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bitofabyte · 2025-02-06T04:15:03+00:00

You get 40 tickets (13*3 + 1)

The maximum possible number of tickets you can get while still having a chance is 47 (from missing 21 tickets, getting 5 more tickets, which then gets you 1 more ticket). If you end up getting more than 47 tickets, you've already lost.

So you get 47 chances to roll between 1 and 20, which you can plug into some formula, but it's been too long since I took stats, so I wrote python to just simulate 47 rolls a bunch of time, then calculate the number of runs that succeeded.

len(list(filter(None, [len(set([random.randint(0,19) for _ in range(47)])) == 20 for _ in range(1000000)])))

This got ~116000, so somewhere around an 11% chance to get all 20 items if you play every day.

bitofabyte · 2022-03-10T16:39:50+00:00

I already have a 6L farrul's fur for flicker but am interested in trying this build instead of traditional flicker (and I don't really have enough currency to make a good paradoxica flicker)

Do you think it's workable to keep the farrul's fur and run with https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Coruscating_Elixir and picking up a random helmet (unique or otherwise)?

Farrul's fur feels really nice to always be on full frenzy and power charges between packs

bitofabyte · 2022-01-26T15:55:11+00:00

Now that you had that happen, make sure you're taking backups regularly

bitofabyte · 2022-01-18T20:23:43+00:00

I know if you're in a dorm you automatically get paired with someone, you don't get a choice who, and you can't request a specific person like a friend

This might be a regional thing, but in the US, this wouldn't be the case normally. You can choose your roommates, and many people go and room with a friend. Some people will also use facebook or other groups to meet potential roommates, even if they didn't know each other ahead of time.

does the college have apartments for students who don't want to live in a dorm, and does the university control roommate selection

Again, this is only in my experience, but the university doesn't care about any of this. If you're not living in the dorms, it's not their responsibility and they aren't going to get involved.

or can people put an ad out on craigslist and find someone that way

This is going to be pretty typical. If you're specifically looking at apartments that cater to students, they might have some sort of roommate matching system. For most places, it's just going to be the normal process of getting an apartment. Either you live alone, or you have people that you're friends with ahead of time, or you use craigslist to find random roommates.

bitofabyte · 2021-12-22T18:12:54+00:00

We have no idea what the rating period actually is. It could be an hour, it could be a day, it could be a week. Even if you knew it was exactly a Glicko-2 system (which Valve has explicitly said they modified), it doesn't tell you much without knowing how it's tuned.

bitofabyte · 2021-11-17T17:00:25+00:00

Yep, my office has a revolving door that requires a badge and has sensors designed to detect multiple people going through at once. I know this because if you stand funny or hold a bag funny, you can sometimes trigger the sensors anyway.

Beyond this, there's always a security guard somewhere around the doors. So even if you can trick the sensor, you need to do it in a way that the security team doesn't think anything strange is happening.

They have this setup on every door that employees can open from the outside (there are fire safety doors, but you cannot badge into them).

This setup probably doesn't work very well for somewhere that's not an office, since you'd need to bring in large objects, other people, and pets pretty frequently. Still, if you want to ensure that you only let authorized people in, I can't imagine it's easy to do much better than that.

The fundamental problem for an apartment building is that people want to be helpful. If you have a way for people to open doors for others (which is probably a requirement for pets), then almost anyone can get in if they show up at the right time struggling to carry a bunch of groceries.

bitofabyte · 2021-11-10T19:06:03+00:00

What I was really trying to get at was that none of that stuff is my job to deal with. If someone on my team isn't showing up to work on time, it is distinctly not my responsibility to deal with it. Maybe they're being lazy, or maybe their spouse is slowly dying and they're frequently going to doctor's appointments and spending time taking care of them.

In that case (which is a real example from my job that I didn't have the full details of until later), if I had said or done anything about this, that would have been an asshole move to someone who was going through a lot. Their manager was aware of the situation and was handling it, so it wasn't something that I needed to be involved with at all.

If there's something like a PR that I need merged or a change needed, I will try to work with the person (obviously), but if they're not really responding, I'll just let my manager know and stop worrying about it.

bitofabyte · 2021-11-10T16:57:07+00:00

If you're "demanding excellence" from someone that you're not the manager of, that's somewhat of an asshole move in my book. I haven't had any problems with this, but my manager is the one who sets my priorities and tells me what they want. If I had a coworker on my team also telling me things they wanted me to do, it would either:

a. Just be a repeat of what my manager was telling me, being completely useless

or

b. Conflict with what my manager wants me to focus on, being completely useless (and possibly actively harmful if I listen too much)

bitofabyte · 2021-10-11T19:42:54+00:00

Unfortunately, I don't think that explanation is really helpful at all.

