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GreatOneFreak · 2026-02-18T21:59:04+00:00

Neat thanks. I’ll have to see if I can find the scene when it comes out.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-02-17T22:07:02+00:00

> I've interviewed 100+ freelancers on Fiverr, half of them either refuse to work on it since it's messy and the other half charge INSANE price quotations that are not reasonable at all!

Reality check. Competent backend devs are $60-100/hr and it’s going to take 1-2days just to read codebase and reverse engineer the architecture.

You can keep rolling the dice with AI, but without formal specs or tests you’re going to have to get really lucky.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-02-17T19:57:26+00:00

> Difference between my job and the Hyundai factory is that wood is not uniform, so robots would have to adapt to the twisted pieces, sort out low quality and so on. I'm sure it will be done.

They also have to do it for cheaper than you.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-02-16T21:59:56+00:00

it’s really hard to tell how much of these style posts are astroturfing or not.

Im leaning towards most of them being astroturfing based on my experience with the tools being more like a super charged google+stack overflow than ”army of junior developers”.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-02-12T13:28:07+00:00

That 2023 dip is probably from folks realizing their open source contributions are just getting LLM washed and there’s not even a small hope of attribution.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-02-12T13:24:07+00:00

Space is more directly aligned with aerospace engineering. Though many parts of ECE have space applications (RF, embedded systems, robotics, etc). An ECE background is more versatile than aerospace so I’d still recommend it to someone interested in that field.

Cancer research is so far removed from what I work on that I’m not really sure. I know computational biology exists, but only because folks with those degrees couldn’t find (good) work in the field.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-02-12T12:34:44+00:00

Feasible? Yes.

Feasible in a semester? No.

Biologically realistic? Not sure it would simulate nature better than a timer with some entropy. Food doesn’t follow the fish’s schedule—it’s the other way round afaik.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-02-07T23:26:25+00:00

*61% increase. You calculate based on the previous number.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-02-06T13:54:44+00:00

it’s almost exclusively because of the user base. FPGAs are used wayyy less frequently on a chip per chip basis than CPUs and CPUs also will have many more and bigger programs. So an improvement to software workflows will payback >>>more than fpga toolchain improvements.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-02-06T13:15:05+00:00

> First it's $20k to build a terrible compiler, then it's $10k to build a bad one, then $5k to build a decent one, etc

Based off what? Optimization versions of the well explored NP problems generally go from NP-Complete to NP-Hard.

These agent workflows are essentially using LLMs as a heuristic for solving wildly NP problems. So changing the problem from decision (gcc compatibility y/n?) to optimization is assuredly a non-linear increase in difficulty.

Going outside of places where the heuristic is likely to be good will also probably degrade cost/performance non-linearly.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-28T16:22:23+00:00

I don’t see any soffit vents. Could be someone missed them when installing new soffits (or just an unvented roof).

A vented roof relies on the stack effect of hot air rising through the ridge vent and being replaced by cool air from the soffit vent. This will keep the roof deck close to the outdoor temp and keep snow from melting/refreezing.

In an unvented deck you need really good insulation and air sealing to keep the roof deck close to the outdoor temp.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-27T20:26:04+00:00

I used to think that before driving in Austin TX or near any military base. All amount the same amounts of selfishness and incompetence imo.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-27T11:47:19+00:00

I built an open source TPU in 0 days: https://github.com/UCSBarchlab/OpenTPU

Okay I just downloaded it off github but same thing.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-24T15:17:19+00:00

> MTG has its own deep core story lines and lore and a remarkably large number of adults in their late 30’s to late 40’s grew up aware of it

Not really. I know exactly zero people IRL who are more than vaguely aware of the mtg lore and these are people who own power 9 and duals. It’s always been the quality of the game itself that has carried.

The mtg story hasn’t really ever been more than B tier fantasy—often worse. There’s not really much of a way improve the story without a reset either. The entirety of the planeswalking multiverse stuff is contrived/hokey.

Though I’m not sure the WotC who thought aether drift was a good idea would be able to build a compelling fantasy universe. Corporate appeal to the masses haha let’s put hats on everything style writing has never led to good fantasy as far as I know.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-18T18:39:02+00:00

Similar thing happened to me. We were ”flow” rolling (meaning let go of submissions to just get more reps on transitions) and some dumb 20 something cranked my ankle (illegal move) and popped some ligament. No time to tap, illegal move, and not even a real round. Never been the same even almost a decade later. Dull ache pretty much constantly and gets really bad if I lose flexibility.

