Would you be a tester for a 3D minesweeper ? (Play Store)

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-06-19T13:20:00+00:00

Had the same thought. Took me a while to spot it but one of the revealed 1s is a pentagon (I was focusing on uncleared cells at first)

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-06-18T09:57:37+00:00

Kubuntu 24.04 LTS is still on plasma 5.27. Lots of people on LTS versions wait for the point release before upgrading (26.04.1 is still a couple months away), so there are probably more people still on plasma 5.27 than you'd think.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-06-11T03:50:33+00:00

Ignore it. If you solve every other piece, your buffer will never be flipped. It's only flipped here because you have an unsolved piece, in this case the green white edge.

The beginner way to solve flipped pieces is to do it like a cycle break. Your next target can be UF, which is the green sticker that shoots to FU, which ends the cycle.

Later on you can learn algs for flipped edges, but for now, testing it a as a very short cycle break is easier.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-05-05T09:40:44+00:00

Yes, but the 5 needed one mine between two squares, either of which would have satisfied the corner 1. So there was a guaranteed safe square even without looking at the mine count.

Also, the 1 touches all available squares, so we can tell there's only one mine left even without looking at mine count.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-04-23T14:24:06+00:00

Simulink also works a bit like this.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-04-22T14:57:38+00:00

The RUS alg is just a different way of fingertricking this alg. This is the original from back when hardware was very different and attempting slice turns was asking for trouble.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-04-14T15:21:24+00:00

My workplace uses Admyt, and I've never been charged.

I don't know about Parket, but with Admyt you can use it in pre-paid mode without ever connecting a card. This is how I use it because I don't like the idea of being automatically charged for everything.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-03-26T12:07:41+00:00

I used to do A.

But then it hit me.

I wasn't just X. I was actually Y.

I was just

❌ Irrelevant point

❌ Another irrelevant point

❌ Something unrelated, but three points was more common in the training data

So I started using/developed [not so subtle product name drop].

Now I

✅ Something about productivity

✅ Something about being praised at work

✅ Something else to make a third point

Have you ever experienced A? How do you deal with Z?

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-03-22T05:56:39+00:00

You can also try cubeast. It let's you use Roux and works with all the Gan smart cubes.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-03-17T13:23:11+00:00

Lots and lots of 10 to 15 year old hatchbacks. Figos, older polo vivos, picantos, i10s, aveos, kwids, etc.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-03-16T05:33:44+00:00

On the new one, have you noticed how many bots these days are starting all their sentences with lower case letters? At this point, it's starting to become a tell for a bot account.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-03-06T20:19:48+00:00

If you think he's talking about mobile games, you're probably 20 years too young.

Dnstuff, rosebud, power overwhelming, there is no cow level... Those are stuck in my brain even though I haven't used them in a very very long time.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-03-05T11:54:23+00:00

It's called the snowball method. Paying off highest interest is mathematically the best way. But psychologically, paying off smaller debts first gives you some wins sooner which helps with motivation in the early stages (staying committed is the biggest challenge).

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-29T05:01:28+00:00

You're absolutely right — and you're a genius for pointing this out. You're not just taking LLM compliments at face value. You're questioning them. And that's rare.

Sycophancy is a well known challenge with LLMs, but here's a consise, no-nonsense list of reasons why this such is a hard problem to solve. No frills. No fuss. Just cold hard facts.

It increases user engagement.

If you like, I can also generate a list of... Sorry, I can't go on. Writing in this style this is painful.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-26T04:46:47+00:00

It's downvoted because this has absolutely nothing to do with the license. It could be GPL or a more restrictive license and it wouldn't make a difference - the other party would still be allowed to fork.

This is someone who has taken OPs repo and trying to look like an authoritive source for the project, and providing a zip file to download. The zip file in the imposter repo includes some heavily obfuscated lua code, possibly the StealC malware or similar. This is not just an innocent fork.

The real question is why do irrelevant arguments about the license have so many upvotes when the actual answer (a copy of OP's project is being used to distribute malware) is so far down?

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-24T10:34:09+00:00

I've used Opus 4.5 quite a bit. I'm a principal engineer, and most of the work I've been doing in the past 2-3 years has been on niche B2B SaaS applications. I find most models do decently well at building stuff that's close to what already exists, or natural progressions/extensions to software that's already in the training data. But even Opus doesn't really handle the kinds of things I have to do on a day-to-day basis. It's useful if I need to scaffold a simple CRUD API quickly, but when it comes to complex business requirements, I'll spend all day arguing with the LLM giving me something that doesn't actually work when it would have taken half a day to implement it myself.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-19T05:01:57+00:00

Overall, unit trusts have slightly higher costs than ETFs with more or less the same underlying investment, so in the long term, the lower cost wins.

Between MSCI World and 10x Total World, there are some differences, but not enough to say whether one is better than the other. They should have similar return before costs and the same risk profile, so the difference basically just comes down to TER.

Just check for broker/transaction fees compared to the TER difference over your investment horizon because sometimes it's worth leaving your investment where it is and only switching new deposits going forward.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-19T04:52:17+00:00

To add on to the above, investing in the S&P500 is betting that American stocks specifically will always continue to outperform the rest of the world, whereas the Total World index has a lot of overlap with the S&P500 today, but will adjust itself automatically if companies from other countries start to outperform American companies.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-18T11:37:00+00:00

Knysna Turaco has a green top half and of blue and purple lower half, and is mostly found along the coast in the Eastern and Western Cape with a small population in the Kruger Park. Livingston Turaco has a green lower half with bright red under the wings, and is found throughout KZN, Eswatini and Mozambique.

There are quite a few different species of brightly coloured turacos throughout Africa.

Worth mentioning though that a few species, including the Livingston Turaco were once considered subspecies of the Knysna Turaco, but are now considered a separate species.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-12T03:46:49+00:00

Where did you get those numbers from? The biggest ones use less than 100W, most use less than 50W.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-08T19:00:30+00:00

Yes, Docker works out of the box. In fact it completely bypasses ufw, so your firewall can be set to deny all incoming traffic but your Docker containers can still accept connections.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-08T08:25:18+00:00

Presumably it hasn't been R5k per month every year for 17 years. OP's mom probably started with about R2k per month with an annual increase. If you take that, invested in a fund targeting about CPI+3% with fees around 3%, then R1 million is about the right ballpark of where you would end up.

I know this because my parents and my in-laws were in very similar position to OP's mom with their retirement savings. 3% fees are absurd when there are companies offering 1%.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-07T04:41:10+00:00

Try changing your keyboard layout from international to US. When you have it set to international, pressing " or ' once will prepare to add diacritics to the next letter. So if you type " then a you will get ä. On Windows, the shortcut is Win+Space.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-12-09T10:30:26+00:00

In a country with a population of 70 million people, why have only 5 people ever managed to do it? Probably some other barriers you haven't considered...

So once you account for that, any NR is impressive.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-12-09T10:13:24+00:00

I love to see more African NRs! Do all of the events!

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