The hotel with infinite rooms is a thought experiment meant to show how counter-intuitive the concept of infinity is. It’s not a riddle to be solved.

That being said, the idea that an infinite number of guests must be leaving the hotel at any point in time in certainly insightful and creative.

This is crazy. I wonder if I could then install waydroid, then Linux in that, then waydroid again…

If you wanna go real crazy, take a look at these:

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

They have integrated hardware, so they are great for all sorts of electronics projects. A bit more towards electrical engineering than raspberry pi though.

i run a SWADE game, and the book indexes are great. Nothing online, but various VTT systems can be used as a database if you buy the content.

The SWADE rules are considerably simpler than D&D, and they have optional rules that you can mix-and-match to fit the mechanics better to your setting. For example, expanded fear and insanity rules for horror campaigns, or armor ranks for a sci-fi settings with mechs and spaceships, etc. It’s especially fast in the combat department, I recently had a boss fight that lasted 2 rounds (took about 20 min IRL) because two players rolled well.

Cypher is great too, perhaps even better, but Cypher really requires an experienced GM. The rules are so general that you as the GM really need to decide for each roll what the modifiers should be, there’s guidance but no specific systems for grappling, chases, overland travel, searching, nothing. So it can be really good and fluid and creative if you can pull it off as a GM (and the GM never rolls anything, giving you more time & energy to focus on your GM role), but an inexperienced GM will suffer.

Also consider games powered by the following system:

<edit> Ah I see you have it in the list, I’m referring to PbtA.

They are VERY rules-light, very roleplay-heavy, but fun. I’ve been a player in a *Monster of the Week" game for years, and it has been a blast.

You can pretty easily use the SWADE rules + the sci-fi companion to to a solar punk game. I’m running a western / sci-fi mashup right now and loving it.

The last parsec is a setting for SWADE with campaigns etc.

I’ve also looked around for sci-fi campaigns, so here are some systems that I’ve heard about but never tried myself:

Traveler Orbital Blues

And of course starfinder, from Paizo. Pathfinder 2e is imho the best ttrpg rules system out there, and starfinder 2e is pretty new, with some adventure paths already published.

Huh?

I swear by this book. I have MS, and the muscle tension that sometimes come with it, and the self-massage techniques in this book keep me functioning and sane.

https://triggerpointbook.com/

A consistent yoga practice helps too, but you should always learn from someone who is actually qualified, you can really hurt yourself doing yoga if you don’t know what you are doing.

That’s a good point, habit is a powerful thing, and so is generational experience.

I like my BT headphones for doing things like vacuuming around the house. There are definitely advantages to wireless. But when I’m on the PC I’m happy to just plug in and forget.

Indeed. I don’t get it.

I prefer an aux cable headset. No charging, no connection issues, and the quality is always 100%. You will also never have compatibility issues.

Might not be for you, but just a thought.

Well, that’s not the shitty part. I’m not saying that this is going to replace how we use the internet, but the idea behind it is intriguing.

First off, you are not pathetic, the world is depressing. And just having the intent to do this is a great start. Be kind to yourself, no one else can do that for you.

The first thing to do is forget all of those grand ideas about having a giant garden with all sorts of produce. Even if that is your end goal, don’t think about that! It will only demotivate you, because it seems so far away from where you are now.

The second thing to do is go to your local library and get some books about gardening. The simpler the better, is they have gardening books for kids then start with those.

Read those books. Take some easy examples, like herbs, lettuce, or garlic. Start small, and don’t overdo yourself. Try to enjoy what you are doing, and stay with the present task. Don’t push yourself immediately to do more.

Let that enjoyment be your guide. If you can focus on feeling good about what you are doing, then the rest will come without effort.

It is indeed a cooling mechanism. Most people don’t think about it much, but we humans are expectationally good at shedding excess heat through sweat. Other species don’t have such heat dissipation, and Hebe to do whatever they can to get a not of cooling.

I don’t agree with the assumption that any of the LLMs are super intelligent. They aren’t even close to actual human intelligence, and most real-world experience has shown that they are best used as a tool, like a graphing calculator.

We are also a long way off from a fully automated industry. The energy required for a fully staffed AI workforce is staggering, the current usage of AI isn’t even sustainable, let alone powering millions of physical bots plus the AI needed for piloting them.

Nice

I found a new entry for the bucket list: ass plasma!

This is a great article!

Yeah, I agree it’s not ideal. But under capitalism I think Gabe is about the best we could hope for.

Maybe he will find a worthy hier, or perhaps everything will go to shit. We will see.

This is propoganda. Valve is a privately-owned company, and therefore not a lackey of the olgiarcs, that’s why they are being attacked. Valve is good at business and listens to it’s customers, and Microsoft can go fuck itself sideways.

Valve’s policy is not anti-competitive. If you want to offer your game somewhere other than steam for whatever price you like, you are free to do so. If you use the steam platform to offer the game, then Steam requires you to not offer it for a lower price elsewhere AT THE SAME TIME.

That is not a monopoly, that is a clause of business contract. If a company doesn’t want to do business with valve, then they don’t have to. The 30% fee is large, but the value that comes with is massive.

Capitalism