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ipsinon Best Wordle guessing strategy

As CrazyStat hints, anagrams are not equivalent in Wordle, because changing the word order means that you're also changing the bucketing, the words in the anagram shifting between yellow and green.

To be more specific, I counted 882 possible words in the worst case using ARISE, versus 697 using SERAI.

ipsinon Best Wordle guessing strategy

This strategy seems to avoid words that Wordle will accept, while not choosing them as word-of-the-day, e.g. SERAI.

If your goal is to minimize the number of remaining words in the worst case, I think SERAI is the winner, leaving you with at most 697 choices. [Assuming my code is right]

ipsinon Reverse engineering Wordle

Thanks, I came here because I also thought Tomorrow Was Ruined.

ipsinon Ford dealers able to add no-resale provision to 22MY F150 Lighting

I cannot see any possible motivation for a dealer to add no-resale provisions to their agreements with ordinary customers.

If these vehicles are in high demand, to prevent scalping? The length of the restriction ("no resale for one year") seems aligned with that goal.

ipsinon Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial

I like it, because it makes the transition to real sprites much easier. You don't have to support a TTY library and a GUI client at the same time.

ipsinon OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light

It's interesting to me that GoRuck keeps showing up in the comments. I've seen it show up in several other contexts (geocaching, Ingress, etc.), and ... It seems like a "lifestyle brand", but are they also focused on one-bag ergonomics?

Not at all skeptical, just looking for an accessible intro to GoRuck.

ipsinon Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Color Vision Test

It did take me a little while to work out that the left and right edges were pinned, and my drag-and-drop didn't do what I intended more than once. But... then you're being tested (unintentionally) on the ability to discern that too, I guess?

ipsinon Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test

It bugs me that they give you sample questions, but they don't lay out how you can solve it. I think it's still calculators, pen and paper, but ... that's the kind of detail that matters.

ipsinon A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website

“So far, nearly 150 lives have been saved as a direct result of the site and my actions.”

I get that those 150 lives were all at risk, because a not-too-bright someone wanted them killed, but... I'm also curious how many of those would manage to kill their targets if they weren't intercepted?

This isn't an argument against intervention, since they demonstrated an intent to kill. But I'm legitimately wondering how often people with grudges connect with actual contract killers.

ipsinon Internet Movie Firearms Database

Glad to see that IMDB hasn't tried to hit every IM*DB with a Trademark claim?

ipsinon An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper

How does one design such a thing? Is it software or "on paper" or with piecewise prototyping?

ipsinon Google Drive could soon start locking your files

Is there a legal requirement to do a DMCA take down of something the copyright holder doesn't know about?

If you put something on Twitter mentioning certain cryptocurrency keywords (e.g. MetaMask), you'll get reply tweets from bots in a few seconds with fake support documents hosted on Google drive.

My sense is that this is what they are trying to stop.

ipsinon Reddit files to go public

So does an IPO make their dark patterns ("download the app or we will annoy you forever") better or worse? It's either money for continued operations or the pressure to milk active users for cash.

ipsinon Nukemap

Yeah, all the radius read 0 m, but the map overlay of the blast still covers several miles.

ipsinon Nukemap

A 0.0000000000001 kiloton (milligram-ish) explosion has a comically large blast radius.

ipsinon Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms

I think that's the key distinction. On mobile you would navigate and dismiss the same way.

On a web page, I tend to scroll using a single finger or knuckle on the arrow keys. Requiring a mouse at that point (or extra keypresses, if those even work) breaks the reading experience.

If this is a castle, it's not a very inviting one.

ipsinon Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms

Here I am reading, following this reasonable argument and... boom pop-up "call to action" interrupts the hell out of it.

I realize the conversion rate could be lower, but why not put this CTA in a non-pop-up form at the end of the article? If I really enjoyed it, that seems like the point where I'd be on board with signing up.

ipsinon Show HN: Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP

It would be nice if the color-coded key ("Object", etc.) linked to the detailed sections below.

When I first saw "Object" in the summary, I didn't know what it meant.

ipsinon U.S. declares more than 20 species extinct after exhaustive searches

Once a species is declared extinct, is it legal to hunt?

I realize this may sound like a weird question, but I'm curious if there had ever been mistakes like this, with a lack of protection leading to actual accidental extinction.

ipsinon My Tungsten Cube (2019)

I purchased a 35 pound tungsten racing weight about 15 years ago, 70% tungsten if I recall. It's large enough that it's triggered my "why do I have this?" sense, but it is still cool to hold.

It's very important to realize that it's not a safe object, the kind you might leave on your desk at work.

If someone tries to pick it up for some reason, it's quite likely that they'll drop it.

ipsinon OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

I doubt this nets out as "free". The campaign was "this ship is sinking" (for people doing adult content), and subscribers and content creators have been acting accordingly.

ipsinon Defense Motion: Bitcoin is not “money” within the meaning of 18 U.S..C. § 1960 [pdf]

This reminds me of the story of the man who put hidden compartments in cars [1], or the man who trained people to beat polygraph tests [2].

Whenever someone tells you about All the Crime They Are Doing, I think you should assume that you are dealing with an actual cop, stop doing business with them, and cut off all contact.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/03/alfred-anaya/ [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/indiana-man-accused-of-...

ipsinon Gassed (1919)

Give me a picture of Kissinger and a sharp knife and I would be sorely tempted to make confetti of it.

I can understand when someone refuses to address butchery with a polite and artful response.

ipsinon The collapse of the IRON stable coin

I found this article interesting, but the HN title ("Off-by-one error...") doesn't match the article's, or its conclusion?

The article mentions a boundary condition ("_share_price > 0"), not an off-by-one error.

ipsinon Summary: Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz

I enjoy this sort of content. Are there feeds similar to HN that focus on goals and social networking specifically?

ipsinon DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside

The DoJ press release doesn't make this clear: what happens to the money now?

Is it returned to the company, or does the DoJ keep it as an asset forfeiture?

ipsinon Why we should end the data economy

As I understand it, CCPA means any California resident could hypothetically write a data broker, get their own file, and determine how much actual tracking is going on.

All the hypothetical examples are realistic, but... what are the names of companies that are actually providing that level of data about me?

ipsinon Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back

"drug dealer" ... "bottom of the barrel"...

The obvious implication is that drug dealers are low-status individuals who deserve this kind of treatment.