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Chess Zoo

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The zoo takes special care to keep kings separated from opposite-color pieces as part of their conservation program to prevent mating in captivity.
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macr0t0r
4 days ago
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Somehow, this makes bishops appear the most peaceful as they comingle. But the pawns: put those vicious monsters in the farthest corner inside a double-walled enclosure. They eat everything!
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deebee
3 days ago
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Never felt the need to print an XKCD until now
America City, America
alt_text_bot
4 days ago
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The zoo takes special care to keep kings separated from opposite-color pieces as part of their conservation program to prevent mating in captivity.

Linear Sort

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The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.
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macr0t0r
27 days ago
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Well...if you want determinate time...
bcs
27 days ago
while true: pass
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jlvanderzwan
26 days ago
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This joke was funnier 13 years ago when some anonymous weirdo invented "sleepsort"

https://web.archive.org/web/20151231221001/http://bl0ckeduser.github.io/sleepsort/sleep_sort_trimmed.html
Groxx
27 days ago
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It's good to let your computer rest occasionally, to avoid burnout
Silicon Valley, CA
GaryBIshop
27 days ago
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I love it that it is Python!
edquartett2
27 days ago
It's not Python 😉 "length()" is just "len()" and functions begin with "def"
alt_text_bot
27 days ago
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The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.

Arizona Chess

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Sometimes, you have to sacrifice pieces to gain the advantage. Sometimes, to advance ... you have to fall back.
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macr0t0r
55 days ago
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This might be the only true use for DST.
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satadru
54 days ago
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Re: Falling back...

“We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And *I* will make them pay for what they've done!”
New York, NY

The top five RSS readers for keeping up with your news feeds

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Vector illustration of the RSS logo.
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When you want to check out your favorite news sites or other online information sources, you can take the time to go directly to each site, clog your email with newsletters and announcements, check the updates on your favorite social media app(s) — or you can use an RSS feed reader.

RSS readers allow you to collect the articles of specific sources in one app, making it a lot easier to find the content you’re interested in without crawling through a lot of noise. RSS (which may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or one of several other possibilities — nobody seems sure) has been around a while, having been first developed in 1999, although it wasn’t more widely adopted until a few years later.

Since then, the idea...

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macr0t0r
358 days ago
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Glad to see Newsblur get some well-deserved love in this article.
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freeAgent
358 days ago
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If I wasn't here, I'd probably either do Inoreader (I tried it, it's fine) or simply go offline since I basically only read my RSS feeds from a single device anyway.
Los Angeles, CA

X Value

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The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.
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macr0t0r
412 days ago
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Well, great. That makes nearly all algebra tests worthless if students already know the answer. I hope they understand how publishing this will incur a great cost to the education system.
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gordol
411 days ago
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Why do I always have to solve for x? We broke up years ago!
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deebee
411 days ago
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More spaceship games, less complicated math/particle physics!
America City, America
alt_text_bot
412 days ago
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The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.
2bithacker
412 days ago
This is all completely wrong. x = 120, X = 88, n = 110.

Car Wash

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I'm glad modern car washes use synthetic baleen, instead of harvesting it from whales like 1800s car washes did.
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macr0t0r
519 days ago
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Actually, this makes a car wash sound like a giant mechanical puppy. Now I like it more!
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gordol
519 days ago
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Car wash I use doesn't like the cars. It spits on them.
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alt_text_bot
519 days ago
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I'm glad modern car washes use synthetic baleen, instead of harvesting it from whales like 1800s car washes did.
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