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More like "Global metal producer advocates for allowing the use of Chinese shovels in America". Still very predictable.

Chegg was a $15B company before AI came out. I promise that wasn't because it was the best platform to learn the material.

I agree that humans are generally honorable for things with low stakes. Consider our cultural view of politicians for a non-SV example of where we fully expect high stakes to lead to selfish and dishonorable actions.

Thanks to this I looked where my nearest ER is and found that it's 7 minutes away, so I can't imagine calling an ambulance for my wife unless I was worried about her spine. (I don't think she can lift me so the reverse isn't true.)

> * Utterly useless to people who have no clue what they're doing

I disagree.

I'm making a board game of 6 colors of hexes, and I wanted to be able to easily edit the board. The first time around, I used a screenshot of a bunch of hexagons and used paint to color them (tedious, ugly, not transparent, poor quality). This time, I asked ChatGPT to make an SVG of the board and then make a JS script so that clicking on a hex could cycle through the colors. Easier, way higher quality, adjustable size, clean, transparent.

It would've taken me hours to learn and set that up for myself, but ChatGPT did it in 10min with some back and forth. I've made one SVG in my life before this, and never written any DOM-based JS scripts.

Yes, it's a toy example, but you don't have to knwo what you're doing to get useful things from AI.

The majority of litter on the sidewalks of the through streets near me is those 1oz shooters. Followed by aluminum cans (mostly beer), fast food trash (plastic cups for sauces, disposable drink cups), and then household trash that looks like it flew out of a trash can on windy days (empty boxes, plastic wrappers, a bottle of laundry detergent, etc).

Source: new year's resolution to pick up at least 1 piece of trash per dog walk.

I also use this. Pros: super cheap. <$2/mo for all my custom email addresses and routing rules. Nothing else came close - everything else I found would make me pay per email address even if that address receives an average of 0 emails per month. The wildcard suffixes are really nice as well - they use _ instead of gmail's + (I've had issues with gmail's version as it sometimes is transparently removed, or sometimes the form doesn't consider + a valid character).

Cons: UI is bad, so you'll want to access through a client. 1 person shop. Not audited AFAIK.

Here are the notes I wrote for myself as a magic player, to translate it into purely MTG terms. (These probably aren't enough to explain on their own, but they'll probably help MTG players who want to get the gist.)

Your opponent has 21 life and you win when your creatures have at least that much power. You can’t attack.

Setup: dealer goes second and starts with 6 cards, opponent starts with 5 cards. Hand limit of 7.

On your turn: Either play 1 card or draw 1 card

Point cards (ace - 10; ace is 1) are creatures with power equal to their point number. Face cards (and sideways 8) are enchantments. No lands or mana costs. "Playing" a card refers to casting that card or channeling that card.

Every point card has “channel - discard this card: Choose a creature with lesser value. Destroy it.” (suit matters, spades > hearts > diamonds > clubs, e.g., 8 of hearts is greater value than 8 of diamonds or any 7 but less than 8 of spades or any 9.) Note that this doesn't target.

Most point cards can be played as sorceries for an alternate effect:

Ace: wrath of God

2: disenchant OR muddle the mixture (this is the only instant and does not count toward your 1 card per turn limit. Everything else is sorcery speed)

3: regrowth

4: mind rot

5: divination

6: tranquility / back to nature

7: mind’s desire

8: sideways as enchantment - glasses of Urza

9: aura extraction*

10: none

Face cards are exclusively enchantments:

Jack: control magic**

Queen: Privileged position***

King: reduce your opponent’s life total based on the number of kings you control for as long as they remain on the battlefield: 0: 21; 1: 14; 2: 10; 3: 7; 4: 5.

Notes: The card types are pretty explicit - muddle the mixture can only counter sorceries or instants, not creatures, enchantments, or channeling. Wrath of god only kills creatures, tranquility only kills enchantments.

Rules can differ, depending on the source:

* sometimes as "reflector mage for enchantments", sometimes as "unsummon for enchantments". **sometimes as "exchange control of target creature". ***sometimes as "all permanents you control have hexproof", I.e., including itself.

It's rare that a single sentence can tell me so clearly whether or not I'd be willing to work at a company.

The actual article could be misleading (it's not obvious if setting their RTO status to "natural disaster" status means they expend their sick days or not), but this is so clearly petty micromanagement that there's really no ambiguity.

> I haven't see any single threaded scores about 150 and no multi-threaded scores higher than 1500.

s/about/above, s/see/seen

> the kind of job where you need security clearance and a full background check

That's like saying "a tech job". Most jobs that require those things pay poorly. Big defense contractors like Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, etc. pay worse than most tech companies. I have over a dozen friends in defense (I used to work for a defense contractor) and none earn comparably to big tech. It's not a matter of clearance, to be clear - most of those dozen have TS/SCI and had to go through a full polygraph.

Unless you meant working directly for the government, not a contractor. That would put you on the GS payscale, which does not have carveouts for SWEs, meaning it won't pay as well as any private developer role.

If it doesn't handle the card rules automatically for you, then it's way worse than MTG Arena or MTGO. I've played with free MTG software (cockatrice) and it's not close to the same thing, even though it has all the art and buttons for doing all the effects manually (I use this shortcut to draw 3 cards, this shortcut to put 2 back, this shortcut to exile someone's graveyard, etc).

If they really built the best site for playing MTG, even over paid versions, then there's no real way to hide the fact that it's magic-specific.