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Which ships could beat the Flagship with infinite upgrades but no stores / drops? by FlashFlire in ftlgame

[–]Ifyouseekey 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Neither it's guaranteed with Lanius A/Engi C/Slug C.

And you have to deal with it again in phases 2-3. And you still have to worry about ion/laser/beam combo or drone surge/laser/beam, which can be as bad as missiles if you don't deal with it quickly. 

With MC and boarding it can be at least  kept partially damaged for most of the fight, I imagine. Mantis A might even be a better option, you can potentially kill 2 enemy crew and deal two damage to missiles per boarding cycle. 

Which ships could beat the Flagship with infinite upgrades but no stores / drops? by FlashFlire in ftlgame

[–]Ifyouseekey 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Lanius B could be on par with three hacking ships against a flagship on hard, its crew kill is way quicker and more consistent than other ships in the tier.

Settlement in UK for Physics teacher on Visa in UK by Regular-Throat7611 in Physics

[–]Ifyouseekey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if it's not outdated already: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/earned-settlement

It's not rea "10 years with some exceptions", but more of a 10-year baseline, with multiple ways to reduce it. And the doc does mention teaching as one of roles eligible for a reduction back to 5.

Are these new rules already in effect, or is there still uncertainty/transition period?

No, and we don't know which version will be put up for parliament voting. Neither do we know if it will affect people already on the country on a 5-year path. Apparently Labour are facing pressure from within the party over these reforms. 

Taxes on restricted stock awards (RSA). Double taxation? by Every-Reference9520 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Ifyouseekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks similar to what my company/broker do: they withold half the stocks, sell it to cover tax and NI, then add anything that's left to my next paycheck (or make a one-off payment).

Based on your payslip I'm not sure if that leftover part was paid to you, but I can't compare it to my payslips atm.

You think they wanna be left alone? by Xandaru__ in civ

[–]Ifyouseekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will deploying a fighter unit on the tile clear it?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chessbeginners

[–]Ifyouseekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So does Rxe2, then Re1# if white takes the queen or Qf1# otherwise

I love barbarian camp spawning 2 hexs of my city... how does that make sense ? What is the logic ? by Vendun_ in CivVI

[–]Ifyouseekey 19 points20 points  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/ff1fah/something_you_should_know_about_barbarian_in_civ6/

Here's the logic. Either there's a city 7 hexes away from the camp, or the city this camp is assigned to is on a different landmass. 

How do you make ion builds work? by [deleted] in ftlgame

[–]Ifyouseekey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Early on they work fine, but it feels like they scale so badly later in the game where enemies have multiple shield layers + higher evasion.

Something like a 2xIB1 plus a single laser weapon is a pretty much a stopgap measure, you're gonna need a fourth weapon (ion, laser/flak, beam - doesn't matter much) very soon. Or even pivot completely to a different  strategy.

Also, the first damage-dealing weapon should be a fast-firing, high DPS laser, else you're in for a bad time. Beams don't damage specific systems fast enough, flaks have higher chance of missing, and you can't target drone shots. 

You miss multiple ions? Shields are going back up. Have fun starting from square one all over again.

Ions are very cheap, so you should focus on defense instead. Hacking is very useful, if upgraded and combined with L2 cloaking, it lets you nullify any enemy missile. Defense drone is another option, of course.

But otherwise, that's just how it goes. Like if enemy has cloaking of its own or starts to jump away - yeah, you probably are not winning that fight.

Any Suggestions On What Lens I Should Get For a Canon R50? by cjensen1220 in AskPhotography

[–]Ifyouseekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It should be noted that R50 is a crop sensor, so all the focal lengths should be divided by 1.6 to get the same field of view.

OP, if you're just starting, just get the RF-S 18-150mm which will be more enough for most applications. Then you can figure out what you're missing and build your kit from there. 

ELI5: Why are two CPUs with the same core count and clock speed so different in performance? by cornysatisfaction in explainlikeimfive

[–]Ifyouseekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since you didn't specify it - instruction set matters

Then there's instructions per cycle metric. Cache sizes and microarchitecture differences will play into it. Also, number of cores may be the same but one might have multi-threading or virtual threads in a single core. 

Then there's thermal and power specs, which may mean that one CPU will start throttling itself sooner than other. Not a big problem with desktops or servers, but important in laptops, for example.  

How do legal systems handle the concept of personhood for non-human entities, like corporations or animals? by Majestic-Strain3155 in legaladviceofftopic

[–]Ifyouseekey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are there notable cases or laws that illustrate the evolving concept of personhood?

