I believe that Valve can afford to sell hardware at cost or even a little in the red. Getting people in the steam store ecosystem makes it back and then some in the long term.

The GabeCube looks awesome! The GabeGoggles probably aren’t riddled with spyware. The controller fucks so hard it could be an aphrodisiac. Massive win for valve today.

All sufficiently advanced techniques and technologies appear to be impossible magics to the unlearned.

Same story here. My first Space Age run went to Gelba, I didn’t like it very much and lost interest probably half way through. Glad I asked for recommendations this run. Volcanus is actually an interesting start with a big payoff.

Sorry to hear that, did you ever manage to get the rocket to space?

It depends on how you play I guess. I’m constantly running on foot short distances where it doesnt make sense to look for a car. Lots of doubling over your factory running spaghetti lines and expanding out existing sites a few tiles at a time.

Late game you can hangout in the map and place things remotely but thats not how it usually is for me. Also keep in mind a game can last many dozens of hours so all speed boost add up over time. I believe concrete also synergizes with the exoskeleton legs and vehicles.

So moderate convinence and aesthetics I guess. A little speed goes a long way. However its too much of a chore to place it by hand any meaningful area needing to be filled is thousands of tiles usually. So its best to wait until you can have the robots do it for you.

I had no idea how to have acceptable dialoge with this person anymore

Thats because you donta person says something irrevokably cruel and personally insulting you don’t attempt to have acceptable dialogue. They’ve chosen bad blood and war by attempting to step on your self worth. Attempting to sweep under the rug with forgive and forget merely breeds further open contempt.

Stepparents , real parents, friends or even your husband themselves, you don’t take that bullshit from anyone.

Dont try to be civil or win her over. Understand its very likely she will dislike you and attempt to do the girl psychological warfare bs plays with you like saying your tits are small not because of anything you personally did but what you represent in her mind. You aren’t a full person character to them, your a shadowy outline for them to try and fail to box into their little reference frame. A side character in their little life d4ama to project impossible expectations and personal problems onto.

If it were me I would have gotten petty and reflective with the insults and called her a cunt ass bitch with dried up milkers and asked her how she was enjoying menopause. My parents are always telling me I need to remain civil and maintain relationships with extended family for whatever reason. I’m always telling them that a majority of people are self absorbed unabstracting parasytes that havent earned my tender consideration. A majority of primates only respect/respond to dominance and social power.

Step up and put people in their place. Tell them brutal truth and rip their pathetic monkey egos to shreds. Identify their traumas and failures and weaponixe that shit if needed in retaliation… Fuck the stupid talking apes and their social warfare games, tell them how it is and maintain gleeful indifference as they howl about how calling them out hurts their feelings

I wrote up a whole few paragraphs and decided most people wouldnt be interested in the nerd stuff, woops. The short of it is that this circle diagram plots points based on fractions that get converted to rotation angle degrees (a faery diagram). What were doing is similarly to things like newtons method, plotting the iterative steps to convergence given a starting value, and comparing the iterative steps as a way to track evolution of the iteration. The way I have it set up is that each level is a plotting of a part of the continuous fraction that eventually builds to the true irrational. Every time chart color dots change is new level of the rational approximation.

Every computable real number has a unique fingerprint in the form of these spiralgraph type patterns and reading these patterns tells you something about them, in particular how hard they are to approximate to an arbitrary precision range.

Rational numbers/degrees will create simple closed periodic loops tracing geometric shapes.

Irrational numbers resist making these kinds of stable periodic orbits due to not being clean ratio fractions. By definition they cant be represented cleanly a/b .This is a gradient though because of something called continued fractional representation. Essentially while you cant represent an irrational exactly, you can find very good rational approximations that get exceptionally close to the real irrational while still remaining finitely bounded and compuable though there will always be error bounds.

Continued fractions are the algorithm that allow you to find these close-approxiations at ever increasing precision. An interesting thing is that some irrationals only need a few steps of continued fractions to reach an incredibly good approximation and some resist approximation much more. So irrationals can be catagorized by which ones quickly 'converge; to a precise approximate ratio and which ones ‘resist’ convergence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction

This is the continued expansion fraction for pi. Each level in the diagram is a cutoff of that fraction structure building up to the real value. Notice that 292? That indicates a point where PI is EXCEPTIONALLY well approximated by the ratio, in this case I think its 103993/33102 any further computational effort spent at precision would be a waste.

