657700+ entries in 0.461s
midnightmagic: IMO, in a brand-new field,
those singular
talents can exist. Once
the primary breakthroughs are finished, it requires
teams and long-term hard work
to push it forward. IMHO anyway. me != physicist.
DreadKnight: einstein might have been fake, his wife might have been
the smart one
DreadKnight: asciilifeform,
things are getting more and more complex now, it
takes more work and
time
midnightmagic: "no new more fundamental particles as of X
TeV in
the LHC"
midnightmagic: the physics is not 1940s or prior. i have a friend whose PhD was literally pushing
the boundaries of particle physics using results obtained from LHC
DreadKnight: theoretical physics might seem
to have no application atm, but
that's
the whole point, debating and eventually (hopefully) allowing
to grasp more complex concepts and allow for further
technological improvements, like being able
to go
through worm holes and such
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, 1940s is 20th century anyway, and sure, engineers
take 50 years or so
to apply fundamental physics
mircea_popescu: well if you go at it
that way
then everything's ancient greek atomism.
mircea_popescu: obviously a large number of people who like
to identify as physicists are in
the situation of people who like
to identify as rockstars.
DreadKnight: bitcoin is
theoretically an energy allowing
to polymorph sheeps into cars and so on,
to facilitate exchanges and needs
mircea_popescu: nobody's arguing
there's a large number of would-be followers in any race, who
to
the acute observer look more like
they're going
through
the motions
mircea_popescu: so
then ? you dispute it actually works as described ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know
these impostors knew exactly how
to build a cern and did.
DreadKnight: Newton's falling apple was likely just a nice story
to make people visualize
things :P
mircea_popescu: so let's
take
the baby home : real programmers
think in
terms of functions and macros,
mircea_popescu: i suspek you're just
trying an underhanded approach
to introduce
the supremacy of engineers over
theoretical physicitsts :D
DreadKnight: otherwise he'll have a hard
time explaining
things
to people
mircea_popescu: or else with
the graph of
that concept and its relations.
mircea_popescu: but any philosopher worth his salt will interact not with a "concept" but with either
the graph of
that concept's history in
the mind of man,
mircea_popescu: and i'll venture
to say
that pretty much all
the good philosophers similarly don't
think in "concepts", whatever
that is, but in a sort of equivalent of
the wavefununction, except it has
two major irreducible statements. one's systematic
the other historical.
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, "objects" ? what is
this, naive physicalism cca 1880 ?
mircea_popescu: and physicists don't
think in "objects", what an ignorant
thing
to say
DreadKnight: "rich" seems
to be more of a state of mind; kinda like you're saying on your blog "pay up or
this could wither and die" on your blog mircea_popescu, even
though
that's not
the case, but I like
the lesson you're
teaching
DreadKnight: some people would get poor in no
time anyway, as
they originally were
DreadKnight: HeySteve, squishy units
that either do a lot of damage or are meant for support and really
tanky units
that are meant
to protect others and
take damage
DreadKnight: HeySteve, so basically you have
the whole moba
type of game
team under your own management instead of having
to rely on random idiots and hope
they're doing
the right
thing;
kakobrekla: dont change
the car when it only needs gas.
DreadKnight: HeySteve, keep in mind higher level units cost way more,
there's a cost formula
DreadKnight: HeySteve,
there's setting for limiting number of units;
they're pretty big compared
to HoMM games anyway; combat field gets more crowded easier, especially in 2vs2
chetty: persons is often, detectably,
the waiter.(Taleb)
chetty: V 44.
The alpha person at a gathering of "high status"
HeySteve: yeah I didn't get
that from
testing it
HeySteve: DreadKnight, wasn't aware of
that
tradeoff, makes sense.
that's
the kind of mechanic I was suggesting, like you could use a lot of powerful unit abilities or summon a lot of creatures, but not both as a strategy
DreadKnight: HeySteve, hopefully
that makes sense
to you; will show you wip document design next week, hopefully you'll have more questions about
things not clear enough
fluffypony: you're in assbot's L2
trust, DreadKnight
DreadKnight: HeySteve, well, no mana as
there is no magic;
there's plasma
to protect Dark Priest (summoner) and also make units (so more / better units = less protection, it's a
tradeoff); each unit has it's own energy stat, abilities require energy,
there's also meditation
to replenish
that, but if an unit gets damaged in a round above a
treshold (more
than endurance stat),
then
the unit gets no regen it's next
turn (regrowth for health and m
the20year1: because I
tried it via pigin IRC and IRCCloud and neither worked
HeySteve: the20year1 I didn't, it just went away
today. yesterday I could auth with alt gribble. didn't
try restarting browser
to wipe any saved data
tho
HeySteve: hey DreadKnight. I had a
thought about
the game, would giving
the creatures and "summoner" a single manapool work?
nagzter: The robot is a blender model, but
the rest is mine
the20year1: and
that's where I was getting
that error (the you must be voiced
to do
this command) or whatever
HeySteve: the20year1, had
the same problem yesterday
DreadKnight: nagzter, definitely go for it with your husband for
the other coin if you haven't picked a name xD
DreadKnight: seems
that
the original guy who
tried failed
mircea_popescu: can you get it
to respond
to any other command in pm ?
mircea_popescu: the20year1
that's so bizarre
tho, you must be doing something out
there. it literally is just pm assbot.
nagzter: I did custom icons for
the wallets and designed
the site
DreadKnight: in dogecoin channel people got hyped about "bacoin" recently and wanted
to make it only
to find out someone
tried
that almost an year ago xD
nagzter: (and
the slick graphics ahem)
nagzter: People do seem
to like
the silly name
the20year1: Well,
that was
the original problem, nanotube helped me get past
that ,
the problem now lies with /query (pm)
to assbot
to self-up
DreadKnight: nagzter, would be funny if
the joke coin would
take off and not
the "real" one,
twitter scenario
mircea_popescu: from what i gather, your problem was
that you were using an old, cached and
therefore expred otp ?
the20year1: but
this whole gpg
thing is still frusterating me
assbot: I’ll pay for your
tits pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
nagzter: he's working on a "real" coin and needed
the practice
nagzter: I haven't played yet (I do loved
turn based games!)