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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: 500 - Internal Server Error on http://thedailywtf.com/
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RE: ⎕ ⎕ ⎕ ⎕ ⎕ ⎕ ⎕ ⎕ ⎕
@PleegWat When I test-solved this, I wrote a custom sudoku solver that allowed me to apply the incoming constraints from neighboring grids in each corner, and which generated a set of solutions which could appear at each position in the grid (the 8 distinct grids that appear on different rows, and special cases at the edges). I then reduced each solution to its four 3x3 corners, for matching purposes.
A second program compared solutions of one grid with solutions of neighboring grids, eliminating ones which don't match any neighbor solution, taking into account that middle grids could have edge or non-edge neighbors. This program iterated the process since the eliminations could cause further eliminations. This got the list down to about 2 to 10 solutions at each position in the grid.
One of the grids at the lower right had only two solutions, and my manual inspection one of those did not work at the bottom (it worked with a solution that could have appeared at that spot in a higher row), so there was a unique solution for the pair of grids. This caused the next pair of grids to the left of those to also have a unique solution, and I wrote a third program to iterate this, across the bottom and then left to right above that, snaking through the entire section of 8x45.5 sudoku grids, and determining the bottom constraints that applied to the next instance of the grids across the bottom.
This allowed me to see it led to a progression of values, and I could then, by plugging in various bottom values, figure out what it was actually doing, and find the answer. You can see some of the details of what it does in the posted solution document. It took too long, and the test-solving feedback led to the distinct red and green coloring of the givens along the bottom edge as a way of eliminating some time I wasted not noticing something important there, but it was still not a puzzle most teams could realistically be expected to solve within the time constraints of Mystery Hunt.
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RE: Bumping Threads WTF
And the link in the original post to the now 15-year-old thread on Linux questions still works.
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RE: The Official Pokèmon Go Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Pokèmon Go Thread:
article @Boner linked said in The Official Pokèmon Go Thread:
Pokémon Defense and Stamina values will be retroactively rebalanced, allowing highly defensive Pokémon to be valuable in battle by outlasting opponents rather than simply running out the clock.
I don't comprehend this statement. Do "highly defensive Pokémon" outlasting the opponent not effectively be running out the clock?
I think the idea is that they last until the attacker dies rather than lasting 99 seconds and having the match end as a draw on time.
Pokemon have attack, defense, and stamina stats. A high attack stat increases the damage your pokemon's attacks do, a high defense stat decreases the damage your pokemon takes from attacks, and stamina correlates into hit points, making it take more damage to defeat the pokemon.That said, it is really only with Blissey that running out the clock is an issue, and due to the way the gym system has worked for 16 months now, only when Blissey has just been introduced into the gym or is actively being maintained with berries. However, they have talked about introducing a system of PVP battles, and I am guessing that the changes are actually meant to make those work without everybody automatically putting a Blissey in their lineup and also therefore having to put Blissey counters in the lineup. They are also, however, expected to soon release an update that includes 22 new generation-4 evolutions for Pokemon from earlier generations, some of them already quite strong, and this is probably expected to help balance them in the game/make them more favorable.
They are making attack stronger in this update, while making stamina more balanced across different pokemon - balanced meaning reduced for Blissey and its pre-evolved form Chansey, and increased for every other Pokemon. Those who were playing at the right moment a few weeks ago saw a preview of this, when for 30 minutes all Pokemon had (what might not actually be the final version of) the new stats. Every Pokemon in the game besides Blissey and Chansey gained HP. Those two lost a little HP. However, what Niantic hadn't planned on was that Pokemon didn't gain HP when their max HP increased, so everybody had hundreds of "injured" pokemon in their storage, and either because of this, or because they hadn't really planned on rolling out the update at that moment, they rolled it back.
Also, looks like they're working to introduce a everyone-is-level-50 mechanic.
They've been working for a long while to make more ways for players to level up faster. My first character took 14 months to reach level 40. I made a second character at that point, who, due to:
- 200 extra XP for the first spin of every Pokestop
- 12000 extra XP per week if you catch a Pokemon and spin a stop or gym each week
- 10000 extra XP if you do a legendary raid (one free per day)
- many events with extra XP, or extra candy (which translates into extra XP by doing mass evolves of Pokemon that only need 12 or 25 candy to evolve, which was traditionally the way to power-level)
- Pinap berries, which give extra candy which can translate into extra XP
As well as simply playing more, reached level 40 in only 10 months (297 days). And that was only just getting a small amount of the XP from friends, in the final days before level 40.
You get one friend point per friend per day by participating in a raid or gym battle with the friend, trading a pokemon, opening the friend's gift, or having them open your gift. Upon reaching 1, 7, 30, and 90 friend points, you get 3000, 10000, 50000, and 100000 XP, for a total of 163k XP per friend. And you can have up to 200 friends, though limits of sending 100 and opening 20 gifts per day make it unlikely for you to get a friend point with every one of them every day. With a mere 123 dedicated friends gaining a friend point with you every day, you could now reach level 40 in 90 days from the friend points alone. And lucky eggs can double those stat gains; if you coordinate with your friends when you reach the 30 and 90 point levels to use lucky eggs, you only need half that many friends. And if you are also playing the game normally, you might need as few as 50 friends.
