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This seems fine? Is there an anticonsumer angle or something that I failed to notice?

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I think that’s the thing where if you pre-order the Collector’s Edition or whatever, you get the game 3 days earlier than everybody else, but I could be wrong. If that’s the case though… It seems like yeah why wouldn’t it count toward your refund window?

It’s hard to imagine the game changing much in that window… But maybe it matters for zero-day patches or something.

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Ah, they must have interpreted it as “no stupid questions allowed,” instead of “there are no stupid questions.”

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TikTok is a massively powerful tool of influence and intelligence, in the hands of an adversary that is well understood to proactively meddle with democratic elections.

Yes, obviously the CCP will unabashedly pursue other interference vectors. That should be viewed as more reason to curtail TikTok, not less.

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Does old.reddit.com still work to get around it?

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Big yike 😬 Anyone find a decent way around THAT yet? How do they even know that you’re on a VPN? Is it like… they maintain a list of known VPN exit node IPs?

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Yeah, I’m wondering about how they characterize “bot activity.” It seems like “any traffic not proximally related to a user’s synchronous activity” is a little too broad.

I’m not sure if fediverse syncing is bot activity. Or my laptop checking for software updates while I’m sleeping. Or my autopay transactions for utility bills.

YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking (alternativeto.net)

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But they tried so hard…

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I admire your optimism. I don’t share it, but I admire it.

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The title still works if you remove the word “scraping,” too. (I mean, except grammatically)

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Deep Learn Galactic

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Me too! I thought it was gonna be fake, or if not, they’d have fixed it already or something, but NOPE! Still works exactly as described.

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Worked for me just now. What did it say when you did it?

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What do you think the “real stuff” is?

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Lemmykenny

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I gotta say, I was with you for most of this thread, but looking through old commits is definitely something that I do on a regular basis… Like not even just because of problems, but because that’s part of how I figure out what’s going on.

The whole reason I keep my git history clean and my commit messages thoughtful is so that future-me (or future-someone-else) will have an easier time walking through it later, because that happens all the time.

I’ll still almost always choose merge instead of rebase, but not because I don’t care about the git history-- quite the opposite, it’s really important to me in a very practical way.

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You can get in some pretty serious messes, though. Any workflow that involves force-pushing or rebasing has the potential for data loss… Either in a literally destructive way, or in a “Seriously my keys must be somewhere but I have no idea where” kind of way.

When most people talk about rebase (for example) being reversible, what they’re usually saying is “you can always reverse the operation in the reflog.” Well yes, but the reflog is local, so if Alice messes something up with her rebase-force-push and realizes she destroyed some of Bob’s changes, Alice can’t recover Bob’s changes from her machine-- She needs to collaborate with Bob to recover them.

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Ah, you’ve never worked somewhere where people regularly rebase and force-push to master. Lucky :)

I have no issue with rebasing on a local branch that no other repository knows about yet. I think that’s great. As soon as the code leaves local though, things proceed at least to “exercise caution.” If the branch is actively shared (like master, or a release branch if that’s a thing, or a branch where people are collaborating), IMO rebasing is more of a footgun than it’s worth.

You can mitigate that with good processes and well-informed engineers, but that’s kinda true of all sorts of dubious ideas.

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Yeah, tbh the “no timezones” approach comes with its own basket of problems that isn’t necessarily better than the “with timezones” basket. The system needed to find a balance between being useful locally, but intelligible across regions. Especially challenging before ubiquitous telecommunications

Imagine having to rethink the social norms around time every time you travel or meet someone from far away. They say “Oh I work a 9-to-5 office job” and then you need to figure out where they live to understand what that means. Or a doctor writes a book where they recommend that you get to bed by 2:00PM every night, and then you need to figure out how to translate that to a time that makes sense for you.

We’d invent and use informal timezones anyway, and then we’d be writing Javascript functions to translate “real” times to “colloquial” times, and that’s pretty close to just storing datetimes in UTC then translating them to a relevant timezone ad hoc, which is what we’re already doing.

That’s what my rational programmer brain says. My emotional programmer brain is exactly this meme.

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I knew what this was going to be before I clicked.

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Does ml auto-censor posts for mildly spicy language or something?

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You mean they need WotC’s expertise to handle D&D 5E properly? Or to make a good game?

