A buddy of mine I play some x-play games with only has a PS4/5. He had some money issues a few months back and couldn’t pay for Playstation online renewal for a month (I believe he pays yearly?). I was shocked to learn they’re still charging access to play online. I keep urging him to pick up a Steam Deck with a dock, but he’s been hesitant.

I couldn’t imagine having to pay for access to online play for Steam/GOG/Ect. It’s one of the reasons I stopped buying PS and Xbox consoles.

The way Python is implemented, almost all objects in the language are dicts and can be accessed with the __dict__ dunder. Which has some useful applications when transforming data.

But in the case, the interviewer was likely looking for knowledge that one is structured and maintained by indicies vs defined keys. And that searching through a dictionary is O[1] vs list that is O[N] but are inverted for deletion. So if you are doing a lot of inserts and seaeching, use a dict, but if you have something that has tons of deletions, use a list. However, there’s tricks to improve the deletion speed downside that can be used with a slight memory tradeoff.

There’s a phrase among EA employees, “Never hired, only acquired.”.

I’ve had the “pleasure” of going through this and have peers that have had it happen 3 times. I’m also sure that there’s a few people that have had the “luck” of being acquired more than that but haven’t worked directly with them.

“AI” text prediction runs locally. Microphone is for voice to text functionality.

As for the keyboard itself. Ehhhhh. It’s lacking UX features to make it actually usable. I dailied it for a month and had far more typos, text prediction broke whenever a number or symbol was fat fingered into the string. Finding symbols you need was worse than gboard & SwiftKey.

I really want there to be a great open-source keyboard, but none actually deliver on UX atm.

The entire state smells like balls too.

Iamragesparkle’s barkeep story about Nazi’s was right.

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

Yet. There is a ton of models coming out, some more shown army CES, and the SteamOS news shows the direction of what low end gaming laptops are going to become over the next 2-5 years.

As an indsutry insider, I there is lots of people discussing this and more studios and publishers starting to look into the cost/benefit analysis of getting Steamdeck Verified.

The Switch 2 is very likely to struggle, but this consultant’s reasoning is dumb as fuck, and belittlies average gamers as ‘normies’. His analysis of why it will struggle, and why the WiiU failed is off base. The average person doesn’t look at the PS5 and PS4 and go “but why, they look the same.”, they understand that its the updated version with imrpovements.

Nintendo is going to struggle due to:

• Handheld PC alternatives that outperform and have much larger game libraries for similar cost.
• Pissing off the emulation crowd
• Pissing off fans for fan project shutdowns
• Pissing off fans of Smash Bros Melee
• Joycon drift denial
• Stealing fan art.
• Failing to adapt to a rapidly changing gaming market.
• 500 other things.

If I were Nintendo, I’d be working quickly as possible to getting their virtual store available for Windows/Linux/Mac and developing a brand for the platform to feature games that reflected their consoles.

Adderall works great for me for pushing through the focus issues and inattention. However, my anxiety and rumination kept building and building until I had an anxiety attack and have since gone on an SSRI as well and after a week of upset stomach, and 3-4 weeks of feeling nothing, my anxiety melted away. The funny thing is, I honestly didnt know how fucking bad my anxiety was. I am an extremely self-relfective person, but that shit was hiding behind everything, and it took the attack for me to identify it.

So, my advice is once you’re on a med that’s working for you, after about 2-3 months work with your psych and therapist to analyze whether you have anything else impacting you on top of the ADHD. Depression, anxiety and a few other mental health issues are comorbidities to ADHD and if you don’t treat those effectively, or let them hide behind you unknowingly like I did, you could suffer a mental health episode like I did.

Medication is working great for me. The clarity and focus have been astounding. And I only was partially the way there with adderall alone.

Whenever a store locks up something I need that I could buy in 2023 off the shelf, I pull out my phone and order it from another store.

There’s a bike trail that goes along side and cuts straight through those ponds I used to ride out to the Silver Strand when I lived in North Park.

Was super cool to see the ponds change week over week. But holy hell do they stink. Not as bad as some of the brackish mud flats around the Puget Sound, but they definitely have an aroma.

Additionally, Washington, Oregon, California, and BC (this one has to have some sort of international limitations) have a climate pact with eachother to adopt emission and climate policies set by the other states/province.

Out of all the states that CA would have emissions issues with, OR would not be one of them.

“Latina Favorites” huh?

Thanks for this. However,this isnt the scenario described where the water “floated“. I’m imagining that the wind was so fierce that the water was disappated so fast it didnt make it to the ground in a significant manner.

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Somebody was so triggered by the graphic being off center they just had to break that window.

Somebody was sobtriggered by the graphic being off centered they had to break the window didn’t they?

Do you have a link to that video of the tanker dropping water? I haven’t come across that and am having trouble finding it.

Serial Experiments: Lain

Bribe. The word the editor was looking for here is “bribe“.