That second account that reached level 40 in 10 months has been playing an additional 4 months and about 10 days since then, and has not been doing evolves for XP, and has not really been doing anything for extra XP, except using trying to coordinate using the extra lucky eggs (from the level 40 bonus and from gift boxes bought with the coins from defending gyms) to double the 50k and 100k XP friend bonuses, has, with 21 friends having reached the highest tier and 31 friends having reached the second-highest tier, already gained 70% of the XP it would take to reach level 40 again from the start. It's entirely possible, in actual practice without everything being optimal, to level a new account up to level 40 in 4 to 5 months now.
In any case, that change is going to roll out in a few minutes, so I'm going to sit back and watch the chaos (or go catch or evolve Pokemon if they also throw an event start out at the same moment).
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RE: Inspired by Escher and Penrose...
This makes me think that at one point there was another door (into another building that had floors at different levels, maybe) on that other landing that necessitated this small leg down in the up staircase.
Reminds me of Sid Richardson College at Rice University. Based on some ancient requirement to not have any buildings over 7 stories tall on the campus, it has 14 floors but 7 elevator stops, with a half-flight of stairs up or down to reach the floors, e.g. 7 upper and 7 lower.
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RE: JavaScript ReDoS
Name: devincej2
8.1 (64-bit) 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Xeon E3-1245 v3 @ 3.40 GHz
Using the link from the top of the thread:
Number of seconds:
94.053900000
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RE: It's kind of a bug tracker
Heh, you COULD do this, I suppose. It would be but it could be done. It lets you handle duplicates by jeffing it into the original, and splinter bugs by jeffing them out into a new thread. I can't think of any other redeeming features.
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RE: The Official Pokèmon Go Thread
@Karla said in The Official Pokèmon Go Thread:
I recommend everyone find a raid group at least for when MewTwo comes out.
For those who don't know: Players unlocked an "Ultra Bonus" reward for completing three rounds of global quest events, each time completing 5 million field research quests in each of three regions of the world and 100,000 in the local special event open during each one. Part of that ultra bonus is that, starting September 20 at 1 PM PDT and continuing until October 23, MewTwo will be a boss available in regular tier 5 raids spawning randomly along with other raids, no EX pass needed.
The EX Raid system lasted for more than a year, at first only at a couple gyms near Niantic HQ, then only at sponsor gyms (Sprint, Boost, Starbucks), and later at, loosely speaking, gyms in park. There were lots of weird glitches in the system and perceived unfairness in the distribution, but for most of the last 6 months, if you participated in any raid during the week between passes going out at a gym that was selected for an EX Raid, you got a pass for the EX Raid.
After the EX Raids of September 9th, no new passes went out. Whether they have torn down the EX Raid system, paused it for the weeks while MewTwo is available without a pass, or will replace MewTwo with something else in EX Raids to come, we don't know.
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RE: The Official Pokèmon Go Thread
@Boner said in The Official Pokèmon Go Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I love Eevees, get it evolved!
These are the top (by CP) mons us players can get:
This list is wrong. Mewtwo only actually goes up to around 4000. There are a bunch of others (mostly legendaries, but also Slaking and Tyranitar) which should be on your list, but aren't.
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RE: The Official Pokèmon Go Thread
Finally got through the 7-day-long stage 6 of Celebi quest. Now I need to catch 40 grass or psychic pokemon - but it's partly cloudy, and there aren't any of those types. Usually I like partly cloudy weather because you get all those boosted normal types, but today...
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RE: The Official Pokèmon Go Thread
@izzion said in The Official Pokèmon Go Thread:
So, any recommendations for Pokemon IV calcs / trackers? Are there any that can make like an API interface to your account, as opposed to tons of manual input?
Nope. Quite a few months ago Niantic started banning accounts that used any kind of unofficial software to access their accounts. This used to be quite common in the times before that.
The best, which is Android-only, is Calcy IV. It reads the text, level meter, etc. from screen captures to get the data for IV calculations. People also use Poke Genie on iOS.
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RE: The Official Pokèmon Go Thread
@izzion said in The Official Pokèmon Go Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
Probably comes down to the fact that the app fully restarted itself again, rather than resuming from suspend. So it only checks debug on startup, but since Niantic apps crash twice a week...Twice a week? Actually, it depends a lot on the version. They've had some pretty solid ones and some bad ones. The current version is very crashful. A group of 8 I was in failed a Ho-Oh raid Saturday because of 6 crashes during the raid.
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RE: Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls
There's more than one Cross St around here. But
The Circle, Austin, TX
When I was there, the Google Navigation app proudly put "The" at the top of the screen as the name of the next street I was looking for. -
RE: Sci-fi movie identifiaction
Haha, when I started reading this thread today I was going to suggest it might be eXistenZ. I was on a VR bender in 1999, and so I was one of the 5 people who saw it in the theater during its brief run; I had to go seek out the one indie theater where it was playing. It technically came out after The Matrix, but so close to the same time that clearly both movies were being made at the same time.