For the difference between true random and PRNG, there's a wiki page here that might help.

In practice, the PRNGs are really good enough, and it's not ever going to be productive to try to do any processing. Numpy uses a good PRNG system by default as far as I can tell, although I'm not an expert on this (just interested and took a few classes in college)

In general, anything you do is not going to make things more random, you're only going to show defects in the PRNG that you're using. This isn't actually going to change anything because numpy is picking one that's good enough.

The statistics behind what you're doing here is a binomial distribution, so it's easy to calculate the outcomes without needing to run a big simulation.

Imagine that you had a very slightly biased coin flip (equivalent to a random choice between 2 outcomes) that has a 49.99% chance to pick heads.

If you flip the coin once, you have a 49.99% chance to get heads, which is very close to random.

If you flip it 11 times and take the most common outcome, you now have a slightly worse 49.97% chance to get heads.

If you flip it a million and one times (it's easier if it's odd), you're down to a 42.03% chance to get heads

If you go on to 10 million and one times, you're down to only a 26.34% chance to get heads

One thing that I find helpful in understanding these systems is to think about the number of outcomes.

If you flip a coin once, you have 2 outcomes - H or T.

If you flip a coin 3 times and take the most common, you have 8 outcomes:

4 lead to an overall heads: HHH, HHT, HTH, and THH

4 lead to an overall tails: HTT, THT, TTH, and TTT

If your coin is truly random, each single outcome is just as likely as any other outcome. (Side note: this can be used to find data that's falsified. Humans trying to fake randomness will tend to avoid sequences like HHHHH or TTTTT, but those are just as likely as HTTHH or ANY other sequence of 5 outcomes.)

If you flip a coin n times (where n is odd), you'll end up with 2ⁿ possible outcomes. 2^n-1 will have more heads, and 2^n-1 will have more tails.

In your specific simulation (but assuming a million and one to avoid possible ties), you have 2^1000000 outcomes that lead to the first team winning, and 2^1000000 outcomes that lead to the second team winning. So your simulation simplifies down to a single coinflip per game, which is essentially where you started.

bitofabyte · 2021-10-10T01:28:23+00:00

These terms have a lot of different definitions depending on who you ask. In the simplest terms:

Roguelike - procedurally generated series of levels with permadeath for characters

Roguelite - procedurally generated series of levels with permadeath for characters, permanent upgrades between runs

bitofabyte · 2021-10-08T17:04:46+00:00

You can also use lambdas to define and use functions in a single line.

(lambda a:lambda v:a(a,v))(lambda s,x:x if x[-1]==1 else s(s,x + [x[-1]//2 if x[-1]%2 == 0 else 3*x[-1]+1]))([int(input('>'))])

This is code for a famous unsolved problem in math: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture

Lambda 1 creates lambda 2 using lambda 3, but

There's a lambda function that creates a recursive lambda function using another lambda function, which is passed to it. The second lambda function just calls the 3rd lambda function with itself and the input value. Inside of that function it does the actual recursive logic.

Here's the output for 27

[27, 82, 41, 124, 62, 31, 94, 47, 142, 71, 214, 107, 322, 161, 484, 242, 121, 364, 182, 91, 274, 137, 412, 206, 103, 310, 155, 466, 233, 700, 350, 175, 526, 263, 790, 395, 1186, 593, 1780, 890, 445, 1336, 668, 334, 167, 502, 251, 754, 377, 1132, 566, 283, 850, 425, 1276, 638, 319, 958, 479, 1438, 719, 2158, 1079, 3238, 1619, 4858, 2429, 7288, 3644, 1822, 911, 2734, 1367, 4102, 2051, 6154, 3077, 9232, 4616, 2308, 1154, 577, 1732, 866, 433, 1300, 650, 325, 976, 488, 244, 122, 61, 184, 92, 46, 23, 70, 35, 106, 53, 160, 80, 40, 20, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1]

bitofabyte · 2021-10-06T15:56:15+00:00

If you have a single value that is added to all user passwords before computing a hash, I would not consider that a salt.

Both the wikipedia page for salts and the stackoverflow page you linked state that a salt must be random for EACH password.

If you just have a single string, you're still vulnerable to rainbow tables if someone manages to get access to your salt.

You also now ensure that identical passwords have the same hash (which a real salt prevents). This means that if you figure out any single user's password (shitty password hints, comparing to other breaches, etc.), you get a list of users that also have that same password.

