Even just finally making fall damage consistent helps. ER has "30% of Max", "50%", and Dead.

DS2 was bizarrely high to prevent early access to areas without the Cat ring. Dumb dumb dumb, and the kludgy jumping was insult to injury. I dont miss precision jumps with crap controls.

Platforming, such that it exists, in their other games games is pretty bad... except Sekiro is amazing. They clearly *can* do it.

The platforming in ER is pretty generous. There's no DS1-era Anor Londo rafters or slippery attempts at making collision work properly like in Blighttown.

Camera? Yikes

The regime also massacred so many protesters that our estimates are +/- 10,000...

rOtring 600 is a very popular pencil that's ~ $35

I have a Pilot s30 that I mostly love, except for some leads the clutch will slip badly enough that I just set the lead aside (I think Pilot has discontinued it as a result).

Mechanical pencils are the best, but they're not for everyone. I almost never need to use pen for anything.

What kind of writing utensil? If you move to a thin (0.5mm) soft (2B/4B/...) mechanical pencil lead you'll be forced to adjust.

I used to have to recopy all my notes because they were so bad.

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!

Anywhoodle, checked these out.

If you like starburst, they're fine.

However, they chose to use the same size chew as the OG candy, which is a *mistake*. A good gummy must be one you can stuff your face with, and these are awkward.

7.5 / 10

It insults the memory of all those who gave their lives so that I might travel via "wheels", I tell myself.

The zero-dependency part is the biggest selling point here. You don't need to "set anything up" to get larger-than-memory workflows with these tools!

At a certain scale you do, but at that scale you were going to need help anyways (probably).

Data.table deserves all the praise it gets, though.

The IIJA was supposed to build hundreds of EV chargers and they ended up actually building... like a handful? Not a great record.

But this is nothing new. Even the Shovel Ready™ jobs of Obama-era stimulus took years to disburse funds.

We built in 15-16, and pretty much all I've seen since ~ '19 on has been horror shows

For that kind of money... Wow

Liquid Nails is a house-in-a-tube if you've got enough of them and you're patient enough!

`fs` is awesome.

Base R has a decent toolkit for managing a lot of this stuff (or you can pass `system()` commands like a psycho), but the usability and bonus power of `fs` makes it absolutely worth the install.

You can't tell, but it's just concrete and woodchips under there. Retvrn!

I agree *except* for the opinion pieces (I disagree strenuously!)

I'd rather a writer just tell me their biases so I can calibrate accordingly than have them adopt their pretend-objective-writer voice and leave me guessing.

Much of the worst writing online is rooted in faux "balance".

I have! It's just straight up fraud, though, right? That's the actual practice of dentistry and the state has an interest in public health. I'm fine with ~ all vaccine mandates, and licensing dentists is well within that outer bound!

There's only like 4-6 states that have lactation consultant licensing, which is why I chose it -- It can range from positioning to get a good latch to *almost* nurse type stuff. Should these tools check your state of domicile? (Maybe they should)

You'd think "risk of near unlimited payouts" would make these products more conservative.

To my knowledge, Open AI hid behind their TOS for that. Were there ever lawsuits?

For "other licensed professions", the potential harm seems so so so much smaller.

I think this answers my question.

I can understand using these tools for researching how a lawyer might advise a client.

I can see how that gray area tips into legal advice, for which it's hard to hold anyone* accountable if it's defective. I'm shocked these companies don't tighten that up to CYA

"I'm not competent to give legal advice, but..." would do what for these products?

I ask that earnestly. Not taking a client's unique circumstances into account and just giving "casual advice" is a type of shield.

The issue is how it's represented.

I think you get closer to "yeah that's just fraud", and there you have a very very good reason for state action.

I would think these companies would be more cautious because of lawsuits, but maybe not!

(1) lots of professions have dumb licenses (eg, "lactation consultant". Is that a real job that's useful? Yes! But the state doesn't need to be involved)

(2) People give each other free legal advice all the time. I'll do it right now: don't talk to the police without a lawyer present!

Of course...

The trend towards everything secretly being a web app and annihilating your CPU is wack as hell, and I'm not into it.

I've never loved anyone enough to cost my employer almost a billion dollars in a defamation settlement.

So there's that, I guess.

Dierdre McCloskey's Economical Writing has a section titled "Avoid Elegant Variation". This is the root of a lot of terrible writing.

"I need to use a new word here!" -- someone about to sound like an idiot

Same as it ever was

This is where it's very hard to argue against introducing dplyr/tidyr to students. They're going to work in industry where the data is 20... or 200M rows.

A "write once, run just about anywhere" approach is an easy sell. It won't make them good programmers, but it arms them with something durable.

Slur-activated safety measures are the step we need to heal the divide, naturally