And then I read the whole thread and saw there were ninjas everywhere. And hi, all of the other 4 people who saw eXistenZ.
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RE: Oh go fuck yourself, Apple
@mott555 said in Oh go fuck yourself, Apple:
@topspin said in Oh go fuck yourself, Apple:
hmm, I usually send this with POST data, maybe I shouldn't just POST to the URL without data. durrrrr
I know nothing about web stuff, but isn't POST for requests that are explicitly not nilpotent?! As in, you shouldn't randomly POST stuff, ever?
Yeah, that was my thought, too. What if an iPad user hits a page that has a table and each row has a POST button to delete that row? Does it try to hit all those and cache the results and wipe out your database as a result?
That case was due to NOT using POST where they should, but the same idea, just with TRWTF on the other end of the system.
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RE: Anyone done channel injection before?
@polygeekery said in Anyone done channel injection before?:
Due to it being a large business installation there are no cable boxes. We have a standard cable stream to work with. What we are talking about here is basically the same thing that VCRs used to do. Tune to channel 3 and play the VCR, other channels are unaffected.
Or am I missing something here?
But that isn't how VCRs used to work. You'd tune the TV to channel 3 and watch that all the time. The VCR then either played its content on channel 3, or you would use the VCR tuner to select a channel, and the VCR would pull that signal out of the incoming stream and play it on channel 3. Or 4, in places that had a broadcast channel 3, because the wiring connected to the TV, while a very poor antenna, would pick up enough of the broadcast signal to mess things up.
Fortunately, we live in a more advanced age and it looks like somebody found something that does what you actually want.
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RE: Your password is nearly old enough to enter 4th grade...
@pjh said in Your password is nearly old enough to enter 4th grade...:
@zemm said in Your password is nearly old enough to enter 4th grade...:
My Slashdot uid is six digits starting with a 1 which makes it 20 years old this year. We've been out drinking regularly!
Don't want to think about mine being only 5...
Also 5 digits. And I got one of the T-shirts for drawing a logo they used for one day in the month they were celebrating their 15th anniversary. Of course, these days they are having too much trouble just keeping the site online to celebrate 20. I've changed my password there once or twice over the 20 years; I know the original one (which was used on countless different web sites when I was young and stupid) has been compromised.
Bonus WTF (or, how many WTFs are there in this paragraph?): Originally I was /dev/joe there with the slashes. 20 years ago, people didn't think about you having a different display name from your username the way some sites do now, so that was actually the username I logged in with. At some point, some rewrite of their login system broke it so logging in with username and password didn't work if your username had slashes, and I poked them about it but nothing was done. I was still able to log in using OpenID from a livejournal account I had linked there, so I didn't bug them too hard about it for a couple more years. When that broke too I had to poke them again about the problem and eventually they just made me devjoe without the slashes rather than fix their bugs. And, keep in mind, this is SLASHdot.
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RE: We want to cut the cord, but everyone wants a fuckload of money...
I use a Channel Master DVR+ for over the air broadcasts. It looks like this has been replaced with another model called Stream+ that integrates with streaming services in addition to serving as an over-the-air DVR, and I have no experience with that model, but it's something to look into.
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RE: What style of CSS class names should I teach?
@benjamin-hall said in What style of CSS class names should I teach?:
I get a lot of
<div class="a"> <div class="b"> <div class="one"> <div class="Camembert">
(no, seriously I had a kid who did all his class names after kinds of cheese).
It wasn't CSS; it was too early for that. But I was a TA for a class way back when using Matlab 3.5j and most of my students either named their functions boringly (i.e. set1prob2) or descriptively. But I had one student who named all her functions with various animals, and before long tried to name a function dog. And came to me for help because the dog function didn't work.
I investigated and pretty quickly got to the point where I replaced the contents of dog with hello world and saw that it wasn't running the function at all. Dog was a hidden reserved word, or something (it was apparently doing nothing and returning nothing), and I told her that dog was reserved, and to call her program something else.
At the next TA meeting, relating this incident led to others informing me of the special responses Matlab had to certain four letter words (one response was "Your place or mine?"). Later versions removed these easter eggs.
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RE: How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?
@anotherusername said in How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?:
Also, GreaseMonkey is all kinds of fucked up now. BRB learning
async
/await
...Actually, it seemed to work pretty well for me, though it was different having the editor be a regular tab rather than a popup window. The one big thing is that if you added an existing script to more pages using the controls on the add-ins page (that are completely gone now), those settings are lost. Only the pages written into the initial comments of the script survived.
Among my other extensions, one that let me download embedded videos was already available in its new version, and a couple other ones I had were lost but I wasn't using them any more so I didn't worry too much about them.
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RE: How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?
@dcon said in How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?:
@dcon said in How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?:
OMFG
The bookmarks menu is TOTALLY fucked. What goddamn order is that ??? It's not the order when I say "show all".
DON'T FUCKING SORT MY BOOKMARKS!!!
Oh, whew.
Click "Add Bookmarks Menu to Toolbar". And removed that shit that now looks like it's supposed to be the bookmarks menu.DItto for me, on both computers. Also re-disabled Pocket which magically rose from
the deadpreviously disabled status.