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Comment · 4 years ago
You can choose to get text messages instead for ride notifications. I do that and don't get any spam from them.

Still get the stupid "try 1 month free trial" popups whenever I book a ride though, can't see how to turn those off.

Comment · 4 years ago
They also sent seventeen emails saying I had a new notification on the day I registered (whereas the web portal said I had zero).
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Quite a few jazz tunes have chords here: http://songtrellis.com/changesPage

Some of the chord charts are machine readable (available as just plain text), while others are images, but looks like all/almost all of them are available as MIDI as well.

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Yeah my MoYu also has a face or two that sometimes desync. Really annoying.

I have a basic case recognition feature, though no statistics are tracked there yet. I also have some code for tracking splits (only CFOP), though I haven't integrated it into the app for tracking stats.

csTimer has a ton of features too, but I've completely stopped using it, since CubingB has everything I need for basic timing and lots of improvements (like not losing session data, easily moving solves between sessions, partial scramble diagrams).

Comment · 4 years ago
Cubeast looks pretty awesome, but it only works in Chrome, which is a non-starter for me. So a few months back I started my own Python/Qt app, which is roughly similar to Cubeast, but less features as of now: https://github.com/zwegner/CubingB

I haven't had much time to work on it lately, and there's limitations like only supporting Bluetooth on macOS and only one type of cube (the MoYu AI), but it's open source and works pretty well as a timer (both for smart cubes and regular cubes).

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For a case like that, I'll use rectangular block mode--it's really fast and intuitive, so I'll usually pick that over :s/a/b/g if it's applicable.

The whole thing would be something like <ctrl-v>5jecs<esc>. Ctrl-v starts rectangular block mode, go down 5 lines and to the end of the word, change selection to "s", return to normal mode.

Comment · 4 years ago
So an X-shaped straw would have six holes?
Comment · 4 years ago
The solution partitions the solution space exactly the way I want it to: it was designed for the site this thread is about. Obviously it doesn't work against an arbitrary adversary.

My solution is static and doesn't take any clues into account, so what you're saying just doesn't feel very relevant. The only "solution in general" to an arbitrary adversary, if you're not allowed to look at the clues it gives, is just to guess every single target word, which isn't very interesting.

Now, you could easily argue that the greedy strategy used by the site is suboptimal, and I'd agree, but AFAIK nobody's put up a site with a better one yet.

Comment · 4 years ago
This uses different word lists than Wordle/Adversarial Wordle, but still has a 4-guess optimum, no 3-guess is possible.

My solver's found about a thousand so far, here's a good one: "abyes choup donut dingo" (note that there are a number of 'fake' words allowed for guesses).

Comment · 4 years ago

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