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That was fun!

The only thing I miss from other sudoku puzzles is being able to select multiple cells at once for adding pencil marks. They also have 2 kind of pencil marks, corners and centers. The one I played was easy enough to use a single type but for harder puzzles I can see me needing more.


10 or 20k USD for Copyright Violation sounds cheap.

Not sure if the article mentions this later but JS has structuredClone now which should be better than the stringify/parse dance in the example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/stru...


Small off-topic, I see those boxed backpacks and think of their shoulders. On motorbike the box rests in the back of the seat but here all the weight is in the shoulders.

People who have done some mountain hiking knows that the weight of the backpack should be mostly in the waist, thanks to the waist belt (sorry if I don't use the right term, I've done most my hiking in Spanish ;) ).

I don't know how weight distribution would differ from walking but with some research perhaps they could carry more while staying more comfortable.


I can see numerous reasons why you'd want the backpack rather than a box on the bike for food delivery (may not apply for other deliveries):

- no need to fuss when you mount/dismount your bike, your backpack is already on your shoulders. Speed is key.

- the focus is not on carrying capacity, it's on speedy delivery. There's only so much food in their backpack.

- because of the time waiting for orders / going to the restaurant / going back to a hotspot, most of the time the backpack is actually empty.

- a box on the back of a bike costs money.


Counterpoint: when biking, you generally desire to have your center of mass be lower rather than higher, for better stability and handling.


The tradeoff is that the higher you carry the bag (i.e. on your shoulders), the more space you have when maneuvering between cars. You can imagine how, if your bag was at the same level as the bike saddle, it would be more likely to get pinched when cycling through traffic. A clever cyclist could even stand upright with the bag on their back to get a few more inches of clearance when need be!


Uno reverse/Yu-Gi-Oh trap card: They're not pushing the handling limits.


Capacity is still needed, or you will miss out on a lot of deliveries in peak hours, where you load up several orders and then deliver them all in one route and you dont really need to carry whole bag to client/restaurant, just fish up the package. Also boxy bags allow for bigger packages(pizza, water bottles) and usually help to pack orders in a way that damages them less.


Which companies batch food orders now? It was a short lived and unpopular experiment in India years back.


Both Grubhub and DoorDash allow drivers to pickup multiple orders in one run in my neighborhood.


Well it is pretty normal in russia, atleast for big operators


Maybe there's an issue with the box getting stolen.


Delivery workers should fuck up their backs because otherwise (1) customers would get their shitty fast food and soggy fries 15s or 20s later, and (2) boxes would eat into the profit of the shareholders.


Reminds me of seeing amazon workers struggle to drag those plastic boxes full of deliveries around the sidewalks of the neighborhood while UPS provides a hand truck. I get it, a hand truck cost more than that 10 cent box they abandon all over town.


right? This is the orphan-crushing-machine meme (referenced elsewhere here) playing out live.

Top comment: "This is bad ergonomics for the humans doing delivery"

Reply: "But here's all the reasons why good ergonomics lose money for The Platform"


But now you’re cutting out all that biological shock absorption.

(Aka: why helmet cams are much smoother than any other bike mount)


Anyone seen the wild carriers on the back of scooters in Tokyo? Apparently for delivering ramen without spilling.

https://blog.btrax.com/en/files/2019/08/Japanese_food_delive...


Why not just put the ramen in liquid-tight containers?


In my experience hauling deliveries on the shoulders generally sucks, especially if weight is bigger. hence why most active couriers around my parts prefer to fix some sort of baggage rack to their ebikes.


Agree with your points about load distribution assuming the weight isn't trivial. Instead of waist, the common term in English would be hips/hipbelt.


> I've done most my hiking in Spanish

That's genuinely impressive, I've done most of my hiking in silence /s

I know what you meant though.


Camino.


I'd like to do this, not for making a startup but for developer tools, installable native tools, no subscriptions, no cloud service, open source. The problem is the first step: the "simple idea".


Yes you maybe can ask ai for the ideas and then create the waitlist use fast waitlist generator (i use waitfast.netlify.app) and validate

it's simple


Looking at your previous post, this looks like a disguised ad for waitfast.

It's fine to post your own stuff in HN if it's interesting and you don't repost too much, but trying to hide you are the author will make people angry and flag your posts and write angry emails to the moderators to complain.


Eventually the unethical researchers will have to make actual research to make their papers pass. Mission fucking accomplished https://xkcd.com/810/


Add "cancel" after x.

> A thorough investigation ensued, initially suspected to be a software bug in the Digivote system.

> Surprisingly, the code was released open source just a few days after the election.

> The code was of low quality, and rife with bugs...but none that would cause a bit inversion.

> [Screenshot of lousy code]

> Although impossible to confirm, with all other likely possibilities ruled out, the most likely explanation was a cosmic one.

> A single-event upset caused by a cosmic ray inverting the 13th bit remains the main suspect.

> Digivote's poor code quality offered no protection.


> Browsers without formal governance may offer appealing features or privacy claims, but users have little recourse if those promises are broken. There’s no entity to hold accountable, no legal framework within which to address grievances, and often no transparency about decision-making processes.

Do we get any of those with Mozilla? They can change their ToC whenever they want and keep adding things that users don't want. I don't think they are much better than a random developer building their own fork.


I wouldn't hung up on the feedback too much. I also think minecraft has no clear goal and feels aimless and yet it's one of the most popular games in the world. If the game is fun for you, there will be a niche with the same taste for sure.


Thanks for the comment! Taking feedback is my choice, and making something I find fun feels really important too


What's the appeal of Pokemon for these kind of things? I never see AI or Twitch chat playing other turn based games like Final Fantasy or Fire Emblem.


Pokemon is extremely hard to completely brick a run short of actively releasing your entire box which is very appealing for an MVP run, and is also literally the biggest media franchise in the world, which is a very appealing for people seeking hype.


They're all inspired by TwitchPlaysPokemon, who chose Pokémon cuz he personally liked it and because "Even when played very poorly it is difficult not to make progress in Pokémon". It doesn't have game overs or permadeath. Even when you lose battles, you typically get stronger.


Cultural mass.


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