Wish I had an answer but I have to track on my main Windows PC using Launchbox since they don’t have Linux support (it’s built on .net, making that very hard). Someone got it working with Wine supposedly, but meh. At least steam is automatic so Deck progress is logged.

It’s frustrating since they just released a bunch of useful tracking tools too.

Upside, usually the controllers are extremely easy to fix. I’m not sure if they give free replacement pads still, but they used to if you asked support.

I’ve had other problems than shoulders on my pros, and never with the ultimate one I got, those seem to have a pretty solid build.

That just sounds like… what was it called… Cleverbot? Lol

Like NFTs before them, tech bros trying to squeeze a technology into use cases that really don’t need it.

LLMs are language models. What next, setup Stable Diffusion to do my taxes?

Mike Lee is a notoriously despicable person even by GOP standards and the bill doesn’t have any legs. Like, just a week ago he said terrible things about the Minnasotan politicians who were shot dead in their homes, and he’s also the one who was pushing to sell off public lands (which he was bullied out of; also seems to be in the pocket of the Mormon cult).

The US stance on NATO is complicated under the current US regime but I doubt it’ll be by this assholes bill.

I like this analogy and generally avoid using GPS (admittedly it’s out of laziness lol). The most insane part to me is I live where everything is on a grid and somehow people are still impressed I can figure out how to get places, even without having been there. GPS brain is real.

That was my thought, having followed the social media coverage of recent unrest in Iran over hair covering and so on. Iran does need regime change, but Israel is definitely not the right people to do it. No idea the solution, but I hope people can find a way to stay safe.

Bad news except you can’t trust TV either. Or reading the news, lately. At least regardless of the medium, general advice carries-- double check sources, learn which are credible, etc.

I just hope people are following links and not just reading headlines, right? …Right?

Yes but wouldn’t you like to sign up for an outlook account? No? Sorry that wasn’t a question, this full screen window has no X and you will comply.

… unless you do the thing that skips it, but man that’s an awful experience.

I’ve seen enough knew high sock posts to know these are not apropos of nothing.

Honestly their algorithm seems to mostly push low quality, South Asian, and/or AI generated content lately, when randomly playing off of something like Ms Rachel or Sesame Street. Nothing disgusting, although maybe a little trippy (in AI case). My daughter really digs the Bollywood inspired kids stuff though.

I keep Java installed for one thing and one thing only… modded Minecraft.

In other words-- your sexting is safe, friends.

Real talk the main driver of advances are usually healthier environments, better nutrition and access to knowledge (e g. Via tech). I don’t think Z or alphas are getting better in those regards, kind of inheriting the opposite.

I technically meant that in regards to not seeing the research lately, but… lol

16 points, so about a standard deviation. That’s big, but your own varience can be just as high; the original point of IQ is a measure of how well you’ll do in school to detect who may need additional attention (and not an inherent intelligence) so later aged tests include more on knowledge base while earlier tests are more about things like pattern recognition, mental rotation, etc. Infact, it has to get recurved regularly as each generation tends to be roughly 10 or 15 points higher (although idk about gen Z).

All this is to say that a slump of 16 points doesn’t have to be shit like lead poisoning or gas fumes (although that certainly doesn’t help, and pollution matters), it can simply be the US education system isn’t good at teaching students. Cross culture studies already show that, as do differences between the rich and the poor. Or hell, just playing Tetris raises IQ, lol.

It’d obviously help if this wasn’t a click bait article, though. People wanting to know why need to read a lot of actual research to know the myriad of different things that impact IQ and not just “haha US stupid.”

Always have been, as I’ve seen during my UCLA days of people buying exam answers from previous weekends and paying for papers, etc… I’m glad I never bothered, mostly because of dignity but what because I was poor (although those correlate). Rich people have plenty of ways to game the system, though.

I find it funny Microsoft gave me a survey on my work PC asking about how I’m enjoying its products (I laughed in Linux, “how do you like windows customizablity” let me go off about KDE lol)

But back to the subject. Literally everything they work on seems to turn to shit — I wonder what kind of survey feedback are they usually getting? “Oh, Skypes cool but I really like Teams”

That sounds like a fun time. In modern day though I’d hope the selected representatives would have professional aides, especially where I am given your average American is practically illiterate. (It’d probably work better in Japan, lol.)

Can China demand regime change? Please?