Oh fuck, more TTP2? God yes, bring it on! I will gleefully devour anything this series produces.

video-sizes

I’m confused as to your meaning here. Current codecs are miles ahead of what we had in the past. Unless you mean typical resolution (eg. 4k, 8k, etc).

That can’t be the same Jeff Grubb as from Giant Bomb, right? I can’t imagine the ages matching up.

I don’t play Trackmania at all, but it’s been really fun to watch the daily edits that Wirtual’s YouTube has been making for the live streams. Watching someone’s heart rate shoot up ~40 bpm just after making a butt clenching jump is vicariously entertaining in the max. His video on Deep Dip 1 was also fantastic.

For the purposes of OPs problem (P v NP), it considers not particular solutions, but general algorithmic approaches. Thus, we consider things as either Hard (exponential time, by size of input), or Easy (only polynomial time, by size of input).

A number of important problems fall into this general class of Hard problems: Sudoku, Traveling Salesman, Bin Packing, etc. These all have initial setups where solving them takes exponential time.

On the other hand, as an example of an easy problem, consider sorting a list of numbers. It’s really easy to determine if a lost is sorted, and it’s always relatively fast/easy to sort the list, no matter what setup it had initially.

There was an episode of PBS Space Time on the holographic principle in general recently, and I believe they’ve also discussed the black hole thing as well.

That prick Richard Woolsey had a great character arc though!

I usually play clerics (busted good), but for my current campaign I’m playing a human fighter, and it’s a ton of fun. “What’s your character do?” “Charges into the fray, naturally”

Rather fun to play a character that’s a foil for my typically conservative & trepidatious teammates.

While there’ve certainly been some player characters faces that have been worsened by the changes, my Femezen came out pretty great, so I’m happy about that!

I didn’t see anything in the paper about the rotational speed of galaxies. Was that accounted for?

This is -exactly- what I thought of, seeing this picture. As a side note, there’s a family of Roseate Spoonbills that live near me, and everytime I pass them, I think “This is a good bird to know.” They’re really quite pretty.

Unable to narrow it down to a particular episode right now on this device, but it’s Polygon’s old Unraveled series. Always featuring BDG at his peak.

I actually came in here to post just that. It’s something that, while I’ve vaguely known, is not something I typically remember to do - I’m usually returning or collecting Vecs all over. I shall be now diligent & intentional from now on.

I think FFXIV nailed it with “Remember us. Remember that we once lived.” Lotta BBEGs, but that one really sticks in the brain.