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Re:One Million Checkboxes by nomel on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @01:45PM (#40802490)
I think there's a severe problem with this implementation. By using wrapping, I can't write "boobs" and have everyone else read my graffiti without them having having the same zoom wrapping point.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by matthewfcarlson on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @03:08PM (#40803393)
I spent five minutes writing “hey you, yes you” only to read your comment and realize my message is unparsable for those not on mobile.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by brookst on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @04:03PM (#40804049)
These days we say "encrypted" rather than "unparseable".
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by jaggederest on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @04:25PM (#40804233)
bcdofsteua perhaps.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by Dwedit on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @07:44PM (#40805803)
Encrypted using EBCDIC
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by cyanydeez on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @04:06PM (#40804072)
¯_ (ツ)_/¯
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by MaxikCZ on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @04:46PM (#40804419)
Here, you dropped this: \
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by tekknolagi on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @05:04PM (#40804576)
I made https://shru.gg/r for this reason
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by Vicinity9635 on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @05:49PM (#40804998)
You'll likely enjoy "Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed: Japanese style Faces"

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_17760284.html

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by latentsea on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @09:02PM (#40806283)
╯‵Д′)╯彡┻━┻

Angry guy flipping a table has always been my favorite.

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by jowea on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @10:34PM (#40806664)
wait what?
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by rabbitofdeath on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:26PM (#40806893)
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by graeber_28927 on Thursday June 27, 2024 @01:43AM (#40807625)
┳━┳ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by yard2010 on Thursday June 27, 2024 @03:47AM (#40808329)
Φ,Φ
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by unstatusthequo on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @07:45PM (#40805811)
Posts like this is what makes HN great.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by Vicinity9635 on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @05:44PM (#40804944)
What's the r for? reddit (markdown?)
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by moritzwarhier on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @05:49PM (#40804997)
There's a link in the bottom-left corner, haven't checked, but reads like an accompanying reddit tool (since there's no real plugin system, guess it's a web app requiring credentials)
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by tekknolagi on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @06:01PM (#40805088)
No plugins, just HTML, no credentials
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by moritzwarhier on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @06:31PM (#40805337)
Cool!

Sorry that my comment read like an accusation, should have clicked/tapped the link ;)

Not following links is a bad habit easy to pick up on mobile.

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by WildGreenLeave on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:57PM (#40807048)
On iOS long pressing a link so it previews is very nice for these kind of things. I only wished you were able to scroll inside that popup/preview.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by tekknolagi on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @06:01PM (#40805084)
Reddit (and other fora). The homepage is for non-escaped. There's also /free
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by nemo1618 on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @10:10PM (#40806570)
I added a Mac keyboard shortcut, so anywhere I type "shrg" it expands to ‾\_(ツ)_/‾

If I need an escaped version, that's "shrgg": ‾\\\_(ツ)\_/‾

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by dayjaby on Thursday June 27, 2024 @02:36AM (#40807936)
Did this ever turn against you when coding?

`std::shared_ptr<Gate> shrg = ...` or similar?

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by fredoliveira on Thursday June 27, 2024 @12:36PM (#40812361)
‾\_(ツ)_/‾
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by fsckboy on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @06:10PM (#40805155)
_/`(ツ)_/¯

walk like an Egyptian

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by TZubiri on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @08:18PM (#40806032)
The idea of public canvases has been explored thousands of times: r/place, 1 million pixels,...

This feels like something else, it's ok if it has its own identity, otherwise it devolves/converges into a place to draw dicks in.

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by crdrost on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @08:36PM (#40806139)
It's a rectangular grid. People aren't going to troll with dicks, but swastikas.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by falseprofit on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @08:45PM (#40806183)
Virtually all monitors are rectangular grids
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by nomel on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @10:42PM (#40806702)
You could sorta kinda claim that most OLED displays are not rectangular [1], since only green is at full resolution, with blue and red being at a partial resolution, by sharing those sub pixels between "logical" pixels.

[1] https://www.oled-info.com/gs5-diamond-pixel-architecture-not...

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by Macha on Thursday June 27, 2024 @05:10AM (#40808729)
Note for anyone confused, this is about AMOLED displays commonly used in phones and some OLED laptops from a few years ago.

W-OLED and QD-OLED have unconventional layouts compared to LCDs but every pixel has the complete set of sub pixels (RGB for QD-OLED, RGBW for W-OLED) so it looks more like this:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

Just mentioning as while AMOLED phones being the majority of OLED displays seems plausible to me, it's likely not what people in this thread are picturing when they see OLED.

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by JdeBP on Thursday June 27, 2024 @06:21AM (#40809005)
And yet https://mastodon.scot/@rasteri/112683926331617000 was found within the first 2 hours of the FediVerse post.

Honourable mentions go to the TARDIS picture at https://mstdn.ca/@Chigaze/112683847369819438 and the Sierpiński gasket attempt at https://mastodon.online/@Zotmeister/112684295968651688 .

