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Ross & Littlewood's Supertask

Sat, 03 May 2025 22:50:24 -0700

Ross-Littlewood Paradox

Ross has a vase. Littlewood has many small balls; one for each natural number $1, 2, 3, \dots$

Littlewood first drops balls $1, 2, \ldots 10$ into the vase. Ross does not like that. The incident triggers the following game to start. In the game, Ross and Littlewood take alternating turns. In a round, Ross goes first then Littlewood responds.

First round: Ross is mad about the balls so he removes ball $1$ from the vase. Littlewood responds by dropping in balls $11, 12, \ldots 20$. Second round: Ross removes ball $2$. Littlewood responds again, dropping balls $21, 22, \ldots 30$.

Idle RPG

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 10:55:00 -0700

Progress so far

I’ve been playing Idle RPG, in as much as one can actually play it, on Newnet IRC. So far, my character bfj the Atheist Paladin has attained level 35. He’s got a pair of level 40 leggings which I’d guess keep him pretty warm while roaming the wastes.

You can follow progress at my player page.

Some recent action

[10/11/24 10:26:51] crivic [534/1335] has challenged bfj [225/288] in combat and won! 5 days, 22:57:04 is removed from crivic's clock.

[10/11/24 15:03:18] alexlehm [273/950] has challenged bfj [195/288] in combat and won! 5 days, 01:18:33 is removed from alexlehm's clock.

[10/11/24 15:03:18] alexlehm has dealt bfj a Critical Strike! 0 days, 00:52:14 is added to bfj's clock.

[10/11/24 20:16:45] bfj [175/294] has challenged lord_entrex [405/496] in combat and lost! 0 days, 02:06:13 is added to bfj's clock.

[10/11/24 20:26:51] obscure [75/572] has challenged bfj [23/294] in combat and won! 1 day, 09:46:04 is removed from obscure's clock.

│-- Fri, 11 Oct 2024 --
│04:41:00      -- │ idlerpg: You found a level 39 pair of gloves! Your current pair of gloves is only level 31, so it seems Luck is with you!
│-- Sat, 12 Oct 2024 --
│02:16:48      -- │ idlerpg: You found a level 26 shield! Your current shield is only level 20, so it seems Luck is with you!

Zero-th

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:58:03 -0700

Blog N, Post 0

Here’s a new blog, specifically for the tildeverse.

A lot of folks in the tildeverse seem to enjoy writing HTML, channeling geocities. While I don’t dislike that, I feel like I’m too old to write anything other than markdown and be happy that pandoc or hugo will compile to HTML for me.

Or maybe I just refuse to learn anything deep about the world wide web? On the other hand my personal website is hand written HTML. But I started that long enough ago that at this point it’s all copy/paste when anything needs updating.