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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Worth calling out here is the opponent can still sneak/ninjutsu in response if they have another card that can in hand. If you suspect that the opponent plays more than one card with sneak/ninjutsu and has untapped mana, you might want to consider that possibility before targeting the creature.

    As an example:

    • Opponent declares some creature as an attacker.
    • You declare no blockers.
    • Opponent casts Michelangelo, returning the attacker to hand, and it resolves.
    • You target it with Maze of Ith to remove it from combat. The ability is on the stack, but not yet resolved.
    • Opponent casts Donatello, Gadget Master for his sneak cost, returning Michangelo to hand. It resolves.
    • Maze of Ith’s target is invalid. The ability does nothing.
    • Your opponent passes priority, then you pass priority. In the damage step, Donatello deals combat damage to you and triggers.

    Basically, during the declare blockers step, sneak/ninjutsu lets you juggle creatures around at instant speed as long as you have the mana.








  • The entropy stems from the words, not characters. With random words and no repetition, you have C(n, k) combinations P(n, k) permutations (or n^k with repetition), where n is your dictionary size and k is the number of words you chain together. These passwords tend to be longer, but not by much. A big enough dictionary can yield some pretty high entropy with only a few words.

    I’ve had passwords as limiting as 16 characters for some services (unfortunately)…

    16 characters is hardly enough for random characters unless you include Unicode (which rarely works for those same services that usually have shitty implementations).

    Not much can be done there, sadly. You’re lucky if they even hash their passwords anyway - you’ll probably just get your password emailed to you if you click “forgot password” like it’s 2003.

    I would never, ever want my users relying on their brain…

    I never would either. People should just use a password manager. I was just mentioning an alternative that generated more memorable passphrases, but I wouldn’t advocate for it over random high-entropy strings saved in a password manager.





  • The README lists the VRAM requirements for their different models if you plan to run with a GPU. Without a GPU, you can translate those roughly to system RAM.

    Note that ML models pretty much always runs faster on a GPU due to the kinds of operations needed to execute them. If you have the option to run on a GPU, you probably should just do that. Even their largest model only requires ~10GB VRAM based on their table, and if you only need English, you can use a smaller one specialized for English (like medium.en).


  • I’m not sure where you live, but here in the US, bats tend to be one of the biggest carriers of rabies alongside various animals that depend on the state. You can actually look up which animals are the primary carriers within a state (if you’re here). Outside of the US, naturally it varies from country to country, but you’d still be looking at bats, plus potentially stray dogs and such. It’ll take some effort, but you should eventually be able to find a carrier.


    I would expect with the nondeterminism and the regular evolution of search results that reproducing the output would be difficult even if DDG didn’t make a patch already. It’s really easy to get these “AI overviews” to make up random shit, though. All you have to do is search normally about a topic that the model wasn’t trained on, and there’s a good chance it’s making shit up, even if only in part of the answer.





  • Not financial advice of course, but I don’t know anyone who has wanted to touch the bubble at all in the past year or so. I also don’t know anyone who could invest billions into the industry either, so maybe it’s just a matter of greed clouding judgement here (“maybe” is pulling a lot of weight because we all know the reason is greed).

    The whole thing reeks of crypto scams, just on a higher scale. With companies investing in each other circularly to pump their valuations, we’re just waiting to see who tries to cash out first.