anzo
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Game is huge. Do use cheats for potions or ingredients. Check popular mods that give easy way around cumbersome tasks.
And, if you're like me and always play spellcasters instead of fighters in RPGs, do check some builds after certain level (20s?). Get griffin set of course, do know there are levels for its items.
anzo
8h ago
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First, stop buying games (*1)
Second, consider reading about the sunken costs fallacy, e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+overcome+sunk+cost+fallacy
(*1) there's piracy xdd
anzo
2d ago
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Congrats!
PS. Distro (or DE) wars are meaningless. But I use KDE btw ;)
anzo
2d ago
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I believe in all the gods, goddesses, and spirits. Join me :)
anzo
4d ago
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Somewhat related, a recent kurzgesagt video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXERzEafjIU
(For context, I'm basically referring to Python 3.12 "multiprocessing.Pool Vs. concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor"...) Today I read that multiple cores (parallelism) help in CPU bound operations. Meanwhile, multiple threads (concurrency) is due when the tasks are I/O bound. Is this correct? Anyone cares to elaborate for me? At least from a theorethical standpoint. Of course, many real work has a mix of both, and I'd better start with profiling where the bottlenecks really are. If serves of anything having a concrete "algorithm". Let's say, I have a function that applies a map-reduce strategy reading data chunks from a file on disk, and I'm computing some averages from these data, and saving to a new file.
anzo
1w ago
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Yup, I love this https://www.videogist.co/
anzo
1w ago
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Not to flame you, but really just an HTML form was all you needed? It's a super simple feature...
anzo
1w ago
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I'm attracted to it because of the posix backend. Did anyone try it? Is it stable?
For reference, https://owncloud.dev/architecture/posixfs-storage-driver/
anzo
1w ago
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Imagine setting up a bundle of internet router (using 4G Lte) with smoke alarms every ~10 km (6 miles). They have solar panels, waterproofing, and should last 10 years up and running.
That's all there's to it in the article. Actually, at the bottom they had a nice summary... I only read it after writing this here.. Heh.
anzo
2w ago
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What's ncd?
anzo
2w ago
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We need serious sex-ed with consent at the pinnacle of it. (And, even then, we need some major cultural changes)
anzo
2w ago
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Those locks are kinda optional. And luggage is way less important than all of one's communication ; imho.
anzo
2w ago
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Abolish marriage, too? Sure. But let the silly joke bring some joy to our miserable lives, pls.
Edit: I upvotes all your posts, but I still think that saying the joke promotes sexual harassment is stretching the concept
anzo
2w ago
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We have internet now, no need to change clocks
Precisely. We have computers, phones, etc. And smarwatches. All of these change to DST automatically. It would be some (bigger) effort not to abide by it. And a painful one btw. "Imagine going to work 1 hour earlier" ;P
anzo
2w ago
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Leave that network behind. It's the fox news of social networks, with bots instead of the elite opinionators ;p it will only rot your brain. Come, let's remember we are humans
anzo
2w ago
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If only some billionaire trained a GPT model on all copyrighted books, with the twist of really being able to return the whole content ;)
It would be legal, tho IANAL.
anzo
2w ago
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Sorry to be honest, but this is my view...
Voting between two parties, and then getting whatever the "electors" pick. All the while, thinking they live under the biggest democracy of the world.
Having all sorts of inhuman behaviors, like robbing childs from immigrants.
Child marriage.
Having lots of weapons in the country but all wars outside.
Mmm.. What else? Ah, prisoners are slaves.
cyberinsider.com
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22527376 > > Rockstar Games' servers have been under heavy fire from massive DDoS attacks in recent days, causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online. These attacks come in the wake of Rockstar’s recent implementation of BattlEye, a new anti-cheat system designed to crack down on in-game cheating, sparking backlash from a segment of the player base. Protesters, unhappy with the new system, have resorted to using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt the servers, escalating tensions between the gaming giant and its community.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19843233 > I'll just leave this here.
