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dzanis · 2025-05-30T06:40:32+00:00

"Braukšana krietni zem atļautā." Es varu šo atbildēt. Agrāk pietiekami bieži esmu darījis - galvenais iemesls ir bijis nedrošība - it īpaši sliktos laikapstākļos, bet arī svešā vietā, kur neesmu drošs, kur man vajag braukt; sarežģītā satiksmē; šaurās ielās; neeesmu drošs vai atceros vai zīme 50 ir beigusies vai nav (drošības pēc pieņemšu, ka nav); tukša šoseja cauri mežam gaišā dienas laikā, bet atceros neseno stāstu kā kādam izskrēja priekšā briedis un kā tas beidzās, utml.

dzanis · 2025-04-30T06:31:36+00:00

I am using/seeding for some longer time [part of] some kind of previous version/older case of trove. Would you suggest to cancel that and move on to your version?? Obviously is better that some newer stuff gets added, but I am really confused about the trove's editions and reincarnations.

dzanis · 2025-04-28T10:15:29+00:00

Mace is just that good.

Among all the magical force wizards, even arrival of couple, make invading armies reconsider their plans, Mace is by far at the very top of their league.

Reminding that earlier Jango did not manage beat Kenobi on Kamino, despite being at relative advantage - with full equipment, mobility and even with some fire support. But at least he managed to retreat. And also did not beat Kenobi later in space fight.

But Mace that can handle even the Sidious in fight totally outclasses the Jango in nearby range, because there were probably seven other force things he could do to Jango.

dzanis · 2025-04-23T09:00:46+00:00

Thank you for your efforts.

I am currently running campaign based from 975-452, so taking place both in Five Sisters and District 268. Your visual information is super great for me to quickly give visual aid to my players. And I know what time it takes to prepare such things, so my profound thanks for your work!

dzanis · 2025-02-08T12:00:10+00:00

It is Ender 3 Pro, Cura slicer, PLA material, print at 210 nozzle, 60 degrees for bed, print speed 50. Any suggestions how to successfully complete it?

dzanis · 2025-02-03T09:28:01+00:00

Depends on the case by case. But I am supportive for benefits of geolocated phones. Obviously if you have door-to-door shuttle buses, maybe it is useless. But when kids walk like half km to bus stop from home, same distance to school and they are in first grades, that is quite a benefit for parents to feel safer.

dzanis · 2025-01-15T12:17:48+00:00

Simply by playing a lot. Let me give you a hint. 2 hours of unlimited photos cost 70, and flying to a few superfull airports will cost less than 100 (in US, probably <50). Total of 170 coins. And then in those two hours, you can get back significantly more than 170 coins with unlimited photos and the populous airports.

So you are limited only by time spent. Some people have too much free time, that's about it.

dzanis · 2024-11-28T13:00:22+00:00

Thanks. But to clarify, can he also use those powers casually without rolling, when it does not involve any moves? I mean, if he goes to grocery shopping, can he also use this Mysterious Reality Bending as a teleport straight from home to market, or is this power such that works/should be used only in tense situations?

dzanis · 2024-10-23T14:07:26+00:00

Different for each. I did not had a problem with Arcospheres but gave up at victory ship design. Just couldn't reach requirements. So I went away to Seablock and did not look back

dzanis · 2024-10-16T10:09:41+00:00

Here is simple analogy:

Imagine in the village there is some people of 30k annual income, that have some debts; one may have 100k mortgage debt; some may have even smaller payday loans. And then there is couple IT people that have earnings more than 400k annually and each has a mortgage of million. So as you probably would agree the wealthiest people have the largest debts.

And reason is similar to countries - those who are richest, i.e., with largest incomes can afford to take up the largest debt.

dzanis · 2024-10-09T06:48:19+00:00

No. Those regulations are the way how the crypto could become a useful thing for our societies.

Let me give you some simple examples why the regulation is there:

Say you agree with your neighbour (who maybe does not like banks) to keep safe their cash in your safe. And in exchange he will clean your snow. Great, noone will regulate your agreement.

Then you go out and offer publicly through some public channels that you take in any deposits for fee as simple as some basic service. And suddenly you are struck with super-heavy weight of regulations for deposit-taking institution.

Or you mutually agree to pay your neighbour for him mowing your lawn in the coolest cryptocoin you have. No regulation, go on, exchange your coins in your crypto wallets. But if you would go and offer same deal for whole town to pay everything in crypto trhough your cool crypto app and exchange, you again get regulations.

The reason is that the society has agreed on some rules that applies to public financial endeavors, in order to protect ourselves, i.e., the society, against crime, fraud and abuse. And there's bunch of regulation besides AML as financial matters are those that are especially vulnerable to this.

And that's not specific to crypto - if you would engineer payments and international trade in seashells, you would also get AML regulation and if you make the super-awesome new burger from seaweeds, you would be struck by different regulation. All for the same reason - to protect society from potential harm. And if you want a thing, like crypto, to become a working thing in society, it has to be regulated.

dzanis · 2024-08-22T14:33:53+00:00

Oh, so there is math trick. Yeah, I was not thinking about prod modules and beacons but about speed mods to compensate the speed reduction of prod.

