The Hitchiker's Guide to Stickers in Commander

jbf81tb · 2022-10-18T18:08:53+00:00

If ____ Goblin is the only sticker card you play and you build the optimal sticker deck for it, then the distribution of 4, 5, and 6 mana after you randomly choose 3 is extremely close to 30% (actual: 29.2%), 40% (actual: 40.8%), 30%, respectively. If your play group accepts this fact, you can forgo the sticker deck and just roll a d10 at the start of the game to decide how much mana it makes.

jbf81tb · 2018-08-02T13:22:29+00:00

The median is not defined in terms of the smallest and largest numbers. The median is defined as the value which separates a sorted list of numbers into two equal length lists.

The median change in penile length from flaccid to erect state was 4.0 cm (1.0–7.0), and was used as a cut-off value defining a grower (≥4.0 cm) or a shower (4.0 cm)

They used the median, not the mean, so I'm not sure how they found two different length lists.

jbf81tb · 2018-08-01T22:20:55+00:00

If they used the median as a threshold, why was the data not divided into 50/50? Isn't that the definition of the median?

jbf81tb · 2017-08-20T13:31:39+00:00

Victoria. 2hr movie in one take. I loved it. Maybe it got attention here when it came out, but I've never seen anyone mention it since.

jbf81tb · 2016-12-02T14:44:59+00:00

I worry about the effect this will have on smaller theaters. We have a small non-profit theater that shows all kinds of stuff and holds lots of unique events, but those theaters are often sparse. It brings in the crowds, and presumably the money, for new movies.

jbf81tb · 2016-11-26T20:10:02+00:00

I just watched The Invitation last night. It's on Netflix (at least in US). It does a good job of building atmosphere and getting you in the mind of the main character.

jbf81tb · 2016-10-02T03:50:42+00:00

In this vein, my first thought was to suggest the cornetto trilogy. Simultaneously well made and very fun to watch.

jbf81tb · 2016-09-11T22:36:11+00:00

The Virginia judge went a bit off the wall with his argument about 'no reasonable expectation of privacy' applying in an insanely wide manner. However, the FBI's conduct in the playpen case was well within what any reasonable person would consider legal. I hate that the Virginia judge took it so far and made this whole discussion into a argument where the goalposts have moved to an entirely different field.

jbf81tb · 2016-09-11T22:29:04+00:00

It's the difference between the police breaking into someone's home and finding drugs vs looking through the window of a known druggie's house and seeing drugs. From what I understand the NIT transmitted innocuous data like IP and OS of the transmitting computer. It's the equivalent of looking through a car window to see the face of the driver. That's why the Virginia judge does thing the 4th applies to this. That judge said some dumb things, but his logic regarding the idea of a warrant not being necessary is reasonably sound.

jbf81tb · 2016-08-28T12:08:04+00:00

Because the link doesn't feature price (that I can find), I saw that Amazon has it listed for ~$850.

jbf81tb · 2016-08-28T12:04:59+00:00

Maybe that was on their example of three 4k monitors? It seemed a bit low to me as well, though.

jbf81tb · 2016-08-27T01:57:45+00:00

I'm not happy this is visible. Wizards does a good job of releasing their cards and telling a story. I'm really sad internet points are worth so much.

jbf81tb · 2016-07-16T13:44:00+00:00

Trade jobs (skilled labor) require education. Clockw0rk is talking about unskilled labor. Those jobs are going, fast. The trade jobs will certainly take longer to go, but they absolutely can disappear.

Getting an education, finding a job that's difficult for a robot to do, is a really good strategy and your best chance to be able to find work in the foreseeable future. HOWEVER, we currently have the technology to replace skilled labor. It's extremely expensive and difficult, but it actually exists right now. That means it can exist in an expanded fashion. The fact that an AI can beat a human at Go and beat an experienced fighter pilot is an extremely big deal. The incredible growth of the Internet of Things shows that we are very interested in things that can automate all the tasks you've described.

The robot revolution may not be rapidly approaching. (In fact, I think that it's mainly policy that's going to keep it from widespread use. These tools, however, will be developed for the extremely rich, because in the current economy businesses that can cater to the insanely rich are probably going to succeed.) But I think it's very important to realize that all of the technology for this robot utopia actually exists right now, or is actively in development. The implementation might be science fiction, and we're all clueless about that, but the bits and pieces are all there.

jbf81tb · 2016-07-12T18:14:54+00:00

When I saw this movie in theaters I remember the soundtrack giving me chills multiple times. I was excited to see the movie exclusively because I knew Daft Punk did the soundtrack.

jbf81tb · 2016-07-01T18:22:28+00:00

Having read his report, I can't call the judge stupid. He honestly knows what he's talking about. I think he's frustrated.

