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My first solution was RNG(hash(seed.toString() + string)), which would get rid of the correlation while still being deterministic based on the seed. It's also more robust than call…

Fun game overall, took a little over 2 hours to beat. Some notes: - I found the decade theming of the packs a nice touch. - I'm mildly curious as to the maximum difficulty of the m…

Don't forget Wikisource! https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

The 500 edits required for access to TWL is actually for all of the sites under the Wikimedia banner. If you're having trouble finding things to edit on Wikipedia, you can try thei…

The conclusion is basically (Larry) Niven's Law of Time Travel. From "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel" (1971): > If the universe of discourse permits the possibility of time…

Somewhat related is the work done in "Falling with Style: Factoring up to 255 “with” a Quantum Computer" published in the proceedings of SIGBOVIK 2025 [1]. The author, Craig Gidney…

A while back I came up with the idea to carve out 4096 code points in plane 14 (Supplementary Special-purpose Plane) for super-surrogates, and use three such surrogates (1 initial,…

Having come across the connection from somewhere else entirely, I found it a very curious rabbit hole. I saw recently a website that attempts to summarise the whole thing (not quit…

RFC 2550 to the rescue: handling the transition from A99999 to B100000, or even from Z999999999999999999999999999999 to ^A1000000000000000000000000000000 will be a piece of cake.

Neat. However, I noticed that the page description reads "No stress, memory-optimized 3D Tetris variant.", but I can't figure out what's supposed to be 3D about it.

MAX_SAFE_INTEGER = 2^53 - 1 = 9007199254740991. The next integer 2^53 is representable, while the following one 2^53 + 1 isn't. 2^53 + 1 milliseconds = 9007199254740993 millisecond…

Have you looked at TGM4, which released on Steam last week? [0] I'd be interested to see your thoughts on it. Also would like to note that, at least for TGM1, 2 and 3, the PRNG use…

In a similar vein, there is Wikisource.[0] Wikisource has the advantage of allowing for extensive formatting to closely match the source works due to its wiki-based format, but doe…

If you check the section "Extensions of the standard dictionary numbers" on the page you linked, there's a system for naming arbitrarily large numbers as -illions. The prime here i…

> I also read that starting with Aldous Broder and then switching to Wilson's Algorithm (reasoning: Aldous Broder is slow at the end, Wilson's Algorithm is slow at the start) is fa…

Funnily enough, there was a short story about the killion published in the New Yorker in 1982: "The killion, as every mathematician knows, is a number so big it can kill you." [1] …

RIF dev just posted an official update on the changes: https://old.reddit.com/r/redditisfun/comments/13wxepd/rif_de... As the URL suggests, at this pricing RIF will simply die.

This reminds me of an old Roald Dahl story, "The Great Automatic Grammatizator". A man creates an electric computer that can write short stories in a few minutes (this being writte…

You might be thinking of "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer, which can be found online at Clarkesworld: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/

I once read a story in which a human gave an extraterrestrial visitor a calendar to examine and they were confused as to all the inconsistency. I then wondered how they would react…

There are other wiki farms that are good if one wants to avoid Wikia's crap. I usually recommend Miraheze [1], which is MediaWiki-based, not-for-profit and ad-free (they run on don…

Wikia/Fandom has a history of refusing to delete wikis where the community has agreed to migrate (such as when many wikis left after the forced skin change in 2010), leaving a stal…

Something I notice in the Kodak calendars image: rather than having extra days, the 1928 calendar simply has 364 days, but the 1989 calendar has an extra week in the last period. D…

The original version of the post [1] cited the article "Real programmers Don't Use PASCAL" by name. For some reason it disappeared in the later versions. [1] https://cboh.org/mel.t…

In the original version of the metric system, the base unit of mass was the grave, corresponding to the kilogram. 1/1000 of a grave was a gravet.