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A related puzzle - find a solution using a standard set of chess pieces minus the pawns. So a king, a queen and a pair of rooks, bishops and knights. That seems like a fun puzzle given a standard set of chess pieces. And to remove any doubt - it is a solvable! You can even remove one bishop and still find a solution, but that seems to be the only piece you can do it without.

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It would seem it takes in account a bit more than "visual similarity", otherwise I can't find a good reason for "@" and "U+1F582 (BACK OF ENVELOPE)" being that close.

Also, for years (decades?!) I wanted something similar in Word, for when I knew how to describe the symbol in words, but had a hard time manually searching for in the unwieldly UI. I can't believe that "insert symbol" window still doesn't have any kind of search capability.

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Each time a discussion about sorting starts, I'm reminded of a "lively debate" I had with my boss/friend about the most optimal sorting approach. He claimed it's O(n) pointing to counting sort as an example. This didn't sit well with me. A sorting algorithm, I insisted, should be defined something like "a function taking an unsorted array of elements and returning a sorted one". But it seems there is no agreed upon definition and you can have something like counting sort where you get an array in O(n) but still need O(m) to get the index of a specific element. I argued that then the best sorting algorithm is the do-nothing algorithm. It returns the initial array in O(1), but needd O(m log m) to get you the index of an element (it uses merge sort to do it).

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The prospect of being able to use this against viruses like the one causing rabies is pretty exciting!

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> There is a simple way to stop watching ads: pay for premium. It's 100% effective and works right now.

For now. With the ever increasing number of "premium" services that promised no ads, but slowly start introducing them, it is just a matter of time before YouTube does the same.

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Just as an example:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/deepf...

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