Sweet, sweet gender corn

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Puzzle #657
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I actually recognized three of the purple ones first but strongly suspected a red herring.

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Puzzle #656
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I actually considered the purple one first, except I had never heard of one of those and couldn’t figure out what the fourth word was supposed to be.

Did you try…two periods instead of three?

Interesting game. I caught a bit of bad luck by locking in the first and last letter at the same time.

Antiwordle #1146
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I sometimes accidentally do this and then get angry that the feature exists

I have never heard of that purple one. Even after seeing the answer I had to look it up.

Postscript is also literally just a text based programming language for drawing stuff. You can create loops and recursions and all kinds of crazy transformations with a few lines of code.

8 minute Bluey episode
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Was it just me that thought the purple one was most obvious?

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Puzzle #649
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I guess I did things backwards this time around…

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Puzzle #647
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I still own an electronic Japanese dictionary but haven’t used it in about 10 years. I have a dictionary app on my phone that I use nearly every day.

About the only thing the electronic version still does better than any of the apps I’ve tried, surprisingly, is handwritten kanji recognition, I think perhaps because it comes with a little stylus that makes it more precise.

The fact that dipshit won an academy award for editing just kills me inside a little more every time I think about it.

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I guess maybe we have different requirements, but I built a similar controller using a 68HC05 when I was in college (yes I am that old) and it had plenty of cycles left to burn. This thing is nearly an order of magnitude faster than the microcontroller I used.

EDIT: I will grant you the I/O is pretty limited, but you could also offload some of the work to an external timer/accumulator

The original DOOM ran on a 80386 which was actually slower than or roughly equivalent to this controller. Recommended system specs were for a 486 though which was maybe 2-3x as fast.

A 32bit @24MHz CPU is extremely overpowered for those use cases.

Qi operates in the 87-205 KHz range. A power tool is several orders of magnitude slower.

Purple was the first one I saw, but I thought it must have been wrong so I ended up doing all the others first.

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Puzzle #642
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This has got to be the dumbest game ever. I managed to get to 27 away but ended up giving up after burning through 3 hints after that. The closer the connections got to the actual word, the less sense it makes.

I can only imagine this is using some kind of BS deep learning model to infer semantic similarity, because there are some extremely bizarre jumps.

I know that toy store! It’s right next to a brewery tasting room in the same little building/complex. The place is loaded with crazily expensive vintage action figures.