for the surface of the puzzle.
I obviously () meant 5 & 7 (in C arrays encoding).
I did solve 6 (the notes), that one reasonably easy I think. The text makes it obvious it's some kind of binary, the only question was whether it was related to the pitch or to the time of the notes. That one is probably much, much harder for non-computer people. For us, even if we don't actually use it every day, binary is not hard.
7 was explained by @kazitor, thanks. I started to decode it but got bored after finding a few letters. Since I knew the answer from the 2 words of the final puzzle, I thought they were 4 independent things related to that word but that didn't help me so I let it lie.
That leaves 5, which I inferred again from the final puzzle, and found the reason for the first pair but not the rest.
GCHQ published the official solution.
And also a bonus puzzle:
With its solution.
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I found the fifth the hardest; apart from the first sequence (which is obvious) I ended up backsubstituting from the final challenge, guessing a word that fit the theme and then figuring out how its letters fit into the sequence (the fourth sequence becomes obvious, followed by the second, and the third unlike the others doesn't have anything to do with words).
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@Watson yeah, 5 is a bit too much "let's find one random reason why this sequence fits rather than that one" to me. Oh well. Still fun.
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@homoBalkanus said in In other news today...:
@kazitor did you find any logic behind the letter substitution? I just broke in using the second row.
Nothing unifying, just start from āletter wordā and fill in the rest of the letters one at a time.
That presence of ācinemaā couldnāt possibly be a coincidence, thoughā¦
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
That presence of ācinemaā couldnāt possibly be a coincidence, thoughā¦
CINEMATOGRPHY (the second 'a' is dropped). The rest of the substitution alphabet is in sequence. It's a way to distribute the key without having to specify or memorise the entire permutation explicitly.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB At least it wasn't built on Friday 13th.
P.S.
dobsb
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In the words of one youtuber: "Finally, Hideo Kojima gets to make the 2-hour unskippable cutscene he's always dreamed of."
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Status: In other news, a puzzle thread was aborted before creation, apologists in arms.
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