Fractional ratio series for pi: [(3, 1), (22, 7), (333, 106), (355, 113), (103993, 33102), (104348, 33215), (208341, 66317), (312689, 99532)]…

You can see Irrationals that quickly converge to quasi-periodic orbits meaning that they approach an approximate ratio very quickly include louiville numbers and PI. Notice how they quckly converge into clumping and plotting over the same points. This is the definition of periodicity. They never quite hit the same point but its very very arbitrarily close. Pi is an example of that.

Another:

These have a distinct skinny torus wireframe shape that hugs the interior of the circle.

Meanwhile, most irrationals resist approximation much more. However after enough continued fractions assuming large enough computational resources available and microstates to search through you will find a decent rational approximation.

The golden ratio represents a very unique irrational. It is the one that resist approximation the most. It is maximally aperiodic, the most resistant possible angle value to converging on a good approximate ratio. Each step of the continued fraction is 1,1,1,1,1,.

Structural encoding wise the convergent rationals of phi (fibbonacci numbers) provides exactly the bare minimum amount of information possible to make a meaningful step towards convergence but no more. It maintains the maximal microstate entropy per informational step of computational precision gained. Theres some other interesting properties too im in the middle of formalizing.

As such, points plotted using the golden angle will essentially never overlap. They cover the circle uniformally, randomly, and close the gaps on average the most efficently. The values in the top left diagram like gap width calculate exactly how clumped the points or how uniformily they spread across the circle.

Notice though, that there are still structural patterns formed in the lines that phi traces.

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I’m wondering if these line patterns encode the angles of a pentagon much the same way that show up in the morie pattern of penrose tilings.

IMO 4k resolution is overkill its way past the optimal between file storage and visual fidelity. Nobody has ever complained about the visual quality of my 720p or 1080p sourced stuff much in the same way most sane people wont notice the difference between FLAC and mp3 on average listening. Bhack in my day we were lucky to get 480p on a square box tv.

Less danger than OPsec nerds hype up but enough of a concern you want at least a reverse proxy. The new FOSS replacement for cloudflare on the block is Anubis https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis, while Im not the biggest fan of seeing chibi anime funkopop girl thing wag its finger at me for a second or two as it test connection, I cannot deny the results seem effective enough that all the cool kids on the FOSS circle all are switching to it over cloudflare.

I just learned how to get my first website and domain and stuff setup locally this summer so theres some network admin stuff im still figuring out. I don’t have any complex scripting or php or whatever so all the bots that try scanning for admin pages are never going to hit anything it just pollutes the logs. People are all nuts about scraping bots in current year but when I was a kid allowing your sites to be indexed and crawled was what let people discover it through engines, I don’t care if botnets scan through my permissively licensed public writing.

Similar story here! A couple years ago learning about Gemini/gopher/smallnet from mentaloutlaw videos. So I joined a public access Unix server (first SDF later tilde.team) and learned how to write my own capsule site for a few years. Learned some basic .CGI bin and awk processing to create a gemtext to epub converter that made small ebooks of daily post in atom feed. It was like training wheels really helped prepare me for the transition to full self hosting capsule and website

Thanks for sharing! It was a good read. They have good points for security and clarity revisions.

A lot of Gemini spec choices were made to dissuade feature creep. Youre probably never going to do banking through Gemini but its also pretty much gaurenteed you’ll never need adblock either.

Gemini is appealing from the perspective of novice self hosters. Its simple enough that most people can set up a simple server and publish on their site within a few hours. Its minimality enforces maximizing the most reading content for least bits used. 95% of modern webpages isnt even for reading or reference its all back end trackers and scripts and fancy CSS. Newswaffle shows just how bad it is.

When I read through a gemtext capsule I get the impression I’m looking at something that was distilled into its most essential. No popups no adds no inline images or tracking scripts or complex page layouts. My computer connects to the server, I get back a page of text or an image of a zip file. Once and done.

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