It still boils down to road capacity. A whole car around a single person is a ton of wasted road space. Cars are useful for specific types of commuting.

“I would have” - the easiest most meaningless set of words in the English language

Unfortunately you only find that out after they do the thing that makes you confident that society is better off without them. It’s far more important to figure out how to build a society in which the “finding out” part happens less often.

Congratulations, you just wrote the wiki article on confirmation bias.

I think if you permit people to use negative numbers, you really do end up with nothing to infer because any number used to make up the total could be literally any number.

They didn’t manipulate search results. They looked for search terms that were used a lot more in 2023 than in 2022. That’s all. It’s a question easily expressed in an SQL query, and involves no manipulation of anything. The question is “select from search query stats database the difference in total sum of searches…

That’s pretty elegant, but you’d need a real range of values for the instructions in the range of very little to very large (eg: across the spectrum from 0 to twice a salary anybody would actually care about) so the “obfuscation” is effective. Like if the instructions only went from add 10k to minute 10k, and since…

divide your salary into N-1 pieces ... N being the number of people participating. You can divide them by any ratio you like, so long as they all add up to your salary.

NHTSA prefers to focus on trying to make drivers pay attention while using systems such as Autopilot.

“or” is the dumbest word in your post, as if it’s smart to only use one method to increase available performance capacity ... but never more than one, apparently. ublock or no ublock, you’re asking for performance that is lower than your computer is capable of by having your cpu handle things you could offload to the…

Cocoon is mind-blowing. And mind-blowingly good. Buy Cocoon.

No thank you.

“a YOLO lifestyle tuber that it would be for those of us dependent on square jobs”

My beef with gift cards is that they’re a wildly profitable model for retailers because people either spend the value of the card less some amount and then feel compelled to use the rest and spend more on a subsequent purchase, or even better for them, the recipient just plain misplaces/forgets to use it and the store…

When you were growing up, you paid for those skins already in the total price of the game (joke’s a little on you, if you didn’t beat a game you paid for content you never got to use.) And those assets were way cheaper to produce in those days.

Pockets are utilitarian. Skins are not. Skins are not features. Skins are patterns. They don’t change the game. The point made above about why it’s so expensive to buy the coat in all 200 fabrics it is offered in is germane .. because if “having everything” regarding a luxury item is the metric, there’s no problem…

I know people I made games with 20 years ago. It would not be great for me personally, nor professionally, to create conflict with them. In many respects, it’s kind of a small industry.

The game’s level loading/streaming tech would have needed to be finished before levels could go into full production

A lot of the complexity in a shipped game arises from the middle layer of game code .. think game flow, loading strategies, a number of other in the weeds decisions you make in pipeline development when building a game on an engine. If you want to think of L4D2 as a “patch” I think you almost can, on a technical…

This is the nature of software development and games. One game can be more fun, look better, do everything the customer wants, but be 100x worse in the way it’s built than another game.