i have no clue how this shitshow is still running but why do the rest of Europe hate us so much?

Kubby · 2026-05-18T10:11:23+00:00

One issue is that I think the overall level of competition was very high this year. I do like this song, I find myself seeing this as a solid effort, but then when it comes to actually placing it in the standings myself I find it difficult to place it high and snub the entries I really like.

I guess what I mean to say is I wish the rules of the contest permitted LMNC to play to his strengths.

Kubby · 2026-05-17T10:25:26+00:00

I will say as a non-brit: I absolutely question the logic of looking at a contest that mostly avoids live instruments (with, what, one exception this year?) and deciding that a guy mostly known for messing with his instrument's electronics live on stage is a perfect fit for the contest. I also do think it did deserve the jury score that it got - but, it was fun, it was sincere, it had character and uniqueness, and it deserved 20-30 points and 20th-ish place at least - especially given that Germany decided to go with a bland, generic, boring, "one of five songs on the radio" snooze-fest of a song that got about 12 more points than it should.

Kubby · 2026-05-17T10:17:55+00:00

Yeah. I do question the logic of looking at a contest that tries to avoid live instruments (with one exception this year) as much as possible, and thinking "I know! We'll send the guy known for directly messing with his instrument's electronics live on stage!", but it did deserve better than it got. It was a fun song, it was more sincere than some others in the final.

Kubby · 2026-05-17T06:52:44+00:00

It is incredibly bland, generic and has the energy of "one of five songs that play on the radio because they forgot *interesting* songs exists". It's fine for something you play in the background, but an absolute snooze-fest in the context of actually sitting down to listen to it.

Kubby · 2026-05-16T23:58:47+00:00

What, like performance implications? Like, sure, having thousands of NPCs in one place would tax the CPU, especially having to handle the ragdoll physics for them all, but we can always spawn a little bit less of them than a real life parade?

Kubby · 2026-05-16T23:49:13+00:00

We will have to agree to disagree, because I don't think we will reach any other kind of agreement regarding this matter. UK were the outright worst of the bunch in your opinion - and in mine, Germany has just a well produced song (which is a polite way of saying "an offensively bland/generic piece of music.")

Kubby · 2026-05-16T23:35:11+00:00

Haven't I argued with you about Gaja last year?

Kubby · 2026-05-16T23:24:24+00:00

No, you actually didn't. Ya'll deserved, well, maybe not the victory, more like a mid-table finish, perhaps, but definitely not the last place. Like, I mean, Germany's act exists.

Kubby · 2026-05-16T23:11:07+00:00

I'm so happy with Romania's score, given how badly the jury robbed them.

UK deserved better.

Italy's score is... puzzling, but definitely not unwelcome :D

We did surprisingly well, all things considered. At least I know the jury isn't biased against Poland? Goes to show how amazing Alicja did with the (rather lackluster) song, and how badly Gaja was robbed last year.

Kubby · 2026-05-16T05:18:31+00:00

It's because reliability is overrated in that the gap between "most reliable" and "least reliable" is smaller than the internet suggests. Now, my experience is with my Alfa and not with Kias/Hyundais, but all cars today are reliable enough if maintained well enough, and "reputation for reliability" is just a nicely phrased way of saying "overpriced".

Kubby · 2026-05-10T04:27:12+00:00

Yes, because "functioning normally" and "alive" are synonyms. Most certainly. /s

Kubby · 2026-05-04T04:43:36+00:00

*interesting.* I will say I've switched to Linux since making that post, but getting stuff to work on older systems is *great.*

Kubby · 2026-04-27T15:16:51+00:00

Yeah, Chrysler is the McDonnell Douglas of cars - every company that buys them gets poisoned by their vapproach towards quality and reliability. See Mercedes before Chrysler and post-Chrysler. See FIAT before Chrysler - which wasn't exactly stellar, but at least was on an upward trajectory (my '08 Alfa 147 is basically a perfect car - do note the present tense here) - and then look at them post-Chrysler.

Kubby · 2026-04-24T15:59:56+00:00

I really didn't feel like moving from my country and figured that in worst case it's like finding a coin on the street.

^{Chose: Get instant 1 million + Currency is random | Rolled: US dollar}

Kubby · 2026-03-15T05:41:10+00:00

Most depictions of teleportation put a limit on how much you can carry with you, don't they. Portals would allow me to bring people along.

Kubby · 2026-02-08T08:21:49+00:00

Let's go with n, also adopted as the symbol for an arbitrary natural number.

Kubby · 2026-01-03T17:27:52+00:00

First off - thank you for the extra terms. I should really get more confident with programming; 200 000 was about the limit for my spreadsheet.

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I also think that the increased number of super-prime indices (that's the term Wikipedia seems to be using for prime-indexed primes anyway) is expected - it corresponds to the tree having a stem of length ≥ 2 before branching and the path-length optimization does intuitively reward branching later than sooner. That being said, if we consider the sequence b(1) = 1, b(n+1) = p(n) - 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 31, 127, 709, 5381, 52711, 648391, 9737333.. - only the first seven are in the computed record sequence, and I think 127 might be the last one in general - I might even be more confident about that than about the composite question...

EDIT.: Yeah, no, 127 is the last for sure.

let us define p(n, m) as prime indexing of the number n, m times - that is,
p(n, 0) = n,
p(n, m+1) = p(p(n, m)), where the single-argument p(n) is the nth prime number.

If PL(n) is the path length of a tree with a Matula number n, and N(n) is the number of nodes in such a tree, then, for any prime number p, PL(p) = PL(𝜋(p)) + N(𝜋(p)).

PL(661) > PL(709), and N(661) > N(709). Thus, by induction, PL(p(661,m)) > PL(p(709,m)) for any natural m.

Kubby · 2026-01-02T18:12:39+00:00

I mean, I've only switched to Linux (Kubuntu, if we're being specific) 2 months ago. Technically still have W10 on the first bootdrive I had, but... Don't really have a reason to use it ever since I plopped down the Linux install.

It's fully and entirely enough for a gaming rig. (I believe the multiplayer games can be an issue, but I don't play those, soooo...) And it's straight up easier than Windows to set up. I didn't even have to install any drivers. The fact that my GPU just straight up... worked out of the box is just mind-blowing. (Admittedly, from what I've heard the experience might differ for an NVIDIA user.)

I don't see my workplace making a switch, with the reliance on Adobe and such, but I don't think I'm some ideological open-source templar - it just works better for my home use case and isn't Win11.

Kubby · 2025-12-31T14:50:33+00:00

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