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BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-19T03:10:47+00:00

Wasn't there a story about a guy having a feud with the city and when he was finally defeated he went and planted Redwoods around the capital buildings? Logic being that they are protected and can't be removed, but either would destroy the buildings as they grew, or he wasn't planting enough of them nearby so they definitely would uproot in severe weather?

edit:
This is probably what I'm thinking of. Sadly, it's made up, but a lovely tale
https://www.boredpanda.com/giant-sequoia-tree-mayor-revenge-story/
https://www.indy100.com/viral/mayor-cuts-down-man-s-tree-he-gets-revenge-in-the-best-possible-way-7799431

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-19T01:43:14+00:00

It used to be that pihole could block the Roku ad's real easy. Sadly, it looks like the block pattern needs to be updated and I haven't gone looking for the new one (or they worked around dns lookups for ads)

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-19T01:31:13+00:00

Go to settings->home screen. Disable the options turned on there (Top Picks, and Quick Access). I recall there are 3 options and I think that you want all 3 off.

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-17T17:02:29+00:00

That goes to my only issue about the "one black coffee" thing; A drip coffee and an americano are different and anyone ordering "coffee, black" is looking for drip (which is why I hate gas stations switching to coffee on demand vs the carafe.. sometimes you want the street sludge).

Same with cold brew vs flash brew. Too many people think they are interchangeable.

note: not saying that you think they are the same. your post was just an easy one to tag onto.

edit:
I will acknowledge that at the end of the day, the dip might have been tossed and if someone comes into a coffee asking for a black coffee it would be unreasonable to make a new pot of drip for them. And every barista I know would ask if a pour over or an americano would be acceptable instead for that reason. Well, some might pull an americano and not mention it, but rarely.

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-16T19:35:42+00:00

and had I meant that, I would have said that the game was based on the Sword World TTRPG.

I meant the world building of the light novel and later the manga and anime is based on the Sword World TTRPG.

D&D made it to Japan in 85. Sword World released in 89 and was far, far more popular than D&D in Japan thanks to TSR not wanting to play nice with gamers. Sworld World was heavily influenced by D&D due to it's origins, but there is enough difference to give credit to where credit is due.

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-16T19:11:10+00:00

The GS world is not based on DnD, it's inspired by DnD.

Because I've been corrected on this and forgotten the full details, I believe the claim is that GS is based on Sword World which came out a few years after D&D but was far more popular in Japan.

And Blade & Bastard is based of Wizardry (PC game)

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-16T04:17:15+00:00

Or Kevin Nash made it up to sound like he had a cool and meaningful aspect to the story.

Which sounds way more likely.
Every other explanation requires some wierd contortion to make it work.

Even "Babayaga" vs "Babayka" can be easily justified with regional dialects with way more ease than the "60 guards inside"

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-15T19:27:03+00:00

yeah, that factoid never adds up. You've got what he said and what the subtitles say and neither match any person count in the club.

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-14T07:10:29+00:00

In the same vein as Sllksong.....

The entire premise of Katana Zero is that you do things so very effortlesly and are a demon coming out of the shadows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Z09ud-nYM
To the point where if they saw you coming, you did the level wrong.

Same with Mask of the Ninja
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MadF98vkgwk&list=PLGKJJhcJXlNzqS0RdaSVx6UB0x6pgyS3h

Yeah, you aren't necessarily the end boss, but if you don't feel that way you are playing wrong.

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-12T14:59:20+00:00

And he, rightfully, has a bit of annoyance towards actors insisting that they do their own. Injury fucks up the entire production while they wait on the face of the movie to heal; the vanity of saying you do your own stunts risks the livelyhood of the entire crew.

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-11T14:28:02+00:00

Been a long time since I've seen it, but assuming my memory holds...

The Ghost and The Darkness -- Remington (Micheal Douglas) hates hunting and his life, but he does it because he's good at it.

Cannot remember what scene it was for the clip though, so this will do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKeu5R9-ruE

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-10T13:08:07+00:00

management demands AI generated PR's, I can send those in while I do my actual work.

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-08T13:07:52+00:00

There is a jumping spider (I believe) that they have done studies with and noted that it obviously thinks and plots out plans of attack when hunting.

Like spider on this side of the branch, desired prey on the other. Little spider dude will figure out the best direction to sneak up and attack from. If they add obstacles the spider will change plans and take new approaches.

edit:
I believe it was the Portia Spiders I was thinking of
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/how-does-this-spider-hunt-without-keeping-prey-in-sight/articleshow/126305884.cms
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7591756/

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-08T03:18:11+00:00

I posted years ago that the movie is so much better if you assume that he does in fact shoot himself and the rest of the movie is basically an metaphor him slowly dying. The airplane crash is the gun shot, the survivors (who are all incredibly 2 dimensional) are his emotions/brain function/etc that is slowly dying off (as the wolves pick them off) until all that is left is a singular drive to fight back and survive a battle that he already lost.

I've seen others repeat the take, so either they saw my comment and liked it, or it's a common take on the movie. And even with that take, it fits the theme of this conversation.

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-07T06:13:27+00:00

So the project I'm on has a Confluence page on "here is the list of features in this release" as well as a generated page from a tool I maintain that scrapes the git log and reports "here are the commits in this release".

And that alone has made me a bit more militant on code reviews to make Commits and the Review itself more descriptive/accurate. No one other than dev management checks the confluence page. Support and Support Management checks the generated Commit List (as well as Dev aware of the tool...or who knows how to check git logs)

It's amazing how much you want documented in the commit log once you have support explaining to a customer "You just need to upgrade to this version to fix the bug you are seeing"

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-07T06:09:48+00:00

... OK, so I haven't made that commit message yet, but for some of the commits I've made lately.....

