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by jcl 5mo ago
I think The Looker might appeal both to those who loved The Witness and those who didn’t. Several laugh-out-loud moments, some fun puzzles of its own - a wonderfully silly send-up, and free, too. https://store.steampowered.com&#
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by jcl 5mo ago
Perhaps a more direct relation: most of those preexisting games were made in puzzlescript, which (per the article) was also made by the author of Stephen’s Sausage Roll.
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by jcl 7mo ago
Correct… they “cheated” a little to make the props for the movie. There are other designs for single-sheet unicorn, winged unicorn, and Pegasus — particularly the ones from John Montroll — but they look a bit different from the movie props,
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by jcl 7mo ago
The impression I get from the article is not that the compiled code of each implementation produces the same object code, but that when the implementations are run with the same inputs, they produce exactly the same output — that is, the s
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by jcl 2y ago
I hiked up there once… There was a reservoir with a trail around it and, to my surprise, a fenced-off area full of goats. Apparently they were part of a vegetation control program used in the parks there.
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by jcl 2y ago
It only looks for a single leading “e” or “i”, not any number. I’m guessing those tweaks were added to capture specific proper nouns that weren’t captured by simpler “leading capital letter” regexes, like “iPad” or “eBay”.
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by jcl 2y ago
The unlikeliness of the wooden spaceship was one of my favorite parts of the sci-fi mystery/adventure game “The Outer Wilds”. (An indie gem…highly recommended, if you like puzzles or exploration.) https://www.mobiusdigitalga
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by jcl 2y ago
I wasn’t sure what the article meant by “no screws or glue”, when the photograph appears to have visible screws. But closer images show that these are apparently some sort of rivet? I found a (Japanese-language-only) news piece that shows s
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by jcl 2y ago
Heh… that exact situation came up here a few years ago, when someone posted their software implementation of the puzzle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10540014
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by jcl 2y ago
My understanding of the article is that some companies added sesame to their products and ingredients label, while others may have changed their label to say the product “may contain” sesame — but that Bimbo did neither of these things, ins
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by jcl 2y ago
My favorite was toward the end of the Evangelion series, where they generated flashback footage by shooting the backs of earlier cels.
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by jcl 2y ago
I recall Amazon’s Lord of the Rings title sequence [1] received some criticism for looking fake, even though they filmed it practically [2]. I’d guess it was due to folks assuming title sequences are CGI, combined with the fact that few pe
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by jcl 2y ago
There’s a wonderful little carpentry museum in Kobe, highly recommended: https://www.dougukan.jp/exhibition?lang=en It focuses a lot on the evolution of precise woodworking tools, like saws and planes. They also had example
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by jcl 2y ago
Wouldn’t be surprised if that inspired Altitude, a more recent multiplayer 2d dogfighting game, free on Steam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_(video_game)
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by jcl 2y ago
Looks like their “Baldur’s Gate” and “Fallout” games are practically identical, with similar overworld map and battle systems? https://storyteller-blog.com/2024/03/22/i-made-a-baldurs-gat...
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by jcl 3y ago
As Monty Hall pointed out in interviews, he was not obligated to offer the opportunity to switch and sometimes did not. So in this case knowledge of the actual show may have contributed to confusion. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by jcl 3y ago
I think Ubisoft’s intent was more to make customers comfortable with the idea of paying for short-term or ongoing access to content. Their shutdown of online services and DLC for some of their Steam games a few years ago did not exactly in
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by jcl 3y ago
There are actually 10,100 equally likely situations: 101 choices of N x 100 choices of ball. When you completely discount the N=0 case, it’s because all choices of ball are green. You similarly need to almost completely discount the N=1
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by jcl 3y ago
Yes, it’s a mistake to take the expected value before the ball is drawn, because the drawn ball adds information, disproportionately changing the expected value. Consider an alternate game, where I flip a hidden coin… if it is heads, I let
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by jcl 3y ago
I thought Southwest uses “open” seating, where passengers aren’t assigned a seat, but instead just take any unoccupied seat? If so, a perk of being earlier in the boarding order would be that you have a better chance of getting a seat you w
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by jcl 3y ago
So, it seems that the intent of the code is to add two parallel, invisible kill beams to augment the main beam. The nature of the bugs are such that the added beams are positioned in roughly the right place, for a certain axis-aligned view
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by jcl 3y ago
To be fair, bug #1 was that the normalization call had no effect, so the fact that it’s also being done in the wrong sequence doesn’t actually have a further effect on gameplay.
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by jcl 3y ago
Per the article, probably just Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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by jcl 3y ago
I suspect that someone using a public usb-a charging port isn’t expecting fast charging, but rather counting themselves lucky that it works at all.
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by jcl 4y ago
Reminds me of the making of a pre-CGI HBO intro -- looks CGI but is entirely physical models, motion controlled cameras, and clever compositing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agS6ZXBrcng&t=310s
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by jcl 4y ago
At this point, I would assume it would be possible simply because text about AIs that want to survive is in its input data -- including, at some point, this thread. ChatGPT is already pretty good at generating sci-fi dystopia stories, and t
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by jcl 4y ago
True, but both of those examples were written for the general public, where the authors might intentionally be using “symptom” in its colloquial sense to be better understood. So it’s hard to draw conclusions about how the same authors woul
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by jcl 4y ago
No doubt it would be filled with gratuitous union-finding that wasn't present in the original.
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by jcl 4y ago
Yeah, they're implementing a Minecraft-like experience within Minecraft, not literally running official Minecraft code on their VM. I think they specify "3D Minecraft" to distinguish it from earlier efforts, where people buil
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by jcl 4y ago
It already won, in 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners...

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