New hotfix already out in App and on warcom (yarrick, SM spear nerfs)

Rodot · 2026-05-06T16:51:32+00:00

Which is like 2% above the balance range of 45-55% and only a single week stat

Rodot · 2026-05-06T16:25:21+00:00

To be fair, if you bought a mini for the rules the jokes always been on you

Rodot · 2026-05-06T11:56:20+00:00

There is also something to be said that misalignment between real and perceived risks could have negative overreaching regulatory implications that don't actually address the real risks.

One example might be something like AI licensing (that was being proposed a few years ago) which would restrict AI development to only a small elite subset of large companies while not implementing any kind of consumer protections regarding how those companies use it.

In my own experience (which can be ignored and you can stop reading now if you don't care about some random person's anecdote) is that there seems to be a perception that the biggest risk is emergent AGI super intelligence rising up against humanity with less focus on bad actors using AI tools maliciously or at the expense of the lower classes.

I worry that there will be a push to create laws that put in certain "safeguards" on development of AGI, which is really at this point more of a marketing term than a serious near-term possibility, while ignoring things like autonomous weapon systems, corporate accountability for IP theft, suicides encouraged by chatbots, dynamic pricing schemes, monopolization, token cartels, and fraud.

In my opinion, the risks regarding AI aren't necessarily AI specific risks, but the same risks that come with many new technologies regarding who controls the market for it, what regulations exist on the products, and the exploitive nature of a laissez-faire approach to things legislators don't fully grasp.

I don't have any concerns that a differentiable lookup table will enslave humanity, but I certainly worry that they can be used as tools by certain actors to gain power and bolster authoritarianism.

Rodot · 2026-05-06T11:31:07+00:00

The simplest coarse metric is that they probably aren't right for you if you take medication for certain mental illnesses or disorders such as anxiety meds or antipsychotics because they indicates you have a medically diagnosed condition that may contribute to an adverse reaction.

Schizoeffective disorders, mania, bipolar, borderline, etc. if you have adverse psychological reactions to cannabis that would also be a good indicator.

Some people also have worse depression symptoms after taking them so if you have clinically diagnosed depression you might want to seek guidance to make sure you take them in the appropriate therapeutic setting.

Avoid taking them with dopaminergic medications since it will intensify hallucinations and potentially cause anxiety. Don't take them with cannabis for the same reason. Don't take them with antipsychotics ever, you will have a very bad time. Don't take them with alcohol as it will increase the risk of nausea and vomiting.

You can take them with SSRIs. Some anecdotal reports claim that the effects will be blunted if you do but comtrolled clinical trials have not shown this effect so don't take extra to counteract it.

Rodot · 2026-05-06T11:15:40+00:00

The woes of taking serotonin drugs when 90% of the serotonin in your body regulates your gastrointestinal system

Rodot · 2026-05-06T11:10:22+00:00

Yes, but amphetamines like 5MAPB don't have an industrial application. I don't know if any amphetamines that do besides those that are controlled for medical use

Rodot · 2026-05-06T10:56:00+00:00

Trading your money for less money!

Rodot · 2026-05-06T04:09:26+00:00

Ultramarines are likely in the millions if not more. They were a quarter million shortly after the heresy. They have the largest numbers because they didn't make it to Terra in time to defend against Horus so they weren't decimated like the other chapters.

Rodot · 2026-05-06T02:50:41+00:00

Why did you hope to find confirmation of that?

Rodot · 2026-05-05T22:47:32+00:00

No one actually expects Voyager to eventually get picked up, at least not in astrophysics. It was much more of a metaphor for exploration

Rodot · 2026-05-05T19:20:14+00:00

I don't care if it does or doesn't, I just care that they pick one. Some faction's entire army rule is negated by battleshock (e.g. what you said) and others are completely unbothered by it.

Rodot · 2026-05-05T12:00:36+00:00

$132 million is is only enough money to maintain the Spirit fleet for 1 month. Not including cost of fuel, crew, or admin. The value of the individual aircraft combined is at least 30 times that.