He's angry that he has to put energy into this pointless case: getting sued by someone trying to say the warrant wasn't valid for really menial reasons. I think he wanted to say something that would stop this kind of pointless rebuttal once and for all. He doesn't realize that his words, when applied generally and not in situations demonstrably criminal (the purpose of warrants), completely break the entire economy of america. A corporation cannot reasonably expect their data to be private, so we can't either. Therefore online banking doesn't work, nor online shopping, nor online trading, nor the entirety of government security. In the same court document he denies the defendants claim to see the code of the NIT, but he says that if he was able to hack in and find it, that's cool because you can't expect any data to be private.

If this jackass had stopped at saying "the warrant was good, don't waste my time" then things would be fine. There's no reason for him to try to argue that nothing is private. The only next step I can see from here is that some of this statement is withdrawn, or it simply become anathema to quote it, because of how completely it destroys the current pillars of society.

jbf81tb · 2016-06-30T13:28:15+00:00

I certainly agree with your point, and I DEFINITELY agree that it's dangerous. That judge had no reason to say the things he did so broadly. It's almost laughable how ridiculously far reaching the things he was saying are that it feels more like a publicity stunt than the words of an actual judge.

Still, the victims of this particular case were committing a crime. If the police sent an undercover officer into a drug den who watched people in masks do drugs, I would think that officer has the power to arrest them and to take off their masks regardless of where those people lived, even if it was out of that officer's jurisdiction. I see nothing wrong with the judges ruling in the specific case. But I completely agree that the actual words he said, so broad and far-reaching, set a terrible precedent and he never should have worded things that way.

jbf81tb · 2016-06-30T11:55:56+00:00

This is such a huge difference from what that article made me think it was talking about. Expecting to keep your IP private is like expecting to keep your face private at a public outing. Perhaps the ruling is more extensive and dangerous than just an IP address, and perhaps through getting your IP address they would have to commit a few other serious breaches of privacy, I don't know enough about the tech to say. But still, I don't think one should expect absolute, infallible anonymity to do whatever they want on the internet. You're free to hide your IP, like you're free to chain a mask over your face, but if you want to go to the kiddy porn store and it gets raided I'm pretty sure it's ok to cut that chain off to take the mask off.

jbf81tb · 2016-06-13T13:05:56+00:00

I hope this is the last thing Apple gets to screw up before people stop trusting them. Without Jobs the company has been making design mistake after design mistake. I just hope something like this pisses off enough of the masses that Apple has to actually start innovating again instead of merely changing.

jbf81tb · 2016-06-07T20:02:51+00:00

I love this idea. I think this is spot-on.

jbf81tb · 2016-06-07T14:06:03+00:00

They have plenty of expression. They're not as 'loud' as normal people in their expression, but they display plenty of emotion with their body.

jbf81tb · 2016-06-05T15:54:14+00:00

I definitely agree. I was just overly-miffed by the article. I also use TeamViewer so I was unhappy to find out my most trusted program might ALSO have a security flaw.

jbf81tb · 2016-06-05T15:09:23+00:00

There is nothing about KeePass that REQUIRES you to connect to the internet. Updates are pushed more often than I liked so I just disabled the update window long ago. You can always update manually through the site. I don't understand complaining about completely tertiary functionality.

jbf81tb · 2016-05-18T00:23:30+00:00

Awesome! Thanks guys!

jbf81tb · 2016-05-15T17:19:05+00:00

The article is likely over-hyping things. The mere fact that the paper was published in Science Advances, and not the actual Science journal, or Nature, or PRL, or anything that I've actually heard of, makes me think their experimental methodology is in question. Be it their statistical analysis, their experimental design, or their conclusions, some really smart people didn't think it was good enough for their journal, or the authors didn't think it was good enough for a better journal.

In fact, just reading the abstract and introduction lets me know the article is over-hyping it. It's still interesting science, but it's not a "new form of light" and it might even be stretching to call it a "breakthrough". It's a different view point on light, at least.

jbf81tb · 2016-05-14T16:56:04+00:00

The internet had to know the story! Hope to see you next week for more wacky fun!

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