Month: September 2024
Quordle today – hints and answers for Sunday, September 29 (game #979)
Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.
Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now nearly 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers.
Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Quordle today (game #979) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 3*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Quordle today (game #979) – hint #2 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 1.
Quordle today (game #979) – hint #3 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.
Quordle today (game #979) – hint #4 – starting letters (1)
Do any of today’s Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?
• The number of today’s Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 2.
If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you’re not ready yet then here’s one more clue to make things a lot easier:
Quordle today (game #979) – hint #5 – starting letters (2)
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• S
• B
• W
• S
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Quordle today (game #979) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Quordle, game #979, are…
SERIFBORNEWRITESLEEK
A couple of today’s words might cause some problems; SERIF is a relatively uncommon word that has a very uncommon format, with that IF ending, while SLEEK contains a repeated E. WRITE was the one I lost a guess on, though: that -RI-E format is a very common one, and could be the likes of TRIBE or TRITE as well as the eventual answer. Other than that, though, my three start words did the hard work and I survived with a guess to spare.
Unfortunately I was far less careful with the Daily Sequence and failed for the second time in only a few days. There were some very difficult words there, admittedly, but I still should have played a lot more sensibly.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Daily Sequence today (game #979) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #979, are…
EAGERTILDEABYSSDELAY
Quordle answers: The past 20
Quordle #978, Saturday 28 September: BUSHY, CIVIC, SNOUT, EQUIPQuordle #977, Friday 27 September: GUEST, CHASM, ROOST, BASALQuordle #976, Thursday 26 September: STAGE, VOGUE, CLUMP, HEATHQuordle #975, Wednesday 25 September: UMBRA, DADDY, GLAZE, PRANKQuordle #974, Tuesday 24 September: SPACE, INNER, SPAWN, BEGATQuordle #973, Monday 23 September: GUILT, STERN, ANNEX, FIELDQuordle #972, Sunday 22 September: ZESTY, MEATY, ALIVE, DRAWNQuordle #971, Saturday 21 September: VITAL, FRAIL, SPEAR, EERIEQuordle #970, Friday 20 September: ELIDE, DITTO, SHAWL, BONUSQuordle #969, Thursday 19 September: MARRY, OWING, DICEY, LUCKYQuordle #968, Wednesday 18 September: CEDAR, VENOM, MIGHT, MEDICQuordle #967, Tuesday 17 September: ETHOS, COUNT, PRINT, THREEQuordle #966, Monday 16 September: ROUGE, SWAMP, FUGUE, UNDUEQuordle #965, Sunday 15 September: VILLA, SMOKE, BULKY, THRUMQuordle #964, Saturday 14 September: ESSAY, GENRE, WIMPY, CHUTEQuordle #963, Friday 13 September: LEANT, ORGAN, FILLY, PLAITQuordle #962, Thursday 12 September: ARBOR, STARK, LEAVE, GOOFYQuordle #961, Wednesday 11 September: ROUGH, CACTI, SAVOY, ODDERQuordle #960, Tuesday 10 September: PLUMB, SEIZE, EARLY, ASSET Quordle #959, Monday 9 September: CHIRP, BEADY, THETA, MINUS
These Student Loan Benefits Expire in 2 Days. Here’s What Borrowers Should Do Now
If you’ve missed student loan payments or have loans in default, you’ll want to take action before Oct. 1.
If you’ve missed student loan payments or have loans in default, you’ll want to take action before Oct. 1.
Gen Z Grads Are Being Fired Months After Being Hired
“After complaining that Gen Z grads are difficult to work with for the best part of two years, bosses are no longer all talk, no action — now they’re rapidly firing young workers who aren’t up to scratch just months after hiring them,” writes Fortune.
“According to a new report, six in 10 employers say they have already sacked some of the Gen Z workers they hired fresh out of college earlier this year.”
Intelligent.com, a platform dedicated to helping young professionals navigate the future of work, surveyed nearly 1,000 U.S. leaders… After experiencing a raft of problems with young new hires, one in six bosses say they’re hesitant to hire college grads again. Meanwhile, one in seven bosses have admitted that they may avoid hiring them altogether next year. Three-quarters of the companies surveyed said some or all of their recent graduate hires were unsatisfactory in some way…
Employers’ gripe with young people today is their lack of motivation or initiative — 50% of the leaders surveyed cited that as the reason why things didn’t work out with their new hire. Bosses also pointed to Gen Z being unprofessional, unorganized and having poor communication skills as their top reasons for having to sack grads. Leaders say they have struggled with the latest generation’s tangible challenges, including being late to work and meetings often, not wearing office-appropriate clothing, and using language appropriate for the workspace.
