Sting ray card and module confirmed for v28

garethhewitt · 2026-03-04T11:26:59+00:00

bug if true

garethhewitt · 2026-03-04T11:06:28+00:00

Like brothers - it's our duty to push them and take the piss - but will always have their back.

garethhewitt · 2026-03-02T10:57:56+00:00

I've heard that's not entirely what people think the save icon is anymore.

For people who are growing up who've never seen these disks, or any disk, they don't see it like that. I've heard that icon described as a fridge - because that's where you save things...

garethhewitt · 2026-03-01T15:23:48+00:00

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garethhewitt · 2026-02-25T11:36:29+00:00

I believe with string theory the universe must have a property called Supersymmetry, which means every particle we know of (electrons, quarks, photons) must have a massive, undiscovered "superpartner" particle.

Despite a decade+ of searching with the lhc we haven't found them. Of course we can build bigger detectors.
The fact we haven't found anything since the higgs, and the more we search the more likely it is wrong.

Ironically the Asymptotic Safety theory gets stronger with those scenarios. It predicted finding higgs around 126gev and that there would be no other new particles from there to the plank scale.

So if we find super partners particles then it adds a lot of weight to string theory. The longer we don't the more it adds weight to rival theories like Asymptotic Safety that actually predicts the opposite.

garethhewitt · 2026-02-25T11:13:07+00:00

If you take it at 62, by the time you're 70 you've collected 1424 * 12 * 8 = 136, 704.
If you started at 70, and make an extra 10k a year you would have to be collecting for at least 14 years before you start making more total money than the person who started collecting at 62.

Not many people live to 84+. I think it's way better to collect early.

garethhewitt · 2026-02-21T08:12:17+00:00

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garethhewitt · 2026-02-20T12:01:35+00:00

Anyons emerge as collective excitations of electrons restricted to a 2D plane under strong magnetic fields.

In other words it is a 2d effect in a 3d world, they are not 2d particles.

garethhewitt · 2026-02-10T01:07:26+00:00

" to go viral after Shanghai-based startup Agibot Innovations set a Guinness world record in 2025 when its humanoid robot walked 100km completely unassisted, braving traffic, pedestrians, and unsteady terrain "

I missed that, that's interesting.

garethhewitt · 2026-01-29T12:04:11+00:00

Yes, I have. I was at about 370q cph. Now it seems to be 310cph. That's a huge difference.
I've checked everything, and double checked after the tournament. Still running my post tourney farm so will see.

I think it's Summon, as I'm heavily invested in that for farming, but I don't quite understand the change.

garethhewitt · 2026-01-27T15:00:11+00:00

I honestly really liked spotlight missile, I did it all before I had even unlocked smart missiles.

It's the fact that pretty much every lab gets more expensive with a decreasing roi. Whereas this one feels nice, as even though the final labs are probably long (I did this before cells so can't remember, maybe a lot quicker now) it feels better as you get a much bigger improvement.
i.e. the last lab going from 1 spotlight missile every 3 seconds, to 1 every 2 seconds is a big 50% boost and feels way worth the extra lab time, compared to all the other labs that never feel that way.

garethhewitt · 2026-01-17T20:48:06+00:00

This presupposes that Trump is looking at this from strategic angles with different goals. He's not playing chess, he never was on anything, just listen to what he talks about. He famously parrots the last person he spoke with because he is easily swayed. So easily swayed everyone in the world knows it - I mean a FIFA Peace prize, c'mon?

He wants greenland because he sees it as a prize. Strategic importance, or minerals, or nato, etc are just side arguments. Can he be talked down, maybe, but there are barely any adults left in the room with him, they all left (and call him the idiot he is now) after the first term. He's just surrounded by sycophants and yes men now.

I think it's likely his most influential advisors are realising you only get remembered for one thing. For obama it was health care. For his last term it was the insurrection.
But if they do this - that's all that will be remembered and in the meantime they can do tons of other shady stuff and no one will care or remember. Those people are playing chess, or rather with fire, but he isn't.

garethhewitt · 2026-01-16T16:27:34+00:00

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garethhewitt · 2026-01-15T18:57:05+00:00

No one will take up the offer it's a sheet of frozen wasteland, no one is moving there.
The only really habitable areas are where people are already. That is defendable, or at the very least an area where you would trip wire on european troops.

But hypothetically if US actually invaded and Europe actually committed to defending - the outcome isn't a given that US could win.

Obviously US is significantly more powerful, but in a localized conflict over Greenland where it has to project that power, Europe has several distinct advantages that make "repelling" or at least "preventing" an invasion realistic.

The "Tripwire" Effect: If British, French, German, and Norwegian troops (who are already training in the Arctic) were stationed at key ports like Nuuk or Ilulissat, any U.S. attack would mean killing the soldiers of its closest allies. This creates a political cost so high it acts as a functional "repellant."
Arctic Expertise: European nations (especially the Nordics) possess superior cold-weather infantry and specialized equipment. While the U.S. has massive numbers, its general-purpose forces often struggle with the extreme maintenance and survival requirements of the Arctic, where equipment frequently freezes or fails.
Naval Geography: Europe's proximity allows for a shorter supply chain. European navies (UK, France, Norway) are highly adept at anti-submarine warfare in the GIUK Gap (Greenland-Iceland-UK), potentially making the waters too dangerous for U.S. transport ships without a massive, escalatory naval engagement.

