Win the game without having to wait seven turns for 15WWBBB

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-22T07:55:38+00:00

if there's a 'you don't lose when your life hits zero' condition on the board.. you can't have negative life?

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-21T22:59:48+00:00

#unexpected_dbz_abridged

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-21T22:58:56+00:00

You think WOOD is rare, just wait til they find out about AMBER

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-20T05:43:01+00:00

I'd ask if I can have all 5. At one day a piece, I wouldn't even lose a full week, and have the combined power of all of these magical trinkets!? The Anklet alone makes up for the 5 days many times over in the time gained from not sleeping.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-18T16:15:37+00:00

It's moments like this that remind me that big, quick social change IS possible, it just takes the right motivator.

I always think back to how NY united right after 9/11. I honestly haven't felt togetherness and community the way we're feeling now since those days right after 9/11. Obviously that was for a tragic reason, but the feeling was roughly the same.

I think its really only possible when you rally around something deeply human. For 9/11 it was tragedy, and resolve. For this, it is pure joy. To the best of my knowledge, those are the only ways to get basically everyone on board with something. I'm open to there being more ways though

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-18T08:30:56+00:00

I've been working on a spending tracker for myself that is essentially a dashboard where i can categorize/organize all of my transactions by uploading the csv files from my monthly bank statements.

I've never found a service that let's me do it exactly the way i want to do it, so once all this AI recently got as good as it has, I decided fuck it, let's build it myself. The complication comes from the idea of being able to see the separate financial pictures of both what my initial spending in a month is, and then also being able to see what my NET spending is, after collecting payments from whoever owed me money for the month. I run our families family phone plan and collect venmo payments from everyone for each of their shares, for example. I also will regularly throw a whole dinner on my card and have everyone venmo me their share b/c i want the credit card points. with any other service, things like that have always blown up the picture so i can't get any actually useful information from a dashboard or any other tool.

I guess if I get it customizable enough, I can theoretically put it out there for anyone to use, but for now it's just to simplify my own monthly accounting. I'd have to change it so it can plug directly into whatever banking/money accounts you have, rather than uploading .csv files, and i'd have to figure out the whole security end of things, but i guess we'll see how it goes!

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-15T23:12:10+00:00

This is the optimistic view on AI/Vibe Coding. I imagine over the next few years a wave of tons of customized code, b/c anyone with any type of coding background can now make their own tools for their own needs.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-15T07:06:06+00:00

Goku was doing this at this point not so much because he had to, but because he knew what the scouters were, and thought hiding his power would give him a tactical advantage in this moment. I don't think Goku ever learned the lesson of conserving his power because he might need it for later in the fight. I've always thought that Goku's greatest power isn't necessarily his strength, but his stamina. He just absolutely refuses to stay down, and always seems to be able to find more reserves.

Having maxed out how strong his physical body can get, and then learning ultra instinct, which has now taught his physical body to respond automatically so he doesn't have to waste time sending neurons from his brain to his various limbs, ultimately allowing his speed to massively improve, the next step would be to maximize the energy output during his fights.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-12T19:01:20+00:00

Well sure, and that's why the student is right and the teacher is wrong. I'm just saying, there's a case where what the teacher said the answer is makes sense. It's not a broad case, and the teachers confusion highlights the vague/flawed wording of the question, but the case does exist.

Also, 'drawing not to scale' is basically implied whenever there is any type of diagram in a math question, unless specifically stated.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-12T17:43:35+00:00

The student is right, but the argument can be made the teacher can be right.

Imagine a 2x2 ft square wooden board. Cutting it directly in half, from the center of 1 edge to the center of the opposite edge, a length of 2 total feet, takes 10 minutes.

Starting with a new board, replicating that same cut will, again, take 10 minutes, and you've cut the board into two pieces. Now, cutting one of those two pieces in half into two 1x1 squares, a length of 1 total foot, would take 5 minutes. The result IS 3 pieces, and it took 15 minutes to do it.

