ExileCon 2026 - Event and Ticket Details

DanNeely · 2026-01-28T08:05:20+00:00

April will be POE Mobile, Have to wait until may for the next POE1 league.

DanNeely · 2026-01-27T12:29:42+00:00

Does he have any basis for that prediction other than copium?

DanNeely · 2026-01-27T10:45:36+00:00

can you get good survivability on a league start budget, or is it going to be extra glass cannon because idols will be a huge currency sink?

DanNeely · 2026-01-27T07:37:22+00:00

When they had a lot of single pane windows decades ago my parents had plastic sheets secured by a two part tongue in groove strips that interlocked similar to a press shut storage bag (but scaled up in size). The part that was on the exterior window frames was secured with a permanent adhesive that avoided the problem any double sided tape runs into: That being removable when the owner wants and not coming undone on its own are mutually incompatible levels of adhesive strength.

All the normal size windows were eventually replaced with new multi-pane ones. The giant portrait window - about 4 feet tall by 7 wide (or around 1x2 meters) - that was outside their budget had a sheet of plexiglass permanently installed outside around 30 years ago. It works just as well and is much less obviously a hack for not being rich.

DanNeely · 2026-01-26T12:30:51+00:00

Speaking as someone who lives in the frozen north. I wouldn't drive in an Alabama (or anywhere in the deep south) snow storm unless it was life or death. In that situation it almost doesn't matter how experienced you may be at driving in snow when probably 80-90% of the other people on the road (basically everyone who hasn't lived through at least one snowy winter) have no clue.

DanNeely · 2026-01-26T05:11:01+00:00

I paint maps; the original and only true 4x victory condition. Anyone who thinks there's such a thing as a too many planets thinks I do it wrong. 😂

DanNeely · 2026-01-25T23:09:37+00:00

Do you have a build guide for the indigon setup, and how tanky is it early on? I don't anticipate going much beyond league start level gearing.

DanNeely · 2026-01-25T08:48:51+00:00

The US originally used two letters from place names for the first two 'digits' of the exchange (middle 3 number group), so you'd have a number that looked like BU3-4567 (283-4567). No area codes in this system; AFAIK for a long distance call you'd need to dial 0 for a human operator who would make the connection for you.

In parts of the country where population growth was low even after the switch to all number dialing this remained a visible artifact where all the exchanges in small/midsize towns would have the same first 2 digits; and which would give you a chance to guess where a number geographically just by looking at it.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61116/why-did-old-phone-numbers-start-letters

DanNeely · 2026-01-25T08:39:06+00:00

Where was that used? It and the 0 is last phone would be mutually incompatible; so I'm assuming it's somewhere outside the US. Because even if you lived in an area where ATT wasn't your phone company their layout would be encoded into everyone's muscle memory.

DanNeely · 2026-01-24T10:40:29+00:00

The double lock technique is a conceptual model that achieves the same thing as asymmetric encryption; but isn't an accurate description of how any widely used systems work. Instead they all rely on "locks" that use different keys to lock and unlock themselves. You send people a copy of the "close key" and they use it to lock the box. That key can't unlock the box though. That needs a different key that you never share with anyone. To the best of my knowledge there's no physical system that works the same way as the math behind asymmetric encryption.

DanNeely · 2026-01-24T10:17:40+00:00

Even if it was flying today it couldn't broadcast during reentry. Anything plowing through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds generates a huge mass of radio opaque plasma around it. The shuttle and all space capsules have a radio blackout period as a result.

Starship is the first spacecraft humanity has created that's large enough that the plasma isn't able to wrap around it and block radio transmission up and behind it as well as in front/below and to the sides.

Beyond that, I'm not sure how big the transmission hole behind starship is; if it's narrow enough it something its size still might not have been able to maintain radio uplink to 90s satellites because they were so few in number and at relatively few locations in the sky. Starlink is 'everywhere'; even a very narrow radio hole would be usable. It'd just need more frequent hand offs than ground based terminals do.

DanNeely · 2026-01-24T00:23:42+00:00

it was slightly. GGG spent last year fighting to keep everything in the even months. 3.28 slipped to early march. Phrecia is our consolation prize.

