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From their CEO:

> When I'm old I want people to remember Tolkien named companies for things other than weapon and surveillance systems.

Source: https://x.com/mitsuhiko/status/2041855748481695774

This article was quite hard to understand, and the author called it "Lunar Terminator Paradox", which does not give too many Google hits.

"Lunar Terminator Illusion" is the thing to search for. This 11-year old Vsauce video did the trick for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2gTSjoEExc

Check around the 5m3s timestamp if in hurry, and not interested in other stuff he discusses.

disclaimer: I work at Oodle, posting my own perspective here.

Vijay and Kiran have both replied here in good faith. I like the fact that my bosses are nice, kind, and decent people.

I disagree with them about being nice to trolls.

All the past submissions from OP are for content hosted on a specific domain, which now redirects to another one: Surprise surprise! They sell "Telemetry Pipeline for AI-Era Data Volumes". So, a somewhat-competitor!?

OP, thanks for validation. When competitors write drive-by, unsubstantiated, undisclosed comments, that's good news!

1. Disable native context menu (macOS native menus will never support access keys)[1]

2. Go to `about:config` and set `ui.key.menuAccessKey` to a custom value (I have it at 17)[2]

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1711299

[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1711299#c5

We don't even need a fictional nail-factory example, because an almost-similar real example exists: the Backyard Furnaces of China during the Great Leap Forward [1]

> Pots, pans, and other metal artifacts were requisitioned to supply the "scrap" for the furnaces so that the wildly optimistic production targets could be met.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Backyard_fu...

Also, even within Marathi, at least for the letters ज and च, how you pronounce them depends on the word. You have to know the correct pronunciation beforehand, as it can't really be guessed from the word.

जेजुरी is my favourite example. चिंच is a close second :)

Heads up: he makes really funny claims like "I can make drinking water into poison just by looking at it"

Ref: https://youtu.be/6C1p4HUHlfE?t=105 (1:45 mark)

Brainbox (http://www.brainbox-demo.de/home/) is another similar logic simulator. It is open source and the code is well-written.

Ah! Eop's law!

"Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious?: Veritasium"[1] is a good short video that puts this into context.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl_K2Ata6XY

> this is not the way engineering should be taught

Nit: "super 30" is not about teaching engineering. That begins after the said exam.

Which is true in case of India

can someone with edit privilege edit the title to "British Prime Minister"?

Weird to click on the link just to find out which country they are talking about

Awesome game! The stackequal function is confusing though... Any help or description would've saved a lot of time...

Yes. I forgot to mention that. Thanks!

Thanks!

Won the game, I am over it... But yeah, pull requests/patches welcome!

Yes. I spent last night without sleep trying to beat the game, everytime a silly mistake was all it took to ruin it. Added undo, beat the game. Done away with a timesink!

How does "😊" show up in your browser? I am guessing it is the square again. I have simply lifter the unicode characters from wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons_(Unicode_block)

Nice find! I wonder what prompted to look at the code there...

Regarding #2,

I read Boolos' paper and found that the way the solution was explained wasn't quite to my taste (it did not have discussion on how one would go about thinking of a solution and step-by-step, logically proceed toward a solution). Add to that, the concepts of abstraction, putting away the complexity into a neat-separate function and then forgetting about the internal details, could be applied nicely to the solution in a number of places and I thought it would make the solution much easier to understand. I took an approach where I keep on reducing the problem to a simpler one by abstracting away some details and complications.

Do have a look at my attempt at explaining the solution, especially the process of arriving at the solution (for "The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever"): http://blog.sujeet.me/2013/07/solving-the-hardest-logic-puzz...

Feedback's welcome!

I am not sure whether that info has much bearing on the puzzle itself as such. Even in the case when random randomly answers either "yes" or "no", the solution is equally straightforward and simple.

How about adding an "Encrypted reply" option along with the built-in "Reply" and "Reply to all"?

Yes! That would be great!

"With this solution only the sender has to have the extension installed to send an encrypted email." Hmm... but to read the mail, even the receiver needs to have the extension. I don't see much point in advertising "only sender needs the extension" bit.