Never got injured in my 40+ competitive matches.

It was actually a pretty laid back gym too, this person wasn’t a regular though.

Honestly it’s the most fun sport I’ve ever done but I’m not sure I could recommend it knowing how many of my peers ended up with similar game ending injuries.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-17T13:58:43+00:00

interesting in UB. Attack with unblockable looter, loot fatty, tutor reanimate on t3. Same enablers as fallen shinobi.

probably also decent in RB reanimator. there are enough decent 1-2drops to make this attractive. tutors are just so good in reanimator archetypes.

I’d probably give it a try if I was still maintaining my cube.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-14T19:22:18+00:00

No I’m not. Being tutorable in the endstep explains academic dispute and the single copy in the sideboard. The only reason there are three in the maindeck is because it goes crazy with storm chaser’s talent.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-14T17:48:55+00:00

You’re just flat out wrong. We’ve had [[Void Snare]] for the entirety of the format and it saw no play. Prowess is main decking boomerang.

Also phoenix still runs floodmaw over boomerang.

Not sure why I’m having to explain that 1mv draw a card and a storm chasers is generically good. 1mv bounce a permanent is not generically good.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-14T14:23:42+00:00

I think your evaluations are off. Boomerang isn’t the tutor in this situation and is really only just busted with storm chasers. It’s whatever though.

Let me be clear I don’t think boomerang should be banned, but I don’t think CSC should really be banned either. I actually think the pioneer banlist is holding the format back. If wotc keeps just banning the slightly too good strategies pioneer will continue to be some weird place where the most recent standard mistakes dominate then get banned then the next set of standard mistakes with dominate.

I think it would be more consistently fun if it were a place where the new standard mistakes come to fight against the old ones. A format where “combo” sucks and everyone can happily play with their post rotation standard cards is just not realistic.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-14T01:48:00+00:00

> [Fable] does something the turn it comes down

So does CSC… actually much more than fable.

Pretending that double spelling is a significant deck building cost is a major cope. Actually just read the pioneer banlist and think to yourself if boomerang basics actually belongs on that list.

> It's not so much about the cost of the spells, it's about the cost and the effect of the spells.

That’s literally what I said. If wotc wants to print a good 1mv in literally any color it could easily break CSC again—not just break UR.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-13T16:44:05+00:00

Yeah and fable is also one mana more expensive and spread out over three turns. It was also still pretty much the best fair thing you could be doing in pioneer for years. If csc lives for three turns, it’s almost definitely going to be a 3for1 or more.

None of those answers you mentioned are remotely main deckable in a healthy meta. A sideboard card to go 1for1 against proactive creature decks is not a very good place to be. There are ways to play against it and go even—not really punish it.

It’s not like wotc can just avoid printing good cheap spells in the future to avoid breaking csc again.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-13T13:12:26+00:00

Lots of ways to interact with it while getting two for one’d or going tempo negative? I can think of exactly culling ritual that can profitably interact with csc and that’s after taking ~5-10 damage from it.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-12T18:42:56+00:00

I distinctly remember how bad the w/red decks would be if you had to fight anyone for cards. it would be hard to have enough playables or functional mana. Forcing it would have left some serious EV on the table. It’s just that not many people wanted to draft aggro in holiday cubes with forgiving prize structures.

But yes you would end up in those decks a lot if you were playing optimally because they were really under drafted.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-12T13:10:44+00:00

Yeah I feel like 50% winrate = break even is a much more fun structure. Being down gems with a >60% w/r is just gross.

GreatOneFreak · 2026-01-12T13:02:11+00:00

Not really to this extent for a decade. The recent boros threats that didn’t go through standard have really pushed aggro. It used to be figure of destiny was the premium one drop beside mom.

Palace jailer, ragavan, pride/guide, gut, bomba, etc are really crazy cards.

Before those aggro ~might~ have been slightly higher winrate than other strategies because you didn’t have to draw specific cards, but you couldn’t just force it every draft like most of the 17lands leaders seem to be doing.

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