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I see what you did there!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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chagrin = shame
feature: chin
letters wrapped around those in "rag"
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Well done YAUT
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Thank you. Please look for the Friday (April 1) puzzle around 11 am GMT.
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I see you are in the states
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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xkcd: Rejected Question Categories[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 285 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 285 6/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Got it in the last attempt.
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5 for me as well ... Getting nothing in the first guess is helpful, but dispiriting!
Wordle 285 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Phew! Tricky one today. On my 4th go, I had to resort to abandoning the two letters I knew, in an attempt to narrow down the possibilities.
Wordle 285 6/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟧⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟧⬜⬜🟧
⬜⬜🟦⬜⬜
🟧🟧⬜⬜🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
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It's funny, I use the same 4 words to start:
lower
quips
ketch
mangy
that leaves me 2 guesses, but this isolates all but a handful of letters.
I use: BIFID as my guess if I am coming up light on letters, or I have "moy" (mommy, mobby, molly) or other bdf possibilities
I tend to be good once I know the letters. With 1 or 2 anchors, I can try a few variations to limit my choices.
I actually found an online game and logged enough games, that one of the words was "ketch" lol...
I am curious... Where is THIS version of Wordle at?
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Wordle 285 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Should have gone with hunch. I would have got it in third attempt.
Wordle 285 5/6*
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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My pattern matched yours exactly
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They're getting nasty lately.
Wordle 285 5/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 285 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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First, thank you for sharing this. I had no idea it was on NYT...
I finally found it. Luckily I found another site that lets me play infinite amount of games.
Wordle Game - Play Unlimited
Anyways, after playing quite a few games, I found about 6 words (4 I use to start EVERY puzzle,
that greatly reduces the letters, and 2-3 alternatives that allows me to split bfd/bvd/fzd)...
The downside is that after a LOT of games, you see the words repeating... And I type the first four words in so fast, I almost miss that I already have 5 letters. LOL.
I guessed this 5-letter word in 6/6 tries.
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Can you guess this word?
https://wordlegame.org?challenge=ZmliZXI
I guessed this 5-letter word in 5/6 tries.
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Can you guess this word?
https://wordlegame.org?challenge=dGh5bWU
I guessed this 5-letter word in 5/6 tries.
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Can you guess this word?
https://wordlegame.org?challenge=Y2FyZ28
I guessed this 5-letter word in 5/6 tries.
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Can you guess this word?
https://wordlegame.org?challenge=d2FzdGU
I guessed this 5-letter word in 6/6 tries. [Forced to use one of my alternative words]
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Can you guess this word?
https://wordlegame.org?challenge=Ymxvb2Q
[This one doesn't seem obvious until you apply a bit of logic/doubling]
I like that it gives you a link to the specific game.
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Spurred by this week's survey (Do you get up in the middle of the night to code because you can't sleep?[^]):
How much of your work hours and/or mental energy goes to find an "algorithmic solution" to your problem?
I have been coding for a few decades, but my experience is that at least 90% of my time and energy goes to collecting background information, putting pieces together (rather mechanically), typing the code, writing tests, managing the build scripts, reading compiler listings and logs, writing documentation, presenting stuff to coworkers, ... I cannot recite all sorts of algorithms by heart, so sometimes I dig up a text (or open-source code) describing how to solve the problem. Very rarely am I stuck with a problem where I cannot quite easily either devise a method (usually composed from a set of partial solutions), or where I can find a workable solution in literature or on internet.
Those 'eureka moments' are for the most part limited to when I understand the logic in a textbook presentation of an algorithm. I can't imagine not falling asleep because I am unable to devise a new, great, hitherto unknown algorithm.
Of course: If you are an advanced research scientist in a field such as eg. numerical methods, then you job is to develop new algorithms for the algorithm's sake. Few of us are.
Maybe I am different. Do you really spend any significant fraction of your working hours or mental capacity on developing new methods/algorithms?
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Short: About 80%
But I do it because I like to do it
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Are you saying that 80% of your time goes to delvelop the algorithm? That only 20% goes to typing it in, building, debugging, documenting, communicating with users/customers and other developers?
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Mental: Yes
Working hours: No
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Still, if you spend 80% of your mental effort on algorithmic decisions, it sounds to me as if you consider e.g. choosing an if - elseif - else sequence over a switch statement part of 'algorithm design'. Or while(){} versus do{}while(). I see those as trivial coding details.
I'd say that if you by a short glimpse on the alternatives can say that they have the same complexity, in the big O sense, then there is no significant algorithmic development from one to the other.
I am probably too ambitious. I really wish that University professors required any hand-in code taking variable size input to be followed by documentation stating the O() complexity of the function. Actually, I never ever saw any lecturer, professor or lower level, make such requirements. I wish it not only for college homework, but to be the norm for any published library or source code. It really should be part of our professional code of conduct to always include complexity as a basic part of the documentation.
You might develop an algorithm of the same complexity as an existing one for the same task. It may have other traits, e.g. execution complexity and data space complexity are not necessarily parallell. But trivial code changes / decisions affect neither.
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If you do all your work on one platform and in a single language you can build a library of plug and play modules where it can become mechanical.
But I work with Embedded; various platforms and various languages.
I'm developing a large WPF application and WPF is very powerful but can be frustrating to say the least.
So yeah I often get up in the middle of the night to get some relief (I'm old and this occurs frequently) and I end up just staying up and coding. Seems like I get the most done in the early morning hours.
And recently I've gotten into CNC and am building a large machine so the extra learning of CAD/CAM and all that goes with the fabricating the machine has been a major undertaking.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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