Ackshually, the answer is 4

6÷2*(1+2)

6÷(1+2)*2

6÷(3)*2

2*2

4

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It’s also clear that people who deny the extent to which capitalism actually makes the world worse either a) don’t know what capitalism is, or b) are rent seekers

The algorithms are the same. The models are different, being trained on a smaller data set.

They keep a/b testing and rolling out worse and worse mobile websites. They’ve gone and done it again. For any regular mobile website user that wasn’t affected by the 3rd party app issue, or for anyone who switched from a 3rd party app to the website because it wasn’t as bad as the 1st party app, well… Now it is. Now it’s possibly worse.

So, we might hope for a prolonged period of organic growth now. Especially if Lemmy doesn’t get flooded with meta discussions again.

“Good analysis, just one nitpick: I blanket disagree with everything you’ve said in your editorial section because raisins.”

GIF is pronounced GIF not because the G stands for Graphical, but because it is its essence. It is what is calls out to be… Called.

And because it’s not peanut butter.

And for the same reason, JPEG is pronounced JFEG not because the P stands for Photographic, but because that is the expression of its true essence.

I just didn’t know it before today.

Justice for JΦEG!

I live right at the northern tip of their range. I’d never seen one in person until 2 years ago. Now they’re a common sight in my back yard, and it’s amazing.

I super didn’t expect them to sound like car alarms, though.

Because of the tankies.

The joke is that eating pizza backwards is one step too far.

Yup. I’ve worked with some really great software engineers in the gaming industry, and they don’t have a fucking clue how to optimize a game, and it’s because optimizing the game doesn’t take a clue. It takes legwork, and diagnostics, and digging, and digging, and digging.

It’s never what you think, because if it was, it would have been fixed already.

We shipped well optimized games, and we did so because the games were (relatively) small, and our engineers were absolute pro sleuths.

Most wrapping paper tubes are so thin these days that they won’t even hold up to a single swing, let alone a mighty death-blow.

Wow, they’re still releasing new versions of Discovery? That’s crazy! I can’t believe it’s been 20 years of Freelancer modding now.

If only decision makers would ever recognize the mistake in the first place.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real

Yes, that’s more or less right. Different systems will slice it different tlt, but for the most part there’s “government”, which includes all the mechanisms of state, and then there’s The Government, which is the cabinet.

Many systems have independent heads of state and heads of government. In these cases, you have a president with executive powers somewhat similar in concept, but generally less broad in scope, to the US president, and a prime minister or chancellor who is elected by Parliament or the legislative assembly to form an independent cabinet.

It would be like if your executive secretaries were selected by the majority party leader.

In British Commonwealth countries, things are slightly different, because our head of state is the British monarch, and the monarchy has operated under a policy of non-interference for, like, almost a century now. So, they just rubberstamp whatever the head of government presents to them.

Westminster parliaments also operate under a principle of parliamentary supremacy. There’s none of this “equal powers” stuff. The head of state asks parliament for things, but for the most part thr head of state exists to enact the will of Parliament.

The Senate is actually doing something interesting for once, but the Senate doesn’t usually put forward legislation, and they’re completely unable to put forward spending bills. And on top of that, they’re not The Government.

On the one hand, yes, this is both stupid and really dickish behaviour from Ubisoft. On the other hand…

This should be illegal.

No. Full stop. no. No one should be compelled to continue selling something they don’t want to sell anymore. If it has social value, it should be reproduced and superseded by something owned by society as a whole. The seller shouldn’t, under any circumstances, have the right to disable the things you bought outright from them, but that’s about it.

We have channels we can use to access things that are no longer supported or sold by the developer (and selling something implies – and should imply – support from the developers). It’s absolutely messed up that those channels are themselves illegal, but believing that you should be able to compel someone else to do what you want, against their will, just because you want them to do it is just an authoritarian hissy fit.

Ocarina of Time, or Final Fantasy VII. Both of them had just incredible impacts on me as a teenager, and I’d love to be 16 and experiencing them for the first time again.

PeerTube makes way, way more sense as a self-hosting platform for small and medium sized creators. That means the creators shoulder the burden of hosting their own content, and recoup those costs from their viewers via such vectors as Patreon. Having Patreon integration, direct one-time donation options, and user access levels for channels and/or videos so that subscriber-only content can be easily managed would go a long way towards this.

The Fediverse’s current model of “donate to your serve admin using a completely disconnected 3rd party payment processor” isn’t going to fly if you want actual popular anndprofrsional video content. Especially when the server admin is not the content creator.

So, are you a business owner, or do you just like the taste of shoe leather?