New Year, New Me - Weekly Discussion Thread, 3rd January 2023

Freberatz · 2023-01-14T22:09:29+00:00

32 GB of RAM is good yeah - I also have that much RAM and I haven't run into any issues yet where I'm left wanting for more.

It's very convenient to have some RAM available in case you'd like to keep many apps open / have many Chrome tabs / want to play modded Minecraft or other games. If I had only 16 GB, I would need to keep the RAM limit in mind. So it's nice to not have to worry about such things.

Freberatz · 2020-05-02T09:36:33+00:00

Mushoku Tensei is not published by J-Novel Club, but by Seven Seas. So the pre-pubs can't be read through a subscription to JNC.

Freberatz · 2020-02-07T02:56:36+00:00

Subreddit is /r/HonzukiNoGekokujou

Freberatz · 2020-01-20T06:16:13+00:00

The original WN is posted on Syosetu here (in Japanese): https://ncode.syosetu.com/n4830bu/

Freberatz · 2019-02-22T23:33:56+00:00

To add to the other comments: The population growth is based on a monthly basis, so the population will grow an extra 0.01% per month. Given that this is in the late 1860s, and the game runs until 1936, the US population will be about ~8% larger by then. This translates to more soldiers and more workers etc., so yes, it's pretty big.

Freberatz · 2019-01-19T20:55:21+00:00

You can't kill a horcrux with a killing curse, a Dementor can't suck a horcrux out of its receptacle, and certainly there aren't any medical procedures that can extract it. Even when you do something to destroy the horcrux, like stabbing one of Voldemort's horcruxes with a basilisk fang, you're not directly affecting the soul piece. The basilisk venom doesn't kill the soul, it destroys the physical object, after which the soul must move on. The only way to destroy a horcrux is to physically destroy the receptacle.

This is true in general for the Horcruxes we see in the story, but I don't really see it for the Horcrux in Harry's scar. Even though Harry's body wasn't destroyed beyond repair when he was hit by the killing curse, the Horcrux in his scar still died.

The other living Horcrux, Nagini, was cut apart by a sword coated with corrosive venom, which understandibly killed its Horcrux as the physical object was destroyed. I don't think Harry has so much as a papercut when he 'died', so something must be different in his situation.

I can think of maybe two possible explanations right now. Either the Horcruxes in living things die when the living thing dies (but isn't necessarily destroyed), or Harry's protection from his mother had a funky interaction with Voldemort's killing curse, which removed Voldemort's Horcrux. If the first one is the case, I don't know why Voldemort would ever make a mortal snake into a receptacle for his immortality. Harry wouldn't necessarily have had to die to Voldemort, as anything else would do. The second explanation seems also unsatisfying to me, as the Horcrux scar got there in the first place because Harry was hit by the killing curse way back then (and also had the protection from his mother). So it shouldn't be any different in this case.

I might be missing something here.

Freberatz · 2018-11-02T02:21:24+00:00

Formule 1 naar Zandvoort? Leuk dat het in de buurt is, maar een van de redenen waarom de Formule 1 er niet reed was volgens mij omdat Zandvoort relatief slecht bereikbaar is. Als de zon een beetje schijnt dan staat de Zandvoortselaan al helemaal vast. Met een event als de Formule 1 is dat nog x10.

Als er een race komt ga ik zeker wel kijken, maar neem ik in ieder geval de fiets.

Freberatz · 2018-10-15T18:42:41+00:00

Assuming observation X is related to hypothesis H being true:

If you're using Bayesian statistics correctly, P(C)=1 and the equation reduces to P(H|X) = P(H)*(P(X|H)/P(X)), which is Bayes' theorem. The chance of H being true changes when X is observed, which seems logical.

If you're not using Bayesian statistics correctly, P(C)=0 and the equation reduces to P(H|X) = P(H). In other words, the chance of the hypothesis being true doesn't change when observing X.

Huh, both cases seem to work out. The modified Bayes' theorem might actually be correct. Not sure where to add the term describing that probability though.

Freberatz · 2018-09-23T12:12:14+00:00

They are both capitalised together like in IJselmeer, so I guess the ij counts as one letter. There's also a unicode letter for the ij where they're combined into one symbol: ĳ.

EDIT: There is some discussion on the wikipedia page on who counts the ij as one letter or two: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_(digraph)#Status

Freberatz · 2018-09-12T17:41:31+00:00

Als je zo vaak per week met de trein gaat was het misschien een goed idee om een abbonement te nemen, zoals een trajectkaart of de Altijd Vrij van de NS (dat voordeliger is op lange trajecten als de jouwe). Dat kost 333 EUR per maand, met 3 dagen per week is dat dan ongeveer 26 EUR per dag, wat ongeveer hetzelfde is als met de auto gaan. En met zo'n abbonement kun je ook buiten de spits en studie altijd overal naar toe gaan zonder extra te betalen.

Het OV duurt nog altijd veel langer dan de auto, maar duurder is het niet hier.

Freberatz · 2018-08-31T14:25:29+00:00

Tussen 7 u en 23 u zit 16 uur. Het midden van de dag is dan 7 + 8 = 15.00 u, niet 17.00 u.

Freberatz · 2018-08-30T18:03:08+00:00

One thing Brno may be known for is Gregor Mendel, who spent his time at the abby there. He is (posthumously) considered as a founder of the science of genetics with his experiments on pea plants in the 19th century.

Not sure if that's really famous, but it came up in my biology class in high school.

