I remember the important magic cards anyways And also some of the better books that i left Amazon pages open on
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yea i never miss tabs cause i know all the important stuff will come back to me anyway
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I'm mainly irritated about all the manga Cause I have a habit of only bookmarking after i read the first few chapters And most of it was stuff I hadn't read at all
Only books i could immediately remember are goodstein's states of matter and mathematician's lament. You would probably recognize the opening paragraph of goodstein's.
>>1051131 This is really cool. https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/the-little-lightgun-that-could-sinden-makes-good/ According to the wiki you can use it with ps2 light gun games on a real ps2 which means i can finally play time crisis again.
>>1051135 I rember this site, w/ the skull. Used to go there for modding ideas back in the day, You know I cant keep my hands off meh psp
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wow that would be cool to do w/ cronotrigger
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is the name behind the D in Monkey D Luffy's name revealed, or is it gonna be a "but that's... no, it can't me... that's the name of the Pirate King himself!" later down the line?
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The D has already kinda been revealed to be carried by those with "The Will of D" or something, which is kind of fuzzy but seems to be implicit of some innate power of leadership and charisma It's not simply a bloodline thing though, although Luffy's dad, Monkey D. Dragon also has it But he has no blood relation to Roger, the previous Pirate King, who also carried the D
I'd argue more leader buff than hero But I think at this point we're more or less on the same page Pan could probably give you better information than me though
>>1051158 Apparently APPARENTLY he left all kinds of messages before he died saying stuff like 'im perfectly healthy right now. If anyone tells you I die of natural causes don't believe it"
That's just what someone told me I've never looked into it tho.
Overlord and Honzuki have really spoiled me Slime and Spider both DRAG ON so much, especially Slime gets bogged down in details that have absolutely no real importance, but then it'll skip past a buncha stuff that's actually of interest
It just spent 3 pages describing the mechanics of magical trains, using rules for magic that have not once been brought up, and likely never will again, and this is the 11th book But then it's like "the big political conference went well." and that's the whole summation of the large legislative body's meeting like what am I even really here for anymore?
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Spider similarly gets bogged down talking about how this or that skill was used to great effect in achieving a Thing, which made a lot of sense and was interesting for like, the first 3-4 books, but now it's kind of at the point where the main character is effectively omnipotent so it has no actual impact to it anymore Like of course you were able to do the thing, there's about 4 characters in the story capable of even considering challenging you, and one's a friend of yours
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It probably makes more sense when you know the author of Slime isekai was an urban developer or something like that before starting to write So, like, their thing is all about systems and how much fun they are to design And they probably don't have many fond memories of bureaucratic meetings
oh, so it's not just the MC himself, but the author, too
I mean I can definitely understand the joy of basically getting on a podium and talking about the mechanics of this world you've made, it's actually interesting in and of itself, but it's just sorta unbalanced is all I'd be all for that, but it comes between very short and truncated parts of the actually Generally Interesting stuff in the story, so I'm kinda feeling my eyes glaze over because all my head can do is go "please, get on with it, please you're at the planetary stage in Spore and you spend most of the time designing new microbes"
Overlord will go into minutae and stuff too, for sure, dragging out spells and game mechanics, but it's usually done either as off-hand remarks, sparingly, or in the middle of otherwise very interesting parts of the story Overlord also very rarely just goes "I'd asked them to do this thing" and completely disregards all buildup for something
Another issue that comes from that, too, is that I genuinely don't know how much time has passed within a volume of Slime. It could be a week, it could be a year. There's no real feel for it, cause he's got 2 guys seemingly developing enormous amounts of very diverse scientific Stuff, but the actual plot elements that you know about before it's over are the kinda stuff that could be happening over a week or two maybe.
I don't read enough LNs to really know which is the more common approach to them, but I definitely prefer Honzuki with its extremely direct focus on the passage of time, or Overlord with its less extreme, but still very easily read passage of time. Like, I could tell you how many in-story months have gone by in Honzuki, with a +\- of like 3 months maybe since Myne first reincarnated. I couldn't do that with Slime if not for a line somewhere in the last few volumes that outright said it'd been 2 years since the nation of Tempest was founded. With overlord I can't really do that, but I have a vague understanding of it
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>>1051159 I dunno man this one was a definite toss-up to me They were close to me for the whole ride to the station so they were in my periphery and I couldn't get a solid read on irony or seriousness
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1051160 mcafee saying "im perfectly healthy" is already a complete fabrication
Besides how far can you really trust the man after he betrayed everyone's trust with his famous bitcoin promise? Such a figure can not be taken at face value
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
oh yeah so true
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
free NFT mint https://cryptocoven.xyz/conjure/sirens-shell
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the first one's free eh
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
free*
still have to pay ETH for this token that is of basically limitless supply therefore unlikely to be of any except sentimental value
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the need for sleep is truly annoying
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
This Ezra Miller stuff is wild. https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/ezra-miller-young-children-vermont-farm-1372295/
I gotta watch breaking bad I gotta watch better call saul
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I ought to some time too
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>>1051224 I like to do the Wordle on the transit when my coward-ass brain gets self-conscious about looking at weeb shit with random other passengers right next to me Or when I'm on the subway and I enter the tunnels where I don't get reception to do anything else on my phone So if I'm done it in under a minute, then I'm like, well, guess I gotta stare at random people now
Slime isekai is also a little strange, a bit unique in that it explicitly has other isekaiers mixed in, and some aren't Japanese But that mostly comes off as strange because the overwhelming majority are Japanese
It wouldn't be strange if literally all of them were Japanese, or if there was a bit of a mishmashed mix, but it's like there are 2 non-japanese isekaiers so far in the story, and one I'm not certain isn't Japanese but there's a very large amount of isekaiers overall And a handful are very stronk, at least 2-3 are somewhere around Rimuru's level, even It just comes off as a bit strange to toss in an American one off-hand, like why bother with that? It'd be perfectly sensible for Japan to just be the only place isekaiers came from, for Reasons That May Or May Not Ever Be Touched Upon But it kinda feels like you're gonna have to address it when you introduce this disparity
>>1051256 You can be as cautious as you like, but the person in question here had modded and been in similar positions for zines in the past and never had any evidence of embezzlement By all fair and reasonable faith in people, there was no reason to suspect them, and fair reason to trust them But I guess sometimes even then you get betrayed
if only we had some kind of trustless monetary system that allowed securing funds via arbitrary mechanisms beyond "dude just trust me im the treasurer"
>>1051268 its a shame this society is built on trust bankers emailing .xls files back and forth hedge funds manage these hueg funds in accounts with people whose job it is to be like "yup. money's still here" and other people whose job is to show up every quarter and be like "are you being good boys and girls?"
