Sumocat
@Sumocat@lemmy.world
- Comment on On Jeopardy, does getting the Who/What/Where/When/Why part of the response necessary? 4 weeks ago:
The only hard rule is that it be phrased as a question, which implies the rest of the phrasing is irrelevant as long as the answer is in the question. In your example, “Who is the Eiffel Tower?”describes it incorrectly but correctly names the tower and should be accepted, but “What is that famous tower in Paris, France?” describes the correct answer but is missing the critical answer and should not be accepted. Also, who/what/etc. is not required to be part of the question.
What’s … in a question? The rules state, “…all contestant responses to an answer must be phrased in the form of a question.” It’s that simple. Jeopardy! doesn’t require that the response is grammatically correct. Further, the three-letter name of a British Invasion rock band can be a correct response all by itself (“The Who?”), and even “Is it…?” has been accepted. So, Matt Amodio’s no-frills approach is unique but well with guidelines. jeopardy.com/…/what-are-some-questions-about-jeop…
- Comment on Where, indeed? 5 weeks ago:
Rest of him couldn’t fit.
- Comment on Malicious compliance 1 month ago:
That’s not a requirement of Hanlon’s razor. Stupidity can be introduced at any point in the process. If a commander orders a firing squad to form a circle and they shoot each other, that’s on the commander, not the squad for shooting each other.
- Comment on Malicious compliance 1 month ago:
Hanlon’s razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” Exact instructions with no allowance for judgment were given and followed exactly. Not malicious, just compliance with stupid instructions.
- Comment on Reality Winner documentary concealed how she got caught (yellow tracker dots) 3 months ago:
Color printers weren’t good enough for high-quality counterfeiting when Xerox introduced the encoding in the 1980s, and they’re less capable of it now that bills are improved, but counterfeiting doesn’t stop being a crime because the fake bills suck.
Also, if appeasing the Secret Service isn’t the real reason, why aren’t black and white printers printing gray dot codes? Since yellow dot encoding was introduced, the vast majority of office documents were churned out on BW printers. Seems like a big miss for mass surveillance.
- Comment on Reality Winner documentary concealed how she got caught (yellow tracker dots) 3 months ago:
To be clear, yellow dot encoding is done voluntarily by printer makers to ensure their printers cannot anonymously enable counterfeiting schemes. So yes, there is no legal obligation to do this, but only because printer makers don’t want Secret Service intervention. Basically, there’s no law requiring yellow dot encoding because they already do it. Black and white printers are exempt because they are inadequate for counterfeiting, but they are certainly capable of gray dot encoding.