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Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

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Read the thing, it explains that their "perfect shuffle" isn't every card being perfectly interleaved (yes that'd be deterministic).
But rather, at every card, there's roughly 50/50 chance of it being a card from left/right piles being dropped, with an increasing odd for the bigger pile.

I haven't bothered proving it, but I'm pretty sure a perfect intellect interleave would eventually put the deck back in order, but that's not what the article is discussing.

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What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

I like chunkier scrollbars. Fuck the tiny disappearing scrollbars where you need to mouse over... somewhere.. to maybe be graced with its presence, only for it to be 1px wide for some reason.
Also fuck the endless scroll, especially when you already know what you're looking for is on page 4 because you had to reload the page for some reason but the infinite scroll didn't save your position and you have to go down (without an actual scrollbar) only to "load more" 3 times until you're (maybe) on page 4.

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Jack Daniel's maker says Canada pulling U.S. alcohol off shelves 'worse than tariff'

Dear Mr. Daniel,
I'm sorry that a store pulling things from their shelves is hurting your business, but I thought you should know that this is not even the tip of the iceberg.
Regardless of what any store does, I will simply not be buying Jack Daniel's, probably ever, along with a slew of other things, as many as I possibly can.

There are so many better whiskeys around the world that I certainly don't need to.
I empathize with the collateral damage this may cause, and hope that something, anything really, is eventually enough for y'all fuckers to start thinking about getting your shit together.
In the meantime, I will simply Buy Anything But American.

I am just one person, but I am not alone.
Sincerely,
Fix your shit or get fucked,
A random Canadian

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Elder scrolls

I hate the modern ones you need to hover above so they even display, and then it's 1 pixel wide and a shade of grey that's about 2% darker than white.
Less functional and 500 lines of js garbage.