Why are people booing? They’re right.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

On the flip side, I am genuinely curious how much storage and processing time all the AI slop being uploaded is costing them. Some of that stuff is hours long, and like most videos on YouTube, most people aren’t watching it.

Damn, that’s a good reason

Python has a popular library called “Flask” that uses stringify(). Although, python also has an implementation in its standard library called jason.dumps()

Holy cow! I don’t think I’ve ever met another developer who actually admits to using action script back in the day. Greetings fellow old person!

Does anyone actually IRL disagree with this? The clowns…

I’ve heard both. Personally, I will continue to pronounce it “Jay-Sawn” until I hear a damn good reason for why I should stop.

Death registration data is unavailable or unusable for China due to quality issues. Estimates of mortality by cause should be interpreted with caution. These estimates may be used for priority setting, however, they are not likely to be informative for policy evaluation or comparisons among countries.

https://data.who.int/countries/156

We can also review an excerpt from the population introduction from the Chinese Statistical Yearbook, which the study someone cited above cites as their primary data source.

Data in this chapter are prepared by the Department of Population and Employment Statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics. In tables 2-1 to 2-6, figures for 1981 and before are from household registrations; data for the year 1982, 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2020 are the census year estimates; the rest of the data covered in those tables are estimates from the annual national sample survey on population changes and data for selected years have been revised

The Crohns and Colitis foundation must have spent triple on mailers and phone calls than I have ever actually donated. It upsets me because I know how much good that organization does, and it’s upsetting to feel that my donation has contributed none to those efforts. Hopefully I’m wrong, but I’m speaking to how the pestering for more money makes me feel.

That’s a great point! You have a wonderful opportunity here to follow up with these redditors and ask for additional evidence to collaborate their experiences. If it turns out that you are correct, then you could flip the whole medical establishment on its head! Especially if you document your methodology so that other people can come in behind you to verify your results. Be the change you want to see in the world and go from reading research into being the researcher!

My vote is good old fashioned whackaloons.

Yes? My admittedly limited understanding says yes anyway. If Congress budgets $100m for cancer research, then all $100m needs to go to cancer research. But, the executive branch gets some freedom to decide what qualifies as cancer research. Cancer cures? Enhanced treatment? Earlier detection? Prevention? Environmental factors?

I do research into human computer interaction, and I know exactly how I’d hitch my wagon onto this. My research improves the usability of machines used in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients. BAM! Now my research into virtual buttons qualifies as cancer research.

Now, I would never do that scenario IRL because I have a conscious, but I know how the games like this are played when it comes time to apply for obscure grants that need to go to someone.

Yup! Fedora for everything, and everything else for the lolz.

Something I’ve noticed is that, generally speaking, the fediverse doesn’t seem to be very hateful. Rude, sure, but rarely badness for sufferings sake. Without the constant pressure to be hateful, it is hard for grudges to take hold. I think a big reason is that the demographics on here appear to lean older than most other social media. Again, speaking generally, individual user behavior and experience may vary.

I’ll second this treatment. This in combination with conventional medication, therapy, and making active choices in my life to improve my minute to minute experience. You know that stuff that mildly annoys you, but doesn’t bother you enough to actually fix? Fix it ASAP, those experiences built up in me like poison, and I don’t think that I’m that different from the average person. Regardless, weed and hiking was definitely the foundation.

I don’t think anyone here is arguing. This is just what a complex conversation looks like.

The age rating is standard across packaging and in plain language.

My points are not invalid if you use a screen reader or a font size extension.

Different person, but isn’t this already a problem with closed source games? My game dev experience is more hobbyist than professional, but I’ve spent a few lonely hours on ghidra. I also teach secure coding at my university, but I focus more on how to patch legacy systems and audit code for vulnerabilities. My point is that closed source vs open source, I see this as an issue in both systems and therefore irrelevant. Pardon my ignorance on this exact topic.

You aren’t addressing any other point. But sense you seem particularly hung up about this fact, how do you feel about that being literally the smallest text written on the box art? Again, I say that is intentionally misleading. Is it legal? Not sure, for now they are getting away with it, but I do feel like that will change eventually. However, I’d be shocked to hear any genuine argument on how this isn’t designed specifically to mislead people.

Personally, this feels like that bit in Seinfeld- “Hey, this ain’t a wizard! It’s a Willard!”

How am I as a regular consumer supposed to know what a game key card is? And yes, the non-standardized one off example of a company using a non-plain language description completely destroys the argument that this is anti-consumer and intentionally deceptive. Clearly everyone wants a game keycard inserted in order to play a digital game that if they had bought with an explicit code or completely online wouldn’t be required. It’s also great that completely digital download that takes many gigabytes of storage on my device becomes unplayable the moment I lose the game key. That way, I get the worst of both worlds! I have to be responsible with keeping track with physical media, and I have a massive drain on my devices storage space.

Just look at this Game Key Pass game sold through target. Note how the description says that it is a physical copy, and the specification notes that it is a physical copy. The only reason you may even suspect that this is game-key card that requires a download is if you happen to look at one of the cover art screenshots without alternative text. The fast food industry has been getting wrecked by that sort of oversight for a couple of years now.(Links available on request, but currently on mobile, so lazy)