It was really fun, but maybe throw a few combos closer in weight in? I played for maybe 5 minutes and didn't get any wrong. I would have played longer if I got some wrong.
You're much better at it than me then :-)
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#92Nice! I think you have a type in "heaver", it should be "heavier" maybe?
No way! You are the only person to spot that. Fixed. Thanks!!!
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#93Nice! I think you have a type in "heaver", it should be "heavier" maybe?
Haha! Just clocked your username. One of my prize possessions is a signed copy of Neuromancer.
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#94Feels like I'm answering questions my 4 year old always asks me.
Weird you should say that. The idea came to me after a long conversion with my 6 year old. He was telling me about a friend of his who said he was god or a god and we talked about how you could test to see if he was. That seemed to trigger off a whole synaptic storm.
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#95I did about 20 questions and didn't miss one. Because most plants, animals, etc are made of water, you really just have to compare volume. I found that visualizing the order of magnitude of the volume was a pretty good strategy for estimating weight. (Water has a density of about 1000 kg/m3)
I don't know if I was just lucky but I also did a lot of them (where's a counter?) and had all of them right. I think the game should try to pick answers that are closer to each other. Perhaps even have an inconsistent difficulty so some questions are easier than others.
It picks choices where the winner is about 10 times the weight of the loser. Very simple. Still trying to come up with something better that increases difficulty over time.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you get some time to breathe, I would love to hear a "retrospective" about how an account suspension turned into a redirect to a loans website. Did a bad actor notice your account was suspended, took over it somehow and then they sent traffic to their website? Is this standard protocol for your hosting provider (similar to those domain landing pages which link to all sorts of weird crap)?
The sysadmin thought I was up to no good and suspended me, which seems pretty reasonable to me. He was really cool and not even pissed off that I wiped out a server. All got cleared up. The site is on a different server now.
figured that you got suspended, but it sounded like the url starting going to some other site vs just erroring out. right?
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
The sysadmin thought I was up to no good and suspended me, which seems pretty reasonable to me. He was really cool and not even pissed off that I wiped out a server. All got cleared up. The site is on a different server now.
figured that you got suspended, but it sounded like the url starting going to some other site vs just erroring out. right?
Yeah, because I got suspended the webserver decided to just serve the first site alphabetically. Nice behaviour. I scared the ** out of me, I thought it had been hacked.
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#98I know this is going to remind us to watch the "Monty Python Witch Trial" scene. https://youtube.com/watch?v=X2xlQaimsGg
Watching Holy Grail was the perfect way to unwind at the end of a very very long day. Thanks!
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#99Fun game! I have a suggestion: the huge numbers are not quite readable. Maybe add the scientific notation as well. Comparing 73,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 with 844,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is tricky, especially since the numbers are not right aligned. Adding a 73.4×10^21 vs 844×10^21 would be helpful.
Yeah, I'd find that more readable too. I aimed for something anyone could understand.
Could you just have a simple bar graph that showed their relative sizes? Two numbers with a bunch of zeroes are hard to compare.
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#100At least one question has its figures wrong. It asks which is heavier, Space Shuttle or 747, and goes on to say that the Shuttle weighs 2 million kg. But that is not just the shuttle: “The stack, as the composite of orbiter, tank and boosters is called, has a gross liftoff weight of 2000 tonnes” (which I presume includes liftoff weight of fuel as well).
Edit: perhaps it was just luck that it compared a 747 with the Space Shuttle, since that is something we know how to compare due to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Carrier_Aircraft
Fun! Thank you, last_one_in. @last_one_in, it was not obvious to me at first that you were the author - adding that to some comments would have helped me!