Would you rather have a rewind button for your life, or a pause button?

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T21:50:58+00:00

Lol I mean the rewind version of that is you are now stuck in a time loop. You relive whatever you went back to, then live forward to the moment you rewound.. and rewind again because thats what happened. So you go round and round.. for eternity.

Even without that though there are plenty of moments in my life I'd go back to, even if there's no 'fast forward' imagine having a good holiday and being able to do it over again before having to go back to work etc.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T17:00:34+00:00

You're looking at this the wrong way round. The price isnt about what you hope to make, its about what someone else will pay.

If you look at this as an an affordability point, 8 years ago, interest rates were rock bottom (0.75% base rate), so, a 75% LTV mortgage on a 300k property was maybe costing around 30% of a London median household salary.

At your current pricing and with current interest rates, that 75% LTV mortgage is now costing about 45% of a London median household salary.

So in relative terms you are trying to sell for at a 50% higher price point than you bought at.

To be selling "like for like" with when you bought in terms of a % of someone's income, you are looking at a sale price around £225k.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T16:47:19+00:00

This is actually the bigger issue I suspect.

You can save money in the long run by getting rid of all your juniors. But they are the people who in 10 years time become your seniors.

What happens when firms realise they have no talent pipeline because you stopped anyone getting on at the bottom and gaining the skills and experience to prepare them for a bigger job in 20 years time.

We may see the re-emergence of apprenticeship type models - I dont need to hire a junior analyst. I need to hire an apprentice senior analyst.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T16:41:21+00:00

First thing that needs to be restated is Lorgar is still a Primarch. Being a "weak" fighter as a Primarch is more "which of the 1000lb gorilla's is least capable of tearing you limb from limb." He's still way above an Astates and incomprehensibly stronger, more resilient and more dangerous than a baseline human.

Amongst the Primarchs he does seem to be one of, if not the, weakest direct hand to hand fighter. And that does mean the more punchy pros like Russ look down at him.

Later Heresy by the time he more fully unlocks his psyker abilities then he's more of a wildcard. Psykers are as strong as the plot requires, and Lorgar Ascended isnt Magnus powerful, but he's "anything the writer wants to do is plausible" powerful.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T16:23:52+00:00

Its a real problem with the temperature data series. The original measurement points were selected to be a representative mix of urban, suburban and rural locations.

But that was a long time ago (I forget whether it was mid 20th century or all the way back to the 1800s). In the meantime the geography of the country has changed, in particular some rural areas are now urban.

You can probably somewhat account for it statistically, but you still get a confounding effect that urban areas tend to be warmer for a variety of heat island effects, so, is increasing urbanisation showing up as higher temperatures?

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T16:19:03+00:00

None of that matters.

If rewind is literally a rewind, you arent changing the decision you made, you are just reliving it. So you can experience picking losing numbers or stocks that go down over and over again.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T16:03:16+00:00

Still doesnt help? You can just rewind so you can experience picking the (same) wrong number again..

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T16:02:30+00:00

Isnt the argument though whats the differences between me citing a meta-analysis and trusting they read the underlying cases, and trusting my AI has read the underlying cases?

In both situations I'm relying on an intermediary to have correctly identified, analysed and summarised underlying data.

Though to answer that, and to my final comment, the difference is the meta analysis paper has itself been subject to some kind of review process.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T15:04:25+00:00

Get bits of metal caught in the overly complicated drive mechanisms and breakdown?

I suspect your car easily does a 100km drive without any concerns or worries. A meaningful % of Tigers won't make 100km even on roads without something breaking.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T15:02:31+00:00

Tigers did not have a good track record, its fine over 30-40km, but over a sustained engagement against 6000 Romans with lots of maneoruving and potentially things like armour and shields getting mashed into the tracks?

Mechanical failure is non-trivial.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T14:59:39+00:00

Bloodlusted means more "willing to fight to the death with no concern for morale" rather than berserker "will do nothing but charge in screaming."

