I mean, I think that's the idea right? First step is you put in a tiny fee, you see a big $200 number, and then you're hooked.

By "nonlinear cost function", I mean scenarios where the dollars gained are worth more than those lost, or scenarios with quantifiable factors other than dollars gained and lost.

I've gambled four times in my life under a nonlinear cost function:

• Need 4 Pee: Bladder 'bout to blast, I hid myself away into a Boston Bodega, begging for the bathroom. "For customers only," said the sign, and the cheapest product was a $2 scratch off. I paid, peed, and knew my winnings: One trip to the bathroom. This was nonlinear because I was going to pee.

• Not going to finish that? Years ago, I went to a casino with a friend, and having had never used the machines before, I wanted to try them out. I had $40. The experience was underwhelming, but someone had left cash in the machine and I win on my first bet. I ended up coming out with $100. This was nonlinear because (1) I was paying for the novel experience, and (2) I ended up getting free money.

• Orange lining: This most recent election, I put some money on Trump. The thinking was this would hedge against layoffs a bit, and give me something to look forward to even in the worst case. I didn't put in a lot, maybe I should have? This was nonlinear because I expected dollars to be worth less if Trump won, and also for emotional reasons.

• The 401K account counts too: Putting money into investment account is also gambling. But that employer match and tax incentive makes it nonlinear, even if you believe the economy is just a bubble.

Whoops, thank you! Fixed :)

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The aforementioned admin ramble: June of last year, I was made Official System Administrator of Just Post, but my admin boolean was set false in the database. I would turn it on occasionally to crouton a spam post here or there. But I had it set false most of the time, because I felt weird having all these admin controls throughout the user interface. It felt like having a nuke button next to my "post" button. But I'm done with feeling weird about that and I am now just keeping the admin bool set to true. In retrospect, that's also the more transparent thing to do, since I think it shows up on my profile. And in practice, there's no real difference anyways

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350417724001330 stupid science bastards stole my research

Hey, I know you might not see this, but I really hope you're still around somewhere in the world.

But they have the following excellent games:

• Chrome Dino Game -- Light Version
• Chrome Dino Game -- Night Version
• Color Running Dinosaur
• Running Mario Game Online
• Mario
• Batman vs Joker Game Online
• Batman
• Joker vs city
• Joker
• Chrome Dino Game -- Wednesday Addams Game
• Wednesday
• Chrome Dino Game -- Godzilla Runner Game
• Godzilla
• Squid Game Runner
• Squid Game
• Running Mario Game Online
• Halloween
• Batman vs Joker Game Online
• Santa
• Naruto
• Dino 3D
• Minion
• Warrior

Don't you want to "<redacted>: Bringing Gotham's Infamous Joker to the Classic Dino Game"? It's a reskin of the dino game, but with shitty Joker sprites and all the sound effects are Joker laughing.

It's actually kind of endearing. The pixel art looks handmade, even if the web host didn't make it, and it's all so bad it looks like they really struggled to put this together. The Dino 3D one is the only one that isn't a reskin-- it's a totally different stolen game.

There's an admin page at <redacted>admin/login.aspx

Unfortunately, I also use my GPUs for machine learning (not gen ai! i simply specced too much time into software which only runs on CUDA) and blender (which prefers nvidia). I posted in games but I'm a poser of a poster

Unfortunately, I also use my GPUs for machine learning (not gen ai! i simply specced too much time into software which only runs on CUDA) and blender (which prefers nvidia). I posted in games but I'm a poser of a poster

Woah.
I can't believe I'm learning something new about Markdown after all these years.

thank u

This is one I'm happy to help with :D

It started way before GPUs were ever made. Reproductions of 'master works' were used by students of art.

Caballero Chubin (yes, that was her name) was one of the first to comodify this, way before the printing press. She would cut the master work into square sections, each to be reproduced independently by students, to then be stitched together and resold as a replication.

Notably, Chubin's Grid it was not a simple grid, but rather, semantic "sections". E.g. She would make sure there was no boundary over Mona Lisa's face, and have the same artist depict the whole section.

Chubin maintained an index of who worked on which section.

Cutting into sections enabled rapid production of a single reproduction, but also allowed reproductions of part of a whole work (say, of only Lubbert Das's gaunt visage) to be made and sold.

This same concept was applied to early computer graphics. Tiling is used by modern renderers, but the Chubris matrix (a portmanteau of Chubin and a developer known only as "Vris") intelligently used larger tiles for less-complicated and less-important scenes.

The "Chubris matrix" is not the grid itself, but rather, an optimal way to define and index sections of the grid. (This was when every byte mattered, remember).

The indexing was used as the inspiration for foveated rendering for VR, but also as the inspiration for PNG's compression algorithm, and more.

