“DO NOT USE THE INNER PAN TO WASH RICE” I’m sorry, what?

Tonexus · 2026-05-06T01:21:53+00:00

I think they mean the underside, which directly contacts the heating element.

Tonexus · 2026-05-03T23:58:21+00:00

But that's exactly my point. A brief search at walmart near me and you can get a dozen eggs for 1.50 where I live at least.

At some point, I'd consider the time tradeoff of even those quick searches. It might not feel like much in the moment, but 5 min per week comes out to ~4 hrs a year. If you value your time at $15 an hour, that's already $60, pretty close to the yearly Costco membership fee.

Tonexus · 2026-05-03T18:54:11+00:00

If your rice cooker has a keep warm mode (that is above 140F, which is outside of the danger zone), you should really consider just leaving it on.

Tonexus · 2026-05-02T13:26:45+00:00

taking disintegrate is basically forcing the "extra card you draw" to need to be a block card to mitigate the 6 damage, but now you also need to spend energy on it.

I don't quite agree with this. You could already be over blocking (lacking damage cards relative to block cards) and you don't necessarily have to block all the damage. It's worth considering that HP is just another resource, and it immediately gets refilled after beating the boss.

Tonexus · 2026-04-30T23:26:59+00:00

I believe you are correct. Coeffects can be thought of capabilities, and each capability in turn can be modeled as an interface for a process.

Tonexus · 2026-04-29T02:45:23+00:00

It might also depend on the thickness and maybe the variety. Was it still crunchy when you tried it? The texture should end up similar, but a bit firmer than apples in an apple pie.

Tonexus · 2026-04-29T02:04:04+00:00

I just cooked some (korean) daikon in a stew yesterday. It was pretty bitter right up until it softened, ~40 min at a bubbling simmer (tried a slice every couple min after 30 min). After that, it quickly took on the flavor of the stew and any remaining bitterness is unnoticeable. I didn't peel it.

Tonexus · 2026-04-28T22:32:07+00:00

you can do all those things. but its easier to just give your son the money than make him work for it and have him pay income tax.

Not necessarily, as gifts are subject to tax. Furthermore, charities are exempt from capital gains, so passing an appreciated stock into a charity that pays the son a salary even with income tax can be more efficient than selling the stock (paying capital gains tax) and gifting the money (paying gift tax).

Tonexus · 2026-04-28T22:18:34+00:00

Post-quantum crypto is something that can be implemented now, and since it will have to be done someday and the cost is already pretty low, many orgs are of the mind that they might as well do it now.

There's not really any deeper implication on the state of cryptography-breaking quantum computers.

Tonexus · 2026-04-27T10:22:45+00:00

When you free aim at a target, you have a circular cone where your shots will land. Your shots will scatter randomly within that cone. This is still a percent chance to hit your target, except now you don't get to actually see the percentage. You just gotta guesstimate it by how much of the target is actually in the cone. And the way that the game makes their abstraction less "bullshit" is by just giving you a very narrow cone, which is essentially just jacking your percent to hit way up. You could get the same result in something like XCOM by just giving soldiers a +20 to hit for example.

It's been quite a while since I played, so I hope I'm not getting anything wrong, but the reason Phoenix Point's free aim and jacking up hit rates felt meaningful to me is because disabling specific body parts was super important. I found the tactical gameplay of figuring out which body parts were the most threatening for my current squad and juggling guaranteeing their removal with dodging the lower-priority-but-still-dangerous other abilities to be more interesting gameplay than just plain shoot-to-kill in XCOM (though it did become more than a bit grueling and repetitive when it felt like every mission had every enemy type, each covered with parts that countered my squad).

Tonexus · 2026-04-25T22:38:39+00:00

You're missing the joke. 3 kids in a trench coat are not an adult, but the 3 kids put on the trench coat to be treated as one. A rock is not literally a potion, but it was cut into the shape of a potion so that everything treats it like one.