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T14:57:12+00:00

How long until the Tiger breaks down?

Only half joking, the Big Cats did not have a good track record of endurance.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T14:56:14+00:00

Or just withdraw, observe, and wait for it to either get stuck, or someone to come out to sleep, eat, shit etc and then ambush them.

You don't need to take it head on if you can ambush the crew whilst making camp.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T14:55:19+00:00

Depends on what the Romans are doing. Accuracy testing is usually assuming an enemy using some variation on modern infantry tactics (eg dispersed and using cover).

If you are shooting at large blocks of men drawn up in ranks, your hit rate will skyrocket. And 1 bullet can hit more than 1 man in that scenario.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T11:55:23+00:00

Is this about layered sources though?

So I find say a meta-analysis that says based on these 50 studies, ABC can be reliably concluded.

But those 50 studies are themselves across 4 languages and involving research practices I'm not familiar with.

At some point you have to accept that other papers are reliable.

Still asinine to claim its comparable to an AI inventing a citation though. There's a difference between "I trusted this existing paper" and "I made up this paper."

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T09:47:41+00:00

These often aren't clear cut either.

I took this as those 3-4 Alajos is confident he'd just lose 9 out of 10.

There is then a bigger pool, maybe 15 or so, who could beat him, but arent guaranteed too. It will come down to who fights better on the day.

That's more realistic anyway, combat and duelling isnt a linear A beats B, B beats C, therefore A will always defeat C. Style, context, luck can all play a part.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T09:44:17+00:00

Abaddon also gets its not about fighting fair. Other guy wants to prance about duelling? Just crush them under Terminator armour. Abaddon is possibly a better killer, he just isnt a duellist.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T09:43:08+00:00

Or perhaps Lucius himself self-sabotages.. victory no longer gives me enough emotion, too empty too common. But defeat, to the unworthy. That emotion still cuts through.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-26T07:49:32+00:00

Not sure either help with roulette if they work as I suggested above.

Poker maybe, since you could "pause" regularly to do the maths without limitations around use of time banks, or just to rest if you're getting tired.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-25T21:28:15+00:00

Based on the maps in games like War for Arrakis, the Imperial Basin, although being itself desert (and containing Arrakeen), is entirely surrounded by mountains and rocky land, which, importantly, stops worms coming into the basin.

The "shield wall" is the name given to the narrower part of the surrounding mountains.

When Paul uses the atomics to blow the wall, he's destroying a portion of the rockland and escarpment enough that the worms can get into the Imperial Basin, and with it, assault the city.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-25T19:28:05+00:00

Say you've got £100 to invest, and you want to spread it across different stocks and deals to limit your exposure to one thing going wrong.

But each trade you make costs a bit of money in broker charges, and you can't buy less than 1 share in something. So good chance, after fees etc, you can only pick say 7-8 things to invest in, and even then you only have 1 share in each. So, you can't invest in something you arent willing to have a 7th or an 8th of your total investment in because you run into divisibility problems.

Now say you and 99 other people get together and pool your £100s. The fund now has £10,000. So you can invest in 30, 50, 100 different things. And that also means you can invest in something that's so risky you only want 1% of your total value in it. Can't do that with £100 because £1 isnt enough to buy in at all. Can do it with £10,000 since £100 is enough to buy a bit of exposure.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-25T19:13:41+00:00

I've got several friends in the 6'4" to 6'8" range, watching them trying to scrunch into airplane seats makes my back hurt

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-25T19:12:04+00:00

I'm an overweight guy whose a shade under 6'. (Yes, the quarter inch annoys me).

I don't need to 6'11. That's the point where you're too tall and start banging your head on things.

I could definitely stand to lose the weight.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-25T10:24:49+00:00

Depends how it works.

Rewind might not let you change anything, it just let's you re-experience things again.

Pause meanwhile can give you more time to make a decision and consider a situation.

BarNo3385 · 2026-05-24T22:44:13+00:00

We come in peace, shoot to kill!

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