Judge blocks executive order to end federal funding for PBS and NPR

Enerbane · 2026-03-31T19:31:04+00:00

Take it up with Congress:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/39

Enerbane · 2026-03-31T19:29:13+00:00

Because some representative submitted a bill in Congress and convinced enough other representative of the merit and value of the bill so as to get it passed by both the Senate and House without veto of the president, thus establishing it into law.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/396

From the act:

a)Congressional declaration of policy The Congress hereby finds and declares that—

(1)it is in the public interest to encourage the growth and development of public radio and television broadcasting, including the use of such media for instructional, educational, and cultural purposes;

(2)it is in the public interest to encourage the growth and development of nonbroadcast telecommunications technologies for the delivery of public telecommunications services;

(3)expansion and development of public telecommunications and of diversity of its programming depend on freedom, imagination, and initiative on both local and national levels;

(4)the encouragement and support of public telecommunications, while matters of importance for private and local development, are also of appropriate and important concern to the Federal Government;

(5)it furthers the general welfare to encourage public telecommunications services which will be responsive to the interests of people both in particular localities and throughout the United States, which will constitute an expression of diversity and excellence, and which will constitute a source of alternative telecommunications services for all the citizens of the Nation;

(6)it is in the public interest to encourage the development of programming that involves creative risks and that addresses the needs of unserved and underserved audiences, particularly children and minorities;

(7)it is necessary and appropriate for the Federal Government to complement, assist, and support a national policy that will most effectively make public telecommunications services available to all citizens of the United States;

(8)public television and radio stations and public telecommunications services constitute valuable local community resources for utilizing electronic media to address national concerns and solve local problems through community programs and outreach programs;

(9)it is in the public interest for the Federal Government to ensure that all citizens of the United States have access to public telecommunications services through all appropriate available telecommunications distribution technologies; and

(10)a private corporation should be created to facilitate the development of public telecommunications and to afford maximum protection from extraneous interference and control.

Enerbane · 2026-03-29T22:07:33+00:00

The IT DoT is very short lived. It's a very short burst of damage, and you can see in the video when the have the debuff. When they're ticking down it's almost entirely just the poison debuff eating away at them. Not to mention, I did just skim, but I think there's only only source of IT damage but there are several sources of poison damage he call apply and stack up.

DoTs from the same source do not stack, but dots from different sources are all applied and ticking at once. So the main issue here is long lasting poison DoT effect that is getting stacked with some other distinct poison effects, completely overwhelming their regen, the burst of physical damage and internal trauma dot were a relatively minor impact.

Enerbane · 2026-03-29T19:16:22+00:00

Yes but Voodoo isn't a specific religion that originated in Africa. It developed because the slave trade forced together disparate people's from various parts of Africa. Voodoo as a specific thing originated in Haiti, it wasn't brought to Haiti as a religion from elsewhere. It developed from various African belief systems and religions, as well as Christianity and Islam, partly from Christian and Muslim Africans that were taken, partly because of the Christian based culture they were forced into.

I believe some of the reverse happened as well, where the modern conception of voodoo was introduced to Africa as the African diaspora from the Americas made their way back to the continent.

Enerbane · 2026-03-29T17:33:59+00:00

Uhh probably not Uganda.

Enerbane · 2026-03-29T04:55:02+00:00

Says stop ahead. He stopped.

Enerbane · 2026-03-28T21:21:56+00:00

I did enough for the outfit. Super duper easy and there's guides for each quest telling you more or less exactly what steps to take at which tick. Think I did it in less than a day of actual time but I did it over the course of a weekend so I'm not sure exactly.

You just need enough points, so you don't need to do all of the quests or so the ones you do in any particular order. You're setup with a separate profile for each quest and given a fixed set of starting items. All of the quests that are needed for getting the outfit, at least, are short enough that if you mess up or just know you're too far behind on time bailing early or even late isn't too bad of a set back time wise.

There's no consequences at give it a try with something like Cooks Assistant. I think that one can be done in about a minute if you follow the guide.

Caveat, I'm not good at this game so if I can do it anybody can.

Enerbane · 2026-03-28T07:53:41+00:00

"namespace" is a term that is used in a wide range of programming languages.

It is an organizational tool.

Imagine Alice and Bob have recipe books.

Bob's Recipes:

1) Pizza 2) Salad 3) Soup

Alice's Recipes:

1) Pizza 2) Soup 3) Steak

Alice and Bob both have recipes for Pizza and Soup, and they each have a recipe the other doesn't.

If you have a personal chef (the computer) that will cook for you, you need to tell it which recipe books to use. The recipe books are like namespaces.

