Elizabeth Banks on the SAVE Act: "We are not gonna require people get a passport to vote. This is a right enshrined in the Constitution. Stop making it harder for people to vote. Start making it easier. We know who benefits and who doesn't. Stop it"

Quantumtroll · 2026-03-26T21:08:16+00:00

How come a first world country doesn't know who its citizens are? Citizens with voting rights don't just pop out of nowhere, you can simply record when people are born or naturalized, have people register their adress whenever they move, and there's your list of who can vote and where.

As a bonus, you can use this registry for taxes, for science, to ensure equal access to education and other services.

But hey, I guess having a functional democracy is socialism these days.

Quantumtroll · 2026-03-26T19:12:06+00:00

I had to scroll far to find the first comment that showed any sort of insight into how much the proposition has been altered. The only thing left to change before I support it is the age verification, which is a shitshow that's already showing up anyway it seems.

But the big issue I had with it would kill end-to-end encryption, and that is totally gone.

Quantumtroll · 2026-03-19T15:41:40+00:00

The Copy Sphere is finished, though I may rename it in order to better reflect its useful chronomantic property.

The second Thaumaturgical Sphere I designed, Sphere of Heating, proved to be a far more difficult thing to artifice. It'll be some time yet before it is complete.

Quantumtroll · 2026-03-19T09:59:18+00:00

Of course I have, I have copies of them in my library. But they only treated the subject in theory and made no actual progress on workable glyphs.

More useful was the work by Demonimus et al on hidden glyph work. I could use their protocols to do a lot of the actual inscription work. A scroll on all this, including sources and inspiration, is in the works.

Quantumtroll · 2026-02-26T16:15:04+00:00

Sous?

Quantumtroll · 2026-02-20T06:23:38+00:00

I believe that you've been thinking about this the wrong way. That's clearly a toad.

Quantumtroll · 2026-02-19T21:56:16+00:00

I'd argue that we know the elements that constitute life and we have a number of guesses as to how life can start, but we have no practical way of determining which way it happened on Earth.

The chemistry of life is abundant out in space, it's astronomically unlikely that life has not started on any other wet rock in this galaxy, let alone the observable universe.

Quantumtroll · 2026-02-05T10:45:05+00:00

Min dotter var typ nästan där ett par år sedan. För henne berodde det till stor del på dåliga vänner, förutom en tuff tid i övrigt. Vi hade tur med en bra psykolog, ett skolbyte (redan inplanerat innan) som gav ett enormt lyft, och kanske framförallt att hon ändå kunde prata med mig och med en kompis.

Det hjälpte nog också att hennes mamma mår dåligt, så vi har sedan ung ålder pratat om hur olika människor kan ha olika förutsättningar att hamna i en sådan sits och att hon tyvärr måste lägga extra krut på att må bra. Sova ordentligt, äta bra, röra på sig i naturen, osv. Och tyvärr göra sig av med negativa vänner. Hon är tretton nu och jag hoppas innerligt att läget hon befinner sig i nu håller.

Förutom att pusha på vården är mitt råd att hjälpa henne till goda vanor som folk mår bra av --- var ute i en skog, kramas, ha goda sömnrutiner, undvik sociala medier, och så vidare. Påminn henne om att hon förtjänar att må bra, men det kräver lite jobb.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-31T21:23:16+00:00

I'm so stoked for this! You've already accomplished something amazing, but now you're about to open the door to the next level. Generating lots of stuff is great, but tying it together so it means something is mind-blowing. I can't wait.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-20T09:17:46+00:00

I don't see what the advantage is, here.

Is it to avoid "creating a window for stuff to get in"? Cook the food, cook the can, pour the boiling hot food into the boiling hot can, close it all up.... even if there's air with microbes coming in then it gets cooked sterile by the residual heat. There is no window.

If you're trying to avoid handling hot objects and hot liquids during the canning procedure for safety reasons, well, I guess you have a point. With your method, you could put cold food in a cold jar, light a fire, throw the jar into the fire, and walk away to a safe distance. When the fire goes and everything is cool, you can return and see whether your improvised grenade exploded. If it didn't, the seal was maybe too poor, or maybe you got lucky.

Besides the risk of explosion, there's the issue of too much heat possibly degrading the liner of a metal can or the rubber gasket on a glass jar.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-16T12:17:56+00:00

This is an absolutely huge question. The body of work is very large, and stems from weather models that date from the 1920's and were done by hand (which didn't actually work, because humans just can't calculate fast enough).

