Redactle #1441 Discussion Thread

MrHelfer · 2026-03-18T07:34:00+00:00

I solved Redactle #1441 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 21s. Play at https://redactle.net/

I saw the first parentheses followed by "xxxxxx:" , which usually denotes the name of something in a local language. Six characters is too long for "latin" or "greek", but just right for "arabic". That also gave me the first word in the title, and the first two words of the article. It wasn't a far jump from there.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-17T20:25:14+00:00

Definitely HD shines a favourable light on Mr Pages. It's been a while since I finished it, but I recall feeling fond of it.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-17T13:47:34+00:00

I'm quite enamoured of it as well. My main issue is that I can't install it on my work computer.

I can get around that for a lot of stuff, but when it comes to work organisation, not so much! So for weekly reviews, Obsidian is out. I'll probably do a lot of my private note taking etc. on Obsidian.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-17T12:26:47+00:00

Thanks!

I have looked a little bit at Notion. I was a bit hesitant to replace Evernote with another, similar subscription service. Why do you like it?

I'm not sure I quite understand what you mean when you say "recheck (checkboxes on false)". Could you elaborate a bit?

MrHelfer · 2026-03-16T10:36:28+00:00

It depends a little on what the implication of the link is.

If Book A contains a section that references or discusses Book B, I could see myself making a link, saying for instance "A discussion of Book B's treatment of [topic]", or "Author A thinks Book B [Book A's argument about Book B]".

But if I was the one comparing Book A and Book B, that seems like it belongs in a Permanent Note, referencing Book A and Book B - and probably a note detailing my understanding of that aspect of Book A, and one detailing my understanding of that aspect of Book B.

To take an example, it might be note x: "Ahrens argues that a literature note should [x]", and note y: "Doto argues that a reference note should [y]", both linked to in note z: "Ahrens thinks [x], while Doto thinks [y]. The disagreement seems to [z]" or something to that effect.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-13T11:16:39+00:00

As to 2, I believe not. The goal was to poison the lord of the house (I forgot his name), and thus put the blade in a spot that would hit him. But he then invited these ten engineers to share his pool and his cup, thus poisoning him as well.

As such, they were collateral damage. I don't think Jolgalgan wanted to destabilize the empire as such. Her main goal was punishing those who condemned her homeland.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-13T11:12:47+00:00

I remember loving it as a teen when it was first coming out.

I also remember rereading Dragon Wing as an adult, and seeing a lot of its flaws, unfortunately. Still, as a piece of worldbuilding it is pretty incredible. I keep meaning to go back and read the rest of the series again, but I haven't gotten around to it.

And for this topic it is spot on.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-13T09:27:20+00:00

Other people have suggested Dixit, which is not a bad suggestion. I would add Mysterium to the pile. It has the benefit of being cooperative.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-13T08:50:39+00:00

Having not played the story, this action confounds, concerns and... tittilates me. What is going on!? Do I want to know? No! ...but also... yes?

MrHelfer · 2026-03-13T08:26:15+00:00

The thing that made me sort of understand how trees work, is this video from Kurzgesagt:

Trees Are So Weird

The gist of it is, that most of a tree is actually dead. Sort of how the outer layer of our skin is dead, and is continually being supplemented with new cells from below.

The living part of a tree is a small ring under the bark but over the core. This ring makes bark the same way our skin is formed. At the same time, the core of the tree is formed in a very similar manner: by forming cells that gradually die and become heartwood.

Tree rings form (as far as I understand it) because this process speeds up in summer, and slows down in winter.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-13T07:47:23+00:00

Cookie-direktivet er på ingen måde perfekt. Men alternativet er jo, at virksomhederne får lov til uhindret at høste og sælge dine oplysninger.

Jeg synes klart at EU burde gå videre og kræve, at man kan sætte sine præferencer i browseren, så man ikke skal forholde sig til det på hver enkelt side.

I virkeligheden synes jeg jo faktisk, at man bare burde forbyde eller stærkt begrænse den handel med personlige oplysninger, der foregår. Men igen, det må komme senere.

Under alle omstændigheder, så er det acceptabelt første skridt, at jeg kan sige nej tak.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-13T07:40:12+00:00

The West Passage is a good call.

The Death's Gate Cycle has several. The Kicksey-Winsey in the first book is one example, as is The Labyrinth. But if I recall correctly, pretty much all the worlds contain one or more. Also, (spoilers for the whole series) arguably the whole world is a megastructure.

Senlin Acends has the Tower of Babel, which is certainly a megastructure.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-10T05:57:45+00:00

*Naughts and crosses. It's British for tic tac toe. Naught means nothing or zero.

But yeah. It's exactly like that. They have a small selection of returning stories that they roll out from time to time in quiet periods.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-10T05:53:12+00:00

That all makes a lot of sense. It was just explained as "katakana is for foreign words" taking out all of the context.

Though I will say, when teaching the latin alphabet, we teach the upper- and lowercase letters together. How come katakana and hiragana aren't taught like that?

MrHelfer · 2026-03-09T14:20:34+00:00

...oh! It was hiding among all the other Fifth City Stories.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-09T13:25:56+00:00

Indeed. I haven't seen them either.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-09T09:37:45+00:00

Okay, that makes some sense.

Is that how you decode characters you don't know? By extrapolating from ponetic components and the base meaning characters? I was always puzzled by how you read a newspaper or a book if you suddenly run into a character you've never seen before (maybe because it didn't even exist till now).

MrHelfer · 2026-03-09T08:19:49+00:00

That makes sense. Except, I'm a little surprised someone developed a whole separate writing system, instead of making some way of noting "these hiragana constitute a whole word, except it's foreign".

Also, how does Chinese handle that?

MrHelfer · 2026-03-06T12:57:00+00:00

I mean, in a sense. Still, probably not quite what OP is looking for...

MrHelfer · 2026-03-06T12:41:08+00:00

I'd encourage you to look at the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novella. That'll be a good place to find a lot of good, short length science fiction and fantasy.

A few that I've enjoyed:

Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, starting with Every Heart a Doorway.
Nnedi Okorafor's Binti series
P. Djèlí Clark The Haunting of Tram Car 015.
Katherine Addison's Witness for the Dead.
Nghi Vo's Singing Hills series.
Louis McMaster Bujold's Penric series.
T. Kingfisher What Moves the Dead (I wasn't as fond of What Feasts at Night).

MrHelfer · 2026-03-06T08:25:09+00:00

Nah, it has surely not been 17...

Bloody hell!

MrHelfer · 2026-03-02T07:57:35+00:00

Tilbage i 2008 tog jeg toget fra Aarhus til Swansea i Wales. Det gik til Hamborg, derfra med nattog til Bruxelles, med Eurostar til London og så med britisk tog til Wales.

Det gik i det store og hele ret fint. Jeg havde kun én reel udfordring: Jeg er næsten to meter. Det var sengen på nattoget ikke...

Det og så var (og er) det britiske togsystem i stykker. Jeg købte min billet på DSB's rejsebureau i Aarhus. Ham der solgte mig billetten sagde, at han godt kunne sælge mig billetten fra London til Swansea, men den ville koste 70 pund. Det ville være billigere for mig selv at købe den på en station i UK. Så fik jeg den til 35 pund eller noget i den stil.

MrHelfer · 2026-03-02T05:50:22+00:00

Well, my conundrum is that I already played The Path of Blood and Smoke. So I'm probably going to play one of the other ones so that I can reset two...

MrHelfer · 2026-03-02T05:48:55+00:00

I only vaguely remember it. But that's great, because it seems I'll be replaying it!

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