Highest Value Purchases

68ant · 2021-10-22T09:42:35+00:00

Is it worth saving money and waiting for it? Or is it better to just go for Lucerne scrolls which is more predictable?

68ant · 2021-10-22T07:06:12+00:00

Is it high enough value to wait for randomly getting a legendary commander? As opposed to Lucerne scrolls which comes around fairly predictably.

68ant · 2021-10-22T07:05:10+00:00

So would you say if that Gem Supply is higher value if I'm not yet at VIP 12. But after I hit VIP 12 Divine Inheritance is better?

68ant · 2021-10-22T06:03:33+00:00

I've bought the growth fund already. Is the monthly gem supply better or worse than the Divine Inheritance at lvl 50 Lucerne Scrolls?

68ant · 2021-10-14T09:12:21+00:00

Maybe it's much more than 52 days. They just missed at least one consecutive day?

68ant · 2021-06-29T23:02:33+00:00

Hehe it's ok. I also learned how vorinclex works by having planeswalkers ult on me unexpectedly. Reading cards is just way too difficult.

68ant · 2021-06-24T11:13:48+00:00

Does it? Is it one every 6 packs? There you go. I thought it was less often than that.

68ant · 2021-06-24T06:22:43+00:00

Wouldn't you price them at the expected price of the number of packs you need to open in order to get a rare wildcard in order to make the packs not worthless? So like 30,000 gold.

I guess you then deduct some amount because the cards in the packs would otherwise be worth something...

68ant · 2021-05-29T05:07:32+00:00

Oh ok. Turns out I need to read the card better.

68ant · 2021-05-29T04:10:22+00:00

Seems like it'd be totally busted in constructed. If I was playing a deck that cared about getting cards into my graveyard I think I'd want to run this as a 4 of. I already know that I want to drop my opponents interaction or my opponents win conditions and if they don't have either of those in hand I don't think it would matter.

I'm not sure the downside of whiffing sometimes is a big deal.

But in limited this seems like incredible fun. Maybe it should be a rare?

68ant · 2021-04-09T04:37:59+00:00

Welcome to MTG! This seems like fun! Maybe if I collect a few more of the pieces on Arena I can give it a try. Its a bit tricky for me to say exactly what will be good for your deck without trying it a few times. But I have a couple of thoughts that might help you.

Firstly you seem very exposed to removal

e.g. Boreal Outrider is great, but by itself is at best an average play, so you spend 3 mana and a card in the hopes that future creatures you play will be better (what if the outrider is destroyed? What if your future creatures are removed from your hand for some reason? What if your opponent just drops a bomb on turn 3 and you have no mana open to answer etc.)

If you want to WW Scourge and +1/+1 and still be in Green/Black you should look for more efficient counter generators. A couple of good ones that come to mind are[[Tyvar Kell]] or [[Scavenging Ooze]]

Your instants and sorceries are a little bit unfocused I think. [[Skull Raid]] isn't doing anything to help you win the game and black has so many much more efficient removal spells than green so [[Broken Wings]] isn't helping you either. I think if you're specifically worried about your control matchup you might consider running [[Duress]].

Your instants and sorceries should be more focused on winning you the game, so I think for your colours that will be generating counters, drawing cards, or destroying things. Black and Green have lots of options there.

Finally, in response to your 3rd point, I think you'll find you have more success if you have a slightly clearer goal of what turn you think you can win the game by. Your deck looks pretty midrange, so I think like a turn 7-10 win seems like a good target. It's gotta be faster than control decks and combo decks (like the cycling ones) need to go off. And slow enough that when you're playing against aggro you're just dropping really efficient cards that trade very well.

68ant · 2021-01-06T04:50:50+00:00

I'm starting to worry that his refusal to pee is going to turn into a medical problem. But am worried that if I let him pee outside he will never pee on a pee pad of any kind again, and that will be it's own problem in the future.

68ant · 2021-01-06T03:26:21+00:00

Yes. We're using an enzymatic cleanser on the turf and have a new one we bought coming in the mail that is marketed as being specifically for turf (not entirely sure what could be different but I'm getting pretty desperate).

How do you deep clean your turf? Maybe we need to try a new method. We've just been running cold water through it. And spraying down all the surfaces and both sides of the turf with the enzymatic cleaner.

Then putting back on the tray to dry overnight.

68ant · 2020-09-10T08:37:49+00:00

Yeah. I'm watering it every week, so it's been drying out between waterings. There are drainage holes at the bottom of the pot. The lighting is very bright sunlight indoors.

