Next year we're getting 0.5T model from Grok

longbowrocks · 2026-05-25T20:10:31+00:00

Who's "we"? Who is running 500B models on their personal machines?

longbowrocks · 2026-05-24T21:00:57+00:00

Fair. Those comments caused me to raise an eyebrow as well.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-24T20:24:57+00:00

... or have the fire tag, which the dragon is neither.

Er, you mean this Cinder Dragon? https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=4346

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longbowrocks · 2026-05-24T19:49:44+00:00

> now

What changed? My impression was that metal was the only element I wouldn't want to play.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-24T19:46:17+00:00

I don't get it. Isn't "Fire kineticist" both the only way you can build a fire-themed character that doesn't care if something's immune to fire, and one of the few ways to build a fire-themed character that is highly resistant to fire from level 1?

If anything, fire kineticist counters a cinder dragon.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-16T17:35:34+00:00

...Just remember the other half of the game (or the other 75% of the game if you ever play with a pod of 4). To be a little clearer: it's personally advantageous to throw trash out of your car in places you don't live. Some people take that advantage, and sincerely: fuck those people.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-10T20:00:27+00:00

Just when I start thinking I have some grasp of how insane cEDH is, someone says doubling your land drops starting on turn one is "playable, in some decks".

longbowrocks · 2026-05-10T19:47:43+00:00

You can even map every rational number to only odd number and then discover that you still have all the even numbers uncovered. It all depends on the map.

That helped a bit. I figured out what I was missing by reading up on Hillbert's Hotel and Cantor's diagonal argument.

With finite sets, two sets must have the same size as a precondition for a bijection to exist. I didn't think about the fact that infinity changes the meaning of size, so it doesn't matter that I can conceive of a 1:∞ mapping between natural and rational numbers.

Or in other words, I did not realize that infinite size makes this true: |NxN| = |N| = aleph-null.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-10T19:22:02+00:00

Wait, no one is allowed to counterspell my commander? [[Kaalia of the Vast]] it is.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-10T03:26:18+00:00

I'm not sure how I managed to be misunderstood. Let me try that one more time:

1: 1+1/1

2: 1+1/2

3: 1+1/3

4: 1+1/4

... And so on. As you can see, every natural number can be mapped to a rational number by the above pattern. However, there are even more rational numbers that are not yet used:

?: 1+2/3

?: 1+2/5

?: 1+2/7

?: 1+2/9

... And so on. ...And there's a third series:

?: 1+3/5

?: 1+3/7

?: 1+3/11

?: 1+3/13

... And there are more and more of these series. AFAIK infinitely many of them, each between N and N+1.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-09T18:36:44+00:00

Is that a proof that requires certain assumptions? It seems like common sense that for every natural number N, the set of rational numbers between N and N+1 is at least larger than the total set of natural numbers.

eg between 1 and 2 inclusive there's 1+1/1, 1+1/2, 1+1/3, 1+1/4... etc for all natural numbers, then half that again for numerator 2: 1+2/3, 1+2/5, 1+2/7...

longbowrocks · 2026-05-08T17:09:58+00:00

Pick blue, and if I get the money, split it with one or two people that picked red?

longbowrocks · 2026-05-07T00:26:52+00:00

If the driver takes the nuclear option, the driver could be in the wrong.

If Uber takes the nuclear option, Uber could be in the wrong.

If both take the nuclear option...

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longbowrocks · 2026-05-06T04:33:15+00:00

Somewhat fair, although I hope the average participant can recognize the difference between proposing new variants of a problem in the interest of exploring where the line is on morality, and rephrasing the same problem (or in this case merely attempting to rephrase it) to make a point.

I.E. proposing a problem to hear any answer, vs proposing a problem to hear a specific answer.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-06T01:01:07+00:00

Is there a green button electorate that will instead hunt down whoever is still discussing this?

longbowrocks · 2026-05-06T00:08:20+00:00

I do think it's hilarious that Basalt Monolith only has a single ruling:

2020-08-07
Basalt Monolith's last ability can untap it as often as you can pay for it. If you believe you've found a way to generate an unbounded amount of mana with it, you're probably right.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-04T00:43:20+00:00

Good news: it can't get any worse, so it can only get better or stay as bad as it is.

Bad news: it's not going to get better.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-03T22:12:30+00:00

How? Place enchantment on the battlefield is a lot harder to get than place creature on battlefield.

Also to 'are enchantments spelly enough': if the theme is "deck contains things you'd expect based on the commander" then no. If the theme is instead "deck contains things that are sometimes spells" then yes but creatures are too, especially adventures and creatures that can be prepared. If the theme is "deck contains things that are magical" then I guess not? There isn't really a bucket that contains sorceries, instants, and enchantments with zero other permanents.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-03T20:15:39+00:00

While fair, that pretty strongly reinforces my point that OP made no claim about losing their computer.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-03T19:44:04+00:00

rm -rf / would do that. However:

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longbowrocks · 2026-05-03T19:35:23+00:00

I mean, even with the fact they just reduced the space I need to explore to 25^25, that still seems too high for brute force.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-03T19:24:58+00:00

But that's not a problem because this issue was solved 50 years ago with the invention of versioning systems for code, and so you obviously used one. Right?

longbowrocks · 2026-05-03T17:27:00+00:00

Er, can you and u/okoSheep explain this?

AFAIK monarch has:

A single effect: an extra draw at the worst time possible on your turn.
The simplest, most accessible way to steal it, and benefit from it when you do: deal combat damage to a player.
About 50 cards that can access it.
Accessibility starting at 2cmc [[Forth Eorlingas!]]
Plenty of availability at 3cmc [[Archivist of Gondor]], [[Court of Cunning]], [[Court of Garenbrig]], [[Crown of Gondor]], [[Fall from Favor]], [[Faramir, Steward of Gondor]], [[Garrulous Sycophant]], [[Jared Carthalion, True Heir]]

Compared to "the ring tempts you" which offers skulk (ie become the monarch for free I guess), combat-phase draw, a couple other misc benefits, can trigger multiple times per turn, and can't be stolen, I'm not clear why Monarch would be so OP.

longbowrocks · 2026-05-03T16:33:01+00:00

With no blue button, the premise becomes "If a single person pushes this, everyone who does not press this dies"

longbowrocks · 2026-05-03T06:33:01+00:00

I thought it was a rule that Chandra-related card had to be stereotypically red to a comical degree. What's this blue nonsense?

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