This likely applies to all larger commission based purchases but do your large buys near the end of the month.
Why? Commission based jobs generally have bonuses and incentives for their staff to hit specific sales targets for the month. What this means is, near the end of the month you'll have sales staff trying a little harder to close deals and get in those last minute sales. What this means for you is a sales person more willing to negotiate a better deal on your purchase.
This is coming from personal experience as I worked in furniture sales for 6 years (two different stores) and tried it out a couple times myself.
Just curious what issues you're having with the Epic store. I've bought a few games now and thought the process was pretty smooth.
Lol, they need to do a little quiz after the movies. But really though, if you don't want to watch the movies why are you an academy voter
Yea this is like the "Alan Rickman did his first movie at 45". Like sure, but he was a mega accomplished stage and British TV actor for 20 years prior.
On GitHub, after you make a PR go up to the URL. Right after the pr number add .diff
This will give you a full pr diff. Paste that into what LLM you're using. I usually prompt with something like
"You're a senior web engineer. Give this PR a review being aware of modern code practices and syntax. Try to uncover possible bugs. Give 3 to 5 actionable suggestions."
There's probably a way to do this in the tools, I've just found this works.
These people all work for what seems like huge (video game) businesses. It's a pretty entitled position to say results aren't the most important thing. The fact is, they are. If you want the freedom to do things your own way at your own pace, go make your own indie game. I guarantee these "journey over results" types would end up with feature creep and never ship a finished product though.
On the coding side, I'm a senior dev who has been in the industry for 20 years. Not video games but for the web. Easily 40% of the code I ship now is AI written. I'll use a different AI to review my PRs saving my coworkers time catching the little mistakes I overlooked.
I've cut days off my workload over the past year and to say all AI is slop is being intentionally obtuse to the tools. Basically we've all been promoted to manager roles and LLMs are the mid level workers we oversee.
This article is trying to paint a picture that these tools are without value and I can feel your finger hovering over the downvote button but the fact is the genie is out of the bottle. They're not going away and today is the worst they'll ever be. People that say they're slower with these tools are going to get left behind by people who are proficient with them.
15 minutes is crazy fast and assumes they just get exactly what they want first go. You need to factor in running your PC using Photoshop or equivalent, which is fairly resource intensive, sustained over what is realistically 40-60 minutes at best, sourcing assets from servers which are using energy to serve the images. Compared with AI which has high usage for sure but it's extremely short bursts.
Redemption events at shoppers turn 200k into $300 or 250k into $400 on Black Fridays. Last year they had an event to double your entire point spend which was the best redemption yet (500k became $1000). I've used these events to get my PS5, PSVR2, Xbox, switch, Sonos speakers, Apple Airpod Max, sim race wheel. Of course starting this year they've stopped carrying all the cool electronics.
All this being said, you can only redeem a max of 500k in any translation so keeping anything more than that doesn't serve much purpose.
This one had a fair bit of success in America, they had popular cartoon in the mornings in the late 80s/early 90s. I think it was my first exposure to anime.
You'd have your favorite mix tape with a bunch of radio announcer clips because they kept talking over the song intros
Hell yea brother. So many "movies you must see lists" are like Come & See, Grave of the Fireflies and the whole Decalogue. Don't get me wrong these are all great but we so often leave silly joy out of the great film canon. I'm gonna continue this vibe
- Tampopo
- Paper Moon
- Sing Street
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- The Sting
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- About Time
- School of Rock
- O Brother Where Art Thou
- Midnight Run
- Barb and Starr Go To Vista Del Mar
Yup! Also the other host Christian appeals to the Sega kid in me. He'll uncover gems that evoke the Dreamcast era.
People are more likely to go online and complain than to compliment. But why take internet comments so seriously. I have a handful of trusted sources that I use to get my opinions on games. DLC Podcast for example is a favorite of mine. I've gotten to know their tastes and where they overlap with mine so when they get excited about a specific thing I'll know if I'm likely to enjoy it based on our shared interests.
When you get a handful of voices that have a strong overlap with your own taste then you can get outside of the tribalistic bitching of the hive. Comments don't even concern me anymore.
I mean, there's plenty of private sellers at stores in your city who are hurt by Amazon. Ultimately the local shop or the Amazon seller is going to lose the sale to the other and I'd rather the money stay in my community.
The dates make it specific and actionable. Just saying boycott Amazon is obvious but doesn't rally people like a time sensitive group effort. And it's not really pushing purchases. Lots of people just buy everything through Amazon so this gets people to try alternatives and if a few of those stick as long term changes it's a net win.
