I'm doing it over and over again and getting different results each time, though the results seem to cluster around 174. I think part of the problem is that the response is primed by whatever you responded most recently, which means the final answer will tend toward (or away from?) whichever colour was shown first. (Might just be a me problem.)
I have installed an app called Freedom on my phone and on my desktop browser. It's a pretty simple premise: it blocks the user from opening specified apps or websites (by domain name). This forcibly interrupts the automatic cycle which starts by absent-mindedly opening or navigating. I can recommend it with all of my heart. As the article says, it's not a silver bullet, but as with any addiction the key to taking control is implementing strategies, and for me this has been one strategy that, so far, has worked very well. I noticed the improvement in my mood straight away.
This is honestly something I'm grateful for a lot of the time. I'm presently running a tech start-up in a highly technical domain (housebuilding, in a word) which also happens to be pretty hostile to businesses. People look at a planning application like "Why are there hundreds of documents here?" and it's because yeah, it is hard - there are huge numbers of variables to take into account, and the real "art" of urban design is solving for all of them at once. Then you send it to planning and basically no-one is happy, why haven't you done this and what are you going to do about that. You have to be pretty creative to survive.
Before that, I worked in a digital print organisation with a factory site. This factory did huge volumes on a daily basis. It was full of machines. They had built up a tech base over years, decades, and it was hyper-optimised - woe betide any dev who walked into the factory thinking they could see an inefficiency that could be refactored out. It happened multiple times - quite a few devs, myself included, learned this lesson the hard way - on rare occasion thousands of lines of code had to be thrown out because the devs hadn't run it past the factory first.
It's an experience I'd recommend to any dev - build software for people who are not just "users" of technology but builders themselves. It's not as "sexy" as building consumer-facing tech, but it is so much more rewarding.
GEEK PERL CODE [P+++++(--)$]
My tendencies on this issue range from: "I am Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, or Randal Schwartz.", to: "Perl users are sick, twisted programmers who are just showing off." Getting paid for it!
I was mind-blown when I learned we were at a point where we could realistically talk about eradicating HIV. Am not a Tory by any stretch of the imagination but props where it's due to them for saying it out loud: no new HIV infections in UK by 2030. As far as I understand the current government are committed to this plan also.
Of course, no new infections in UK != eradication, which is the next step. I had not heard of Lenacapavir - this is amazing news from Munich.
Always lovely to see a reminder that electromechanical (non-software) systems can also be hacked. This is the sort of stuff "place hackers" use to get into buildings.
Most systems can be hacked with force. You can also "hack" you way into a bank vault if you have 15 million tons of dynamite and an atomic bomb (not sure if there would be anything to come for in the vault at this point, though)
This is a fixable bug though. And no force of any kind was used here. As mentioned other trains use the same lever design, but with the lever being spring-returned, which doesn't exhibit this 'vulnerability'. It could also just be fixed in software by making the lock lever input to the microcontroller edge-triggered instead of level-triggered, so that if someone does actually do this it won't lead to a DoS.
They were dark days. This is why I get agitated about browsers that don't properly support CSS standards in the present day, most notably Safari mobile. Garbage browser that should be illegal.
For me it's not about lining things up in columns as much as it is about column widths. So, for example, hitting up or down, I know which character the cursor is going to go to (which means I can string keypresses together and do them in a fluid movement). Putting in a hard limit for line lengths (which is very important to me, I know opinions on this differ) means that limit can be drawn as a literal line on the UI (which in turn means I know how small I can resize the editor pane to be). Similar lines with slightly different values (e.g. 'x', 'y' and 'z') will line up so the different values are underneath each other everywhere they appear in the line (also those lines will be the same length which reassures me those lines are the same outside the variables/values).
