For us slow kids in the back what does this mean, “[…] such that the nine 9-digit numbers formed by the rows of the grid has the highest-possible GCD over any such grid”?
All the digits in a row become a number. All nine such numbers have a greatest common denominator. The puzzle solution is the center row of the grid where the numbers have the greatest common denominator possible. I. E. None of them are prime.
It took 3 readings and a scan of some of the later words but I think this is the correct reading
So a naive program can just solve the puzzle repeatedly, differently, and ccmpute the GCD of the rows, and output the one with the highest result. There aren't infinitely many solutions to a sodoku style puzzle, so...?
I would love a place that works almost exactly like Stack Exchange, but which is geared toward polling experts' opinions on something (which is a thing that SE explicitly says it doesn't allow.)
Like, I can solve most concrete single answer problems (the kind SE is "for") on my own by digging into the offending component's source code. Reverse engineering if necessary.
The type of question that I really want to ask others, is when I have multiple options that all seem good to me as solutions, and I want guidance on which way to go — or, more deeply, which factors I should consider in my selection. (Example: "what should I use as a database for this project?")
This is exactly the sort of decision that a manager on a product, would hire a lead engineer for that project for their expertise in, and so would expect said lead engineer to be able to lay out for them when asked.
I feel like all the right people are there on SE to be able to answer this type of question. But SE itself just doesn't let them do it — or at least, isn't structured to incentivize them to do it.
Which is fine. SE wasn't meant to be the end-all be-all of Q&A. You can have any kind of Q&A, just not on SE. SE is simply not interested in those as it would dilute the other topics that don't lend too well to those policies.
SE has become (for a while now) the Platonic Form for RTFM.
It doesn't matter how much effort one puts into researching and troubleshooting (including reading many F (man)uals and forums) before asking, nor does it matter how much detail you provide to show how X (which is supposed to do Y, and does on many machines), does Z on yours for some reason, and, BTW, here's my logs and output for foo[1-5], all you get is "asked and answered RTFM, n00b."
> You should fight for some more rights, sometime <3
I wish we could fight for more rights. We are too spread out for protests to work. The politicians do everything they can to separate themselves from their electorate. And the average person doesn't have enough money to weather a week of no paychecks. Meanwhile half the populace gets angry at the thought of helping out anyone beneath them as they don't want them to get ahead.
The worst is that you have a very vocal minority trying to constantly burn down the house so that they can be king of the burn pit.
This is very succinct. I was raised to value "a hard day's work," and while I still do, I realize as an adult that I should know who or what I'm working for.
That means they went back to five-year-old backups. Delete actions which you took five years ago were undone.
This more or less tends to confirm that Reddit management handed down a mandate to restore everything being deleted, not only recently but going back as far as they have backups.
The restoration isn't perfect; it doesn't patch back the posts into your timeline, so when you search for your own posts, it appears empty. That is probably deliberate, the idea being that people don't notice the reverts.
When I re-delete a post manually, that action seems to stick. But for how long; they will probably be repeatedly restoring old posts from backups from now on.
Luckily, I have every single link to each one of my deleted posts. I told Shreddit to save them. The numerous .json files have all the info to re-delete the posts. Shreddit can be modified (or else a new program written) to use the .json files as input rather than obtaining a list of posts from the API.
I don’t think backups were used, likely all comments are just soft deleted and versioned.
So I think they just toggled off soft deleted comments, and reverted to older comment versions. That might show up as comments missing their added “edit:”s.
Another commenter here said they think this was an accident, I’m inclined to agree
I can also confirm. I nuked an alt account last year using an app that replaces the content with [deleted] before deleting the post. I'd say at least about 40% of those posts have been restored to full text.
It very much depends on the company and the bosses. I've seen visa status used to keep wages low and to lock people into shitty jobs and positions. These companies also use visa holders as a tool to keep citizen wages down.
In both cases they will remind you of how easy it is to get someone else in who can do your job.
Apple and other mega corps really need to spend some money investing in training/education for these highly specific fields. Advancement in Siri shouldn't be dependent on 3 people that were lost to Google.
I know a bunch of capable programmers that would love the chance to go into one of these specialties but don't have the resources nor opportunities (time/money/location) to go back to school.
The worst part of even trying to have a discussion about men's health and issues today is how often it devolves into arguments about male status in society.
If we had more empathy for one another it would be easier to solve the problem instead of arguing about who suffers most.
We all suffer, we should help each other suffer less.
Unfortunately it takes that kind of language to get some people to even notice men face issues.
The constant bombardment of "Men's advantages" by many groups has had the effect that empathy for men's issues non-existent unless it intersects with problems that matter to them.
I've moved 4 times in my adult life. The two biggest issues I've had with making friends is the lack of a gathering place for like minded people, and being accepted by existing cliques.
If you don't drink, go to church, or have kids, it is damned hard to find a place to hang out and meet other 30-40 year olds.
I've never made any friends at a "gathering place". I think most people show up to bars, restaurants, or anything like that with people they already know.
Apart from meeting friends through existing friends (the "acquire your second million first" problem), by the far the best (if not only) way I've found to make friends is through shared-interest clubs.
If you show up frequently to events where you have shared interests, it becomes very likely that you'll make friends with some of the other regulars.
Bonus points if:
- it's not too big a group (more chance of interaction)
- shared exercise, like a sports group (endorphins help with bonding)
- involves weekends or other trips away (living together briefly helps a lot)
- niche interest (small network)
- completing tasks together (work also counts here)
> I've never made any friends at a "gathering place". I think most people show up to bars, restaurants, or anything like that with people they already know.
It's probably my prior military force-learned charisma but I almost exclusively go to bars alone and almost always make a friend or two when I'm out. I don't like going to bars with other people often, they can meet me there but if I'm expected to only interact with one person I feel like I'm babysitting and have to keep them entertained whereas I'm a social butterfly and bounce around to a number of different people at bars alone.
But I will say I'm probably more uncommon than people who come in groups, especially in my new city that has less transplants- it's hard to break into friend groups when they've known one another for 5-10-20+ years.
Problem with bar friends is you might not have any shared interests aside from going out and drinking, movies, simple stuff vs your other options. And so you might not ever become closer friends than bar-buds.
Yeah, I've found it fairly easy to talk to people at bars and I'm not even a particularly social person. The type of bar matters a lot though. Some are too loud and crowded to meet people at. The friendship are superficial, at least for me, but you often hear some funny stories.
It’s hard if you do those things, too. I had my best luck with sports and volunteerism. Since I have kids, coaching youth sports has also been a great way to develop a group.
this really sounds like a fun and promising way to make friends. I've seen it happen at universities with "tandem" partners (italian comes to germany and wants to learn german, the german wants to learn italian), but they usually leave after the exchange.
