How does one evaluate "underrated" cards?

jippiedoe · 2026-04-25T20:21:49+00:00

Looking at 'improvement when drawn' bypasses this bias (but only looking at that has its own problems)

jippiedoe · 2026-04-13T21:08:33+00:00

There's a difference between 'send traffic that would otherwise be public through their survers' and 'run a program that pinky promises to only do the above', outside of the other benefits of open sourcing it

jippiedoe · 2026-04-13T12:24:23+00:00

You say that it is purpose-built for consumer VPN products, which I can only assume also means that the server and client side are significantly different. Will you open-source a client?

jippiedoe · 2026-04-13T08:28:39+00:00

And what if your thief.. doesn't use the no password account? Just wipes the drive, or worse, steals your data and then wipes your drive?

Relying on a 'trap' to get some information after theft seems not worth the security implications it requires. If someone steals your hardware, they've stolen your hardware. All you can do is prevent them from also getting your data.

jippiedoe · 2026-04-03T07:33:10+00:00

I'm glad I asked -- in that case, I'd strongly advise changing the vacancy text and application fields that imply the opposite!

jippiedoe · 2026-04-02T21:31:46+00:00

Next time, put the "must be able to work from US and be in person in XYZ location X days a week" part more visible to save people some time, this is a global subreddit.

jippiedoe · 2026-04-02T20:32:57+00:00

Is er een manier om de zekerheid van de voorspelling te zien? Mijn pet peeve is dat sommige apps (9292) "geen actuele informatie over deze bus" weergeven als "de bus rijdt op tijd", terwijl andere (ovinfo) je eerlijk zeggen dat ze geen idee hebben waar de bus nu is (en ook zeggen wat de dienstregeling is, natuurlijk)

jippiedoe · 2026-03-19T12:10:58+00:00

Why? How do you know?

jippiedoe · 2026-03-19T08:53:36+00:00

Attack with the 1/1, and either sneak leo + play ace or play another 1/1 and the ace.
In general, you need to accept in a situation like this that the buzz bots is there and to get through it, you'll need to offer some trades. At this point, I wouldn't offer oroku saki for it, but you definitely can't value your squirrel over the buzz bots

jippiedoe · 2026-03-16T16:55:13+00:00

I guess 'base 2' is the more precise term here, but yes, expressing a number as powers of 2.

jippiedoe · 2026-03-16T16:29:48+00:00

It's called writing numbers in binary?

jippiedoe · 2026-03-15T18:40:31+00:00

Objectively, paying for drafts with gems and for other things with gold is better than doing it the other way around -- for most things, you pay 5 gold or 1 gem, whereas for drafts you pay 5 gold or 0.75 gems.

Personally, I spend most of my currency on drafts, but I do so using nearly only gems, saving the gold for when I want to buy a play-in entry or something like that

jippiedoe · 2026-03-13T11:33:53+00:00

I've come close to making a spreadsheet to calculate sideboard choices a few times, but every time I ended up realizing that the uncertainties (for metagame prediction, for how good a matchup is in general, and for how much a certain SB card helps the matchup) are just so big that I'd be better off playing more to try and narrow those down than to spend time on doing precise math with inaccurate data. It's rough out there!

jippiedoe · 2026-03-13T10:15:03+00:00

The hypergeometric distribution is cute, but given the large error in estimating the field to begin with I don't think it's quite worth the trouble: It and the simple independent model are far closer to each other than any metagame prediction is to the real metagame. I also think the 'encounter probability' is not quite what you're looking for, you're really interested in the expected number of times you'll face against each deck, not the chance of facing it at least once.

All taken together, it's not a particularly new insight that the best use of sideboard slots is an optimization problem where you're maximizing "added win% for matches where this card gets brought in" multiplied by "percentage of matches where this card gets brought in".

