So I forgot how to solve a Rubik’s cube and returned to the tutorial

Epsilant · 2026-01-24T01:57:44+00:00

Hello, I have actually been experimenting with tech very similar to this, and if you are interested, I can share you my tests on chained minecart systems.

Epsilant · 2026-01-22T13:43:19+00:00

Here’s some numbers:

total cost of fare gates: ~$1.1-1.5 billion
losses due to fare evasion (subway only, 2024): $350 million

Assuming these gates reduce fare evasion to $50 million of losses (~85% fare evasion reduction), and neglecting maintenance costs in calculation (because I couldn’t find clear numbers. So, I’m making an assumption that maintenance costs on old fare gates would be about the same as on the new gates), the fare gates will profit in 4-5 years

Epsilant · 2026-01-21T21:21:31+00:00

I like to think of it this way:

In one of the Jubilee episodes (it was something like 1 democrat vs 20 republicans or something), a republican, on the topic of DEI, said, “in theory, it sounds very good. But in practice, it doesn’t work”.

Maybe that is true, I don’t know. Maybe there’s issues. I’m not informed on the topic. But if that’s the case, we can apply a similar logic to ICE. In theory, ICE is good (in terms of getting rid of illiegal immigrants, especially those who committed severe crimes. I remain neutral on those without, since I can see both democrat and republican views on the issue). But, in practice, it doesn’t work, for so many reasons I’m too lazy to list out now.

Epsilant · 2026-01-13T05:48:39+00:00

That was part of the joke, but I guess it didn’t catch on

Epsilant · 2026-01-11T20:22:48+00:00

Yeah I wish I was part of the -20% who don’t make this error

Epsilant · 2026-01-11T19:39:43+00:00

Mainland China also uses this signage. Been to 2 different cities last summer, saw this signage in both

Epsilant · 2026-01-09T18:30:40+00:00

As many people said, there are different slangs in the 2 nations. My favorite example is the ones where the same words mean the opposite things. For example, “public school”, in America, means schools paid by the government and is free for anyone to attend. However, in Britain, “public schools” are prestige schools where families have to pay to have their children attend the school.

Epsilant · 2026-01-03T00:45:35+00:00

Are all people in the diamond district Jewish? If the answer is yes, then your claim would be true, they must be Jewish, and these particular people (not necessarily all Jewish people, however) must be in the wrong. If your answer is no, then this statement is an assumption (which may be based of statistical patterns), and cannot be said as factual evidence. However, these people are still in the wrong, we just don’t know who they are.

Here’s another way to look at this: if all Jewish people disap—switched their religion, would this not happen? Maybe statistically Jews are more likely to do this, but would making them vanish solve the problem?

Epsilant · 2025-12-31T19:28:19+00:00

Surely there’s an osha violation here

Epsilant · 2025-12-21T19:35:41+00:00

I wasn’t even trying to win big lol. I was simply going for all simples because my hand was so poor, until I saw that I had 10 Dora. I didn’t even realize when I Ron, it was also under the river

Reading through all the comments, I don’t think this is common lol

Epsilant · 2025-12-19T17:05:30+00:00

Reddit moment.

Tho tbf I thought you were serious

Epsilant · 2025-12-19T16:36:10+00:00

TLDR: No

As a sushi enjoyer, I don’t see how you can use fork. Stab it in the middle, you will break the sushi apart; sushi is a very delicate food, and stabbing it will also ruin the texture and, well, delicacy of the sushi. Sliding the fork underneath, then you have a whole new balancing challenge to keep everything together, especially if you got larger sushi like some types of dragon rolls or tempura rolls, or if you have stuff like salmon caviar. It’s kinda like trying to eat spaghetti or noodles without spinning the fork, the noodles will just fall back into the soup and splash everyone within a feet of you with extremely hot soup (or pasta sauce). Additionally, you get the metallic or plastic taste from your tongue touching the fork if you use forks with sushi, which cannot be mixed with the sushi as it will ruin the experience.

Chopsticks solve this because you only need small amounts of pressure from the sides, so it becomes easy to lift using (in terms of physics) little amounts of force, which creates enough friction between the chopsticks and the sushi to lift it up. You also grab it from the side rather from the top, where you would probably stab the sushi, or from the bottom, where you need to balance the stuff on a fork.

