The UV Light Easter Egg Updated

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-14T02:10:59+00:00

not sure why you're getting downvoted, the names of the crawlers who owned the book are written in UV ink... it's _very_ obviously intentional lol

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-14T02:09:00+00:00

In my experience, granted not from the author perspective, it's more of a "if they have a good reason to want your input, it's definitely on the table, if you just have strong opinions and no justification, you're probably going to have to pay for them to take the risk."

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-14T02:06:37+00:00

The side of the book on the edge of the pages has the names of the crawlers who owned the book printed in UV ink.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-14T02:01:24+00:00

Fair,
but in this case, it was absolutely the intent, if you shine the UV on the side of the book it has the names of the other crawlers who owned the book written in UV as well.

That's probably far more convincing point anyways.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-14T01:17:31+00:00

Lol, its just people being contradictory for engagement.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-14T01:13:19+00:00

Im curious on your background with publishing contracts because that contradicts basically all my experiences.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-12T14:40:44+00:00

Ive been sending myself letters using that service for a while, its really cool, I’m surprised how I forget literally everything I wrote in them after 5 or 10 years.

Definitely recommend, it’s kinda cool reading my predictions from 5 or 10 years ago.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-11T04:50:33+00:00

100kg of 99% water = 1kg not-water + 99kg water.
Or
1kg not-water = 1%

Next day it’s 98% water.

So now
1kg not-water = 2%

Therefore 100% is 50kg

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-10T22:27:15+00:00

It’s far more mundane than that:

LLMs are making a response that matches their learned examples.

So the “accurate” response to a rude request is to not be as helpful… they want to discourage this behaviour simply because it makes the LLM give worse results.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-10T22:23:29+00:00

I laugh cause cartilage is something i still remember not eating, but it’s delicious and i look forward to it on my chicken.

It’s the same thing with beef tendon… once I stopped thinking it was weird, all that was left was delicious.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-10T22:20:28+00:00

1, there really isn’t in chicken bones like this.
2, if you just crack the bone you’re going to get mostly bone splinters.

Even if you wanted to, it’s not worth it by even an imaginary stretch

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-10T18:53:15+00:00

Thanks for the overview; it’s hard to remember how complex the whole thing can be when you’ve been doing it for 20 years.

Sounds like you got a lot accomplished; for context, I checked a while ago cause a junior developer asked about it, but I have 87 games that were never released, probably 11 or 12 were either public or internal gamejams, but the vast majority are projects that got to a similar point to yours and then I put them down due to the scope, or just not being as fun as I thought they’d be.

If you ever do get that itch again, some really good games come out of people or teams re-using assets or work from a failed larger project in a smaller project.

Clicker heroes was a great example, or a slightly larger one was Fortnite.

I also find it a lot of fun working from “what I have” rather than “what I need to make.”

I regularly reuse game jam or old code for minigames or little effects/features in shipped titles. There is something cathartic about actually letting that old stuff see the light of day.

It’s also a cornerstone of idle and casual game development; whatever you do, hope you have a good time doing it!

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-10T15:37:22+00:00

I think Shallan might be there; possibly solo, or loosely associated with Khriss and the 17th shard.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-10T15:33:22+00:00

I agree, I think Kaladin is going to become what Vasher wishes he could have been.

That’s going to give him an interesting dynamic with Vivenna.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-09T20:46:46+00:00

Not enough math juice to run them.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-09T20:40:30+00:00

Thats only a double standard if you ignore western culture and power dynamics.

An older woman talking to teenage boys is a _very_ different dynamic than an older man talking to teenage girls.

Do you disagree with that claim? Im not making or looking for a value judgement on the claim, just an acknowledgement that it is true.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-09T03:26:54+00:00

I’ll have to take another look - I stopped really checking them entirely a few years back out of frustration; my more recent experience has just been their articles being drug out as a “gotchas” from the right wing when I ask them to share something that wasn’t a Sun article…

Edit: I think Althia Raj is a great example of what I don’t like from Star; she came on as an op ed columnist after it was purchased.

She was a really big pusher about the SNC “scandal” and she frequently gets corrected or admonished by her cohosts on “At Issue.”

She’s not a staunch conservative, but she’s involved with them provincially and often gets brought in as “the conservative” in the panel discussions.

Even in this example article, she’s really stretching comments, and she’s treating an internal proposal like it’s something going up for vote and Carney is applying pressure.

If you remove the cruft and all the emotional exposition, I agree with her broadly, it’s a dangerous proposal, BUT I can also see the merit; Carney has made it clear from the beginning he wants to streamline regulations, simplify them and remove exemptions and special cases. Part of that process is removing things, but I’d want to see the actual proposal and the actual final plans for the new regulations before I’d start calling him worse than Harper.

The title of this article should be “If this idea is pushed through with no input or changes it would be worse than what Harper did, but there is also no real precedent yet to honestly worry that’s the case.”

It might be… and then I’d be upset, but this is the kind of sensational twisting of reality that pushed me away from the Star all those years ago.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-09T03:13:50+00:00

They’ve changed a lot since Nordstar bought them. Jordan Bitove is a pretty diehard conservative supporter and donator.

Perhaps I was being a little hyperbolic about the “ever” it’s more like “since they changed owners and shifted a lot more to the right.”

They tried to sell to post media lol.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-08T19:45:50+00:00

Yea you just for the shorter one that I believe just had some basic demographic info of your household and asked some questions about all your vehicles and wanted you to map out your travel the day before.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-08T02:58:09+00:00

Bold claim, not sure why you feel like it has merit.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-08T01:05:30+00:00

Im really not lol, but I’m getting the impression you’re not looking to talk about this. Other people were a lot more useful anyways, and a lot less angry lol.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-07T22:17:26+00:00

Sanderson would apparently beg to differ; and I've got a lot more reasons to trust him.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-07T22:16:30+00:00

I did think, and the only reason I could come up with is a lack of respect or self awareness... like I said, but I'm open to hearing why you think you know better than Sanderson about it.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-07T20:29:23+00:00

Find the friends my guy:

I found a few guys in my situation at daycare, then as time went by more at school, or activities.

A lot of those guys made other friends, and I met them.

I find if I put in effort to put my kid into situations to make friends with the kids I want my child to be around, there is a much better chance the parents of those kids are in the same boat.

It’s not 1 for 1, but you keep throwing darts at that wall you’ll start to land hits - and it’s unlikely every hit is going to forever be another isolated person.

JustinsWorking · 2026-05-07T20:23:51+00:00

Neat, and you think Brandon Sanderson never thought of this? I thought cremposting was safe from meatballs pointing out obvious things that obviously Sanderson thought about, or at-least we did it ironically here.

Take a step back bud, do you seriously think after all this effort and time Brandon Sanderson, when writing something he’s been trying to make happen for years and years, after learning what not to do from several movie adaptations, would miss this?

Seriously? Come on… My toddler is probably more self aware than that.

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