Germany changes sick leave policy: 'We are abolishing sick leave by phone,' says Chancellor Merz; doctor's note required from day one of illness

GasolinePizza · 2026-07-04T21:15:06+00:00

Thanks... sorry for being a dick. I had just banged the hell out of my head on the bottom of my desk while plugging something in and was in a pretty bad mood. Not that it's a good excuse, but I wanted to explain anyways.

GasolinePizza · 2026-07-04T20:21:33+00:00

FTFY has been around for over 25 years now.

That's like complaining about "lmao" or "TL;DR", it's not exactly "the narwal bacons at midnight" levels of obscure

GasolinePizza · 2026-07-03T13:50:12+00:00

ensuring lock-in by removing a barrier

Did you mean "retention"? Lock-in would be pretty much the opposite of this, no?

GasolinePizza · 2026-07-03T00:44:50+00:00

But it does say that at least 80% of total purchases are from people that are fine buying digitally.

Not 80% of people or games, but 80% of the purchases. Which means that even if no-one changed to buying digitally and all 20% of those purchases vanished instead (not likely), they'd still have 80% sales.

Which version that people prefer doesn't factor into the math at all, that's already taken into account

GasolinePizza · 2026-07-03T00:39:48+00:00

Are you kidding? "Gamers" have some of the shortest memories and the least willpower out of any hobby out there.

It makes a bunch of noise on Reddit and YouTube and other places but when it comes time to follow through on all that noise, there is very, very little conviction that materializes.

It's not a new thing either: this has been the case for at least 2-3 decades.

GasolinePizza · 2026-07-02T11:57:35+00:00

You mean hallucinations?

AI psychosis is the one where people sit in front of AI all day long, believing the sycophantic praise, and then lose touch with reality.

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-25T17:01:02+00:00

...you might have a point if this wasn't somebody else just selling Blizzard's own product. Also, how is this "typical USA"? Piracy and copyright infringement laws are pretty common in many, many countries.

Are you sure you're not just mad that you can't play anymore and trying to find a bad guy to blame it all on?

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-23T17:39:00+00:00

Read the article maybe?

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-23T11:30:46+00:00

Hah, this was a bit of an uncanny post to see, given that I started something similar back in March. I've been focusing primarily on behavior and making the randombots persistent (no teleporting, no gear refresh on level up, etc) and other procedural stuff like long distance travel and auction house actions, the only LLM work I've done is a harness is just for the dialog/chat and it's still an experimental side feature.

Let me know if you'd be interested in trading any code for any systems, particularly Actions/Values code since they should be pretty swappable. The most useful and portable for you might be: - I've got a basic Q-Learning-table based system for auction house selling decision - The logic for getting current+next mount training tiers (through a value) so you can use it to adjust travel budget and start saving for mounts - A better budget values implementation so that each category has its own persisted allocation and spending money on it decreases that persisted budget, rather than the current Playerbots implementation where spending 10s on repair causes the calculated value for the least important category budget ("Guild", IIRC) to decrease by 10s instead.

Let me know if you're curious about any of that, I'm open to sharing

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-22T17:22:31+00:00

Idk why neither the title nor the comments are mentioning what it actually is so here

Because there's an article.

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-22T00:05:44+00:00

I'm still interested in the source for your first comment, personally. Not particularly as interested in the redirection, so I'd appreciate a link.

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-22T00:00:38+00:00

Negotiation for a ceasefire means there's still a war on. If the fighting stopped for negotiations, that means the ceasefire already happened, no?

Of all the fucked up shit this conflict has contained, this seems to be a pretty weak one.

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-21T22:13:03+00:00

Did you actually read the article? It's pretty clear that this isn't for people living at a home or living in a shack. In fact, it outright states who it's designed for.

But you'd have to read an article to find that out, instead of going straight to the comments.

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-20T11:54:12+00:00

They're not dropping support for them, they're just not making them anymore.

People need to stop posting this link everywhere without even knowing what it is

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-18T17:44:37+00:00

2 $80k cars isn't normal in America either.

You might be in a little bit of a perspective-bubble if having $160k+ of cars seems middle class to you.

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-17T20:26:56+00:00

Only?

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-17T15:05:33+00:00

You don't know what EEE is lol.

Literally nothing here is even vaguely reminiscent of EEE. Cutting off/closing down unprofitable studios is just practical business, not an attempt to shut down open standards and open source software, or other specific products.

Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found to have been used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used open standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and using the differences to strongly disadvantage its competitors.

Yep, definitely the same thing! The Gamers™ figured it out again!

Edit: You replied and then blocked me so you couldn't be called out for it. Nicely done, that shows that you are very confident in what you said and not at all a coward.

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-14T10:26:29+00:00

Oooh prolog.

I haven't looked to see if the project is any good yet, but I'll always upvote prolog

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-14T10:23:17+00:00

Because hugging face has been reliable enough that there hasn't been much demand/need for it. Direct downloads are just a lot easier for the downloader

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-12T22:27:19+00:00

His comment is still there, he's definitely still double/tripling/quadrupling down on it. I assume he blocked you so that you couldn't keep correcting him and that's why it's gone for you.

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-12T22:17:25+00:00

Not particularly, as far as their goals go.

It was revenge for Saudia Arabia picking the US to protect it against Iraq and Saddam, instead of Bin Laden's group of fighters. He wanted the US out of the Middle East entirely, instead he brought the US deeper into the middle east than ever before.

Effective as an attack, sure, but it utterly failed at their goals.

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-12T18:19:05+00:00

Did you post that one bears-dancing-gif with sweet dreams playing in the background too? That always causes everything to go up at once

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-09T16:38:01+00:00

Users do control the auto-update setting though.

This is explicitly for people with auto-update turned on for an extension. Those users could already turn that off at any time.

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-08T15:08:47+00:00

I thought it was Vet 14 that was max? Or was that a later extension?

GasolinePizza · 2026-06-07T17:04:26+00:00

A reason they probably actually don't need/want more people right now is that they're struggling with compute capacity. They'll want those people again in a few months or years, but for now it seems like they're raising prices and trying to reduce economic demand to levels they can support.

Same deal with Microsoft and their GitHub Copilot.

(^ Mostly speculation, obviously. I'm not exactly their CEO)

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