triangleman83

14 minutes and 533,000 pts. I unlocked the auto sort option which helped immensely

I do have a spare iPhone in a drawer, still works and can message on iMessage. There, I have purchased Apple hardware, now can I use iMessage on my Android phone?

Maybe I am behind but isn't ChatGPT a great option for an automod which can read reviews and determine whether or not they should remain up? I tried it on a few examples with a simple prompt and it gave great reasoning why the nasty reviews I fed it should be removed.

Yeah it really wasn't so far off now. Most of the people I knew had a cell phone (I had gotten it in '99) so there was definitely communication possible anywhere for the most part. In 2002 I was in a student apartment with decent wired internet, a Nokia cell phone (no texting plan), and was in touch with many people via AIM.

The mid 90's is probably more the time to blow the current generation's mind because that's when many households didn't have internet and virtually nobody under 18 had a cell phone.

But there are choices, sometimes you're not conscious of the effect of your choice but it was made nonetheless.

For your supermarket example, instead of going there you could go to a local farmer's market for those vegetables. It might cost more, but most expect higher quality there than at the supermarket. So there is another "market" option, you shouldn't just expect all your "market" options to be placed in convenient aisles at the grocery store.

If you live in the city and have to drive over an hour to get to a farmer's market, well that was also a choice you made. Perhaps you didn't make that choice because you wanted to be away from locally grown produce, but the supermarket being your only option is a consequence of that choice.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, just trying to point out that much of the choices we make will reduce the other choices we have and we should be conscious of the ones that drive us to become mindless consumers and remove other options from us in the market.

What a garbage hit piece, this comment said it well:

Hey bud next time talk to engineers and architects before writing on a subject. Research the subject and subject area. Or at the top just note that this article is an unresearched, uninformed opinion post. A bit of Google-fu would save some face.

LTT did a video review and there was a very simplified right click context menu that you could click "more options" and it returned to the Windows 10 style menu. That will be extremely painful to use if that is not customizable.

Ah the classic fool's mate

Well if you're stipulating starting positions, the fastest possible would be if the 7 and 10 minute men are on one side, and the 1 and 2 minute men are on the other. Each pair would only have to cross once, passing the torch while they are all on the same side. 10 minutes + 2 minutes for 12 minutes total.

She must have been an old lady to remember what they sound like!

Hashing a hash is not generally considered secure because you have to assume that if your system was compromised, the hackers will know what methods you used, including the list of salts. If the hash runs quickly then you didn't really cause them any more time/work.

What can I do with bitcoin that I can't with paypal or even a bank account (many let you instantly transfer money these days for no/low fees to pay friends, landlords, etc.)?

With bitcoin, you don't have to have a third party such as Paypal or your bank to transfer money over the internet. You don't have to trust a third party. It's very close to a face-to-face cash transfer, albeit with possibility of being traced by various methods, so not perfectly anonymous. Still far more anonymous than almost any other method.

I'm seeing LCD TVs, a smartphone, and an ultra-mobile PC...

Lunch is quite a variable thing in the US workplace. I've had all sorts:

1: Got takeout lunch and came back to eat it at my desk. Would get griped at by boss for eating at desk because it seems like I am available to work (between 12pm-1pm hours?). I was told to "eat somewhere out" except the only place to get internet was at my desk. Maybe I should have had a neon sign to indicate it was my lunch hour. This was ~2003 so I guess my only option for killing an hour out at a restaurant at the time would have been some kind of portable gaming system.

2: Work provided lunch, some people ate in the break room, I brought back to desk, worked while eating (not much work to be done in 10 minutes really), then left to go home for ~45 minutes to play on computer there. Free lunch and still an appreciable break!

3: Since I drove 75 miles one way to work, I came in an hour later and ate lunch at desk. I can admit I was less productive during this time. Not to mention, I did have to drive out for lunch which cost ~10-15 minutes. Oversight was low, however, and I felt owed a bit by the huge delays on the promised opening of a new office nearby my house.

