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Re:The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble on Saturday August 02, 2025 @05:34PM (#44771746)
Kind of.

But it introduces an artificial difference between edges and corners. You'd get the same ability for corners if you did them after the edges.

The slightly counterintuitive “magic” is that you can trade a corner swap for an edge swap: for permutation parity, corners and edges are interchangeable.

Re:"Ripples They Cause in the World" on Friday July 11, 2025 @03:31AM (#44529308)
It's like three weeks in the making with counterpart review. Pretty far from same day rip-on.
Re:A Hamiltonian Circuit for Rubik's Cube on Monday November 04, 2024 @02:58AM (#42039483)
You can't turn a corner 180°.

Did you mean flip an edge, or 120°?

Wider than a mole?
Re:Grumpy Gamer – Why Adventure Games Suck on Saturday July 27, 2024 @04:03PM (#41088962)
You're describing a puzzle from the Curse of Monkey Island, aka Monkey Island 3. Ron Gilbert had no involvement there.
I'm fine with permissions. Heck, it's what I already say.

Login, no, just no.

Login is ambiguous to begin with, is it the action or the user identifier?

Login as the process of logging in, the best interpretation, is still pretty limited: authentication is the validation of a much longer chain of events than that. It may start with login, but it lasts for as long as the service accepts to believe such principal is behind such actions.

Login as username is IMHO the most common use of the word, and most obviously the wrong one to mean authentication.

To make things me interesting, auth already means authentication to me. I accept it can lead to confusion and a better substitute would be welcome.

Re:Where in the USA Is This? on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:52AM (#36582374)
DoTT copy protection involved balancing the portable battery's chemicals. Copying a word or phrase feels off brand for a LucasArts game, that was more of a Sierra thing.

Which specific version do you distinctly remember?

>> Then again, I don't think I said anything particularly helpful on Reddit, so maybe it doesn't matter whether I run the script or not :)

> You never know if down the line some of your thoughts would be useful to some people or not. :)

Well they're always useful to those people training LLMs, for one.

Re:You Cannot Have Exactly-Once Delivery on Thursday March 02, 2023 @03:17AM (#34993336)
There is a certain nuance of “in war time” (as opposed to school time).

It's the case here, but isn't automatic.

I needed that. Thank you!
Re:The HTTP crash course nobody asked for on Friday October 21, 2022 @07:32PM (#33294074)
Kind of.

Which part of it do you think is wrong?

Re:Software I’m thankful for (2021) on Friday September 23, 2022 @02:42PM (#32955587)
The issue isn't the figure 50, it's the drawing pool.

Thread-initial description was 50% of the market, which is ambiguous. It could refer to either the market in sales, which indicates highest growth, or the market in userbase, which could be the layman's “common”.

Re:Fork of the popular “I don't care about cookies” extension on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:37PM (#32930409)
FWIW I'm very sorry I put you through this. My comment was low value, posted during insomnia, I was very surprised by the reach it gained while I slept at last.
The point is, calling it zero-tolerance when it's not is misleading. There's a perfectly fine way to describe zero-tolerance with exceptions, and it's not even far fetched: “low tolerance”.

Complete sentences may make it possible to pretend bad wording is consistent, but that doesn't make it good wording.

> I have a zero-tolerance policy for […], with few exceptions

That's not how zero-tolerance works.

Re:Python type hints are Turing complete on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:20PM (#32784401)
Infinite memory available, but never used.
Re:Mille Bornes on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:18PM (#32728960)
«Est.»

Note that French typically does not capitalize individual words in a title as English does.

Re:Mille Bornes on Monday September 05, 2022 @02:09PM (#32727287)
The French editor didn't brand it as an «édition», no spelling error on its side.
Re:How fat does a fat binary need to be? (2021) on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @01:51PM (#32653101)
The limit for a .COM's useful payload is 64KiB, but that wouldn't necessarily prevent the actual file from being bigger, with either truncate or wrapover semantics.
Re:Why 12 notes in Western music? on Monday August 29, 2022 @04:33PM (#32643188)
More generally, I'd be curious to know how they'd practically tune a keyboard to 12TET before the electronic chromatic tuner got around. Start with Pythagorean fifths then compress ever-so slightly? How'd you keep them… equal?
Re:A history of the blurb, every author’s best friend on Monday August 29, 2022 @02:27AM (#32635293)
"Sorry, this content is not available in your region."
50 years ago, unless you were studying at the highest levels of theoretical/historical music research, you'd likely have been taught wrong.

The “Bach standardized the world on 12TET” trope is old and enjoyable enough to make a good story that unspecialized music teachers have parroted along for generations.

We've got better access to information now. I've corrected music teachers on this specific topic in the past. Some gratefully accept. Some pull out the “but the teacher here is me card”, so I'm sure a few more generations are going to be needed.

Technically speaking, if they said it's G# it's G#.

G# minor is a much better use of the key signature system than Ab: 5 sharps versus 7 flats. In practical terms, that's a proxy for it being more common.

Your vision that minor scales are constructed from A minor is valid; thinking it's by adding flats exclusively is misguided.

I'm not going to go out on a limb and defend the fact that sharps-based minor scales could be more common than flat-based, as that's likely not the case. A much easier argument against your logic is that flats-based major scales are used all the time.

Any given key signature can be either major or minor, be it made of sharps or of flats. It can be seen as altering C major or A minor indeed, but the alteration is allowed to go either way.

And, to the best of my knowledge, wrong. I bought a ticket there on the automated machines just a month ago
Re:Can We Throw Satellites to Space? [video] on Sunday August 21, 2022 @01:05PM (#32542130)
By extending the cannon's end to space.
Re:Rust: A Critical Retrospective on Thursday May 19, 2022 @03:55PM (#31439346)
Comments tending to skip on being a part of the AST make that harder.
“duct-tape-ocracy”
French here, never heard of the practice.

Closest I've had is current job, a global company, asking me first and last payslip of my previous employment, from which I was allowed/encouraged to retract information. I figure all they really wanted to check was employment and job title.

Re:Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019) on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @02:08PM (#30364304)
Sorry, that wasn't my point but I haven't made it clear.

432 vs 440, independently of any unit, makes the math easier.

432Hz vs 440Hz, obviously, is two pitches that form an audible interval.

But 432 can be a valuable explaining tool. Just don't read it as Hz, but Hz' (prime), cycles per s', such that 432Hz' = 440Hz.

That's about as far as I'm willing to defend 432.

Re:Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019) on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:14AM (#30359032)
The length of the second is irrelevant. 432 makes the math easier by virtue of being more easily factorable, with no incidence as to what's heard.

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