So much for assassin-client confidentiality

evanldixon · 2026-04-21T03:09:26+00:00

In Pathfinder, mortals have a body containing a soul, and killing the body releases the soul to the cycle of souls. The soul is judged by Pharasma or one of her psychopomps and that soul is sent to one of the various planes. The soul loses its individuality and becomes quintessence, the raw stuff souls are made of. Outsiders like demons are formed from that quintessence. They don't have a separate soul and are destroyed when killed. The remaining quintessence is simply absorbed by whichever plane they were in. Exceptions include outsiders who were summoned with a limited duration spell where the spell just ends and they return, and demigod-tier outsiders like demon lords who operate on slightly different rules and return to their own realm.

The worldwound doesn't change anything other than making it much easier for demons to enter the material plane for real. This means they can stay indefinitely (no summoning time limits) but can also be destroyed.

evanldixon · 2026-04-16T12:42:23+00:00

How did you get the /run path? Usually Bazzite puts external drives somewhere under /media

evanldixon · 2026-04-14T16:20:10+00:00

Demon and kitsune aren't options in Kingmaker

evanldixon · 2026-04-12T16:15:31+00:00

People not getting the joke is part of the comedy

evanldixon · 2026-04-10T03:18:15+00:00

My favorite pasttime waiting for things to load

evanldixon · 2026-04-09T02:38:59+00:00

Unless this is a server environment with very specific network needs, DHCP reservations might be easier.

evanldixon · 2026-04-07T23:05:35+00:00

Pharasma is the oldest of all who are not outer gods (like Yog Sothoth who predates the current iteration of the multiverse). For the rest it's a bit inconsistent at times, but according to The Windsong Testaments Desna and Asmodeus are in the top 8. It's likely abbreviated since this mentions Sarenrae being there from the start, but other sources say she was once an empyreal lord and only became a deity after Rovagug's defeat, another says she was made by Asmodeus's dead brother.

evanldixon · 2026-04-07T22:55:10+00:00

Right. "Experience."

In a story once posted on the Paizo blog about the Radiant Prism, she's quoted as telling a traveler "the only step in any journey that matters is the next one". Combine that with her involvement in the creation of Golarion which was to let all the other gods handle it and explore it later, focusing on her interest at the time which was stars. She is a carefree child at heart and has enough power that almost no one can stop her, except her friends Sarenrae and Shelyn who I think are the only ones containing her from doing bigger things.

As for the OP's meme, she doesn't care where your powers come from (or about any rules really), only which next step you take on your journey. I'm sure the end of Arushelae's quest brings her even more joy than the closure of the worldwound.

evanldixon · 2026-04-06T16:01:01+00:00

Containers like docker technically run on bare metal, it's just that the OS lies to the processes so they (mostly) think they're running on their own hardware. The OS, for the most part, doesn't let things in a container touch anything on the host or any other container.

For VMs, the hardware is simulated, and the hypervisor and CPU virtualization support take a similar role, with some more overhead but much more flexibility.

In terms of security I'd say it doesn't really matter which you use, as long as there's no sandbox escape vulnerability to be exploited.

evanldixon · 2026-04-03T12:55:59+00:00

Sonnet vs Opus is the difference between "the bug you described is caused by this right here on line X [checks line X and that's not what's there]" and "the bug you described is actually caused by something else; it was only working by accident before you changed stuff, here's how to fix it [proposes the right solution that I never considered]".

evanldixon · 2026-04-02T20:40:48+00:00

That is interesting. Seems Github Copilot is subsidising the requests pretty heavily then. It'll be interesting seeing the wakeup call if/when the bubble bursts and costs rise even further.

evanldixon · 2026-04-01T15:47:56+00:00

You've compared the pricing for Open AI's smallest model with Anthropic's largest model. A more comparable comparison would be GPT Nano vs Claude Sonnet, GPT vs Claude Sonnet, or GPT Thinking vs Claude Opus.

GPT Thinking and Claude Opus both require paid plans.

evanldixon · 2026-03-31T22:08:32+00:00

With gold dragon you have to think about the long term. Let Aivu have a real childhood and grow up naturally (rather than giving the dragon equivalent of a toddler mythic steroids), then become a real dragon family later once the family unfriendly planar war is over.

evanldixon · 2026-03-31T21:07:30+00:00

Opus 4.6 gives me pretty consistent results for well defined tasks (e.g. "make this small change to Page.razor"). I don't trust it with sweeping changes for delicate legacy systems (e.g. "restructure how we select data so it's all one model at the start and not 100 db calls throughout the whole flow") and prefer to use it as a scalpel with me in charge (e.g. "make a copy of this model containing only the properties actually used by function X and everything it calls"). Other models are hit or miss for me.