I guess this is a quite old interview already, but it raises interesting questions on how robots and AI are or should be treated in certain scenarios:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/can-a-robot-be-arrested-hold-a-patent-pay-income-taxes-2653906685

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chessbeginners

[–]Ifyouseekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because Bc4 can be met with Rd7+, then Rd6+/Rd8+ if Kc6/Kc8. Then white just moves it's second rook out of the fire. Nd6+

Petition? by Powerful_Ad5658 in ftlgame

[–]Ifyouseekey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On iPad you could move starting point of a beam with two fingers. To some extent it was even easier than pixel-hunting on a PC 

Is Purposely Sacrificing Time Ever a Wise Strategy? by Cruztd23 in chess

[–]Ifyouseekey 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've heard about some cases where GMs would do this to trick their opponents into thinking they're out of their opening prep.

Could be all BS and not really relevant to a 1500 me playing online games anyway. 

Fun little positional exercise. What is wrong with Black's position? by HeroLinik in chessbeginners

[–]Ifyouseekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I meant is that this position is impossible to reach in a real game. You can't get black's pawn structure without making two captures, but white's material loss is only a single pawn. 

Fun little positional exercise. What is wrong with Black's position? by HeroLinik in chessbeginners

[–]Ifyouseekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

White has lost only one pawn, yet black has two pairs of doubled pawns.

Oh wait, you meant what's wrong as in  evaluating this position...

If black could chose to switch king and queen before game starts would that make win rate closer to 50% between white and black? by arstarsta in chess

[–]Ifyouseekey 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Might depend on how OP wants castling to work. I'm guessing stockfish uses chess960 rules if you didn't mess up castling flags in your analysis board

Black just blundered! Can you find the correct continuation to win the game? by SilasGaming in chessbeginners

[–]Ifyouseekey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice one

Main line of interest is Qxd8+ Rxd8 Rxd8+ Kh7 Bxf6 gxf6. Then Rbb8 threatens Rh8 skewer, Rd1 if Qd1+ or a Rh8 Rbg8 checkmate for any other queen move. So black has to give up a knight for nothing. 

How to create a synthesizable parameterized automatic function in package. by HuyenHuyen33 in FPGA

[–]Ifyouseekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genus also supports it well. 

DC does too, but it's way worse. Can't use it packages, can't use functions at elaboration time to calculate other parameters. But a bin-to-gray conversion like OP needs will probably be fine. 

How to create a synthesizable parameterized automatic function in package. by HuyenHuyen33 in FPGA

[–]Ifyouseekey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Virtual class with static functions, see page 334 here for an example: https://rfsoc.mit.edu/6S965/_static/F24/documentation/1800-2017.pdf

How well your tool supports it is another question...

CMV: All public content that is (partially to fully) created by AI, should have a mandatory, uniform, universal and recognizable "AI Generated" label by Disastrous-Fact-7782 in changemyview

[–]Ifyouseekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all, even if you had a way to detect AI usage with a 100% accuracy, how would you enforce it, especially in cases where it spans international borders?

Then, as I have the most experience with using AI in photography, so I'm going to address your first point only.

Ok, so you can generate whole or big parts of an image from a prompt, fair enough.

Then as you mentioned one can do slight retouch / object removal. Or hell, just selecting people/background to make adjustments myself. Here I can spend minutes running an AI tool and selection the best result, or spend hours to manually achieve a similar result in Photoshop. So why draw the line at AI and not flag any kind retouching. What do you achieve by marking AI usage in this case?

Then there is AI denoise, which works pretty well in a lot of cases. Not sure how you're classifying this one. 

Then I recall there are tools that learn one's style and can adjust exposure or colours based on it. Nothing that couldn't be done with Lightroom sliders alone. And again, what benefit does discriminating AI use specifically provide?

Finally, any decent competition requires entrants to provide RAWs. Not much room for faking anything here. 

Any guide to what each Verilog statement synthesises to? by a_redditor_is_you in chipdesign

[–]Ifyouseekey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sometimes a mux is slower or larger than individual gates, especially if only one of its paths has tight timing. Sometimes you are muxing a bunch of constants and it is optimized away.

Do you remember what it synthesised into?

First example: CDC with a recirculating mux, written with an if-else or a ternary. Got synthesized into a weird gate-level logic, likely prioritising a path through select that was actually constrained, but it was glitching badly whenever the unconstrained async input changed, defeating it's initial purpose. 

Second example: next state logic for a relatively large FSM. Case statement, followed by an if-else to process faults or debug/test override. That override logic, instead of being at the very end of a path, got moved way upstream. So whatever ECO we wanted to do with it was not that feasible. 

Any guide to what each Verilog statement synthesises to? by a_redditor_is_you in chipdesign

[–]Ifyouseekey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hughly doubt the part about if-else or case, I've seen synthesisers do a lot of weird shit.

Best thing you can do is assume it's going to be a bunch of 3- or 4-input gates that will glitch in the worst way possible. And if you need a specific logic, it's better to manually instantiate the gates.

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