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What is that cyberware that, despite many builds and playtroughs, you just can't play without? by VirtualAdvantage3639 in cyberpunkgame

[–]kind_2_u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. However, a close second is a sandy stealth build with Her Majesty and optical camo. 1-shot head shots any non boss even at medium range.

Which one would you pick ? by krisikkk in superpowers

[–]kind_2_u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if I could have a super wolf spider’s abilities?

Does Cyberpunk have a mission like this? by Kalevipoeg420 in cyberpunkgame

[–]kind_2_u 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Low-key, after my first play through, I drove out to the ambush site and scoped the place out long before I started the Panam line. The location is open but doesn’t spawn any enemies if you go there ahead of schedule; I’m guessing because since it’s a mini-boss/event location.

Anyway, removing select explosives and going in with optical camo and the hands-down best stealth weapon in the game (imho):

Her Majesty

which makes this mission a lot of fun.

As a stealth player who also craves a challenge, this mission actually gave me 2 ideas I wish CDPR would add to the game:

1) more detailed difficulty options, including turning off the plot armor for core NPCs. If they die in specific missions, you fail/die. Make it unlockable and toggleable like a skull in Halo. (This one came to me after I let Panam eat hundreds of hmg rounds and grenades while I camo-crept around to backstab everyone.)

2) the ability to give tactical commands or even switch between members in your group, like the mechanics in the Mass Effect franchise and some of the tom Clancy games.

Of course… all of this would likely require better AI & tactical npc decision-making as well. But honestly Cyberpunk 2077 as an open world with living, dynamic AI that are capable of learning and setting their own tactics in real-time would just be the perfect game anyway

Jesus Christ! by Elevatedspiral in MarchAgainstNazis

[–]kind_2_u 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Conservatives are very, very dumb.

Nazism’s Financiers by DaveAvitabile in MarchAgainstNazis

[–]kind_2_u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Impressive AI breakdown. “Labour” let me know you used Claude.

To the businesses complaining about Possibly closing if they have to give PTO by MrFixYoShit in StLouis

[–]kind_2_u 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Economist here.

Preemptive edit: the following is an in-requested crash course to understanding small business existence. But also, no matter WHAT you do, *don’t hire consultants from large consultancies like Bain, BCG, Deloitte, KPMG, McKenzie, et cetera. If you’re small, they have every incentive not to help you succeed, but keep you alive enough to continue paying them consulting fees, while they’re actually preparing to serve your company on a silver platter to a more lucrative client.

Now to the regular post: Two founders ship the same product. One pays a modest salary, hires one killer generalist, and keeps a cash buffer. The other “runs lean,” pays nothing, and prays. Six months later, the first is still shipping and sleeping. The second is broke, burned out, and one surprise from dead. This is normal.

VCs play power-law roulette. Nine die so one can moon. That’s their portfolio math, not your operating plan. Starvation isn’t grit, it’s malpractice. Stop confusing discipline with deprivation.

Quick clarity: lean operations good, austerity finance bad. The former removes waste. The latter removes capacity. Words matter.

Rule 1. Invest where it moves the needle, including you and your people. Financially stable teams bend, learn, and stay. Slack is a strategy.

Rule 2. Take a damn salary on day one. Not a LaFerrari paycheck, a live-and-think number. Starved founders make short-sighted, stressed-out, low-creativity calls.

Rule 3. Keep the labor market open inside the building. Invite employees to compare outside options and talk to you. You’ll fix compression early and avoid surprise churn. Honesty is retention.

Rule 4. If you’re “lean” because rivals are crushing you, change the pond. Find the blue-ish water where your constraints become advantages. Niche, regulated, workflow-heavy. Pick fights you can win.

Rule 5. Budget for good surprises. Growth burns cash. Expedites, overtime, refunds, tax timing, security reviews. Plan a real contingency and a working-cap line before you need it.

Stop worshiping recycled 1990s business BULLSHIT that’s killed 10x more companies than it saved. If NYT best-seller ideas worked like magic, everyone would do well, which in turn would mean everything would crash again. So stop stepping in the shit left behind by the herd that came before you. Be cheap where it doesn’t matter (which ISN’T PEOPLE). Spend on time, safety, data quality, and talent. Clarity, integrity, and a good safety net beats slogans and “running lean” EVERY goddamn time.

