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Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by LorenDB »

JdeBP wrote: post #283
crdrost wrote: post #211

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It's a rectangular grid. People aren't going to troll with dicks, but swastikas.

And yet https://mastodon.scot/@rasteri/112683926331617000 was found within the first 2 hours of the FediVerse post. Honourable mentions go to the TARDIS picture at https://mstdn.ca/@Chigaze/112683847369819438 and the Sierpiński gasket attempt at https://mastodon.online/@Zotmeister/112684295968651688 .

Shortly after posting this to HN I drew Tux at position 99999. It's long gone now, of course.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by madcaptenor »

crdrost wrote: post #210
matthewfcarlson wrote: post #83

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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…

IIRC these messages usually have their dimensions equal to primes, to help the aliens a little bit - for example the Arecibo message was 1679 = 73 * 23 bits. We're hoping the aliens have the sense to recognize a product of two primes.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by quesera »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #255
furyofantares wrote: post #235

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Oh that's Celine Dion minus the consonants

How on earth did you come up with this? Or did you hear it somewhere? If it’s the former, you need to do improv. You have the gift.

Wondered same, found this: https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1b77eq8/fun_fact_if_...

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by furyofantares »

quesera wrote: post #293
sillysaurusx wrote: post #255

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How on earth did you come up with this? Or did you hear it somewhere? If it’s the former, you need to do improv. You have the gift.

Wondered same, found this: https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1b77eq8/fun_fact_if_...

Yep, that's the form I've seen it in before.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by eieio »

montag wrote: post #265
eieio wrote: post #245

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Hi! Sorry it took me a bit to get to this, I've been hacking to keep the server up for the last several hours. Lots of people are botting, I don't think there's anything wrong if you bot too. There's a tiny bit of client-side rate limiting and originally i had server side rate limiting too, but I got rid of that a while ago (I was cutting anything I could to speed things up).

Haha. Cutting rate limiting to speed things up

alright yes this sounds funny now but at the time my rate-limiting implementation was very slow!

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by darepublic »

Fun game. I tried to go way out into the sticks and was able to write some ASCII like message but then was ruined. Liked trying to draw a picture in the sand right next to the waves. One question, I assume unchecking a box will uncheck for everyone?

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by djha-skin »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #237
crdrost wrote: post #210

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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…

How long did you spend crafting this comment? Be honest. I could imagine doing that with Vim, but I don’t think I could do it in less than ten minutes. And then I’d get sidetracked about whether to represent empty checkboxes with _ or - or a Unicode box.

https://github.com/vim-scripts/DrawIt
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