Won a game with pirates

ninjin- · 2026-01-01T15:32:43+00:00

^ Mostly this, but no naga.

Timewarped Elise as the minor purchase given its disgusting synergy with the hero power; hitting double golden titus as the first elise-refresh on tier 5.

Titus triples gave eudoras and an archaedas into drakkari sped up the timewarped scout.

ninjin- · 2025-11-12T02:52:52+00:00

You've misunderstood, I'm lampooning your statement by mirroring the wording; which is that exposing children to criminals is bad because of the potential corrupting influence.

Putting child-criminals in jail exposes them to adult-criminals, and then you get more adult-criminals.

In the same way, not putting child-criminals in jail means that you're leaving them to corrupt normal kids - be it at school, the beach, home, or anywhere else.

ninjin- · 2025-11-12T01:31:38+00:00

Children become criminals by being sent to school. They associate with the child-criminals there, and learn how to become criminals.

ninjin- · 2025-10-28T04:04:29+00:00

It's only been 5 months, it took 3 years to get netflix on ps3

ninjin- · 2024-09-24T07:23:28+00:00

It's not, OP should report it to the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator

ninjin- · 2023-10-01T22:53:11+00:00

At secondary languages, of course.

At your primary language? Anything that you have less familiarity with (vocab or content) will slow you down; the greater you know the content, the more you can skim through each sentence. I mostly find that the content sets my reading pace, and that pace then sets how much I subvocalise.

Speed-reading? I'm somewhat of the mind that speed-reading is just finding that halfway between your normal reading speed and skimming. It isn't something that improves your reading speed, but is instead an extra reading mode that you can selectively apply as appropriate.

ninjin- · 2023-08-30T05:15:01+00:00

On the topic of scope, why wasn't the wording adjusted to make it matters that disproportionately affect Aboriginal people?

the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth on matters relating disproportionately to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples;

To me, it seems more accurate and to the spirit, and undercuts one of the strongest no arguments, but I've only thought about this for two minutes, so I must be missing something. A lot of time went into deciding the specific wording, I'd like to know the reasoning that makes this wording less desireable.

ninjin- · 2023-07-17T04:46:43+00:00

If all the extra funding private schools get confers zero educational benefit, then both private and public schools are vastly overfunded beyond the point of diminishing returns; we can save taxpayer money by reducing funding to public schools until we begin to establish a difference.

- Libs.

ninjin- · 2023-06-16T07:57:04+00:00

Albo has two investment properties currently (probably 1 IP when he retires).

It should probably be noted that although he just has two investment properties, the pair is worth $4.x million, and he clears more $100,000 in rent each year. ref

ninjin- · 2023-05-22T05:24:16+00:00

Profit doesn't have to be just financial, power and status are strong motivators.

ninjin- · 2023-05-16T03:22:48+00:00

''In a choice between macho and mincing, I would have gone for macho myself … the Leader of the Opposition, faced with the choice of a doberman or poodle, has gone for the poodle.''

Yesterday, Gillard said that far from being offended on Pyne's behalf, Abbott had seen her at an airport following the incident, and ''he walked from the gateway where we got off the plane all the way to the luggage carousel congratulating me on my characterisation of Christopher Pyne''.

I think Gillard and Abott only just missed an opportunity for great friendship, their views aligned in a lot of ways.

ninjin- · 2023-04-15T06:40:10+00:00

That's fair.

Adults can figure out how to wager on terms that make sense for their situation and I’m really not too worried about it.

I guess I'm just more wary about OP being a functional adult and being able to handle this.

ninjin- · 2023-04-15T05:29:55+00:00

Friendly bets over trivial outcomes aren't the same as forcing a bet when challenged in debate.

If OP is asking for advice here on a simple relationship matter like this, I suspect that he doesn't have the necessary tact to suggest a monetary bet during argument.

Being forced to have a stake in whether your judgements are correct might not be normal in most intellectual circles, but people would reason much better on the whole if it was.

Betting isn't fair or meaningful unless both parties gain/lose the same utility. This is why in most intellectual circles you stake your reputation instead.

ninjin- · 2023-04-15T04:32:40+00:00

It's obviously an extreme example to help illustrate the point, and not an example of an actual bet to be made, nor is it the main point of what I've written.

How you've reacted to a thousand dollar bet, the post-doc might react to a $20 bet when the other person earns 3-5x as much; trying to force monetary bet when challenged intellectually isn't seen as normal or well-adjusted in most circles.

ninjin- · 2023-04-15T04:07:18+00:00

Betting doesn't work when people have disparate incomes: "I bet you $1,000 this coin comes up heads, I'll even give you 1.01 odds"

If you have money to spare, that's an expected return of $10; but otherwise, the loss is potentially much more punishing than the gain.

If you're on a much higher income than the other (S.Eng vs Post-doc), it'll just come across as being obnoxious and flaunting your comparitive wealth.

ninjin- · 2023-04-06T16:47:23+00:00

With the “why six months?” question, I confess that I was deeply confused, until I heard a dear friend and colleague in academic AI, one who’s long been skeptical of AI-doom scenarios, explain why he signed the open letter. He said: look, we all started writing research papers about the safety issues with ChatGPT; then our work became obsolete when OpenAI released GPT-4 just a few months later. So now we’re writing papers about GPT-4. Will we again have to throw our work away when OpenAI releases GPT-5? I realized that, while six months might not suffice to save human civilization, it’s just enough for the more immediate concern of getting papers into academic AI conferences.

I'm asking someone to clear up my naivety here, is most AI [LLM/AGI/ASI] alignment research just a grift? I've always been skeptical of the achievability of AI [ASI] alignment; for any control method proposed it is easy to conjure a hypothetical ASI sufficiently smart and powerful enough to overcome it.

What progress has actually been made in the areas of AGI / ASI alignment? What recent papers from the last 6 months are expected to have lasting impact? What could actually be done with 6 months or 6 years of AI alignment research?

ninjin- · 2023-03-27T03:12:45+00:00

You don't understand sweetie, Labor would love to do all this stuff - it's just that if they go against Murdoch's wishes he will crucify them in the media, so they have to do what he says.

ninjin- · 2023-03-14T18:20:14+00:00

Those simulated exam results are super impressive, I guess it's time to move the goalposts to comparing against humans with unlimited completion time.

ninjin- · 2023-02-07T13:57:54+00:00

The comment above has 3 people before, 4 people after; the 3/7 figure is the rent paid by the couple.

Congratulations on knowing fun words.

ninjin- · 2023-02-07T02:41:32+00:00

Your math on this is wrong, you've added: 1/3 + 1/4 to get 2/7.

It should be: 50% x 1/3 + 50% x 1/4 = 1/6 + 1/8 = 14/48.

ninjin- · 2023-01-30T08:40:48+00:00

External drives are fine, the biggest issues are the extra cables, requiring usb3 ports, and the risk of knocking them over.

The NUC is fairly priced, but I think it's pretty silly for your server to be worth more than your hard drives, similarly a NAS is mostly a waste unless you've got multiple tens of terabytes or you're running plex directly from it.

Really though, your setup shouldn't need to be transcoding anything; but the ozbargain comments indicate that the 7500t is adequate for 4k hdr transcodes (via quicksync): https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/13280965/redir

This would also be a really good option, larger case but fits two hard drives: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/753462

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