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  1. Comment on Infinite Sudoku - a little timewaster I made in ~games

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    So like the title says, it's infinite sudokus. Which is more or less accurate, duplicates will occur approximately every 1.8 million sudokus in a given direction. The idea is you solve a puzzle,...

    So like the title says, it's infinite sudokus. Which is more or less accurate, duplicates will occur approximately every 1.8 million sudokus in a given direction. The idea is you solve a puzzle, and it reveals part of a map which is populated by amusing sprites selected by me and my kids. The outside corners of every solved sudoku are like a seed for the neighbouring sudokus. And of course you can solve one-off regular sudokus, and there's a sudoku of the day at each difficulty level.

    Fun features:

    • solver for sudokus
    • actually helpful looking hints (you can ask for a hint and it'll tell you the name of the technique but not where it is, and if you want more it'll show you exactly where the technique can be applied with illustration)
    • pretty good lessons that teach some of the medium and difficult techniques, but not the crazy stuff that requires multiple sheets of graph paper and a box of crayons
    • annotating tools beyond the regular pencil marks
      • simple colouring that displays locked pairs and lets you do alternating colours on the resulting graph
      • pair and triplet identifiers
      • multiple digit highlight
      • candidate trials so you can guess and check down a chain until you see a contradiction and revert at any time

    Any feedback is welcome!

    2 votes

  3. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    It was not obvious to me that you had to actually have 800 in the bank to build a mine, and you couldn't simply increase the population to 800.

    It was not obvious to me that you had to actually have 800 in the bank to build a mine, and you couldn't simply increase the population to 800.

  4. Comment on Russell Brand convicted of rape and sexual assault in ~news

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    Nah, I'm pretty sure this is not what's up. According to your source also, If the assaults had all been 2004 or later they all would have been sexual assaults. It’s just naming convention.

    Nah, I'm pretty sure this is not what's up. According to your source also,

    In England and Wales and in Northern Ireland, “indecent assault” was a statutory offence under earlier sexual offences legislation, historically divided into offences against women/girls and men/boys. It has now been abolished and replaced by broader offences such as sexual assault and assault by penetration (Sexual Offences Act 2003 in England and Wales; Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008). The expression still appears in historic charges, appeals, sentencing, Criminal Records disclosures and historic abuse litigation.

    If the assaults had all been 2004 or later they all would have been sexual assaults. It’s just naming convention.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Russell Brand convicted of rape and sexual assault in ~news

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    As I understand it, this is a historical naming issue owing to the time period the assaults took place. Post-2004, it's sexual assault under Sexual Offences Act 2003. Before that, it's indecent...

    As I understand it, this is a historical naming issue owing to the time period the assaults took place. Post-2004, it's sexual assault under Sexual Offences Act 2003. Before that, it's indecent assault under Sexual Offences Act 1956. The indecent assault was in 2001.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Lords of War | Official teaser in ~movies

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    Yes, and I thought it was a lot of fun.

    Yes, and I thought it was a lot of fun.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Lords of War | Official teaser in ~movies

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    This is an ideal Nicolas Cage vehicle, and I love it. I’m looking forward to some yelling while gesturing.

    This is an ideal Nicolas Cage vehicle, and I love it. I’m looking forward to some yelling while gesturing.

    4 votes

  9. Comment on The brain injury that made a middle-school teacher a musical genius in ~science

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    I choose to believe that the author is a tilderino and noticed this criticism.

    I choose to believe that the author is a tilderino and noticed this criticism.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on The brain injury that made a middle-school teacher a musical genius in ~science

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    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/11/02/magazine/brain-injury-music-perfect-pitch-edward-freytag.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NlE.Xj6E.sY5AlM6CELVh&smid=url-share Oops here’s a gift link....

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/11/02/magazine/brain-injury-music-perfect-pitch-edward-freytag.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NlE.Xj6E.sY5AlM6CELVh&smid=url-share

    Oops here’s a gift link. Interesting read. As a non-musical genius and really barely musically literate, I probably can’t fully appreciate what he has gained and lost but I can imagine a little bit and it sounds heartbreaking.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Binance suspends withdrawals after crypto hackers steal $6.3 billion in ~tech

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    Why can’t your own machine keep it safe?

    Why can’t your own machine keep it safe?

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Federal agency emails praising US President Donald Trump may violate ethics laws, experts say in ~society

  14. Comment on Halloween night! in ~talk

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    The kids are old so we are doing an adult party. Hunger games themed — I’m president snow.

    The kids are old so we are doing an adult party. Hunger games themed — I’m president snow.

    3 votes

  15. Comment on Extreme poverty in India falls to 2.6% from 27.1%: World Bank in ~society

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    As many as 496 million people moved above the lower-middle-income poverty line of $4.20 a day between 2011 and 2023, according to the World Bank’s October 2026 Poverty & Equity Brief.

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    “This progress was mainly driven by strong consumption growth, rising employment, especially among women, and expanded social transfers, including food subsidies,” it said.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Popular fanfic site "Archive of Our Own" (AO3) down for 2-4 weeks in ~tech

  18. Comment on Popular fanfic site "Archive of Our Own" (AO3) down for 2-4 weeks in ~tech

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    https://www.cvefind.com/en/cve-statistic-date.html Seriously check out this graph of CVEs by month, it’s wild out there. From 1998-2006 they recorded 16000 CVEs. In 2017 there were a total of...
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    https://www.cvefind.com/en/cve-statistic-date.html

    Seriously check out this graph of CVEs by month, it’s wild out there. From 1998-2006 they recorded 16000 CVEs. In 2017 there were a total of 18,114 CVEs.

    October is not even done yet and we are at 16,739 this month alone.

    15 votes

  19. Comment on A shortage of sulphur could hurt mines and farms everywhere – and how we can replace it in ~enviro

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    I wonder what this means for Vancouver’s iconic sulphur pile. Will it change shape in any noticeable way?

    I wonder what this means for Vancouver’s iconic sulphur pile. Will it change shape in any noticeable way?

  20. Comment on Mink farming will end in Denmark by August 2029 after the government decided to drop plans to pursue an exemption to an EU-wide ban on the practice in ~enviro

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    It sounds like an absolute win for furries. Exact fit to your own exact body, in any species real or fantasy? But, not a furry, maybe I don’t quite get it.

    It sounds like an absolute win for furries. Exact fit to your own exact body, in any species real or fantasy? But, not a furry, maybe I don’t quite get it.

    3 votes