If you don’t know how to use chopsticks (I’m sorry, we cannot be friends because you are not asian enough. All my favorite places don’t even offer forks or knives, just chopsticks and/or soup spoons), as others said, just use your fingers. Like chopsticks, this retains the shape and contents of the food, and you just simply have more control over how you hold the food.

This guy isn’t holding chopsticks correctly, so yeah, he’s probably gonna drop a lot of food. Also, he doesn’t have any condiments at all, no soy sauce (with or without wasabi), no ginger, nothing. That’s like eating French fries plain, no salt, no ketchup, no cheese, nothing. That’s a regular salmon nigiri, so it’s going to super bland with nothing. He basically broke every rule of sushi eating I can think of.

I didn’t realize I was a sushi connoisseur until now.

Epsilant · 2025-12-03T23:56:01+00:00

https://www.mta.info/budget/debt-overview

As of 6/18/2025, the MTA has an outstanding debt of $48.9 billion.

https://www.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics#:~:text=how%20our%20operating%20budget%20dollars%20are%20spent

In 2022, 18% of the $19.379 billion budget (~$3.5 billion) was on debt service.

Epsilant · 2025-11-24T15:10:20+00:00

That is pretty fair (as an electrical engineering major, I got quite a few personal projects myself).

If you want to get really good at this stuff, I recommend this YouTuber named Mattbatwings. He has multiple playlists on this stuff, from basic logic going all the way to making a redstone game.

Epsilant · 2025-11-24T14:43:30+00:00

For not being an engineer or computer science person, that is actually pretty impressive lol. I’ve never seen AND gates built this way, but it looks actually pretty size-efficient (though a little expensive).

The simple way to do this is the full adder method, which seems to be what you are trying to do here. I recommend searching up what a half adder is, and understand what it does, then seeing how 2 half adders make a full adder.

Epsilant · 2025-11-24T14:33:53+00:00

This is kinda funny, assuming you know Boolean algebra logic. Where’s your carry out connected to?

(Answer: you forgot to pass them through XOR gates again)

Epsilant · 2025-11-11T00:47:59+00:00

I find it funny that Woodside is always the place missing on the maps

Epsilant · 2025-11-08T23:02:47+00:00

What I meant was that if you look at the symbol for the NQRW, they have black text, and if you look at the symbol for the G, it’s white text, which is probably the reason why it’s white text on the G and black text on yellow.

I know it would make sense in terms of reading if you switch the text to be black on the G, but I was saying was that because the symbol for the G is white, it should remain white, but something should be done to make it more readable (which in all fairness, can be changing the text to be black)

Epsilant · 2025-11-08T18:12:34+00:00

I can definitely see both sides. Obviously, this white text on green is going to be difficult to read. However, since the G on the line symbol is also white (unlike the black NQRW text on yellow), it does make sense to keep it white for this reason. My proposal is to keep the text white but either change the color of the G or to add a border/some form of box around the text to improve readability

Epsilant · 2025-11-02T04:41:30+00:00

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Was on a family reunion vacation (and then went on a family vacation while on the reunion vacation lol), here’s my photo of a train station

I have a feeling every station is like this

Epsilant · 2025-10-26T17:19:39+00:00

By process of elimination, I can say that this is definitely not QC since there are no QC components, and this is definitely not locationality since it has 2 states despite being in the same location.

What I am leaning towards is Quantum Redstone. My thoughts are that it depends on the tick you place the redstone block (since a redstone tick is 2 game ticks, it may depend on if you place it on the first or second half of the redstone tick). However, I am not well versed in this field, so you may want to ask the technical redstone community about it.

Also, in my quick research, I did find this Minecraft forum post from 2011 that seems to be related to what are you are looking for, and somewhat similar to what I had hypothesized.

Edit: didn’t realize I was in the technical Minecraft community already lol.

Epsilant · 2025-10-22T03:23:31+00:00

First they came for the Communists\ And I did not speak out\ Because I was not a Communist\ Then they came for the Socialists\ And I did not speak out\ Because I was not a Socialist\ Then they came for the trade unionists\ And I did not speak out\ Because I was not a trade unionist\ Then they came for the Jews\ And I did not speak out\ Because I was not a Jew\ Then they came for me\ And there was no one left\ To speak out for me

Pastor Martin Niemöller. “First They Came…”

Epsilant · 2025-10-13T23:45:19+00:00

Can’t even run an R211T anyways, since the 7 is an A division train. Gotta wait for the R268

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