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by nsilvestri 4y ago
[citation needed]
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Minecraft has a feature called redstone. It's "dust" that you can pour on blocks to create wires. These wires can be powered from in-game items. Combining two or more of these powered wires with some spatial positioning can g
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Until the eye-Phone gets installed, you can always leave your phone somewhere else.
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
It's a common enough problem that Distrokid has a support article on the matter. https://support.distrokid.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015182574...
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Yes, see article G: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/history/fil...
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
That's the hope. In practice nobody gets to sit down and examine a scramble in depth before their turn, but might be able to steal a few glances from a distance during someone else's solve. I'd say the advantage of someone do
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
The scrambling program tnoodle is open source and you can check out the implementation. [0] I haven't verified myself, but I do think there is checking involved for some of the events (at least 3x3, 2x2, skewb, square-1, and pyraminx)
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Nitpicking a little here. The minimum is 2 moves, with exceptions for 2x2, Skewb, Square-1, and Pyraminx. https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#4b3
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
The logistical problems are already solved. WCA competitions have a strict set of policies designed to minimize people's abilities to cheat. When No Inspection was an official event, it operated similarly to how blindfold solving does
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
One reason people don't use all the time is because it gets exponentially more difficult to track more and more pieces as the solutions also get longer. An intermediate cuber can easily 4 pieces in inspection and plan out where they go
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
There's a lot of lines you can draw about what technically counts as the world record time. It's also incorrect to say that the world record is 3.47, because there are many on-camera examples of faster solves. They simply weren&#x
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Luck is a pervasive factor in speedcubing. Much of the time it manifests in a way that allows the solver to skip one or more steps of the solve. This is why most events take the average of 5 to rank people (throw out the fastest and slowest
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
The WCA already does have multiple events for different puzzles and styles of solving, such as 7x7 cubes and solving a 3x3 with the fewest moves. All but the biggest competitions choose from a subset of those 17 events to include because th
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
It would be like blindfold solving. Competitor starts with their hands on the timer and they remove the cover themselves.
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
The fastest blindfold solvers in the world have their memorization under 10s. It encodes all the information they need to solve the cube, so arguably they are able to solve the entire cube in their head in under 10s. Execution takes longer,
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Scrambles are not 40 moves, they're generally around 25 because they're somewhat optimized scrambles to reach a randomly generated state. Simply using a sufficiently long sequence of moves still provides some bias to certain cube
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
I'm a speedcuber. Inspection time makes for a more interesting competition because it raises the skill ceiling. The top solvers can plan out a dozen moves in advance, find solutions that are more efficient, or skip steps entirely. Remo
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
People can host their own competitions with different rules, and do: Red Bull has their own format of competitions where inspection time is not included. However, under the regulations outlined by the World Cube Association, inspection time
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Looking this far into the past is partially about zooming in, and another part about the wavelength of the light. JWST being in infrared means that it can see things further away which have been redshifted so far that they are no longer vis
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Close, but I think you confused the 360 degrees of a circle with the ~365 days in a year. The extra nearly-one degree of rotation in a solar day brings us to a hair under 361 degrees ;)
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Kagi is honestly not good at all about local results. I use !g the most often when trying to find information about stores or restaurants. For all other "encyclopedic" knowledge, like Wikipedia (pinned), Stack Exchange, blogs, etc
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
Paid search means that the service is not incentivized to appeal to advertisers. Disclaimer: happy Kagi subscriber here :)
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
ZZ is definitely younger than ZB, and I think that story checks out. ZBF2L just tries to orient LL edges with the last pair, while ZZ moves it to part of the EOLine/EOCross. In both methods, ZBLL can be used to do LL.
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by nsilvestri 4y ago
ZZ is actually rather unpopular and seems to have decisively lost its spot as a top tier method a few years back. The tradeoffs vs CFOP are generally not considered worthwhile, because an entirely rotationless solve doesn't make up for
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by nsilvestri 5y ago
It's a game. Games can have competition. Sometimes that's what makes them fun.
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by nsilvestri 5y ago
It's a fairly high-end headset attached to a compoarably powerful laptop, and the cost reflects the combined cost of both parts. It's expensive but the price makes sense.
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by nsilvestri 5y ago
Extract the valid guess and potential answer lists from Wordle itself.
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by nsilvestri 5y ago
Pulled up the results in incognito and can't repro either. The only extensions I'm using are Bitwarden, uBlock Origin, and React Dev Tools so I don't expect those to be the root cause, however.
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by nsilvestri 5y ago
Sure. Results I've seen issues with: `update-rc.d command not found` `baselayerchange leaflet react` `gnome-disks permisions denied` `chart.js more points than labels` <-- this one has two untitled results, but only one of them redi
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Tell HN: Google returning 'Untitled' results that redirect to malware/spam
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