1. pdwetz Nov 4, 2025 parent

   For generating puzzles it's really useful since it lets you determine if a randomly generated puzzle has only one possible path to solving it (exact cover problem). And it's fast so adding it to a pipeline doesn't incur much if any overhead.
2. pdwetz Mar 17, 2023 parent

   Does that have blackouts for "local" teams? I'm 1-2 hours (traffic depending) from the Mets and MLB subscription in the past was useless for live games due to blackout restrictions.
3. pdwetz Jan 8, 2023 parent

   There is a whole world of employers who need tech folks who aren't google and friends.
4. pdwetz Mar 1, 2020 parent

   That's just been the case for 2.1 and 3.1, future versions will jump a version each year (next is v5) with every other year being LTS. Of course, we'll see if it actually goes as planned. I don't think I've seen them change course from the announcement last year.

   https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/

5. pdwetz Dec 25, 2019 parent

   All Altra shoes are zero-drop, so heel and forefoot are at the same level. It doesn't mean there's no padding.
6. pdwetz Dec 6, 2019 parent

   Visual Studio itself also does that (I forget when it was introduced; a few versions back I think?). I haven't used Resharper in a long time, so I'm not sure how it compares now, though.
7. pdwetz Aug 26, 2019 parent

   Is making your own an option in the UK? I have a few friends in the US that love it, but I think you need easy service for the canisters. More effort to be sure, but at least then you can use whatever syrup you like.
8. pdwetz Jul 12, 2019 parent

   Since this comes up every year, might as well point out this isn't an isolated case.

   Tweet thread covering various ones (as of last year): https://twitter.com/mikemayerMMO/status/1013295573779312640

9. pdwetz Mar 28, 2019 parent

   Remote work? I rarely have in-person client meetings anymore. And honestly at my old job it had offices around the country so even then there were people I'd worked on projects with for years and had never met in person.
10. pdwetz Feb 22, 2019 parent

    Backtracking as a strategy definitely seems... underwhelming. But it does have its uses. I wrote a few solvers, and they all served a different purpose. One was based on Norvig's python post on the subject; I used that to generate many puzzles very quickly. Then I used a backtracker (using Knuth's Dancing Links) to reduce the set to puzzles with only a single solution. The last solver was a "human" solver that used various known strategies; this let me grade difficulty without having to manually attempt every puzzle (although I still found it useful in my app UI to tag puzzles as being too hard/easy). The human solver is incredibly inefficient, but the one with the most room for growth (new strats, etc).
11. pdwetz Jan 3, 2019 parent

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12. pdwetz Nov 16, 2018 parent

    How much of that is luck/genetics? As a Mets fan, David Wright is an easy counter example of someone who was known to work hard and then struggled with injuries.
13. pdwetz Sep 19, 2018 parent

    For my site I use a backtracker to find a large number of single solution puzzles (rather fast). Those are used as a test base for my "human" solver (pretty slow), which are used for scoring and difficulty levels. I find that it's a nice balance.
14. pdwetz Sep 18, 2018 parent

    Not quite; from same link, "President Abraham Lincoln and the United States Congress introduced in 1861 the first personal income tax in the United States." It was declared unconstitutional in 1895 by the Supreme Court, prompting the constitutional amendment.
15. pdwetz Sep 4, 2018 parent

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16. pdwetz Aug 1, 2018 parent

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17. pdwetz Jun 28, 2018 parent

    A bit comical/ironic to say they'd be targeted for obstructionism given that the other side of the aisle did just that for the last vacated seat.
18. pdwetz Jun 19, 2018 parent

    I still miss Front Page Sports Football from the 90s. While we owned a couple of different versions, the early one that had the most play time for us was completely unlicensed, so we made up names for all of the teams. It was a really nice balance of sim, play designer, and arcade football. My brother and I each had a team and played through multiple seasons. If memory serves, I tanked the end of one season to ensure the #1 overall pick in the next draft. Unfortunately, with our setup only one person could play at a time so we had to sim any games our teams played each other (including a championship game or two).
19. pdwetz May 22, 2018 parent

    Probably most similar to ultra races, some of which are on a short repetitive loop over x time period (24 hour is "common"). Audience is probably closer to dozens of friends/family compared to packed stands of fans/gamblers, though!
20. pdwetz May 1, 2018 parent

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21. pdwetz Jan 2, 2018 parent

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22. pdwetz Nov 15, 2017 parent

    For hundreds of years humans have read printed books to learn things, without talking to teachers. Seems like a weak argument.
23. pdwetz Oct 15, 2017 parent

    Also, I'm not sure I'd apply the label "genius" with someone who has copious amounts of "copy pasta" in his solely crafted code base.
24. pdwetz Oct 10, 2017 parent

    If you want to interact with the database, in my experience Dapper and real actual SQL statements beat it hands down (both readability and performance). I love utilizing LINQ aside from that (e.g. creating custom comparison methods/classes and using it's baked in set operations for comparing/contrasting multiple collections).
25. pdwetz Oct 10, 2017 parent

    It's been a constantly moving target for the last two years. In theory, it should be getting more stable now with v2 of Core and hopefully all the docs and various tutorials/blogs/videos/etc will follow suit over the coming months. In the meantime, you'll probably want to filter out anything prior to 2017.
26. pdwetz Sep 22, 2017 parent

    I think the issue I had with the last "section" of Seveneves was it felt more like a prologue. The pacing was entirely different. I didn't hate it or anything, but going from the previous two parts to the last one was jolting.
27. pdwetz Sep 15, 2017 parent

    I'm all for using a password manager. I also think it's not user-friendly for a single application to force one to use multiple email addresses. It's unnecessarily confusing and annoying.
28. pdwetz Sep 15, 2017 parent

    I think the point is that he's avoiding the product rather than change his process, and that he's hardly the only one.
29. pdwetz Sep 1, 2017 parent

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30. pdwetz Aug 23, 2017 parent

    I wonder if we can "mine" all of the old copper wires (telephones, etc)?

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