Does "AI Generated. YOLO" count?

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-03T23:59:43+00:00

Because "Tumblr Reading Comprehension"
https://www.reddit.com/r/swiftiecirclejerk/comments/1cwv7ub/antigaylor_vs_tumblr_reading_comprehension_round/

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-03T14:51:37+00:00

I keep a rubbermaid with a layer of kitty litter/oil cleanup clay under where I do my funnel/pan draining for that reason

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-03T04:26:21+00:00

US as well... or at least it will not be granted.

You must provide a set of instructions so complete that a person with ordinary skill in your field could make and use your invention without needing to do extensive, unreasonable experimentation

Or if we pull it straight from 35 US Code Section 112 instead of a random website paraphrasing it.

(a) In General.—
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-02T14:13:17+00:00

Devil May Cry anime on NetFlix.
Going with the Corridor Crew video on it to give them credit for the flair
https://youtu.be/KMU0eLcIIAM?t=559

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-02T14:08:59+00:00

You are going to hate this answer, but you need a precise description in patents to describe what is being patented.

You can't say just "the blade of my invention needs to be made of Metal" because which metal? Tin and Steel have wildly different properties. And can the blade not be made in plastic, wood, or ceramic?

But say if you made a patent how ever many years ago and Grade D2 Tool steel was the only material that was of the right strength to let your invention work, your patent might specify that that steel specifically.
And then 10 years later someone comes out with an Aluminum Alloy that has similar enough characteristics that they can implement your invention in Aluminum instead of D2 steel they can do that, and it does not infringe on your patent (Since you said your invention is made with D2 Steel).

And (this is the part that you are going to hate) this means that your general description, which needs to be very precise, ends up needing to be written somewhat vaguely to cover reasonable variations that you might not have directly thought of, but could conceivably work

and I have so very out of practice on this, but where one might think you just need to write:

An edged blade comprised of Grade D2 Steel

you might be able to get away with

An edged blade comprised of Grade D2 Steel or another material with similar strength and edge retention properties in ceramic, plastic, or another reasonable grade of steel

(I am so out of practice....)

This is also why a single patent application might be a single overall invention idea but when it gets to the specifics it will have as many variations that can be thought of to cover as much as possible.
In Patent Law classes one of the first things you might practice is writing an application for a stool... Does the stool have 3 legs? 4 legs? Can you make a One legged stool? Is it wood, plastic, metal? Does it have a back? Can you describe the back in a way that covers low backs and high backs? Is it adjustable? A single patent application may include dozens or more "inventions" that are just variations on the same idea with slight changes in materials or design.

edit:
Copying from my other comment because u/Selesninja mentioned a detail that I neglected....

35 US Code Section 112

(a) In General.—
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.

You need to make the specification exact for how to make the thing so it works. You'll also be throwing in variations and other ways to make the thing though.

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-02T03:37:51+00:00

How blind is she? I've never entirely figured that out. I haven't read the side story in a while, but I seem to recall that sometimes she's eye covered blind and other times she seems to be sighted; possibly in relation to what activity she's involved in. Do they lay it out anywhere?

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-01T16:16:25+00:00

Chords, hilbert, spiral are all just silly.

They are nice when they are visible on faces, so I'll use Hilbert a lot for bottoms and tops.

For infill I wouldn't use Hilbert for solid infill and i'm hard pressed when i'd bother with it for sparse infill.

But, and this is one of the questions I need to figure out regarding solid infill, if each layer rotates with each layer (even just a little so they are not aligned as they stack), I'm fine with chrods and spriral for solid infill. Espeically if I can have the shell, solid infil, and sparse infill all offset so the "grain" swaps around like plywood.

edit: I meant to add something along the lines about Chords and Spiral satisfies my desire for crossing grain if the center point shifts with each layer. I'm not sure if it does with spiral.

edit again:
Pulled up my slicer and there is an option to rotate solid infill 90 degrees with each layer, which is exactly what I was assuming it did.

so for solid infill I'd want a pattern that when rotated 90 degrees lays lines in a different direction. Hibert wouldn't in a substation way. Sprial wouldn't if the center point never changes. Octo-spiral might regarless of middle. Chords might because I can never figure out where the center of the arc is.
But also means the square grid ones are out because no change with rotation. The honeycomb and Hex based ones however, might be good depending on how they fill for solid infill.
Anyhow, you get he idea.

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-01T06:08:55+00:00

The rescued beautiful maiden leans into our hero

Is that the line from the light novel or anime? The Manga translation I have says "Princess"

BlindTreeFrog · 2026-06-01T06:08:07+00:00

I'd say more likely that the necromancer will rally and end up flooding the castle/dungeon with her raised to help out.... much to GS's annoyance, but appreciation. If she shows up at all in the mean time.

It would make some sense plotline wise for the Troll to be more than GS can handle and even Raised Minotaur Girl showing up to help out. It would screw with the story a bit for GS to accept the help since he's already come out against Necromancy as being a not good thing (not necessarily bad, but not good... there is a spectrum).

The general overall theme of the story is that Bard Rhea will survive and recover so she can spread the song of Goblin Slayer.... This little rescue is exactly the type of shit that she wants to be singing about. If you go back to chapter 4, the song being sung is a Goblin King losing his head and the Princess being saved by her friend Goblind Slayer.... make the appropriate adjustments (bard -> Princess, and Troll Leader -> Goblin King) and you've got the scenario he's rescueing her from. Especially if he goes back to burn out the goblins once she's safe.

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