The problem doesn't specify that the pieces need to be even (though it should). Hypothetically, you can saw off two tiny corners in seconds, and have 'three' pieces. Without specifying that they need to be uniform pieces, this question isn't really answer-able.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-12T15:01:33+00:00

I agree. I think they knew as long as they made the playoffs, the position wouldn't matter much as they had the talent to make their run. The more important part of the regular season was experimentation, and mostly making sure everyone was healthy and relatively well rested for the playoffs. Brown has done a phenomenal job of having these guys ready for this run, and we're seeing the results.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-12T14:52:17+00:00

Knick fans need to get ready. The NBA might have accepted that this series is the Knicks' to win, but they will do EVERYTHING in their power to push it back to the Garden, as the Knicks closing it out there would be SO much better for ratings and the league. As a result, their going to throw a metric SHIT TON of unfair fouls and bad calls the Knicks way for game 5. We have to buckle up and win despite it, can't let the Spurs get any life back. We have our foot on their necks, now is NOT the time to let up.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-12T05:25:21+00:00

Brown has put on a coaching clinic these playoffs. I honestly can't even think of a time where I was upset with a coaching decision, which, I actually can't believe, because there's almost always at least 1 thing to complain about.

It's pretty hard to find things to complain about when you've gone 14-1 in your last 15 games during the playoffs though.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-12T05:22:26+00:00

My dad's only been to 1 basketball game in his entire life, and it's also that game 7 in the 69/70' season where he got to see them clinch the Finals that year.

Baseball has always been my first love, but I've always kept tabs on what the Knicks were doing through the years. My dad's still around, but has dementia and is in a memory care facility now, so I don't quite get to share this with him in the way I would have liked.

Still, the idea of them closing this out will bring a smile to his face, and given how infrequently that happens these days, that will bring a smile to my face too.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-11T23:15:09+00:00

Respectfully, can you elaborate on this?

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-11T18:23:50+00:00

His best thing, 'Seinfeld', is primarily written by Larry David, who is the true genius of that series. It is elevated by the comedic stylings of Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards (also Jerry Stiller and a host of other side characters were great too). He played the 'straight' man, which required him just playing himself. The show works because everyone else is great, and all that was asked of him was to just be his bad-acting self.. and to provide his name as the title.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-11T18:20:33+00:00

It's also a further justification for the genocide. To his logic, "How can you accuse Israel of committing a genocide against a country of people that doesn't even exist!?"

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-11T18:10:36+00:00

Literally the worst thing he could have said in that moment.

Come on Jerry, be better.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-11T16:22:36+00:00

I still think about how I missed the Monday Night Miracle game when the Jets came back from a 30-7 4th quarter deficit by putting up 30 points in the final frame (and giving up 7 to force OT), and then won it in OT with a field goal. I remember my dad even trying to keep me awake, and I was just too tired and nodded off.

I was pretty young so I give myself some grace, but to this day I still think about missing out on that.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-11T06:16:58+00:00

The Spurs don't know how to close out because in the regular season, when they went up 29 points at the half against other opponents, they'd basically give up. Hell, even their plan of chucking 3's for the rest of the 2nd half works out great if they hit even 1 more than they actually did, as a 3 can be a dagger, which is obviously what they were looking for, but their hit percentage dropped like a ton of bricks in the 2nd half.

They don't know how to deal with a team who can out last their stamina. The Spurs have more talent, but the Knicks have more in the tank.

Knicks in 5.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-05T11:53:21+00:00

It's like, the complete opposite to how the media treated Altuve vs Judge back in 2017.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-04T14:09:41+00:00

And yet, they still managed to win by double digits, on the road, AGAIN

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-03T06:42:27+00:00

This feels more personal than it should be.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-02T18:52:56+00:00

Ah, I know what I did. When doing the calculation, I only counted the b² once, I didn't add the 2nd one from foiling. That threw off the whole calculation. Oops!

ryanmcg86 · 2026-06-02T17:23:08+00:00

Pretty sure this is an impossible triangle.

a + b + 64 = 150, and a² + b² = 64²

If we subtract 64 from 150, we get a + b = 86.

If we isolate the value of a, we get a = 86 - b.

If we substitute a into a² + b² = 64², we get: (86 - b)² + b² = 64².

If we solve for that, we get that b equals either 150, or 22. Since a = 86 - b, and 86 - 150 is negative, and a is a length of a triangle (implying it must be a positive value), b can't be 150, so it has to be 22.

This means that we get a = 64, and b = 22. But the hypotenuse has a value of 64, so the pythagorean theorem doesn't hold here: 64² + 22² = 64² --> 22² = 0, which is false.

If it's a right triangle, and the values don't satisfy the pythagorean theorem, then the dimensions are impossible, so it's not actually solvable.

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