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·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
Awesome album picks. Odelay looks especially great on your card.

I made something like this for TV shows and movies using floppy disks. Each floppy has a text file with filepaths of videos on a hard drive. When the floppy is inserted a bash script detects it and plays a random video from the text file on the floppy.

I like the physicality of systems like this. It is much more satisfying to to flick through physical items than to scroll through a digital list of things.

You've got great artwork. I need to up the artwork on my floppys!

There's a demo video in my repo: https://github.com/geluso/floppy-vision
geluso
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
I collect and maintain a list of examples like this. Usually stuff I see somewhere else or random ones that pop into my head.

My favorite simple one: "Unlike whiskey, you can't water water down."

My favorite long one: "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign"

https://5tephen.com/loopdeloops/
geluso
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
oh man I got really lucky and was prompted with a picture of Italy. I got it right on my first try. I didn't realize the country images rotated!
geluso
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Your password must be at least 5 characters.

Your password must include a number.

Your password must include an uppercase letter.

Your password must include a special character.

The digits in your password must add up to 25.

Your password must include a month of the year.

Your password must include a roman numeral.

Your password must include one of our sponsors:

The roman numerals in your password should multiply to 35.

Your password must include this CAPTCHA:

Your password must include today's Wordle answer.

Your password must include a two letter symbol from the periodic table.

Your password must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji.

Your password must include the name of this country.

Your password must include a leap year.

Your password must include the best move in algebraic chess notation. (picture of chess puzzle)

← This is my chicken Paul. He hasn't hatched yet, please put him in your password and keep him safe.

The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200.

All the vowels in your password must be bolded.

Oh no! Your password is on fire. Quick, put it out!

Your password is not strong enough

Your password must contain one of the following affirmations:

Paul has hatched! Please don't forget to feed him, he eats three every minute.

A sacrifice must be made. Pick 2 letters that you will no longer be able to use.

Your password must contain twice as many italic characters as bold.

At least 30% of your password must be in the Wingdings font.

Your password must include this color in hex.

All roman numerals must be in Times New Roman.

The font size of every digit must be equal to its square.

Every instance of the same letter must have a different font size.

Your password must include the length of your password.

The length of your password must be a prime number.

Uhhh let's skip this one.

Your password must include the current time.

Is this your final password?
geluso
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
I'm stuck at "iatetomatoesyesterday0265Z#521juneVpepsiVIIxngxcaboutAg[moon emojis]italy2020Bf7+" trying to solve the chess notation puzzle.

I especially laughed at the rule "must include today's Worldle" and I'm happy with my solution including every emoji for "must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji."

(HackerNews doesn't seem to display emoji. My solution is to paste every moon phase emoji.)

Excited to see what's next after figuring out the best move in this Chess puzzle.

This reminds me of trying to manually construct an Autogram like below. This one is a quote someone else made. I tried to do it myself and it is so hard because the counts keep changing as you write out other counts!

Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogram