I plugged in the "now" (11am there) numbers for Banda from a weather site (since the humidity is higher than in the afternoon) of 37C, 52% RH, 1001 MB of pressure into the US gov's calculator: https://www.weather.gov/epz/wxcalc_rh It says 28C for wet bulb. According to wikipedia 35C is where even young and healthy people die, but 70,000 people died in Europe in 2003 from a heat wave that topped out at 28C as well.
I feel like that's letting them off a little easy. If it's profitable to provide human support at 10M users, there's no reason it should not be at 30M. Revenue and support calls should scale linearly with user counts. The attraction of replacing all their support employees with one fixed-price chat-bot increases though. So either they were just dumping basically until getting enough market share, or they got greedy.
Sounds like they just ignore any calendar weirdness. I don't envy anyone the task of trying to properly program this. You basically have to decide for everything time related in the simulation whether it is tied to the calendar or the physical passage of time. Sometimes you would have to split variables, like characters are legally older, but no closer to old age. Bonus points if your solution allows characters to get into conflict with each other about stuff like when a treaty ends or whether their loans are due 15 days sooner.
I distinctly remember being literally unable to complete a purchase through Walmart's mobile site or phone app the one time I had the misfortune of trying. Must be internally dominated by brick-and-mortar people or something because it really is crazy how bad their digital presence is.
The endgame of competing with lower taxes is handing out $99 in incentives to get $100 of mobile corporate spending in your area. The only winners are the corporations. There needs to be a collective spine.
Management has confided in me that token usage is a secret performance metric. At the same time I'm getting emails from infrastructure people about prompting techniques to get LLMs to speak more concisely to save the company money lmao. I'd prefer a video essay mode that bulks everything up.
Two years ago everyone would have told you that 'impact' was the way to measure people, and been aghast at tracking inputs like hours. Say what you will, but at least showing up at 8 didn't cost the company money. Today I see people spending time and money vibe coding tools in search of a problem, just to spend tokens and demonstrate that they're on board with the singularity.
I believe Krafton still owns Unknown Worlds. On the other hand the whole reason for this situation (beyond ego) is that the contract for Subautica 2 was very favorable to the people at the latter.
When I TA'd a CS class (the students did their exams in-person but on a website with their laptops), we would solemnly tell them at the start of the exam that we would be monitoring all cell traffic in that room haha.
From their most recent form 990: "Advertising and Promotion: $41,505,368; Grants (domestic + foreign): $36,693,172". More than anything it's a self-licking ice-cream cone. Ads that solicit donations for more ads.
A family member recently got a routine physcial blood test panel taken. The company made 3(!) separate overcharge billing errors associated with this one screening. Their doctor had to be pulled in and wasted a considerable amount of time clearing this up, doing stuff like affirming to their support that the documentation from their own front desk was accurate. Maybe for every $100 of doctor time they waste they collect $101 from patients who give up. No wonder its a black hole of money.
If you don't mind paying a touch more you may as well buy a Vita. I got mine for $95 + shipping. You can boot into the PSP OS with Adrenaline (I really do miss the XMB), so it's a superset of capabilities, and you get that nice right analog stick. As far as being a dedicated device with actual buttons and minimal online connectivity it's all the same.
I appreciate the sentiment I guess, but you can't really verify the human-ness of a poster. At best you can validate that at some point(s) they completed a human-is-present check. Doesn't necessarily mean anything about a given post. Moltbook (wow that feels like forever ago) has the inverse problem: you can just larp as a kooky bot. At best maybe you can do something like limit the number of bots to the number of people who are willing to set aside their personal credentials, which is probably way more bots than you can stand.
My employer's process is basically exactly the same: leetcode, system design, behavioural; we just tell candidates not to use AI. Hiring is one of the scarier decisions a manager can make so I think they will stay pretty conservative. Personally my philosophy is that the interview is an information-gathering session, not a workday simulation. So it makes sense to test your fundamentals even if in practice you may be delegating them most of the time.
Low rates all seem to be high-education and well-paid: software, engineers, scientists, dentists. High rates are mostly low-paid, high-stress, and/or require travel: factory, nurses, drivers.
This is close to my experience with code. LLMs can pick out small mistakes from giant code changes with surprising accuracy, or slowly narrow down a weird. On the other hand I've seen them bravely shoulder on under completely incorrect conceptual models of what they're working with and churn around in circles consequently, spin up giant piles of slop to re-implement something they decided was necessary, but didn't bother to search for, or outright dismiss important error signals as just 'transient failures'. Unlimited stamina, low wisdom.
As everyone knows, there are no soldiers, or litigation lawyers, or security guards, or investigative journalists, or police, or home inspectors, in America, since everyone understands it would be inappropriate to make life difficult for bad actors. The one true way is to lie down for corporations, and tell anyone who doesn't like it that they're free to live in the woods and interact with no-one if they appreciate personal liberty so much.
I think you could actually build a small resistor (an energy efficient appliance if you will) and then get paid for not building a giant resistor (the hypothetical crummy appliance you didn't buy). I suppose one fix at least is to tie any ability to auction your load-reduction-services to the capability to actually reduce load on command. If you reduce load around the clock or at uncontrolled times (like an energy-efficient lightbulb) then your reward ought to be just the average price of power since you're not really helping to smooth out the peaks in any way. In general though these counter-factual pricing schemes are pretty prone to distortion I think and ought be be avoided. Ideally your reward for not using power during a peak is just you don't pay an inflated peak power cost.
I can't see any real motivation for it either. The sequel trilogy was so safe over all, that the state of the universe is almost identical post episode 6 and 9. The only thing a retcon would accomplish for mainline media is free up some specific characters tied to actors who are way too old to play them anymore or literally passed away (please tell me there will not be a de-aged Mark Hamill film Disney). If you want to do Thrawn movies you can just do it post 9, nothing really changes. If remotely true I feel like this is a corrupted version of "we're going to re-canonize the EU stuff as an alternate timeline as a mea culpa fan appeasement?"
A Barnum Effect type statement really haha. One should be suspicious of any brush that you can earnestly apply to "all" of hundreds of people's personalities at once. "Having elements of both broad category X and broad category Y" is absolutely a rich vein for that.
Applicants definitely peak in their leet code ability at graduation. Probably doesn't help that they're have lots of free time and motivation to grind for their first job. It's a mistake to hold more senior people to same standard.
Clever experiments to measure tiny values are probably my favorite kind of science. Millikan found the charge of an electron by looking for a common integer multiple of charge in tiny oil droplets. Or LIGO measures gravitational waves by watching the interference pattern generated over time by two light beams taking different paths.
"To be clear when we floated the idea of 'federal loan guarantees' we were only asking the government subsidize building a bunch of cheap supply for us. We definitely believe in competitive markets." https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-does-not-want-govern...