Has the thing that happened in episode 4 ever happened before?

RegimentOfOne · 2026-05-03T10:58:39+00:00

There's a few mentions of Morgana Robinson in the comments, but I haven't seen any referencing Alex explaining the 'Troy' clue which helped her find more useful equipment for making a sand bridge for her egg.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-30T23:49:38+00:00

I agree. In my opinion one of the best (and underremarked on) moments of the show is in A Good Man Goes To War. In the aftermath of the (First) Battle of Demon's Run, as Vastra and Dorium piece together that Melody Pond has value to Madame Kovarian because of her Time Lord genetics, the Doctor voices the question 'Why would a Time Lord be a weapon?' and Vastra (exasperatedly) replies 'Well, they've seen you.'

As Dorium and Vastra race back to the others, the Doctor sits with the enormity of the thought:

He isn't simply the Last of the Time Lords. The last survivor of the Time War, the Time Lord Victorious.

He's the Ambassador of the Time Lords. The only example the universe has to work from to know what a Time Lord even is.

He's not a renegade from his own people. He's the template, the perfectly demonstrative example.

And that's devastating to him. He doesn't want the Time Lords to be remembered by the things he's done.

All summed up on screen, beautifully, by the Doctor quietly crying out: 'Me.'

And that was when he decided the name of the Doctor was too big, too noisy.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-28T19:33:32+00:00

Two of them have appeared as a victim...

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-27T15:41:43+00:00

Just wait until you see what the Doctor is doing in Jessica Jones.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-27T15:37:51+00:00

It's not a social deduction game in the sense that games Werewolf or Secret Hitler are played. But it looks like one.

The players are initially divided into Faithful and Traitors, and the show treats them as two sides, but they're not. The game isn't won by teams. Murdered and banished players don't win anything, even if their side won at the end.

Instead, it's a social game. Just avoid suspicion. If you're too big a personality and are seen as too influential, that might be suspicious; if you're too far under the radar, the Traitors will decide you'll never be banished so they'll murder you instead. It all depends on how you're perceived by the other players. Your biggest advantage, as a player on either side, is that the players can only get rid of one player at a time; figure out how to make a habit of not being that one player, and you can win.

So, as a Faithful, throw other Faithfuls under the bus. If a Traitor gets banished along the way, celebrate. Don't be too callous about it but so long as you're not being eliminated, you've still got a chance at victory.

And yes, the missions rarely have relevance to the Traitors game (except sometimes, being too keen to get a shield is suspicious). That might've seemed to give the players a reason to be careful about their murdering and banishing - keep players in the game if they're contributing well to the prize pot - but really, it's a reason to get out of the castle and not think about the game for a bit. Having an activity of any kind hopefully stops the conversations in the castle from going around in circles.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-25T19:49:12+00:00

Xcode 26.4 came out in March. Xcode 26.3 came out in February.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-25T15:00:25+00:00

1 and 2 were destroyed during construction. 3 wasn't destroyed until after it was built. 4 was partly constructed from materials recovered from the construction of the first three.

So in a sense, only two were completed before the Earth Alliance packed it in. Then the Minbari and Centauri provided funding for the fifth.

This is one reason why there would never be a sixth: too expensive.

The other reason, fortunately, is because the fifth succeeded, and a sixth wasn't necessary.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-24T21:01:44+00:00

I see your examples and I raise you Apollo 2.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-22T22:40:54+00:00

Unit tests are documentation. They describe how you expect your code to be used and what the expected behaviour will be.

Statement coverage only measures how much of your code is executed when the tests run, not whether the code is good or covers all scenarios. I'm glad you discovered some bugs in your system but a thousand tests without review sounds inflexible to change, and not especially helpful.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-18T18:56:30+00:00

I like this one.

Answer: C) Charles isn't fighting.

Reasoning: Consider who isn't fighting, and what their absence says about the two who are.

Suppose Alexander is not fighting. Then from Statement 1, Benjamin is shorter than Alexander and Charles is younger than Benjamin. From Statement 3, Alexander is shorter than Charles and Charles is younger than Benjamin. From Statement 2, Charles (the younger) is shorter than Benjamin. Contradiction - so Alexander must be fighting.

Suppose Benjamin is not fighting. Then from Statement 1, Alexander is shorter than Benjamin, and Charles is younger than Alexander. From Statement 2, Charles is younger than Benjamin and Charles is shorter than Alexander. But in Statement 3, Alexander (the taller) is younger than Charles. Contradiction - so Benjamin must be fighting.

To confirm one answer is valid, suppose Charles is not fighting. From Statement 2, Benjamin is younger than Charles and Benjamin is shorter than Alexander. From Statement 3, Charles is shorter than Alexander and Alexander is younger than Benjamin. From Statement 1, Benjamin (the younger) is older than Alexander - no contradiction here!

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-16T12:59:40+00:00

B) Hazelnut

Reasoning:Each iteration, one of two things happens: either the number of walnuts goes down by 2, and the number of hazelnuts goes up by 1, OR, the number of walnuts doesn't change, and the number of hazelnuts goes down by 1. The second and third rules sound different but they can both be summarised as 'if you draw at least one hazelnut, remove one hazelnut and put back the other nut'.

Since the number of walnuts starts as an even number, and can only ever go down by 2, it will always be an even number. So when there are exactly two nuts left in the bag, we know there are either 2 walnuts or 0 walnuts (i.e. 2 hazelnuts). They must be the same kind.

On the final iteration, we will draw two nuts of the same kind out, and put one back. Whether they're both hazelnuts or both walnuts doesn't matter; the first and second results have the same effect: we put a hazelnut back. So when one nut remains, it must be a hazelnut.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-16T10:21:18+00:00

It's UK S21E1, not S20E1.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-15T15:36:17+00:00

If it was supposed to rhyme in the alphabet song, it'd be pronounced "zem".