[Fig. 1](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq1814#F1) gives an example of a conversation where the user goes from 100% belief down to 40% after getting their questions explained by the AI. Looking at the conclusions, the impact is not so big for all the interactions. Anyway, this is a great tool. Sure, when people are doomscrolling 24/7 they’re not fact-checking. So, the intervention might not be there. Yet, I choose to remain optimistic. More recent generations might get easier access and be better than our current trend :)
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2716501
Calling everyone who works in or with a #bioinformatics core facility - we need your help! We’d like to hear your ideas on what skills core facility scientists need at different levels (I, II, III or manager). Interested in helping? Please fill in this survey by September 30th. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2P_d6nX6JmhFJtcBNX3zOQB-DuAuOMiIDc7t57tZVM4POog/viewform The results of this survey will feed into the bioinformatics core facility competency framework. Find out more: https://sites.google.com/ebi.ac.uk/bioinfocore-competencies/
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/16330833
www.darkreading.com
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2235521 > [Archived link](https://web.archive.org/web/20240822172856/https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/chinese-forced-labor-ring-sponsors-football-clubs-hides-behind-stealth-tech) > > Some have argued that Yabo (aka Yabo Sports, Yabo Group) and its many constituent brands comprise "the biggest illegal betting operation targeting Greater China." You probably haven't heard of it before, but you may have come across it unknowingly in passing, hundreds of times, if you watch European football, aka soccer in US parlance. The operation enjoys multimillion-dollar partnerships with some of the world's biggest clubs, like Manchester United and Bayern Munich. > > Less visible to the public are Yabo's modern day slaves, forced to staff the debt-fueled pyramid scheme underpinning its gambling empire. > > [...] > > "Often, as a culture and as an industry, we separate technical stories from real life," Dr. Renée Burton, head of threat intelligence at Infoblox, says. "But these are monumental human crimes that are occurring [in] human trafficking and money laundering. It's the most interesting research I've ever been involved with." > > [...] > > On paper, Yabo Sports shut down in 2022 amid media scrutiny. But it fact it actually passed on through other brands like Kaiyun Sports. Kaiyun's logo has featured prominently on the sleeves of Aston Villa and Crystal Palace kits, or uniforms, in recent seasons, and the front of Nottingham Forest's (all England). Kaiyun reportedly also has a partnership in place with the world's biggest club, Real Madrid. > > [...] > > As Burton tells it, "Essentially, they use a ton of shell companies in multiple places around the world. And then they'll come up through these white label providers in the UK, like TGP Europe, which was linked by journalists to [gambling organization] Suncity, which has been accused by the Chinese government of money laundering. So it obfuscates those [groups] which are already obfuscated. It's just this ridiculous chain of false identities." > > [...] > > "So it draws people [into the sites]," Burton explains, "and they're browsing around a little bit. You've got your Manchester United logo. Then it starts popping up: these lures for you to come gamble." The sites include images of scantily dressed women and live chats with purported customer service agents. If a user stays idle for a period of time, the site might offer financial incentives, like a sliding scale of up to $1,500 free for any user who deposits up to $70,000 in a week. > > "It draws you in further, and eventually you're losing. Now you're in debt, and you move into servitude. It's essentially a pyramid scheme: you have to go recruit people to gamble, then you get a portion of those people's losses to go against your debt," she says. > > [...] > > A 2023 report from the Asian Racing Federation (ARF) Council on Anti-Illegal Betting and Related Financial Crime described how Yabo betting sites are also staffed by physically imprisoned individuals: > > **The walled-off complexes have apartments, offices, supermarkets and other facilities, and are guarded by armed security whose job is to keep people in, according to reports in Chinese state media and elsewhere.** > > [. . .] > > **According to victim testimony, staff must work 12 hours a day, six days a week and cannot leave without a ransom. Staff are sold between operators, with ransoms increasing on each occasion. Videos and photographs online in 2021 showed people being physically threatened, beaten with sticks, and struck with electric batons.** > > [Edit: Deleted tautology in the title.]
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/17130998
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2132293 > Which member state contributed the most to EU GDP? And what does GDP actually mean? > > Gross domestic product (GDP) is an indicator used to measure the size and performance of an economy. It provides information on the value of goods and services produced during a given period. Within the EU, GDP was valued at €17.0 trillion in 2023. > > In 2023, slightly less than a quarter of the EU's GDP was generated by Germany (24.3%), followed by France (16.5%) and Italy (12.3%), ahead of Spain (8.6%) and the Netherlands (6.1%).