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For anyone trying to solve the examples, the toroidal crosswords example image has a copy-paste error from the post author (not present in the original): the numbers for Down are 1…

Yes but for local political points, they left Twitter last year, because "it was trendy". Besides, lots of old people living here, so they can't leave Facebook, otherwise the old p…

Law forbids my local administrative entities from engaging with porn and gambling. Yet they force me to use Facebook if I want to see events that are happening (and paid with my ta…

It requires a paid account though, doesn't it?

Does it affect the photo quality? It used to require letting go of the default photo app and thus a downgrade in photo processing.

I worked in a building that had that kind of "smart" controls. It was anything but. In practice, it started opening and closing shutters for no reason, when clouds obscured the sun…

Are there modern kits that connect similar to this one? Instead of requiring breadboards and cables?

Interestingly, the mobile version of the website contains a hamburger menu with an "Equipe" (Team) link that returns a 404 error ( https://soberania.ai/equipe ). This link is absen…

OCaml has had labeled arguments for decades, so I assumed other languages would have added something similar by now. In C-style, it would be like: createUser(user, ~isAdmin:true, ~…

It must be an issue with the European implementation, but I have a Costco not very far from home, and yet I never stepped inside. Because simply asking to see what it sells require…

> I promise I won't be a dumbass with them That's not very empathic of fellow people who might just have mistakenly forgotten food in the container. It's not like they were intenti…

c-testsuite is not made by the author of Kefir.

Relevant ACOUP (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, Bret Devereaux's military history blog) post: https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower...

Great! I'll finally be able to buy all commerce spots in Berlin (cheapest city) to avoid any competition, and _then_ open a restaurant. I used to deal only with "ice cream" (illega…

What is the "BioTIER-refuse" thing mentioned in the "Bioweapons Refusal" graph? I Googled it and found absolutely nothing. Well, to be honest, I got 100% of websites containing the…

Fratello. Must be a bro.

Indeed. If Karen from Compliance cared, she could (and should) inform her superiors of what just happened. Let them know how much their procedure cost, in time and money. Call the …

One of the only good things I got from MtG is Card Forge ( https://card-forge.github.io/forge/ ), an open-source unofficial rule engine that also contains a desktop and a mobile ap…

I had a similar situation with a chatbot: I posted a highly technical question, got a very fast reply with mostly correct data. Asked a follow-up question, got a precise reply. Ask…

Doing undeclared work. Just had it happen to a friend: needed a plumber, impossible to find anything reliable (no one in town knows of a reliable plumber; it's a rare find). All Go…

Not sure how it works in the US, but in some parts of Europe, blue collar trades are currently much better, for several reasons: - Price of housing and associated maintenance keeps…

In those countries, you'll probably have more to fear for your physical security from non-governmental threats than the other way around. But given the increasingly dystopian state…

Thanks, it helped some, but I'm still having an error: [1] node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1368 [1] throw err; [1] ^ [1] [1] Error: Cannot find module '/home/user/shadow/start-bac…

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I assume this will allow carmine red (cochineal) to be considered as "natural", since it's just "crushing thousands of bugs". Unfortunately, a few cases of negative reactions to co…