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For generating puzzles it's really useful since it lets you determine if a randomly generated puzzle has only one possible path to solving it (exact cover problem). And it's fast s…

Does that have blackouts for "local" teams? I'm 1-2 hours (traffic depending) from the Mets and MLB subscription in the past was useless for live games due to blackout restrictions…

There is a whole world of employers who need tech folks who aren't google and friends.

That's just been the case for 2.1 and 3.1, future versions will jump a version each year (next is v5) with every other year being LTS. Of course, we'll see if it actually goes as p…

All Altra shoes are zero-drop, so heel and forefoot are at the same level. It doesn't mean there's no padding.

Visual Studio itself also does that (I forget when it was introduced; a few versions back I think?). I haven't used Resharper in a long time, so I'm not sure how it compares now, t…

Is making your own an option in the UK? I have a few friends in the US that love it, but I think you need easy service for the canisters. More effort to be sure, but at least then …

Since this comes up every year, might as well point out this isn't an isolated case. Tweet thread covering various ones (as of last year): https://twitter.com/mikemayerMMO/status/1…

Remote work? I rarely have in-person client meetings anymore. And honestly at my old job it had offices around the country so even then there were people I'd worked on projects wit…

Backtracking as a strategy definitely seems... underwhelming. But it does have its uses. I wrote a few solvers, and they all served a different purpose. One was based on Norvig's p…

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How much of that is luck/genetics? As a Mets fan, David Wright is an easy counter example of someone who was known to work hard and then struggled with injuries.

For my site I use a backtracker to find a large number of single solution puzzles (rather fast). Those are used as a test base for my "human" solver (pretty slow), which are used f…

Not quite; from same link, "President Abraham Lincoln and the United States Congress introduced in 1861 the first personal income tax in the United States." It was declared unconst…

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A bit comical/ironic to say they'd be targeted for obstructionism given that the other side of the aisle did just that for the last vacated seat.

I still miss Front Page Sports Football from the 90s. While we owned a couple of different versions, the early one that had the most play time for us was completely unlicensed, so …

Probably most similar to ultra races, some of which are on a short repetitive loop over x time period (24 hour is "common"). Audience is probably closer to dozens of friends/family…

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For hundreds of years humans have read printed books to learn things, without talking to teachers. Seems like a weak argument.

Also, I'm not sure I'd apply the label "genius" with someone who has copious amounts of "copy pasta" in his solely crafted code base.

If you want to interact with the database, in my experience Dapper and real actual SQL statements beat it hands down (both readability and performance). I love utilizing LINQ aside…

It's been a constantly moving target for the last two years. In theory, it should be getting more stable now with v2 of Core and hopefully all the docs and various tutorials/blogs/…