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I don’t understand why any of that indicates that a 70 year old couldn’t have created this, unless you think 70 year old people aren’t capable of doing that.
My dad is 64 and he can still use AutoCAD like he's playing piano
Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
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Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
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> Not to be negative or anything but [pure shade] I'm gonna bet that my mom has had a website since before you were born*. She was taking fortran classes in the 60s. Your ageist attitude is pretty gross. So what if she had help? Another bet, you can't program without the help of online resources and/or a chatbot either. * given the dates on your resume, there's a very good chance I'm correct in this
> > Not to be negative or anything but [absolutely justified skepticism based on how much various publicity stunts have been done]
Your comment is also much much ruder than the one you're replying to.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#73Only took me 6 guesses. This is pretty good, no?
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#75time to LLM a binary search import requests url = 'https://grandmasword.com/dictionary.js' response = requests.get(url) lines = response.text.split('\n')[2:] exec('\n'.join(lines)) def binary_search(dictionary): while len(dictionary) > 1: mid_index = len(dictionary) // 2 mid_word = dictionary[mid_index] print(f"Guess this middle word: {mid_word}") user_input = input("Did grandma say her word is before or after? (type…
Classic LLM hijinks or hacker goofing off on HN? Either might throw `exec('\n'.join(lines))` in a script running on a publicly downloaded file rather than parsing it more directly.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#76time to LLM a binary search import requests url = 'https://grandmasword.com/dictionary.js' response = requests.get(url) lines = response.text.split('\n')[2:] exec('\n'.join(lines)) def binary_search(dictionary): while len(dictionary) > 1: mid_index = len(dictionary) // 2 mid_word = dictionary[mid_index] print(f"Guess this middle word: {mid_word}") user_input = input("Did grandma say her word is before or after? (type…
So you didn't want to have fun playing the game, but also didn't want to have fun coding a solver? I understand the former, but not the latter... :D
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#77Only took me 6 guesses. This is pretty good, no?
Why not delete your spoiler message until tomorrow please?
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#78A much needed reboot of Joon Pahk's defunct
"Guess My Word".
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#79Very cool. My own 74 year old surviving parent would never be able to get them selves to even try, as they have spent most of their lives telling reiterating a mantra about how little they know about technology. It has been a guiding principle of mine to never do that with anything, after seeing the effect it has had on her.
My mom is the same way. She’s really capable and smart, but she will also stop herself from plugging something in because she’s unsure.
I convinced her that she can figure out any remote and they are designed to be figured out. I told her at most there’s gonna be 5 buttons she doesn’t understand and it won’t break anything to hit them. Most of the buttons are numbers or volume and channel up down, power.
She got that. When her mom was sick and had different tvs because of different circumstances my mom would be like, “I did figure out the remote tho and was able to get the television working.”
I was with my 3 year old niece the other day and she turned on the receiver and then the television and I said , “wow, I’m impressed you figured that out.” And she said , “yeah when grandma watches me she doesn’t know how”. . .
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guessed many words I didn't know on Wordle (not a native English speaker), if you are able to reduce enough the letters search space there's going to be only a few options that e.g. make sense phonetically.
This was my problem too. If there was a scoring system, it might make sense to buy letters against your score, to help you forward once you're stuck. I got stuck. What the heck goes between Volatile and Vole?
Hint: it is a common word that is NOT on this list of 10000 words!
https://www.mit.edu/~ecprice/wordlist.10000
It is on this list of 20000 words:
https://gist.github.com/eyturner/3d56f6a194f411af9f29df4c9d4...