Now, more than half of hiring managers have come to the conclusion that college grads are unprepared for the world of work. Meanwhile, over 20% say they can’t handle the workload.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat for sharing the article.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
“After complaining that Gen Z grads are difficult to work with for the best part of two years, bosses are no longer all talk, no action — now they’re rapidly firing young workers who aren’t up to scratch just months after hiring them,” writes Fortune.
“According to a new report, six in 10 employers say they have already sacked some of the Gen Z workers they hired fresh out of college earlier this year.”
Intelligent.com, a platform dedicated to helping young professionals navigate the future of work, surveyed nearly 1,000 U.S. leaders… After experiencing a raft of problems with young new hires, one in six bosses say they’re hesitant to hire college grads again. Meanwhile, one in seven bosses have admitted that they may avoid hiring them altogether next year. Three-quarters of the companies surveyed said some or all of their recent graduate hires were unsatisfactory in some way…
Employers’ gripe with young people today is their lack of motivation or initiative — 50% of the leaders surveyed cited that as the reason why things didn’t work out with their new hire. Bosses also pointed to Gen Z being unprofessional, unorganized and having poor communication skills as their top reasons for having to sack grads. Leaders say they have struggled with the latest generation’s tangible challenges, including being late to work and meetings often, not wearing office-appropriate clothing, and using language appropriate for the workspace.
Now, more than half of hiring managers have come to the conclusion that college grads are unprepared for the world of work. Meanwhile, over 20% say they can’t handle the workload.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat for sharing the article.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Here’s a peek at how A Minecraft Movie will handle crafting
The team behind the upcoming Minecraft movie shared a new clip during Minecraft Live that expands on the brief crafting moment we saw in the polarizing first teaser. The scene comes in the middle of a discussion between Mojang creative director Torfi Frans Olafsson and A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess, at 4:51. The segment also gives us our first look at the movie’s interpretation of a Minecraft bee, which I’m not quite sure how to feel about yet. That you can find toward the end of the video.
A Minecraft Movie is slated for release in April 2025 and stars Jack Black as Steve, alongside Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers and Sebastian Eugene Hansen. Plans for it were first announced a decade ago, and potential release dates were set and scrapped on multiple occasions in the time since. At long last, it’s actually now happening — for better or worse.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/heres-a-peek-at-how-a-minecraft-movie-will-handle-crafting-220454126.html?src=rss
The team behind the upcoming Minecraft movie shared a new clip during Minecraft Live that expands on the brief crafting moment we saw in the polarizing first teaser. The scene comes in the middle of a discussion between Mojang creative director Torfi Frans Olafsson and A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess, at 4:51. The segment also gives us our first look at the movie’s interpretation of a Minecraft bee, which I’m not quite sure how to feel about yet. That you can find toward the end of the video.
A Minecraft Movie is slated for release in April 2025 and stars Jack Black as Steve, alongside Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers and Sebastian Eugene Hansen. Plans for it were first announced a decade ago, and potential release dates were set and scrapped on multiple occasions in the time since. At long last, it’s actually now happening — for better or worse.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/heres-a-peek-at-how-a-minecraft-movie-will-handle-crafting-220454126.html?src=rss
Hidden Pref to Restore Slow-Motion Dock Minimizing on MacOS
In the midst of recording last week’s episode of The Talk Show with Nilay Patel, I offhandedly mentioned the age-old trick of holding down the Shift key while minimizing a window (clicking the yellow button) to see the genie effect in slow motion. Nilay was like “Wait, what? That’s not working for me…” and we moved on.
What I’d forgotten is that Apple had removed this as default behavior a few years ago (I think in MacOS 10.14 Mojave), but you can restore the feature with this hidden preference, typed in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool YES
Then restart the Dock:
killall Dock
Or, in a single command:
defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool YES; killall Dock
I had forgotten that this had become a hidden preference, and that I’d long ago enabled it.
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In the midst of recording last week’s episode of The Talk Show with Nilay Patel, I offhandedly mentioned the age-old trick of holding down the Shift key while minimizing a window (clicking the yellow button) to see the genie effect in slow motion. Nilay was like “Wait, what? That’s not working for me…” and we moved on.
What I’d forgotten is that Apple had removed this as default behavior a few years ago (I think in MacOS 10.14 Mojave), but you can restore the feature with this hidden preference, typed in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool YES
Then restart the Dock:
killall Dock
Or, in a single command:
defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool YES; killall Dock
I had forgotten that this had become a hidden preference, and that I’d long ago enabled it.