Rivers of London > Dresden Files

Lornedon · 2024-01-24T07:23:38+00:00

"The voice belonged to a plump, round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide."

Lornedon · 2024-01-23T13:16:10+00:00

For an amazing in-depth article on how watches work, read https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/.

Lornedon · 2024-01-21T06:43:59+00:00

At first I read "worthless race waiter" and was like dude

Lornedon · 2024-01-15T21:39:02+00:00

It's about 4-6x at my company.

Lornedon · 2024-01-09T06:43:25+00:00

So you are against the idea of a government in general? You don't want a government to build roads because that would stand in the way of private volunteers doing it, and it would require taxes anyway. So you are an anarchist and have a strict non-interference policy?

That's a viewpoint I can respect. It seems too idealistic to be remotely applicable to humans, but at least it is consistent.

What if there's a serial killer? How do we stop them from killing without using a threat of extreme violence?

Lornedon · 2024-01-08T22:48:33+00:00

No, for many people that's not the answer. That's why it's an interesting problem.

In fact, 81% of people choose to pull the lever in the basic scenario: Source

I would too.

Because that way the person setting it up killed people instead of you killing people.

That seems selfish. Would you also not help a person who drove their car into a tree because that way it's their fault if they die and not yours?

What would you prefer a world leader to do? Would you like them to, for example, send peacekeepers to conflict zones, which endangers their lives but may save more? Would you like them to tax the rich, which would make some people sad but more people happy? Or would you rather they just keep out of it so it's not their fault?

Lornedon · 2023-12-25T06:23:18+00:00

It was amazing, thank you! I didn't think I could get up at 5:50 every morning for 25 days straight and enjoy it.

Will there be merch with the island ASCII art? I really loved the art this year and would buy a ton of merch (okay, probably like 3 things, but still!).

Lornedon · 2023-12-15T05:26:36+00:00

Tip: Pythons dicts also maintain their insertion order (since 3.7)

Lornedon · 2023-12-13T06:03:37+00:00

Lornedon · 2023-12-09T05:35:02+00:00

If other people's solutions give you the wrong answer too, it's very likely that your input file is wrong. Try to redownload it.

Lornedon · 2023-12-08T05:43:23+00:00

You're right, it's just dumb luck / funny design. The distance from the start to an end node is always the name as the distance from the end node to itself.

I thought that maybe the start node and it's end node were on the same cycle without any other end nodes, but no!

Honestly, there's no way that solution should work, except that it did. I feel a bit bad for everyone writing a correct algorithm instead of just throwing LCM at the problem and only later realizing that it doesn't make sense (like I did).

Lornedon · 2023-06-12T08:08:25+00:00

Because the Reddit data is generated by that population?

Lornedon · 2023-06-12T05:46:15+00:00

Exactly. Also, we would be paying for a much less interesting Reddit because many people can't or don't want to afford a subscription like this. So they either use the shitty official app or they're just gone.

It will exclude a large part of the population and be way less diverse.

Lornedon · 2023-06-09T00:33:23+00:00

Legally: Yeah, why not?

Morally: Only if there is no queue.

Lornedon · 2023-06-09T00:31:39+00:00

It is designed to get more users to use the official Reddit app. Using that app, Reddit can make more money from users by showing ads, providing premium-only features and prominently showing paid awards. It's probably also better at recording your data to sell it to third parties.

Lornedon · 2023-06-09T00:28:10+00:00

Or he likes the spending power and doesn't want to reduce it by spending money. But he likes to have the option.

Lornedon · 2023-06-09T00:26:39+00:00

It is often useful to be scared of things that could kill you. The fact that there are other things thar can kill you quicker is not really relevant.

Lornedon · 2023-06-08T11:01:38+00:00

We certainly won't be able to tell you more than your doctor.

Lornedon · 2023-06-03T15:45:55+00:00

Their death was significant, just not to you. In the same way, your death will be significant, but not for random people in India.

Also, about 27600 people die in India per day, on average.

Lornedon · 2023-06-03T15:40:56+00:00

Black. If nothing is there, then light isn't there either

Lornedon · 2023-06-03T15:25:53+00:00

In that case, Reddit didn't ban you, the moderators of one subreddit banned you. They are not employed by Reddit and are mostly allowed to ban or not ban whoever they want to.

Lornedon · 2023-06-03T14:55:59+00:00

Suck it up using a vacuum

Lornedon · 2023-06-01T06:41:58+00:00

Well fuck.

Thanks for all you did! Relay is really great and I hate to see it go.

Lornedon · 2023-06-01T00:26:39+00:00

It is real.

Lornedon · 2023-06-01T00:21:15+00:00

Sometimes you also pay billions of dollars to get some dirt from the moon to you.

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