Or fined $35,000 dollars or something, as happened to a friend of mine for not reporting that he had asthma when trying to join the service.
Edit: Don't lie to them mofos, it'll come back to bite you really hard in the wallet, if not outright get arrested.
Rubik's Cube Dice Study
Since there is apparently no algorithm out there (that I know of) that incorporates dice dot patterns on a Rubik's Cube, I've been on my own to study the interesting patterns that I've discovered.
Your cube does not necessarily need the dots to accomplish these patterns, but it's definitely fun playing with my modded cube!
If you have any suggestions, or happen to spot any errors, by all means please let me know, and happy Cubesgiving!
Edit: The two left columns are all proper dice, where all dot patterns 1 through 6 are there, and opposing side dots add up to 7. The right column is what I call 5/5/5 patterns, or the Trypophobic sequence of patterns.
Previous post references:
https://lemmy.world/post/21009190
https://lemmy.world/post/21879626
Well, our turkey is cooked already, but if you insist, I guess we'll set it free. 🦃
Welp, there's no proper way to flip that sort of coin ☹️
Huh, even though the game sucks on touchscreen, I just tried it on my phone anyways.
Apparently the spacebar doesn't work/glitches out when trying to play through animations and stuff.
Just use literally any other key for that and it works.
Edit: Due to phone's autocorrect crap going on behind the scenes, you still might want to hit space every now and then, at whatever points you might want to 'save' your progress, otherwise backspace may happen to jump way back, potentially to the beginning of the game.
Bleh, I already beat the game. If you're on a touchscreen, it'll totally suck. But on a PC, just hold the spacebar through all the animations and stuff, until it prompts you to press A, B, C, or D.
And of course there's always backspace to go back a move or 10 or whatever. Pretty nifty little game if you ask me.
Yeah yo, just load it up on a computer and hold space bar to get through the intro and through animated scenes. The game will prompt you to press A, B, C, or D for actions as necessary.
You won't find this game very entertaining at all on a mobile touchscreen.
It actually is!
You gotta type a bunch of random stuff to get past the intro, but once the game starts, you get to choose your actions in battles based on the letter you type. And if you don't like the outcome, just hit backspace and try something else.
Now what? It's Thanksgiving season, you ask who their supplier is.
Then play some air guitar!
I get ya, that sucks.
As far as the countersinks go, if you have a hammer and beveled metal punch, you might be able to compromise and give those bevels an attitude adjustment from the bottom side, while keeping the existing material intact.
Just a thought.
I'm confused. The Philips head screws are on the top, so how do you assemble that upside down?
Any which way, I'd probably just take the top off and flip it over to the other side if it bothered me that much.
Sigh, Harbor Freight strikes again.
That's nothing, how about the Slovakian Traffic Cone?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Slovakian Traffic Cone
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
rambunctious?
This woman had her anus removed, no shit!
Every time I eat, I forget what I last shit. Every time I shit, I forget what I last ate. It's a very simple system called FIFO (First In First Out). Very low memory requirements..
Yep, about 4 or 5 years or so before Verizon bought them out and shut down Yahoo Groups. So I had a fair plenty of time to catch up with my programming group of the time.
Yahoo today can ligma..
I've lightly dabbled into subpixel art, sorta.
In my experiments, each full pixel still takes 3 subpixels, but..
If you drop a white pixel at X coordinate, it renders 0xFFFFFF on the RGB subpixels.
But drop a white pixel on X+0.33, it renders on GBR.
Drop a white pixel on X+0.67, it renders on BRG.
All three are valid white full pixels, just offset by thirds.
I guess that would more appropriately be considered 'fractional pixels' or something though. Still neat that if used properly and creatively, it can yield higher resolution graphics, of sorts...
The Atmos Clock - It has the power to wind itself!
Yes, I know this is a clock and not a watch, but the only Clocks communities I could find are pretty dead right now.
It's a crazy awesome mechanical clock that doesn't need batteries or manual winding, it winds itself using bellows and air temperature changes.
Springfield Shopper (Actual Print)
Reference: https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Springfield_Shopper_(comic)
Source: Came with a case of my dad's Busch beer in the early 90s. It took 16 scans on a 300dpi scanner stitched together plus lots of filtering to get it this legible, so please forgive 'potato' quality, this was scanned in long ago.
Edit: Of course you'll need to zoom in to read it.
Sorry I no longer have the original paper to rescan.
Question: What's the best way to clean and lube a speed cube?
Mine has worn in enough to start jamming up, but I've mitigated that by pressure washing it at our water park almost every day. That helps a lot, but I've been reluctant to actually lubricate it, not like I want oil on my hands every time I tinker with it..
Advice very welcome, as the puzzle you see above, I can solve it blind and single handed, but the thing keeps jamming up..
Update: I figured out where the main wear and tear is coming from. I used a cloth wipe to clean all the crevices of plastic dust. Then I noticed circular grooves worn into pretty much every piece internally.
Turns out, it was caused by plastic burrs from the clips on the covers of the center pieces. If I had realized that to begin with, I would have flattened those out and cleaned them up when I first had it disassembled.
Anyways, now it's already pretty well worn in, no reason to bother now. Still, if I knew in advance, I would have trimmed, smoothed out, and lubricated those manufactured plastic burrs before even using it much.
Lemmy introduce you to the Trypophobic Rubik's Die..
Based on my modified Rubik's Cube/Die.
Yes obviously it's not a proper die as far as the dot pattern goes, but it's fun figuring out patterns like this.
Reference post..
https://lemmy.world/post/21009190
Are there any PC emulators for x86 that can be configured to emulate hardware flaws such as the faulty original Pentium FDIV instruction?
I know this would basically be a useless feature, except for scientific curiousity. I think it could be interesting to some people to see first hand what sort of errors that old faulty CPUs would produce.
Emulators for other faulty platforms might be interesting too. Not like I'd expect any programmers out there to deliberately write faulty instructions though, except as stated, something of a scientific exercise.
Just curious honestly.
Hypothetical: Can a person "citizen's arrest" themself? And if so, how (and why) would that even work?
Yes, totally random silly question 😂
How about we make a law saying that employers have to pay job applicants a minimum of an hour's wage just for the time it takes to apply and get an interview?
Like seriously, time is money right? I'm sure most people can relate to wasting time on numerous applications before ever landing a job. If they set that into law, employers will probably be much less likely to reject applicants, and even when they do, you still get paid for your wasted time.
Edit: I'm not particularly referring to the application part alone, I'm referring to application + interview = rejection. People should get paid for someone calling you in, only to end up wasting your time. Hell, I could have spent that time better at the sperm bank.
Rubik's Die Cube Modification
For anyone interested in my modified cube/die, this is the dot pattern I laid out. Sorry but not sorry for pixelated image, it shouldn't matter.
Reference post: https://lemmy.world/post/21005772