Try actually reading the linked text

It seems plausible to me that this strategy was a holdover from the first game, which shipped for PS4 and XBO

I don’t know about the Xbox, but on PS4 the hard drive was definitely not fast at all

> Seems like he's doing something right

He’s going to spend the remainder of his life obsessing over something he cannot control, and then he’s going to die at a normal age (or probably earlier) any way

I suppose I don't see how that's a problem if he's happy in the process - which he certainly appears to be.

Pleased this is being discussed somewhere as it’s something that has troubled me for a while.

There are so many third party actions where the docs or example reference the master branch. A quick malicious push and they can presumably exfiltrate data from a ton of repositories

(Even an explicit tag is vulnerable because it can just be moved still, but master branch feels like not even trying)

> That tantamount to saying "for people alive January 1st 1950, the Second World War was not a significant cause of mortality"

That’s a nonsense comparison because the thing they are studying is the vaccine, not COVID itself. The vaccine was available at minimum, what, end of 2020? Exposure being defined as first dose May-October 2021 does not seem unreasonable at all (and probably not arbitrarily chosen right - it’s probably something to do with the availability of data)

This is just a recipe to spread weeds everywhere. If you mow them, most of the time you’ll just break them open and spread their seeds

I you mow them after they have developed seeds, you are mowing them too late.

But if you then keep mowing the lawn regularly, those seeds won't be able to compete with the grass.

Unless you mow your grass too low. Always assume the old rule of "your grass reaches just as far underground as it reaches up in the air" still holds.

Also if you mow your grass drastically shorter or you let it grow for a long time before mowing, do not fail to fertilize it from above right or soon after, start aggressively plucking the leaves of weeds (or other selective methods of fighting them) for a few weeks and (optimally, but highly recommended) verticulate it no sooner than 1 week after cutting. Also time it well to grant your lawn at least 3 weeks of ideal growing weather and climate (It won't die because of a week or two of awful weather, but you'll have A LOT more work fighting weeds ahead of yourself).

Why wouldn't they be able to compete?

Usually seeds need soil contact and sunshine to germinate and grow. Thick lawn can mitigate that.

IIRC grass grows from the bottom, which means it is very resistant to being mowed or grazed. Weeds/wildflowers not so much.

Or you can learn the lifecycle of plants and don't let them go to seed.

Found this part strange because in other interviews he seemed to imply (for RCT classic) that there was almost some kind of VM-like structure that was running the original code underneath as-is

I want to watch it, but at the same time, it’s basically going to be an advert for Google. I’m not sure if I can put up with the uncritical fluff.

I would love to see a real (ie outsider) filmmaker do this - eg an updated ‘Lo and behold’ by Werner Herzog

It was directed by Greg Kohs, who is a real filmmaker and does not work for Google.

Yeah I don’t mean to say they’re not a real filmmaker or untalented etc, I mean more the context they’re doing it. That they’ve chosen to cover this topic themselves, and that they would show critical angles of it and not just promo + hagiography

Are you saying this movie production wasn't paid for by Google? If it was, surely he did?

oh it might have been paid for by Google for sure.

Like 99.99% probability, sure. Greg's previous big feature was on Deepmind's AlphaGo, three years after its Google acquisition.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6700846/

Full length: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y

They do a great job capturing the "Move 37" moment: https://youtu.be/WXuK6gekU1Y?t=2993

It's an advert for Demis Hassabis, not Google.

Where he speaks french

When you disable all of these features, eventually it turns off email categorisation.

At first this was annoying to me because it’s obviously a very good feature. But the last few weeks have been quite revealing: I’ve been receiving and unsubscribing from tons of emails I had no idea I even received regularly, because categories buried them away.

I wonder how much of newsletter marketing (and paid email marketing) is being propped up by the GMail categories just silently ingesting tons of stuff that people never read or see (but also never unsubscribe from)

> I wonder how much of newsletter marketing (and paid email marketing) is being propped up by the GMail categories just silently ingesting tons of stuff that people never read or see (but also never unsubscribe from)

I don't know, gmail regularly tells me "you haven't opened an email from XYZ newsletter in a while, do you want to unsubscribe?", with a direct button to do so.

I’ve never had this notification before. I get the direct unsubscribe button if I actually view the email, but not a warning I’m not reading them

It does? I have never once seen this in my life.

Might be a mobile app / EU-based account only thing, but I've seen it numerous times and I'm almost certain I've seen it on the web version of Gmail too.

American here. Seen it a number of times on both mobile and web.

There's a pretty long waiting period before it does this. I'm not sure what the time required is, but I think it's at least 3 months. And it only does this if you don't interact with the newsletter at all.

Just speculation, but it's possible if you also use a non-web/non-gmail-app client it might suppress these notifications.

Exactly the same for me. I unsubscribed from more newsletters in the past few days then in the last couple years.

I found the categorization feature distracting anyway because I read all my emails and always had to click through several tabs to see them.

What’s annoying is some newsletters don’t respect the unsubscribe action and continue pumping the spam.

> like localization

I think you’re making a big mistake with this one. Assuming it’s being used for anything other than eg placeholder before real translation/localization.

Even decent professionally translated games get this stuff wrong sometimes and irritate their audiences, I can’t imagine how badly AI will bungle it

I think in this case the choice is between AI localization and no localization at all. If that is the case, I actually think that users will appreciate localization with minor issues over doing things in English.

Anecdotally, I have found AI translation to be perfectly acceptable for the languages that I do know, on par with a human translation service, at least. This may be different in a game with e.g. fantasy vocabulary that is made up.

As a non-English native-speaker, I strongly prefer no localization to bad localization.

Yes, but you speak English and read the Latin alphabet. You can play the game without shitty localization.

Put yourself in the shoes of some kid somewhere in the world who does neither of those things, and just wants to play a video game. If the two options are 1. imperfect translation or 2. no clue what is going on, and no ability to enjoy the game; which do you choose?

The fun part about shitty localization in games for ESL speakers is that you don't have to use it.

When I learned programming, I did not. It still didn't want to use localized programming languages.