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Making potting more difficult The game above would of course be really hard (especially when you need to pot more than one ball to win without snooker) but it would not really be any harder than doing a 147 which many players have done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_break Instead of...

Here you can only play to green, blue, black after red. You can still play for pink, grown or yellow after red but then you have to hit both balls of that color to avoid foul and you have to pot both to continue with the break. Potting both balls here will only give you for example 12 points if...

Replacing the miss rule If you fail to hit the object ball first your opponents will have the following options 0. move one ball (can be the cue-ball) to a new position and play from there. 1. Force you to play again from the new position If you go for 0 there would be the following...

You are only allowed to pot a black after potting red (and no other color). after potting yellow (and no other color) you are only allowed to pot a pink, green xor blue. You have to nominate a color first. After potting at least one yellow and at least one red ball you are only allowed to pot...

Snooker is a lot more difficult than pool in terms of potting the ball but in terms of positional play there is a lot more options making it easier in that respect (initially 15 reds, 6 colors to choose from after a red). Unfortunatily its now getting too easy for the top players to score a...

Crystal diskmark by default will take the best of 5 runs instead of the average score which can be a bit misleading.This w

Tests when the disk was almost full Interestingly the SLC-cache issue disappeared when i booted from another drive only to re-appear when i switched back to booting from the NVME. It says 34.2 GiB free on the screenshot but one of these should be when only 14 GiB was free. I then switched...

Sustained write test To test write speed alone rather than file copy speed 20.2 GiB of video files was read from a ram disk over and over again, it was very hard to get performance below 1.5 GiB/s This continued until the drive was almost full (14 GiB left), the last picture is the same...

SLC-cache issue replicated I was able to confirm that when the disk is mostly full it can take a very long time for the SLC-cache to rebuild. The sustained file copy speed seem to improve slightly which can due to the drive no longer being extra slow after recovering from SLC-cache exhaustion...

Boltzmann brains While a Boltzmann brain like a human brain is very unlikely there is still a nonzero probability of them emerging and there is actually more than one theoretical mechanism for that. Via quantum fluctuation By one calculation, a Boltzmann brain would appear as a quantum...

Aron Ra He has a lot of knowledge regarding religions, especially Christianity. He is good at debunking religious nonsense but he is also clearly wrong about important subjects. As far as i know the quantum-soul theory has never been falsified. That's false again and there is no evidence for...

Some people are having SLC cache issues I was worried maybe my drive was defective since other people were having issues but given the bad CPU i am using (r5 3600) there is probably nothing wrong with the drive itself in terms of hardware. The following individual however wasn't as lucky...

Costumer support was contacted I contacted them regarding the disappointed sustained write speed and they didn't mention any way to improve that so the issue is probably just lack of a proper driver. Samsung has not provided anything official for the 980 pro. I asked them how the following...

Free will & the newcomb switch Of course the newcomb switch cannot predict correctly all the time if you have free will (doesn't matter whether or not it's conscious free will). Even in the case of a deterministic universe predicting it might still not actually be possible due to computational...

Clarification regarding quantum mechanics There is a lot of misinformation regarding quantum mechanics. One common false claim is that a measurement will cause the wavefunction to collapse, this is true when the measurement is on a large scale (anything allowing humans to observe it) but it does...

This hold true if the amount of matter is finite since then you would be infinite times more likely to be a boltzmann brain that emerged in the wast infinite empty space. I did maybe assume that the beckenstein-bound would rule out the case of an infinite universe with infinite matter. It's...

The vintologi axioms There is 4 axioms in vintologi of which 1 are a definition and the other 3 are statements about our universe/existence that are difficult to prove. As far as we know physics is the same everywhere. Universal refers to our current universe. While initially this was a mere...

XSX has framerate issues in Outriders Demo The PS5 also has better lighting while the XSX has better shadows. According to digital foundry the XSX version has 35% better resolution