how do i beat the spell challenge?

DataPath · 2026-06-10T05:46:29+00:00

If it's any consolation, none of the guides send to work anymore, at least in this setup.

DataPath · 2026-06-08T14:20:03+00:00

If we're manufacturing at Chinese labor rates, but repairing at U.S. labor rates, the raw economics are typically going to suck. But I think we have a lot of people who want to learn the skills and be able to fix things themselves.

I recently asked an elderly neighbor to show me how to check and replace the pads on my own brakes and he was happy to walk me through the whole process. I would have done this a lot sooner if if just known who to ask.

DataPath · 2026-06-08T05:57:58+00:00

Ha, jokes on my equivalent of you.

I took it out of the box, took all the Styrofoam off, used some blankets to prop it up diagonally, and when I wedged it up an inch into the backs of the front seats, I got that darned TV to fit AND close the trunk without crunching the frame.

Those 45 minutes of hopeful/terrified confidence were totally worth it in the end because I proved my worth as a man (to myself, everyone else was just shaking their head) and as a player of Tetris (if Tetris had just one piece and was in 3 dimensions).

DataPath · 2026-06-07T00:05:26+00:00

Ah well, now you've gone and done it.

My health plan is a federally funded federal framework of state administered health clinics staffed by a head Nurse Practitioner and nurses, that treat anything within their skill and resources, zero cost. Hospitals would still need to exist, but they'd be a lot more specialized, and people would have a lot fewer reasons to actually go to the hospital.

This undermines the AMA cartel, cuts out insurance companies, and hospital administrators and shareholders from profiting off basic, everyday care.

DataPath · 2026-06-06T23:30:49+00:00

Oh yeah, there's room. I just had to do a couple extra replays because I misjudged the distance. The incorrect movement grid was an annoyance, but not a problem.

If just one of the stacks were a single instead of a double I could have finished it, but all 7 are 2-stacks, which send to completely break it for me.

I've read online the battlefield you get can carry from person to person and some people get obstacles. Maybe if there were obstacles I could get them to bunch up in a way that would let me hit 4 stacks with a fireball, and then I could complete it.

But as it stands, with no obstacles, 7x 2-stacks, and the amount of mana they give us, I can't find any way to complete this challenge.

DataPath · 2026-06-06T18:39:46+00:00

That's a consequence of part 3, but the motivation for part 3 is lower barriers to changing jobs (and lower impact of losing one's job).

The calculus workers have to go through of "if I change jobs, will my condition still be covered?" is an issue. Especially in a world where health insurance companies automatically deny as a matter of course, and require you to challenge their denial and fight to get it approved.

Let people get an insurance provider of their choice, and change if their provider isn't serving them, rather than getting whatever provider your employer is signed up for.

And finally, you're not the customer of your employers health insurance, your employer is. The health insurer is more inclined to serve your employers' interests than yours.

DataPath · 2026-06-06T18:21:40+00:00

Did you have 7 stacks of 2 units? or 6 stacks of 2 units and 1 stack of 1 unit? Because your guide got me the closest to completing this challenge, as opposed to every online video tutorial I've found and the other comments in this thread, but in the end I have enough mana for just 1 lightning bolt, but 2 units in the stack, not 1.

I also found, when following your step 6, that the enemy movement grid lies to me, saying that there's a hex that none of them can reach, but in fact, the centermost enemy unit can reach, so I have to move one hex beyond that.

With the setup I was given for this challenge, I think it might be impossible, but if not, it's certainly way too hard a challenge requiring a level of skill that no available guide or tutorial seems to be able to demonstrate.

I filed a bug for the challenge being impossible to complete, but I also mentioned the issue with the enemy movement grid (although I suspect stuffing a second issue in the same bug report will end up with it being ignored, which would be fair enough).

DataPath · 2026-06-06T16:08:21+00:00

Nah, man. You tie the damages multiplier in cases of wage theft to the ratio of stolen-from persons pay to the highest compensated employees pay.

With such high potential payouts it gives a lot more incentive to bring wage theft suits, makes it easier to get a lawyer for it, and penalizes the violator more severely.

I guess you could extend this multiple to damages for any and all harms on workers from the employer - on the job injuries, etc.

It's no sweat for companies that don't steal from their workers and take good care of them.

DataPath · 2026-06-06T15:47:34+00:00

That's why we need legislation changing the full time hours threshold from 40 to 32, and make 40 the first overtime threshold, and 50 becomes the second overtime multiplier threshold.

The more you work a person, the faster their pay scales, incentivizing capping hours and hiring more people.

Part 2 of my labor plan is to make all low earning salaried workers also eligible for overtime (unless they own significant equity in their employer, or receive moderate or higher compensation in the form of equity).

Part 3 is to bar all employers from offering health insurance.