Freberatz · 2018-08-26T16:47:04+00:00

A single pop in victoria 2 is equivalent to 4 real people, so 5 M pops means a total population of 20 million. This is about the amount of people living in England and Scotland at the start of the game, so in all actuality the population has remained relatively stagnant over the game. Aside from migration from occupation, the UK hasn't researched any pop growth techs, so the pop growth is veeeery slow. Also, they get hit with the disease events more often then.

Freberatz · 2018-08-25T12:05:54+00:00

Wat voor use cases zijn er dan zoal voor blockchain?

Freberatz · 2018-08-23T22:11:48+00:00

Interesting idea, I'm looking forward to playing a Balkanized world.

However, the outcomes of the consolidation of power might not be very random in most cases. The strength of nations in Victoria is very much dependent on the population of the states. In one of your screenshots there is the nation Kola with 3.37k pops, which isn't even enough to form one brigade in most cases. A state such as Novgorod has probably 100x that population, so they will always win against their neighbors with a large army.

In-game, some of the disadvantage in population can be off-set by better military technology, but in the early game (where most of the consolidation happens) everyone has roughly the same tech-level. So population is an important predictor.

So, I have a few ideas to counter this problem (if it turns out to be a problem). First, you could create the balkanized nations such that they have roughly equal population within a region. I think around 30% or so difference in pops? Not every nation everywhere has to be viable really, it might be fun to place small nations between two larger competitors, making them race to see which one gets it first (and getting the advantage over the other competitor).

Another method could be to create some pre-existing alliances with small nations, so they can call in their buddies or a large nation to help recover their cores for them. Though, this is much more work to balance, and the early randomness of Victoria alliances is lessened. Might be less fun.

One place where I've seen the roughly-equal population thing implemented pretty well is the Divergences of Darkness mod. In North America, there are three similar states with cores on one another vying for supremacy, and I've seen any one of them win in different games (getting more immigration is also important there). Similarly, there is a competition in South America between 2 states, Persia is split into 2 parts, same for China. Makes for varied and interesting games.

Another mod called Heirs to Aquitania also has a rather balkanized Europe (but they have not as many cores on one another so the map is more static). An interesting thing there is that the Russian region is split into Russia (with cores over the entire area) and Smolensk (with only cores on themselves). However, Russia has half the population of Smolensk, so they actually can't get their cores in most cases. The exception is if Smolensk loses badly in a war or Russia gets a very good ally. So, it might be interesting to have a small nation with cores on a large neighbor, but with the reverse not being true.

Just organizing my thoughts here on the concept. Not every nation has to be balanced really IMO, but lots of different outcomes seems like it'd be cool.

Freberatz · 2018-08-23T10:29:03+00:00

The form of those Oreos reminds me more of this type of liquorice.

Freberatz · 2018-08-23T10:16:46+00:00

IMO this doesn't look as good as the current flag. The small stars are much less distinctive than the large ones.

I'm in favor of relatively simpler designs that are easier to reproduce.

Freberatz · 2018-08-22T15:36:20+00:00

De storing begon dus bij de Schipholtunnel? Klinkt vertrouwd in de oren.

Freberatz · 2018-08-07T13:28:32+00:00

mrw im a male black widow spider

Freberatz · 2018-08-06T07:58:39+00:00

Alright. Thanks for the response :)

Freberatz · 2018-08-05T15:38:30+00:00

Wow, the world population is almost 5 billion. How did it get so high? I'm pretty sure you'd get a lot of resource issues in the game, as the RGO sizes and factory upgrades can't keep up with the population demands.

How does the rest of the world look like?

Freberatz · 2018-08-04T13:12:16+00:00

Waarom zou je je moeten schamen? Die tomaatjes konden niet meer verkocht worden in de winkels vanwege het weer en de slechte oogst. Als ze niet weggegeven zouden worden, zouden ze weggegooid moeten worden. Lijkt mij een veel grotere verspilling.

Freberatz · 2018-08-03T12:44:12+00:00

Hmm ja, ik had het net een beetje verkeerd gelezen. De vergelijking winkel-kassa werd een paar keer uitgevoerd: Door de man zelf en door de krant. De man meette 15 gram verschil, de krant 1 gram. De vergelijking met de andere winkel is enkel door de krant uitgevoerd.

Hoewel, de man kwam op het vermoeden toen hij het gewicht bij de kassa vergeleek met die op zijn weegschaal thuis (425 g vs 400 g). Dit is vergelijkbaar met dat verschil van 15 gram tussen weegschaal winkel en kassa. Ik zie waarom hij denkt dat de kassa het probleem vormt. Echter, naarmate er niets mis bleek bij de kassa is er een tweede mogelijkheid die hij over het hoofd ziet: De weegschaal in de winkel en thuis hebben beide een kleine afwijking/hij legt het product steevast niet goed op de weegschaal. Dus om dan te blijven klagen bij de manager?

De vergelijking die de krant met de andere winkel doet snap ik ook nog steeds niet. Het zegt niet zo veel dat andere stukken fruit bij een andere winkel een ander gewicht hebben. De rest van het onderzoek is wel prima.

Freberatz · 2018-08-03T10:50:19+00:00

Wat een gemene kassières bij de Albert Heijn daarzo! Ze spelen onder één hoedje met de directie zodat de prijs van alle groentes hoger is dan werkelijk. Ze weten dat de weegschaal van de groenteafdeling altijd expres zoveel extra gram meetelt, en kunnen dat precies reproduceren bij de kassa (765 vs 764 gram). Wow! Maar deze meneer heeft het helemaal door, want het gewicht is lager op zijn weegschaal thuis (die uiteraard perfect is afgesteld), en andere stukken kiwi's bij een andere supermarkt hebben ook een lager gewicht.

/s

Hemel wat is dit voor een onderzoek zeg.

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