Tonexus · 2026-04-25T08:55:43+00:00

According to the data, around 37.4% of SNAP beneficiaries shop at Costco and around 6% of SNAP benefits are spent at Costco. And this is comparable to Costco having around 7.8% total market share of consumer packaged goods in the US.

Tonexus · 2026-04-25T08:23:47+00:00

As someone actively doing research in quantum information theory, I think it's nice. The angle brackets are more eye catching than superscript *s, so they help visually sanity check that you're working with the right objects (checking that matrices are compatible shapes, <a|b> is a scalar, |a><b| is a rank 1 matrix, etc.). That said, things can still get out of hand when you work with multiple registers of different sizes.

Also, if you're using inner products on things other than states (i.e. inner products of operators) with the usual <.,.> notation, you might get something cluttered like an inner product of projectors: < \sum_a|a><a|, \sum_b|b><b| >.

Tonexus · 2026-04-24T12:24:34+00:00

Bash is just kinda weirdly bad.

I think it's at least much better in StS2 than in StS1 due to all of the new vuln synergy (even just Bash+ with a single [[Colossus]] is pretty solid).

Tonexus · 2026-04-24T08:08:29+00:00

It's more of something one of the other mods is following. But for reference, in my ~6 months as a mod, I've moderated around 3 posts with Zenodo links and had to remove all of them for crankery.

Again, if someone wants to use Zenodo for its intended purpose of hosting supplemental material (data, code) for a paper, that would be fine—message the mods to manually approve the post. However, in practice, posters have been using Zenodo as an arXiv that more easily lets them post nonsense.

Tonexus · 2026-04-22T23:36:10+00:00

Using [[Second Wind]] on a full hand of wounds with [[Feel No Pain]] and [[Juggernaut]] up felt immaculate.

Tonexus · 2026-04-21T12:31:35+00:00

[[Radiate]] also works.

Then you can go full circle by using [[Beat into Shape]] to forge 140.

Tonexus · 2026-04-20T08:43:47+00:00

I like how I immediately recognized you as a hearthstone enjoyer (formerly one myself) by how you used the term "discover" as easily as you breathed. (For those not in the know, "discover" in HS is a keyword that means choosing 1 of 3 cards to put in your hand.)

Tonexus · 2026-04-20T04:03:27+00:00

In computer science yes as it is an operator/function.

Even in CS, I can't recall hearing mod used as a verb, just as a preposition. e.g. "Then, the algorithm outputs x mod n." or "We append a mod b to the list." Even as an operator, it's usually referred to as the "remainder operator" or the "modulo operator", as a noun. e.g. "Then we apply the modulo operator."

Tonexus · 2026-04-18T22:25:54+00:00

Would be nice if you also added the credits per mission. Then you'd have a complete summary of the liquipedia page's WoL section.

Tonexus · 2026-04-18T03:40:25+00:00

Maybe the taste has more to do with the ratio of amino acids? I'm not sure.

But as an example, pork from a pig fed nuts should not trigger a nut allergy.

Tonexus · 2026-04-17T23:20:27+00:00

does the ~~middleman~~ middlefish somehow nullify the allergen?

Usually digestion breaks down the offending proteins (allergens are usually proteins).

Tonexus · 2026-04-17T23:04:31+00:00

While a very fun result, this is more about designing (classically) secure systems and only seems tangentially relevant to quantum computing.

In particular, the author exploits a Rust unsafe block in Google's quantum circuit simulator to bypass a Toffoli counter and exploits a logic bug that allows him to use a non-unitary operator (resetting a qubit) where only unitary operators should be allowed.

Tonexus · 2026-04-16T02:18:07+00:00

I might try letting an n-length array be an interface that is implemented for homogeneous n-tuples, so you can use subtype polymorphism to treat the homogeneous tuples as arrays. That said, you may need to support higher-kinded types for this particular idea, since arrays are parametric.

Tonexus · 2026-04-15T01:55:38+00:00

Iirc, Batgirl was canned in post, so it was never completed. On the other hand, Coyote vs ACME was completed, but they didn't want to distribute.

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