I’m okay with a DM ruling that it’s possible to cast it in such a way that someone is taken off guard, sure. Maybe a performance or deception vs hostile creature(s) insight rather than the typical stealth vs perception when determining surprise from sneaking, which is not RAW, but I think sounds reasonable. I’d definitely not consider it to be an automatic aspect of the spell at any table I ran.

And you absolutely could not avoid a fight and just walk away from the situation with plausible deniability because you “only insulted them”.

This is probably a diffusion model. LLMs don’t create images.

Ignoring the actual rules and mechanics is basically step one in almost every “isn’t this goofy” D&D anecdote.

Not only is it not “decent damage” (even the buff it got in 5.5 just brings it from “the worst” to “poor”), it’s also not a subtle thing you can just drop on someone unsuspectingly.

Spellcasting for an attack is an obvious aggressive action, which means an initiative roll comes first to see if you even manage to get it off before they clock you. It’s also not like everyone around just shrugs and lets you go about your business because all you did was hurl an insult. You attacked someone with an offensive spell, the response is exactly the same as if you threw a firebolt at them

The flavor of insulting someone to death is fun, I’ll grant that, but there’s nothing special about Vicious Mockery mechanically that makes it immune to initiative order or people noticing what you’re doing.

Yep, recent blog post about it:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-source/

Clearly you should install Edit.

https://github.com/microsoft/edit

I’m in one of the “certain regions” for carpenter.

Yeah, absolutely. Then they escalate from “innocent mistake” to “accusatory” on a dime.

I’ve also heard people use it who weren’t lying, they were simply incorrect, and conflating those two concepts.

It seems obvious to be that a company should have additional taxes imposed on it if its has employees that qualify for financial assistance. Put them on the hook for the costs of supporting their employees one way or another.

isthereanydeal isn’t grey market and only shows prices from resellers that operate “above board”.

You can find way cheaper than the prices listed there if you’re willing to go grey market.

You can though? mySet.values().map(mappingFunc) will create a new iterator transformed by the mapping function.

I’m currently on a crusade against lodash where I work.

So what is the mass of a byte of ‘pure’ information? And how do you derive it?

That’s all in the linked wikipedia article, but since you asked:

At room temperature, the Landauer limit represents an energy of approximately 0.018 eV (2.9×10⁻²¹ J).

That’s 1 bit, so 1 byte is eight times that, which you can plug into E=mc² to get its absurdly small equivalent mass.

It’s important(?) to note that Landauer’s Principle is not settled science and has yet to be rigorously proven, unless there’s some recent development which the comic is referencing. I haven’t checked.

No, you missed the point. See @milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee’s comment and link to Landauer’s Principle, the namesake of which is literally named in the title of the post.

TL;DR: Storing information requires a change in entropy. A change in entropy requires a change in energy. There must be a minimum non-zero amount of energy required for a given quantity of information. Energy is mass due to mass-energy equivalence. ∴ information has mass independent of its physical representation.

Everybody’s saying that the Scatman stutters but doesn’t ever stutter when he sings.

The former.

I had an intermediate not understand how to read a pipe-delimited text file.

It’s a different example but Super Street Fighter II for the SNES was CAD$99.99 in the 1994 Sears Wishbook which is CAD$191 in today dollars.

Jellyfin has some security issues that, depending on who you ask, are either critical vulnerabilities that make it completely unsafe to expose to the Internet or largely unconcerning for regular users.

I had exactly the same experience, at about the same time. Had been hearing good things about Plex so decided to try it out. Immediately noped out when it required me to create an account with them. Similar to you I looked around and found it to be a relatively new change.

Frankly baffling to me that anyone with the wherewithal to self-host was okay with it.