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  • What's your favorite Enigma / Riddle / Sentence Puzzle?

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  • Let's number the dudes in your image form left to right: 1, 2, 3 and 4.

    Dudes 3 and 4 have no useful information. They stay silent.

    Dude 1 can see one of each hat colour on the dudes in front, but cannot determine their own colour without knowing the hat colour of dude 4. They stay silent.

    Dude 2 can see the hat colour of dude 3. They can determine that either they themself or the dude behind must have a different hat colour. The dude behind - dude 1 - can see both of the hat colours in front, but stays silent. This lets dude 2 know that they and dude 3 must be different colours (otherwise dude 1 would have known their own hat colour).

    Therefore, dude 2 knows their own hat colour must be different to the dude in front and announces the colour of their own hat.

  • I am not receiving ads on the free version

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  • I don't even see those. What you are seeing is more in line with what one would expect from DNS based ad blocking.

  • I am not receiving ads on the free version

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  • I am in the EU in a country that implements the GDPR, so if @ljdawson@lemmy.world has set up something like that, it's possible. But I'd be surprised, as I'm pretty sure he is British and would have GDPR-compliant advertising.

    Edit: Forgot that the country I live in is no longer in the EU :(

  • What's something that's not common knowledge but you think everyone should know?

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  • Good question. I am now a software developer, but in a previous career I was a logistics manager. In that job I had a lot of repetitive report downloading and creating. It would take hours each day. I used techniques taught in that book to automate downloading reports directly, as well as generating some in SAP by automating mouse and keyboard movements, as well as generating CSVs and Excel spreadsheets. In all cases I either cut the time required or at least the time I had to be physically present. Many jobs could have similar applications of a little Python, I imagine. Certainly not all jobs though, of course.

  • In the Google antitrust trial, defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing

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  • I do, via the !s bang. I was thrown off of using Startpage exclusively after the System1 acquisition. Since then, I've also experienced more downtime with Startpage than I find acceptable. It is nice getting the Google results via another interface though.

  • In the Google antitrust trial, defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing

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  • I default to DuckDuckGo as well. I don't really like it, and I certainly don't trust it any more than I do any other for-profit organization. I just wanted something that isn't Google, Amazon or Microsoft.

    It's really quite fruitless though. Maybe 80% of my searches end up having a !s or !g (really just for variety...) thrown in, as Google's results are just better.

    DDG image search spits out porn as often as it does something relevant. I can change content moderation options if I want to reduce it, but I don't have to do that with Google.

    Kagi has caught my attention lately. I'm going to try it and see if it feels good value for the money. I'm not opposed to paying for search, but this does feel expensive (I say that having no idea of the true cost of running a search company). Obviously, privacy is out the window as it's paid for and linked to an account. But as I feel I'm not really getting that anywhere else either, I'm more hoping that it will just provide good search results.

  • 5 Games Made in Godot // This week in Godot 09.16.23

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  • I think you may have misread the title (and certainly not watch the video! :P). This is about games made in Godot, an open source game engine (mostly written in C++) featuring a scripting language similar to Python (but far from identical).

  • What's a great but uncommon comedy movie we should watch?

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  • Four lions is an absolute classic. Roz Ahmed's career really took off a few years after the film and it always throws me straight back to it when I see him. It actually broke Venom for me, seeing him as the villain, as for me he is only Omar.

    I don't know about outside the UK, but I think it's quite a well known and loved movie amongst people in their late twenties onward.

  • Show Lemmy: I made an easy-to-use, "React-lite" web framework in only 2000 lines of code, named Modulo.js

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  • That's so interesting. I'm a developer myself, but haven't ever tackled a making a framework. Having obviously dealt many times with assuming there must be a framework error after hours of debugging (usually to find out it was indeed a user error...), I can imagine the debacle of trying to figure that out while developing one!

  • Show Lemmy: I made an easy-to-use, "React-lite" web framework in only 2000 lines of code, named Modulo.js

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  • What have been your biggest challenges as you've developed this?

    I'd give it a go, and probably will at some point, but just don't have time at the moment. But having had a cursory glance, I'm very impressed with the documentation. The framework looks similar enough to Vue and svelte that I feel it would be easy enough for most frontend devs to pick this up quite quickly.

  • What benefits do you get for being on-call? - programming.dev

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  • Like many others here, at the company I work for you get nothing.

    I do one on-call shift as primary per week and one as secondary. I then also cover a week every six weeks or so.

    If shit really hits the fan, them work is pretty cool about taking some time back, but we're far from micromanaged as it is, so we can just kind of make it work.

    I'd say an incidency probably occurs on around half of my primary shifts (and I've yet to ever do anything as secondary), and nearly always it was something I could resolve within one hour.

    Every dev at the company is on the rota once they've got a few month's experience.

    Based in the UK.

  • Advanced math in game design: random walks and Markov chains in action

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  • I've really enjoyed this article. Feels like it's gone into just enough depth for those curious about Markov chains. It's certainly made me want to dig deeper into the subject.

  • Why a ton, and not a megagram?

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  • I am shocked by how well your latter example emphasizes an extremely large quantity of tacos.

    I vote for that one.

  • Federation Updates

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  • Why did hexbear defederate from this instance?

  • What is an absurdity that has been normalized by society?

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  • Can confirm. Endless rain this summer in the UK. No grass watering required (not that it is ever required...). Didn't stop my neighbour watering on the few sunny weeks we've had...

  • There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k)

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  • It's not even that these evangelizers think we should all be using the same browser. It's that there are currently only two realistic choices: Chrome (and it's derivatives) and Firefox (and it's derivatives). There is safari too, of course, but it hardly compares to either in it's current state.

    Given those two choices, only one of them is in support of the open web. The other is literally trying to add DRM to the web.

    As to your first point: I agree that here it may be preaching to the choir and that we all get it. But it has such a small marketshare, I'm not sure it is good for those encouraging it to be quitened.

  • There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k)

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  • I get it with the others, but given what Google is currently trying to do with Chrome and the open web, I think the Firefox evangelism is the least sinful of these by far. Or maybe I just became part of the problem.

  • [RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege

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  • Who are you with? I get 150 symmetrical for £25 with Swish.

  • What are some small, pocketable/keychainable items that are worth carrying everywhere you go?

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  • How often is that bootable Linux drive useful to have on hand though? I can't imagine it being useful more than once a year or so, but maybe I'm not thinking creatively enough.