that's so beyond obviously a sarcastic remark. In that regard I'd consider a vast majority of the humans totally capable of detecting dead pan sarcasm both in spoken and written speech.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
It's still off-topic here at hn. The community is very international, similar things happen in dozens of other countries too. The front page would be full of politics, if those kind of articles wouldn't be flagged.
There are a lot of other platforms, that are open for any topic, including politics. Reddit is probably the most similar one to hn.
It is the most powerful country in the world, the strongest military power in the world by far, a global nuclear power, and the basis of European military security and peace - at a time of Russian military expansionism.
Can you explain? I haven’t been watching TV news, but I haven’t seen this being broadly covered elsewhere.
You’re saying this is trivial and uninteresting? Or just everything relating to the US government is “politics” and we can’t talk about it? Because I think the guideline is meant to be about the former.
Others would say this is exactly what they voted for. Unfortunately it's all about perspective, and after a decade of passively consuming hn, it's obvious where the sites interest lies in terms of moderating content.
I bet you could use LLMs to turn stupid comments about LLMs into insightful comments that people want to read. I wonder if there’s a startup working on that?
Yeah, it's just a software change to the existing machine. If you generate a target scrambled state it's literally the solver algorithm in reverse too.
It would be neat if it offered to scramble when you insert an already solved cube (demoed in the video), and maybe have options for the amount of randomness.
Is there an unbiased scrambling (or random generation) algorithm, or is it enough to just generate N random moves?
To answer my own question, competitive cubing uses unbiased randomization algorithms.[0] To minimize scrambling time, it could fairly generate a random configuration and then optimally scramble the cube in ~18 moves.[1]
TL;DR fair scrambling is exactly as fast (same throughout) as solving random cubes! Neat.
Funny enough, that (e: the shuffle function mentioned in original thread post, just realized my awkward comment placement) sounds like a very reasonable stretch goal/feature add-on, although I'm not sure this particular machine could shuffle quickly enough for speedcuber types.
You can uhhh abstract over the property which seems cool if you’re into abstracting things but also probably shouldn’t be the thing you’re abstracting over in application code.
Or on second look the sibling comment is probably right and it’s about immutability maybe.
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