Convince a guy in Google to not publish a paper that started this AI nonsense.

Savage!

I’m atheist, and don’t mind religious people… Except when they try to shape society to reflect their moral values.

“You can take away my heroes, can you take away my pain?”

I remember Valve placing honeypots that would be impossible for a honest player to see or reach, and banning in mass the players who fall for it after some time to avoid the adaptation of the cheaters. And that is a cheap yet effect way to clean the player base.

Other interesting strategy is to limit the client information available, of the character is not looking with a scope, the client doesn’t need to know if there is another player far in that direction.

Probabilistic analysis is not the only way.

But I know that some strategies would demand major reworks or good planning from the development phase.

Server side anti-cheat should be the focus of every game company with an MMO game in their catalog. Relying on kernel access is madness.

I think he refers to the amount of Linux users playing their game.

Second language here

Yeah, that is called withdrawal syndrome, when there are symptoms if the person stops using a substance. I think that’s a problem caused by an addiction that interferes with a higher priority.

By the way, this is no joke and can lead to death depending on the severity.

For tobacco, I don’t think withdrawal syndrome can kill, but it can last for 6 months according to a psychiatrist I know.

And about the criteria for addiction, in my country it is:

• manipulative behavior to keep doing it (it = using the substance or the activity)
• repertory restrictions (avoid doing other activities that the person used to do)
• harm in other aspects of life (like what we said before)
• keep doing it, even with those damages

timeanddate.com to schedule meetings with people in different timezones, and plan a trip to watch eclipses

I think it is easy, but I speak only european languages. Not sure if it is really easier or I just feel that is easy because I know the languages I do.

I would love to say mandarin/chinese, but tonal languages scares me.

I made a grammar rule set (not a complete conlang yet) where verbs don’t need to be conjugated, and information about time is separated from the verb; A new lingua franca, IMHO, should not have verb conjugation.

This is a good rule of thumb for most addictions afaik.

Play this for a week: https://www.nationstates.net/

Then look where you fall in this graph

Paper clips.

Software funded by public resources should be a benefit available for the public. Is not only transparency and security, it should be owned by the people who paid for it.