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Did you ever play my barrel game/puzzle?

https://dpiponi.github.io/barrels.html

The rules are

0. try to achieve the specified goal
1. you can tap on the circles to open and close the pipes
2. there are no more rules

I wrote it years ago and it wasn't originally for mobile platforms so open/close is a bit small. Sorry.

Anyway, it was very surprising to me you can make a puzzle out of equalizing water levels but it's an NP-complete problem IIRC.

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Reading about the Bell Labs "Complex Computer" that used 450 relays to multiply complex numbers. Built in 1939 it could be used remotely over telegraph lines so it offered complex multiplication with up to 8 decimal digits as an online service. Took minutes for each multiplication.

https://gunkies.org/wiki/Bell_Telephone_Laboratories_relay_computing_devices

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The sad thing about numpy.einsum is that the naming leads many to think that Einstein's innovation was to leave out sigmas whereas correctly used Einstein summation enforces a non-trivial type system that einsum blithely discards.

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I don't think this is a spherical cow joke from Borges but I think we can retcon it as one.

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I get a lot of texts and emails from the Democratic party so I now have a pretty good idea of what they stand for. Extracting money from me.

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@nprofile1q... "Webinar" is gross but for other reasons to to with the culture around business which I've never loved.

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@nprofile1q... Even before I saw the domain I was gonna guess you're in the UK :) I appreciated it when I used to buy burners while visiting the UK as it was cheaper that stupid AT&T international plans.

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I have an irrational hatred of the word "broadcasted".

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Imagine running some multi-step task on a GPU where the number of steps is random. Some thread complete early so you may as well start a new task on those. But that means when you come to a stop you may have some partially completed tasks.

My question is: how did Douglas Adams come up with the Lintilla clone story?

(Maybe you haven't listened to season 2 of the radio show of HHGG. The clone story is inspired.)

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Hey Claude, gimme an inconsistency in ZFC. And don't give me no partial results either, I want a full on proof of 0=1!!! Don't stop until finished. Commit the results.

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You know what's gross? Cracking open an egg and finding a fairly advanced embryo. The network of blood vessels is somewhat fascinating though.

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"If the images have the same z-index then the behavior is undefined."

Does that mean my computer can explode, or does it merely mean I won't know which pixel ends up in front? Because in C++ compilers I think it means my computer might explode.

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