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Wordle 270 5/6
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
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Damn first letter.
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Wordle 270 3/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
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I could have gotten it in four, but I was too optimistic that they had chosen (spoiler alert!) what I call myself when I am engaged in one of my hobbies. 
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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I assume you spelunk?
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Yep. I will spare you the smart-arsed response from some of my fellow cave enthusiasts. 
( But in case you're curious, the phrase is hidden below: )
Cavers rescue spelunkers!
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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You obviously aren't playing in hard mode.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Nope - that reduces it to total guess work - when you have 4 green, 3 plays left, and 9 possible words it might be you need "wrong words" to eliminate multiple options in a single row.
Like last week when I had ?ATCH in three tries, with BATCH, CATCH, GATCH, HATCH, MATCH, and WATCH as possibles. I don't like games that are only about getting lucky!
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Then you would like my list of 4 words that cover 20 different letters (19 of the top 20 I think).
In the last couple of days my starting word has had 4 of the letters to start.
But you are correct, hard mode makes it guess work at times, like today when I guessed wrong, 5 times.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Not necessarily - I have a couple of "starter" words which give me a "leg up": "TINEA" and "AEROS"/"AROSE". One of those generally gives me a good idea of at least one vowel, and one of the "common" consonants. And vowel position controls the "structure" of the word, which helps: if it has a vowel in 3, then 1 is probably 's', 't', or 'p', followed by an 'h' for example.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Not necessarily - I have a couple of "starter" words which give me a "leg up": "TINEA" and "AEROS"/"AROSE".
I used your "AEROS" as my starter word early this morning. My second lucky pick was 'VIDEO' which gave me everything but the 'M'. Was the first time I solved it in 3
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Well done! 
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(Doing some background research)
WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A. ,
Richmond, Va., June 22, 1863.
Maj. Gen. D. H. HILL, Commanding, etc. :
GENERAL : The delay is so great in transmitting and deciphering
dispatches in the cipher used by the signal corps, that I shall here-
after, when necessary to employ cipher, communicate with you in
the following, viz: Reverse the alphabet, taking Z for A, Y for B,
X for C, &c.
I request you to use the same cipher in your dispatches to the De-
partment.
Your obedient servant,
J. A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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That would get broken in no time. It would be interesting to know what cipher they were using.
And now it's euphemistically Secretary of Defense. Plain speaking was a thing back then, though I suppose Secretary of Offense would be somewhat honest.
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General Hill was a Confederate officer - and this letter does say CSA (Confederate States of America). Telegraph was used at the time for some information transmittal, assuming there was a non-destroyed line at hand.
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It was known as the Caesar Cipher. Could have made it a little harder shifting the letters instead of simply reversing.
(I like the one where you write words with milk, let it dry, and then over heat the letters reappear).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I once ran across a description of a Civil War-era cypher and it was very strange. It used a crossword pattern with and without dots for the first eighteen letters and then an X pattern with and without dots for the last eight. I can see how messages like that could take a while to decipher.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Interesting that this was sent less than 2 weeks before the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg - one of the few times that the Confederate Army marched into the northern states. Hill was part of that army that marched north.
Edit: Mistake on my part - I am confusing Confederate General A P Hill with Confederate General D H Hill. D H Hill stayed in Richmond VA during the battle of Gettysburg. I apologize.
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Yes; Gettysburg. There are dispatches (from both sides) about their relative movements towards that big event ... and then this pops up.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I get reminded of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Dancing Men". A cryptography based adventure.
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This.
This is why all manner of security gets broken. Security is hard work. Security must be maintained, no matter if it's passwords or door locks.
If Seddon were alive today, he would certainly reuse passwords.
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I was going to make a small demo of loading a jpg from the web and consuming it on an ESP32
The image should be small (320x240 ish) because i can't resize it, it should be retrievable by an end user for verification and hopefully it would be a prominent recognizable figure on the web.
Here's what I've checked:
Code Project's logo (gif)
Google's logo (png)
Twitter (png, and huge)
Reddit (not easily retrievable)
Github (not easily retrievable)
Youtube (not easily retrievable)
Here's what I don't want to promote - even by way of a demo:
Microsoft
Facebook
I feel like maybe I have some tunnel vision. Surely there is site with a prominent logo in jpg that's easily accessible from a browser, no?
Am I being unrealistic?
Should I implement png? (I really don't want to for reasons)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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PNG makes a lot of sense: it's a lossless compression format which JPG isn't, and (under some circumstances and not often) smaller as well.
But importantly, PNG has a transparency layer, which JPG doesn't - so "floating" a logo over a background works better as the apparent logo doesn't have to be rectangular - it can be circular or irregular, and still not affect the stuff behind it.
That's handy - you don't need different images for each background colour for example.
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