Surprisingly tedious playing the board generated from a word. Lots of high numbers and few gaps made for a lot of clicking.
The fact that I tried a few times to click left+right button on digits tells me I've spent enough time playing minesweeper.
For anyone who haven't tried to become competitive at minesweeper, clicking both mouse buttons on a digit that has the right amount of "bomb marks" on neighboring squares makes the (Windows) game click on all not yet clicked squares.
> Surprisingly tedious playing the board generated from a word
Agreed. A fun way to play it is 2 player in person. The player tries to guess the word as they go, and the board creator tells them if they got it (so you just try to get the general shape of the word, without actually trying to solve every letter).
Matt Parker, calling himself Stand up Maths has an excellent (and mildly amusing) video about this. Spoiler, he get's a ride on a motorcycle around a race track, logs some data and tries to find the higher orders of derivatives from that data.
From the article it's quite obvious they're not on a line (as drawn on a spherical representation of earth), but i wonder if they're close to being on the same plane?
I once did a weeks worth of 'debugging/looking at code, trying stuff and testing' before committing my two lines of changed code. About 40 hours of work to produce what would take less than a minute to type.
It wasn't even the worst code base I've inherited but it is the worst lines of code per hours worked I've ever had.
My project has decent code, source control with history from the beginning (ten years in a few months) and unit tests that were abandoned for years. I've spent at least a couple of weeks, over a year or so, just to remove tests that didn't test current functionality and get the others to work/be green. They ain't fast and only semi stable but they regularly find bugs we've introduced.
Can we attach an attack vector to the book cover? Sure. I wouldn't let that USB anywhere near my computer if I'd bought it let alone a library copy of it.
I'm with the author on this one. Any code needed to for it be useful should be printed in the book (perhaps complete code in an appendix rather than right there in the chapter). That said I haven't bought a programming book in years.
The universal nature of USB is a huge drawback for its usage for storage.
But well, the trend has been to consolidate anyway. Now even power comes through an universal interface, so you can't use power outlets in places that you don't trust.
The fact that I tried a few times to click left+right button on digits tells me I've spent enough time playing minesweeper.
For anyone who haven't tried to become competitive at minesweeper, clicking both mouse buttons on a digit that has the right amount of "bomb marks" on neighboring squares makes the (Windows) game click on all not yet clicked squares.