As far as the former… I think that the partnership was a major factor in BG3’s success, but I expect it has more to do with the D&D brand and BG nostalgia, than any virtues of the 5E system. Maybe WotC’s contributions to worldbuilding and lore helped… Larian are of course good at that in their own right, but there’s a whole Forgotten Realms canon to navigate. (I don’t actually know what WotC contributed in that regard, mind you)

In the case of the latter… The Divinity system is pretty heckin good, and in many ways a better CRPG system than any edition of D&D. Larian ARE experts at making really solid CRPGs, after all. The Divinity series is perhaps the most successful ever, maybe now behind BG3… So returning to their own IP would not be shooting themselves in the foot by any stretch, IMO. More like trading one kind of overwhelming success for a different kind of overwhelming success.

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Oh. I think OP meant Larian returning to their own IP (maybe Divinity). AFAICT, it was Larian’s decision to not continue with the D&D IP, not WotC taking it back. But I might have that wrong.

Just saw your edits-- I see what’s going on now :)

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I’m pretty sure I know the answer but I can’t quite put my finger on it…

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Double tilde (~~) for strikethrough, friend.

People vs. People

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The second story is about a trans person, not an “ex-trans” person.

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If anyone else was wondering, I found this neat data table of controller latencies to compare:

rpubs.com/misteraddons/inputlatency

It looks like 18.35ms is not really among the best, but there are still lots of products in that range.

I dunno if I’d say your project didn’t work out… Maybe more like you succeeded but still have work to do. Do you think you’ll try swapping the Bluetooth for a 2.4Ghz module or something and see if that performs better?

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Yeah, I get that. Do you have any sense of whether that’s a limitation of the ESP32, or with your implementation?

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I have two of em-- They’re pretty good! Definitely not perceptibly laggy or anything, at least to me.

Probably just outed myself as a casual.

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We had planned to get some memeing done but we had an all-hands right before sprint review, then sprint retro, then there was an “optional” product sync that we kinda had to go to, and then the team social, and that was basically our whole day.

Thought we might meme a bit at lunch, but there was a lunch-and-learn and it’s not like we were going to skip a free lunch.

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Or like consumptive knowledge vs. participatory knowledge or something.

I notice a huge difference between things that I consume alot of content for but don’t engage with, vs. things where I actually try to apply the knowledge. Your brain makes connections in a totally different way when you try to apply the knowledge.

I watched piano tutorials for like a year before I finally saved up for a decent digital piano to play at home. I had tons of little facts and ideas rattling around my head, which were actually very helpful, but completely disorganized. Every time I learned a new piece, some of that loose knowledge would Tetris into place, and things would get a little more coherent.

But there’s always this gap between my pool of ingested information and my ability to do something with it.

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Great contribution. Reminds me of “it’s not practice that makes perfect; perfect practice makes perfect.” Not exactly the same idea, but related: A good coach can elevate your progress well beyond what you can do yourself.

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You seem pretty confident, so I’m gonna go ahead and internalize it as factual.

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There are dozens of us!

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She would mumble something about needing to streamline the company’s processes to remain competitive. Not to the workers, of course-- To a board of directors who are barely paying attention, other than making sure number goes up.

The workers would just be informed that half of them are no longer employed there.

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Outtards lol

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BRUSHED MY GODDAMN TEETH FOR NOTHING!

::quickly spits out toothpaste and stuffs cheeks with M&M’s::

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Paywall.

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Have you considered Bluetooth (or wired) earbuds? I can’t stand phone calls without them. Speakerphone makes me self-conscious in public and I can’t help but get shouty, and I have the same problem as you do with face-smush mode. But my Bluetooth earbuds are exactly how I want my phone call experience to be.

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I just pop em in then answer. Or answer then pop em in.

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Lol I’ve experienced that too, especially if they can’t see my ears.

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Oh, that’s too bad. There are band-style or hook-style versions that could maybe help with that, but yeah most of them are buds.

One thing I’ll say is that when I used to wear wired buds, they would fall out all the time and I thought I just had weird-shaped ears or something… But when I got into wireless buds, I tried out a bunch of styles and found that without the cord, they stay in way more reliably. Wired ones would fall out when I turn my head or just walk 10 steps, but with wireless ones, I can shake my head or run or anything, and they stay in. I guess the weight/movement of the cord makes a big difference, at least for me.

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Oh, mine live either in my pocket or on my desk in most cases, so it’s usually pretty quick. You can also start the call without them and then switch to them after a minute or two once you’ve performed the necessary extraction procedure.

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So uh… I understand that Kepler has died, but in what sense did he make him the Orbital Police?

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount | Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions (www.theregister.com)

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount | Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions::Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions

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Hundreds of dollars were on the line in this case! HUNDREDS!

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Plus just the general sentiment that you’re not businessing right if you don’t something something AI.

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Yeah great point. Or similar cases in the past, even.

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