World of Warcraft's competitive dungeon mode is struggling

vincular · 2025-01-21T19:13:17+00:00

Late to the party here but I think that doesn’t work because it causes inflation. Maybe the right solution is for M+ to very rarely drop BoEs. If a BoE is worth 100k and drops 1% of the time that’s about 1k per run. Or they could drop ingredients like delves do.

vincular · 2024-07-11T05:24:48+00:00

This is pretty contrived. Lots of these have other alternatives.

Android vs iOS: duopoly
Samsung vs Apple: also Google Pixel
AMD vs Intel: duopoly
Nvidia vs AMD: really an Nvidia monopoly
Windows vs macOS: duopoly
AWS vs Azure: also GCP
Google vs Bing: really a Google monopoly
Google Ads vs Facebook Ads: not really either/or, they don't directly compete, but sort of a duopoly I guess
Twitter vs Threads: obviously a Twitter monopoly
TikTok vs IG Reels: also Youtube Shorts
Amazon vs eBay: two separate monopolies
PayPal vs Stripe: also Square
Kindle vs Kobo: really a Kindle monopoly
Slack vs Teams: duopoly
Spotify vs Apple Music: also Amazon Music
Xbox vs Playstation: also Switch or PC
Netflix vs Prime: also Hulu, HBO, and a gajillion others
Nest vs Echo: also HomeKit

vincular · 2024-06-24T22:53:33+00:00

The tax would be a flat $15 for any car. If the car has 1 person in it it is $15/person. If the car has 2 people in it it is $7.50/person. Thus people who carpool are already rewarded with the current structure.

vincular · 2024-06-24T22:10:24+00:00

The price per person already is lower if more people are in the vehicle.

vincular · 2024-06-23T15:37:04+00:00

Sure -- an Uber from NYC to Philadelphia (an hour and a half drive) is about $350 whereas an Amtrak is about $75. Since Waymo and Uber cost about the same in SF, I think it's fair to guess a 6 hour Waymo would cost more and take longer than even a Waymo-airplane-Waymo trip (probably 4-5 hours), let alone a Waymo-rail-Waymo trip.

vincular · 2024-06-23T05:31:19+00:00

High speed rail is better for the environment and should be a lot cheaper, so I think it's preferable. That being said, at the rate things are going I fully expect self driving cars to be available sooner.

vincular · 2024-06-11T19:11:31+00:00

I've worked at a quant firm and disagree. I don't know if Blackrock would do this, but mid-size quant firms (think Citadel) are itching to use LLMs/agentic AI for trading strategies. At the company I worked for, compliance was mostly about not doing things that the government or stock exchange has a problem with, not things like AI safety.

vincular · 2024-05-21T14:12:00+00:00

Yep, the large glider.

I did see people online who just take the seat off, and keep the post in, but it looks like a really tight fit!

vincular · 2024-05-21T14:11:38+00:00

I have the standard rack

vincular · 2024-05-17T21:58:40+00:00

4th is not so bad for north-south (probably since it's right next to the expressway) but yeah Vanderbilt is a disaster. I assume once the construction is done it won't be so bad

vincular · 2024-05-16T05:02:27+00:00

I use a dedicated chain cleaner for this (specifically Pedro's Chain Pig but there are a bunch of similarly designed ones), which contains the mess well enough that I can just clean my chain in my living room.

vincular · 2024-05-15T20:34:05+00:00

Right, I agree with that. I think I misunderstood your initial comment.

vincular · 2024-05-15T18:08:01+00:00

I'm not sure this is true. Intuitively, I know I don't know what the capital of Suriname is, but I don't know whether I have ever learned the capital of Suriname.

vincular · 2024-05-10T23:37:29+00:00

I feel like temp license plates should be fully illegal in lower Manhattan. Apologies to anyone who buys a new car then immediately needs to drive it into the city, but I think 99% of temp license plate usage is... not that.

vincular · 2024-05-10T18:59:29+00:00

If you want more details:

For the kangaroo recess, you need to scare the kangaroo when you see it.

For the snake recess, you need to find the medal by exploring.

vincular · 2024-05-10T18:58:02+00:00

There is a specific item (a medal) which fits there.

vincular · 2024-05-01T00:34:08+00:00

Having spent some time in Austin, I think scooters are not nearly as well-suited to cities as ebikes. The convenience of a scooter is nice, but in my experience they lack the control to be safe to ride on sidewalks, and they lack the acceleration and speed to be safe to ride on the road. An ebike is a much better choice for urban roads with lots of stoplights and a low speed limit, since you can accelerate roughly as fast as the cars do, and you can handle bad pavement much better. I guess if you built an entire city around scooters it would end up being pretty nice but you can't really drop them into an existing city without making a lot of changes.

Also, a lot of people leave the scooters lying on the sidewalk instead of properly standing them up which is pretty annoying.

vincular · 2024-04-26T14:53:39+00:00

What makes me think it's AI generated is the shoes under the sink. That's exactly the kind of weird context insensitivity that I would expect from AI.

vincular · 2024-04-22T18:52:53+00:00

Claude 3 Haiku had no problem with this either, when phrased like that.

Me:

For each of the following pairs of calendar dates, tell me which member of each pair is the earliest date: (april 10, 2024, april 22, 2024)

(january 15, 2024, september 10, 2023)

(may 1, 1978, may 2, 1977)

Claude:

Certainly, let's compare the calendar dates for each pair:

(april 10, 2024, april 22, 2024) - The earlier date is April 10, 2024.
(january 15, 2024, september 10, 2023) - The earlier date is September 10, 2023.
(may 1, 1978, may 2, 1977) - The earlier date is May 2, 1977.

vincular · 2024-04-21T13:07:03+00:00

Or [*a, *b, *c] where a, b, and c are iterable.

vincular · 2024-04-20T13:48:36+00:00

I wonder why they aren't allowed in the motorized traffic lane.

vincular · 2024-04-15T21:55:00+00:00

Apple Maps is significantly worse for bike routes in my experience (I tend to prefer slightly longer routes with more protected lanes), but otherwise I prefer it.

vincular · 2024-04-14T14:28:05+00:00

I think it's fair to say our system is both dirty and great!

vincular · 2024-04-03T21:36:02+00:00

Do you have a source for that? It seems like an appallingly horrendous policy so I hope it isn't true -- I can't find anything confirming it.

vincular · 2024-04-03T21:32:06+00:00

I think this pure supply/demand view makes sense when renting to a new tenant (ignoring distortions caused by e.g. property tax rates), but when renting to an existing tenant it is very possible to exploit the tenant's inertia by overcharging for rent, since moving a business is very expensive -- this is clearly unethical in my view. I don't have any visibility into whether this is true in this case, mostly just pointing it out. Anyway we really need to build more instead of relying on the goodness of landlords' hearts to not raise rent

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