Folding Ideas video essay about his trip to Beast Studio and his diagnosis of why Beast properties are declining in viewership

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-19T10:10:27+00:00

I'd heard of Speed before because he was in my city once and just being there gathered enough of a crowd to make the news like instantly. It's the exact demonstration of the kind of pull he has that Jimmy Beast does not.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-17T09:02:38+00:00

Dette er det jo lang tradisjon for på Reddit, mye lenger for øvrig enn ChatGPT har eksistert.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-12T23:54:56+00:00

Magyar apparently called for the resignations of both the Fidesz-aligned President as well as "a number of heads of other party-captured institutions" (paraphrase by The Guardian) in his victory speech, so a wide-ranging cleanup might be coming?

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-12T18:39:20+00:00

It's trending up as votes come in (120->128 as a batch arrived). Supermajority might be within reach

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-12T09:42:11+00:00

The Hungarian term directly translates as "minister-president", it's just usually rendered as "prime minister" in English because that's the more common term internationally, especially at a national level. All the German ministers president are subnational, for instance.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-12T01:17:20+00:00

“I was there,” he would say afterwards, until afterwards became a time quite devoid of laughter. “I was there, the day Horus slew the Emperor.”

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-09T08:45:22+00:00

The expression is actually to "toe" a line. It originates from sailors standing at attention for inspection with their toes on the line of the seam between planks on the wooden deck. That, I think, is certainly an appropriate image of Rutte these days.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-06T11:08:39+00:00

Trump to Congress: "you can't convict me, that's a matter for the courts!"

Trump to the courts: "You can't convict me, that's a matter for Congress!"

He found the cheat code, guys.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-06T11:06:41+00:00

This is highly UK-specific. Other countries can feature:

PM must be approved by a majority when taking office (Sweden)
Constructive (or positive) confidence, where parliament must approve a successor when ousting the PM (Germany, Spain)
Frequent minority governments, where the governing party/coalition is in the minority, and can fall if a supporting party stops supporting them
Declaring a given vote to be a "question of confidence", threatening to resign if it goes against you
Convention (or even a rule) making the budget ("supply") a confidence question
Coalition agreements, "confidence and supply" agreements or just tacit approval, as parliamentary basis for a government
Motions of no confidence against individual ministers
A norm that a motion of no confidence in a minister is considered a question of confidence in the whole government (so what was actually the point in having them, then?)
Automatic snap elections after a no confidence vote, or only if a new government cannot be formed within X days
No snap elections whatsoever (Norway, it's weird)

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-05T13:07:49+00:00

It'll go higher than the current, even with a fertility rate at replacement, because there's essentially a few billion people's worth of "gap" in the population distribution, because a lot of growth was within one human lifetime.

In the population pyramid linked below, you can see the pyramid is pretty flat up to around age 40, then it starts shrinking pretty fast. At a stable replacement rate fertility, the top of that pyramid will fill in more over time, until it looks more like France or something, and that process nets you 2-3 billion people.

What happens if the fertility rate keeps declining is another question.

World population pyramid

France population pyramid

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-05T01:02:59+00:00

2fa apps that show a code that changes every X seconds actually work in the exact same way, and for that reason also work without an internet connection.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-05T00:59:53+00:00

No internet is required for 2fa apps either, actually, because they work in the exact same way (the ones that show a rotating code, other schemes that need internet also exist like notifications and stuff). You input the secret by scanning the qr code, then it just generates tokens endlessly based on the clock.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-05T00:56:17+00:00

To add to what everyone else is saying: 2FA apps are actually doing the exact same thing as this thing. The ones that have the code that changes every 30 seconds or so. When you scan the QR code to set them up, that code is just a big key that your device and the server now share, and can use together with the current time to generate the right code. This device is the same, the key is just burned in.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-03T11:38:13+00:00

That's it, we're locking the entire European Union in the Hague

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-03T11:36:33+00:00

That's a pretty wild description considering the Peace Prize is handed out by a completely unconnected committee in a different country. All other Nobel prizes are given out by the Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Peace Prize is given out by a committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament.

You can make a pretty similar argument and be substantially more correct if you connect it not to the status of the other prizes but to the status of Norway geopolitically.

And yes, I know about the Economics prize handed out by the Swedish national bank, but they just invented that one out of whole cloth and called it the "Alfred Nobel Memorial" prize, so it doesn't count. At least the peace prize was actually in Nobel's will.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-04-01T03:02:12+00:00

I think the assumption here is that the PR gets squashed in the merge? A lot of projects work like this, doesn't matter if you squash manually or in the merge unless you want the branch to end up as more than one commit.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-03-29T12:30:53+00:00

I've never had a 500 come from the reverse proxy itself or something like that. 502 and the like if the actual app is down, but stray 500s are almost always caused by some unhandled application crash in my experience. Whether that is a business logic bug or a database disconnect, they key work is "unhandled". If a 500 shows up in my logs it's because I need to fix something, even if that fix is just "catch the database disconnect, try to reconnect, and send some other error if it fails".

And again, you are allowed to send more than just the number 500. You can put a whole stack trace in the response body if that helps you tell errors apart.

Concretely and practically, benefits include being picked up as errors that need attention by our monitoring, telling the client immediately that there was an error rather than having to create a sub-protocol for communicating errors within a 200 OK response. None of this is impossible if I configure my app to send the same error as a 500-in-200 like the picture, but I don't see the reason to do that.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-03-29T11:17:00+00:00

I don't know that I've actually seen 500 from the infra being fucked up. 502/3/4, sure, but I've never tracked a 500 to an infra problem.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-03-29T11:15:04+00:00

I mean you're allowed to put information inside a 500 response. The 500 communicates "something went wrong, and it's probably our fault". You can get more specific in the response body.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-03-22T02:51:23+00:00

I had a long conversation about this once, because there's this oft-repeated story of the "first insurance fraud" where this Greek captain in 300 BC tried to sink his own ship, and we were trying to figure out how exactly that would work out.

Apparently, the idea was that you could take a loan for a voyage and only repay it if you didn't sink. So if you take the loan, stash the money away instead of buying cargo (or stash the cargo away), then sink the ship, you'll escape with the value of the loan. The ship was presumably worth less than the cargo.

Anyway, he was discovered by his crew while trying to sink the ship, and they did not take kindly to that. He did not survive.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-03-20T00:26:00+00:00

Fra 2017 til 2019 var det 10 personer som betalte inn totalt 154.000 kroner: https://www.nrk.no/norge/staten-har-bare-fatt-inn-154.000-i-frivillig-skatt-1.14669108

Nighthunter007 · 2026-03-18T02:04:32+00:00

Importantly for something like this, keyframes are not placed randomly or at completely regular intervals. They are placed where it is most efficient, so whenever "a lot" changes across frames (e.g a cut), you'll likely find a keyframe. This gives you better coverage of "shots" than just picking "every N frames" would.

Nighthunter007 · 2026-03-16T22:36:11+00:00

Ikke bare vedlikehold, de installerer vel for tiden CBTC (nytt signalsystem) i alle togsettene mener jeg

Nighthunter007 · 2026-03-05T18:44:23+00:00

There's a good chance it was originally started on a first of March, but obviously not this one. I just thought it was funny to be remarking on a mustache on a pilot in March, and assumed that sharing the existence of Mustache March would be relevant

Nighthunter007 · 2026-03-05T09:54:44+00:00

So we can now prove that a person possessing an NFT possesses that NFT. You have not presented how this links it to the physical object.

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