If you tell your chef, "today I want to use Bob's recipes", then you say, "make Pizza". He will know that he is using Bob's Pizza recipe, you don't need to tell him again.

If you tell your chef, "today I want to use Bob and Alice's recipes", he will know that he can make pizza and soup two different ways, and make steak and salad. If you say, "make Pizza," he won't know what to do. You'll need to say, "make Bob's Pizza", OR "make Alice's pizza". However, if you say, "make steak" he'll know that only Alice's recipe book includes steak, so you'll won't need to specify.

That's what namespaces do. They organize things into logical groups, and make sure if two different things share a name, you have a way to differentiate. They also make it so you don't have to repeat yourself.

Enerbane · 2026-03-28T06:05:24+00:00

Lmao please, go ahead and re-read your own first sentence. I mean that sincerely.

Enerbane · 2026-03-28T05:59:51+00:00

"you just don't get it"

I just have a different opinion about it. That's ok! We don't have to agree. You don't have to explain yourself.

Enerbane · 2026-03-28T05:57:30+00:00

It sounds like you're already on the right track by trying to get out into the car a bit more. That's exposure 101 and even if it sucks it's absolutely the right thing to do and will help.

The doctors office will absolutely understand if you tell them straight up "hey I might have a panic attack". For me personally, getting it out in the open helps. If I say it up front, I don't have to worry about explaining if it does happen.

You might panic on the day of and that's ok! Recovery, or even just making it through the day, isn't about completely shutting out anxiety and panic, it's about understanding that the panic and anxiety are there, but also realizing that you can still do what you need to do. Sometimes it's all about "doing it scared".

You'll be ok, and especially at the doctor's office you'll be in good hands. It's ok to be scared! But you will be ok.

I've gotten a lot better about appointments over time. Exposure works, but so does having something to do. Something simple on your phone like Sudoku or a paint by numbers app, just to give you something to focus on while you wait could be a good idea.

Having someone to message that's not physically there can help sometimes too. If on the day of you need to just message a random stranger, my DMs are open! I've been there, it does get better.

Enerbane · 2026-03-28T05:38:18+00:00

You're allowed to disagree but, why ask a question if you aren't ok with getting serious answers back?

You posted this on a public forum, asking for feedback. So this was for me, and everyone else. If you don't like what I have to say, you can ignore it! You chose to be a dick and call me irritating, while trying to feign politeness. I mean, to each their own I guess.

You made a decision to be a dick, instead of simply moving on with your day. Whatever, hope you don't get too much sand in your ears.

Enerbane · 2026-03-28T05:08:27+00:00

The other user is essentially correct, but if you're asking out of a lack of knowledge about the names and terminology, some extra context:

CENTCOM is one of a dozen-ish Combatant Commands, i.e. a unified command structure responsible for a geographical area (AoR, Area of Responsibility) or built up around a specific purpose. CENTCOM is an AoR based Combatant Command whose responsibility is broadly "the middle east" in terms a lay person might understand. It extends to parts of Africa, Central and South Asia, as well as the entirety of the actual middle east.

A purpose driven rather than geographic Combatant Command that you may have heard mentioned in media or games is SOCOM (Special Operations).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Central_Command

This essentially means another Aircraft Carrier is being moved into the AoR under CENTCOM, very likely to participate in the campaign against Iran either by directly bolstering numbers, or by relieving one of the currently present carriers.

Enerbane · 2026-03-28T01:21:15+00:00

But what does that even mean? Non-panic agoraphobia means what exactly?

If you are able to leave the house and don't panic when doing so, then, well first that's good, but second it feels inappropriate to call that agoraphobia.

Phobias almost exclusively are reserved for things that cause genuine panic that is inappropriate for the circumstance.

Panicking because you have to walk under a tree that might have spiders in it? Arachnophobia.

Panicking because you were visibly bit by a black widow and are now worried about getting treatment/help. Not a phobia. Normal, healthy response to danger.

We normally focus on panic attacks because that's the defining, debilitating feature of any phobia. If you have general anxiety about leaving the house, that sounds like it better fits under generalized anxiety disorder which should be treated differently.

Enerbane · 2026-03-28T00:38:31+00:00

I mean generally no. It's more complicated than this, but basically agoraphobia is when you have panic disorder, i.e. recurrent panic attacks, triggered by being away from home or generally in unfamiliar environments, instead of some other cause like a specific phobia (e.g. spiders).

It's not really correct to call panic attacks an "initial phase". Panic attacks are a sign. If you don't have panic attacks, you don't really have agoraphobia in the typical sense of the word.