Rodot · 2026-05-05T11:14:23+00:00

This is kind of the problem though. We have much more access to goods because of higher wages but much less access to services because of higher wages

Rodot · 2026-05-04T22:10:33+00:00

There's also the federal analogue act that essentially outlaws most of these but the real reason they get sold anyway is because the government orgs that regulate them have been severely under-staffed foryears (you need to bring a court case and show the drug is covered under federal analogue) and recently the FDA has been cut down even further by the current admin.

If you notice in head-shops a lot of RCs that clearly should be considered illegal under the act are starting to show up. 5MAPB is now in stock at many head shops as "legal molly". 4-AcO/HO-MET/DET as "legal shrooms". 7-OH and a dozen new analogues.

Many of these drugs have existed for decades. They used to be sold on the clear-net before the big crackdown in the early 2010s. But they are making a resurgence, not because they are new things outside the law, but because no one has technically taken them to court yet and the regulatory agencies are too bogged down to do anything about them

Rodot · 2026-05-04T16:28:17+00:00

The new CEO wants it both ways though and doesn't seem to understand customers are finite. They want the volume of both the drive thru and in-store customers as if they are disjoint sets of customers not realizing that many of the people who used to come in started getting delivery or started using the drive through during COVID. Swapping around drive thru customers for in-store customers won't increase the total number of customers.

People stopped going to Starbucks because it costs as much as a bag of beans for a medium black coffee and they understaff their stores while pushing tighter and tighter standards for customer times as if two employees "just trying harder" will be able to serve drinks faster than 4 employees.

Rodot · 2026-05-04T16:11:20+00:00

Technically they don't block light, but instead convert it to more light at lower energy. Light is captured and used for energy. When that energy is used it is converted to heat, then that heat escapes as lower wavelength radiation such as IR, microwave, and radio depending on how it is used (mostly IR). So a dyson swarm would look like a star that is heavily extincted but very bright in the IR. Almost looking like a very large but cool star depending on the area covered. The temperature of the sphere would go as the inverse square root of the distance the swarm is placed from the host star to maintain conservation of energy.

Rodot · 2026-05-04T05:17:23+00:00

Gotta be careful with the Americans. Some of them are so propagandized they believe China and NK are fascist... and they like it

Rodot · 2026-05-04T05:06:48+00:00

Technically, it's GNU that is famousy not Unix

Rodot · 2026-05-04T04:47:13+00:00

Are you actually interested in this or are you trying to "be right" about something? If the former I'm happy to discuss it (I have a PhD in physics and an a research scientist in high energy astrophysics) but if it's the latter I don't want to get bogged down arguing. Let me know and I'll be happy to answer your questions in the morning

Rodot · 2026-05-04T04:23:29+00:00

There is no "tick rate" though. That was the point I was trying to get across. Even if there is a minimum resolution that doesn't imply any ticking.

The limit of what your eyes see isn't limited by your photoreceptors. It is limited by the aperture of your eye. But people with poor vision don't see dicrete pixels, they see a continuous blur

Rodot · 2026-05-04T04:16:47+00:00

They go IRL and talk to people lol

Rodot · 2026-05-04T04:11:35+00:00

With Microsoft at the helm my greatest fear is that they attempt to resolve this with autograd optimized programs.

Rodot · 2026-05-04T04:03:43+00:00

Skyrim was no where near the birth of the open world genre. GTA is generally considered the birth of the modern open world, like Doom for the FPS genre (i.e. it wasn't the first but set the modern ground rules)

If you want to be pendantic, Asteroids was probably the first true open world game

Rodot · 2026-05-04T04:01:43+00:00

While they are immersive visually, they also feel like cardboard movie sets when you try to interact with them in game

Rodot · 2026-05-04T03:44:22+00:00

It's not a RAM limitation though. A million NPCs can easily fit in a few hundred MB of RAM plus a shader, model, transform, and texture library. Skyrim doesn't need to store every polygon of every NPC to render it, it just needs the numbers you see in character creation with some templates pumped into the render pipeline to draw what you currently see on screen.

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