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But.. that’s not true. The US is one mile north of Mexico. That doesn’t mean Mexico is one mile north of the US.
Yet if you head that direction and keep going straight, eventually you’ll get to Mexico.
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
But.. that’s not true. The US is one mile north of Mexico. That doesn’t mean Mexico is one mile north of the US.
Yet if you head that direction and keep going straight, eventually you’ll get to Mexico.
There's an infinite number of straight lines that eventually lead to Mexico from any starting point, but (if I'm thinking straight) there's only a finite number of ways to not get to Mexico from a specific staring point.
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I wonder if this was posted every day and only got upvoted when a country that is definitely in the top 5 easiest and virtually everyone will get it in one or two tries was on offer. I wish the rotation would be on by default (the distances are enough of a hint), or at least work if I turn it on.
This happened exactly. It had 5 upvotes yesterday (Liberia).
It's almost as though it's a bad design to have it be one country per day!
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#235Please put it in bold font on the main page that there’s no way to get new puzzle and you need yo wait for a day. I was very confused while looking for the button to restart.
I believe changing your system date should "work"...
It does.
It also makes Firefox consider all your add-ons invalid when it next does a signature check, removing tracking protection and any custom tab bar you have, practically requiring you to restart the browser to continue using it as a browser. It also messes up "reopen last tab", opening something random instead, sometimes with a mangled URL.
I should just modify the game's code instead but so far it has been easier to write a bash oneliner that changes the date, presses F5 on the page, and changes it back, hoping Firefox doesn't do its ~hourly sig check during that moment. Sometimes it needs an F5 while the time is set correctly because the certificate isn't valid for far-out dates. (No idea why it works other times, it really shouldn't.)
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#236Anyone else getting an SSL error from the page?
Did you modify your system date to play another round?
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just get a geography deck for Anki instead.
I'd like that. Do you have a link?
I use this ‘Countries of the World’ one: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2263258759
There's also a version with vector maps, and multiple other decks with varying fields in the cards and amounts of info. In my experience, decks are a matter of personal preference to a large degree—seeing as ideally you're dealing with them closely every day. So you might want to take a look at different ones and choose for yourself: https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/geography
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Wouldn't that make countries like the USA and Canada extremely far apart because they are both large countries? The distance you would get is the distance from Hawaii to somewhere on the northeastern edge of Nunavut/Newfoundland/Labrador
Not quite, you'd get the maximum distance from the extreme end of one territory to the nearest point of the other.
Oh I see, so still pretty large since both countries are large, but if one of the bordering countries were small the distance would be small.
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#240This is kind of fun. Wish I understood it better though. Seems a bit unintuitive when geoguesser works better probably because the proximity is truer.