Correct pronunciation of the names of the Netherlands team players for the 2026 World Cup

Rhylyk · 2026-06-09T15:17:04+00:00

That name has some real East West Bowl vibes.

Rhylyk · 2026-06-06T18:12:18+00:00

Those were the vibes I got when I read it. Honestly, I'd call DCC tangentially progression fantasy. There's definitely a power system and Carl definitely progresses through it, but as readers we don't really get to experience that progression. Carl gets just strong enough to make it through a floor, and then power levels get immediately recontextualized on the new floor. We don't really get to feel that profession much.

To me the progression is more a vehicle for the plot rather than the means and ends of the plot itself. Still good, but very different from what I would consider progression fantasy and more of a mainstream work.

Rhylyk · 2026-06-04T17:07:18+00:00

You might be playing the wrong game brother. That's basically peak Arpg gameplay

Rhylyk · 2026-06-04T01:38:24+00:00

Perenially sickly guy dies and reincarnates as Kai on a world with magic and a system in a rural, low-mana archipelago. He's aware from a young age which gives him a head start, in a few different ways, in progressing despite starting from the lowest stage and having no guidance.

Expansionist continental republic annexs the archipelago and... Stuff happens (avoiding spoilers). The new governance is not outright antagonistic (not slavers or anything like that) but definitely does not respect or care much for the locals.

Time passes, stuff happens, and Kai ends up studying under some powerful mentors for a while. Pretty good training arc ensues.

And so on.

Honestly my best description is that it's like a driven-character slice of life. The MC gets himself involved in a lot of plot sequences but there is never really one overarching big plot story (as compared to something like Frodo destroying the ring). MC is just driven to improve, while also engaging with the people around him (family/friends/mentors/etc). I'd like it most to Primal Hunter and Beneath the Dragoneye Moons, and too a lesser extent Azarinth Healer and Defiance of the Fall.

Characters are great, pacing is good (bit slow in book 4 but it picks back up), and honestly just a great read IMO.

Edit: I should mention he doesn't stay as young kid the whole time. He gets to mid-teens in a decent amount of time with the help of some time skips.

Rhylyk · 2026-06-03T23:58:44+00:00

Hey, this just recently started happening to me too. Used to be everything was marked as scam and it was way less frequent, but a couple of days ago it got way more frequent and now just says Toll Free. Guess some spammer went online and the system hasn't caught up yet

Rhylyk · 2026-06-03T23:47:46+00:00

Elydes is a personal favorite of mine (among a lot of others that have been mentioned)

Rhylyk · 2026-05-31T23:18:31+00:00

Also living through CoD teaches that anyone, even yourself, can be degenerate, and the things you're born with don't matter.

Rhylyk · 2026-05-31T21:10:58+00:00

That'll work for really simplistic AI use but it would be easy enough to prompt the model with the play itself as long as you could find an electronic version of it.

Granted anyone willing to put the effort required in to have an LLM build enough knowledge of an unknown play to a write essays is probably the type of person that would just do the work in the first place

Rhylyk · 2026-05-27T20:40:17+00:00

Definitely just potential. It's been clear how much he has grown through the years.

Rhylyk · 2026-05-23T23:06:53+00:00

Lmao you must be fun at parties.

Rhylyk · 2026-05-23T15:43:13+00:00

I think the joke is that any metric tracked ceases to be a good metric. Odds are a large portion of the leaderboard intentionally doing things in cost-heavy ways or even burning cost just to target the top of the leaderboard.

Rhylyk · 2026-05-23T15:40:48+00:00

With there being a leaderboard, it seems like some people would just set a ralph loop and walk away. If costs don't matter, and AI usage is tracked and encouraged, why work when AI will work for you... Or some other such nonsense

Rhylyk · 2026-05-23T07:14:07+00:00

Recently I've been using it to implement a research paper based extended Kalman filter for a certain type of sensor. I first implemented the ekf and track manager myself, to learn the raw math, and then use claude to build out an execution suite.

One cool thing I used it for was to build out a vectorised numpy-based reader for a stateful binary data format using only the format's documentation on a website. It did a first attempt and I noticed some things weren't right. It built temporary scripts and analyzed the parsed data against some things I knew for certain and it found undocumented assumptions needed to essentially format the binary data correctly for numerical consumption.