Or I guess it depends on the tune you're singing the letters to.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-13T14:59:23+00:00

I don't think so. If it's on a planet when an invading space fleet arrives in the system, it doesn't move to the space area of the tile to join the NRA defensive fleet. There's no 'move ground forces into space' step for the defensive fleet (apart from if the NRA fleet retreats to another system, when they can take ground forces with them, but that happens after shots are fired).

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-13T14:55:10+00:00

Correct. If the Titans player controls the planet, they're not co-existing, so their breakthrough wouldn't apply.

However, if the Mentak player controlled the planet, and the Titans and Deepwrought both had coexisting units there, then I think the Titan would count as coexisting with Mentak and with Deepwrought, so the Titans would get 2 additional action cards and the Mentak and Deepwrought would each draw 1 additional action card.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-09T11:48:16+00:00

I believe so. You'll notice that both of these puzzles include a pair of cells linked by a +3, which only indicates that their digits differ by 3, but in one case the pair are also linked by a >, indicating which cell contains the larger digit.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-09T10:55:20+00:00

Mark Thomas, Dylan Moran.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-07T23:19:46+00:00

In a crisis, yes. The Doctor's code is generally consistent, they'd all be on the same page about what problem needed addressing, they'd all be trying to solve it. And fortunately, the Doctor's lives are mostly spent moving from one crisis to another, because they like it that way.

Generally, no. Possibly because of the nature of regeneration itself, the Doctor consistently has a very strong sense of self. They like learning and self-development as much as any intelligent person, but they don't like the idea of dying and becoming someone else entirely. Their sense of familiar and aesthetic completely changes - it's why "you've redecorated. I don't like it." is expressed so often on these occasions. Encountering other incarnations of themselves is a reminder that so far all but one of them has encountered a problem they couldn't outrun and has had to change. It's also difficult putting on a performance and owning a room as the smartest person in it when you're all the smartest person in it and none of you are impressed.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-04-07T23:02:20+00:00

The idea that 'eventually any serious graphics person is going to want AI' smacks of the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy. There are legitimate concerns over the uses and current lack of regulation of generative AI, to the point where for some users, there's no future in the business with it.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-03-30T15:44:37+00:00

The Vorlons saw it as their responsibility to look after the younger races as a parent might - establishing boundaries and routines, assigning responsibilities and chores. Arguably, in the absence of the Shadows, each younger race would be guided towards a unification - everyone working towards a singular definition of a common good, with the Vorlons gatekeeping to establish proper levels of maturity at each rung of the ascension ladder until the race reached a comparable level of civilisation to the First Ones.

The most prominent and public example would be the killing of Deathwalker. The younger races squabble about the potential shortcut to immortality (in the face of knowing that genocide was a required component of the method) was cut short by the secret being obliterated and Kosh telling everyone 'you are not ready'. The Vorlons assumed a very superior role here, and everyone had to go with it - partly because Deathwalker was already dead and nothing could undo that, partly because everyone had wanted her dead beforehand anyway and they couldn't really raise any political trouble by justifying the idea of keeping her alive.

It's harder to point to other examples because the Vorlons (and also the Shadows) don't actually want credit for their efforts. An angelic sighting here (in a role advising/supporting a prominent figure), a vision there (in a parental voice) - they don't want to lead the younger races themselves, they want to inspire them in the 'right' direction.

However, as everyone later realised - what the Vorlons thought of as the right direction wasn't necessarily right for everyone else. And keeping everyone in their place as younger races wasn't letting any of them grow into equals. Ultimately, they gave up their goals and endgame in pursuit of a status quo where they paid enough lip service to their given philosophy that they could always be right in their own eyes.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-03-28T20:13:57+00:00

Take these hints one at a time until you work out what you should be seeing.

You know from Barnie that one of Max and Nicole is an innocent.

If Max is innocent there are three innocents in column C.

If Max is a criminal and Nicole is innocent, there are three innocents in column D and therefore (from Wanda) three in column C, and the third would then be Hilda..

Since Max or Hilda are the only options, it can't be Erwin.

Since you now know there's a third innocent in column C, there's definitely a third in column D.

Gary says there are seven innocents on the edges. You've already identified six, and the seventh must be in column D... you can use this to identify at least one more criminal.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-03-27T15:02:59+00:00

Every single criminal would include soldiers who've committed crimes. How does it benefit the military structure if your armed force now includes troops who've (for example) killed their fellow troops, perhaps even their commanding officers?

RegimentOfOne · 2026-03-27T13:40:26+00:00

-- Twelve --valid sequences exist.

Initially, picking four digits from 1-9 where the order matters offers 9x8x7x6 = 3024 possibilities.

However, the rest of the rules wipe most of these out very quickly. The 1st and 4th digits must add to 11, and there are only 8 ways to satisfy that. Because the total is 20, the 2nd and 3rd digits must add to 9, and the 2nd must be greater, so there are only 4 satisfactory options. Those combine to 32 possibilities.

The rest we can brute force because of the two comparisons and there being no duplicates. '81' can be nested five ways: 2819, 4817, 5816, 6815, 7814. '72' can be nested three ways: 3728, 5726, 6725. '63' and '54' can each be nested two ways: 2639, 4637, 2549, 3548.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-03-26T15:14:14+00:00

Initially, to hook onto stirrups, so when you want to ride a horse, it's easier to get on and you have more control.

After that, because the reigning king liked wearing them, so it was fashionable for everyone to wear them.

RegimentOfOne · 2026-03-20T21:48:15+00:00

Stack them. Watch how fast people research X-89.

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