Yeah, that's another issue. I was looking at this as "their business model is to lose money to get people hooked, but if I don't get hooked, I'm just taking money from an evil business."

But that ~$200 loss is subsidized by the people who do get hooked. The fact that they offer $200 in bonus bets means they're expecting to extract at least $200 from every person who takes the bet to break even, which is a mind-boggling amount to spend to gamble.

At least at the site I'm looking at, this doesn't seem to be the case. But yeah, "bet $1000 get $200 in bets" doesn't make it worth it to me. Especially with a sublinear cost function (i.e. $1000 is worth more than half of $2000 for me).

Yay, gambling!

Oh wow, I thought professional gamblers operated mostly in the place where skill and knowledge is useful, like poker or investing. I can't see one making a living on $200 promos.

The TOS, at least in my state, lacks an arbitration clause, which is a huge surprise.

There's something called a rainbow table which is used for hacking. The idea is to save all the password hashes you crack, to reuse later.

Luckily, Postmill salts password hashes. Even in the event of a breach, a rainbow table could not be used on them.

(That said, if your password is weak, it'll still be easy to crack)

there is a button that says "ban forever and ever from every site not just this one" and it is right next to da reply button..........

You're whitelisted :-)

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.