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I had a quite literally hottest character I ever came up with: A wizard that liked fire a bit too much for his own good. He was a master of flames, the best from the Monastery he spent decades on. But the more power he gained through the fire, the more and more he lost his own mind. At the time of the campaign, he was in a sort of Limbo. He couldn’t remember most of his life, and he couldn’t shake off the insatiable desire to spread the flames he encountered. If he spent too long besides a fire, he would start to hear It louder and louder, to the point where he would lose control and be possessed by his flaming desire, which had full memory and access to the spells he no longer remembered, which often resulted in the complete destruction of everything around.

I actually got to play this character, and was a ton of fun with the party I had, but unfortunately the campaign was put on hold indefinitely due to personal matters of the DM.

I’ve considered this, but knowing the pain that I had to go through because there was nothing, I’d rather that future developers don’t have to suffer through the same.

Servo is being actively worked on. Maybe it can become a worthy adversary to chrome?

Easy: murder everyone. Which will probably be the course of action this Skynet will take.

I think the Butlerian Jihad can’t do shit against Judgment Day.

The name of my current party is Pyromaniac Diplomats. It perfectly describes how the party works.

Windows startup repair did unbrick my system a couple of times, and the network troubleshooter fixes the issues most of the time, so yes they have.

And equally, Google is yet to use the big guns they have. Don’t get me wrong, I hate Google with a passion, but they have way too much power over the internet for us to leave even a dent on their plans.

Cleric: Summons food from thin air with Create Food And Water.

Funnily enough, the only time I used that spell, it was to use the food for ammunition and to turn the water into napalm.

No. It’s up to the browser (and even above it, the user) how the data is displayed.

In order to delete an element or replace it based on a list, you definitely need JS. You have no other way to access the DOM.

Youtube controls the servers. The backend trumps all frontends.

Without JS, you wouldn’t have ad blockers and youtube could just bake their ads on the videos themselves while streaming them. Thinking about it, I don’t think it’s off the table for them.

but a few JS-blocking users have complained about having a barebones experience.

Well no shit, have they ever wondered why the language was created in the first place?

When I hear christmas music during the spooky month

Now we just need to invent a way to read the Void of Nothingness to retrieve the data and bam! Infinite storage.

No need to be sorry, I am well aware I can be wrong, and I prefer to learn something new than being bashed for being wrong.

Maybe I phrased it in a way different than I thought about it. I didn’t mean to claim that Shannon-Fano or Huffman are THE most efficient ways of doing it, but rather that comparing it to the massive overhead of running a LLM to compress a file, the current methods are way more resource efficient, even one as obsolete as Shannon-Fano codes.

I should probably have mentioned an algorithm like LZMA, or gzip, like you did.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t algorithms like Huffman or even Shannon-Fano code with blocks already pack the files as efficiently as possible? It’s impossible to compress a file beyond it’s entropy, and those algorithms get pretty damn close to it.

Well, we know that the simple fact of observing an event changes it (see the Double Slit experiment), so consciousness has to have some kind of link to reality itself, no?

We currently do not know what consciousness even is exactly, and we know only about the human consciousness, but there can be other degrees of consciousness within other particles in the universe.

And even if current-day experiments disprove something, that doesn’t mean it will in the future, just like before Einstein’s laws of relativity proved that gravity bends spacetime and that it is relative according to the point of observation.

And I’m sure people that study neuroscience ask this same question from time to time. It’s a scientist’s duty to find the factual truth about things, even if they disprove everything they know so far. We can’t rule out something as impossible just because we haven’t observed it yet, as it would directly contradict the scientific method, and therefore cease to be science.