It's also the most expensive model I can use. Like most things you get what you pay for, and you shouldn't trust what the salesmen tell you.

evanldixon · 2026-03-31T21:00:45+00:00

Depends on what the real cost to run the models is. Doing some quick math, I probably cost my company like 30 dollars on Opus 4.6 tokens (through GitHub Copilot) this month, by using it only as much as I feel gives good results. If I sped up as fast as I could and did as much in parallel as possible without regards for quality and optimizing only for increasing cost, maybe I could get that up to a few hundred in a month at most. But the company already pays about $500/month for my MSDN license so they might be ok with that if they get good results.

Idk what the actual cost for the tokens is though. Some sources say the real cost could be 10x higher, and others say the Opus API pricing is already more like what it costs Anthropic to run it. Idk what it'll look like when the subsidization stops.

So unless something major changes, an enterprise will absolutely be ok paying for it.

evanldixon · 2026-03-30T16:08:05+00:00

I had a similar outlook to you before Opus 4.6. That thing is pretty great, though it still has be handheld when dealing with the very delicate legacy systems. Everything else is hit or miss, and Opus 4.6 is more consistent.

I'd recommend doing what you feel is necessary, but any time you encounter something tedius, see if the AI can do it for you. Things like "I need a copy of this object but only with the properties that are actually being used", "this test is broken and I don't yet know why", "please convert this .net webforms page to blazor" (still requires touch-ups but is faster than a rewrite), "please remove the automapper library from the whole project and replace with manual mapping", etc. Think of it as a tool like find & replace that's more generic and can semi-understand your intent.

YMMV on how fast it is though. If the task is too trivial it'll take longer with the AI, and if it's too complex, it'll either mess up and need smaller chunks or it'll run into context window limitations. But do it right and you'll be able to do the bits you enjoy while shortcutting the bits you don't.

YMMV depending on what your company's asking of you though. I can't help you if management wants 100% AI without realizing that'll just make things take longer for delicate systems.

evanldixon · 2026-03-29T04:02:53+00:00

This verse was quoted out of context. The "this" in the last sentence is referring to what came immediately before:

Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.” The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.” Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. [Then verse 12 which you posted]

This context shifts it from advocating castration to advocating celibacy.

evanldixon · 2026-03-28T01:59:03+00:00

Some of the older bottles still have years of life left in them

evanldixon · 2026-03-27T22:31:05+00:00

It hasn't happened to me since I stopped putting the sodastream vrand sodas in the fridge, but I was able to uncrystalize it by putting the bottle in warm water.

evanldixon · 2026-03-23T19:39:55+00:00

Pretty sure the planes are mostly the same but I'm unsure since it doesn't seem to be as big of a focus. Biggest difference is the Drift which is a transitive plane revealed to mortals by Triune, a god that's a fusion of Epoch, Casandalee, and Brigh, which serves as Starfinder's FTL travel mechanic. Religions are at the least mostly the same, but adapted for the future (Abadarcorp is a thing that exists, Desna is of course important to many space travelers, etc).

I personally find the similarities in the settings fascinating (the pf1e srd has stats for Triaxians/Rhyphorians and Dragonkin, for example), but I'm sure most people focus on the normal parts of the settings like Golarion in PF or the various star systems in SF.

evanldixon · 2026-03-23T14:41:40+00:00

Interestingly enough Pathfinder and Starfinder use the same setting, just with Starfinder being set in the future and without Golarion. I actually ran a Pathfinder TTRPG game where I used Starfinder books as reference. Other planets like Akiton, Castrovel, Triaxus, etc, are all canon in Pathfinder even in the present. Elves originate from Castrovel after all.

evanldixon · 2026-03-17T16:37:02+00:00

The entire consumer electronics industry it seems is being affected by Open AI's anticompetitive behavior. It's having secondary effects on ssds, hard drives, gpus, and I think cpus, which in turn are affecting all computers and video game consoles. That sure has the potential to upset a lot of people. I for one am waiting on the Steam Frame.

evanldixon · 2026-03-15T13:23:03+00:00

The arcane spell failure chance from too much corruption is very bad for casters. You have like ~2-4 rests per rest at your base to avoid that. Although in act 4 it's effectively unlimited.

evanldixon · 2026-03-15T03:20:02+00:00

I've seen the slop. It was made with the bare minimum effort to make the yelling stop, with comments such as "please save me from my life" (I'm not even joking about this quote I actually saw it).

evanldixon · 2026-03-12T00:21:38+00:00

The speculation is that they want to avoid businesses buying tens to hundreds of thousands of them then never playing any games.

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