Zip+four is only down the the block level, you need 2 more digits (zip+6) to uniquely identify every possible address in the US. That said, a 9 digit barcode is way too close to a full address for most people to be comfortable with sharing online.

If you wanted to be more accurate to actual gold and silver, the historical exchange rate is only 20:1 silver to gold, which is why there are 20 (silver) shillings in a (gold) pound piece.

You can flip the problem around and have it be mathematically the same. The predictor has some knowable accuracy, you can run the experiment many times to determine what it is. Let’s also replace the predictor with an Oracle, guaranteed 100% always correct, and we’ll manually impose some error by doing the opposite of its prediction with some probability. This is fully indistinguishable from our original predictor.

Now, instead of the predictor making a prediction, let’s choose our box first, then decide what to put in the mystery box afterwards, with some probability of being “wrong” (not putting the money in for the 1 box taker, or putting the money in for the 2 box taker). This is identical to having an Oracle, we know exactly what boxes will be taken, but there is some error in the system.

Now we ask, should you take one box or two? Obviously it depends on what the probability is. There’s no more “fooling” the predictor. So, you do the EV calculation and find that if the probability is more than 50% accurate (in other words, if the probability of error is less than 50%), you should always take 1 box

An angle I don’t see people looking at is to reframe the problem with amounts that are much more understandable, there is one thousand times more money in the mystery box, so let’s do the following:

The Open box has 1 cent in it, and the mystery box might have $10, what do you do?

Y’all are telling me you’d rather take a penny and have a tiny Chance at $10, rather than taking $10 with a tiny Chance of getting zero?

Your complaint is that they offer optional plugins, downloadable via their launcher that is specifically designed to make installing plugins more convenient?

ASMR isn’t supposed to be relaxing, some people just found it relaxing and somehow that completely bastardized the genre(also it became soft core pornography). ASMR stands for autonomous sensory meridian response, basically some people get a pleasurable tingling sensation on their head/neck/spine when they hear certain sounds, and ASMR content is supposed to stimulate that response for those people.

What I don’t get is that people encountered ASMR and unquestionly went “guess that’s what it’s called” and didn’t wonder at all what the obvious acronym stood for, literally 5 seconds to Google 4 letters and you’d understand what it’s all about.

Keep in mind the launch model of the 360 didn’t have an HDMI port, most people still had a CRT, and it didn’t even come with component cables, there was only a composite lead in the box, you had to pay extra for component cables if you wanted them.

Oh hey that’s Prospect Park Water Tower in Minneapolis, weird seeing it in a meme on the internet.

The Zachtronics solitaire collection (steam, Linux version available) has a bunch of fun unique solitaire variants, and every layout is guaranteed to be solvable.

It’s been added to OEIS already https://oeis.org/A268236

https://youtu.be/V-a9VDIbZCU

Pretty much sums up my opinion.

Think of it as the Mac appstore VS the Windows App store. Mac apps (flatpak) are the same as desktop apps, but sandboxed, the store isn’t intrusive, and people found it convenient, so it was fine. Then the windows app store (snaps) launched and it did basically the same thing but slightly worse, except Microsoft (canonical) forced it down its users throats, so people hated it.

Both camps are right, from a technical perspective, snaps are fine, but philosophically, it sucks, and the Linux community cares way more about the latter than the former, otherwise they’d all be running windows.

Assuming you are on a phone, viewing desktop version bypasses the app nag.

NACS is just a different connector, the communication protocol is CCS under the hood. You can use passive adapters no problem. Replacing the connector should be possible, you just need a switch to shunt between level 1/2 AC charging and level 3 DC fast charging.

A quick Google search tells me that the term is outdated and no longer used, having been refuted by modern genetics research.

I blame Dan Povenmire for manifesting this into existence.

Weird place to ask, but both Poodling and SPH’s are common.

It is, can tell just by looking at it it’s a Rubik’s brand.

Better than when I went to college and everything only worked in IE

Its because of staking mostly, but pvp more generally. The gmaul can kill almost instantly, but its high risk high reward since if you don’t manage to get the instant KO you’ll get out dps’d by more usual damage options.

Because its partially luck based people liked to use it to gamble in the Duel Arena, betting on the outcome.