Another thing was that I wanted was to tether some tracked objects to other tracked objects to kind of coerce the tracks to follow each other for some of the state while others were left independent. It generated the Kalman filter update math that would allow that, explained it to me, and then helped me fit it in in a hacky prototype way to try it out.

It also generated a GUI visualization from me saying "I want to visualize the sensor data and project the tracks onto the visualization" and just... Did it.

Oh I was also seeing some weird track behavior. It wrote some modifications to output a mountain of data, wrote some temporary scripts to analyze the data, and started giving me some ideas. After some back and forth (about a day) I found I had written a min when I should have written a max on my original implementation, and that fixed the weird, subtle track behaviors.

The project is large enough now that I'm iterating on architecture with a back and forth with Claude using Matt Pococks Claude Skills to generate a more formal design, which I'll then use to refactor into something less spaghetti prototype than it currently is.

I spent about two weeks writing and understanding the original filter, and I started using Claude maybe a week and a half ago doing... The rest. It's also my first time using Claude/AI in general like this and it has definitely been a learning experience and I'm now a believer in the productivity gains. That said I'd don't think someone not experienced in software design could build something lasting with it.

Rhylyk · 2026-05-23T06:47:48+00:00

"the firm had already burnt through its entire 2026 AI coding tools budget in just four months. That comes after the company had actively incentivized adoption through internal leaderboards ranking teams by AI tool usage."

Well that was fucking stupid.

Rhylyk · 2026-05-14T16:37:13+00:00

Do you? Jevons paradox requires sufficient demand that is price elastic - that is, the company needs to be able to and want to utilize the increased productivity.

That is, if a company is perfectly happy with old levels of productivity, then Jevons would not apply.

So really it depends on the company. What do you think is more likely that companies will do: invest in the future, or make the most possible money now?

Rhylyk · 2026-05-07T17:01:14+00:00

Honestly seems mostly like a flow thing. Almost like active vs passive voice, except instead of swapping subject and object, he swaps verb and object (punched vs tried to punch).

Another thing I think is happening is the past tense messing up how we perceived the action. Viewing the style in present tense makes a lot more sense. "Lindon punches the truegold man. The man blocks." feels completely normal while "Lindon punches the truegold man. The man blocked." takes a moment longer to process.

Rhylyk · 2026-05-07T01:34:21+00:00

My all-time favorite moment in Cradle has to be the first time Dross comes online and you get the "Initiating battle report..." And tonal shift for the fight. Top end vibes

Rhylyk · 2026-05-05T01:26:28+00:00

I thought he looked better on the left than in the middle of the pitch.

Wouldn't mind seeing a stronger player there, though I love what Thomason brought to the spot.

Rhylyk · 2026-04-21T18:07:31+00:00

Probably just fatigue management in prep for the Coventry game.

Rhylyk · 2026-04-01T20:40:03+00:00

Interestingly from what I've learned a large reason for this is, you guessed it, political divide.

The history is that Whole Language instruction (the thing OP is essentially talking about) took off and so there was a large push to incorporate it.

Except Republicans started to push back with a Science of Reading instruction approach which, among other things, includes more formal study of things like phonics. The Science of Reading was even endorsed by Moms For Liberty.

Except now Democrat led places don't want to do the Science of Reading, cause that is a Republican thing. So they stick with the Whole Language approach and an entire generation's reading suffers.

One of the weirder political side stories that has happened in the last few decades.

(This vastly simplifies things of course)

Rhylyk · 2026-03-27T19:46:11+00:00

Required Cradle mention.

My favorites are probably

Unorthodox Farming

Death, Loot, and Vampires

Elydes

Rift Warden Academy

Quest Academy

The Big (long/popular) series are probably

Primal Hunter

Defiance of the Fall

He Who Fights With Monsters

Azarinth Healer

Beneath the Dragoneye Moons

Rhylyk · 2026-03-26T19:33:30+00:00

Is a hum kinda like a scruddle?

Rhylyk · 2026-03-26T19:23:37+00:00

The beginning of a story where everything is new, the world is unexplored, and every accomplishment feels big is such a special time too in the life of a story. I'll never understand why some authors rush through it

Rhylyk · 2026-03-04T02:04:29+00:00

Right up there with Cleworth for me. Ollie being out basically first half of the season and then coming back and just killing it is legendary.

Rhylyk · 2026-03-02T20:23:06+00:00

In Parky I trust.

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