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good ol' linotype, saving us from the boring comprehensibility of the modern era

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people who know etaoin shrdlu also have access to a much better set of arbitrary variable names than foo and bar

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people who know etaoin shrdlu have a distinct advantage at wordle

ooh maybe TRIES, although it’s not as fun

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TARES is also good

you should definitely have both T and S in your first word because those letters are frequent combinators (without them H becomes much less likely); S at the end gives you peace of mind; L or R helps point you to/away from BL/PL/GL/CL and BR/PR/DR/TR/GR/CR

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my proposal for wordle starting word is TELOS

@witchfynder_finder if they paid programmers and the like a trade salary we would have a better world

coin enthusiasts just can't handle that the high-tech future of money is paper

for ( const $ in new Array (5).fill() ) {
try {
console.log(`processing step ${ +$ + 1 }…`)
throw new Error }
catch ( error ) {
break }
finally {
continue } }

@noelle yeah i think my brain might have just made that one up! which is a bit surprising to me

@aescling @monorail yeah it's rough trying to learn how to draw by drawing pokémon

differs from “how much freedom” in that one may have high freedom to choose between a small set of choices, but that would be low valence

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used like “how much valence”, “more/less valence”, “increase/decrease the valence”

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is “valence” as a word meaning “quantity of options which one may freely choose between” not a common usage?!

@aescling @monorail alternatively find a critic talking about a movie you are never going to watch. this is good because you don't have to care about whether you agree

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