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by LorenDB on Thursday June 27, 2024 @09:27AM (#40810265)
Shortly after posting this to HN I drew Tux at position 99999. It's long gone now, of course.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by neal_jones on Friday June 28, 2024 @12:21AM (#40817688)
The dick is humanity’s logo - wherever humankind is, dicks are being drawn
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by crdrost on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @08:35PM (#40806131)
This problem is traditionally solved by attempting to teach the aliens how to decode the pattern inside the pattern itself. For example a rendering might look like

    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x _ _ x _ x _ x x x _ x _ x _ _ x _ x _ x x x _ x _ x _ _ x
    x _ _ x _ x _ x _ _ _ x _ x _ _ x _ x _ x _ x _ x _ x _ _ x
    x _ _ x x x _ x x _ _ x x x _ _ x x x _ x _ x _ x _ x _ _ x
    x _ _ x _ x _ x _ _ _ _ x _ _ _ _ x _ _ x _ x _ x _ x _ _ x
    x _ _ x _ x _ x x x _ _ x _ _ _ _ x _ _ x x x _ x x x _ _ x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
The idea is that the aliens can figure out first that these opening and closing sections have periodicity 30, and because they are so repetitive they do not contain the actual data bits, but then there is a central section which does contain complexity.

So then they will hopefully alight upon the idea of looking at the code two-dimensionally, and adjust their browser width until the lines all line up, at which point they get the custom message.

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by sillysaurusx on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @10:48PM (#40806727)
How long did you spend crafting this comment? Be honest.

I could imagine doing that with Vim, but I don’t think I could do it in less than ten minutes. And then I’d get sidetracked about whether to represent empty checkboxes with _ or - or a Unicode box.

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by boomskats on Thursday June 27, 2024 @04:13AM (#40808437)
Thank you so much for this. I wonder, at a global level, how many potentially productive man-minutes will be wasted thanks to your comment.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by ultracakebakery on Thursday June 27, 2024 @06:41AM (#40809085)
I thought the same thing
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by anon533783 on Thursday June 27, 2024 @08:42AM (#40809856) 

    ┌───────────────────────┐
    │ https://asciiflow.com │
    └───────────────────────┘
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by djha-skin on Thursday June 27, 2024 @11:28AM (#40811592)
https://github.com/vim-scripts/DrawIt
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by kangalioo on Thursday June 27, 2024 @02:28PM (#40813502)
Can be pretty fast if you know your tools well :)

Just tried in VSCode; 2:38min using its fabulous multiline editing. 1:34min on second try due to practice

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by pavel_lishin on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @09:18PM (#40806365)
Wouldn't it be slightly simpler to use a prime number of rows and columns?
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by crdrost on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @10:15PM (#40806596)
Slightly, yes! The Arecibo message was 73×23 bits, with the hope that the aliens would break lines after 23 bits. But,

    i f . t h e s 
    n e i l a . e
    s . l i k e .
    o r t s u o b
    p h e d o n .
    w . r e d r o
    e . a r e . k
    c s . a d n i
    r e w e d . o
    a . e h t . n
    r e c i b o .
    e g a s s e m
    . a n y w a y
and that's to say nothing of spiraling orders etc.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by defrost on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @10:27PM (#40806636)
Not enough boustrophedon order comments on HN, congrats.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by eru on Thursday June 27, 2024 @12:28AM (#40807221)
I like 'conventional' order, and I could figure out your message block.

Give the aliens some credit, they might figure it out.

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by madcaptenor on Thursday June 27, 2024 @09:31AM (#40810309)
IIRC these messages usually have their dimensions equal to primes, to help the aliens a little bit - for example the Arecibo message was 1679 = 73 * 23 bits. We're hoping the aliens have the sense to recognize a product of two primes.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by shaftway on Thursday June 27, 2024 @02:26PM (#40813486)
If you used a prime number instead of 30 (e.g. 29) then the aliens would spend less time checking the factors of 30 (15, 10, 6, 5, 3, 2).
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by sdenton4 on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @03:23PM (#40803559)
Morse code would do the trick!

One check for short, two checks for long, two blanks for end-of-character.

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Re:One Million Checkboxes by paulddraper on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @02:19PM (#40802845)
We need community consensus on checkboxes per line
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by brookst on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @02:31PM (#40802987)
43. 43 per line.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by oo0shiny on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @03:20PM (#40803525)
42
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by chromoblob on Thursday June 27, 2024 @07:05AM (#40809205)
}}~
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by altairprime on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @04:23PM (#40804214)
That sounds like a feature.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by CobrastanJorji on Thursday June 27, 2024 @02:34AM (#40807927)
No, no, it's a feature. Your message has been cleverly hidden behind a modern day scytale cipher. Intended recipients must know the correct screen width.
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Re:One Million Checkboxes by some_random on Thursday June 27, 2024 @03:06PM (#40813891)
The other problem is that there are a bunch of people here running scripts to automatically erase anything you do in the name of checking every box
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