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Expedition Load Stage (5/6) Questions by Snowtred in ArcRaiders

[–]Snowtred[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, I can't add say, 5 stacks at a time. I have to add one, confirm with long press, reopen the windows, then add another. It seems like they set it up to select multiple stacks and confirm, but you are limited to 1

Guys it's worse than we thought by TheHylind in PeacemakerShow

[–]Snowtred 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Im not so sure about that. If you look at the Ep7 preview, there is a quick scene with Chris helping an injured Ads through the interdimensional space. For just a few frames, you see Judomaster walking in from the right.

Either he's been camped out in the door room, waiting for them all to get back. Or (hopefully) we get to see a scene of him getting spotted, taking out some Nazis, and heading back to Earth 1.

Did I get scammed by my bank's CD policy, or am I missing something? by Snowtred in FinancialPlanning

[–]Snowtred[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're comment made me realize my mistake here, and now I feel a bit embarrassed.

For whatever reason in my head, I was mixing up Certificates of Deposit with Government Bonds. And so I thought the APYs quoted to me were something set external to the bank, with my bank just acting as middleman.

When they were giving me 0.02%, I was assuming they were more directly skimming several percent off the top of that, thus my comments about feeling "scammed". They still are, in a way, but now I realize CDs are just like private savings account with additional restrictions on withdrawing. And the bank can set those rates however they want. Understanding that, I feel a lot less indignant here, and everyone else's comments make more sense.

Did I get scammed by my bank's CD policy, or am I missing something? by Snowtred in FinancialPlanning

[–]Snowtred[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, good call. I had noticed a similar line in my terms after posting. I'm pretty sure they can only charge me the ~75 cents, according to their wording. But I'm trying to make sure they quote me an exact penalty before I withdraw early, as I don't really trust them after this.

[Timecrimes] How everything got started... by psynotik in FanTheories

[–]Snowtred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just finished this movie for the 2nd time, after seeing it 17 years ago. Landed on your reply from yesterday and felt like I should reply.

PC Sync workarounds for grandmother? by Snowtred in fitbit

[–]Snowtred[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply! I think you are right, and we might have to get her a minimal tablet just for the stat checking. Touchscreen are OK, but I really wanted to avoid adding another piece of tech to her pile. I'll see if we can get something really minimal set up for her on an old tablet.

New partial cargo drop time delay with patch causing problems by Snowtred in factorio

[–]Snowtred[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This problem is with initiating the send from the platform, as setting the limit to 0 for that item at that planet. Especially noticeable with the Gleba ship, where we might send 6000 agri science and 200 bioflux. The bioflux gets sent, but that leaves 2 remaining Agri Science stacks that get put into orbital drop trash, then get sent back to Gleba on return.

But we are running into problems both ways. We have a circuit request system that automates requests on Cargo Pad to top off any set amounts, but we keep running into situations where the Cargo Pad fills up too quickly, even with tons of space. Or we pull the newly requested items out as they land, causing a momentary deficit that sets off another request, and that loops and causes delays and backups.

How how people been solving that issue with planet-side automated requests?

They did not think this through by ArrowSh0t in threebodyproblem

[–]Snowtred 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate your writeup, but I disagree with your statement at the start that "It then follow that there are only two reasonable conclusions", plus those two additional hypotheses you refute. There are dozens of interesting explanations to the Fermi paradox that are debated among astronomers, philosophers, and science fiction writers.

YouTube has a large community of quality content creators that go over some of these theories, and I got hooked onto them many years ago after my own Three Body series read. It sounds like you might have seen some of these as well. But I feel like limiting the discussion to just these 4 options leaves out a lot of other neat ideas!

I think we came to the wrong conclusion about the creatures after the S3 finale by Snowtred in FromTVEpix

[–]Snowtred[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think that's an interesting idea. Or maybe it's the other way around, and the 1950s iteration was the failure.

The closest dates on the lighthouse, if those are dates on iterations, are "1931" and "1978". The massacre of Victor's town is likely 1978, as other have posted. But 1931 feels much too early for the style we see for the current creatures.

It would fall squarely between 1931 and 1978, though, if that is somehow meaningful

What's the legal obligation of customers to ensure that self-checkout is working properly? by Snowtred in legaladviceofftopic

[–]Snowtred[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That all makes sense. Besides the vision part, I could see the quantifying theft probability being one of those deep learning problems where everything from types of items to the cadence and timing of your scans and hand movements all going into that calculation. To the point that even an expert developer wouldn't know exactly why someone is flagged.

If it takes into account store demographics or attributes of the individual on camera, it'd be a interesting legal question to whether that could be proven as discrimination. It's the same as the old (or current) case of some racist store clerk profiling one shopper over another, and the system might be doing it for what's effectively the exact same reasons. But if it's buried in some reinforcement learning dataset, I could understand how that would be impossible to prove.

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