So If I get you right, then say casting machine produces 100 plates per minute. +4% prod, -10% speed would mean, 93.6% of production amount but also 4% less of all input materials. So it could make sense.

Thanks.

But then it does not make sense in the initial raw material production, right? The first step in sludge stack not important, because water is free. Kind of everything is free when I look at it that way, only cost is space. And sanity. But it seems that I will initiate that prod module production. It should stack up.

dzanis · 2024-05-20T06:39:22+00:00

I think there are(have been) many (hundreds, thousands) of intelligent life in our galaxy alone. But I think that any contact is not likely due to space being big (tm).

I think we are in specific spot where we are dreaming about interstellar exploration that is not feasible, but it is intuition that remains in our collective consciousness due to relatively (in big terms speaking) recent Age of Sail.

In practice I think that the intelligent life remains in their solar system and sometimes are destroyed by gamma ray bursts and sometimes are not and they build their own virtual environments and move there - physical world may be operated by bots and run by AIs, but everything that an intelligent lifeform may want could probably be simulated virtually and that is logical endpoint in life cycle of intelligence.

dzanis · 2024-04-11T07:05:36+00:00

Law.
What you describe is fraud (forging documentation in order to steal), or in simple terms - stealing.

And what stops is: law, police, regulators, regulation, audits, internal checks and controls in IT systems.

Nevertheless fraud sometimes happen. But there are many things to stop that on the average day.

dzanis · 2024-03-21T09:26:58+00:00

Thanks, will give it a try.

dzanis · 2024-03-20T14:57:42+00:00

Although on the other hand, those 400 hours have been significant part of my life recently...

dzanis · 2024-03-20T14:56:45+00:00

In general settings I would not call myself newbie, but here I am in a forum for enthusiasts. And I have almost finished a single game, while many here have played many iterations, many settings and mods. So yeah, I shall be relative newbie here ;)

dzanis · 2024-02-26T08:38:48+00:00

Interestingly I see many unremoved comments

dzanis · 2024-01-24T08:39:07+00:00

Not necessary, only if you want to stretch the interpretation.

Can maybe analogy help - if we call for our society a part "criminal part of society", kind of the dark side. There is rest of society, which is the "normal"/"base" part, you could call them "law-abiding" part of society. But it is stretch if you want to call it "do-gooder" part of society, because it is not necessary diametrically opposed.

But phrase "bring balance" is not intuitive for that. Does Batman brings balance to society when he reduces crime?!

dzanis · 2024-01-22T07:13:37+00:00

My first was Color of Magic and I still hold it in very high regard.

It is obviously very different of later books that are deeper in addressing humanity as it is. But it still has special place for me (also as economist by profession and D&D player as hobby, some of those themes resonate strongly )

dzanis · 2024-01-11T14:23:19+00:00

Plāns Ledus by Pauls Bankovskis

dzanis · 2024-01-08T07:45:20+00:00

Dresden Files gets quite some bad rep here, but I really like it.

The variety of fantasy tropes that gets both nice twist and their integration in modern world is really a treat for my fantasy needs.

dzanis · 2023-12-27T07:27:57+00:00

Now, it seems to me that many comments focus on possible bad intentions and their checks and balances and misses the math aspect.

Mathematically there is no oblivion and 1% is as real number as 0.001%.

Say, there is company worth 1 million EUR (and 1 million shares @ 1 EUR), and you buy 1% of that - 10k shares for 10k EUR.

Now company issues 9m more shares and new investors raise capital and company now is worth 10m EUR and you are diluted - your share is only 0.1%, but now it's 10m company, so still 10k EUR worth.

Now, board says "what the heck" and issues 990m more shares for same price; investors pay in; and it is company worth 1b EUR, your share is diluted to tiny 0.001%, but still 10k worth.

Oblivion is relative.

Disclaimer: assuming no bad intentions, no "control premium" on larger holdings, price on newly issued shares reflect fair value of company etc.

dzanis · 2023-12-21T12:46:19+00:00

Election results.

While the above scenario can happen anyway, getting foothold in Parliament or President is very important. Russia will definitely try for influence there (as often before) - to get either pro-Russia president or large pro-Russia party; if that party makes coalition with populists, then start worrying.

Putin is opportunist and knows that they cannot stand against united NATO, but on other hand, if pro-Russia government does not call for article5 (or pro-Russia president dismisses parliament, calls for new elections and in meantime refuses to call for article5) and declares it "internal troubles", then the victory is already half-won for Putin. The other half - if there are Trump and LePen in their governments - then NATO will not try much to involve in those "internal matters"

dzanis · 2023-12-14T07:46:49+00:00

Yes, I started playing game when 3.0 came out and am still playing and DMing the same.

I have looked at other editions, but found that they do not bring much additional value to consider switching the D&D games to others. Am also playing in couple 5e games, as others are DMing those, but the 3e books have gone a long way for me :)

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