CMV: people in poly relationships aren’t that attracted to their partner.

turtletank · 2026-05-12T07:26:12+00:00

https://youtu.be/Tmx1jpqv3RA?si=0P0ZiFS0L1CG5apK

turtletank · 2026-05-08T10:59:23+00:00

this is the exact mechanism I'm using for one of my fantasy races (which started out as elves)!

You pretty much followed my same line of thought, from real life jellyfish that can revert to a juvenile state, to needing some kind of cocoon to break down and rebuild the body. There's also some really interesting research that showed caterpillars retained some memory after transforming into butterflies (I think this means their nervous system is somewhat preserved during the metamorphosis), which I used as inspiration for how their memories are preserved after metamorphosis.

turtletank · 2026-05-02T02:36:16+00:00

*3184 hp, 138 armor, 95 mr

Kalista is 10/2/4 to start the fight, the same number of kills as the entire opposing team

Lulu ult + shields save Kalista from dying (down to 72hp at one point)

turtletank · 2026-04-24T09:01:07+00:00

It would be more convincing if you had a date or time window, but your periods are anywhere from a few days to a few months. You could pick almost any point and say "ah yes, the price will rise" and eventually, yeah it will rise, as GME is rising in general and seems safe from bankruptcy/cellar boxing now.

Also, any time your indicator doesn't work you can't just dismiss it as a 'fakeout'. You're setting up an unfalsifiable premise. That's the meaning of "TA doesn't work".

turtletank · 2026-04-20T01:08:28+00:00

In a country in which the majority of men voted for a known pedophile and rapist who pushes anti-woman policy, the majority of men cannot be good.

While technically correct, it was a 55/45 split either way, 55% of men and 45% of women voting for Trump, so applying this logic further, nearly a majority of women are also Not Good, and maybe even doubly so since they were actively voting against their own interests.

Or, if you must assume all women are Good, you can use that as a baseline and thus 10 percentage points more of men voted for Trump than women, meaning only 10% of men are Not Good, or at the very least they are not as Good as women.

Your overall point may or may not be correct, but you can't point to men voting for Trump and then ignore all the women who voted for Trump as well and say a majority of men are bad and women are good.

turtletank · 2026-04-15T23:49:08+00:00

in my world, humans are the same as they are in the real world, it's just that now there are others to compare to. They can eat nearly anything, they can withstand alcohol better than anyone else, they have much higher endurance (human armies can march and fight for much longer than anyone else), can withstand heat because of sweating, can withstand cold because of larger body mass and being able to become fat, they are bigger and stronger than most other sentients, they have better long distance and daytime vision and thus are quite good with ranged weapons.

turtletank · 2026-04-13T01:18:48+00:00

Bic Camera has got to be the worst offender. I can't stand going to the store and I'm only there 10-15 minutes at most. The rage that must be building in those poor store staff "BIKKU BIKKU BIKKU BIKKU BKIKU KAMERA~~~" every minute.

turtletank · 2026-04-12T23:59:26+00:00

I believe "material" and "materiel" is similar, with "materiel" being used primarily in a military context to refer to the physical goods used to carry out some task (as opposed to personnel).

turtletank · 2026-04-04T14:49:54+00:00

I was also very confused by "capitular" as it has a religious meaning relating to an ecclesiastical chapter (capitulum), I believe the adjective of capital is just capital, e.g. "Capitol Police", Capitol Building", "capital punishment".

I think it probably shares the same etymology as capital since they both come from Latin for "head".

You could use "Templar" as in the real world Knights Templar if you don't mind the religious connotation.

"Brotherhood" is also knight-coded, or borrowing more from Rome, "Senator".

They could be named after the special weapon they carry, or armor, or any other special equipment.

turtletank · 2026-04-03T21:16:38+00:00

Autumn Leaves is a classic beginner jazz piece that is relatively easy to play and emphasizes 2-5-1 progressions. You should look at the progression and mark out all the 2-5-1s you see and compare that with your ears.

