extremeMath's comments

My biggest shock with Civ was funding out that I was a military dictator at heart.

I started with hope of a cultural victory. I gave away technology and trade at a disadvantage to keep aggressive allies on my side.

Then genghis khan attacks me unprovoked despite previously good relations.

He sacked a city and I decided he needed to be completely removed from the game for peace. So after stabilizing, I built up a huge military and defeated him.

But now I had a huge military draining my resources. And alexander was pretty aggressive. Before you knew it, my wife was begging me not to attack the last survivor, Gandhi. Which I defeated and achieved world domination.

I was literally horrified at myself.

Civ5 didn't allow unit stacking which left artillery vulnerable. I couldn't get into it.

Civ 4 4ever

Theoretically.

Think about websites that have every reason to stop you from scraping.

It's not reasonable to disect their huge obfuscated js code. So headless doesn't really work.

I love this. I might try it. It doesn't scale, but that's okay for my project.

This is why you should avoid Apple entirely. They can do this to you, your company, your apps.

I'm a big fan of FOSS as much as possible.

"The original poster of the thread had reportedly spent more than ten hours disassembling their Model Y to correct poor panel fitment when they came across a large chunk of metal secured with green tape and a small strap."

Bad quality followed up by bad quality.

When I benchmarked Tesla years ago, the exterior(and interior) panels were awful in their Autoshow build. I'm genuinely surprised they haven't fixed it yet.

I gave them a pass at the time because everything was new and in low runs. Now with 500k/yr, there's really no excuse.

Tesla is the Apple of Automotive.

I failed a webscraping project due to strong anti bot detection.

They checked for bots through useragent/screen size, maybe mouse movements, trends in searches (same area code), etc... (Can they really detect me through my internet connection headers, despite proxies?)

It was impossible for me to scrape, they won.

I'm looking to make kids toys from United States recycling products since they are being moved to landfills. Almost no progress so far, my 400 level polymer chemistry book only has 2 paragraphs on recycling.

So far I'm trying to figure out mechanical solutions. Thinking lots of boxes so kids can make forts.

Hard website to use, unfortunate.

I wonder if you are used to animations hiding the loading time for you. I've never noticed a slow android outside 100$ crap, but I did notice how slow the iphone animations are

It's impossible to know since Apple users are extremely subjective.

It's better to just avoid them IMO. It's well documented the anti-consumer policies done by Apple. It's easy to see them poor money into massive advertising campaigns.

Consider the highly likely situation where someone bought a multi hundred dollar device, is disappointed, and need to justify it to themselves.

I refuse to develop for Apple, I'm already part of the solution.

Apple should not be used as an example. They are a company that lives off Marketing and gets away with anti-consumer and anti-developer practices. They are somewhat unique in that sense.

It's better to compare an automotive giant with a different tech giant.

Or Tesla with another big brand/marketing car company like Audi, BMW.

The boring reality is that it's a bubble.

I feel so conflicted when I read posts that consider Tesla "the best". I did benchmarking on all automotive interiors, exteriors, and infotainment systems, and Tesla was Kia level.

The interiors and exteriors were actually bad. The infotainment system was buggy and cheap, but it was feature rich and fast. If it wasn't Tesla, people would hate it for not having buttons.

The reliability is notoriously bad too.

I don't see any genuine argument for "Best", they might have the hardest, lowest paid workers, or the only car you can natively play a 30 year old video game, but when comparing Tesla to Nissan or GM EVs, I don't see why you'd get a Tesla.

It's more expensive and you get less.

Yeah I'm not really sure what people are expecting out of Tesla. I do think the current investors are low information investors who don't understand what stocks are or how automotive works.

I think we are seeing the beginning of hyperinflation.

Apple still designs for style and upcharging over usability.

Not sure why people/Apple marketing insist on Apple products making them more productive. I can't agree on iPhone and I didn't find any speed increases on a macbook.

Meh, if naming things encourages people to come up with discoveries for humanity, it's worth it.

These jobs pay like crap but require an intellectual.

So the best thing to do is buy now.

My parents retirement is screwed..these small interest bonds will mean nothing with 10x inflation..

Our gym group broke up due to covid and all 3 of us gained 20 lbs each.

Ancedote sure, inevitable maybe. But this wasn't some January new years resolution, this was April.

It's a psychological thing. When you go to the gym, you are significantly more likely to focus on diet(and finances, and self improvement) as well.

I'm more concerned about the 30% of Americans that are obese than the 0.1% top athletes, who in rare circumstances are badly affected.

Open the gyms to save lives.