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As someone who got a CS job in the early 2010s, CS jobs were still high pay but less plentiful. Things got better when the wage suppression cartel was broken by Facebook. (2/2)
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Technologies like cloud and Web 2.0/AJAX (which made web apps like GMail and Google Docs possible) were also around this time and fueled lots of growth. (1/2)
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they are slower and not as well tested (2/2).
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While common public key encryption schemes can be broken quickly by quantum computers (i.e. stuff sent over HTTPS), I don’t believe this includes hashing or secret sharing schemes, which is what protects crypto currency. There are quantum-resistant public key schemes but (1/2)
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I loved this game as a kid. There was a glitch where grenades would continue moving when you paused the game that was fun to abuse.
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Could you charge these people with state-level bribery charges?
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Legitimate search orgs respect robots.txt. These scrapers don’t care and reject the norms around scraping. They also consume lots of resources and sometimes cause smaller websites to shut down because they can’t afford to keep running the site anymore.
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They’ll do some fun things with the song/intro near the end, so be sure to watch it for those episodes.
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Zipper can only go halfway up the jacket
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Add to that all of the side events you have to do to move the "story" just so you can play your next game, and the mode just isn't fun anymore.
On the online side, card-collecting modes like MyTeam are fun the first couple of times, and just feel samey afterwards. (3/3)
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In earlier 2K versions, you could make your MyCareer player a beast at everything, and progression tracked well with experience so you could reach this within a few seasons. Now updates are tied to VC (virtual currency), so making your player good takes a lot of money or much more time. (2/3)
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As someone who used to play 2K frequently and stopped, they definitely focused too much on online play and microtransactions. They've made core gameplay changes, but modes like MyCareer are hampered by random corporate-sponsored side quests and a player upgrade model that is too grindy. (1/3)
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The generated images also misinterpret the memes. The guy in the bottom right meme looks annoyed instead of interested, and the Turkish shooter looks determined instead of nonchalant. It gets the shape right but misses what made them funny.
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Unless they totally botch it Democrats should pick this seat up. She won ~51% of the vote in a much friendlier to Republicans environment.
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At the start of the Spanish Civil War, the cities that didn’t immediately fall were the ones that opened up their armories to citizens (which included a lot of unionists). The mayors that didn’t were soon surrounded by soldiers and national police and were forced to surrender.
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Kicker camps are popular. This is from 10 years ago but they’ve only gotten bigger since then: www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...
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Maine uses ranked choice. She ran against 2 Democrats in 2020 and got ~51% of the vote. Her true margin of victory is likely closer to 3-4%, which can be overcome.
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She won against him in 2022 by a tighter margin. Given the national lean it's surprising she's winning by more, but he's a pretty extreme candidate.
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How are they so bad at this? It’s pretty easy to fake a screenshot of an email.
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FWIW, Ralston predicted that Dems would win the Nevada senate seat and lose the governorship. He was right.
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Like how Rasmussen got more highly rated for being closer in 2016 and 2020 even though they don’t publish their methodology, and then had polling misses of +10 in 2022 when there wasn’t any major polling error.
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You’d need someone to look for anti-camera modifications (fake plates, license plate covers), although that could be done by non-police.
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Teenage me thought it was the funniest name ever. Good game, although the enemies had a little too much health which made it repetitive near the end.
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Wolf Hongo <3
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I remember there being like a week’s worth of coverage on Clinton’s pardons. Maybe a day or two on Trump’s.
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I’m surprised Trafalgar is still rated so high after 2022. For example, they had Patty Murray up by 1 in a poll close to the election. She ended up winning by 14%.
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Maybe she doesn’t believe in the law of the excluded middle?
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Paul Allen did save the Cinerama theater in downtown Seattle and opened the Living Computer Museum, which was a great place to see old technology. Sadly the latter is now closed permanently because his wife doesn’t want to support it anymore after his passing.
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I believe Kentucky requires the replacement Senator to be from the same party.
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The two benefits I can think of are:
1. Can borrow more from home equity
2. Can sell the house and retire to a foreign country where houses are still affordable for Americans
Even #1 isn’t that great with current interest rates, though . Definitely negative overall.
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Impersonating someone’s image or voice likeness like this is still illegal. Bette Midler and Tom Waits won cases about this against Ford and Frito-Lay, respectively.
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To be fair, I think you still see a fair amount of this directed towards Business majors from STEM and humanities majors, but this is an unhealthy attitude
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I’m not an AI expert, but synthetic data is useful if you can accurately and fully model the world, like in chess. But they want a more general AI, and for that you need to have actual observations of the world to learn more, and synthetic data can’t remove that need.
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Important to note that Roku started this shortly before they announced that they had a major breach.
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That’s surprising it hasn’t been called since later ballots in King County generally skew more left.
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But most resources you can find on getting people out of cults/extreme beliefs have this as a common need. For example, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc... and www.npr.org/2021/03/02/9...
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I'm not an expert on cult deprogramming, so I don't really have anything concrete. But people want community, and if they see one community shun and insult them and another one accepts them, they're going to stick with the one that accepts them.
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I agree with this, though you also need to give people (specifically those not in positions of power) a way out. Otherwise the only positive attention they can ever get is in the cult, so they will stay there and get more entrenched.
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Agreed. The December slump and then return to average usage is pretty common at least in enterprise services. I wouldn’t be surprised if the same was true for Twitter.
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Didn't Republicans use mail-in/absentee ballots more often before 2020 too? Wouldn't that imply that narrow Republican victories in those states were fraudulent?
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The state legislature was blocking pay raises unless they gutted DEI initiatives and promised to hire more conservative faculty. The chancellor agreed to this, but the Board of Regents rejected this agreement.
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Makes you wonder why they don't always set it to "no"
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He’s almost guaranteed to lose. Neither the Seattle Times nor the Stranger endorsed him and you need one of them to win.
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It seems like this would open them up to bad actors giving bad training data. I wonder how they mitigate that, since they won't necessarily get many repeated prompts to find those who are bad at grading responses.
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The Seattle Times article on this mentions that other stores in Seattle, like the one in Northgate, have a higher number of police incidents than the ones they’re closing. Maybe increased theft has made the closed locations unprofitable, but it’s not purely a safety thing.