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Comment · 1 year ago
Kind of.

But it introduces an artificial difference between edges and corners. You'd get the same ability for corners if you did them after the edges.

The slightly counterintuitive “magic” is that you can trade a corner swap for an edge swap: for permutation parity, corners and edges are interchangeable.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's like three weeks in the making with counterpart review. Pretty far from same day rip-on.
Comment · 2 years ago
You can't turn a corner 180°.

Did you mean flip an edge, or 120°?

Comment · 2 years ago
Wider than a mole?
Comment · 2 years ago
You're describing a puzzle from the Curse of Monkey Island, aka Monkey Island 3. Ron Gilbert had no involvement there.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm fine with permissions. Heck, it's what I already say.

Login, no, just no.

Login is ambiguous to begin with, is it the action or the user identifier?

Login as the process of logging in, the best interpretation, is still pretty limited: authentication is the validation of a much longer chain of events than that. It may start with login, but it lasts for as long as the service accepts to believe such principal is behind such actions.

Login as username is IMHO the most common use of the word, and most obviously the wrong one to mean authentication.

To make things me interesting, auth already means authentication to me. I accept it can lead to confusion and a better substitute would be welcome.

Comment · 3 years ago
DoTT copy protection involved balancing the portable battery's chemicals. Copying a word or phrase feels off brand for a LucasArts game, that was more of a Sierra thing.

Which specific version do you distinctly remember?

Comment · 3 years ago
>> Then again, I don't think I said anything particularly helpful on Reddit, so maybe it doesn't matter whether I run the script or not :)

> You never know if down the line some of your thoughts would be useful to some people or not. :)

Well they're always useful to those people training LLMs, for one.

Comment · 3 years ago
There is a certain nuance of “in war time” (as opposed to school time).

It's the case here, but isn't automatic.

Comment · 3 years ago
I needed that. Thank you!
Comment · 4 years ago
Kind of.

Which part of it do you think is wrong?

Comment · 4 years ago
The issue isn't the figure 50, it's the drawing pool.

Thread-initial description was 50% of the market, which is ambiguous. It could refer to either the market in sales, which indicates highest growth, or the market in userbase, which could be the layman's “common”.

Comment · 4 years ago
FWIW I'm very sorry I put you through this. My comment was low value, posted during insomnia, I was very surprised by the reach it gained while I slept at last.
Comment · 4 years ago
The point is, calling it zero-tolerance when it's not is misleading. There's a perfectly fine way to describe zero-tolerance with exceptions, and it's not even far fetched: “low tolerance”.

Complete sentences may make it possible to pretend bad wording is consistent, but that doesn't make it good wording.

Comment · 4 years ago
> I have a zero-tolerance policy for […], with few exceptions

That's not how zero-tolerance works.

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