I like this puzzle although I think the colour framing adds a hole that needs closing: The players need to be told the set of possible hat colours for this to be solvable.
One thing that struck me about the puzzle when I first encountered it is that it’s hard, as a human, to think of even one solution, but (edit: this is rot13 to avoid spoiling the puzzle for you) gurer ner n ybg bs qvfgvapg fbyhgvbaf gb pubbfr sebz sbe ernfbanoyr a. Nyfb, vg’f cerggl boivbhf jung gur (havdhr) fbyhgvba vf va gur pnfr bs bayl gjb crbcyr, ohg vg’f dhvgr uneq gb trarenyvfr.
Jura V fnj gur chmmyr V vzzrqvngryl gubhtug nal fbyhgvba jbhyq arrq gb thnenagrr gung rknpgyl bar crefba thrffrf gurve bja pbybhe, qhr gb gur uvtu yriry bs flzzrgel va gur frghc. (Guvax nobhg nyy gur cbffvoyr nffvtazragf bs ungf. Vs lbh trg gjb pbeerpg va bar nffvtazrag, gurer jvyy or n eryngrq nffvtazrag jurer obgu zvff). Guvf yrq zr gb gur boivbhf zbq fbyhgvba eryngviryl dhvpxyl. V areqfavcrq n sevraq vagb cebivat gur rknpgyl-bar bofreingvba, naq gurl nyfb vqragvsvrq gur fgehpgher gung nyy rknpgyl-bar fbyhgvbaf pbeerfcbaq gb, erfhygvat va (jung V guvax vf) n pbzcyrgr sbeznyvfngvba bs gur chmmyr.
the colour framing adds a hole that needs closing: The players need to be told the set of possible hat colours for this to be solvable.
I agree with this. At the time of writing I assumed most would make the jump from thinking in colors to assigning colors to numbers so I deemed that listing possible colors was an unnecessary detail. On second thought though it does add a nice level of completeness to the description. Thank you!
If it weren’t for the fact that Garbi understood and responded the way they did, I would’ve simply assumed you’d had a stroke. You might want to at least preface your encrypted message with how to decrypt it.
The top use case of Nix for myself and coworkers is trying out new software via nix-shell.
Being able run and share commands like nix-shell -p simplescreenrecorder --command "simplescreenrecorder" and not have to worry about anything else is pretty sweet.
And here I am, a fool with three screens, who regularly forgets which wallpaper is currently on use on that specific machine because the windows are always covering it.
Especially weird when I think about all the hours I spent customizing my OS/WM and actually making my own wallpapers in the early 00s.
I like this puzzle although I think the colour framing adds a hole that needs closing: The players need to be told the set of possible hat colours for this to be solvable.
One thing that struck me about the puzzle when I first encountered it is that it’s hard, as a human, to think of even one solution, but (edit: this is rot13 to avoid spoiling the puzzle for you) gurer ner n ybg bs qvfgvapg fbyhgvbaf gb pubbfr sebz sbe ernfbanoyr a. Nyfb, vg’f cerggl boivbhf jung gur (havdhr) fbyhgvba vf va gur pnfr bs bayl gjb crbcyr, ohg vg’f dhvgr uneq gb trarenyvfr.
Jura V fnj gur chmmyr V vzzrqvngryl gubhtug nal fbyhgvba jbhyq arrq gb thnenagrr gung rknpgyl bar crefba thrffrf gurve bja pbybhe, qhr gb gur uvtu yriry bs flzzrgel va gur frghc. (Guvax nobhg nyy gur cbffvoyr nffvtazragf bs ungf. Vs lbh trg gjb pbeerpg va bar nffvtazrag, gurer jvyy or n eryngrq nffvtazrag jurer obgu zvff). Guvf yrq zr gb gur boivbhf zbq fbyhgvba eryngviryl dhvpxyl. V areqfavcrq n sevraq vagb cebivat gur rknpgyl-bar bofreingvba, naq gurl nyfb vqragvsvrq gur fgehpgher gung nyy rknpgyl-bar fbyhgvbaf pbeerfcbaq gb, erfhygvat va (jung V guvax vf) n pbzcyrgr sbeznyvfngvba bs gur chmmyr.
I agree with this. At the time of writing I assumed most would make the jump from thinking in colors to assigning colors to numbers so I deemed that listing possible colors was an unnecessary detail. On second thought though it does add a nice level of completeness to the description. Thank you!
https://planetcalc.com/8047/ but why?
Where I’m from it’s common courtesy to rot13 information that could be considered spoilery
Adding to that, rot13 is used because it’s symmetric. You use the same key to encrypt and decrypt.
If it weren’t for the fact that Garbi understood and responded the way they did, I would’ve simply assumed you’d had a stroke. You might want to at least preface your encrypted message with how to decrypt it.
Working on a blog post for doing shape typing on numpy ndarrays
The top use case of Nix for myself and coworkers is trying out new software via
nix-shell.Being able run and share commands like
nix-shell -p simplescreenrecorder --command "simplescreenrecorder"and not have to worry about anything else is pretty sweet.You might like
nix run, which uses Flakes and “apps” to simplify that a bit:Nice! Will definitely try it. Feels a bit akin to comma
I would be interested to see this applied to v86 and the build pipeline to compile lwIP & tailscale to wasm.
I ended up doing a similar thing but over s3 and s3fs.
The only practical use case I tried using this is for “overflow swap” to delay oom killings.
Just finished “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”, was very interesting and easy to read. I’m still in the process of deciding the next one.
I rate Designing Data-Intensive Applications very highly indeed. Might put it on the list for a re-read!
A friend also recommended Seven Databases in Seven Weeks but I’ve not got around to it yet.
I will take a look, from the description it takes a very practical approach which could be a challenge, because the book was released in 2012.
Ooo “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” is so good! I read it last year, and should probably review my notes 😅
Nice, I am currently reading that book too.
As a suggestion, Seven concurrency model in seven week is also a rather nice read, and would complement nicely what you are reading now.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into it.
Truly an an amazing book.
Another O’Reilly with similar ideas is “Fundamentals of data engineering”. Also worth a read
Did you read this book cover to cover? It’s so hard for me to stay focused on such a long book, but every time I pick a chapter, I learn something new
Working on a blog post to clearly communicate the primitive root theorem. It’s a pretty slippery non intuitive proof, but very satisfying
explanantion: https://exploringnumbertheory.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/the-primitive-root-theorem/
And here I am, a fool with three screens, who regularly forgets which wallpaper is currently on use on that specific machine because the windows are always covering it.
Especially weird when I think about all the hours I spent customizing my OS/WM and actually making my own wallpapers in the early 00s.
^ definitely with you there. Launching apps full screen on startup made me forget I even had a background.