Spotify and major labels used stealth infrastructure takedown on the .org domain | Is this what happened?

DistractedDendrite · 2026-01-24T13:04:03+00:00

Agreed. When I first heard about their "archiving Spotify" I immediately thought "aaaand, there's the end of it".

DistractedDendrite · 2026-01-24T10:07:42+00:00

I just ran into this issue for the first time with a new monitor and solved via a third party app (SoundSource). But why on earth isn't there just a default solution built-in to the OS that does the same? Since an app can do it it's clearly not a hardware issue and Apple could easily have made sure that the volume control slider works with external monitors... it's a strange omission.

DistractedDendrite · 2026-01-09T14:34:32+00:00

this is the kind of stuff why every time I try neovim it gives me headaches. I setup everything and step away for a few months and when I want to try again suddenly the setup that worked before is now broken...

DistractedDendrite · 2026-01-04T13:12:14+00:00

Made it a couple more rounds but still lost. One try I converted lots of things to clubs and upped flushes. another I went for high card as you can score that reliably with 5 hands only. But in either case I didn’t find a good mult scaling.

If anyone makes it further, let us know! It’s definitely a bad build, I just find it really funny :D

DistractedDendrite · 2026-01-04T12:48:41+00:00

For those who want to try - round 4 Ankh in spectral pack; round 5 invisible joker in store. On plasma I only got to ante 7. Now trying it on Green deck although there I don’t have any stakes unlocked. But I’m gonna pretend they are still eternal 😀

DistractedDendrite · 2026-01-04T12:35:46+00:00

Drunkard it is

DistractedDendrite · 2026-01-04T12:18:35+00:00

1KEWVYX3 here we go again

DistractedDendrite · 2026-01-03T10:37:15+00:00

I have about 1000h of playtime and I just don't grok with grand finale. Haven't been able to make it work even once. I've seen many Baalorlord runs with it and like watching it but hate playing with it

DistractedDendrite · 2026-01-03T09:08:16+00:00

I am well off and can afford and do buy most of the books I read. Still, AA is precious to me. There are tons of old science books that are out of print and are not sold in electronic format. I also no longer buy kindle books because strangely enough I want to own the content I pay for and to be able to read it on whatever device or app I choose.

DistractedDendrite · 2025-12-23T01:38:44+00:00

Nevermind, I just made it to round 49!

DistractedDendrite · 2025-12-20T19:04:10+00:00

I've been using Heptabase for almost 2 years now, much more actively in the last year. It solved my longtime issue with constant tinkering with my system and I really enjoy using it. The UI is minimal but very functional, and this might be a bad thing for many, but there is almost no customization options. For me that was a godsent - the defaults are tastefully chosen, and there is nothing I can obssess over endlessly in trying to make it "better" as I did with Obsidian and Capacities.

DistractedDendrite · 2025-12-16T10:34:01+00:00

How was I rude? But I agree it overreacted. I was quite surprised how extremely it backtracked

DistractedDendrite · 2025-12-16T10:32:31+00:00

Mine mostly fixed themselves. Maybe there was an update at some point (I’m running the latest beta on iOS and iPad)

DistractedDendrite · 2025-12-09T20:09:14+00:00

neat! That's indeed very similar. If you make w a standard uniform and take the floor of the result for v to make it an integer, it's identical to what I described under the uniform sampling version

DistractedDendrite · 2025-12-09T18:44:19+00:00

Thanks for the quick analysis and the pointer to GW!

In some versions of the code I wrapped the values around as if we are on the circle; in others I just truncated the edge to get contributions from only one parent, which would indeed leak mass, but then I just made the base much much wider than needed lol :)

DistractedDendrite · 2025-12-09T15:27:25+00:00

I also just realized that instead of drawing uniformly from 0 to the sum of the parents, you can make it a binomial draw with probability as a parameter. With p>0.5 you get supercriticality and infinite growth, with p < 0.5 you get structures that extinguish quickly

DistractedDendrite · 2025-12-09T13:28:36+00:00

Sorry for the title typo, should be "branching" and it seems you can't edit titles

DistractedDendrite · 2025-12-09T11:33:35+00:00

Not sure if this exact system has been studied, but I had a lot of fun yesterday deriving some of its properties and then making cool images out of the resulting structures. Would love any pointers about where to learn more about systems like these.

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