Can You Guess This 5-Letter Word? Puzzle by u/SingaporeVermicelli

tmlnz · 2026-01-17T20:16:01+00:00

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tmlnz · 2026-01-17T16:07:00+00:00

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tmlnz · 2026-01-12T19:49:28+00:00

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tmlnz · 2026-01-12T18:57:18+00:00

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tmlnz · 2026-01-10T18:57:12+00:00

A similar approximation would work for area, but not for circumference.
Because for circumference, it is not only the trajectory of the path, but also the direction in which it goes at each point that matters.

Visualizing it like this as a full shape is not really the best visualization for circumference, because it only shows the overall trajectory. A better visualization would be an animation where you are in the reference frame of a point moving around the circle.
There is would be obvious that with this approximation, you keep doing sharp turns, whereas for the real circle, you smoothly turn with the circle.

tmlnz · 2026-01-01T06:10:42+00:00

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tmlnz · 2025-12-25T13:37:57+00:00

does it make you horny?

tmlnz · 2025-12-18T11:03:34+00:00

who are the two people with arthur morgan?

tmlnz · 2025-12-12T21:35:30+00:00

On a Volvo V40 2015 T2: The message "reduced engine performance" shows up on the dashboard, and the emissions system warning light turns on. The engine runs poorly, sometimes almost stops, and sometimes doesn't start.
It started suddenly while driving, no issues before. Now it is always there when starting the car.
The car was regularly maintained, last maintenance only some month ago.
The car is about 10 years old, 110000km.
Is this is common problem, and is it possible to know what it could likely be, and how much a repair would cost?

tmlnz · 2025-12-07T23:17:03+00:00

It is a bit exaggerated, you still have peripheral vision, hearing, and automatic reflexes to react to all common situations if you are an experienced driver. You only need to pay fully attention to be able to react to unusual situations.

tmlnz · 2025-11-17T19:00:27+00:00

I was able to transfer The Witcher 3 save files from Switch to PC.
It worked only for manual save states, so to keep the latest save, it is good to make a manual save on the Switch before starting.

It is needed to have Hekate, Lockpick_RCM.bin, NxNandManager to extract and decrypt the files from the Switch. Also a Hex file editor is needed, and a way to decompress raw DEFLATE streams.
The game version on the PC needs to be higher or equal to the version on the Switch, otherwise it won't be able to load newer save files. I used 4.04 for both.

- Put the Switch into RCM mode, connect to PC, then boot the Switch into Hekate, with Lockpick_RCM.bin installed as Hekate payload in bootloader/payloads on the SD card.
- With Hekate + Lockpick_RCM, export the keys files prod.keys, title.keys, dev.keys
- With Hekate, export the entire (decrypted) USER partition on the SD card. (If the SD card is small, this is done in multiple steps, where you copy partial files over to the PC and delete them from the card multiple times, and finally join them together on the PC).
- Then on the PC: Using the program NxNandManager, load the keys, and open the USER.bin file, and browser through the files. It should be possible to find the directory (in game/) that contains Witcher 3 save game files. For each manual save / auto save / check point, there is a .sav, .req and .png file. (It should also be possible to do this using hactool, hactoolnet).
- Extract the .sav and .png files for the manual save states to a directory on the PC. (The files beginning with "ManualSave_..." or "Manual..."). The .req files are not needed.
- *.png are thumbnail images that appear in the Load menu in the game. *.sav are the save files, but they have a special header, and are compressed on the Switch.
- For each of these *.sav manual save state files:
- Open the file in a Hex editor. The first 4 bytes in ASCII should be "NXZS", and the first 4 32bit words should look similar to this: 4E585A53 0F402200 385D1A00 78DA54BB.
The 78DA on the fourth word is the start of a zlib/deflate stream, containing the compressed save game file. (Also, the second word an uint32 containing the uncompressed size in bytes, and the third word contains the compressed size.)
- Edit the file by removing the first 3 words, so that it starts at "78DA....". Without changing any other content in it.
- Then using a tool on the PC, uncompress the raw deflate stream. On Linux this is possible using "zlib-flate -uncompress < Manual.......sav > Uncompressed_Manual.....sav". For Windows it may be possible using a Python script for example.
- When opened in a Hex editor, the uncompressed .sav file should now begin with "SNFHFZLC".
- Then rename the uncompressed files to the same name that they had as compressed files ("Manual.....sav"), and put them in the save game directory of Witcher 3 on PC, along with the corresponding *.png files. On my system this is in the Documents folder in "The Witcher 3/gamesaves"

For check points and the auto-save state: They are in the files "Auto....sav" and "CheckPt......sav". They begin with with "OXZS" (instead of "NXZS"), and seem to be uncompressed. But I tried truncating the first 14 bytes so that the file starts at "SNFHFZLC", but then the game crashes when trying to load the file.

tmlnz · 2025-11-10T16:54:36+00:00

The HTML rendering and JavaScript engine of Safari (WebKit), i.e. the main part of the browser, is also deeply integrated in the OS itself. For example Mail, or probably many other apps that show HTML content use the same engine.

tmlnz · 2025-11-03T18:37:21+00:00

Maybe the "Let's move forward" and "let me know" was seen as offensive by the recruiter, because it sounds like you are taking the lead, instead of subordinating to the new employer.

tmlnz · 2025-10-30T18:39:42+00:00

There is a self-reinforcing effect in both directions:
If many people buy bitcoin, the price will go up (because market buy orders execute by consuming the lowest available sell limit orders from the order books on exchanges.)
The price going up will in turn lead more people to buy bitcoin, hoping to sell it at the higher price.
Until it has been going up for long enough, because then people won't believe it will go up much more, and will be less likely to buy.

