I don’t think the question is what level math to end on, but rather how math is taught. I teach psych statistics at University and the average student does the math parts mostly fine (it’s just algebra) but their critical thinking and application of the math is usually what is sorely lacking regardless of their ending math course. And in the real world where we do everything with computers, the application is 99% what matters.

I’ve had people in middle age who dropped out in 6th grade in Mexico do better than fresh-from-US-high school calculus experienced students, and that’s not even taking into account this more recent COVID-survivors generation that feels like they skipped a year of education. It’s very… grim.

I agree we don’t know if they’re loss leaders yet. I will say that even if the hardware is priced at a loss, though, it’ll sell more Steam games. Ultimately I don’t know if it really matters.

Though yeah, people should get past headlines. Lol

Headphones won’t break your ears any worse than loud speakers do, and noise cancelling headphones are actually a solution to blocking loud noise (e.g. construction), or for people who get overstimulated.

In fact, since headphones can block out sound you might even be listening at a lower volume than if you were trying to drown out sound with speakers, assuming the headphones have any noise cancellation (even just muffled cups). Even just competing with ambient noise can cause us to raise volumes more than necessary.

Yup. That’s an unpopular opinion alright. You could say you’re down for killing babies and I think I’d agree more than this current unpopular opinion, lol.

Ty for the list, I was curious since I’m a Java player and wouldn’t ever know. That’s… yeah that’s real bad. It’s bad when you make the Java version look stable.

I read the comments because of your comment and now I second this. Don’t read the comments on that video.

Oh God I feel dumber having read this. How is this not the onion?! A 3D knitted construction? Really?

Ironically that also works for the metaphor given just how many Americans have terrible fast food diets, either by choice or necessity. Lol.

Why choose when you’re an All Star, baby!

Edit: oh right. Only one version of All Stars included SMW, hehe

But that’s why my analogy works; imagine if all you ever got to eat was potato chips. You’d survive, at least you a little bit, but your quality of life would be abysmal. On occasion they might not be too bad but in excess, or exclusively, you’d die young. Yes, it does take effort to consume something better, especially in a society incentivized to continue feeding you empty calories, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try getting a fresh vegetable in your system.

I attribute the skepticism to this being LinkedInLunatics, which begins with the premise it’s probably a clout post. I assume most haven’t been to gyms, though, so if that’s your only frame of reference I can see why they’d default to it being fake.

Hey that said, people praising hard work at the job or in school is rare as fuck in some places. I know I’ve been deprived of praise way too much growing up. Maybe that’s how many people feel here, too?

Close, I think the average dev can’t even imagine a product that isn’t for profit and is available to everyone as a public service. Scraping uses a lot more resources than just regularly downloading the snapshot, so it genuinely makes no sense. It’s like shoplifting from a soup kitchen.

But… I know tech people personally. They’re really that dumb.

Shitpost aside, my dad did honey mustard under the dog while topping it with chili and cheese. It’s the only way to do that combo right.

Who needs deep fakes when people are this dumb?

That’s … kinda pathetic for the industry, though not surprising for a genre that lost it’s heart ages ago.

Someone pointed out to me a while back the main draw of human made art is the effort put in and the genuine connection people make with the artist. When you actually engage with the art, it’s provocative and emotional and has that connection. Slop can’t do that. It’s like empty calories for the soul.

But that argument falls apart for commercial endeavors — plenty of human made slop also exists and while it may look pretty (or in this case, sound pretty), the artistry is lacking. It’s made to top charts, not build a connection. You lack the artist’s emotions, creativity, the imperfections that make it genuine, even the backstory behind the piece, etc. All that is art.

County (and other commercial pop) has lacked that for ages. There are genuine artists out there, but marketing and promotional strategies tend to drown them out with slop. No surprise that side is getting the AI overhaul.

Banana for scale, our solar system is a lot smaller than I initially thought.

Before the Internet got social media, we had the GameFAQs voting thing; you’d get head to head popularity contests of coolest characters. Cloud always won, but it was nice to check daily to see who was most popular.

I still use GameFAQs, though. Even after the buyout, the guides are important to those of us RetroAchevement-ing through some older titles.

One of the worst US congress members shares a last name with me, but it’s also so common that it’s pretty diluted. It needs to be both infamous and uncommon, sharing a last name with millions of people ain’t that.

Then again, Epstein is kinda common and I can’t help giggle when I bring up a certain researcher with that last name and call her model the Epstein model.

This is such a weird timeline. Or maybe not, I guess I could also imagine Mr. Rogers doing what Ms. Rachel’s been doing.

Careful, some of us on older hardware have a bug where we overflow and crash the system. My second cousin bricked his system just by stacking the last two.