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Heads up, for me this wasn’t a working paywall bypass.

I'm saddened that in the 4th wall examples they didn't add Leslie Nielsen from Naked Gun walking around the prop door. I thought that was the classic example.

For reference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siE_182RwpA

That's from police squad, the one in the naked gun was done slightly better (different camera angle) but I cannot find a short of that on youtube.

Here's the gif https://i.imgur.com/FqmoBQy.gif

That's hilarious. If you find it I'll add it

Hi, this is unrelated, but I was trying to find the source video for Bruton Stroube - STL Jersey (2022). But I can't find it anywhere! Could you share the title of the film?

It's such a blink and you miss it kinda thing, but then a lot of gags in Nielsen films are like that

This only works when no one cheats. When someone cheats easily and gets ahead with no consequence, i doubt "honor" is quite as powerful.

One thing i've found as an avid gamer is the lack of "humanity" in modern games. Modern high budget games are streamlined, risk averse, and predictable.

If you look at older games you'll often find the creator's / developer's quirks and mannerisms have seeped through showing mild biases, prejudice, stereotypes, etc (humanity). The freedom to express yourself in your work, resulted in people becoming emotionally invested in the product. This investment likely meant they spend many additional hours if not directly working on the product, than thinking about it resulting in a faster shipping date or a higher quality product in the same timespan.

There are still successful games like that, just look at the success of Elden Ring

Maybe in aggregate modern gaming exhibits less humanity, but the best games today are on an entirely different level of story telling and emotional investment than 1991.

In depends on the genre. On IF, a lot of story telling has been unmatched.

Our position is unique where we are able to make a significat amount of money without the large time investment of other professions. Doctors/Lawyers mach our salaries only after a significantly longer time ( school and experience). after investing 10-15 years of their time to such a career its a lot harder to give up and pursue your dreams. This is my explanation why its so easy for people to give up on such high paying jobs in our industry but does not happen across other sectors

Although I agree that buying everything organic is irrational there are certain products where the organic version is quite different. A good example are tomatoes where market bought often taste like plastic. This is my personal taste and opinion but i've validated it in my circle of friends.

Indeed. My own example is garlic. In the EU today, most garlic sold is from China and presumably grown through standard modern industrial techniques.. It just isn't very good: almost no juice, a strange bitter tang.

But my local supermarket also offers a brand of organic garlic from Spain that is out of this world by comparison. I rave about it to friends. It may seem weird to be this enthusiastic about a minor ingredient, but I find the difference really so huge.

Now, the fact that this garlic was grown through organic farming techniques may be incidental to its quality; maybe it was some other factor that makes the difference. Nonetheless, I will continue buying this organic brand, because when the market only gives me these two options, I am going to prefer the better one.

While a reduced amount of, and possibly different type of, pesticide is often at play in our organic choices, the striking thing we’ve found is that a lot of organic produce tastes better, often times significantly.

Part of it is probably the correlation between organic produce and smaller and/or more local production. Part of it is probably the stores that have extensive organic stock tend to charge more, and presumably are more proactive about disposing of less desirable items.

I feel like part of it is probably a more holistic approach to growing the food, as opposed to trying to maximize yields and/or profit.

The organic milk I've tried is also quite different and better. Usually, that is, like Costco adds fish oil to theirs to get the omega 3 because the milk itself is ultra-pasteurized.

I keep trying all the fancy/expensive organic/free range eggs, I can't tell the difference at all. This is just a comment on taste. It's funny, they kind of look and feel different somehow, but I can't taste any difference. I assume they must be different nutritionally or in some way, and must be better for the chickens, I just hoped they would taste better somehow.

This would be a slap in the face of some people who went to school and worked odd jobs to pay for tuition.

Not doing it would be devastating for the economy in the long run.

It's a hard choice but macro is more important than micro in these decisions.

Its a mistake in the long run to socialize risk. These former students are defaulting because the courses they took have no value in the marketplace.

Props for describing the problem as an optimization problem.

To add to that: Companies are not always looking to hire the best person for the job, but someone that can solve the problems they are facing. Since problems tend to repeat themselves, someone with experience has likely encountered and solved many of the problems they are hired to deal with.

This is not saying that having experience in a field means you will be able to solve a problem better than a inexperienced person, it just means they've likely encountered it before (or a variation) and managed to solve it. Business in general are risk averse, and therefore will opt for a guaranteed solution even if its not optimal.

Although there is a lot of merit in implementing an algorithm and not just writing pseudo code, doing it on paper has some advantages.

- Its a lot quicker to sketch an algorithm on paper ( you can ignore some details which are either trivial, or irrelevant to the problem )

- At a certain level you are expected to be able to convert pseudo code into actual code

- The most important part of an algorithm is knowing about it and what problems it solves (and variations). As well as the "trick" that makes it solve something particularly well - dynamic programming for solving sub problems etc... Even if I implement an algorithm or just write the pseudo code, I will forget the details fairly quickly, but the takeaway is that I know that for problems of type X I can use algorithms of type Y, (and sometimes i'll remember I can use Y because of fact C related to that particular problem or algorithm)

> you can ignore some details which are either trivial, or irrelevant to the problem

The most important insight of the old saw that teaching someone builds your understanding, but being able to code it ensures you have actual, deep understanding is this: the details you ignore as "trivial" or "irrelevant to the problem" are quite likely the crucial details to understand it and make it work. You can't safely handwave away parts of the problem until you have a good understanding of the entire problem.

I can't even count the cases in which I though I understand some algorithm (either in uni, or more recently, through reading a paper), then I sat down to implement it and realized I don't really understand shit about it.

I would say, at least speaking for myself, that is what happens most of the time.