@theannalux @Airbnb Unless you are a host, you are the product on AirBnB. There aren't even videos on AirBnB.. You can't filter for meters. You have to guess the layout from the weird angle photos. You are just a product.
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Leon Grapenthin
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Airbnb, this is unacceptable. @Airbnb
We stayed in a listing where loud drilling (building maintenance) made it impossible to work during the day. We raised this respectfully.
After checkout, the host started contacting us repeatedly on WhatsApp, pushing for calls and making inappropriate comments when we refused.
We left an honest, factual review.
Airbnb removed it.
If real experiences can be erased while this kind of behavior is ignored, how can anyone trust this platform?
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If you don't shoot at players, they put you in boring lobbies. If you do shoot at players, they put you in deathmatch / best aim wins. Its just two game modes with all the social uncertainty removed. Somebody put it best "I can't roleplay as a good guy if there are no bad guys"
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@LGrapenthin @TrashAlfa @VivaLaDoctor Every game drops in player count after launch and if you simply shoot people every time you usually get super pvp heavy lobbies. I don’t see the issue. Do you just want to shoot people who aren’t paying attention?
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Marathon’s steam playerbase has decreased by 76%, whereas arc’s steam playerbase has decreased by 77% of its players. This is pretty comparable.
Arc also launched in a time of game drought.
My question is why has Arc lost 368,896 players in 6months…?
ARC Raiders Alerts@ArcRaiderAlerts
What went wrong with Marathon? ARC Raiders: 5 months old Marathon: 1 month old
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@TrashAlfa @VivaLaDoctor I stopped playing shortly after aggression based matchmaking was introduced. Removed all excitement. ARC playercount graph speaks for itself (abmm was introduced late Dec.)
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@LGrapenthin @VivaLaDoctor The aggression based matchmaking is likely what is saving Arc
Everyone more or less gets the lobby that suits them
Average players can enjoy it more, as these types of games are traditionally too brutal and cut throat
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@nimlot26 ARC has 14 million sold and 40k playercount at odd hours. Thats only 2.8k players per million sold vs. Marathons 10k. Marathon is doing 3 times better here.
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(update about an update: we have some iterations / big balance changes brewing right now and will talk about it soon)
but... OFF TOPIC: I feel like as a kid of the 90s and a person who's worked on PVP FPS games for over a decade, I may have taken the first two lines of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" too much to heart.
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@mdeeRocks @Ziegler_Dev I play far less than 2-3 hours a day and find it perfect the way it is. It is a real game for once and not yet another "content" dispenser. Too many people forgot what a game is. Should I never reach the hardcore map, so be it. Makes it more special.
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I hope you start thinking about normal players who play 2–3 hours a day (and I don’t mean pure casuals). The game is quickly approaching 100% sweat saturation, and it’s driving regular players away. Contracts like “Dire Marsh in a single run” don’t help either.
Maybe it’s worth rethinking the number of teams on the maps?
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@BraaiEngineer Deleted code somehow evaded their training corpus
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the models needs to learn to let go – they have a tendency to keep writing more and more code, but they don't like deleting code and old tests, and it's not good
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I, for one, support the full utf8 spectrum.
Anton Zhiyanov@ohmypy
If you stare into Go's stdlib long enough, you start seeing things. Dark things. Things you weren't meant to see. Like this function that uses variables named φ and β.
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@Layton_Gott The skill is and always will be writing and reading "the code", because it is the most condensed and most specific form to describe a program artifact. It involves far more than knowing syntax.
All other forms, such as prompts, specs, etc. are inferior. Don't fall for it.
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Knowing how to code makes you better at using AI to build. Obviously.
But if you're starting from zero right now, I would NOT spend 2-3 years learning manual syntax.
By the time you finish, AI will already code better than 99% of developers.
Learn how to build WITH AI. Learn architecture. Learn what to build and why. Let AI handle the how.
The skill isn't writing code anymore. The skill is knowing what to tell the agent to write.
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I hand author my program text because its quality is unmatched. I use a language designed specifically for this purpose, called programming language.
My text is comprehensible to both humans and computers. My text captures, in the highest form of clarity, human intent and artifact specification.
If you don't know whats in the pot, you are not cooking. You are moonshining.
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With all due respect to Andrew, in his motivational post, he didn't explain why anyone would write code by hand. I can code, but I consider coding by hand a waste of time.
So, if I, the one who already knows how to code, consider this a waste of time, why would anyone learn something which is very hard to learn only to then consider it a waste of time, like I do?
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@BenjaminDEKR Nope it's just better Google. It doesn't magically augment you with mastery of any subject.
If you were a coding noob, you can now slop together a protoype. If you were a mediocre coder, you are just a mediocre coder with AI now, like all the other mediocre coders.
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AI allows you to punch above your weight.
If you were a mediocre coder, now you have the power of a world-class coder.
If you understood physics at an undergrad level, now you can analyze problems like a PhD.
This is hugely valuable even if it turns out AI isn't superhuman.
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i used to do this at a certain company, if i didnt a bunch of countries suffered from outages, i wonder if they fixed it or there's still a guy SSHing into the servers like i used to
Rhys@RhysSullivan
i bet it has to feel good asf to be a service and get restarted after a memory leak
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Not surprised. The high amounts of points there on random big vendor LLM news seems highly suspicious, too.
GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS
Y Combinator (@ycombinator) has a financial stake in numerous surveillance and exploit development companies. Hacker News is a platform they own and the moderators on it have permitted years of vile harassment towards our team which they'd normally remove if others were targeted.
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Leon Grapenthin ری ٹویٹ کیا
Y Combinator (@ycombinator) has a financial stake in numerous surveillance and exploit development companies. Hacker News is a platform they own and the moderators on it have permitted years of vile harassment towards our team which they'd normally remove if others were targeted.
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Currently reading the C++ templates I wrote yesterday and it's incomprehensible bullshit. We need better metaprogramming.
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It's been a year. No actual problem was solved by this.
Leon Grapenthin@LGrapenthin
This illustration perfectly captures how no actual problem is solved. I thought it was meany as a joke, but its real. They all believe in it.
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