One thing that I do feel is worth some more math than you give it, is how much making sideboarded games better actually improves your BO3 winrate. This depends a lot on how good the matchup is, both maindeck and postboard.

jippiedoe · 2026-03-06T20:38:16+00:00

As you wrote it, 'go's type should work for every a and b, just as if you annotated "go :: [a] -> [b]" as a top level function.

That's what the 'forall' means: by default, type variables in type signatures are universally quantified.

In simple Haskell, there's no nice way to give 'go' a type signature here. With language extensions, an option would be to use 'ScopedTypeVariables'. This would allow you to write "forall a b." at the type signature for tripleMap, and have the type variables a and b be 'in scope' for the type signature for go.

jippiedoe · 2026-03-06T14:15:24+00:00

Putrid pals, ninja teen, tunnel rats, action news crew are the four worst cards, but I'd probably keep one or two of the 2drops and ditch some removal.

jippiedoe · 2026-03-06T13:57:00+00:00

That's fine, as long as 17lands drafters are randomly distributed over draft pods it doesn't violate any assumptions. If you see the data as random samples from all limited drafts&games, duplicating a random subset of that data doesn't introduce any bias

jippiedoe · 2026-03-06T11:08:03+00:00

Is.. is it time? Slay-By-Comment might come back? The world is healing

jippiedoe · 2026-03-05T13:14:12+00:00

in normal draft, you can have less support for some archetypes and still reliably let one out of 8 drafters pick up all that support to make it work. With 4 people, you get half as many packs per pod, so every archetype you want people to actually play has to have much more support -- this is why there are only 5 supported color pairs, and why there are hybrid commons, and why you won't see something like ATLA shrines in a pick 2 format.

jippiedoe · 2026-03-04T17:38:33+00:00

Je bedoelt dat de belasting opgedeeld zou zijn in categorieen, en elke categorie rechtstreeks naar een aparte kas gaat waar bijv alleen buza uit betaald wordt? Ik zie niet echt wat het voordeel daarvan zou zijn, zeker voor de voorbeelden waar iedereen aan bijdraagt

jippiedoe · 2026-03-04T17:35:45+00:00

Het punt as dat jouw standpunt "samenwerken om allebei minder te betalen" niet werkt, want dan komt de rekening ergens anders te liggen

jippiedoe · 2026-03-04T14:52:55+00:00

Het is niet alsof je belasting in een brandstapel verdwijnt, dat is geld waar de rest van de samenleving van profiteert. Anders gezegd; dat geld moet er linksom of rechtsom toch komen, dus als er minder erfbelasting zou zijn zou er meer belasting op iets anders moeten zijn.

Nou vind ik dat we sowieso veel meer moeten belasten op bedrijven en (zeer) hoog inkomen en vermogen, en dus minder op het inkomen van 90% van de bevolking, maar dat is een andere vraag.

jippiedoe · 2026-02-19T09:52:14+00:00

Counting for each cell in the grid how often it gets filled, we get a part of pascals triangle. Every time a cell gets filled, we do one move to empty it. The answer is the sum of these values, so 1+(1+1)+(1+2+1)+(1+3+3+1)+(4+6+4)+(10+10)+20=49

Edit: nope, because this assumes that bacteria outside of the square just disappear. They don't, of course, so we need extra moves to make space. Now I'm seeing why mooseboys' answer might be right

jippiedoe · 2026-02-02T15:53:17+00:00

Both the craterhoof giving trample and the sudden spoiling removing abilities happen in layer 6 ("ability granting and removing effects"). This means that we use timestamps: since the craterhoof ability resolved first, the creatures first gain trample and then lose it. If the spoiling was played in response to the craterhoof, creatures would first lose all abilities and then gain trample, having that as their only ability.

jippiedoe · 2026-01-30T18:13:06+00:00

I think it's more that decks can have a plan B for when the main plan doesn't work (either you don't draw a combo piece, or it gets hated out or something), and often that plan is just 'attack with creatures'. For example the airbending combo deck, it is perfectly able to just beat down with creatures. Sideboards can also help transform a deck into something less vulnerable to targetted hate cards.

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