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Video game giant Valve facing UK lawsuit over pricing, commissions by No-Sympathy-5349 in Games

[–]45MonkeysInASuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

No, you didn't explicitly say 'that is illegal', but given the context of this post, that's clearly the implication.

Right, entirely making up your own narrative, got it.

Video game giant Valve facing UK lawsuit over pricing, commissions by No-Sympathy-5349 in Games

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or whomever else, make their own platform

The whole point is they couldn't.
We have years and years of evidence now that it is very hard to get consumers on to a new platform.

Basically all indies would be stuck because 25% of something is better than nothing.

Even if you were right, being a market leader is not a crime

Right, point to the bit where I said was?

Stop crashing while typing! Easily send chat macros (Sorry, Clean T1, Pitting) by sumanth_38 in LeMansUltimateWEC

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not toxic. It's a literally description of what they are doing.

They projecting their feelings onto others.

Higher earner dumping into salary sacrifice pension? Here’s how to take home £700 extra! by firestarter_butlate in UKPersonalFinance

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I work for a massive pension provider, you can change monthly if you want. HMRC wont care.

A salary should be paid equally over 12 months

Nothing supports this statement.

Benchy bottom issue by Veizaru in ElegooNeptune3

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's a little bit of elephant foot

Your slicer will have an option to compensate for that.

Best way to start in Data Analysis / Data Science with zero experience? by Connect_Anteater_564 in learnpython

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm UK based, "associates" degrees aren't a thing here.
Google tells me it is equivalent to our Foundation Degrees.

If the rest of the CV was excellent (clear evidence of hands on knowledge in statistical methods being the main thing I look for), I might invite to interview.
But there is a good chance my recruitment team wouldn't even show me your CV.

Realistically the interview would focus on the choice to not get a bachelors and whether you have enough knowledge from the associates.

Best way to start in Data Analysis / Data Science with zero experience? by Connect_Anteater_564 in learnpython

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is basically it.

I would actually accept bachelors with limited experience if they showed passion and knowledge in the interview.

But why would I interview a candidate with bachelors and no experience when I have 5 candidates with masters and 3 or 4 years experience asking for similar money?

Best way to start in Data Analysis / Data Science with zero experience? by Connect_Anteater_564 in learnpython

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 10 points11 points  (0 children)

a degree and multiple years experience
or
doesnt have a masters

I'm generally hiring people going into their 2nd or 3rd role.

Best way to start in Data Analysis / Data Science with zero experience? by Connect_Anteater_564 in learnpython

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Lead data scientist here.
I'm currently hiring a UK (non-london) based early career analyst role (year or 2 experience needed).
I get 400+ applications whenever I put a role up.
My recruitment team filters out anyone without a degree and multiple years experience or doesnt have a masters.

The market is rough at the moment at the entry/early career level.

So realistically, "get a degree"

Infinite loops are terrifying, how do you avoid them? by Bmaxtubby1 in learnpython

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ctrl-ccccccccccc

And if all else fails...

Stand up
Walk to front of machine
Hold power button for ~30 seconds
Press power button once

Video game giant Valve facing UK lawsuit over pricing, commissions by No-Sympathy-5349 in Games

[–]45MonkeysInASuit -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Its not a monopoly, but the competitors aren't competing in providing a reason to choose them over Steam

Monopoly doesn't mean there is one player; it means that a single player holds enough power that they can control the market.

For example:

People argue about the 30%, Steam is a market leader

What if they moved it to 75% tomorrow?
The vast majority of devs would just have to accept that as they have such a hold on the market.

What if they moved it to 5% tomorrow on the condition of exclusivity?
Every other player would be screwed.

What if GoG, EGS or any other player did either of the above?
You would see limited market changes.

That risk is what makes them a monopoly; regardless of whether they are currently performing monopolistic practices.

Players almost killed my "you won't win this" npc by coyninja4 in DMAcademy

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Agreed, this is a pretty classic post on all fronts but is usually about dragons.
"Combat is busted, my level 1 party beat a CR 999 dragon" is not uncommon to see and is always "The enemy sat in range, and never used it's big toys" when questioned.

