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Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by Dwedit »

brookst wrote: post #115
matthewfcarlson wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent five minutes writing “hey you, yes you” only to read your comment and realize my message is unparsable for those not on mobile.

These days we say "encrypted" rather than "unparseable".

Encrypted using EBCDIC

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC »

eieio wrote: post #8

(developer here) this is....more popular than i expected. the server's gonna be having some problems for a while

If you have time, one cool suggestion for gamification would be to do a SHA-256 hash of the binary values of the checkboxes and display current hash and the lowest hash so far.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by Vampiero »

some_random wrote: post #181
MechanicalFish wrote: post #92

// ==UserScript== // @name Check All Unchecked Checkboxes // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ // @version 1.0 // @description Check all unchecked checkboxes on the page // @author MechanicalFish // @match https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/ * // @grant none // ==/UserScript== (function() { 'use strict'; function checkAllCheckboxes() { var checkboxes = document.querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]'); checkboxes.f…

This really feels like it defeats the purpose of the site ngl

Well maybe next time OP will actually do their analysis and figure out that the project is DOA before even writing one line of code.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by TZubiri »

matthewfcarlson wrote: post #83
nomel wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's a severe problem with this implementation. By using wrapping, I can't write "boobs" and have everyone else read my graffiti without them having having the same zoom wrapping point.

I spent five minutes writing “hey you, yes you” only to read your comment and realize my message is unparsable for those not on mobile.

The idea of public canvases has been explored thousands of times: r/place, 1 million pixels,...

This feels like something else, it's ok if it has its own identity, otherwise it devolves/converges into a place to draw dicks in.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by crdrost »

matthewfcarlson wrote: post #83
nomel wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's a severe problem with this implementation. By using wrapping, I can't write "boobs" and have everyone else read my graffiti without them having having the same zoom wrapping point.

I spent five minutes writing “hey you, yes you” only to read your comment and realize my message is unparsable for those not on mobile.

This problem is traditionally solved by attempting to teach the aliens how to decode the pattern inside the pattern itself. For example a rendering might look like

    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x _ _ x _ x _ x x x _ x _ x _ _ x _ x _ x x x _ x _ x _ _ x
    x _ _ x _ x _ x _ _ _ x _ x _ _ x _ x _ x _ x _ x _ x _ _ x
    x _ _ x x x _ x x _ _ x x x _ _ x x x _ x _ x _ x _ x _ _ x
    x _ _ x _ x _ x _ _ _ _ x _ _ _ _ x _ _ x _ x _ x _ x _ _ x
    x _ _ x _ x _ x x x _ _ x _ _ _ _ x _ _ x x x _ x x x _ _ x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
    x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x
    x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
The idea is that the aliens can figure out first that these opening and closing sections have periodicity 30, and because they are so repetitive they do not contain the actual data bits, but then there is a central section which does contain complexity.

So then they will hopefully alight upon the idea of looking at the code two-dimensionally, and adjust their browser width until the lines all line up, at which point they get the custom message.

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