disclaimer: I work at Oodle, posting my own perspective here.
Vijay and Kiran have both replied here in good faith. I like the fact that my bosses are nice, kind, and decent people.
I disagree with them about being nice to trolls.
All the past submissions from OP are for content hosted on a specific domain, which now redirects to another one: Surprise surprise! They sell "Telemetry Pipeline for AI-Era Data Volumes". So, a somewhat-competitor!?
OP, thanks for validation. When competitors write drive-by, unsubstantiated, undisclosed comments, that's good news!
We don't even need a fictional nail-factory example, because an almost-similar real example exists: the Backyard Furnaces of China during the Great Leap Forward [1]
> Pots, pans, and other metal artifacts were requisitioned to supply the "scrap" for the furnaces so that the wildly optimistic production targets could be met.
Also, even within Marathi, at least for the letters ज and च, how you pronounce them depends on the word. You have to know the correct pronunciation beforehand, as it can't really be guessed from the word.
जेजुरी is my favourite example.
चिंच is a close second :)
Yes. I spent last night without sleep trying to beat the game, everytime a silly mistake was all it took to ruin it.
Added undo, beat the game. Done away with a timesink!
I read Boolos' paper and found that the way the solution was explained wasn't quite to my taste (it did not have discussion on how one would go about thinking of a solution and step-by-step, logically proceed toward a solution). Add to that, the concepts of abstraction, putting away the complexity into a neat-separate function and then forgetting about the internal details, could be applied nicely to the solution in a number of places and I thought it would make the solution much easier to understand. I took an approach where I keep on reducing the problem to a simpler one by abstracting away some details and complications.
I am not sure whether that info has much bearing on the puzzle itself as such. Even in the case when random randomly answers either "yes" or "no", the solution is equally straightforward and simple.
Vijay and Kiran have both replied here in good faith. I like the fact that my bosses are nice, kind, and decent people.
I disagree with them about being nice to trolls.
All the past submissions from OP are for content hosted on a specific domain, which now redirects to another one: Surprise surprise! They sell "Telemetry Pipeline for AI-Era Data Volumes". So, a somewhat-competitor!?
OP, thanks for validation. When competitors write drive-by, unsubstantiated, undisclosed comments, that's good news!