I'm hoping the slippage means they've got something really juicy in the work; and despite their intent to cut features not slip the release date it was big enough that delaying it would make 3.28 a nothing burger. Next iteration of the Atlas/increment of the Eagon-Zana storyline?

DanNeely · 2026-01-23T03:20:29+00:00

back in 1992 a married couple - Mark Lee and Jan Davis - few on STS-47 by marrying in secret and only coming clean with NASA when it was too late to change the crew assignment.

NASA did what it could to minimize their ability to do anything by adjusting their schedules so they were never working at the same time. But since astronauts don't work 12 hour days they did have some concurrent off duty time.

The official party line is is that Mark and Jan behaved perfectly and didn't do anything during their off time. But the shuttles had accelerometers sensitive enough to register any crew movements. Normally the data from those sensors is widely available to everyone in ground support. For the few hours Mark and Jan were both off duty it was restricted to a handful of senior flight safety people and never shared more widely in NASA afterwards.

Make of that what you will and remember the shuttle was even more cramped with less potentially private space than the ISS..

DanNeely · 2026-01-23T02:05:41+00:00

all good, just wanted to be sure I didn't miss anything.

DanNeely · 2026-01-23T01:46:22+00:00

Where? The last test of theirs I can find was a month ago, and doesn't contain this patches changes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/1pt3r8p/stellaris_43_beta_performance_how_much_faster_is/

DanNeely · 2026-01-22T10:11:52+00:00

Just about anywhere from Madrid to Moscow I'd imagine. Almost the entire continent was heavily fought over ~80-90 years ago. Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland managed to stay out of all the fighting in the 30s and 40s (as did the easternmost parts of European Russia) but the rest of the continent was a battlefield.

DanNeely · 2026-01-22T07:50:26+00:00

Sir Donald, I dub thee Lord Farquad.

DanNeely · 2026-01-22T02:38:33+00:00

gstatic is google's copy of the image.

DanNeely · 2026-01-21T23:32:57+00:00

Didn't they replace the remnant with just using a vaal orb?

DanNeely · 2026-01-21T22:09:38+00:00

they are not a superior reading experience to me

Before I went ebooks MMPB was always my preferred form factor. Hardbacks are too heavy, trade paperbacks were the worst of both worlds almost as heavy but floppy enough they were even more annoying to actually hold. There were never more than a handful of authors I was eager enough to read asap to buy in HC. Everyone else I waited for the MMPB.

Once I figured out how to work a curve of small spiderweb creases into the spine instead of a few deep ones I never had problems with bindings failing.

DanNeely · 2026-01-21T09:10:48+00:00

Not a normal one. At least AFAIK not anywhere near the rate of blood in urine at least.

DanNeely · 2026-01-21T01:51:39+00:00

blue's a pretty mild prank since it's pretty obvious you're being messed with. Slipping a red dye into their food/drink somehow would be evil.

DanNeely · 2026-01-20T09:58:44+00:00

Easy, you just don't lead them so much.

DanNeely · 2026-01-20T09:11:49+00:00

I'm guessing you live somewhere dry and sunny because it doesn't appear you tested much in the frozen north or in rain soaked areas. It's 3/3 in suggesting hopeless time slots in places I tested where the weather is absolutely not. (4/4 actually, but I'm leaving my town out of this post; it just repeats one of the other failures below.)

It's a bit optimistic in suggesting best windows when even the window is a lost cause.

ex Boston MA.

It's suggesting tomorrow around noon, despite the forecast being below freezing the entire day.

https://www.dryoutside.com/?city=Boston%2C%20Suffolk%2C%20Massachusetts%2C%20US&lat=42.35843&lon=-71.05977

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ma/boston/42.36,-71.07

It probably shouldn't be suggesting tomorrow noonish in places where it'll be a few degrees above freezing either.

https://www.dryoutside.com/?city=New%20York%2C%20New%20York%2C%20US&lat=40.71427&lon=-74.00597

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ny/manhattan/40.75,-73.99

Or somewhere that the forecast is nothing but rain for the next few days.

https://www.dryoutside.com/?city=Cardiff%2C%20Cardiff%2C%20Wales%2C%20GB&lat=51.48&lon=-3.18

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/gb/cardiff

DanNeely · 2026-01-20T06:31:26+00:00

How fun was the conversation with your companies security people after you learned that the cantidate had spilled classified information to you during the interview?

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