4: Lunch hour is mandatory between 12pm-1pm. Made lunch in break room, ate at desk to play on computer for my mandatory 1 hour. I had to start wearing headphones because bosses (same bosses who made mandatory lunch) would try to talk work during 12pm-1pm hours since they never ate lunch or went anywhere for lunch. I wish they had stuck to their own rule. Eventually started going to Chinese restaurant nearby for the hour to escape, made friends with order taker there, watched tv shows on iPad or read books on e-reader. You could say I did learn my lesson from #1 here and the advent of portable tech kept me satisfied. Was less happy when lunch was reduced to 1/2 hour since it made my Chinese trip impossible. Had to stick to faster food and eat in my truck, with tethered iPad or e-reader of course.

5: Currently, my office is 5 minutes from my house as is my wife's, so we meet up at home. My lunch hour is flexible whereas hers is not, so I wait for a text that she is leaving first.

In conclusion, lunch time usage greatly depends on what the employer will allow. However attempting to eat at my desk has either upset my employer by making it seem like I am available to work when I am taking an hour break, or else it probably was not productive time which my employer was probably not aware of but still wouldn't have been thrilled about.

I would have the same problem and then prune my twitter follows down to something more manageable. Then I would slowly build up again and the same problem would occur. Now I just switched on mobile notifications for the follows who I really want to read everything they post, which has really just created another, smaller twitter feed.

What we really need is for the app to keep track of where you left off, cull the new posts into a separate page, giving you something easier to work with and catch up.

I'm having trouble with your post. You said the right way to calculate it is (t1 - t0)/t0, but said later that the actual amount is (157 - 98)/157, which is (t1 - t0)/t1.

Also I believe the author is referring to speed improvements, whereas you are referring to time improvements. Let's say I take 200 operations to perform a task, then I optimize code to perform the same task in 100 operations. The program runs at 20 operations per second regardless of how many operations there are.

The task which took 10 seconds before will now take 5 seconds, or a 50% time reduction, which is how you calculate it. However, the program is now running twice as fast, because in 20 seconds, the program can run twice, which is how the author calculated it.

Both of you are correct, just depending on what your context is.

Have you ever taken them completely off the ceiling or just opened the battery cover? My house has 120v/9v detectors and when I was installing fire alarms in new construction, all residential multifamily and hotels had 120v smoke detectors in the units which are interconnected. They also have 9v batteries for backup. Marriott hotels actually specify 24v system smoke detectors tied into the main alarm system. I know Home Depot sells battery only detectors but those are generally for retrofit applications. A contractor will likely have to install 120v in anything new being built.

Yep I don't see any way of beating that bot. You whipped that up just today?

Then according to the rules, X gets to move anywhere. Pick another corner board, make a move in the NW corner, which forces them back to the NW board. Then their best option is to move in the same square of the board you just came from, since you won't be able to send them back to the NW board again. In that case, you move in the same corner as the board you are in, forcing their reply to the same board you're playing on.

This would be the general strategy, although I am now no longer sure you can force a win through. The options for moves for O starts to grow past what I can work through in Paint right now.

I'm coming up with the same as you. You have to make your 9th move sub board match the greater board location, so in this case NW board and NW corner. Now wherever they move will send you to a different board, where you can make the move there to the NW corner, and they are forced back to the NW board. Repeat until you have two in a row on most of the boards and you should be able to make the win.

I don't believe you will ever send them to an open board. O makes all its 8 initial moves in the center, and the 9th move for X will be in the last empty board. I think that it depends on what their last move in the center board is. If they send you to a corner, I believe you can force the win. If they send you to the SW corner, you make the first move in that square to the SW corner. This forces them to reply in the same SW corner. Wherever they go, you make your move in the next square in the SW corner, bringing them back to that corner again.

The Orwin Gambit actually doesn't go quite so far as to force the win, however if you forget about filling that last center and instead go for a corner, then you can continue to force them back to the same corner over and over. So the Gambit is fallible, but if you back it up one step, it can continue the force to the inevitable win.

English having a few words with multiple if opposite meanings doesn't make it hard to learn. It's hard to learn due to the inconsistency in letter sounds, especially vowels, from word to word. Other languages such as Spanish are easy to pronounce because they use the same rules for letter sounds for all words.

Title was changed to be a bit less inflammatory now, or is it flammatory? I think they both mean the same thing...

Wow the G. Address was horribly mutilated.

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