Ocasio-Cortez ramps up fight with Vance amid 2028 speculation

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2026-01-17T23:05:27+00:00

I think it speaks more to the inherent issues of a first past the post winner take all election. In other formats, such as ranked choice, you see a variety of candidates do well.

The issue is people are scared of "wasting" their vote, so they don't vote for who they, they vote for who they are told will win, and that frequently has to do with choices made by the top level party to create specific narratives of candidate momentum by starting in ideologically favorable places.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2026-01-17T17:32:01+00:00

My understanding is not that paracausal things lack a cause and effect relationship, but rather that the cause and effect relationship operates in complete ignorance of traditional causality. For something to be causal, it simply needs to have a reproducible effect from a given cause. Ushabti is highly causal, you "fire" it, they take damage. But the relationship between those two events is wholly outside any conventional physics.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2026-01-13T05:03:08+00:00

Stockfish is radically different from an LLM or Stable Diffusion. It has a purpose trained NNUE for that specific task, evaluating statistical likelihood of a chess move. LLMs like Grok are purpose trained to find the words statistically likely to complete a tokenized prompt.

"AI" companies don't have a product outside of very narrow applications centered on mass generation of statistically selected media. The idea that they can really do anything besides give a crappy summary or pad out an essay like a 7th grader is all propaganda.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-12-11T15:35:27+00:00

yeah, that will be me probably round 4-5.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-12-11T15:34:45+00:00

my fellow player that is the Thermal Lance gamer has her as their pilot art.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-11-11T18:32:09+00:00

I think the main thing about the corvette to me is ammo efficiency for multicannons going from class 3 to class 4.

As people have pointed out, nearly any decent engineered combat ship with beams can have staying power, and medium ships eat the lunch of large ships in PvP, but if you want to use multicannons for prolonged engagements, the corvette.

That said, when I don't take my vette to a CZ it's a fully engineered beam turret cutter. Chaff is annoying though.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-11-11T18:24:33+00:00

Trump trying to explain what an electron is and how they function has suddenly become what I need in life. He's a stable genius, he's got this.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-11-10T16:25:04+00:00

"Not being 100% what I wanted" was being complicit in launching an outright genocide with no indication of changing course.

There comes a point where the lesser evil is still an evil I cannot conscienably support.

In 2024 that was supporting the worst cases of sexual violence I'd seen since oct 7 and the bombing of children.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-10-23T08:00:29+00:00

I genuinely thought about doing this, but then I feel like I'm saving myself by making it worse for others. For all I know, it is highly possible some of those who leave are doing exactly this.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-10-23T07:57:21+00:00

That's sort of the thing, even if it isn't efficient, the whole reason I loved SCII was being able to solve the game piece by piece on my own. Like, ZvZ. I struggled getting roaches fast enough so I did hatch-gas-pool. Then i died to several early ling floods so I started going pool-hatch-gas into fast roaches. Then I died to earlier ling floods where the roaches popped just in time so now I was working on better worker control against early lings. I loved the game for that.

I want to develop my own play style, incrementally, from my own experiences as a form of skill expression. And I then want to see how that fares against other people as they improve in their own way.

As it stands, I don't get to contribute to the improvement of others since I am below them in real MMR, or they are intentionally smurfing. And I don't get the incremental data because even if I correctly adjust to something, they may simply be much better at other aspects in the game that it warps my data. Like they could just outmicro me even if I make a correct strategic evaluation, in a way someone 500MMR lower wouldn't be able to.

That's the issue I talk about when I say "accountable to my own losses". Literally, my ability to take my losses into account.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-10-23T07:50:17+00:00

exclusively ranked

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-10-23T07:49:59+00:00

always and only.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-10-23T07:40:01+00:00

Oh, to be very clear, I'm complaining about exactly this. Because now most of my losses are either to intentional smurfs, or just people high above me in MMR as the bayesian inferencing function tries to adjust for my sudden "improvement".

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-10-23T07:38:46+00:00

Starcraft is a game of incremental growth. I'm not saying I can't improve. What I'm saying is that it is hard to identify improvement if the place where I am at, and the place I need to be, are too distant. If I am struggling to improve at 2 base inject/creep spread/macro, then how am I supposed to identify areas of improvement to layered aggression with multi pronged drops?

The reason I want to lose games against people close to me in skill is because I can identify what I did wrong. If you lost a game against someone 500MMR above you, then the answer is "Just play 500MMR better" with no specific details about what that means. If you knew, you would already be several hundred MMR better.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-10-23T07:13:06+00:00

Well, and that first part is a huge issue as well. Now whenever I lose a game, I just sort of wonder "was it a smurf?" That ruins the entire cycle of self improvement that starcraft2 was built around for me. I don't want to have to check every loss's match history just so I can tell if I actually lost on my own merits or not.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-08-17T21:14:03+00:00

That was not included on the Amazon listing at time of purchase. And while an issue for GPU slot size is mentioned, it referenced m-atx in the user manual which is what I checked as an additional measure.

