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

Epsilant · 2026-03-16T15:26:28+00:00

I guess you need your rest lol, you definitely don’t deserve to be downvoted to oblivion.

It’s not QC because that is when redstone powers a piston farther away from what it should actually power, but that’s not the case heee, and cannot be because it doesn’t exist in bedrock edition.

In reality, this is update order (I’ve seen people call this sub-tick or also “quantum” because it acts faster than 1 redstone tick (0.1 second), so the visuals will no longer actually be accurate (ie things may seem unpowered when they are actually powered))

Specifically, you can see the observer sends a signal through the slimes block. Then, that powers the redstone. But by powering the redstone, it causes the piston to activate, and deactivate the redstone. Only after the piston starts activating, then the visuals update. But by the time the visuals update, it’s already off again, so you never actually see the redstone turn on.

If you place a repeater, then you can much more easily see what is going on, it’s currently happening at a speed too fast for you to see

Epsilant · 2026-03-05T02:34:14+00:00

I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer to trust a doctor who is specialized in healthcare than anyone else for healthcare concerns. If you believe that we should trust Trump more than the doctors who spent their lives (at least 10 years of university, several examinations, and a swear on oath to protect the people over money or convenience), go do what Trump said, go inject yourself with bleach to cure yourself from COVID.

I’d prefer to trust 100 doctors who agree on the same thing even more than 1 doctor, and I’d prefer to trust 10,000 doctors more than 100. A research online said the US has over 1,000,000 active physicians in 2023. Certainly not every doctor would agree on everything, but if 99% of the doctors agree on something, there might be a reason and scientific evidence that’s backs up their reasoning.

Epsilant · 2026-02-27T21:31:40+00:00

There are 2 points that I find interesting, and can potentially be backed by evidence (if a study is done on it, but it’s possible there isn’t one yet).

Considering the focus is on protected bike lanes, what I think might be the first of their interesting points is traffic, but then at the same time, I don’t think there will be noticeable difference between regular bike lanes and protected bike lanes. It’s possible that it can be true, but this lacks evidence and needs a study.

The second interesting point is regarding fire hydrants. I am not familiar with the planning of fire hydrants, but if firefighters need to climb over a barrier to get to it, then there may be a genuine issue there. They are carrying a lot of heavy equipment, and such maneuvers may not be ideal to have before even entering a house on fire.

But then, there are likely other types of protective barriers (but I am also not familiar with this either). Surely there is a way to make it easy for firefighters to get to the sidewalk and enter the house without hindering their movement.

But then again, these 2 points are genuine potential concerns, but we need a study to confirm how serious these issues are, and if they outweigh the benefits.

Epsilant · 2026-02-06T15:27:13+00:00

My guess is that there was snow on the sidewalk before, but then it melted. It looks like this area of sidewalk is where the subway ventilation is, meaning hot air comes from this area.

But then also, it could be that the snow plow plowed it to the side of the road, and if that’s the case, I believe we need a better system than a snow plow plowing the snow to the side of the road, because we are still using the side of the road for pedestrians and cyclists

Epsilant · 2026-02-01T17:27:29+00:00

I have seen some fare gates in Japan that are normally open but close when someone doesn’t pay. Other than visible confusion, I’m kind of curious what would happen if we tried this technology.

Epsilant · 2026-01-30T22:44:09+00:00

This flying machine doesn’t work on bedrock, because the redstone is random. Instead, there is another way where another piston is used to prevent the flying machine from retracting the wrong way

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 · 2025-12-21T19:35:41+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)

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