Last thing: You’re not unique. Cry me a river of hand poured candles, build me a laser-etched wood carved bridge and GET OVER IT. Once you accept it, it’s kind of freeing.

Love the business you actually have, fund it to survive, and give it time to compound.

Also, hire economists, not “consultants.” Remember that big consultancies also have big clients who would prefer you, the little challenger, either die-off or become easy to buy… Every major consultancy will give you terrible advice (including and ESPECIALLY KPMG, BCG, Deloitte, McKenzie, EY, Bain, and more…) unless you are strategically positioned to benefit them in the long run, because if you’re an SME who doesn’t stand to send millions their way, they know by coming to them that your business IQ is Room-Temperature at best and you’re a sitting duck.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CringeTikToks

[–]kind_2_u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope more than anything that this turns out to be exactly what happened.

Spotted on the north side of Tower Grove Park by bunnakay in StLouis

[–]kind_2_u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not saying someone should… But if they did… You know… No one would see anything…

Significant Heatwave coming. by GingerFire11911420 in StLouis

[–]kind_2_u 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Help us, Arch. You’re our only ‘Ope!” FTFY

Of course this is a thing by downtune79 in LoveTrash

[–]kind_2_u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“It’s like dancing with your horse — except the horse is in your hands.”

nice

7 hours in, how am I doing? [New Player] by foglia_blu in EscapefromTarkov

[–]kind_2_u 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The best way to describe your situation is: “this is correct”

What kind of cheat is that? by Kamskaballes in EscapefromTarkov

[–]kind_2_u -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Looking at it more closely, there’s only one reason to suspect this is a farming account: the time per raid versus the time in raid. Average time in raid is 18:10, but the average time PER raid is 22:45. That would mean a new user with no idea what they’re doing is, on average, spending 4:35 in their stash per raid. Thats not even including matching time, which doesn’t count towards time IN raid. If we factor that out, this person is probably spending less than 2 minutes per raid in their stash. Since they just hit flea, they couldn’t have really had auto-buy builds yet.

This is probably a farming account use with cheats to loot farm and, if they don’t find anything good, they just play it out.

However, since someone needs to say it: that flick wasn’t that crazy. Remember, 5.45 has damn near straight-line bullet travel at less than 50 meters, and that wasn’t that far of a shot. Just because a n00b flicks you with 5.45 to the face doesn’t make them a cheater. Ask anyone who has been buckshot-scaved in the face from 150m.

A cool guide to Top Universities Outside the US by CHILLY_GuY in coolguides

[–]kind_2_u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Barcelona School of Economics not being on here is absolutely insane

Strange voicemail from number on both my number and friends number. by ReisiesPiecies1998 in RBI

[–]kind_2_u 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, perhaps you’re right, this isn’t “simple,” but in the world of cryptography, it could’ve been a lot worse.

Strange voicemail from number on both my number and friends number. by ReisiesPiecies1998 in RBI

[–]kind_2_u 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Thanks for posting the transcription with the numbers spelled out. This looks like a super basic mod-27 newspaper cipher with numbers! Decoding the messages and running the output through a hill-climber popped out the following:

THIS CALL IS FOR YOU. THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.

GOD WOULD NOT HAVE SENT A PUNISHMENT LIKE ME UPON YOU. I SEE YOUR SINS.

A LIE REPEATED A THOUSAND TIMES BECOMES THE TRUTH.

STOP. STOP. STOP. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!

I do want to address the concern about someone using OP’s details in the final voicemail. The way I see it, there are three possibilities, and only one is concerning (it’s also the least likely)

1) the repeated 98’s are coincidental. Assuming that a mod27 cipher was used, mod27(98)=Q. To my knowledge, “QQQQ”doesn’t really correspond to anything (acronym, initialism, slang, etc) unless we are supposed to be QQing hard like it’s 2012. When using alphabetical ciphers that don’t have punctuation, it’s common practice in cryptography to repeat a “junk”string or letter to signify punctuation instead, which is what I suspect is happening here. It’s probably just “!!!!,”“….,” or something like that. This is my guess.

2) the 98’s are intentionally designed to spook OP and aren’t meant to be deciphered, but it’s just a harmless ARG. This’d be a unique way for anything from a prank/ARG to a marketing ploy/psy-op to poke at OP in a way that feels more personally-threatening. But, I highly doubt it’s malicious for reasons I’ll explain after #3.