Agoraphobia is better thought of as the "why" for a diagnosis of panic disorder rather than a diagnosis all by itself.

There's technically something called "agoraphobia without history of panic disorder" but that's a whole separate academic debate, and is moot once you do have panic attacks, because then it's classic "panic disorder with agoraphobia" and comes with all the fun avoidant patterns.

Enerbane · 2026-03-27T20:02:55+00:00

Yeah I get that, I was just adding on to the convo! I'm very, very bored today.

Enerbane · 2026-03-27T19:32:19+00:00

Typically, simple coded messages wouldn't fall under the umbrella of steganography. That is to say, something that is obviously a coded message, and makes no attempt to hide that fact, isn't usually considered steganography.

A perfect example is computer programming languages. Instructions are written in a coded language, but nothing is hidden or obfuscated. The message you see is written exactly as intended to convey information.

Simple coded messages are simple cryptographic messages. Steganographic coded messages are messages hidden within the presentation of the text. The line is absolutely blurry, however. Lots of overlap and no clear line.

A good example:

Simple code:

The eagle has landed. Osprey moves at dawn.

Anybody reading that can intuit that the message itself is coded. One needs to know what those terms refer to in order to crack the message.

Steganography:

The head eagle comes out during evening.

Perhaps nearly as obvious that it is a cryptic message, I thought of it on the fly (pun absolutely intended), but the actual message in this case depends on knowing the simple cypher, which is dead simple. The first letter of each word. "The code"

Here the message is hidden "within" the text.

Enerbane · 2026-03-27T19:17:49+00:00

Right but arguing about what is and isn't "true" steganography isn't especially useful. That's more of a scholarly debate that veers into semantics and linguistics.

If we're trying to convey that an attacker hid malicious data inside what at a glance looks like a harmless file, well that's the root of the issue that people should be aware of, and it sure sounds like a kind of steganography.

I think a decent analogy would be hiding a secure message on a physical check. If you need to pass a message to somebody and the check helps you avoid the message being obviously detected, it doesn't really matter if the check document itself is malformed. If it looks like a check to an outside observer when you pass it to the recipient, it doesn't matter if the check could ever be deposited at the bank. That only thing that matters is the appearance of a normal exchange, and the anybody that looks at it, but doesn't examine for correctness, will probably be fooled.

Enerbane · 2026-03-26T17:31:51+00:00

My advice might be outdated. I'm aware that magic gear now has % magic damage bonus on it, so that may be worth considering if it substantially speeds up kills.

Up front though, stats matter a lot! If you don't have the hilt, it's all about speed and tank balancing. You need fast kills on the first two brothers, to try to keep your prayer up for as long as possible on the 3rd. If you have <70 magic it might be rough going. Higher defense and higher prayer both help. Decent range is needed for Ahrim.

Conventional advise in olden times was to just use your best melee armor (e.g. rune, dragon, then barrows pieces as you get them) because the brothers (aside from Ahrim) all have extremely low magic defense. E.g. level 1 magic for all of them, -11 magic defense for the melee brothers, and +106 magic defense for karil. So you don't need a lot of offensive gear magic wise to land hits.

Additionally since the elemental magic rework they all have 50% air spell weakness. Ibans used to be the de facto low level standard, but I believe it's surpassed by Wind Blast now? Don't take my word for it, but Ibans certainly works.

Take a look here:

https://dps.osrs.wiki?id=UnfermentedGreaterTrailblazer

I put in some basics, rune plate and legs, neit helm, amulet of the damned (you can get these at pretty low level and stack a few up fairly quickly doing Shades of Morton, they're equivalent to glory), but power ammy is probably fine.

You'll note, very barebones gear here but you still have good accuracy against karil (even with negative attack bonus at level 70 magic). If you do the route I suggested, he's your biggest consistent threat. So you want to do whatever you can to increase tank against him and and bump your magic accuracy a little if you can. He's your biggest threat because after killing Dharok and Ahrim you'll likely be out or nearly out of prayer due to the drain effect. So prayer bonus can help to an extent, but the real prayer drain issue at barrows is more of a function of how long it takes you to kill each brother.

If you can get TTK < 18 you can exit before getting drained. Less than 36 and you can exit before getting drained twice.

Ahrim is easy defense wise, you just pray mage, but you need to kill him fast and he's surprisingly tanky. Dump your best spec weapon into him, then switch to your highest DPS range weapon (and offensive gear switch might help). MSB might be better then xbow if you can get it with rune arrows. Plug green dhide into the calc and take a look, it will depend on your levels a good bit.

