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Me too! I thought I was the only one who did this. Replace step 6 with using my shirt :)


I think they are just angry that TikTok users trolled the Trump Tulsa Rally.


Nothing.

Around 5 years you should start getting 3 weeks of vacation.


We get an extra week vacation after 9 years!


What an amazing company!


If they could add stick figure characters like xkcd it would be useful.


I see near the bottom they have instructions on adding your own characters. So... maybe you could do it? :)


We planned for it but then got too ambitious. We now want animatable xkcd-like characters :-)

We'll probably try it for a few weeks before giving up.


Can I use these cartoons in a game?


Absolutely! Do let us know if you need any specific characters.


More thinking needed. Time for pizza, beer and a small gaggle of creatives.


I got lost on the line "If the final answer is odd, the flip is TAILS." For example: Alice flips 1 for tails. Barb/Charlie/Danika flip 0. Why is the answer tails when most of the people flipped 0 for heads? Why use XOR instead of just taking the most common answer?


Perhaps an even simpler analogy is a light switch. Each person decides randomly either to flip the light switch or leave it where it is. This is basically what random XOR'ing is.

If you're one of 10 people doing this to the light switch, then as long as you choose randomly, it doesn't matter what the other 9 people do. It has a 50% chance of ending up on and a 50% chance of ending up off. Even if the other 9 people are cheating together.

Of course this has the problem that whoever goes last wins, which is why the commitment ceremony is necessary.


So you only have to trust one person to play fair. If you used most common vote, then if 10 people play, 6 could conspire to always achieve tails.

But when using XOR even if 9 people conspire they can not know if the 10th votes 1 or 0.


Think of it this way. If everyone is cheating and fixes their answers to be tails one fair coin flip will still randomly determine the outcome because their fair flip will swap between heads and tails for the whole group.


Does Traduroa use a workflow engine/library? Or did you develop your own?


Never watched that show but might give it a try. Aside from personally wishing I had such a tool when growing up, one of my inspirations for this comes from Superman's parents. They send their son to earth with a hologram AI version of themselves recorded in the ships computer or crystals. Superman later in life used to chat with them and learn about his origins and true parents.


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