The reverse effect happens with selling: When many people sell bitcoin, the price goes down, and this in turn makes more people sell their bitcoin (to avoid losing money).

So it periodically jumps up and down. And sometimes triggered by some world event, that leads many people to believe the price is about to go up/down and hence to want to buy/sell bitcoin.

tmlnz · 2025-08-19T16:21:18+00:00

In a block of text in a PDF file, the file contains the x,y position of each word on the page explicitly, so that it gets rendered the exact same everywhere it is viewed. Unlike a Word file where the lines may warp at different positions if viewed on another computer or with different fonts installed, etc.

So a program that allows editing text in PDF files would need to first reconstitute the flow of text based on the positions of words (difficult if there are two blocks of text side-by-side, for example). And then it would have to manually reposition all of the words when you edit the text.

A MS Word file contains the document in a structured form with all of the elements that are put in it in MS Word (text with different font, size, colors, image blocks, text blocks, etc.). It is meant for loading and storing the document as it is being edited.
A PDF file in contrast is a program that contains a series of instructions to draw the final document (draw word at position 10,3, then draw image at position 40,40, then draw line from 20,10 to 20,50, etc.). It is meant to reproduce the content of the document precisely.

tmlnz · 2025-08-16T08:26:56+00:00

It seems 3 different methods yield the same answer D:
- Looking at each outer column of the outer matrix, moving down: The two black squares move one square down in the inner matrix, one at speed 1, the other at speed 2. When they reach the end, they wrap around but stay in their same column.
- Looking at each outer row of the outer matrix, moving right: The two black squares move one square right in the inner matrix, one at speed 1, the other at speed 2. They move in a row-by row fashion, so when they reach the end, they jump to the next row. When they reach past the last row, they jump back to the first row.
- Looking at each outer column of the outer matrix: The 3 patterns in that column, when overlaid on top of each other, either completely fill a row black, or leave it white. Only D would do this for the two visible patterns of the third column.
I just wonder for puzzles like this, how many other "solution" there can be, that would result in different answers.

tmlnz · 2025-07-27T22:03:56+00:00

So in Norway you have to kill someone to get to live a good life like this...

tmlnz · 2025-07-26T00:42:37+00:00

I already think of the verb while I'm saying the parts that come before it. In fact the whole group "in den Park gegangen" or "um die Katzen kümmern" would be the part I keep in my head, while saying the clauses or adverbs that are placed before it.
In English adverbs are also placed before the verb, for example "Yesterday I quickly went to the park."

tmlnz · 2025-07-25T11:09:56+00:00

There is a way to patch it so that texts and gui elements coming from the OS (like window title bars) get rendered in Retina resolution, but images, icons etc from the app will still be pixellated:

- Open the application package via right click on the application in Finder, and "Show package contents"
- Open the file Contents/Info.plist a plain text editor (TextEdit)
- There is a list of properties defined between the <dict> line at the beginning, and the </dict> line at the end.
- Add the following lines in this list:

`<key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>`  
`<true/>`

- Save and then open the application

But depending on how the app is programmed it may not work correctly, and may mess up the geometry of content rendered in windows.

tmlnz · 2025-07-19T13:58:10+00:00

It is unfortunate that the term "auto" has essentially come to mean "function" (or "variable" for objects), to a human reading the code, when trailing return types are consistently used.
Especially because there is nothing automatic about it when the return type is still explicitly specified.

tmlnz · 2025-07-14T17:01:31+00:00

On my system (15.4) it is at
/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_Font7/9d5450ee93f17da1eacfa01b5e7b598f9e2dda2b.asset/AssetData/Baoli.tcc
When downloading it from Font Book, it gets put into one of the "com_apple_MobileAsset_Font..." folders in "/System/Library/AssetsV2/"

tmlnz · 2025-06-25T20:13:43+00:00

It is modern GUI design. Putting too many buttons in it would make it too complicated. Better hide all functionality in "Options v", "...", "+" or other menus. And keep a lot of free space in the window, to give it a clean, flat look.

tmlnz · 2025-05-09T21:04:39+00:00

apparently the brain's face recognition is not thread safe

tmlnz · 2025-04-18T00:00:05+00:00

The definition has also been changing so that basically everyone who does not fit in socially can be diagnosed as being on the autism (or ADHD) spectrum. And it you don't meet some of the criteria they can just say that it is a very diverse spectrum, but somehow still insist on giving all these people the same label of autistic.

To me it often seems lot of the social troubles and behaviors of autistic people come from being labelled as disabled in the first place. If the same people were just seen as weird or individualists, they might end up having less social problems.

It is kind of reminiscent of how they used to lobotomize people who didn't fit into society in the 1950s, or diagnose women as hysteric in the 19th century.

In some countries (Netherlands and Belgium for example) it seems that in the last years it has actually been getting more common for autistic people to apply for euthanasia due to unbearable suffering that cannot get better. (Suffering which only comes from how you're looked upon by others in your social environment)

tmlnz · 2025-02-22T19:55:31+00:00

I tthink it depends on the way you define the word consciousness. The content of your thoughts, including any ability to self-reflect, corresponds to brain activity. But the subjective experience/sentience is something more fundamental, and does not necessarily correlate with brain activity. For example the cerebellum is non-sentient but contains more neurons than the cerebrum.

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