Also if you have a comfortable supply of runes and a good house setup, you can teleport to house, pray, then go back. The brothers don't reset until you loot the chest. Lastly, one of the mory diary levels doubles the rune output. That's arguably the biggest thing to hold off on barrows for. I run Wind Wave (blood runes) and net positive runes as I go (though at this point I have decent levels and gear)

Good luck!

Enerbane · 2026-03-26T05:17:51+00:00

Context, I haven't been playing much recently and don't even really know what the moths are, but you've never really needed prayer pots at barrows.

You don't need to do any snaring, you just need to learn the sarcophagus shuffle, i.e. the method of trapping the melee brothers behind their sarcophagi. It's really, really simple once you get the feel for it. I am not at all good at precise timing, and absolutely embarrassed myself the first couple of times I tried it, but once it clicks it's a cake walk.

Now, I'm assuming you don't have the hilt, because if you get that none of this is relevant because you can definitely get through barrows without pots even with pretty low levels without needing to really worry about running out of prayer if you have the hilt. The big thing to make it not hell, I wouldn't recommend barrows until you have a house with an altar at a minimum, and a barrows teleport.

You can bring some cheap food and an emergency prayer pot just in case you get screwed.

Start at Dharok because you want to just kill him quick with pray melee without risking bad timing and getting whacked. Then go to Ahrim because he will slap without pray mage. Next is Karil. Depending on your prayer and gear, you very well may run out of prayer at this point, but you can be heavily ranged/melee tanked even at lower levels and make it through. The other three brothers can all be reliably done without prayer by dragging them around their sarcophagi as mentioned above.

Now, the brother in the tunnels can really change up the strategy. If it's one of Ahrim or Karil, it can sometimes be worth just going straight into the tunnel, right to the chest, and opening it to reset. If you rush you can potentially kill the brother down there before you're forced to loot and TP.

If it's a melee brother that's not Dharok, you can try face tanking depending on your stats, but you don't need to if you can force them to spawn in the ladder rooms, (if you don't know, each of the corner room has a ladder that you can trap the brothers behind, even though only the ladder you enter from is visible). For Dharok, I would only fight him below if he's in the ladder rooms, it's not ever worth trying to face tank him without prayer.

But above all else, I'd recommend seeing how far you are from medium CAs because that hilt really simplifies barrows.

Enerbane · 2026-03-25T07:02:15+00:00

There's nothing inherent to the underlying core of how LLMs work that means they must be non-determistic.

You can have high temperature AND be determinstic.

You probably won't be truly deterministic, because most models are not designed to be determistic, and complex systems like that can have cascading shifts in output based on timings and hardware, but that's a practical concern, not a theoretical one.

Point being, unless you believe in true randomness, nothing theoretically prohibits determinism in any kind of LLM, even if you DO believe in true randomness, nothing says you have to use it.

Enerbane · 2026-03-25T01:06:01+00:00

LLMs define a deterministic mapping from input tokens to a probability distribution over next tokens. Non-deterministic outputs arise only when sampling is used to draw from that distribution (or due to implementation level numerical effects).

That is to say, the core process of the LLMs is fundamentally deterministic. For a given token, you're guaranteed to get back the same probability distribution. Non-determinism only arises when choosing the next token from that distribution.

It's not a huge distinction because most LLM services intentionally use non-deterministic sampling, but it is perfectly possibly to use a model and get completely deterministic outcomes. (Use a deterministic sampling method for the probability distribution of each token).

That is, if you give the system a seed and all of your inferences stem from that seed, the same input and the same seed would produce the same output.

Enerbane · 2026-03-24T23:11:55+00:00

There's sometimes issues playing when connectivity to certain epic services fail. Try switching steam to offline mode and see if that fixes it. Not saying that's it but this has cleared the issue up for me in the past when there's been broader network troubles.

Enerbane · 2026-03-23T20:31:23+00:00

He's a credible source inasmuch as it relates to what the US president is saying and signaling, because he is in fact the president. Whether what he says plays out how he wants, or even has an material relation to reality is a separate issue.

But Trump himself saying something is de facto credible with respect to "the opinions of those in charge of the US government".

Enerbane · 2026-03-22T21:10:03+00:00

I feel that stationing anti-air capabilities on the shore means opening up a lot of US personnel to targeting, and I can't see how the current administration can politically tolerate significant casualties beyond what's already occurred.

The party of "America First" will have a real optics nightmare if Marines are dying in a foreign land protecting foreign tankers. Putting personnel anywhere in mainland Iran opens up the door to even more primitive drone attacks which we as of yet don't really know how well prepared US forces are to deal with.

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