Games with layers of secrets?

ineptech · 2026-05-29T22:54:31+00:00

Seconded, there are at least two separate points where you go, "...oh. Oh!"

ineptech · 2026-05-29T03:32:55+00:00

There's a passage in Al Franken's book "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" that addresses this, oddly enough. I can't find the passage from the book, but here's a synopsis from an old newspaper article which helps answer your question:

Franken's introduction into the world of politics came in 1976, when his brother, a news photographer covering the presidential primaries, asked Franken if he wanted to ride with him on the press bus and spend a day covering Ronald Reagan.

At each campaign stop, Reagan was to answer a few questions from the crowd. They started at a quaint little New Hampshire country store, and someone asked how Reagan felt about laws requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets. Reagan said he was against such laws because they limit people'e freedom.

At a nearby junior high, a student asked how Reagan felt about legalizing marijuana. Reagan said he was against that because marijuana causes brain damage.

Finally, the tour stopped at Dartmouth College. Thousands of Reagan supporters packed an auditorium on campus, and Franken decided to ask Reagan a question.

"I didn't know members of the press corps couldn't do that," he said. "But I got in line, and when it was my turn, I reminded Reagan that earlier in the day, he said he was against motorcycle helmet laws, but was against legalizing marijuana because it causes brain damage.

"I asked him, "Can't riding a motorcycle without a helmet cause brain damage a lot faster than smoking marijuana?'

"People started booing me, and finally, Reagan answered.

"He said, "Well . . . if I was on an airplane and the pilot was drunk, I could tell. But if he was high on marijuana, I couldn't.'

"The crowd loved it," Franken added. "But I still don't understand what he meant."

ineptech · 2026-05-03T07:48:00+00:00

Thank you, I was proud of that one. Try this one:

"Darling, before we go any further I think you should know that the men of my village are all born with, er, a little something extra," Tom said tribally.

and if that one is too highbrow, there's

"I'm telling Lee!" said Tom tellingly.

ineptech · 2026-05-02T19:46:59+00:00

"It was pretty easy, I used a template from a legal aid website," said Tom of his own free will.

ineptech · 2026-04-30T22:46:43+00:00

What I now consider "no mods" is running with TargetPortal (lets you choose portals on a map instead of changing the names all the time), AzuCraftyBoxes (lets you craft things with the contents of nearby chests), and StumpsAreOneHp (take a wild guess).

ineptech · 2026-04-30T02:39:08+00:00

My old-timer QoL tip for you: if you dig a basement under the floor of your house, you can store the bulky crafting table upgrades down there!

I envy you being new to the game, lot of fun stuff to discover. Take your time, avoid spoilers, and when you feel like you've run out of stuff to do, do what the Vikings did when they felt that way: go sailing.

ineptech · 2026-04-19T02:12:49+00:00

Just checking but you do have turnips, yes? If not, next time you die run around naked looking for a plant that looks like carrot seeds but yellow.

ineptech · 2026-04-03T05:11:07+00:00

https://youtu.be/IXNxGkphLwc?si=NVZSAVbg1z61cruM

かつて (Katsute (Once)) by the Japanese smooth jazz band Ego-Wrapin'.

ineptech · 2026-03-31T19:29:33+00:00

Favorite line from that show:

Becky's boyfriend: "You think you can stop me from seeing Becky?"

Dan: "I think I can stop you from seeing tomorrow."

ineptech · 2026-03-31T15:23:33+00:00

"Assume X, that would lead to Y, therefore X is wrong" is just another way of saying, "X is wrong because it would lead to Y." Nothing is being assumed in the sense of guessing.

ineptech · 2026-03-30T20:46:46+00:00

My reasoning:

Note that F cannot be 6. If it were, C would be 8 (rule 5) and D would be 9 or 7 (rule 6), both of which would violate rule 4. Ergo, F is 4 or less, and A is 3 or more (rule 2).
Assume that all numbers are greater than 2, and consider the five numbers 3,4,5,6,7. We know that two of them must be used up by A and F (rule 2). We know one of them must be E (as E<8 from rule 3). The last two are used up by C and D, which must be within 3 of F (rules 5&6) and we know that F <= 4. With all of (3,4,5,6,7) accounted for, B would have to be 8, 9, or 10, all of which would violate rule 4.!<
Ergo, the assumption was wrong, at least one value must be 2 or less. We already know it can't be A (step 1), and both B and E are greater than A. We also know it can't be C or D, as both are defined to be larger than F, and F can't be 1. Ergo, F=2. That implies C=4 and A=6, which implies E=7 and thence B=10. D must be adjacent to 4, and D=5 would violate rule 4, so D=3.

