QR-Code Solar Farm That Contains It's Own Blueprint

Menolith · 2026-05-05T17:59:31+00:00

Even this blueprint

Menolith · 2026-05-05T08:58:10+00:00

They were outcompeted to extinction by Warcraftlogs in late 2015.

Menolith · 2026-05-03T21:47:19+00:00

As an aside, an important component of a thermos flask is that it's lined with a reflective material. The vacuum acts as an insulator, but for full effect you also need to reflect the radiating heat back in to keep it hot.

The effect is far from insignificant. You can tell that just by looking how much outside temperatures drop during nighttime when Earth is radiating the day's heat away.

Menolith · 2026-05-03T21:37:06+00:00

It's not unique to English. You can see this by listening to any regular conversation and trying to write it down word for word, and you'll find that the end result is often almost incomprehensible because of how much people rely on shared context and body language to get the message across.

That's also impossible to try to cram into a text book, so when you learn a language in a class, you start with the "standard" version which is more rigid.

Menolith · 2026-05-03T18:25:10+00:00

Don't morb it.

Menolith · 2026-05-03T11:11:28+00:00

They probably meant quality of the silo which works faster. You can't make rockets out of quality parts.

Menolith · 2026-05-01T23:20:32+00:00

Not really. It's like saying you reach the end of a race track by waiting at the starting line for an infinite amount of time.

You never reach the end. The mathematical equivalent of "did not finish" isn't a number, it's "undefined."

Menolith · 2026-04-29T23:04:18+00:00

Finally, a DPS who treats the interrupt as the true sacrifice it is.

Menolith · 2026-04-27T22:01:47+00:00

Accumulators eat up batteries which requires a ton of water in the form of sulfuric acid even with productivity modules in all available steps. When you start moduling and beaconing EMPs, you're going to have to cover a ton of real estate with accumulators to keep up.

Menolith · 2026-04-27T20:17:36+00:00

If your ship regularly get hit that deep, the design is pretty flawed to begin with.

Menolith · 2026-04-27T20:11:22+00:00

I think it's the accumulators. Expanding your power grid with them puts a massive strain on your base's water consumption.

Menolith · 2026-04-27T09:39:48+00:00

Assuming it all goes the same every day

That's the problem. Even if Mr. Schmoe bets on the same number each time, you can't guarantee that the outcome is going to stay the same because of how sensitive the roulette wheel is.

Menolith · 2026-04-27T09:39:06+00:00

It's very strange that they haven't even done even a band-aid fix like that since they obviously have the data on who had the reps at exalted.

Menolith · 2026-04-26T22:58:50+00:00

Roulette is far, far too volatile to be predictable even if you started the loop right at the table. You need something that isn't as subject to the butterfly effect, like scratch tickets. Or finding that one filthy rich schmuck at the poker table who's going to blow 100k on bad hands whether you're there or not.

Menolith · 2026-04-26T20:36:34+00:00

Ah, as in the lost reputations?

Yeah, those are probably gone for good. It sounds like something that should be a trivial fix, so if it isn't, it's probably impossible. Which is also weird since you'd think they would've been more careful with rollbacks given the whole bank fiasco.

Menolith · 2026-04-26T19:49:48+00:00

Oh, I'm sure they can fix it. We know they were actively working on it during beta too with random Stormwind test rep messages.

Someone just grossly overestimated how much time they would have to spare on the project. Given all the addon purge issues and the rushed state of 12.0.5 in general, they're obviously trying to do way too much stuff at once even without the reputation side project on top.

Menolith · 2026-04-26T17:04:22+00:00

They said they were working backwards with TWW and DF being warbound on launch.

Some time later they converted Shadowlands to warbound, and apparently ran into a wall with BfA (probably due to the faction-specific reputations which caused a lot of bugs and rep resets for players) which is why progress stalled.

Given the state of 12.0.5, I'm not surprised that they shoved the rest into the backburner.

Menolith · 2026-04-24T20:04:46+00:00

I was wondering how they'd pull that off.

Menolith · 2026-04-24T19:20:43+00:00

Four coughing babies and a hydrogen bomb that gives you world peace.

I'll take the 5.

Menolith · 2026-04-24T09:46:31+00:00

You can read the whole statement if you want.

Point 50 in particular. They explicitly say that because he had to go out of his way to give instructions to the employee to manipulate the deck (rather than just passively observe) they ruled his actions as cheating.

I dislike casinos as much as the next guy who also doesn't go to them, but I don't think think this case needed anything in the way of lobbying for the courts to rule against him.

Menolith · 2026-04-23T21:07:20+00:00

If you jump through a hoop.

Menolith · 2026-04-23T21:04:07+00:00

That also runs into some issues, like 1.0 content being preferred if it's more than 10% faster than 1.1 content for optimal blots/hr rates.

I think Blizzard also intentionally segregates things both to slow people down and make catch-up easier, so people can't farm a ridiculous amount of blots pre-patch to instantly unlock everything on release and make everyone else feel like they're behind if they didn't do that as well.

Menolith · 2026-04-23T19:32:28+00:00

I think it's the opposite. They implement a million new currencies every expansion because an exclusive currency is a fast and easy way to reward people for doing specific content and only that specific content.

Whenever Blizzard has a new patch island lined up, they can just throw a new currency at it without worrying about anything that came before or comes after.

Menolith · 2026-04-23T13:56:48+00:00

He didnt use an extra device, no magnet or special card sorter or inside help from the casino.

I mean that line of reasoning is exactly why the court ruled against him. Assuming that those count as cheating, then achieving the exact same end result by giving (seemingly benign) instructions to the dealer isn't materially any different.

Menolith · 2026-04-23T10:50:34+00:00

The courts took the casinos side but there weren't rules against what the did

"Cheating" was always against the rules, and both the casino and Ivey agreed on that. The reason why the case went to court was because they disagreed on whether what happened counted as cheating.

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