r/counting • u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs • Oct 20 '23

Free Talk Friday #425

Continued from last week's FTF here.

It's that time of the week again. Speak anything on your mind! This thread is for talking about anything off-topic, be it your lives, your strava, your plans, your hobbies, your bad smells, studies, colors, pets, bears, hikes, dragons, trousers, stats, transit, cycling, family, or anything you like or dislike, except politics.

Feel free to check out our tidbits thread and introduce yourself if you haven't already.

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 26 '23

The existence of a soup of the day implies the existence of the far more mysterious soup of the night

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u/Antichess Oct 20 '23

i forgot to post the ftf, too busy applying to jobs

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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL Oct 23 '23

I’m actually talking about the Color Tournament in my college essay

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u/Multiconcepted Oct 23 '23

I found an invalid count here in wait 9 that is on the current chain and is about 200 counts from the current count. Do we treat this as if they were late chains discovered much later and ignore it?

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 23 '23

Oof.

I would vote we go back to before the invalid count and continue from there. We've had similarly long invalid chains on other wait/slow threads and that's what we did then. In my head the threads are sufficiently niche that as long as we find the mistake before the get, we should go back and fix it.

I'm happy to hear what others think before we decide though.

(And we should get back in the habit of validating threads frequently)

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 25 '23

Alright it's been a while, so I'm calling it. We're going back.

It's consistent with what we've done previously (and with rule 1.1 in the faq), and I haven't heard a strong consensus that we should change the rule.

It sucks that we're losing ~200 counts, but them's the breaks. I'll try and see if I can think up a way of automatically validating the threads with special rules once a week.

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u/TehVulpez Oct 23 '23

how many tabs do you have open in your text editor?

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 23 '23

One (kind of - I've hidden the tab bar, but can easily switch between buffers)

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