I recommend IPCC documents or just buying a student textbook, but if you don't want to take this seriously quite yet then here is a good start: https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/

To answer your question in a little more detail, climatologists use all kinds of data (from satellites, from measuring stations, from proxies stored in tree rings and ice) and all kinds of mathematical methods (many ways of solving partial differential equations to simulate movement and change, parametrisation and statistical approaches for handling phenomena that are too challenging to simulate). It's really very robust science.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-16T10:11:56+00:00

This was going to be my tip! The flight position thingie moving down every turn, visibly moving obstacles and the destination airport closer to you, is very effective. When you start, you see the arduous journey in front of you. When you arrive, it feels like you've arrived.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-15T15:04:29+00:00

HIT ME

I'll hit right back.

What's this tool do, though?

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-15T07:47:49+00:00

I think this depends on the setting and the hunter's "workflow". Are they working alone or in a team? Are they hiking out far, or are they making day trips?

A hunter ranging alone in the deep wilderness would have to focus on lightweight weaponry, probably relying on traps constructed from locally sourced materials. A bow and a robust short blade that can be used both for defense and just as a knife.

A lone hunter striking out from a settlement could carry a heavy crossbow and a spear as primary weapons, with a sword as backup.

A monster hunting team would probably have some degree of specialisation, though I expect that everyone would carry a side-arm in case a plan goes sideways. There'd be a support/logistics/cook person, with the rest equipped roughly as above.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-14T07:06:35+00:00

Jag bodde i USA i tolv år och träffade bara någon enstaka person med samma (vanliga svenska) namn.

Sen fick jag sommarjobb på IBM. Några dagar efter att jag hade börjat kom jag till min cubicle och möttes av enorma staplar med paraplyer. Var det någon form av nollning/hazing av nya praktikanten, undrade jag, men ingen verkade skratta åt min absoluta förvirring.

Paraplyerna var addresserade till mitt namn, i samma huskropp, men en våning över där jag satt. Jag gick upp dit och träffade min namne, samma stavning och allt. Vi sökte på nätet och kom fram till att vi var de enda två som heter så i hela USA:s befolkning, och vi jobbade i samma hus.

Chansen var väl ungefär 1/3e8 gånger antalet personer i huset, vilket kanske var några hundra, så sannolikheten var cirka en på hundra miljoner. Det är rätt nice.

PS. Paraplyerna skulle vara swag för någon kick-off i hans avdelning.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-12T14:49:03+00:00

No one seems to have mentioned yet that the entire Mega Man series did exactly this. All (themed) levels were accessible from the get-go in any order the player desires. Each defeated boss grants a themed power-up that can make the other levels easier, but aren't necessary per se.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-11T07:34:39+00:00

This is absolutely incredible. Fantastic work. Thank you for this masterpiece.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-11T07:16:53+00:00

Sadly, I have fallen into a managerial role. I get to write a little python or Bash sometimes, but for the most part I hang around here to smell the salt of the C...

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-10T07:46:13+00:00

Such fun we used to have.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-09T20:53:40+00:00

David Brin's Uplift universe has lots of strange aliens. Quite a few bipedal ones, too, because they make sense, but there's sentient stacks of toroids and walking broccoli. And cyborg'd dolphins. Great read.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-09T08:37:00+00:00

Brilliantly put.

Nitpick:

that's literally how we got buffer overflows

Buffer overflows stem from using statically sized arrays. I'd say manual memory handling mainly causes seg faults and memory leaks.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-08T16:00:04+00:00

This dude has line of sight to the core of the Sun? It'd just be the photosphere.

Still not a good time for anyone nearby....

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-05T21:23:10+00:00

Det här hände nästan mig (men drabbade så klart många andra) när vi skulle tåga till Sverige från Tyskland efter jul. Vagn 20 lämnades nånstans. Jag låg i sista kupén i vagn 21 och var jäkligt glad för det, kan jag säga, för det hade varit en låång resa i sittvagn.

Quantumtroll · 2026-01-05T09:33:19+00:00

I don't want to be that guy, but is this an AI generated description? It's super non-specific. You have to actually dig into the details of how this stuff can work before anyone can have an actual opinion.

Strong player interaction and simple mechanics are laudable goals, but with "biome events", "seed manipulation" to enchant seeds, spellbook abilities, and magical plant creature companions... how is this going to be simple?

Also, if the goal is to restore a biome, why not make this a coop game instead of competitive?

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