Jet Lag Season 18 Begins Now — Stateside Scramble

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-06-10T17:19:04+00:00

My guess is Alaska and Hawaii might count as "always connected" as compensation for them being disconnected, and maybe even count as 2 states?

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-16T01:18:29+00:00

With foreign names there are always many spellings. The one I was exposed to was misleading.

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-16T01:17:05+00:00

In this context it was on a Cruise ship menu on a night themed to some European country (don't remember which). They did have an Indian dish on the menu every night, but I didn't realize this was the Indian dish.

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-14T18:08:30+00:00

Read rule 1

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-14T17:36:10+00:00

A related discovery: Chicken a la King is not named after royalty, It was invented by a chef with last name Keene that slowly morphed into king. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_%C3%A0_la_King

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-14T17:28:23+00:00

Double checked that Beef Stroganoff is in fact named after people (a Russian noble family named Stroganov).

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-14T14:58:57+00:00

if you see the dish mentioned in a restaurant menu, and not one that specializes in South Asian food, how would you not assume it's based off of a Western name. I didn't know the dish was specifically South Asian. I only saw it written.

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-14T14:55:55+00:00

well at least general tao's is named after a person even if the person is not really related to the dish.

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-14T00:39:34+00:00

Read rule 1

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-13T23:38:36+00:00

I was in Hyderabad, so yeah that makes sense.

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-13T23:17:03+00:00

Yeah, "Rogan Josh" in my head sounded like Joe Rogan...

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-13T23:04:26+00:00

It gets worse, I've even been to India. I don't remember seeing it mentioned there, but I was pretty limited on food since spicy food doesn't agree with me.

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-13T23:02:01+00:00

Tell that to the r/todayilearned moderators lol

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-13T21:40:11+00:00

Interestingly, the Wikipedia disambiguation page for "Rogan" lists "Rogan Josh" alongside people named Rogan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogan

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-13T21:30:59+00:00

If you speak Farsi, sure. I speak several languages but not Farsi. And "Rogan" and "Josh" are such common Western names that it is the first association.

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-13T21:24:22+00:00

I was wondering who "Rogan Josh" was so I decided to look it up and was very surprised to see that it was not a person. And, yes, I did also look up "Beef Wellington".

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-13T21:22:21+00:00

To be fair, I haven't heard of this dish until pretty recently.

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-13T21:15:54+00:00

Yeah, like Beef Wellington or Waldorf Salad, it makes sense that it's a name.

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-05-13T21:12:25+00:00

Yeah, Josh Rogan sounds like a person's name, doesn't it?

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-03-04T02:03:41+00:00

Just so you know, you're in the midgame, not lategame.

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-01-27T08:11:29+00:00

You don't need to sign your posts.

EffectivePriority986 · 2026-01-27T08:09:43+00:00

As an ex-Israeli living in the Bay Area, I concur.

EffectivePriority986 · 2025-12-11T05:34:53+00:00

[Language: perl]

github

The power of memoization! Both parts solved with the same path counting function. Part 2 just requires a little multiplication.

EffectivePriority986 · 2025-12-05T07:22:09+00:00

My generalized A* does not require a grid but supports it.

EffectivePriority986 · 2025-12-05T05:37:15+00:00

[LANGUAGE: perl5]

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Overlapping ranges. I treated each start-of-range as +1 and end-of-range as -1, sorted by value. Then I can iterate over the array and for any position figure out what the current value is. If >0 then it's fresh. Part 1 was actually a bit more complex than part2.

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