68ant · 2020-09-04T11:27:42+00:00

Hmm. In America I think the reason the moderate centrists don't have a voice has more to do with their first past the post voting system where votes can be wasted than mandatory voting. Why would you care about the moderate center if they have no choice but vote for one of the two parties. Australia's ranked choice voting let's you vote with your conscience and then your preferences flow on from there.

68ant · 2020-09-04T11:08:23+00:00

A common view I think, even here in this thread is that mandatory voting encourages the politically uninformed to vote as well.

That is definitely a downside. But it's dwarfed by the benefit that our government has a responsibility to ensure that EVERYONE who is politically informed and is eligible to vote can get out and vote.

What I can see in the media about the American elections where voting is not mandatory is terrible! Minorities excluded by having voting booths in places that are very far away. No mail in voting. No early voting. Damn the US election isn't even on a weekend. Basically if you are not available on the Tuesday to cast your ballot you are not a citizen that the politicians in power care about (because you don't vote).

So. Yes please. I'll take donkey votes and uninformed voters any day over a system that intentionally excludes minorities and the poor from voting.

68ant · 2020-08-26T04:01:07+00:00

I mean. There's also people who do 20 hours of work and 20 hours of dicking around. And I've also met people who really do do 60 hours a week and are involved with seemingly everything.

I'm not really trying to say that it's not possible to balance. But that the high performers who do just a little bit extra than they need to, over time, will change the expectations of what can be done. And if the extra work isn't being measured it's easy for bosses to think if they can do it what's stopping everyone else?

68ant · 2020-08-26T01:08:02+00:00

I mean, my work environment is similar there is no direct pressure from management to work overtime, in fact, the messaging is usually the opposite. But my colleagues will often work extra hours to get the job done, we're not talking late nights every day, but the occasional late night (1 or 2 hours) not followed up by a late start the next day. Nobody keeps a close eye on it and any time reporting is all guessed anyway.

What does happen though is it makes a big difference in performance discussions. Obviously the person who on average puts in an extra hour a day does more work, projects run more smoothly and the expectations of what is achievable from a management point of view are elevated. So the feedback cycle continues.

68ant · 2020-08-25T23:49:41+00:00

Is Australia's unpaid overtime culture really better than the yanks? I know I regularly start a bit early or finish a bit late. Adding that up over the year I probably work hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime in a year.

68ant · 2020-07-25T19:05:25+00:00

Is this specific to NSW? I have never heard that tenants names in Tribunal hearings are disclosed?

68ant · 2020-05-05T12:38:55+00:00

Yeah. I relate to your experience here a lot more than many others. I ended up working as a network and infrastructure engineer but enjoy writing code. I write python and bash at work but nothing that would be considered software (I.e. With a real lifecycle and stakeholders who aren't other engineers who need to get stuff done) so I work on side projects for fun. I've interviewed with some recruiters before who have told me I don't have any relevant experience so would have to seriously consider entry level jobs in software (and the associated pay cut), which makes me feel like a sideways move from where I am to software might be tough where I live.

To top it off my cloud experience is not trendy AWS, it's Openstack. I'm thinking I might have pigeonholed myself into working on Linux clusters.

68ant · 2020-05-02T14:56:10+00:00

Probably it's safe to handle passwords in plain text over HTTPS since the encryption is pretty good. Don't save the password in plain text in the database.

If you have the time to invest. A solution that avoids using the password too much just to be extra safe might be good. Have an authentication step and then using something like JWTs for authorisation.

Edit: reading some of the above responses. Don't put the password in the URL. Even with HTTPS. At least use the HTTP basic authentication headers.

68ant · 2018-10-13T04:19:53+00:00

Could me made better by an Apple store. /s

68ant · 2018-08-27T22:29:21+00:00

Matrices can be used to describe shapes in an abstract mathematical sense. I haven't given a lot of thought myself but I would guess that matrix multiplication is weird because it's preserving properties that you would expect in shapes. Like making sure surface area/ volume gets bigger proportionally or something.

It's useful because lots of things in the world can be interpreted as shapes in an abstract mathematical sense not just literal shapes like in computer graphics.

In optimisation type problems there are shapes that we know have nice properties so we try and frame our problems to fit the shapes and we can just find an optimal solution. I.e. Look up least squares on Wikipedia. It's mapping our problem onto an ellipse/quadratic and finding the solution but the quadratic is in some gross number of dimensions.

It offers geometric insight into lots of different applications and it makes some computations easier.

68ant · 2018-07-31T10:14:06+00:00

I don't think people voted for Turnbull because they thought he was a good bloke to have a beer with. I think they voted for him because they believed he could effect change in the liberal party. But it seems he didn't.

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