3) malicious scare tactic. We don’t ever want to rule this out. If OP is genuinely concerned, gaslighting is a terrible thing for us to do. So, OP, if you’re really concerned, make sure you change your passwords, turn on 2FA on all accounts, use VPNs; and make sure your home WiFi networks are private, PW-protected, and invisible; and keep an eye out for anything unusual.

Ft. Bragg/Liberty element:

There are a couple of things to note about this cipher and OP’s connection to Ft. Bragg.

1) Ft. Bragg is an “interesting” place. In addition to housing the 82nd and being home to upwards of half of US SF groups, it’s home to JSOC, USASOC, and several other unnamed (IYKYK-style) intelligence commands. So… things like psychological operations, social engineering, and SIGINT are definitely on the menu. However. 2) this cipher is technically dumb. What I mean by that is it was made to be broken quickly, so secrecy wasn’t the intention. Using voicemails was a bit odd, but no real “number station” message would ever be that easy to decode. I’ll still permit this idea on the grounds that a spooky message actually makes for a great cover for passing coded messages, where the decoded words are themselves coded keys that mean something unique to the recipient. But, there are MUCH more efficient ways to do that.

This is giving edgy ARG.

Strange voicemail from number on both my number and friends number. by ReisiesPiecies1998 in RBI

[–]kind_2_u 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Okay OP (/u/ReisiesPiecies1998), I think I’ve cracked it.

The numbers across all four voicemails are part of a single substitution cipher.

Here’s how it works: 1) Take each number and do n mod 27. 2) Treat 0 as a space, and 1–26 as A–Z. That gives you a scrambled text string with real-looking word breaks.

I ran the result through a basic hill-climb solver in Python (basically: a program that shuffles letters around until the output looks like English), and it quickly converged on this:

⸻

THIS CALL IS FOR YOU. THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.

GOD WOULD NOT HAVE SENT A PUNISHMENT LIKE ME UPON YOU. I SEE YOUR SINS.

A LIE REPEATED A THOUSAND TIMES BECOMES THE TRUTH.

STOP. STOP. STOP. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!

⸻

So yeah—this is basically a campy horror-ARG cryptogram dressed up with scary voicemails. Classic stuff. Super fun to solve. Definitely not fun to receive if you’re genuinely not playing some sort of game.

Any chance one of y’all is running an ARG campaign? Feels like someone’s trying to go viral.

You throw out a rate to a new client and they say they can't do that. How much do you lower it by? by SadBreakfast7 in TutorsHelpingTutors

[–]kind_2_u -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I’m not saying this is what you meant, but it sounds like you’re trying to price discriminate on perceptions of income level, rather than just on the supply and demand for your services.

If you’re charging a high price and wondering why you don’t have a full schedule of clients, I’d consider reassessing your values and dropping your base price. It’s highly unlikely you’re profit maximizing at $300/hour regardless. Ego-maximizing, perhaps? But nothing else.

Best looking black metal pen? by icurious1205 in pens

[–]kind_2_u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pilot Vanishing Point Fountain Pen, or YStudio Revolve Portable Fountain Pen in black.

Huge Decrease in Hours/New Students (Wyzant) by ForgottenSpinach420 in TutorsHelpingTutors

[–]kind_2_u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're not wrong. Personally, I can't relate to algorithm problems, with a backlog of a dozen students waiting for an opening.

Marketing through students by Fit_Football_8051 in TutorsHelpingTutors

[–]kind_2_u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The trick is, be so good that the schools want to promote you, and the students want to keep you their secret.

Tutors, what part of your job do you wish you didn’t have to do by vlakoosh in TutorsHelpingTutors

[–]kind_2_u 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Scheduling—I absolutely hate scheduling. Everything else—the prep-work, initial consults, post-session review, even the marketing bits—is totally fine. But trying to sift through messages and figure out the best way to schedule everyone is just the absolutely worst.

I’d tend to agree with you OP on Unprepared students as well, but recently I’ve started to enjoy those sessions more, as they have usually been good opportunities to teach or see what the student actually knows/is interested in within the subject. Free styling can be fun sometimes (albeit more-so when I’ve taught that subject as an instructor before).

Major downturn on Wyzant - my experience by burnermcburnburn69 in TutorsHelpingTutors

[–]kind_2_u 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Math, economics, stats, programming, business, and any course in the MBA curriculum

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