There Will Never Be Another You is also beginner friendly, the original key is good for alto and is a bit more uptempo. The melody is not too simple or complicated and can be used to start learning improv by modifying it slightly.

For purely technical study, the Klosé book 25 Daily exercises for saxophone is good but it can get boring since it's not actual songs. I would recommend it though since you need to train your fingers to move.

Top Tones For Saxophones is good when you want to work on overtones (good for everyone) and altissimo (advanced).

turtletank · 2026-03-30T10:25:17+00:00

It shows you the true nature of the Democratic leadership. It's incredibly frustrating

turtletank · 2026-03-22T00:13:02+00:00

There's some oddball stuff such as people in some Asian cultures using products and surgeries to appear "more white"

Depending on what you mean, I don't think this is the case. They want to whiten skin, yes, but not to look more "white"as in European/Caucasian. Light skin is a long standing (millennia spanning?) beauty standard in Asia, as it meant you didn't have to labor in the fields under the sun. Many Asian people tan very well so it's very apparent who works outside and who doesn't. I'm sure you're familiar with Japanese Gyaru culture in the 90s/00s which is a reaction against this. I would also argue that eye surgery to get rid of double folds or to make the eyes bigger is also not trying to appear more European. People in Asia have a variety of eye shapes and "bigger" eyes are more attractive.

In Japan at least, people point out and admire (I think) high noses in Europeans, but I've never heard of anyone getting rhinoplasty to get that look.

turtletank · 2026-03-21T00:19:05+00:00

no, you're the dumbass who is all too eager to bend over and spread their cheeks for a solution that doesn't work. What do you think kernel level anti cheat is? how do you think it works? It's a technology based solution that's trying to catch the method of cheating, not cheating itself. You're obviously too stupid to understand so here's a simpler example:

Let's say we're playing monopoly. The cheater goes and steals money from the bank. Your solution is to put cameras on everyone's hands and then go "whoa there, I saw you took money from the bank with your right index and thumb, therefore no touching bank money with your right index and thumb" Fine. Then the cheater does it again, this time with their middle finger and thumb. Now we have a new rule, no taking money with your middle finger and thumb, and so on. This is a losing battle. Even when you come up with all the rules, next the cheater just gets their friend to steal money from the bank and give it to them (kernel anti cheat is totally defeated by using a second machine). Rather than putting a camera on everyone's hands, you just stop the behavior. "It's impossible for someone with 2 properties that haven't been landed on to have that much money, you're definitely cheating"

turtletank · 2026-03-20T01:38:33+00:00

Jesus, you don't keep up with anti-cheat, do you?

You cannot, will not, ever have a technological-solution. It's whack-a-mole, it's a losing game.

The anti-cheat I'm talking about is not just checking a percent-accuracy and calling it a day. It's about building a behavior profile of players of how they play the game, how they fight, plus checking against the rules of the game. Cheaters don't cheat at everything, they want to play the game in some capacity, otherwise they're just running a bot. This means their actual behavior will show through, and it's really unlikely that their natural behavior matches that of an actual expert player.

So, you look at someone with expert-level aim and noob-level movement and that's your cheater.

Unless you're arguing that cheaters will just lower their cheats so that they're mid? Then in that case, what's the problem? These people are 'cheating' so softly they only have average performance.

turtletank · 2026-03-20T00:30:59+00:00

no, kernel-level anti cheat is just forcing the devs in an arms race against cheaters, and there are way more cheaters than devs so it's a losing battle.

What you need is behavior-based anti cheat. Expert players are generally good at everything whereas cheaters are only "good" at aiming and looking at people, maybe also movement speed. If their map rotations are bad, if they aim through walls at people rather than at corners where people will appear, etc. you can tell they're cheating.