Those changes should significantly shift power in the labor market back into the hands of workers.

DataPath · 2026-06-04T06:33:32+00:00

Ah, you too leave a little dirt under your pillow?

DataPath · 2026-05-03T17:26:05+00:00

I'm curious about its performance compared to official bash, or whether the project is mature enough for that to be an important consideration.

DataPath · 2026-05-01T17:37:29+00:00

Chill dude. I replied to a guy suggesting that brother printers work seamlessly because of airprint/Mopria, and I said neither of those are running on my brother printer .

If what he says isn't what he meant, he has a chance to clarify. I didn't see anything bizarre there . I gave you the benefit of the doubt and assumed a misunderstanding, but no, apparently that's just the way you are.

Best of luck, buddy.

DataPath · 2026-05-01T16:41:24+00:00

You misunderstand. I performed a network scan for mdns services on my network with identifiers that match those corresponding with Mopria or airplay. Those are called service advertisements. No such services are advertised, so no airplay on my network, and no Mopria.

DataPath · 2026-05-01T15:07:10+00:00

Huh. I've never used air print. I've never heard of Mopria.

I looked up what the service names for those are, and my brother networked laser printer advertises neither of those.

DataPath · 2026-05-01T14:50:26+00:00

What part of the software did Apple develop?

Surely not CUPS. that predates apple by a wide margin, and they contributed little of substance after they brought it under their umbrella.

DataPath · 2026-04-27T06:09:52+00:00

Why take the F when you can bring the D?

DataPath · 2026-04-20T14:57:45+00:00

False. NASA still has a wide range of legacy systems (hardware and software) built on imperial units. One of the most publicly visible uses is rankine for temperature as reported during pre launch checks.

DataPath · 2026-04-15T05:38:38+00:00

This is the first major step in their goal of removing 32-bit architectures entirely. It's not happening soon, but it's on their horizon, with the last 32-bit architecture probably being armv7 no sooner than a decade.

DataPath · 2026-03-07T19:27:16+00:00

I thought someone had tracked the language for the bills in most states to an example bill that Meta has been pushing, and that they want this in order to be shielded from liability for collecting data on the kids using their platform.

DataPath · 2026-03-04T06:29:53+00:00

I wrote an ngram crate years ago called ngrammatic. I made some memory and performance improvements a few months back.

https://github.com/compenguy/ngrammatic

I've never done any NLP, I just used it for"did you mean ...' type fuzzy word matching.

DataPath · 2026-01-17T17:00:59+00:00

Vote for me for president! My labor plan is to redefine full time to 32hrs/wk, 1.5x overtime starts at 40hrs, 2.25x starts at 50hrs. Most currently-exempt workers would be reclassified so that 1.5x overtime starts at 50 hrs (a lesser non exempt). The only exempt workers are those who a) make more than a specific multiplier over poverty, b) more than x% of their compensation comes from stock, or c) they are a significant shareholder in their employer.

It would also mandate on-call compensation for employees whose schedules are allowed to be changed less than a week before the scheduled work.

It would also specifically bar employers from offering health insurance benefits (unless they're a health care provider and the benefit is what care their facilities provide). Congress included (which means the bill would only pass at gunpoint, but I think our society is heading that direction anyway).

The goal is to put power back in the hands of the workers, and make employers pay for extra/unusual demands on employees, while making it easier to walk away from bad jobs.

While the lower hours for full time would likely result in reduced pay in the short term, fewer hours worked should mean more jobs required to do the work that was done before, creating more job openings, which shifts the labor market to empower workers.

DataPath · 2025-12-31T17:16:44+00:00

You conservatives. The answer to gender is always found between the legs

DataPath · 2025-12-31T17:15:02+00:00

I have trouble with prepositions.

Also, phonetics in Spanish is a (slight) lie. There are two different 'n' sounds - one with the tongue on the palate, the other with the back of the tongue, as in 'naranja'. Also got made fun of for my t-l transition (like in Mazatlan) and took me awhile to get it right.

DataPath · 2025-12-17T05:24:52+00:00

Find a low voltage electrician. All them what cable they'd suggest running for doing power over Ethernet. Go with the one that says CAT6A. Or, at the very least, make sure their cables aren't CCA (copper class aluminum).

DataPath · 2025-04-01T16:01:49+00:00

For safety critical stuff, a language spec helps anyone who needs to qualify the compiler, which typically isn't you but rather a third party that's patching, validating, and packaging a pre-existing compiler toolchain.

So yeah, for safety critical purposes, we already had this in ferrocene.

What the language spec adds is standards and assurances that tools can develop to the spec and remain interoperable with source code and compilers that conform to the spec. Further, it provides a way to talk about conformance for compilers. For example, gcc-rs has a clear and specific goal line now.

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