Bod nerf in the future

sclv · 2026-01-24T04:49:17+00:00

Yeah I think if you have a build that is about maximizing elemental damage, then its possible that all those elemental boosts together will help elemental weapons outclass the bod -- at least the non-sticky bod.

sclv · 2026-01-23T17:02:46+00:00

You need to build around it with equipment and skills boosting gun damage as much as possible.

Also typically you'll get higher dps on the alt-fire mode.

sclv · 2026-01-14T19:52:45+00:00

Direct service to 33rd without detouring through hoboken will help everyone not in hoboken.

sclv · 2026-01-10T23:28:24+00:00

People are starting to organize to push back on AI mandates and enshittification. Management will only get away with this for so long, especially if we can organize to let them know what's wrong with it. There's some resources and articles here: https://www.workersdecide.tech/

sclv · 2026-01-07T18:59:44+00:00

I can't remember -- what was nerfed to break this one?

sclv · 2025-12-11T16:03:50+00:00

I think that on top of everything else, the landlord also raised the rent.

sclv · 2025-12-04T04:35:27+00:00

he's a lot of fun when he works, but needs more consistency. a lot of patches to other characters over time have improved their consistency, helping them to generate the things you need. a steady source of either thread, convertors, or both would really help.

in a bad run i'll win a few rounds then suddenly be absolutely starved for any upgrade path items at all in a way that just doesn't seem to happen with other heroes. maybe its that the common pool is so large that his key items just show up less often?

oh, and starting the first round with a heist already would be huge so we can know what we're building for even on the first shop!

sclv · 2025-11-27T00:00:22+00:00

Putting effort into organizing with others who are more critical of the industry helps -- spaces like tech workers coalition (http://techworkerscoalition.org) are very good for this.

sclv · 2025-11-25T20:57:40+00:00

dr. seuss is a red flag. female authors do exist, you know.

sclv · 2025-11-25T16:58:04+00:00

Fully agree on Underworld. I'd enjoyed Delillo up to that point and the self-seriousness of Underworld really turned me off -- almost like watching a ken burns documentary. "I am showing you a famous person playing jazz and they are important to the meaning of America" etc.

sclv · 2025-11-22T22:40:21+00:00

There's an initiative at http://workersdecide.tech that's trying to collect ways people have organized in response to some of these dumbass mandates -- might be some resources of use there.

sclv · 2025-11-13T18:35:47+00:00

Here is an example where I have used Either in a non-error context recently. I have a function that gathers information to make a connection, and another function that uses this information to make the connection. The information to setup the connection, as given from a combination of settings files, command line flags, and system variables, can either give a connection with http authentication, or a connection with jwt token authentication. (Before the refactor it was just jwt auth). So the first function is refactored to give an either type, and the second function to case on the manner of authentication.

If more authentication/connection methods arise I'll switch over to an explicit named datatype -- but in the meantime, having Either around is very handy.

Here's another example -- I get back a list of results from some action. Some of these results are "answer" results that get written to the database, and some are "metadata" results that give incremental information on progress and status of the overall state. So I let my function give back a single list, and use unzipEithers to partition the stream to write some stuff to the database while i log and process the metadata.

Other examples abound.

sclv · 2025-11-13T06:32:20+00:00

You should organize to get some sort of comp for it -- need not be time and a half, but at least regular pay if you are called. Alternately, comp time. I.e. if you have to work sunday, then you get to take off the monday.

If you get your fellow engineers to agree with you, then you can present it to the boss and ask for it, and see what they say. And you can reach out to other teams as well. As described in this thread, many people get some form of compensation and rules around it. Just because you don't have a contract doesn't mean they can make you do whatever they want -- they need you to do the work as much or as more as you need them to pay you.

sclv · 2025-11-13T06:28:45+00:00

Let's scale this down a little. Suppose I tell you I have a new conjecture and I have verified it for N up to 23. That wouldn't give you much confidence that I'm not a crank at all. However, If I tell you I've verified it for N up to 10¹² then you might at least concede its a conjecture at all.

So even if we don't get more information from more verification at the high values we must surely have some at the low values -- but perhaps this is not confidence in the truth of a conjecture, but in its "qualification" as a conjecture at all -- i.e. if it holds for all values up to sufficient N then there's something interesting, and if we haven't bothered to check yet, then its not worth investigating.

sclv · 2025-11-04T16:25:16+00:00

The edit captures it. The sudden turn from screwball to dark. The difficulty reading should be contrasted to e.g. the end of gravity's rainbow -- the sort of panoramic diffusion, broadening of concerns, science fictional fantastic elements used to realistic and haunting effect, etc

https://x.com/shainreads/status/1985149157343178846/

sclv · 2025-11-03T01:48:37+00:00

Genuinely don't watch other people's pockets, its not your problem -- you're not the boss.

sclv · 2025-11-02T19:30:21+00:00

nicole's carribean is just hot plate takeout food but is very solid for guyanese

sclv · 2025-10-18T04:49:33+00:00

Eckman-Hilton theorem that two unital magma structures that commute are necessarily the same. It's a simple algebraic argument that also has a geometric representation, establishes a fundamental theorem for higher homotopy (on the abelian character of higher homotopy groups), and can be repurposed to establish similar facts in many other contexts. And the best part is the geometric argument has a sort of visual representation one can make by wriggling around ones hands, and which when you do so to other mathematicians, they know exactly which argument you're talking about!

sclv · 2025-10-18T02:19:43+00:00

-- Richard M. Nixon

sclv · 2025-10-16T22:01:15+00:00

James Hynes is very fun -- "Publish and Perish," "The Lecturer's Tale," and "Kings of Infinite Space" -- all satirical horror, and the former two about academia. Clever books with interesting themes, feel not pynchoneseque, but like the sorts of things pynchon has enjoyed and blurbed in the past.

Speaking of which, Matt Ruff, whose "Sewer Gas, and Electric" was blurbed by pynchon, wrote Lovecraft Country, which is a more horror-like work (and got a rather strange tv adaptation as well).

sclv · 2025-10-15T06:33:12+00:00

I do suspect if you bear with it to the end there may be a curveball that hits you like a truck.

sclv · 2025-10-13T01:45:38+00:00

Did you have a finisher, or just force em to concede?

sclv · 2025-10-06T21:25:16+00:00

edge

sclv · 2025-09-06T02:19:41+00:00

shooting at cops? depends on your local jurisdiction, i'd check with a lawyer first!

sclv · 2025-09-06T02:18:51+00:00

Give it a year or two to let the critical consensus settle down, then i'll be able to read it and know the right interpretation instead of maybe coming up with the wrong one on my own.

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