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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • People are bad at estimating how long it will take to develop something, but everything I’ve seen indicates that we are getting closer to it being a real thing.

    Though I’m skeptical about the safety, as it does sound like it could get pretty explody if the containment fields fail. Or if they fail in just one direction, I wonder if they’d shoot out a plasma jet that fucks up everything in its path.

    Even the sun shoots shit at us from time to time, which our own magnetic field generally protects us from.

    Not that I’m against fusion power, just not holding my breath that it’s going to be all sunshine and no flares.


  • Yeah, I don’t get how people can think like this but not want nukes to take out everything. Like you’re living this shit, too, if you are willing to keep living this shit, why do you assume it’s a bad thing for anyone to bring someone else into it? Anti-natalism is pro-extinction from my pov.

    Not that I have an issue with people taking themselves out of the gene pool or anything, I just find the position wildly inconsistent with anyone who wants to continue living themselves.

    And to be clear, I mean specifically the “if you choose to have a kid, you are bad” position, I can understand “having kids is not for me, I don’t want to do parenting”.


  • Back in the day, DRM was handled like this. I had an indy 500 game where the manual contained a bunch of hiatory of the sport and in order to launch the game, you had to answer indy 500 history trivia questions.

    Other games had a symbol alphabet (or some other mapping between images and information it could put on the screen) where the key was only contained in the manual (or on a piece of paper that came with the game).

    King’s Quest VI had riddles that needed to be answered in a symbol alphabet. You could play the game without doing this but you couldn’t beat it.

    A mickey mouse game had a paper that was dark brown with black ink (so photocopiers would fail to copy it) with Mickey in various poses and you had to find the number for the one shown on screen to play.



  • The sun is so bright that even when a sliver of it is still showing, it’s blinding. So a partial eclipse, even at 99%, just looks like the sun only a crescent instead of a circle. Oh and the shadows can look funny and you might notice it’s a bit darker.

    Then you get to totality and it is something new. It gets noticeably darker, first of all, but in a different way than normal. Not like a storm or night, it’s eerie and hard to explain.

    But you can also look at the sun without protection. And you don’t see any of the main disc itself but you get a clear sight of what’s around it: the waves of plasma coming off of the sun, moving while you watch.

    After seeing totality, partial eclipses are now meh. In fact, once totality ended, there was still like an hour of partial eclipse left, but I didn’t care, it was time to drive home. I won’t even bother looking at future partial eclipses at home in the future, but I might fly out to a future total one. Seeing one made me understand how people who knew about them back in the day could use that to control those who didn’t. It feels profound.



  • That’s not quite accurate because the two numbers have a relationship with each other. i^2 = - 1, so any time you square a complex number or multiply two complex numbers, some of the value jumps from one dimension to the other.

    It’s like a vector, where sure, certain operations can be treated as if the dimensions of the vector are distinct, like a translation or scale. But other operations can have one dimension affecting the other, like rotation.






  • I think Reji is cooking something worthwhile

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    (like I think the MC being undatable is the point of the series because who can blame anyone for being hesitant to date someone who freaks out any time they look or speak with them or who constantly just tries to be what he thinks she wants rather than taking his own initiative?),

    but he just drags it out so much. Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking based on fan theories I’ve read on reddit, since some of them are pretty good and might end up better than what Reji has in mind. Like he’s deliberately dragging out the chapters, there’s no doubt about that, but it’s hard to say if that’s also the point of the plot or if he’s just stretching out a good idea as much as possible.

    I actually caught up on the infamous chapter 380, waited one week for 381, then decided I’m not doing this every week and put it on hold on comick.io with the intent of coming back in a year or so maybe to catch up on what happens in the next week or so after 381 lol.

    The artwork is top tier so at least it’s nice to look at, even if Kazuya’s monologues are frustrating af to watch. Just take a deep breath and chill out dude (directed at Kazu, not you lol).