TLDR: It defines a non-uniform grid which is very useful for rendering.

I saw an AI generated advertisement for adult diapers and I thought it was created by an enthusiast of the diapers. It seemed oddly endearing, but I didn't understand why he was posting it in the "Aged Urine Therapy" group I'm in.

But it turns out it was created by the person who manufactures them at home and sells them exclusively on Amazon dot com.

This group isn't funny like I thought it would be, it's actually quite sad. The people drinking their urine are people who are far down a path of desperation.

So I also feel like Dr. Manhattan sometimes

The Sonic the Hedgehog who lives in my head said this in Sonic the Hedgehog's voice. I'd like to present that exchange to you:

SONIC: It's Transgender Thursday babyyyyyyy!

TAILS: But I'm not trans, I think-

SONIC: Happy Transgender Thursday!

This might be true if you like pineapple on your pizza

Therapy went from $20 to $100 because of insurance shenanigans. Had to cancel. It wasn't doing anything for me, but I wish I didn't find out by being billed for two sessions at $200 total.

Yes!! I asked this at a company town hall.

"Does it impact us in any way that Doggy has taken over the United States Digital Service?"

I think it shows your name and profile picture, but not your phone number. Importantly, it requires you add someone, or willingly join a group.

I think if they have your phone number in their contacts, Signal will add that to the Signal contact, and so someone can find your phone number by adding every phone number to their contacts. But I'm not certain about that.

More: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007459591-Signal-Profiles-and-Message-Requests

Hands too small to hold a phone comfortably

Hands too big to use a pop socket

Hands just right for when I accidentally broke the pop socket, turning the thing into a small knob that makes my phone easier to hold

The reprieve of my life is the fact that you can make this post by employing an arcane series of hand gestures to communicate using magical devices created through the collective efforts of billions of efforts of human activity

Good post, I appreciated it just as you appreciated your light bulbs

It's all so fucking absurd!

Please imagine a version of yourself from 2015. You're chatting with them.

Were they on Reddit? What did they think of Bitcoin? What about the shiba inu memes? "Wow, such post"? Were they aware of Elon Musk? Did they think he was the cool space billionaire? Did they think Trump's presidential run was just so funny?

Now please imagine telling them "Under Elon Musk plays a Himmler to President Trump's Hitler as he leads a hostile takeover of the entire United States federal government under the new DOGE agency."

Can someone please clown with me? This is so absurd. This is all so absurd. I fantasize about finding out this is all a wild fever dream.

President Trump was a clown. Elon Musk was a stupid Redditor idol. Doge was a tired meme about a cute dog. Hillary Clinton was going to be President.

the biden abdication

I appreciate it! This is Very Scary Times

YAYYYYY

I'm not going to be ashamed of missing Obama! I miss Obama!

Okay, I will be a little ashamed. He was also a war criminal.

"I got selected for President Trump's draft to annex Canada" would sound like laughably bad satire in 2014. "Things don't get that silly that fast," someone would say.

A friend of mine reached out after making the heartbreaking decision to send their documents in to get their passport renewed back to their birth sex. I had to break the news that they probably won't get their documents back for awhile. They're having a panic attack at that information. I think it was right for me to give the information, but, fuck.

I feel like I'm wasting my time doing things on the local network.

I remember reading Among the Hidden, a young adult dystopian thriller, and it was actually quite good. Youths stage a protest on the white house over IRC, and I thought, "But they can see the IP addresses of the kids using IRC." And in the end, they kill all the kids at the protest. Gripping story.

Hey, Joe Biden! Your presidency would have been historic, and regarded among Jimmy Carter, if you didn't wait until 2023 to prosecute Trump.

USD might crash, I'm seriously considering buying Bitcoin, can someone talk me off that ledge? How much of all my money should I turn to Bitcoin?

Thinking about the 55 year old Bitcoin bro who hit on his niece at the family gathering in front of everyone, including his own wife and children. He then asked me about artificial intelligence (which I'm an expert in, ugh). He and his wife were both very drunk when they drove their huge black truck home.

I wonder how long until the N-word is in common use again by politicians. The "you can't say this word" argument is a pretty complicated and abstract one, that also requires you already believe racism is a thing that exists and is bad.

Recently had a Jewish friend who did not know who Netanyahu or the ADL were. Recently had a 28 year old friend who did not know that SCOTUS rulings apply nationally. Recently had someone argue that "99% Hitler vs 100% Hitler" is actual numeric fact and not a silly exaggeration to drive a point. I am finding it increasingly hard to talk to the people on "our" side, because, fuck, come on, what. We still need to think even if the MAGAs aren't

The next DOOM is coming out in May, but I need a new computer, and tarriffs- oh nooooo

Doom with me in the Doom thrread