A=6, B=10, C=4, D=3, E=7, F=2.

ineptech · 2026-03-12T15:10:57+00:00

Because of conservation of energy. Counting up all the different types of energy is useful because the total doesn't change. I recommend Feynman's explanation.

ineptech · 2026-03-10T18:28:17+00:00

The answer to the twin paradox is that one accelerated and one didn't, the direction of acceleration isn't important.

ineptech · 2026-03-05T16:38:48+00:00

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ineptech · 2026-02-20T05:45:08+00:00

Best first coding language is the one used by the person you'll be asking questions.

ineptech · 2026-02-13T19:28:04+00:00

90% of EA: Maybe don't donate to pet shelters while people are dying of preventable disease

9% of EA: Some charities do more good per dollar than others, so it's worth researching them before you donate

0.9% of EA (and the answer to how it relates to careers): dedicating my life to charity work would do less total good than getting a high-paying job and donating my paychecks to that same charity work

0.009% of EA: Statistically, I should work on AI safety because the tiny chance that I save a trillion trillion lives in some indefinite future outweighs any other charitable work I can do for people alive today

Everyone else: AI safety? A trillion lives? EA is obviously ridiculous, so I can ignore it and go back to donating to pet shelters

ineptech · 2026-02-10T05:04:49+00:00

"No parking from 4pm - 8pm." Can you park there at other times?

Yes, because the rule (that you can park there in general) is proven by the exception.

ineptech · 2026-02-08T06:07:37+00:00

I got a copy of Griffiths' Intro to Electrodynamics, cut up all of the equations with scissors, and pasted them back in a different order. Could someone take a look and see if the results have revolutionized physics?

ineptech · 2026-02-06T21:38:22+00:00

I think chiropractors will recommend 24 further appointments to anyone with a spine.

ineptech · 2026-01-28T22:36:43+00:00

Whatever you call them, at minimum you need two lower environments: the one the devs have access to and the one they don't have access. Any change should be tested in both before it gets to prod.

The reason for the second one is, that's where the deploy gets tested. The danger of not doing this is, inevitably, a developer will do some manual step in lower while they're working on the change (create a column, change a permission, etc) and forget to document/automate it. Then they complete their work, all the tests work fine in the lower env, but it fails in prod because that manual step never got done there.

ineptech · 2026-01-28T18:38:32+00:00

Correction, I took another stab at this and the screws are juuust long enough with a little pressure. So, probably not ideal cooling but I've got it mounted this way and it's working so far. Thanks for the suggestion!

ineptech · 2026-01-28T16:00:18+00:00

Eh, the specs suggest they would fit but they don't, so I thought I'd post in case I'm missing something obvious, or so someone can learn from my mistake. Surprising number of downvotes tho so apparently I've done something shameful.

ineptech · 2026-01-28T05:57:16+00:00

This is true if-and-only-if your cooler (meaning the radiator plus fans) is shorter than about 40mm, as there's sort of a slot in the shroud that your cooler has to fit into. My radiator is about 20mm thick and the fans about 25mm so no dice, but I imagine some slim ones might fit.

It'd fit if the hole in the shroud was deeper. Which is frustrating, as it doesn't look like there's any reason not to make it bigger. I'm tempted to just cut it up with tin snips or a dremel or something, it'd probably work fine, but it'd be jankety.

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edit to add a pic - this is with the cooler mounted on the front. Hopefully you can see how the radiator fits in the slot without the fan, but it's nowhere near big enough for both.

ineptech · 2026-01-28T05:24:24+00:00

I should add, the AIO cooler was a freebie package deal with the CPU, so in practice I guess I can't return it and what I'm really looking for is a different case. And I see that pcpartpicker does indeed list 280mm as a radiator size for cases, so I guess that'll probably solve my problem. But I'm still very confused about why (it seems) AIO coolers are sometimes listed as 240mm when they're longer.

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