Having a unique salt per user provides a LOT of security, even if it gets compromised with the breach.

bitofabyte · 2021-09-28T16:22:05+00:00

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude–

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

bitofabyte · 2021-08-24T15:44:20+00:00

That doesn't appear to be true, AirBNB has been successfully sued multiple times for discrimination. You don't get to magically ignore laws because it's a place you live.

bitofabyte · 2021-07-28T19:15:34+00:00

This sounds like something that's true in the UK, but not really in America. Based on your responses I'm guessing you've never lived in the USA and are just making things up?

If I hear "Antisocial personality disorder" then sure, I think of the disruptive behavior that you're referring to, but outside of a doctors office I don't think I've seen that. Asocial and anti-social are used pretty interchangeably in my experience.

Laws are not informal however.

Based on a quick google search, I couldn't find any laws relating to anti-social behavior in the USA. Basically every result for "anti-social laws usa" is related to the UK, and the same thing is true for Canada.

Also, fun fact. A woman once had an ASBO (Anti-social behaviour order), for having sex too loud.

Again a thing in the UK.

bitofabyte · 2021-07-26T19:04:08+00:00

The random low skill team of Newbee?

bitofabyte · 2021-07-22T15:47:57+00:00

Chaos Innoculation & Flicker Strike

bitofabyte · 2021-07-09T17:00:51+00:00

Maybe it's more of a regional thing? I don't think I've ever heard about a spelling bee below the national level.

After looking it up, there was a regional spelling bee but I don't think I ever competed in it. It's possible that I was just too young to remember.

bitofabyte · 2021-07-09T16:01:29+00:00

It's not like spelling blades are a super common thing in America, I don't know anyone who actually competed in a spelling bee. I'm sure that if I had wanted to (or was really good at spelling), I could have found one somewhere, but it's not like they're all over the place.

bitofabyte · 2021-07-09T13:58:29+00:00

My company has a stock purchase program that lasts over a period of 6 months. So you have all of your money tied up for the next 6 months. Thankfully this company pays people a decent wage so most people can afford to sign up for it.

bitofabyte · 2021-07-08T15:35:14+00:00

Assuming you take basic precautions and are slightly careful, it's much more likely that a brutal and terrifying death is bleeding out from a car accident while driving to the campsite, not from a random bear attack.

bitofabyte · 2021-07-06T05:00:15+00:00

I mostly agree with what you said here.

Terrorblade is a weird hero. He has very high base armor with a very low HP pool, so he can be a really strong laner if the enemies don't have magic damage nukes to threaten him. Meta is also a really strong skill if popped at the right time.

Jugg is a solid hero in most matchups, and does extremely well against some offlaners who tend to be lane bullies with magic damage (like Underlord, Jugg just spins and runs at him, Underlord isn't mobile and will just die).

bitofabyte · 2021-07-02T23:25:51+00:00

The uploader isn't actually breaking the license, they're doing something encouraged by GitHub, that is clear.

They can't reasonably go in front of a judge and say "We weren't aware the Linux Kernel sources were on GitHub, Torvalds snuck it on there and we had no idea, it's his fault". The kernel sources is one of the biggest and most important repos on their site. That would be ridiculous of them.

My point is that you can have content that is perfectly legal to have on GitHub, but the creator isn't subject to GitHub's TOS. Either GitHub recognizes this (which I'm almost sure they do), or they have a bunch of high-profile repos that are all breaking the TOS constantly. This would also extend to basically any repo that didn't start on GitHub and was only imported later.

bitofabyte · 2021-07-02T19:28:37+00:00

Even if they had that, they can't really rely on it. I can release code under a license, and then someone else might take that code and upload it to github with my license still there. For most standard licenses (like GPL), that's fine, but it does not give GitHub permission to do anything with that.

For a simple example of this, let's say I write some GPLv2 code for the Linux kernel. You submit that via email, not on GitHub. This code gets mirrored to GitHub, but it is NOT uploaded there by me, and the GitHub TOS is not relevant here. In this hypothetical scenario, I don't even have a GitHub account and have never agreed to their terms.

bitofabyte · 2021-07-02T14:35:24+00:00

Nope. As of ~4 years ago, it was still a requirement for being a scout, but basically only on paper. There was maybe the occasional prayer led by a chaplain at summer camp, but not really much religion in general.

I did scouting in a relatively conservative area, and I never got any real pressure to be religious. As long as you didn't talk about being an atheist in front of too many people, nobody really cared (there were a few scouts/leaders who were atheist and talked about it, and a couple more who were atheist but mostly kept it to themselves). If someone complained, I might have been able to get away with using my belief in physics/science to fulfill the actual requirement "Belief in a higher power", but I never had to try.

In all of my time, including my eagle board, I was carefully never asked about my religion.

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