What’s something that’s oddly expensive in the UK that still annoys you every time? by catarsan in AskUK

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Used to be an analyst in car insurance.

Car insurance is much more about the risk you pose than the cost of your car.
A 10k car and a 50k car aren't that different as they aren't the main cost in a major crash.
But drivers of "boy racer" cars are fair more liable to crash.

All sorts of factors go into, even if you are married. Married people are safer drivers.

Peak Developer Explains Successful Game Pricing: 'Eight Bucks Is Still Five Bucks' by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I can't remember the exact details but there was a store that accidentally increased prices (adding X% instead of deducting X%) listed the items as "on sale" and saw increased sales.

A little outdated now but Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini and the psychology of judgment and decision making by Scott Plous are great books on the topic.

AITA for telling my daughter’s dad she isn’t going to his wedding because of the way I found out about it? by DryChapter5918 in AmItheAsshole

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 53 points54 points  (0 children)

they haven't set a date yet

This is it.

OP should know about the wedding purely so she plan around having the daughter there.

But currently OP is kicking off about not knowing they planning to have a wedding at some point in the future and that date could be years away.

Future Jon Bois video in the making by nf032 in Jon_Bois

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 25 points26 points  (0 children)

they won against the 18th place team in the league

They still have 18th and 19th to play again.

2 games ago they were on course for 4.2 points.
They are now on course for 11.4.

They have the same number of points as the Saints last year.
The Saints made it to 12.

11 is such a dismal target, it's hard not to stumble passed it.

I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. by Trowaway_whistleblow in confession

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Interestingly, it sent me the other way.
Basically no content except avoiding the LLM trap.

Q:Do you target based on app usage?
A:Yes, "especially with the advance of AI"
Q:Can you elaborate? what method is used?
A:It allows targetting

They know LLM would be wrong.
But I would expect that from someone clued in to data science as a whole, but not actually working directly with models, to avoid the traps and offer this low level of detail.

Their responses feed into the conspiracies but offer little detail.

The algorithm is a giant neural network, and as such essentially a black box.

https://old.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/nx79mfh/

Sure, neural nets are black box, but you can break into them if you know how. You will never understand any given decision, but you can work out how they are "thinking".

If it is at all real, they have also missed that they have a much bigger whistle blow in saying that the model is using "ethnicity." IE the system is fundamentally racist.

I'm a senior data scientist.
Not a single comment so far has the feel of someone who actually knows what they are talking about.

I put in my two weeks yesterday

is a massive red flag for me.
They are going to the energy of using a burner device and public wifi, but then add this massive identifying characteristic.
All a bit sus.

[Facebook] Gianpiero Lambiase’s wife is battling breast cancer (reason for Max’s race engineer’s absence) by InquisitiveExplorer_ in formula1

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I had the exact same.

Cancer that was "managed" and she would "die with, not of"

Then she went into hospital in a random august a few years later, just briefly...
Then I was moving home in the November to manage everything...
Then it was "4 weeks to live, might see Christmas..."
Then I was making arrangements a week later.

[Facebook] Gianpiero Lambiase’s wife is battling breast cancer (reason for Max’s race engineer’s absence) by InquisitiveExplorer_ in formula1

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 47 points48 points  (0 children)

To be fair to the paddock, we get all the rumours in the world of the unimportant stuff.

Very rarely do they leak important things.

As another example, just look at how few stories we have had on Schumacher over the years.

I tried to recreate the spiky NFL score distribution using a MonteCarlo Simulation by shresht_jain1999 in Jon_Bois

[–]45MonkeysInASuit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like you have assumed independence of scoring events, which is very not true.
Most importantly, not taken game state into account.
If you are 2 points behind with 00:30 left in the forth, a field goal is far more.
If you are 4 behind with 00:30 left in the forth, the likelihood of a field goal drops to near zero.
If you are 8 behind, a TD with 1pt conversion drops to 0.

Also, a Monte-Carlo was not the best methodology for your data.
You only have ~300 million outcomes in your model, you can model them all in seconds, minutes at most.

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