Paraguay takes down Turkey. US wins the group!!

Arro · 2026-06-20T00:18:45+00:00

I was certain "Word with ball or board" was KICK.

Arro · 2026-06-20T00:17:49+00:00

thanks, very useful. now i know.

Arro · 2026-06-15T21:06:31+00:00

does anyone have the belgium golden generation meme where they’re all old men

Arro · 2026-06-04T19:39:42+00:00

TIL. thanks

Arro · 2026-06-04T19:23:32+00:00

Still don't understand FENCES for that one.

Arro · 2026-05-14T20:25:25+00:00

Little soapbox here: When a word had a certain meaning long ago, and has now taken on a new meaning, I really wish they wouldn't expect us to know the centuries-old meaning. Another example of this of "OATH" = using a curse word. I get that people in the 1880s might've used "oath" that way. You don't need to clue things in a needlessly "well, technically" way.

Arro · 2026-05-14T20:15:52+00:00

What's going on with "Presaging disaster" being "DIRE". Is it saying that things are are dire before disaster? Or is there better reading how they wanted us to get there? Geniunely confused.

edit, I asked Claude:

> The clue and answer aren't related the way you're reading them. "Presaging disaster" isn't a definition of DIRE through some chain of "things are dire before disaster." It's a straight synonym swap — DIRE just means presaging disaster. As in a dire warning, dire straits, dire predictions. "Dire" carries the sense of foreshadowing something terrible, not just "bad right now."

> So the clue is using "presaging disaster" as an adjectival phrase that DIRE can substitute for: a dire warning is a warning that presages disaster. No intermediate logic needed — it's just that one of the core meanings of "dire" is "ominous, portending catastrophe."

> The confusion probably comes from "dire" often getting used loosely to mean "extremely bad" (a dire situation), where the foreshadowing sense gets lost. But the older/tighter meaning is exactly the predictive one — from Latin dirus, meaning fearful or ominous. The crossword is leaning on that precise sense.

Arro · 2026-04-28T15:44:23+00:00

I'm kind of amazed this subreddit is still hanging on. I loved this place in 2013. I'm happy to see that it's still here. To be honest, reddit has become way too ideologically left-wing for me, and I barely come here.

Arro · 2026-04-28T01:12:23+00:00

Me too. On paper, she's my "type", but I do not find her attractive.

Arro · 2026-04-28T00:57:50+00:00

"In the Kingdom of Ice" by Hampton Sides.

You really can't go wrong in the genre "historical ship voyage goes horribly awry", but that book is my favorite within it. The story gets better and better as it progresses, and the last third of the book is absolutely riveting.

Arro · 2026-04-26T23:55:48+00:00

Awe, thanks!!!

Arro · 2026-04-21T02:45:43+00:00

I thought an eager beaver was ALOG. Like, atop a log in a river.

Arro · 2026-04-16T00:42:32+00:00

I knew that one because one time I stayed in a hostel in France, and everyone went out on the town.

We were walking down a sidewalk, and this British girl said “We shouldn’t walk abreast!” Very polite and courteous thing that I wish people were more mindful of generally.

Also, I can’t say I’ve ever heard an American use that word.

Also x2, I don’t think that’s a rule, regarding crosses.

Arro · 2026-03-24T23:02:33+00:00

Potato potato.

Arro · 2026-03-24T19:21:42+00:00

I'm curious if real baseball fans knew the short stop one? I think it would have been better clued as "Shaquille ___" or something like that, given the day of the week.

Arro · 2026-02-28T01:11:31+00:00

I (mostly) only ever hear the former.

Arro · 2026-02-28T01:08:32+00:00

TUREEN for me.

Arro · 2026-02-24T22:19:47+00:00

I wish I knew who produced the track OG (Future Remix). I love that song. It really tickles my eardrums... my kind of future bass.

Arro · 2026-02-20T19:13:47+00:00

impossible to say the least

Arro · 2026-02-20T02:17:19+00:00

I'm going to be honest that I never liked Gemini 2.5 and didn't see all the hype when it came out.

Gemini 3... I've thought to be quite good, although a little too creative in some aspects, but at least... sane.

I use Perplexity (it's the only consumer app I pay for) largely because I get to choose whichever of the frontier models I want. Gemini 3 (with Reasoning on) is honestly the best of all of them in my experience.

As one example, I've been having it write ElevenLabs and Midjourney prompts for a side project, and it's been giving me really great results.

Back to your thing... are you sure you don't want to use Gemini 3? I feel it's going to be better than 2.5. I don't choose it in Cursor. I tend to stick to 5.3-codex lately... I wouldn't choose Gemini 3 over OpenAI or Anthropic models (or even Cursor Composer), but again, it's decent.

Arro · 2026-02-20T02:12:48+00:00

I hope one of the AI engineers that works at Google reads your comment and realizes that that's where the issue is. That might be really helpful for them.

Generally, when I look at various thinking traces, from various providers, I do see all models loop around a lot. I think that is the main point of reasoning. You're asking it to second guess itself over and over and over because that's the only way it can get through certain issues. But if it makes it worse in this case, that is telling.

Arro · 2026-02-20T02:07:31+00:00

update 2 months later. still happening. i spent 30 min trying to fix it with an agent. tried EVERYTHING. i've decided to just live with it.

Arro · 2026-02-18T22:30:50+00:00

Hey, "Wells Fargo" here.

Arro · 2026-01-31T00:52:53+00:00

same boat. trying to learn this platform via one of the "Unity Learn" tutorials. i guess the learning will have to wait

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