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db_admin··on What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
I am more surprised by the description of “rock döts”. A Norwegian certainly knows that ASCII is not enough for all our alphabetical needs.
db_admin··on What are Magnus Carlsen's chances of reaching 2900?
Well if he is bored being the world champion, he may just be looking for any hard to reach goal at all.

If the top players are not winning their games, they will not stay at the top for long.

db_admin··on Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019)
Both an email-address and a domain name have a use-after-free risk. Doubly so if an expired domain issued email-addresses to users
db_admin··on Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
No you are not allowed to do that. A grey square excludes the letter from the position, regardless of any yellow squares.
db_admin··on IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway
Alternatively, you may say that programming is skewed towards people that find it easy to operate in a world of logic. We all know that programming can be like a puzzle and you sometimes have to keep a lot of conditions and dependencies in your head to solve the current problem.

Others may lack the formal language, but I don't see an inherent disadvantage in that. You can play music without knowing the notes.

db_admin··on IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway
It tells you this information right before you start the test: "This test consists of 35 problems that must be solved within a 25 minute time limit."

But I agree that it is unfortunate to base the future of a person on a one-time test. That includes the finals in school or a day full of exams after a long semester.

db_admin··on Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum
Why are they [0] offering a return of the gas spent, then?

[0] https://twitter.com/yugalabs/status/1520612364839661568

db_admin··on We lost 54k GitHub stars
People are imprisoned when they are a danger to others or at risk of flight. Their time in prison is meant to reform them and help them back into society. The community is protected from further "mistakes" from a person, while allowing the person to learn not to make the same mistake again.

At least that is the idea.

db_admin··on About adding a static route to my DOCSIS modem
As far as I know vodafone uses the same modem/router for all DOCSIS connections, but disables some funcionality (such as bridge mode) for 'ex-unitymedia' connections.

It seems like the integration of both networks is quite a task and the bridge-mode feature is not a priority. How the bridge-mode is affected by the network backbone is unclear to me. IPv6 delegation also does not work for me.

db_admin··on Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
You could also argue that it is a matter of perspective. From the perspective of either circle, A will only revolve 3 times.

Only by introducing a larger frame of reference, a grid or in the video a table, you gain an outside perspective. From this outside perspective you redefine a revolution according to some new orientation and end up with n+1 revolutions.

Or maybe the argument is backwards and I just try to justify answering 3.

db_admin··on Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
In cryptography you prove security through showing that an adversary has a negligible [1] chance of winning a game of guess the secret.

[1] https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/5832/what-exactly...

db_admin··on Guide to cognitive biases
While i do not see the immediate use for me personally beyond being an interesting read, i must confess that this is a great domain name.
db_admin··on Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies
While still maintaining a verifiable origin