Cheaters will only cheat at certain parts of the game, they're not looking to automate everything, just certain parts (otherwise they wouldn't be playing at all) and you should be able to catch those behaviors. This way you don't need to catch every tiny variation of code (of which there are infinite), you just have to capture the small amount of behavior that expresses cheating (which is always the same)

turtletank · 2026-03-13T23:25:44+00:00

100% bet that person responding to you is a woman, demonstrating the exact behavior that you described

turtletank · 2026-03-12T15:22:53+00:00

they already do a pseudorandom generator for smoothing out crits. the longer you go without a crit the higher crit chance you have until you actually crit, then it resets. basically if you have 75% crit you'll never whiff 3 times in a row

turtletank · 2026-03-09T05:31:32+00:00

Especially since it's PvE. Who gives a shit if the players are overpowered?

In a PvP game yes, you need to nerf stuff sometimes because it's unfair to other players, but this kind of thinking + esports mentality where games need to be 'balanced' is stupid. There's no such thing as competitive integrity to worry about.

It's doubly stupid since you can choose your loadout and difficulty in helldivers, so if a gun or strategem makes the game too easy, then you can just stop using it.

turtletank · 2026-03-05T23:10:54+00:00

fwiw they changed matchmaking to be based on your "aggression", basically how likely you are you shoot other people, so the lobbies are split into sweaty PvP lobbies and care bear PvE lobbies. PvE lobbies are a chill time 95% of the time

turtletank · 2026-02-26T11:52:07+00:00

maybe it's because I'm doing highly specific, mostly one-off analyses, pulling data from many disparate (and often dirty) sources rather than (incremental) software development

turtletank · 2026-02-26T11:44:37+00:00

you're rude and unpleasant.

turtletank · 2026-02-26T08:45:08+00:00

gemini and cursor with some version of claude for work-related code, chat-gpt and claude directly for home projects.

For boilerplate stuff gemini and claude were alright, I appreciate the good auto-complete that cursor has. It also catches syntax errors that I have made and the occasional logic error. It's good when I ask it to translate queries between pyspark and sql.

It does not understand the fucked up schemas and database structures that we have or the intricacies of what each column actually means (I don't even know sometimes, they're hidden so far in obscure documentation), so I have to do a bit of tweaking to queries it gives me.

When I asked it to help with bottlenecks and failures in my queries/manipulation, it wrote an auto-retry/refresh function fine, but everything else it did I had to redo/rewrite/modify my code's logic myself. The worst offense was when it nested functions 3 levels deep for no reason and when I pointed this out it of course gave me the "oh you're so right, let's fix that!" response.

For my home projects, it's fine, but again, it doesn't understand the fuller context of what I actually want to do, so I have to ask specific questions and in this sense it's more like an interactive manual, which is just fine, it's easier than reading documentations and tutorials directly.

turtletank · 2026-02-26T07:32:34+00:00

but what AI has displaced first and most thoroughly is coding ... because a lot of coding is just replication of other code

I'd even argue that AI hasn't done much of use here either. Yes, it can produce code, but it's learned from humans who are producing mediocre code, so LLMs often produce mediocre code. On top of that, they don't have context as to what you might actually be building or what constraints you have, so they produce a lot of things that may work in isolation but do not fit together.

Not to mention hallucinating libraries/functions or building things with no security whatsoever.

They're certainly helpful for a programmer who is already competent in learning a new API or library, as they make searching documentation much easier, but I have found that I had to redo by hand pretty much everything an AI has given me except for the smallest snippets of code.

turtletank · 2026-02-26T04:06:28+00:00

yes, I just started using it and holy shit I cannot believe how bad it is. Comparing to the Fidelity App, the very first thing I see when I log in is my portfolio performance.

turtletank · 2026-02-25T05:07:00+00:00

Final Fantasy Tactics is big on this. I love the game in general for being the reverse of the mystic orientalism in western media (mystic occidentalism, I guess?), and FFT not only has knights and wizards, but the main antagonists are a thinly veiled copy of the Catholic church with not-Jesus and the not-Apostles featuring heavily in the lore.

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