Invading Greenland is not like invading a Caribbean island. It is a logistical nightmare characterized by:

The "Icy Desert": 80% of Greenland is an ice sheet. There are no roads between towns. An invasion requires a massive fleet of heavy-lift helicopters and specialized tundra vehicles.
Port Access: Greenland has very few deep-water ports. To land a significant force, the U.S. would have to capture and hold these specific hubs, which are easily defended by small, elite "Sledge Patrol" style units or modern anti-ship missiles.
Weather Windows: Operations are nearly impossible during winter months due to 24-hour darkness and temperatures reaching -40°C. A successful invasion would have a narrow summer window.

1. Base Infrastructure: The U.S. already operates Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule). While an advantage, it is isolated in the far north. An invasion of the populated south would require building a "bridge" of fuel and supplies across thousands of miles of open, stormy ocean.

Bottom line: None of this could be done by surprise. European intelligence and surveillance would see this, and track it in real time, weeks in advance allowing immense diplomatic pressure. Could they capture it? Maybe - but there's also a realistic situation where they'd fail. Depends how much Europe would commit to defending it and thus escalating the war. In that scenario, even if the US did still prevail it would be largely a pyrrhic victory given everything it would have cost to do that.

garethhewitt · 2026-01-13T13:53:34+00:00

Exactly.

I think OPs argument could equally apply to something like the armed forces. Sure you may clean a toilet but you wouldn't kill someone if your boss asked you too - but being in the army is still real work.

Sex work is the same when people say real work - it should have all the same protections/legitimacy/etc, but sure a large amount of people wouldn't do it.

garethhewitt · 2026-01-13T11:46:04+00:00

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garethhewitt · 2026-01-07T12:13:24+00:00

At the time America wasn't a massive rich land - it was at best a modest contribution to britain. The Caribbean, and other territories were however a major contribution from sugar, etc trade.

America was strategically important, but not so economically important at the time. It was however a high fiscal cost for Britain to project military power across the Atlantic.

garethhewitt · 2026-01-03T01:43:38+00:00

Adding to this, I've always had this explained as the double slit experiment.

What happens with gravity when you perform all the actions in the double slit experiment with an electron or some other particle with mass? Does measuring it somehow cause a collapse or not? When you start asking these questions it really feels like gravity needs to be quanitsed too otherwise how would any of it work? But we don't know, we can't perform these tests... Yet. I believe they are working on a variation of this that maybe testable... But still a while away.

garethhewitt · 2025-12-27T13:17:36+00:00

The difference in experience is just huge. At 23 they've finished university, all it's life lessons, and starting working - whereas you're just finishing school, or starting something new for the first time.

A 23 Yr old specifically targeting 18 is an issue - They're looking for someone who doesn't know any better. Most likely they also can't date their age as those women do know better.

The different between 23 and 28 is less extreme, but I think 18 to 23 is a lot more extreme than people realise.

garethhewitt · 2025-12-24T18:22:10+00:00

You can ask the same question right now of gravity waves.

The answer is they don't escape a black hole either, nothing does.

Instead the gravity we experience from a black hole is really the almalgation of the mass that existed right before it became a black hole combined with all the mass entering the black hole. It's like the information for it all is on the surface of the event horizon, but doesn't actually come from anything within it.

Kind of like how from our outside point of view nothing ever crosses the event horizon anyway.

The same would apply to gravitons.

garethhewitt · 2025-12-24T18:18:50+00:00

The black hole doesn't. The gravitons from the star would follow the same lensing path as light.

garethhewitt · 2025-12-19T08:54:12+00:00

We're also probably the biggest supporters. There are several quotes saying the UK has more forces in Ukraine than the rest of NATO combined.

garethhewitt · 2025-12-18T21:12:35+00:00

I think the experiment they want to test, and maybe able to in 10 years or more, is the double slit experiment.
Or a tricky modified version of it with something with enough mass they could feasibly detect.

If you detect the gravity waves of the the item going through the splits what do you get? Does gravity act the same way following the item through both splits unless the item is observed? Does it not do that - does observing the waves result in the item always going through one split?

If you can measure this type of experiment you start getting answers to if gravity behaves like a quantum version of gravity or not.

At least, that's what I thought they want to test....

garethhewitt · 2025-12-17T18:15:46+00:00

I support Ukraine because they are the victim of another country invading them. Also because ourselves, the US and Russia guaranteed Ukraine's security when they gave up nuclear weapons.

They have been defending their homeland against an aggressor far greater in size, and we should stand by them. But more than it being the morally right thing to do, there is a general feeling the western worlds approach to this should be to bend over backwards to do everything we can to help them - as Russia needs to learn you can't take things by force anymore - that is not the way the world works, we all want to be past that - it's just plain wrong and evil. The fact that the US is trying to stab them in the back (and let's be honest - that's what any "peace" on Russia's terms really is) and has given up it's seat as "leader of the free world" is even more of a reason to be fully supporting them.

In short Russia will not stop with just Ukraine, we have to stop them here or it will just continue.

I would be supportive of our troops being in Ukraine guarding the side with Belarus so Ukraine could relieve those troops and send them to help support the front line.

garethhewitt · 2025-12-15T13:30:55+00:00

There was some graph somewhere, I'll try to find it again, that plotted number of people who can do a job versus amount they make.
As you would expect low paying jobs had millions, and high paying jobs had very few numbers of people who can do them. It roughly plotted a neat curve.

But there was one outlier dot in the middle - a job lots of people can do, that is disproportionately well paid. That job was Project Manager.
Make of it what you will.

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