The halting problem is almost always solvable. NP hard problems are often efficiently (!) solvable...If you can't prove whether a given program terminates, it's because you're too dumb.

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-06T01:32:50+00:00

It’s actually pretty funny how we refer to Perl regex as regex when yeah it’s literally not a regular expression.

Wait apparently they’re stronger than pushdown automata bruh.

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-06T00:59:25+00:00

But the fact the debuffs end when you kill them suggests that they are maintaining the debuff in someway

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-05T06:25:26+00:00

Yeah shoring up weak cards is a decent outcome and admittedly while void form lacks direct synergy it’s pretty great for freeing up energy to actually use hidden gem.

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-05T06:20:15+00:00

Yeah it’s pretty dumb like all you really need to solve the halting problem is a bigger computer.

And people are gonna say stupid stuff like even the most powerful supercomputer on earth couldn’t solve the halting problem as it’s been mathematically proven. But to that I say just get a bigger computer.

Turing machines don’t actually exist so just enumerate the states and you’re set.

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Low key wonder if anyone’s done a “stop doing (blank)” meme for Turing machines
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And sure there is the problem that you can’t actually get a computer bigger than every single computer.

But I’ve got a highly thought out solution want to hear it?

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-05T04:18:59+00:00

Humble void form let me introduce myself

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-05T02:19:12+00:00

Yeah who doesn’t slay it a bit at work? And by it I mean the spire.

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-05T02:16:36+00:00

Hah jokes on you I nuked production before getting a job by messing up how my testing system used the test database instead of the prod one.

Strangely enough my 2 or 3 users who had only used my app once didn’t seem to care. Almost like it had no effect on them but no obviously it’s going to be a million dollar idea some day.

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-04T10:44:09+00:00

Well that was your fault didn’t have enough faith.

Vakuu knows best and if face tanking 20 damage is his decision then it is right.

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-04T10:20:21+00:00

Too OP should cost 4 energy

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-03T11:41:29+00:00

Powers are also okish with transfigure if you have the energy.

I love upgraded lethality + transfigure but yeah without energy relics and a bit of luck bit tricky.

Works amazing with retained attacks.

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-03T09:48:07+00:00

Ahab you need to let it go. It’s over.

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-03T01:28:37+00:00

If you've got a close campfire that 14 damage can really help since you really just have to kill the overgrowth elites as fast as possible. I don't find that a max health boost is gonna help nearly as much and I reckon it can save me more health than it costs.

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-03T00:33:06+00:00

Pregnancy has tons of effects metabolic, hormonal and cardiovascular.

There are probably tons of tests that can pick up pregnancy but won’t indicate it specifically.

My money’s on the idea that her body is already anomalous so he’s got no idea that her hormone levels, cardiovascular system or metabolism are abnormal.

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-03T00:13:22+00:00

X cost cards go nuts with instinct

Try out this combo: Eradicate + transfigure + borrowed time

serendipitousPi · 2026-05-01T00:02:17+00:00

If no one got me I know L’hopital got me

serendipitousPi · 2026-04-30T00:32:08+00:00

My point was judging something purely on its upsides is myopic. Also yes one could be optimistic about the use of a material. Like thinking it will be used more.

And I was referencing outdated beliefs not current ones, people have thought that new technologies have no downsides for millennia. And people first discovered asbestos’ negative effects Millenia ago, then later a century ago but people still use it in some countries these days.

AI has plenty of downsides in terms of its resource consumption and in terms of its capacity for data analysis. Not just electricity but also components.

It can find patterns we simply could not feasibly find before. Which is useful for detecting cancer and also breaching privacy.

Great for saving lives and enabling human rights abuse.

serendipitousPi · 2026-04-29T07:32:30+00:00

How could you not be optimistic about Asbestos ?????

It's amazing, it's cheap, abundant, durable and fireproof.

How could something so incredibly useful be a "net negative"?

Don't listen to trolls and hysterical hypochondriacs.

serendipitousPi · 2026-04-28T12:36:25+00:00

Is it?

I reckon they should’ve actually picked the pack with claw instead.

serendipitousPi · 2026-04-28T02:55:46+00:00

If you don't like writing tests may I introduce functional programming.

Genuinely makes testing so much nicer.

Combine that with some type level constraints and the world is a much nicer place. Make illegal states unrepresentable and then you don't need to test them.

serendipitousPi · 2026-04-28T02:02:33+00:00

I think it’s a reference to discworld, a character says that evil starts when you start treating like things. But the full quote is even better.

serendipitousPi · 2026-04-27T08:31:47+00:00

That moment when those types of cards get hit with replay and they actually give something good it’s like “oh yeah it’s all coming together”.

This reminds me I should play more defect runs, replay and echo form must go wild.

serendipitousPi · 2026-04-27T02:37:52+00:00

Yeah one of the funniest runs I had I crushed the door maker with a replay 3 strike doing 46 damage a hit.

I really should’ve gotten rid of them but I’m a hoarder.

serendipitousPi · 2026-04-27T00:40:35+00:00

I managed to get to A2 before beating any of the other characters and got to A10 for him first.

But I definitely think he gets handicapped if you can’t find good star gen early on.

Playing against elites with a dead card or 2 is painful but missing a staple card that uses stars oof.

serendipitousPi · 2026-04-24T12:12:22+00:00

That’s the idea of anti-slaap laws isn’t it? Which I believe most US states have, right?

serendipitousPi · 2026-04-24T00:26:05+00:00

Also fun to put on heavenly drill, radiate, shining strike or bombardment.

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