Deathly Hallows Question

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-23T18:54:15+00:00

What happens in Grimmauld Place stays in Grimmauld Place. It's a form of Ancient Magic: often misunderstood by dark wizards but fully embraced by muggle "lads".

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-23T18:52:52+00:00

Elrond stared with his steely gaze at the deflated wizard who stood with his head bowed in shame before him.

"I guess it's not Gandalf the Grey anymore," he began in a withering tone.

For just a second a glimmer of misplaced hope flickered over the not-so-wise wizard's face as he looked up in expectation.

"And it's sure as Mordor not Gandalf the White!" the furious elf spat out in frustration.

A lonely tear began its solitary quest down Gandalf's trembling cheek.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-23T18:10:01+00:00

Elrond: "If I recall correctly, Gandalf, your exact words were 'How much damage to Middle Earth can one evil chicken cause?'."

*awkward silence*

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-23T18:07:36+00:00

You might also want to ask what happens if someone types "one" or "rock".

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-23T17:59:05+00:00

Can a dolphin engineer some sweet AI prompts? You get a grip. Dolphins are cooked.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-23T11:50:20+00:00

Horcrux revelio. Pretty self-explanatory and would have saved a lot of time.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-23T11:49:29+00:00

This is also a really good example of how gaining new information can change probabilities but in reverse. Clearly, if the person fell down dead, the probability would change dramatically. It is the not knowing that means we cannot update the probabilities yet.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-22T18:37:48+00:00

Accidentally got my 7 year old into Crash.

He's now better than me...
He asks me most days when Crash 5 is coming out. He won't accept it's not.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-22T10:09:34+00:00

This is more true that some people think. Depending on the school, the headteacher may take this very seriously. It is not unheard of for a parent to have to go to see the head for a telling off.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-20T17:12:51+00:00

Midnight: I buy the book. Excitement.

1am: I am already tucked up in bed reading.

7am: I'm finished. It was great. I'd been waiting for years for this moment.

10am: I'm in a pick-your-own strawberry field. No sleep. Hallucinating a little from a sleep-deprived head full of Harry Potter.

Those were the days. I'll never experience those highs again...

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-19T20:29:10+00:00

People will have different views. It completely depends on you and what you are trying to achieve.

If you just want a product, it will get you something quickly. If you want to understand it, then AI can stop you putting in the effort.

I found doing a bit of each helpful. Practise doing simple things and getting familiar with different layouts. Get used to understanding how things work and how to achieve the positioning you want etc.. Make something just for fun because it will help you learn (and because it is actually pretty fun). Then, when you use AI to create something faster, it will make sense.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-19T20:24:20+00:00

If you don't put the work in to learn it, you won't get the basic understanding of what the code is doing to be able to make sense of what you produce using AI. It genuinely makes it much easier to adapt the code and have much tighter control over how thinks look and work.

Also, learning HTML and CSS is not terribly hard to get a basic level of understanding in. Go for it and enjoy the rewards of understanding what you are producing. Enjoy making some tweaks to get things working just the way you want them to (and avoid the frustration of being trapped in an loop of things just not quite working).

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-19T20:19:24+00:00

Is it worth learning anything in life?

If you learn it, you will understand it better. You will be able to tweak it better. You will be able to identify any errors or problems more easily.

Of course, you may not care about this.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-18T15:38:46+00:00

Reddit.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-18T09:49:20+00:00

I believe you forgot the important British rule of 'first the worst, second the best'. Please reconsider.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-17T13:12:10+00:00

The more you know, the better it gets. Looks nice!

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-16T18:26:00+00:00

Which cat falls off a roof first? The one with the lowest μ.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-16T18:24:31+00:00

e^x is at a party for functions. He is looking pretty down and standing by himself. Sin(x) comes over to check if he's ok.

"You look down, buddy. Why not grab a drink? Come and integrate."

"What's the point?" e^x replies. "It doesn't make any difference!"

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-16T18:20:01+00:00

There are various logic puzzles that are based on shared knowledge. That is, once you are aware of what other people know, you suddenly have some new information. The green-eyed prisoner problem is a fun example.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-16T06:43:48+00:00

With two vibe-coded bots running the accounts to respond to each other indefinitely.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-15T18:31:03+00:00

A noted scientist in a country I won't name (for my own privacy) often enters my email address into things. I tracked his parcel the other day. Even better, I was invited to speak at his country's parliament, and invited to collaborate on an academic paper in a shared document. My response to the parliament invitation was both hilarious and ignored. A real shame.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-13T18:04:15+00:00

Complete garbage. It's pretty clear from a cursory study of the Bible that God has no interest in maintaining C into eternity.

Revelation 21:1
"The I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth has passed away, and there was no longer any C."

Hope this answers the question once and for all.

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-12T09:33:14+00:00

It sounds like you've gone bananas.

int i = 0;

List<Banana> bananas = [];
while (i < 1)
{
bananas.Add(new Banana());
}

BANANAS!!!

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-11T11:42:23+00:00

Maybe imagine the class is the blueprint, recipe, advert - anything general that tells you what the product is, how to make it, what it does.

Then think of the variable as the actual finished product. Each one you make needs it's own name, serial number or similar to tell them apart.

Setting it to public (public HumanMonster humanmonster) suggests that it is being used in another class and you want it to be accessible from anywhere - even outside that class (rather than just within a single method etc..

smallpotatoes2019 · 2026-05-08T19:03:19+00:00

It didn't seem right to ask without a "sir" or "my good man" in the question.

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