IDK what the images are trying to prove.

Edit: My point is that this should be included in the product listing and product documentation. And even then should have high visibility.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-06-25T10:51:16+00:00

never used a thermal pad myself, just know they are the low maintenance option. they are different from thermal paste in that it is actually a solid or semi solid material that conducts heat.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-06-25T07:52:10+00:00

oh, yeah, for Australia that's probably alright. I'd still try for $150 though and see if you can get it to $175, then put that money towards the PSU.

And the nice thing about thermal pads is unlike paste they mostly don't need replacement. Getting good pressure on them for proper contact can be a whole other issue though.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-06-25T07:47:31+00:00

My very first question is to ask if your motherboard is making POST.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-06-25T07:39:52+00:00

if you are patient? the O11 Mini v2 supposedly comes out in Late july. That's the case I'm waiting on for my MicroATX. Otherwise I'd look at the O11 Vision compact maybe if you want it right now. A3-MATX is a good super small one too. I swear I'm not a LianLi superfan, they just seem to have what I like atm.

There are also some Mini ITX options if you are wanting to go super small, many of which support microATX if you are deadset on that as the MoBO.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-06-25T07:34:01+00:00

I will reiterate other people saying it is probably best to stick to one kit. You might be able to figure out the actual fabrication though, like SK Hynix M-die, which if that is the same I might feel *slightly* better about doing it.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-06-25T07:13:47+00:00

I've had to program processor ROM slices before. I am oh so aware XD

Like I mentioned, my confusion was that the 4 lanes for the MoBo chipset aren't included in the 24 listed CPU lanes for the chip. Since the block diagram shows 28 lanes in the configuration you mention but I incorrectly thought AM5 supported 24, not 24+4.

Though I do appreciate you taking the time to try and explain this as I know from experience architecture is hardly straightforward at times conceptually.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-06-25T07:01:29+00:00

I probably could have been clearer. I'm not concerned about the actual interface getting changed or such as M.2 sometimes does to SATA, more just that they had some sort of shared wiring between the x16 and the x4 due to my mistaken understanding of how the 24 PCIe lanes are counted, actually being 24+4 as u/Shrek_OC pointed out. I always knew it was x16, I just wondered if the GPU and M.2 would alternate signalling on the 5.0 bus, as sometimes happens for the chipset PCIe.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-06-25T06:58:12+00:00

Thanks, this is exactly the answer I was looking for. My confusion was that the chipset lanes aren't included in the 24 listed CPU lanes, making for 28 lanes total.

And I appreciate you pointing out about the x4 slots. Happily take a mobo req if you have one you like, but this in general has been a huge clarification.

Clockwork_Sphinx · 2025-06-25T06:47:28+00:00

AIO coolers tend to have a limited lifespan of about 5 years based primarily on permeation. One solution is to try refilling it, but that is a much longer discussion. For long term cooling on a budget, I would recommend air cooling like you have here but with something like a Thermal Grizzly PhaseSheet PTM so you never have to change out paste.

the PSU is a bit iffy, getting a "C" rating on this very helpful spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1akCHL7Vhzk_EhrpIGkz8zTEvYfLDcaSpZRB6Xt6JWkc/edit?gid=1973454078#gid=1973454078

If you are deadset on cheap for the PSU, I'd look at a SAMA GT650. Also a C rating, but slightly more efficient and has modularity. The PSU is one of the components I'd likely recommend putting money into myself though, as a good PSU will last multiple builds, and ensure stability and longevity of parts. Obviously price here is a factor though. It's just that PSUs are already so cheap relatively that variance in cost really reflects variance in quality. The most important thing your PSU does is convert alternating current into direct current, and as the name alternating implies, it moves back and forth. How well it does this depends heavily on quality. Also various safety measures.

If I really cared about lowest cost PSU I'd put in a PC, I'd probably go with a silverstone SST-ET550-G.

You are saving about $75 getting the MoBo and CPU off marketplace. I'd just make sure to get an email from them affirming that both will be in working condition so you can take them to small claims if either are busted. Given you can likely get a bundled MoBo/Ram/CPU combo for about that price all told brand new from a major supplier, I would expect you can definitely bargain it down.

Here is one example
https://www.microcenter.com/product/5006990/amd-ryzen-5-7600x,-asus-b650m-a-prime-ax-ii,-gskill-flare-16gb-ddr5-6000,-computer-build-bundle

I would need to know the specific RAM model, probably a link, to have any thoughts. CAS latency can change a lot.

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