You can save time at the cost of headaches, or you can save headaches at the cost of time. You cannot save both time and headaches, you can at most defer the time and the headaches until the next time you have to touch the code, but the time doubles and the headaches triple.
Connections
Puzzle #642
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I went with candy/short/charge/levy as “nouns that can be verbs”, but I don’t think they’ve ever done that since one of the first puzzles.
Movies of various lengths? “Film series” is more than one film of any length and “epic” also says nothing about the length. I tried to find a connection for epic through “fantasy”, like “high fantasy”. I think they could have found better words for that connection.
No, you’re right, I initially went for
Spin, angle, slant and turn, but I thought “rotation” was a bit weird for a connection. I saw “bias” next, which made sense for the NYT editors ;)
Connections
Puzzle #641
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I didn’t see any traps this time, yesterday was way harder with the muppets and the colors.
Almost got the purple first
But what the hell is a john candy?
Blue Box is dropping but it’s still so good though! Best romance I’ve watched in years and it’s also a really good sports anime.
The inspiration for the thread: I’m rewatching Tatami Galaxy and I remembered that I accidentally watched it in reverse order the last time. It worked surprisingly well, but I did watch episode 11 again at the end, after I realized what had gone wrong. There’s some time shenanigans anyway, and every episode contains about as many callbacks as callbacks-to-future-episodes and that doesn’t change in reverse order.
One anime that really is built differently, in structure, art style and themes:
Tatami Galaxy
Every episode is the main character making a different choice to try and fulfill his dream. It’s like Groundhog Day, but where Mr Groundhog eventually manages a perfect day, Mr Tatami learns to accept the imperfection of life.
Shuumatsu Train isn’t difficult to watch! It is the most classic of classic plots: a band of heroes sets off to save their village and faces all kinds of trials along the way, making them stronger as individuals and as a group, before defeating the Great Evil and saving the princess. It also has trains.
Seconding Penguindrum as “built different”. It’s a classic imo, but it isn’t discussed enough, probably because everyone (like me) is convinced it isn’t a real anime but a fever dream they had after watching too much anime.
Darling, you know I love you, but I can’t stay in a marriage if you insist on marrying every person who sees this image.
This is me but with happy instead of dollars.
Cornwall police: We don’t arrest until a crime has been committed.
Farage: Policing should be preventative, these masked thugs were intent on causing harm.
If they didn’t cause actual harm, sounds like the police did their job. Can’t really prevent your idea of someone else’s intent.
Edit: If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that when a right wing politician rages against “violent protests” with vague language like “someone has had their tooth knocked out”, it’s always one of the protestors who is the “someone” and the police did the knocking.
And I initially read the meme as “Taking the train”, “Taking the train to Germany”. Flashbacks to '45, you must understand.
Left: The Englishman is trying to make a connection. Rechts: Der Deutscher versucht einen Anschluss zu erreichen.
^Apology for poor Allemande^
There’s something weird about the naming scheme here.
Level 3 should have been “List of lists of articles”. And if 4 had been fully specified as “List of lists of lists of articles about X3”, it wouldn’t contain itself.
So when I download only some files from a torrent, it’s likely that I can’t seed all of those files to the next person? I have done partial leeches before and left them seeding under the impression that I could at least seed exactly those files if anyone else wanted them. If that’s impossible (or at least unlikely to work because of chunking), then I might download the whole thing next time (or just leave the swarm).
Would that fix our carbonmonoxide weakness?
More than fine (except for her brain, which is mush right now)
So was it an actual law to be enforced or just a norm that can be “shattered” without consequence? How can it be a safeguard against abuse of power if it does nothing to stop this power abuser?