Wtf is the point of this article if you're not going to include pictures
I have two accounts in the app. One of them, if I go to Settings > General has "Drawer Navigation" and "Bottom Navigation"
My other account doesn't have these options at all.
Canon EOS 70D
f/16.0 1/640 18.00mm ISO160O
I don't remember the exact location, we were on holiday in Rome. We were on our way to a restaurant called "I Porchettoni" after seeing it on Anthony Bourdain. Looks like the restaurant is rebranded to Trattori Pigneto. It's not far from here but I can't seem to find the exact street: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zaPqW2RCHkv8GYyE6
Don't know the guy, just thought his jacket would look cool in a picture with the bricks and graffiti
Basically as the title says. We have semi frequent power outages where I live. The noise machine in my daughter's room goes out and wakes her up. If I were to buy a USB powered one, plug it into a power bank like one of those 10000ma ones you get for charging cell phones, would it have continuous power. Basically like a cheap UPS
We were traveling through Malta in 2018 when I came across this. According to the locals it had crashed up on shore about a month prior. They didn't know what to do so they tied it off until they could come up with a solution. My personal favorite of the photos I took. The two guys below were exploring the ship. Thought it would ruin the shot but it ended up adding some good scale.
I'm thinking about moving my PC out to the living room and streaming back to my office when I need to. I've used a number of moonlight clients with mixed results.
Apple TV and Xbox Series X, terrible with massive lag.
Android with Nvidia shield pro or Chromecast with Google TV, not bad but not amazing,
MacOS client on MacBook pro and Google pixel 6 pro over wifi 6, perfect feels like it's on the same machine.
Before I go through all the effort of setting up the Raspberry Pi 4 just wondering if anyone has any first hand experience on the quality of the stream
Most of my collection is just the movie rips of just the video that play fine in Plex or Jellyfin. I've got a couple of full disc rips though that have the menus and features and all just like you would if you put the disc in. I can open these in VLC on my computer by choosing the folder.
My living room setup is an Apple TV as the primary streaming device but I also have an Nvidia Shield pro and Google TV Chromecast.
Is there any way to stream these over the network into some kind of app on any of these devices?
EDIT
After some looking around Kodi might be able to do what I want. Going to investigate further.
EDIT 2
The Kodi repo with the required addon (HEVC kodi bluray addon) seems to be down, maybe permanently :/ Still looking for a solution
Ok so here's the rules
- I just bet on red every time
- I start with 1 dollar
- every time I lose, I triple my previous bet
- every time I win I restart
I'm going to simulate 10 games
- Game 1 - Bet $1 Lose
- Game 2 - Bet $3 Lose
- Game 3 - Bet $9 Win $18
- Game 4 - Bet $1 Lose
- Game 5 - Bet $3 Lose
- Game 6 - Bet $9 Win $18
- Game 7 - Bet $1 Lose
- Game 8 - Bet $3 Lose
- Game 9 - Bet $9 Lose
- Game 10 - Bet $18 Win $36
In this simulation I'm losing at a rate of 70%. In reality the lose rate is closer to 52%. I put in $54 but I'm walking away with $72, basically leaving the building with $18.
Another example. Let's pretend I walk in with $100,000 to bet with. I lose my first 10 games and win the 11th.
- 1 lose
- 3 lose
- 9 lose
- 27 lose
- 81 lose
- 243 lose
- 729 lose
- 2187 lose
- 6561 lose
- 19683 lose
- 59049 win $118098
$88573 spent out of pocket, $118098 won
Walk out with roughly $29525.
I get most casinos won't let you be that high but it's a pretty extreme example anyway, the likelyhood of losing 10/11 games on 48% odds is really unlikely.
So help me out here, what am I missing?
This feels like a common courtesy I don't see enough, particularly the second point. In a conversation circle, always try to keep your side vision open to people trying to find their way in. It can be awkward to try and find your own way in so giving them a spot tells them they're included then drop a quick brief on the conversation "We're talking about pineapples on pizza, good or bad" gives them context to jump in immediately.
I'm looking for some game recommendations. I feel like a ton of these games exist but they're riddled with IAP. I don't mind paying a little to buy the game. I have the play pass but so many of these games are active involvement and landscape orientation. I like to have an extra hand free and landscape requires both hands on. But really want passive engagement. Like as soon as I stop playing the game is waiting for me. Example games:
Polytopia
Magnet Balls
Free Cell
Threes
Card Thief
Knights of Pen and Paper
Games like Slay the Spire (but portrait). Although I've never really found a Slay the Spire-like that didn't feel like a watered down version of STS
