I have 50-yo+ friends that look younger than this guy. You can't game genetics.
The age old (no pun intended) rich people trying to cheat the reaper. There’s a trade in endangered animals for this same snake oil (also no pun intended).
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cathdrlbizzare commented on I unschool my 5 kids. This is how much it costs rosiesherry.medium.com/i-... · Posted by u/rosiesherry
Learning to read and basic maths.
For maths, but they pick it up pretty easily in day to day conversations and activities (ipad and gaming helps, imho)
My 11 year old went to school part time, lasted half a term, but his maths skills were on par with the kids there, if not better. He had never done any formal maths.
I only speak on behalf of our family, everyone has different experiences, but it's still important to recognise that life and education can be done differently.
It depends on the type of school.
I was 1-2 years ahead of public school coming from private school around 6th grade (11-12yo).
cathdrlbizzare commented on I unschool my 5 kids. This is how much it costs rosiesherry.medium.com/i-... · Posted by u/rosiesherry
My main concern is whether the homeschooled kids are disadvantaged by the lack of the vital social component of school.
I’ve met a number of homeschooled kids but they always seem to have limited socialization opportunities.
cathdrlbizzare commented on I unschool my 5 kids. This is how much it costs rosiesherry.medium.com/i-... · Posted by u/rosiesherry
Is there anything you think they should learn about even if they don't find it interesting?
Deep treatment of (in)famous and obscure historical events.
Classic literature.
Controversial literature.
Philosophy.
A nonnative language, preferably Mandarin.
Phonics.
Dialectical method exercises in critical thinking.
cathdrlbizzare commented on Google, Meta hired talent to do 'fake work' fortune.com/2023/03/10/go... · Posted by u/berkeleyjunk
This was an interesting article until it started praising musk for slashing half of twitter - I don’t think the HR and legal departments were doing fake work, and the current lack of stability seems to indicate that a good portion of those people layed off where actually important.
Departments aren’t a hive mind. Individuals do work.
cathdrlbizzare commented on Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch dota2.com/newsentry/36777... · Posted by u/chungus
The article just says anything that read that section
There are all sorts of security software that could do this. Antivirus, DLP, and more.
Conflating a variety of possibilities and relying correlation doesn’t reduce to intent or prove causation.
OTOH: Don’t play computer games on company hardware unless it’s part of the job.
I don’t have skin in this computer game. To stay ahead of cheaters requires constant vigilance and creative solutions to scale detection.
cathdrlbizzare commented on Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch dota2.com/newsentry/36777... · Posted by u/chungus
If I was them I wouldn't give out all the details on this.
Security through obscurity isn’t security.
cathdrlbizzare commented on Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch dota2.com/newsentry/36777... · Posted by u/chungus
You don't know how bad it is in PC games. This is precisely the reason we need anti-cheats in the kernel.
I fail to see an argument for this being a technical necessity.
And, you don’t offer any data or evidence for this.
There are thousands of businesses and million of users who don’t care about and don’t need this.
cathdrlbizzare commented on Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch dota2.com/newsentry/36777... · Posted by u/chungus
> The old business model of just charging a lot of money up front for the game seems like it wouldn't have this problem to the same extent.
The problem with such games exists as well but challenges are different:
- cheaters still have access to phished/hacked abandoned accounts that own the game that they can buy very cheap
- another way to get new accounts for cheap is to buy the games in countries where the games are cheaper i.e. argentina or turkey
- there is very little motivation from developers to completely stop the cheaters or slow them down (every banned account is a potential sale of new copy of the game) the developer benefits financially from cheaters continuing to evade bans
- the players hurt the most (who already bought the game and paid the developer) don't generate any new income to the developer and dont pose any risk to income generation unless they quit the game en masse (discouraging potential new players from buying the game)
Yep. There’s no incentive to catch every cheater because it helps sell the “need” for advantages conferred by DLC and virtual currencies.
cathdrlbizzare commented on Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch dota2.com/newsentry/36777... · Posted by u/chungus
This always seems obvious to me with F2P games. They create more and more complicated measures to detect cheats, but when it cost nothing (except an SMS service now I guess) to spin up a new account you aren't getting anywhere.
The old business model of just charging a lot of money up front for the game seems like it wouldn't have this problem to the same extent. You just ban their key and they're out $20-60. But that business model is less popular now I guess.
You can bet F2P games generally aren’t playable without buying virtual currency and DLC.