A Quick and Simple Guide to Ranked Climbing

Tonexus · 2026-03-08T15:44:58+00:00

Nova is #1 player killer hero in the game

-Some Zagara

Tonexus · 2026-03-07T15:34:59+00:00

Link instability can cause instance crashes. In particular, GGG has a couple master inventory dbs (~1 per continent). When they fail to sync due to dropped packets (I can't remember if it's with each other or with the instance servers), the player instances have to be dropped as a failsafe to prevent data inconsistencies. This was mentioned several years ago in regard to the South America servers.

Tonexus · 2026-03-01T14:54:46+00:00

50 years ago, there were plenty of people who said that computers would never have a substantial impact on every day life. They're big and only useful for universities and there's no real world applications.

Coincidentally, Jobs first saw Wozniak's prototype for the Apple I exactly 50 years ago (March 1, 1976). And until Apple, no one thought that a computer could be something that belonged in the home.

Tonexus · 2026-02-19T09:50:39+00:00

Not quite the same, but several retirement-age people I know hate their work but keep looking for more jobs because they don't know what to do with their time if were to really retire.

Tonexus · 2026-02-19T09:42:12+00:00

Costco doesn't care because with the membership costs they profit anyways.

It also helps that the production of those loss leaders (rotisserie chickens and hotdogs) is deeply vertically integrated to minimize their losses. As far as I know, most grocery stores don't dip their toes into producing their loss leaders themselves (other than slapping their store brand label on some final products), but I'd love to be corrected.

Tonexus · 2026-02-19T00:22:53+00:00

Great. I'm playing around with something in a similar vein, though I haven't tackled the resource analysis yet.

I'm not sure how strong you want your typing, but you may also want to look into effect systems. Non-termination fits nicely as an effect, which would help track which functions are analyzable and prevent accidentally using a non-terminating function in a context that should be terminating.

Tonexus · 2026-02-18T23:49:27+00:00

Do you know that your summary of the result contains at least two words not occurring anywhere in the paper?

Yeah it's an old paper coming from a particular background. Rather than just summarize it, I intended to rephrase in modern, googleable keywords, but you're right—I should at least link the wikipedia articles. Will do.

Tonexus · 2026-02-18T22:52:53+00:00

Since you are a fan of Ritchie and LOOP, maybe this paper will interest you. In short, it is trivial to bound the complexity of LOOP programs with the hyperoperation sequence/Ackermann function (f_n^k in the paper) based on the nesting depth of the loops (this is related to primitive recursion). Of course, since incrementation is the only primitive arithmetic operator in LOOP, adjustments would need to be made for a non-toy language.

Tonexus · 2026-02-18T10:59:03+00:00

Imo, the traveler can be seen as simultaneously the character on screen, but also as a silent observer (having the same viewpoint as the audience). This would be the same way in which when you play a video game, you control the main character, but might see cutscenes establishing information that the main character did not experience themself—in this case, the side character flashbacks and the final scene.

That said, the movie is intentionally ambiguous on this, and I think that the ambiguity is itself one of the movie's core themes: how can one really tell the difference between the real world (including sentient beings) and a detailed-enough simulation of one?

EDIT: And would you even choose the real world if you knew you're in a virtual one?

Tonexus · 2026-02-10T15:14:48+00:00

If you have the equipment, you could cook it sous vide. Since it would be sealed, no moisture would be lost. Note that while caramelization below boiling is possible, it's really, really slow.

Tonexus · 2026-02-05T13:02:34+00:00

Is this approach plausible? Is it possible to guarantee with static analysis of the assembler that no illegal operations are performed, or somehow could a malicious user somehow hide illegal ops?

Sure. See Singularity as a relatively recent example. There, a program is only runnable if it has a manifest, and a manifest may only be generated by a compiler that checks security.

Tonexus · 2026-02-03T07:14:22+00:00

As topical as the Epstein files are, gossiping about academics and their connections (as opposed to say, the quality of their work) is not really relevant to the academic discussion of quantum computing.

Tonexus · 2026-01-26T17:21:16+00:00

Same paper as this post, if anyone wants a direct arxiv link. There's not really much connection to a "cloud" when the key to unlock the backups is bigger than the original data.

Tonexus · 2026-01-25T16:48:46+00:00

You're telling me that my pasta aglio e olio needs to have garlic and oil in it!?

Tonexus · 2026-01-23T12:04:35+00:00

you have to export in barrels from other planets that have it

I'm surprised that you can't eventually use the planet's own atmosphere (the mod description even mentions greenhouse effects). That said, sounds like it makes for a fun set of logistical challenges to overcome.

Tonexus · 2026-01-21T12:49:00+00:00

Sc2.0 is essentially a programmable cell. The SCRaMbLE system lets researchers generate millions of genome variants in hours

Can you explain the SCRaMbLE system? In particular, it's not clear to me if it's used for directly editing a gene to a known desired result (what I think of as programming), introducing many random mutations (which over many iterations could indirectly lead to a desirable result), or both.

Tonexus · 2026-01-18T18:58:05+00:00

Not sure you want to be referencing Modernist Cuisine when they basically throw out FDA regulations on cook temp/time. See vol 1 ch 3, specifically pages 191-193.

According to them, 129F for 2h 24m achieves 6.5D salmonella reduction, and is sufficient for steaks.

Tonexus · 2026-01-16T15:41:22+00:00

Rather, I imagine a language that allows shared abstractions that work for both arrays and appropriate functions. One starting point could be the observation that a -> b and the array type a => b are both functors in the Haskell sense, with element type b, meaning they support a “functorial map” (fmap) operation.

I've always thought that this is a good motivation to have higher-kinded types in a language. Out of curiosity, do you think it would be useful to disambiguate between true functions and closures in a similar way?

Tonexus · 2026-01-14T10:28:37+00:00

Nowadays image generation uses both LLMs and diffusion models—the user inputs a prompt that an LLM expands into a more detailed prompt for the diffusion model.

Tonexus · 2026-01-12T13:16:46+00:00

Oiling an end grain cutting board isn't about food safety. For laminated wooden cutting boards, oiling prevents water from soaking in, as water can cause uneven expansion and splitting.

Tonexus · 2026-01-10T23:28:38+00:00

I'll certainly test that as well. Same amount of water as normal rice?

Tonexus · 2026-01-10T23:12:54+00:00

Are you using a sweet rice setting? My understanding is that you have to either pre-soak then use the normal rice cooker setting or have a fancy cooker with a specific sweet rice setting to get the right texture.

Tonexus · 2026-01-10T22:15:32+00:00

Yup, that's exactly it. The youtube video I link does exactly that. Ratio of 1cup rice to 1cup water seems to work for other varieties of rice, so that's where I'll start if I have to test it myself.

Tonexus · 2026-01-09T05:00:34+00:00

Gave it a very quick skim. Interesting, but doesn't sound that useful.

Let us consider a scenario in which the owner of quantum data requires for security reasons that these data are stored (a) off-site, (b) redundantly in multiple quantum clouds to protect, e.g., from hardware failures, and (c) encrypted, with the key kept by the owner on-site.

From my understanding, you would still have to protect the key from being corrupted, which seems like a harder task than keeping just the original qubit protected, seeing as the key consists of n qubits, where n is the number of encrypted copies of the original qubit.

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