John La Rooy

Hardle 🟦🟪 #1368 6/8

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Puzzle #879
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Minute Cryptic - 6 November, 2025
"Location housing administration's leader!?" (6)
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🏁 Early solver! Just 793 people so far – I solved it with 0 hints.
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Puzzle #878
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Minute Cryptic - 5 November, 2025
"Tap spade over ground" (9)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (1,055 solvers so far).
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Hardle 🟦🟪 #1366 4/8

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#waffle1383 5/5

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wafflegame.net

“Worse insomnia, depression/anxiety or the use of other sleep-enhancing medicines might be linked to both melatonin use and heart risk,” Nnadi said. “Also, while the association we found raises safety concerns about the widely used supplement, our study cannot prove a direct cause-and-effect relationship. This means more research is needed to test melatonin’s safety for the heart.”

My first thought was that poor sleep probably also increases risks to the heart ( as well as more accidents etc. ) so the net result might be that it's still the better choice for some people. It's mentioned in the link.

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squareword.org 1373: 8 guesses

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Puzzle #877
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Update 2025-11-03: thanks to the PSF's boost, we have now received $14622.43; 86.0% of our total match of $17000 . I am hopeful that we can close that 14% gap by tomorrow!

Minute Cryptic - 4 November, 2025
"Root canal ache really starts with decay" (6)
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🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (7,530 solvers so far).
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squareword.org 1372: 7 guesses

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Puzzle #876
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Hi, I don't have an AMD GPU, but like greenman says, the best place to start will be to disable GPU decoding and see if that helps. You can use

vlc --avcodec-hw=none

Or disable it under the menus somewhere

Minute Cryptic - 3 November, 2025
"Slim odds of solving that" (6)
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🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (1,020 solvers so far).
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Is it a laptop or a pc? Probably you'll need to share the model or what some of the components are.

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squareword.org 1371: 11 guesses

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Hardle 🟦🟪 #1364 6/8

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Happy to find the purple again

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Puzzle #875
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Minute Cryptic - 2 November, 2025
"Swarming bumble bees escape stubborn beast" (4)
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🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (1,858 solvers so far).
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A picture of a rainfall radar map showing a clearly dangerous storm approaching in clear and bright colours, including black for the heaviest rainfall.

The same map from the new website, with vague pastel colours in blue and green only; the heaviest rainfall would be red (there is no black).

The Aussie BOM website after 'reverting' to old settings is still hopeless. On the left, the radar 1hr loop on the old site (reg.bom.gov.au); on the right, the new pastel-coloured wishy-washy version- same radar, same time, same scale, same 1 hr loop. Storm incoming!! ⛈️

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Hardle 🟦🟪 #1363 5/8

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This is the article I was thinking of devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...

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