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Blade Runner 2049

There's an informative James Hoffman video about this.

Fraud is briefly discussed in the wikipedia page, but from the video, he's able to estimate that 75%+ of the coffee sold as kopi luwak isn't kopi luwak at all, it's just normal, cheaper coffee marked up a ton.

And of course, the remaining <25% that is real kopi luwak is ripe with civet abuse.

So please don't drink this coffee. If you're that interested in gut-processed coffee, do it yourself like that guy in Portland (but I still wouldn't recommend it).

It's not just for SSD users, it's for everyone:

Our testing shows that for the small percentage of players still using mechanical hard disk drives, mission loading times have only increased by a few seconds in the worst cases.

Only a few seconds difference?

Further good news: the change in the file size will result in minimal changes to load times - seconds at most. “Wait a minute,” I hear you ask - “didn’t you just tell us all that you duplicate data because the loading times on HDDs could be 10 times worse?”. I am pleased to say that our worst case projections did not come to pass. These loading time projections were based on industry data - comparing the loading times between SSD and HDD users where data duplication was and was not used. In the worst cases, a 5x difference was reported between instances that used duplication and those that did not. We were being very conservative and doubled that projection again to account for unknown unknowns.

Now things are different. We have real measurements specific to our game instead of industry data. We now know that the true number of players actively playing HD2 on a mechanical HDD was around 11% during the last week (seems our estimates were not so bad after all). We now know that, contrary to most games, the majority of the loading time in HELLDIVERS 2 is due to level-generation rather than asset loading. This level generation happens in parallel with loading assets from the disk and so is the main determining factor of the loading time. We now know that this is true even for users with mechanical HDDs.

Doesn't bank account information have to be exchanged for an ACH transfer? Seems good between people you really trust (although definitely less convenient), but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable exchanging bank info with an acquaintance.

Thanks for the suggestion. At first glance it does seem "less bad" than most of the other options, assuming it works on custom ROMs. I think the problem will be finding others that also use it, since it doesn't seem as popular as the other options.

I think you missed the part of my post where I said "it isn't always a reasonable option to use cash or mail a check."

The "Totally Not Dune" warbond

Mozilla reviewed the privacy of a lot of dating apps. It isn't very pretty, but there are some that are less bad than others. Article also gives some tips on how to improve your privacy while using them.

Privacy Guides also has a "Reducing the Risks while using dating apps" section in one of their articles.

Side note: I don't think the commenters who are saying "go outside" have really dated in years. Like it or not, it's by far the dominant way couples are meeting now, and unfortunately it's becoming more and more of a requirement in the modern dating scene:

Sure, but it's also about fun. I don't think I'm alone in feeling like D6 is much less fun than D10

I've been playing mostly D10s for a long time and still only have ~half the warbonds completed

I love that video. One awesome solution he brings up is letting math draw the district lines, specifically the shortest-split line method. There's also an updated version of the method called Impartial Automatic Redistricting, that uses an approach similar to SSLM, but will only make cuts along the boundaries of census blocks (the smallest geographic unit used by the Census Bureau) to avoid cutting towns/neighborhoods in half, although it can create some odd results sometimes.

However, I think both of these would currently be illegal in the US under the Voting Rights Act for not taking minority representation into account. That is one downside to these methods, even though they're probably still an upgrade compared to the heavily-gerrymandered system in the US. So in the US's current system, the algorithms would have to be updated to somehow take that into account.

There are also a few other neat district drawing rules on Wikipedia that he didn't cover which are worth a read.

I think you will be relieved at how easy it is. A lot of games are flawless on Deck without the developers even targetting Deck or linux at all, since Proton has gotten so good. Here's Valve's guideance: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/3001070242218057029