RheingoldRiver

In case the author sees this:

> none of the possible drives you might to do get there are especially scenic

that should say "might do to get there" not "might to do get there" (and also "none...is especially" not "none...are" but I would not go out of my way to point that one out)

yeah, but I was a math major and theta looks like a normal letter to me whereas thorn takes me a sec to realize what I'm looking at

I like the katakana idea, I wonder if I can train myself to recognize the Su one enough to start using that when I'm handwriting days of the week places

I think they mean writing Tu Th Sa Su instead of T T S S (personally I'm a fan of T / theta if I'm doing single-letter abbreviations but Sat/Sun is still not the best)

Archive link: https://archive.is/LkHqZ

in case you didn't see it, there's a mirror here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M-d9rRsFnC8zUkeFrkVC...

Interesting haha, I've played enough NYT connections that I would never have gotten it on my own because when I thought of the correct word with sauce, I thought "_ crab" ? no, can't be that...

(author here) I listen to audiobooks a lot and need something to occupy me visually without distracting from listening to the audio. Jigsaw puzzles are perfect for it :)

Author here; almost certainly this is true

I am a small person without access to power tools and didn't have much help for the project, so anything that heavy was out of the question (and the puzzle is huge). Otherwise I would have quite possibly done this!

https://www.gamepuzzles.com has some great ones

> You'd think that this would not appeal to anyone,

Why would this not appeal to anyone? Summer reading games are super popular and kids love getting small prizes

Just know them no. Able to sanity check that an RGB value is the color it's supposed to be yes sometimes. It's not the most useful skill because you almost always get a swatch now, but sometimes being able to have some idea of how it'll look (should it be dark or light, grey or intense color) saves me 10 seconds here and there.

I like playing guess-RGB games every now and then because it improves the skill, but at the same time I find them really stressful haha.

I was a math major in undergrad, we care about typesetting so much because you really do not want to be stuck handwriting everything, but it's not easy to be faster typing than you are with handwriting when you're writing out rows and rows of equations. (Actually physics was generally a lot harder for me to keep up with while typing than math was.)

And when your life is revolving around classes or your thesis, the #1 most important thing to you in the world is how easily you can transfer your ideas to paper/digital format. It makes a lot of sense that people care a lot about the quality of their typesetting engine and exchange macro tips with each other (I got a lot of helpful advice from friends, and my default latex header was about 50% my own stuff and 50% copied from friends in my same major)

Why does it play an artificial voice saying "Number 9" over and over in between clips in Revolution 9 mode? it's super annoying especially given the clips are shorter

But this is really cool! I've gotten some animal sounds, weather sounds, music, a small kid talking about a soccer match in Spanish, "evil laugh", political speeches in several languages, and a telephone ringing. only pressed skip a couple times for some really unpleasant noises

You can still share a link directly to the file. For example:

* Page with images - https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/CSS * An image in media viewer - https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/CSS#/media/File:Css-wiki-body-b... * The image file page - https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/File:Css-wiki-body-background-i... * The direct image in question - https://support.wiki.gg/images/4/41/Css-wiki-body-background...

I work for wiki.gg, if anyone edits a Fandom wiki that's considering forking and wants to know more, send me an email (in bio)

If you have an account, you can disable it in preferences. Appearance -> Files -> "Enable Media Viewer" Toggle that off and it'll never happen again

if you have any connection to the admins of that wiki, it would be great to get MultimediaViewer extension enabled - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer

they're on 1.35 right now which is a bit out of date (lifecycle - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle) but an older branch of MMV should work fine on 1.35

I don't think the author explained it well. What % means, is, "out of 100" so like X% is X out of 100. % is a unit, just like meter or candela. You can do dimensional analysis with %. To remove a % you do like, X % * 1 / (100%) and then the two % (remember % is a unit) cancel out so you get X % = X / 100.

This dimensional analysis makes more sense with multiple terms, for example X % * Y = X % * 1 / 100% * Y = X * 1 / 100 * Y = X * Y / 100. (And note "of" means "times")

It's the same thing as saying, 5 * 2cm = 10cm = 5cm * 2 (hopefully the statement 5 * 2cm = 5cm * 2 qualifies as "obvious")

If this entire explanation is as automatic to you as breathing (which yes it is if you did a significant amount of technical courses as a student, although admittedly dimensional analysis tends to come up in chemistry not math) then the statement "X% of Y = Y% of X" is vacuously true and I would feel comfortable saying this is more or less "By definition of %" with no further explanation, if I were talking to someone who I know has an equivalent background to me.

Doing the conversion can often be helpful. For example say I'm thinking to myself, "what is 4% of 50" and I'm like ugh idk but half of 4 is 2 so the answer is 2

the controversy isnt `ck` vs `x`, it's LAH-tek vs LAY-tek vs lah-TEK vs lay-TEK

LaTeX is....controversial. I say "LAH-tek" but I've heard a lot of different pronunciations. LaTeX was the original gif fight haha

> the largest number where all digits are prime numbers

do you mean the largest prime number where all digits are prime numbers?

> you are forced to always go forward in your "reading", so your opportunities to trace back to a hard concept or even pause and think about a sentence for a while are close to 0

my earbuds have a double-tap to play/pause. What makes you think I don't use it??

> but if you were trying to improve your comprehension of language by reading harder books, or trying to study actual concepts, audiobooks would be useless

reading is reading. For nonfiction where my goal is to learn I do audio and pause to take notes. For entertainment I read speculative fiction usually as audio-only, sometimes also with text (Malazan and Terra Ignota being notable for when I wanted text). But that doesn't mean that what I listen to with audio only is somehow lower quality.

And it's kind of funny to me that you say "improve my comprehension of language" because I listen to audiobooks somewhere between 3.5x and 4.3x speed generally (and still working on improving my comprehension at higher speeds). You're probably going to say that this necessarily means I don't understand what I read but...no, actually, listening to audio has drastically improved my language processing ability. And even if mostly I'm listening to fiction for entertainment, this improvement in comprehension carries over to reading nonfiction.

Yeah, one of the first countries I was asked to identify was "USA" and......that's just a waste of time

> you just can't read while doing the dishes or morning cardio or running unit tests

this is literally what audiobooks are for. And I concentrate significantly better on audio if I'm multitasking with a mindless activity

As another math major who doesn't do math anymore, I feel this comment so deeply in my soul

Do they do something unrelated to the function of pumping blood, just to make the patient feel a heartbeat for comfort?

I did Josh's React class and it was incredibly well done, I'm really looking forward to doing his animations class when it's available, I will definitely be registering as soon as it's in open beta.

We had someone request a wiki on wiki.gg for Ballionaire, and it's at https://ballionaire.wiki.gg/wiki/Ballionaire_Wiki. Assuming you have structured data easily accessible, you can pretty easily use the MediaWiki API to create some automated pages for each of the items and any other entities that should have pages. Example repo: https://github.com/RheingoldRiver/sorcerer-update That repo is assuming that some "infobox" templates already exist, which you can find documentation about here: https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/DRUID_infoboxes or feel free to email me (address in bio) if you'd want to create the pages assuming that the infobox template already exists and have me make said template for you!

Woah, what's going on?? I've always played Set with stripey cards, is this a custom deck or did they change it at some point???

This is wildly disconcerting to me