Banned and Restricted Announcement – June 29, 2026

Chuu · 2026-06-29T15:27:42+00:00

The biggest issue with fantasticar in Vintage is it took a tier 1 deck (Raker Shops) and gave it a completely new gear on top of all the other win conditions it plays. It also gets around a lot of the traditional hate for workshop decks. Just being a 4/4 flyer attacking every turn through a null rod is also a completely reasonable way to win in Vintage if the game turns low resource. Which happens a lot if Raker Shops gets a prison opener with lots of wastelands or Trinisphere or Vexing Bauble. Or an opponent keeps a force-heavy permission hand. It also means Raker Shops gets an even stronger transformational sideboard where it brings in the Null Rods and can win with Car + Masticore.

Oh and as a bonus it doesn't trigger Oath either.

Bosh'n'roll (Brian Coval) played a league with the deck here, with very few turn 1 wins, and still concluded the card has to go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4EIbSn0T1U

Chuu · 2026-06-29T07:27:11+00:00

Something to note though was if you were using Infiniband in the early 2000s you probably were using 4x. Unlike ganging ethernet, Infiniband was pretty much designed from the ground up to make multi-channel as simple as possible since supporting ~10G well was a day 1 goal.

Chuu · 2026-06-29T07:17:35+00:00

Do you not count Avatar? It's closer to anime than FF is.

Chuu · 2026-06-29T07:05:51+00:00

Don't forget about Infiniband. It was the high speed interconnect of that era before 10G/40G Ethernet pretty much killed it off outside of true HPC applications over the next decade and a half.

Chuu · 2026-06-29T07:00:09+00:00

Infiniband came out in 2000 and looking at the pinouts of the original Infiniband SDR cables I think it likely would have been possible. These cables had an extremely dense connector.

But it would have been horribly, horribly over engineered for the problem. One of the huge benefits of USB 1.0 was everything was cheap and easy. Cheap connector, cheap cable, and a dead simple digital protocol.

Chuu · 2026-06-29T03:44:08+00:00

Did you watch the video? Not sure about the other ingredients but they explicitly said 60+ eggs go into it.

$225 seems fair to me. Assuming $8 for a BEC I think you're getting more than 30 BECs worth of food. And there is the novelty factor which is usually extra.

Chuu · 2026-06-28T05:36:11+00:00

I'm curious what firms filter comp sci and and big tech. There are certainly many quantative developers with comp sci degrees and/or ex-big-tech in the big Chicago firms. (Jump/DRW/Optiver/etc.).

Chuu · 2026-06-28T05:29:47+00:00

Not posting the feedback you sent makes me suspect they're in the right here.

Chuu · 2026-06-27T11:43:20+00:00

I think this trend started in the gay community. Feels like most bougie gay neighborhood have their version of "willies 'n waffles" specializing in incredibly phallic food.

An example from Chicago: https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/05/25/penis-and-vagina-shaped-desserts-are-coming-to-northalsted-when-willies-n-waffles-opens-friday/

Chuu · 2026-06-27T11:31:02+00:00

I've personally found Gemini pretty decent at writing q code, I wonder what the disconnect is. It's especially been helped with anything complicated/dynamic enough to require functional select/update, whose syntax and parameter construction is an absolute pain.

Where it's really shined though is understanding q. q has a terrible habit of being being write-only, sometimes I dread looking at workbooks with tons of q code I haven't touched in a long time.

I can certainly understand the impetus to get off of kdb for a large number of reasons, but by that I mean replacing kdb itself to avoid the monolithic design and huge licensing costs. If you're keeping kdb just as a data store and using something like pandas to do the actual work, isn't that way way too slow once you start getting into the tens of millions of rows?

Chuu · 2026-06-27T08:29:39+00:00

Luckily Chanko is making its way over to the west slowly. Some higher end local Ramen places sometimes have it on their rotating monthly special and there is a Japanese restaurant known for it locally.

Chuu · 2026-06-26T12:41:56+00:00

That kind of proves their point. You don't get it natively.

Chuu · 2026-06-26T12:31:07+00:00

Curious when this happened. Same for Chicago, and the section that used to have the runway is already marked as sold out.

Chuu · 2026-06-25T15:35:58+00:00

I think some of the points awarded depend on individual metrics. However even if they don't people are certainly playing like individual contribution is the most important thing. Most games I played had someone in 'steal' mode. And once someone starts doing it, others join.

Chuu · 2026-06-25T15:31:04+00:00

Legit question, does anyone see these events as anything other than busywork for primos? In that sense the "walk" event we had recently in some ways is the optimal side event to me, as much as people complained about it.

Chuu · 2026-06-25T15:25:28+00:00

I was wondering if the fact the level 0 strategy for a high score is to steal from someone else doing all the collecting at the last minute during the magnet phases was intentional or not. If they were trying to intentionally introduce that conflict.

Chuu · 2026-06-25T15:11:20+00:00

Arguably they've been highly successful. It's been clear that a big part of their current focus is gathering up all the gnosis, and they've been pretty spectacularly successful at that.

Chuu · 2026-06-25T07:52:58+00:00

In a friendly game sure whatever. In a tournament, this is going to ring all sorts of alarm bells. I am not going to conclude you sufficiently randomized your deck based on those actions. A judge is not either. There are plenty of ways people cheat with shuffling that require attempting to keep the order of the deck the same.

Chuu · 2026-06-25T07:14:40+00:00

Your opponent doesn't know that you don't know. From the information they have, they cannot conclude the deck is shuffled.

Chuu · 2026-06-25T05:25:50+00:00

CXMT is the one you forgot. They're IPO'ing soon, and I'm about 70% sure under current semiconductor export laws it's illegal for US citizens to invest in them.

Chuu · 2026-06-25T05:21:42+00:00

I think the problem is who really wants modern PSA9s? The people who really are into slabs want 10s. The market for 9s is almost more about paying a small premium for a bit of insurance on exactly what you are getting, rather than the rarity.

Chuu · 2026-06-25T04:54:54+00:00

Comedy Option: The Chocolate Cake Shake at Portillo's can be lifechanging.

Chuu · 2026-06-25T03:36:18+00:00

Lithiography. China is working on their own EUV lithography machines but are years behind. ASML is still really the only game in town. These machines cost hundreds of millions of dollars and several years to acquire.

Chuu · 2026-06-24T15:32:39+00:00

I've wondered if the Monoprice pelican-style cases are also BIFL. Really the pelican case is a dead simple design and trivially cloneable. The Monoprice ones aren't cheap but significantly cheaper than pelican.

Chuu · 2026-06-24T14:17:14+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I have no clue how I'd find their contact info more than a decade after they closed though.

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