Oh, by the way, there's a thing about The Blockchain I've wondered a bit about, and maybe you know "mining" is essentially just randomly stabbing in the dark, right, generating a string and checking if it fits the latest keyhole basically, and if it fits you broadcast and it's verified, and you get a coin At a very basic level
But is there anything preventing you from skipping the verification part on your own end and just bogging the whole fucking thing down by broadcasting EVERY string you generate until one fits? Like is there a reason to check it yourself first rather than just fucking spamming the network? Am I maybe even mistaken by there being a miner-side verification check at all, and everyone actually just does this?
>>1051282 there's lots of checks otherwise the whole thing would collapse
mining is essentially this well first we gotta define what a hash is. a hash is where you take any number of bytes, a file basically, and turn it into a 256-bit number that's completely unpredictable, but based on the input file
so mining is basically first you gather a bunch of valid signed transactions from the people. you put those all together in a file. you then add some random numbers to the end. then you hash the whole file (valid transactions + random nonce bytes) this gets you a 256-bit number that is entirely determined by the above, but is otherwise basically a random number in the range of [0 to 2256]
so the way it works is, if this number has enough Zeroes at the front of it, then you won the lottery and can broadcast (transactions+bytes) and receive your mined bitcoin
so you broadcast the transaction file, and everyone who's listening hashes it real quick like, and checks that the 256-bit number does in fact have enough Zeroes this is a fairly quick and efficient check, much easier than mining
so if you were to spam the network with a bunch of random files that doesn't have enough Zeroes, the other network participants would be like "this guy talks nonsense, ban his IP" also you would quickly run out of upload bandwidth
>>1051284 Ah, yeah that makes sense I guess, actually I didn't know the details of how you actually generate the hash though, I actually just figured you were running a straight up RNG until you stumbled on the string that some encryption algorithm would spit out as "the solution" So you're not trying to break the encryption but you're basically trying to reverse engineer the solution string on the, well, private key end, though thinking about it that's clearly not really what I'm thinking of here But I think you get what I mean Sorta
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>>1051284 I remember learning aout nonce, jn referance to blobs in jailbricking
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1051286 >>1051286 yeah the hashing is key that's what grants legitimacy to confirmed transactions transactions stay the same, while the RNG nonce at the end changes, you do that millions of times and hope that you get a winning hash
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>>1051286I sort of look at it like, understanding the hash tables in a inside out.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
when you're mining you're not really using a public-private key pair, not directly. i mean you do need a pub-private key pair, to receive the mining reward but mostly you're just panning for gold via electricity brute force calculations
well, you also need to ensure that all the transactions are properly signed by each of their private keys, of course and that every transaction represents a valid ledger entry/valid state transition
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
there is a lot of confusion out there about 51% attacks if you controlled 51% of the network hash rate, you might be able to control the growth of the chain, possibly being able to censor transactions but you don't gain the capability to outright steal money from people every transaction still has to pass all the signature checks to be considered part of the chain
>>1051291 Yeah I mean it may have been a larger concern when these things weren't worth much and there were proposed use cases beyond just the coin value itself, but at this point like If you control 51% of the bitcoin hashrate, the last thing you want is for it to lose legitimacy, and you're already harvesting huge amounts of coins Coins which, should you start pulling some fast moves, will stop being valuable at all And then you've just blown the GDP of a small country on electricity for actually no returns
bitcoin is basically fricked at this point the 21M coin schedule is set in stone the memes are too strong to change that ever but once they stop inflating the supply, the protocol falls apart
i had a canadian reinterpretation of a chicago dog earlier it was ok not exactly portillos not nearly big enough
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>>1051307 Yeah I know >>1051308 How was it? I actually don't like Chicago dogs anyways. Portillos ks overrated
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
hipster portillos was great this hot dog did not compare
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>>1051310 No, local There are much better local places
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But I don't like hotdogs much
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i did some extensive research about hotdogs and they did rank some other places higher i m sure the cool factor (and napkin factor) is higher but portillos delivered afaiac
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I really want some Italian beef now.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
put some italian beef in your mouth
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>>1051303 Good thing as far north as we are it's still a good ways off before the shortening really becomes noticable Plus I kinda like those late summer warm dusky evenings in late August/early September
Just got a brilliant idea for a tv show It's like Doogie Howser But instead pf a doctor, he's a lawyer.
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Also I'm not super surprised that they overturned Roe. Having it be on the 50th anniversary of Title IX feels a bit too much to be a coincidence though.
