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  • Reign of Kings, a medieval online PvE survival game had a bug where the 360 rotation camera could be used in 3rd person mode to look inside of walls of other players. You could even access their chests if they built them against the wall (which they all did).

    This meant that you could loot everyone’s bases without even breaking in. The game went through several major updates with this bug still in place. My brother and I used it extensively.

    One day there is a major update and the release notes mention about how they have now finally fixed the β€œglitch where players items disappear from chests when placed near walls”.

    Real G’s move in silence like lasagna.

  • The most efficient base for a number system is e.

    We use base 10 with 0-9 digits and each position is a ten's place, and the efficiency being measured is the product of the number of digits and the length of digits needed to represent a number in a given range of values. So if we used base 2 binary instead of base 10 decimal we only need to remember 2 digits 0-1, but to represent most numbers we'll need more digits, 11 in base 10 is 1011 in base 2. On the other side we could use hexadecimal to write shorter numbers like 11 is B, but need to use more digits, 0-F digits where A-F are the 10-15 digits.

    If you try to plot a function that minimizes the efficiency the minimum is at e. So you'd have digits 0-2 and e would be written as 10 since each position is an e's place.

  • All contradiction is reconciled above the abyss, hence why spiritual visions can sometimes appear horrible at face value.

    Wait, what kind of esoteric did you mean?

  • There is only one model structure that can be put on the category of small categories for which the weak equivalences coincide with honest equivalences of categories. It's called the Joyal-Tierney model structure. You can define the suspension of an object in any model category as the homotopy pushout to two terminals, then define an abstract notion of a sphere in any model category by setting the 0-sphere as the coproduct of two terminals and the (n+1)-sphere as the suspension of the n-sphere.

    A small category is a CW-complex if and only if it is a groupoid.

  • From an old edition of the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge:

    An airplane's tire will hydroplane at a speed in knots equal to 9 times the square root of the tire pressure in PSI. So if your tires are inflated to 36 PSI, sq.rt 36 = 6 * 9 = 54 knots. If there is standing water on the runway, you will have no braking authority or steering control from the wheels, you will have to maintain control of the aircraft with the flight controls, and you cannot rely on short field stopping figures from the POH if it requires applying brakes above 54 knots.

    I got that out of the 2003 edition; I don't know if it's in the current issue.

    1. This is true and remote from all cover of falsehood
    2. Whatever is below is similar to that which is above. Through this the marvels of the work of one thing are procured and perfected.
    3. Also, as all things are made from one, by the condsideration of one, so all things were made from this one, by conjunction.
    4. The father of it is the sun, the mother the moon.
    5. The wind bore it in the womb. Its nurse is the earth, the mother of all perfection.
    6. Its power is perfected. If it is turned into earth,
    7. separate the earth from the fire, the subtle and thin from the crude and course, prudently, with modesty and wisdom.
    8. This ascends from the earth into the sky and again descends from the sky to the earth, and receives the power and efficacy of things above and of things below.
    9. By this means you will acquire the glory of the whole world, and so you will drive away all shadows and blindness.
    10. For this by its fortitude snatches the palm from all other fortitude and power. For it is able to penetrate and subdue everything subtle and everything crude and hard.
    11. By this means the world was founded
    12. and hence the marvelous cojunctions of it and admirable effects, since this is the way by which these marvels may be brought about.
    13. And because of this they have called me Hermes Tristmegistus since I have the three parts of the wisdom and Philsosphy of the whole universe.
    14. My speech is finished which i have spoken concerning the solar work
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