Oh nice, thanks for the recommendations

That definitely makes sense. What’s a good SF book you’ve read recently?

I just had a friend tell me he loved the whole series (with caveats), why didn’t you like it?

It is a good sign, I was just saying that Georgia is definitely not for sure blue without interference from Republicans though (they do absolutely interfere though).

Nah dog. Georgia has some super red areas. The recent swing of the Atlanta suburbs to blue is a very recent phenomenon. Outside of Atlanta, it’s all trump country.

I’m playing Alan Wake II, and oh boy is it a great game. I’m not normally a horror fan, and have really only dabbled my way through a few residents evil, but I’m really enjoying myself in AW2. I love the off-kilter humor that remedy has, and their confidence to include it inbetween the horror, knowing it won’t undercut the scares. I’m also pretty intrigued by the mystery of it. My memories of AW1 are hazy, but there are a ton of nods to Control, which I also really liked.

My favorite internet video on the subject: https://youtu.be/WlP9aJnzyZw

I completely agree with you. An interesting aspect to this is that when it was still Twitter, Apple was one of the biggest marketers on the site. This was because all of the other online ad venders were direct competitors (google with phones, and Facebook with virtual reality). So having a place that isn’t google/meta to pump ad dollars makes sense to some businesses, or at least it did before the percentage of Nazi content rose so much.

Or the code is the operating system that the application is running on, or the code is the firmware that is operating the GPU that is crunching the numbers to make the neural net, or the code is the friends we made along the way.

In this case, no. This is just interpreting what the next frame should be by the previous one. Like how the sora videos work, but with input.

I agree that they should create new IPs, but, they did just try that with Concord. So I understand why they would be gun-shy about it.

Sounds like you are wanting a system that punishes an ethnic group of children for being given worse opportunities.

But if the pool of candidates between the races were equal, why did fewer black candidates make it in? Is the new system racist against against black candidates, are black people less deserving of slots, or is there something that happens pre-applying for college that makes black candidates less appealing?

So the question then becomes, why are there less black candidates that can get in when race blind? Are black people just dumber? Or has the system they grew up in acted on them in a way that disadvantaged them? Because if we agree with the former, we are racists, and if we agree on the latter, well then it’s unfair to them because the system actively worked against them.

I agree that income matters more than race. Obviously. But they cut out considering race, and then less black people made it through the admission process. You can’t say that you are a big fan of the process AND you wish there were different outcomes.

Black people experience racism that has disadvantaged them, and it seems silly to think that we shouldn’t acknowledge that in processes that could give them a leg up.

So you are happy with less black students getting in?

They had a way of weighting a person’s background as a part of their application. So imagine 2 students: -4.0 through high school, AP classes, a bunch of extra curriculars, great test scores -3.8 through high school, one AP class, no extra curriculars (because of family responsibilities), great test scores.

If the second student is a black student coming from a disadvantaged community, they legally can’t consider that in their admission process.

I think it is optional now, and after they observe it’s stability for a while, they will move it into base update, but I’m not sure.

This is one of the problems of growing up in a different age. This was advertised, but are you any of the places they promoted it? It was the main game in a state of play, they bought ad space on steam, and I assume it was advertised elsewhere where I wouldn’t have seen it. But not everybody is watching TV anymore, and we are on Lemmy. Probably not the best place to judge what’s being advertised to the masses lol.

It’s time to use the good ole “don’t attribute to malice, what can be explained by incompetence”