Almost to the Fourth extra planet in Factorio, just beefing up Nauvis production first so I can bang some higher quality items out first.

I always rate my games on price per hour played, rather than just total cost.

Factorio is one of my cheapest games ever.

If you enjoyed the base game, you’ll like the expansion. It’s a lot more content with tons of new things to deal with and optimize.

I’m almost 60 hours into factorio’s space age expansion that just came out out 10 days ago. However I have over 2500 hours in the base game.

That being said, factorio is notorious for never once having gone on sale.

The only other game I play launch day for is path of exile expansions.

Everything else I buy later on sale.

LLMs

For example if I need to generate a long formula for excel or power apps, I could write it myself or I can just tell the LLM the parameters and it will do it in 1/10th of time.

If I need to create course material, I can shove in bullet points for my key topics and have it expand it into a first draft for me. This concept I actually use a lot more than just for course material. It’s great at generating drafts of everything from statements of work and quotes to presentations (Co-Pilot in 365)

I know how to do the job without it, so hallucinations are easily caught and cleaned up. It’s a tool to speed me up, not replace me.

Business process automation. I use it for everything from communications to programming.

I automate office processes, improving productivity. So literally the opposite of a bullshit job.

If it’s so useless, why am I using it all the time for my job to speed up my work?

The only problem I have with this is that USB-C PD can only go to 240w, which is fine for most laptops but my current gaming laptop has a 240w power brick and it only has a 3060 in it. The 3080 and 3090 variants had 300w+ bricks IIRC.

I don’t live in India, but I hope gaming laptops get some sort of exception if their power draw can exceed the specification limits.

I’m going to be the odd one out on this.

I prefer ultra customized recommendations, I wish they were even smarter. Especially if I’ve already bought something, I want them to know so they stop advertising that product to me.

I’d rather see ads for products that I may actually buy rather than for shit I don’t have the slightest interest in.

I rarely buy products without significant research, so ads aren’t likely to trick me into buying something of poor quality. I just need to have awareness of things I don’t even know exist.

I don’t see that as insane at all. Why should I put anyone else’s lives above my own children?

How many people would you be willing to let the military kill to rescue your child who had been taken hostage?

My answer is “anyone who gets in the way”

Yup, but people are dumb. We already have an example of what happens with no immigration, it’s Japan. It’s been economical stagnant for thirty years, and has lost even more quality of life than most countries.

So how many are they allowed to kill? Zero? The same number? Double? Where’s the line?

Overresponse can be a great way to end wars. See historical examples such as the USA nuking Japan, the german blitzkreig, and even Ghengis khan completely wiping cities off maps.

Even on a smaller scale, like if you want someone to stop punching you in the hallway at school, beating the shit out of them frequently works to end the behaviour.

Except that’s not a good analogy.

How many people would you be willing to have the military kill to get your child back if they had been taken hostage?

If the kidnappers were hiding behind their own family, with their family knowing they’ve done an evil thing, would that change your answer?

I know I wouldn’t care how many they had to take out, my child is worth worth more to me than terrorists (and their supporters) lives.

Would I prefer they don’t take out women and children while getting my child back? Of course, but the whole point of using human shields is to make it difficult to do just that.

The Israelis got 4 hostages back today, and it looks like there were around 200 Palestinian casualties to do so. Too bad for them.

It’s a war, and this time Hamas started it. Should they expect no consequences for killing a thousand Israeli civilians?

If they wanted to actually kill civilians, why is the death count such a low percentage of the population?

It would be trivial for them to be killing more, and yet they aren’t.

If you kill 60% civilians and children, and the population is 75% civilians and children and the enemy is literally using them as human shields, you’re showing that you’re doing at least something to minimize the harm. Anyone with a heart should be furious that this is the way that Hamas has decided to fight. Anyone with a heart should be furious that they attacked over a thousand civilians to pop off this latest round of violence. It sure made the Israelis furious, that’s why they’re retaliating.

There’s no such thing as a war with 0 civilian casualties anymore. This isn’t the 1600s where people lined up for battles in nice lines. So every war is a genocide by your definition. Unfortunately they’re still going to happen because the world isn’t all rainbows and unicorns.

Civilian casualties are both real people and statistics. Again, the world isn’t all rainbows.

Israel has killed less than 1% of all Palestinians, so your bullshit logic is just that.

To add insult to your stupidity, the median age in gaza is 19 years, which makes the 60% number actually a good thing since 75% of the population is either a woman or a child.

Do you really think the entire western world is pissing off their citizens for fun? You really don’t understand geopolitics at all. The support for Israel isn’t just for shits and giggles, governments are sending them billions and have very good hidden reasons(military). The primary rule of Proxy wars is “don’t talk about proxy wars” which is why the public is so mad, and the governments are going to keep supporting them anyways.

Iran has done an excellent job of sacrificing Palestinian lives to turn the PR against Israel. You think Israel want’s to be killing civilians? They actually don’t, it’s bad for their image. Unfortunately Hamas literally sets up bases in schools, hospitals, and other civilian areas because they’re literally using human shields and you’re acting like Israel is just supposed to ignore them? This is how urban guerrilla warfare works. It’s dirty as fuck, and there’s no better options.

The only thing stopping other countries from holding Israel accountable… Yea, NO SHIT. The US is THE military superpower for the western world and they aren’t willing to give up that strategic location. It’s not just the US though, everyone from the UK to Canada is saying “please stop” while still sending financial support. It’s a PR issue at this point for governments, but they’ll keep working on the problem and keep sending money.

You act like the US has other weapons that can ignore distance but you can’t just shoot everything from the other side of the globe, it’s far too expensive to hit more than a handful of targets that way.