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jaredor
<p>Wait, what?!</p>
<p>*I* don't get to drink because you didn't say the magic words, but *you* do? I need to rethink the rules to this game....</p>
<p>... but then it is a technical fault that I didn't grok that at the core of your masterful schooling on question posting, problem analysis and solution testing was <i>The Schwartzian</i> ... so okay, I owe you a point or a pint, whichever you prefer.</p>
<p>Actually, you caught me in a minor sin, since I think "reduce" (++[tinita]) would be what I would use for the problem as stated (sort of like spinning a log on a lathe to get a toothpick). So I posted an answer which wasn't a great answer for the question, but allowed me to be a wee bit cheeky for my own amusement.</p>
<p>The "drinking game" is just something I do to keep myself engaged with the site content and is just a variant of what some people do to keep awake in meetings: See if you can predict a response. Successful prediction? Assess whether it was necessary or gratuitous. Gratuitous? Point! Take a drink. For PM my rubric is<p><ol><li>Is the answer not wrong, but not quite right?</li><li>Could the answer have been relatively easy to demonstrate with code, but wasn't?</li><li>Does the answer seem to be more of an homage to the hive mind rather than a sincere effort to educate or illuminate?</li></ol>
<p>(Now you see why I felt compelled to add working code to my snarky comment.)</p>
<p>This game is not for everyone: According to [id://973576|a thread I read a while back], [sundialsvc4] would have destroyed [BrowserUK]'s liver years ago. ;-)</p>
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