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We went to an amusement park this summer and they no longer give out paper maps of the park. We had to squint at the online map on the tiny screens of our phones.

It was a shame because I would have liked to give out maps to the kids so they could navigate/orient themselves.

A few days afterward, I actually went to the trouble of printing nice legal-sized color versions of the map at Staples to give to the kids as mementos. Sure enough, they loved looking at and discussing those maps just like I did as a kid.

Next time we go I'm printing maps ahead of time so we can have them while we're there.

Spiral is probably not the best word, sorry. Let me try to explain it another way. (It would be so much easier with a picture!)

So a dovetail joint has two pieces that slide together at the corner. Because of how the wood is cut, one side of the corner has a fancy zig-zag showing on the outside (tails) and the other just has boring parallel lines (pins). [0] You have to slide the piece with pins into the piece with tails.

So typically if you're making a dovetail box, each side of the box would either have pins on both ends or tails on both ends. This is so that the last piece has both joints pointed the same direction so both ends can slide in to the rest of the box.

You end up with two sides of the box showing the zig-zag tails and two sides showing the boring pins. [1]

But I figured out how to assemble the box so that each side showed tails at one end and pins at the other.

[0] https://technologystudent.com/joints/dovejts.htm

[1] https://blendswap.com/static/blendImages/2021/7/31/Blend/286...

Edit: another way to describe it is that I made a square frame that had rotational symmetry instead of horizontal and vertical symmetry.

Was it possible to pull over or stop the bus?

I like it! Reminds me of the time my woodworking professor told us it was impossible to make dovetailed joints in a spiral because you wouldn't be able to fit the last piece in unless the joints on both ends face the same direction instead of one of them pointing sideways.

Of course for my dovetailing project, I had to make a little frame with spiral dovetails, to show that it could be done.

These are the services, according to the article:

“T-Connect enables features like remote starting, in-car Wi-Fi, digital key access, full control over dashboard-provided metrics, as well as a direct line to the My Toyota service app. The servers that control these options contain unique customer identification numbers and customer emails.”

According to my research just now, they were initially included as a bonus to another product, like gum or cigarettes! Presumably you didn't know which ones you were going to get and had to trade around if you wanted a complete collection. According to this source [0], the trend switched from cigarettes to gum after it became illegal to sell cigarettes to children.

I think the scarcity that led to certain cards becoming more valuable was incidental rather than intentional, but I'm not an expert.

[0] https://www.amerlegends.com/the-history-of-marketing-basebal.... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_card

I thought they closed up their Dutch branch after the firing, not after the court case:

"Less than a week after the plaintiff was fired, the Rijswijk branch of Chetu Inc. was deregistered from the Chamber of Commerce and shut down on 2 September, records show."

Seems fishy, but could an innocent explanation be that he was their only Dutch employee?

> If every time you enter the legal system and you have a 1% chance of being falsely convicted

I agree with you that 1% is a high number in this context, but I don't think the math works for what you're saying here.

If 1 out of 100 convictions are of innocent people, that doesn't mean that 1 out of 100 innocent people put on trial are going to get convicted. That rate could be higher or lower than 1% because it depends how many innocent people are rightfully judged innocent.

Hypothetically, a court system that always returns a guilty verdict could have a 1% false conviction rate if 99% of people put on trial are actually guilty. But the rate of wrongful conviction for an innocent person entering this system would be 100%.

True, but it's still the case that he was fired by his company with the claimed reason of insubordination. I think it's a valid translation given the context (i.e. talking about what they said he did, not about what he actually did.)

I recently came across a cookie banner in real life that reminded me of that game. I'm still not sure whether I successfully refused cookies.

https://soccerwhizz.com/if-i-speak-i-am-in-big-trouble-meani...

An interesting exercise would be to have students generate the paragraph and then fact-check and edit it.

I can't speak to any wider trend but I read this article as a pushback against the hype that maybe makes note-taking out to be a more powerful tool than it really is.

