in_the_dark_forest

So their models have trouble opening a dropdwn menu and their best solution is to implement mass surveillance of the employees?

Seems a bit overkill tbh aside from being qustionable in general.

Filthy NS Operative, let Vanu smile upon you!

I wonder though if pressing "skip" is a good idea in terms of privacy / not giving them what they want. I don't think this was implemented for our "convienience" and rather as yet another manipulation technique.

Just some ideas what I assume they achieve by this:

• By pressing it you have to divert your attention towards the ad, even if it is just for a short time.

• You might unintentionally signal your prefences by which could be used for profile enrichment

• You also provide information, that you are still actively at the device an watching (I assume ad providers have more interest on having more/longer ads on content that is actively watched)

There is a stargate on the lake

They like to annoy future programmers by letting them do binary tree insertion steps manually on paper. They also like to destroy your self confidence by telling you if you ever come up with an algorithm it is likely trash and someone else invented a better one 50 years ago.

I have the same issue, I found it also occurs for community shaders. Although I did not manage to get the game load at all with those Mods. I thought it is because of the vcredist as well, however I am not so sure anymore as I got some other mods that depend on it working.

Now I went down a rabbit hole reading about aleph and tree(3). I did not even study math why do I do this to myself...