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My scroll wheel covers about 12 states per inch of travel. Did the stubby pencil work and it would take about 9.5 years to scroll through them all if the wheel surface was moving at the speed of light.
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any time there is skill in an online casino game where money is involved, there is cheating too
Plus this would seemingly violate compliance with laws protecting disabled people. For instance, someone with mobility issues might know the solution but wouldn't be able to hit the buttons in time.
The game just has multiple aspects to it.
structure emerges from chaos at 23,738,673,083,197,685,761 & 34,677,398,788,068,093,945
True! How did you spot this though? Did you look at every possible position?!?
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>How did the kid who could solve the Rubik's Cube in under 1 min not become an algorithm designer - some genius backend dev? Somebody else figured out the algs. The speedcubers just rote memorize them and then practice becomes mostly about execution. (Oversimplifying a little, but I have gotten sub-60 myself with the Roux method a few years ago) Interestingly I've never managed to pick up programming but learned the…
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>I consider this to be "freestyling" with the Rubik's Cube. Wtf is that all about?
On older/lower quality cubes it's possible to get a corner twist, which can make a normal solve impossible. In that case you need to either figure out which corner was twisted and untwist it, or twist the other ones until it's possible to arrange them normally again (might just need an even number of corners twisted, can't recall). I luckily have never had this problem on my own cubes but I believe there's a website that can help you figure out how to fix it. I am not aware of an instance where you would do this on purpose for any kind of advantage. Mostly it's either an accident or your friend/sibling being a jerk trying to make your cube impossible to solve as a prank. If you twisted 4 corners you could skip a major step (CMLL in Roux or OLL in CFOP), but I think doing it the proper way is probably faster.
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any time there is skill in an online casino game where money is involved, there is cheating too
Just change the parity by swapping two stickers on a corner piece, and no amount of skill can solve it.
There are laws about making casino games impossible to win, so a game that is transparently in violation wouldn't last long.
Anyone else surprised how small the number is? It looks quite big without commas but if you add them in it looks like the sort of number that is almost conceivable 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 43 quintillion, that's the type of number i've vaguely heard of. Compared to the number of possibilities for a shuffled deck of cards 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,804,000,000,000,000 That…
So, at some point you're going to be multiplying by 10, 20, 30 etc. Plus you'll have 2x5x.., 4x50x... (if you rearrange the terms). It therefore makes sense that you'll end up with a bunch of zeros on the end.
Anyone else surprised how small the number is? It looks quite big without commas but if you add them in it looks like the sort of number that is almost conceivable 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 43 quintillion, that's the type of number i've vaguely heard of. Compared to the number of possibilities for a shuffled deck of cards 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,804,000,000,000,000 That…
The number of permutations is 52! which is 1x2x3...x51x52 So, at some point you're going to be multiplying by 10, 20, 30 etc. Plus you'll have 2x5x.., 4x50x... (if you rearrange the terms). It therefore makes sense that you'll end up with a bunch of zeros on the end.
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That's more money than there is in the universe, I think you're onto a winner here!
You only need to sell one at $50, then market cap does the rest and you are boundlessly rich.
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In case someone is curious, NFTs were tradeable tokens popular for a short while in the early 2020s. > Initially pitched in 2017 as a new class of investment asset, NFT trading increased from US$82 million in 2020 to US$17 billion in 2021. Its market was occasionally compared to an economic bubble or a Ponzi scheme. In 2022, the NFT market collapsed; a May 2022 estimate was that the number of sales was down over 90%…
The reason NFTs "failed" is that the "assets" were jpegs with infinitesimal intrinsic value(pre–ai slop) and even less market appeal. We have people wasting money on jpegs and people wanting to own things outside of game inventory screens even today. Something akin to NFTs could still become a part of the economy.
Horrible comparison, because people buying hats or reskins, let alone unique game items, are actually enjoying their purchases before the game is sunsetted and it all dissolves into the digital IP void. NFTs offer no value besides moral ownership; if Capitalism and Greed could make jokes, NFTs would be among their best.
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The reason NFTs "failed" is that the "assets" were jpegs with infinitesimal intrinsic value(pre–ai slop) and even less market appeal. We have people wasting money on jpegs and people wanting to own things outside of game inventory screens even today. Something akin to NFTs could still become a part of the economy.
Cryptopunks are still over $60k. Pricy jpegs.