To each their own, I felt like Portal 2 was better because of it’s length and storytelling. I recall single player being maybe 8-10 hours? Beatable in a single weekend, in any case.

“I wish I won more Internet arguments…”

My favorite part of these comments are the number of people coming to the realization they may have sleep apnea, lol

You and me both; the advice that worked ok for me is a pillow between the legs and proper placement under the head that keeps everything level.

They also suggested we get the softer mattresses, since we want a little extra dip for the shoulders and hips. That advice is a mixed bag, though, as I still get shoulder pain. Might be the cheap foam, though.

I miss replaceable batteries. I replace mine myself but current phones all glue in and do waterproofing so it’s a real pain and it’s never quite the same. Don’t let people blame the form factor or waterproofing, though, a replaceable battery is always technically possible-- there’s just no incentive for companies to do it.

Yeah, I noticed that years later. Didn’t blow my mind, though, both versions are quite catchy.

Hell, nowadays it’s all owned by one big “land developer” so they don’t even need the app. That’s the case where I used to live, the whole neighborhood was bought out to milk renters.

Wow, it’s making national news. I live one town over and supposedly we can see the blaze from here (at least, last night). I go over that way on the regular since I like that area.

I always thought it odd El Segundo, beach city, had such a major refinery right on the coast. Kinda kept it from being as popular and well known as Santa Monica or Laguna, etc.

Fun fact, it’s also a major game company hub, lots of asian game companies have their US branches there, like Bandai Namco and Square Enix (in the 999 building no less, lol).

So we’re winning on Aerosol loading and Ozone, the two things we actually made societal efforts on reducing before our world governments went fully to shit (well, more actually, were decaying but still kind of functioning in the 80s and 90s).

I guess if there’s any silver lining, humans had the power to address these things and theoretically could again if, well… y’know. Sigh.

Yes. Yes they are wrong, just like it was wrong to introduce them to Alexa at age 4 or gacha tablet games at age 4. This keeps coming up.

It doesn’t stop parents from using them, unfortunately, as they generally lack the support circles that humans naturally should have (e.g. “it takes a village”). Being the single caregiver to a child or children is itself an unnatural condition we’re not evolved to cope with and an AI decoy is going to look mighty attractive when there’s no reinforcements to give you reprieve.

Agree that’s rude to the child and teaches a bad lesson. Dishonesty in general is just bad parenting.

But, I do want you say, totally normal up leave (some) kids alone for two hours. Their behavior is pretty predictable and you may have to clean up a mess but it’s generally fine (ideally in earshot). Just don’t leave any major hazards lying around, like Daddy’s bleach IV.

Thank you for asking this, my students keep submitting huge movie files for an assignment. Didn’t know handbrake existed; leave it to FOSS Lemmy to know.

There’s a new law coming that will start the citations in CA, at least according to local news. Not sure about the dates, but they are addressing it supposedly.

I mean, ALL the propaganda is being used against Democrats so no, probably not. Interestingly enough, though, confirmation bias might just keep people as entrenched on this issue as always so we probably won’t even see a change in the blame game regardless of what happens.

Good to know! I was wondering about that, ironically we don’t seem to have those in CA, or at least not in LA.

Oh great, now I’m trying to remember her name… Madeline, right?

Funny I remember the panic attack feather trick more so than character names, hehe.

I estimate probably 3x speed. 0.25 playback feels a little slow and 0.5 playback is clearly too fast.

I took a closer look and that doesn’t look like a traffic light? I’m not actually sure what it is, it’s kind of a red stand alone red bulb. Maybe it’s meant to be a stop sign (but those usually blink), but yeah, take a look at the video one more time at a slower speed and it’s clearly missing the two other lights for it to be a traffic light 🚦

Lol, I reviewed it at .25 and I think you’re right. I did that part again at .5 and it looked straight up silly. Those cars are fucked with how slow that is going, although I do think construction near the end might be impacting it.

Yup, although technically you can still run z-tests and t-tests for statistical validity because samples are always normally distributed around a population mean (as long as it’s a large enough sample), even for skewed or uniform distributions. Some tests work better than others, though. The graphs z might be a sample, which might make sense is population data is available for these phrases, but otherwise I’m a little confused why that’d use it, lol.

To clarify for the commenter, though, Z-scores themselves can be applied to individuals; it’s just a simple conversation setting mean to 0 and standard deviation to 1. In that case, it’s strictly a relative case, that 2.5% isn’t a probability so much as the percentile – % cases that fall below that score. It’s a nifty metric to compare things that aren’t on the same scale, for instance.