I tried note-taking and spaced repetition for a while. To the extent that it replaced mindless HN reading, it was positive but I can also see how easy it is to pour in buckets of time without much benefit. It's a very thirsty pursuit - there's always more you could do and you never reach a clear stopping point.

What Colour are your bits? is an interesting look into these concepts:

"The scrambled file still has the copyright Colour because it came from the copyrighted input file. It doesn't matter that it looks like, or maybe even is bit-for-bit identical with, some other file that you could get from a random number generator. It happens that you didn't get it from a random number generator. You got it from copyrighted material; it is copyrighted. The randomly-generated file, even if bit-for-bit identical, would have a different Colour."

https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

> they’ve been known to rescind someone rescinding their citizenship

I'm trying to figure out what you mean here, and wondering if you have a typo. Would you please elaborate?

TIL: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/opinion/global/24iht-june...

Wow, the cookie pop-up in that second link is something else. The toggle options are between orange and blue, with the default choices being orange. Which one means on and which one means off? They're both equally saturated. The switch points to the left on orange and to the right on blue.

Then, the button choices at the bottom are "Got it!", "Deny" and "Save preferences."

It seems like if I choose Deny, I am safe but I can't be sure! What am I denying exactly? And if I click Deny, does it matter how I set the switches above?

If I click, I am in big trouble :P

Or just one label that says "Somebody on bone and flower."

This gives me the idea to make variations of this puzzle to play with my 5yo using pencil and paper. It would be a fun way to teach the difference between AND and OR.

Plus I'll get to see the puzzles he comes up with, once he realizes he can make his own!

I guess a lot of people played it and enjoyed it.

I wonder - am I more likely to vote for something interactive like this game? I.e. does the fact that I was actively playing rather than simply passively reading put me in a more active state of mind?

A fun Easter egg would be to have the dog eat the rabbit if both of them are on the boat node.

It would be fun to have the characters integrate with the node images, as if you are dropping them into little worlds. E.g. when you move a rabbit to the boat node, the boat now has a little rabbit poking out of it. It would be similar to those combined emojis [0]

I recognize that this is a really bad idea from a usability/discoverability perspective, but wouldn't it be charming!

[0] https://emojikitchen.dev/

> May be an animation showing what is possible will help here.

Now I'm imagining a version where the animals get antsy and start hopping around on their own if you take too long to make a move.

My 5yo also enjoyed the puzzle and was excited when he finally figure it out.

The one issue he had was whenever he'd try to move a rabbit from boat to house, he'd accidentally trigger the browser back function because he was starting too close to the edge of the screen. Then the puzzle would be reset when he navigated back to the page.

This caused a lot of frustration because he could be careful when he was thinking about it, but then he'd get absorbed in the puzzle and forget to swipe carefully.

Or when I first built an auto-targetting missile-train to wipe out their nests from afar while I sat in my tank at a very safe distance.

When I explained the game to my 5yo, I told him that we are the bad guy in the game.

Yeah, sorting by color is a lot quicker than by part, though once you have things sorted by part (even roughly) it's easier to find placeholders that might not be the perfect color but still perform the same function.

All those 1x1s could go in the same place and it would still help a lot with locating them, just knowing there's a place that only has 1x1s.

If you're sorting to make it easier to build from instructions, sort by color. Otherwise sort by shape/size.

Yeah, I've noticed a trend in HN homeschooling comment threads where discussion on the personal choice of whether or not to homeschool gets tangled up with discussion about homeschooling on a policy/societal level.

There are some broad concerns about homeschooling that are not relevant to individual decisions. E.g. I don't care that some homeschooling parents use it as a cover for abuse/neglect because I'm not an abusive/neglectful parent. For my child, that's not a risk factor. And as you point out, it's the same for motivational factors.

The median of life, the universe, and everything.

I thought the crude MS paint images were a joke - I was not expecting them to be useful as actual input for the final image!

Reading a Mr. Money Mustache article about heat acclimation really changed my mindset about air conditioning. For the past several summers, we've used minimal-to-low AC. It helps that we both work from home now, so we're not spending our days in a highly-air-conditioned office.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/06/14/the-worlds-most-e...

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