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Comment Re:Wordle Solver (Score 1) 17

Oh nice, I hadn't considered that strategy. Mine's pretty simple, I just brute force check all the 5 letter words. This was the first time I used the multiprocessing module to start a new python process for each core to do the brute forcing.

I couldn't find you on Github (I avoid Microsoft sites anyway...) but here's my code, consider it GPL3 :)
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffilebin.net%2F9p60fqn4rv...

Comment Re: Technically ... (Score 1) 215

I did that - after installing Win 11 I setup a local account for daily use. I also setup another local account I only use for financial stuff. I've always done that.
I didn't delete that Microsoft account, though, because I still use it but learned you don't want to logon to your MS account while logged in to that local account.

I highly recommend uninstalling OneDrive before setting up the local account or doing anything else.
OneDrive has become greedy, and wants to do things you didn't ask for and pretends it didn't hear you say the safe word. Or did I mean to say Microsoft?

I use Hyper-v for all my web surfing or trying out bad ideas.

Another way to avoid all this is to install Windows Server and add the desktop feature. That was my solution for a long time; I used to get it for free, but no longer since I retired.

Comment been there (Score 1) 124

I read the Collosus article ( ok, most of it) and Alpha school is way cool, but it's not the AI that makes it work so well. It's the guides and leadership.

This sort of school has popped up from time to time with amazing successes for all kinds of students even before AI. Their models vary (all were better than standard public schools), but what they all had in common were charismatic leadership and staff. I taught at one, designed for kids with specific learning disabilities, for a year back in the 1990's. I was amazed at how well it worked.

None of these were scalable with any amount of money because there is not anywhere near enough high-performing people who want to spend their days with children for any amount of money.

Comment Re: Good luck, (Score 2) 124

I read the Collosus article ( ok, most of). Alpha school is way cool, but it's not the AI that makes it work so well.

This sort of school has popped up from time to time with amazing successes even before AI. Their models vary (all were better than standard public schools), but what they all had in common were charismatic leadership and staff. I taught at one, designed for kids with specific learning disabilities, for a year back in the 1990's. I was amazed at how well it worked.

None of these were scalable with any amount of money because there is not anywhere near enough high-performing people who want to spend their days with children for any amount of money.

Comment Re: Good luck, (Score 1) 124

I used to be a teacher and that assessment is spot on and well known by all the non-cunt teachers.

We all agreed that the main problem is that there aren't enough admin slots to hold all the "cunts", so the rest of us have to deal with them spending their days sharpening their skills by practicing on the rest of us, and worse yet, the students.
Their intermediate goal seems to be get acknowledged some day as a "real asshole", but they're too ineffectual to get that far.

Other readers can get points for ignorance and/or naivety by suggesting that those types get fired "like they do in business".

Comment Re:Triggers (Score 1) 155

Is the seizure warning skippable? If not, how long does it remain on the screen?

Now, take that number... however many seconds it is that someone decided it takes to read that warning that everyone MUST read EVERY TIME they play that game... and multiply it by the number of people who bought the game times the average number of times they will play the game during the time they own it, and calculate for hours. This is variable a. From there, you can use analytics to determine the typical user's social cohort, find that demographic's average annual income, and divide out to hours. This is variable b.

Multiply a by b, then add in the cost of the time of the copy writer who created the warning, the engineer who implemented it, the QA who tested it, the build & release engineer who made sure it went live, and however many pencil-pushers were involved in the decision. There is your cost.

Comment Re:"Critics" (Score 1) 104

Plus they're re-streaming it on Twitch which is a different platform.

The issue here isn't about haters. I'm not a fan of Klein and I don't like copyright law in general, but Klein seemingly has an open and shut case. At least one of the defendants said during their stream "watch Ethan's video here (on my stream) so Ethan doesn't get any money or views". And then they silently watch or leave the room and let it be re-streamed. It's kind of what those illegal sports streaming sites do. One of the defendants perpetually streams cable TV while AFK as well. There is no fair use defense here for them at all. They're about to get reamed, legally.

Comment Re:Isn't if You Click the Site, You Have Consented (Score 1) 102

> but then it has quite literally 600 other trackers
> spread across the page

All of which I was perfectly capable of blocking, and did block, before GDPR; all of which I still block, regardless of those stupid GDPR popups; and all of which I will continue to block when the EU inevitably changes things up again and GDPR goes the way of Safe Harbor, Privacy Shield, probably others that I don't recall off the top of my head, and the dodo bird.

I've never needed a pack of pinheaded busybody bureaucrats to hold my hand on the internet from the other side of the ocean. I don't need them now. I won't need them in the future.

Comment Re: Not just defensive (Score 3, Funny) 50

Every public library has a stack of surplus books they want to be rid of, hence the annual book sales.
So what they should do is get the author name and book title from the patron, print a cover with those words and some generic picture, and glue that to the cover of one of the surplus books. Give them that.
Make everyone happy.

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