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  1. Comment on Historic voter turnout powered US Democrats’ blue wave in ~society

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    In fact the variability of access is key to proving my point. Mailing a ballot to every voter only increases turnout by 2-4%. Making it easy to vote isn’t the issue. Making these people care in...

    In fact the variability of access is key to proving my point. Mailing a ballot to every voter only increases turnout by 2-4%.

    Making it easy to vote isn’t the issue. Making these people care in the slightest about voting is.

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-research-and-methods/article/abs/identifying-the-effect-of-allmail-elections-on-turnout-staggered-reform-in-the-evergreen-state/3725E51B9B7F331D77DC9B49130D7F7D

    4 votes

  2. Comment on Historic voter turnout powered US Democrats’ blue wave in ~society

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    Don’t forget that people can vote by mail pretty much any time they want. The low turnout is because people do not care at all about voting.

    Don’t forget that people can vote by mail pretty much any time they want. The low turnout is because people do not care at all about voting.

    5 votes

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

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    Aha. Well, perhaps not quite as optimal for your use case but close, you can use the lasso tool and select cells using the pencil and fill multiple pencil marks at once. This seems pretty useful...

    Aha. Well, perhaps not quite as optimal for your use case but close, you can use the lasso tool and select cells using the pencil and fill multiple pencil marks at once. This seems pretty useful to me, like if I’m eliminating a naked pair/triple from the rest of the house/row/col I can quickly select them, then remove all three with three button presses while staying in pencil mode.

    For me, I’ve found that i often quickly go through a sequence of permanent marks as I use the selected cells as a sort of visual cue to eliminate candidate cells as if I were entering the numbers directly. But I usually do this with all the pencil marks filled, so it’s easy to see. Sounds like you do only some pencil marks as you fill permanent numbers?

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Does Shawarma Law give a more definitive answer on whether or not a Hot Dog is a sandwich? in ~food

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    If lettuce in a shawarma is a lie then I don’t want to know the truth.

    If lettuce in a shawarma is a lie then I don’t want to know the truth.

    10 votes

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

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    Well that’s my intended behaviour, so eg. if I see multiple cells where I know the answer is 2 I can quickly select all of them and then write them in with a single press of the 2 button. How were...

    Well that’s my intended behaviour, so eg. if I see multiple cells where I know the answer is 2 I can quickly select all of them and then write them in with a single press of the 2 button.

    How were you expecting it to work?

    2 votes

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

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    I couldn’t figure out how selecting squares works on goodsudoku but I implemented what in my humble-ish opinion is way better with an explicit lasso mode, that I actually use exclusively now. You...

    I couldn’t figure out how selecting squares works on goodsudoku but I implemented what in my humble-ish opinion is way better with an explicit lasso mode, that I actually use exclusively now. You can select multiple cells and write them all at once in either pencil or pen mode, and in pen mode it automatically deselects so you can use the keypad to highlight a different number. I flew through today’s easy puzzle in 2:01 with this mode.

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

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    There’s a big keypad option now, and writing a number deselects the cell so you can use the keypad to choose a new number to highlight. Some of the messages were hard to read in dark mode too so I...

    There’s a big keypad option now, and writing a number deselects the cell so you can use the keypad to choose a new number to highlight. Some of the messages were hard to read in dark mode too so I fixed that. Also a lock option to zoom in the puzzle and disable panning which is a bit nicer to work on. I’m not really sure how the cell selection works in goodsudoku — it seemed super finicky, like I could only hold and drag so it was impossible for me to pick what I exactly wanted.

    1 vote

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

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    They’ve got some interesting interface options that I kinda like. Probably coming soon to a sudoku near you ;)

    They’ve got some interesting interface options that I kinda like. Probably coming soon to a sudoku near you ;)

    2 votes

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

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    My first attempts at this were using pixel art packs off itch.io but I couldn't find any way to make it work that didn't look awful, so these are done using various local models (qwen, sdxl...

    My first attempts at this were using pixel art packs off itch.io but I couldn't find any way to make it work that didn't look awful, so these are done using various local models (qwen, sdxl mostly), with a bunch of post-processing to clean up backgrounds, pixelating, fixing transparencies, etc. We probably spent 50+ hours combined making the images, they were the most time consuming part of the whole thing. There are like two thousand rejected images.

    2 votes

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

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    There’s dark mode now! It’s in settings, down where you can select the board colour and custom digits (handwriting, emojis, Roman numerals, letters).

    There’s dark mode now! It’s in settings, down where you can select the board colour and custom digits (handwriting, emojis, Roman numerals, letters).

    3 votes

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

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    I absolutely will.

    I absolutely will.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on US Democrats are hatching a plan to reverse Donald Trump’s Canada tariffs in ~society

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    Something actually tangible they might do to improve things in both America and Canada. As a Canadian, hurrah! But, even Americans should be excited about being able to reverse some of this...

    Something actually tangible they might do to improve things in both America and Canada. As a Canadian, hurrah! But, even Americans should be excited about being able to reverse some of this economic insanity.

    30 votes

  14. Comment on US Federal Aviation Administration says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028 in ~tech

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    This makes me afraid that now every airport in the country is going to shut down catastrophically all at once. Hopefully they interconnect in a very safe, very trust-free way. Silo is not a bad word.

    The country's air traffic facilities cannot talk to one another and operate on individual analog computers. "Every facility is a silo," Bedford told Reuters in a recent interview.

    This makes me afraid that now every airport in the country is going to shut down catastrophically all at once. Hopefully they interconnect in a very safe, very trust-free way. Silo is not a bad word.

    5 votes

  15. 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!

    13 votes

  17. 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.

    1 vote

  18. 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.

    7 votes

  19. 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.

    4 votes