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  • They could, if they cared to research that much, which many don't seem to want to do.

  • What do you think would be an actually good use of blockchain/smart contracts? What kind of problems (big or small) is it a good tool for?
  • I still find the ai program that infers your age based on your age pretty funny :p and it never really get's it completely.

  • so r/anarchism does not endorse lemmy
  • All I wrote was a correct definition of a tankie. Stupid people worshipping the bloody handed dictators of russia and china.

  • Exclusive: Interview with Picross developer Jupiter
  • I don't know, I'm currently enjoying my break, but maybe I will :) For now I'm doing random acts of sudoku if someone mentions it :)

  • so r/anarchism does not endorse lemmy
  • I think someone felt attacked there :p good

  • Exclusive: Interview with Picross developer Jupiter
  • Okay, so I looked it up. Apparently, you don't need to guess in proper Sudoku, when there is only one solution

    Yup, you got it :)

    , but apparently there are also many Sudoku, sometimes printed, which have more than one solution, and so you require guessing.

    Yeah, but only where you have come to a place where a 50-50 guess is needed, when you get used to solving good puzzles you learn how to figure it out, and there is a lot of checkers that you can run on puzzles if you're not sure, and if you find one with multiple solutions you just evade that source.

    Also There are known good sources for puzzles, ones that are proper puzzles, so the best choice is just to keep at them.

    Also, some sites mention "guessing" as a technique, which I probably took it to mean that you have to do it.

    Guessing is used in speedsolving, where they solve the puzzles really fast. Guessing is a valid technique in picross as well, you can just guess if a cell is filled or not, it's exactly the same in sudoku, you just cheat yourself, and it's a big likelihood that you made the puzzle unsolveable, personally I find it not very gratifying to guess, so I never do.

    Since I believed guessing is required, I would leave the puzzle where I got a bit stuck, assuming this is where I need to guess.

    Yeah, some of the techniques, like finned fishes, Alternate inference chains and 3d-Medusa and so on can get a bit involved, so if you haven't seen them before it's hard figure them out by yourself. I used to moderate the r/sudoku sub over at reddit, where we used to help people solve a lot of puzzles they were struggling with. But really difficult stuff like that usually aren't in printed puzzles, they seldomly have anything more complex than an X-wing.

    If you want to learn about techinques https://hodoku.sourceforge.net/en/techniques.php is a really good source, and hodoku is a really good solver too in case you want to learn, if you want something online there is https://sudokuwiki.com which is decent as well :)

    Thanks for the comment! If I start to like Sudoku again, the blame would be all on you! šŸ˜€

    Hah, you're welcome, I've been solving for around a decade now, and it's still fun to me, so at least there is something for it.

  • Exclusive: Interview with Picross developer Jupiter
  • You don't have to guess with sudoku, I've done around 15 000 puzzles or so by now, and even the hardest have logic behind them, of course you can guess if you can't figure out the logic, but every one of them if you get them from a quality source has no guessing, and a single solution.

  • Exclusive: Interview with Picross developer Jupiter
  • Ooh, I loved Murder by numbers, bought it full price some time ago, and it was well worth that :D

  • Thank you for the quick turn around on removing ads
  • Then why are you quoting the price of ultra, which is something completely different?

  • so r/anarchism does not endorse lemmy
  • I'm not sure why we should launder tankies and make everyone else that do like ML complicit with their fucked up ideas?

  • so r/anarchism does not endorse lemmy
  • Why? tankies are Authocratic far left people, supporting dictators with bloody hands, I don't think we need a neutral term, call them as it is, and I say this as a far left person, just not supporting authocrat dictators.

  • so r/anarchism does not endorse lemmy
  • Marxist Leninist, but I think the correct term would be tankie.

  • What is your religion and what led you to identifying with / believing in it?
  • You're right that the theory is not about God, but explains the origins of the universe.

    How so? I don't see what you mean here, it doesn't explain anything, it just builds a level of assumptions on top of something, basically explaining something with an untested hypothesis.

    what I said about God is what I think is a logical conclusion.

    If you Agree to the premises I guess, but I don't, so it explains nothing.

    If something has a beginning, then it must have been kickstarted somehow.

    Then who kickstarted god? Or does he/she/it for some reason get special treatment here? (This is special pleading)

    What kickstarted it is by definition its creator.

    If I kick a stone down a hill I did not create the stone even though I set it in motion.

    And this applies to our universe, in my opinion.

    Hmm, I don't see how you evade an infinite regression here, unless you break your own rules and give one link in the chain an "eternal always existing" modifier. We don't know that anything eternal exist, or even that our universe isn't eternal (extisting eternally as a singularity before spreading or a part of a bigger multiverse that we cannot perceive)

    It is merely a statement that they must exist.

    It is just assuming that something must exist, since you're building your logic on very shaky premises that we cannot prove.

    An effect must have a cause.

    Must it? Or have we just never seen the contrary (black swan fallacy) Who caused god? like I said before you can't get away from that without special pleading.

    I apologize for sounding pretentious earlier, that was not my intention, but I can see how it came off as such. And apologize for misunderstanding your intentions as well.

    Water under the bridge :) No worries :)

    Also I notice you have some downvotes. Just want to clarify that it is not me.

    No worries, I don't care about the votes, interactions are worth way more than someone clicking an arrow :)

  • What is your religion and what led you to identifying with / believing in it?
  • But that's a theory isn't it? I haven't seen any scientific theories to gods how do we know anything about a god, much less what the nature of their being? It's just not based on anything, (therefore my allusions to magic)

    I don't enjoy your tone policing.. There are ways to do that without sounding pretentious and holier than though, please keep that in mind for the next time.

  • What is your religion and what led you to identifying with / believing in it?
  • Why do you think the universe needs a beginning, but there are special rules for your god because of?... magic?

  • 14 Exciting New Games Coming to Nintendo Switch - August 2023
  • Kind of, just that it's going in short bursts, and has more of a autochess way of upgrading weapons. It's also nice since each run is around 20 min, feels a bit more strategic and chaotic, and there are a load of characters :)

  • Googleā€™s Web Environment Integrity project raises a lot of concerns
  • How likely do you think it is that even with the heavy push anything more than a small percentage of people will switch.

  • 14 Exciting New Games Coming to Nintendo Switch - August 2023
  • I already pre-bought brotato, which comes out on the 3rd of August, really looking forward to be able to play it on my switch as well :)

  • [2017][Day09][Nim] Streams
    gist.github.com aoc2017d09.nim

    GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    aoc2017d09.nim

    Using nim streams this was a breeze, and got solved a lot quicker than what I expected, quite a lot of fun :)

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  • Now it works wonderfully :D

  • A simple brians brain cellular automata in nim
    codeberg.org briansBrain

    A small implementation of the Brian's Brain cellular automata visualised in a simple curses interface

    briansBrain

    I was playing around a bit with cellular automata, and "Brian's brain" always looks kind of fun, this is just a simple little program visualising it using curses (through illwill).

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