If Balatro is gambling then so is every game that has a chance based mechanic. Genshin Impact is PEGI 12 and you can spend money on loot boxes, which is absolutely gambling. Balatro is identical to Hades, except you fight with cards.

The law is poorly written, or is being applied incorrectly here. Balatro is in no way simulating a casino, which I'd be more inclined to say games that do that should have a more mature rating. Bit of a slippery slope though, nothing stops a casino from adding a new game that mimics an existing genre of video game mechanics, and then regulators saying the entire genre is gambling. It's all pearl clutching, not backed by any science, etc. made by the same people that want to ban Mortal Kombat and think Counter Strike causes school shootings.

They could release just swap a dozen words, it wouldn't get this rating. None of those words are required for it to be a good game. The essence of gambling that society wants to protect children from is not part of Balatro any more than it is Solitaire.

Eventually the science will show ADHD and a slew of other ND psychoclassifications are entirely genetic. It's very likely one of your parents are driving the same brain around as you, with all its faults and strengths. In their childhood psych didn't have the labels and treatments, you didn't really want to mess with those abusers. Society also found it ok to beat children that didn't behave. The parent with the ND brain was probably beat by their parent until they figured out how to wear the right mask. And not just beaten by their parents, but every single authority figure, teachers, pastors, etc. The cycle of physical abuse was only recently broken. We still haven't broken the cycle of emotional abuse this society forces on ND people. The majority of psych pseudoscience still ongoing considers ND to be subhuman, excluding us from studies, using derogatory language that only serves to dehumanize and not empathize, recognize, and accommodate. They fail to recognize the positive aspects that are unique and common amongst ND, so we end up not even realizing in ourselves. In your parent's generation they'd treat perfectly capable ND people with a lobotomy. There are probably more psych professionals practicing today that were taught by books written by the same folks who practiced lobotomies, than those that learned the still incorrect (but at least more correct than a fucking lobotomy fixes everything) science from 10 years ago.

Sorry for the rant.

Another fun thing from this show is the magic system, which limits the caster's ability based on what they can imagine. Programming feels exactly like that to me. I mean, a lot of human ability is limited by that, but most stuff is also limited by physical constraints long before imagination. With programming, we more often hit the limit of our imagination, or time feasibility, before any other constraint.

Working with non programmers, it's always wild to field their unimaginative solutions, and refreshing when someone actually had a good idea.

Working with less experienced programmers, it's fun to help them through problems. So often they hit a wall they can't imagine walking through, take some concession and build around the wall. You can appreciate the work, and then show them the simple solution to walk through the wall. If they have talent, they grow quick.

Working with a much more experienced programmer, or in a domain you don't have much experience with, helps keep you humble because there's no way you're going to learn everything.

Anyway, back to writing my spells.

With rare exception, team bonds at big companies are superficial and these forced social situations aren't going to produce deep bonds.

More to the point, I have work I actually want to do, and shit like this isn't going to get it done any faster. Nothing you learn about my dog, kids, the weather, etc is going to make work faster, on the contrary the absolute best case is that we'll spend more time catching up about non-work shit.

If management has time to think this stuff is a good idea, they aren't good managers, especially if they manage anyone that has no interest in these things.

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Are they staying open because there's marketing value in being open on a holiday, or because there's business as usual money to be made. If it's not for some extra marketing purposes, this just lays bare how much more money they could be paying folks and still remain profitable.

Overtime and holiday pay was meant to disincentivize manufacturing companies from overworking their people and not letting them spend time doing frivolous things like being with family on holidays. The difference between the cost of labor and the value of labor was so small back then (after decades of negotiating, union action, and bloodshed) that a simple 1.5x was enough to disincentivize it under most circumstances. It's so vast now for the service industry that they are willing to pay 2.5 times as much.

A bunch of (5 states) ranked choice voting ballot measures were just rejected directly by citizens, and another went so far as to ban it, and many red states have already done that. Team money won by convincing the public to vote against their own interests. Sorry to bear bad news, maybe there's something else to be hopeful about still but I'm not seeing it. The only good news I've heard in American politics since the election was within the last few weeks, and it gets you banned on most of the Internet for saying so.

I'm not saying you're wrong for wanting that. In a perfect world we'd all be doing things we love surrounded by people we love. I'm saying this sort of shit isn't going to turn coworkers into friends. If I think we'll get along, I'm going to have a sense of that through natural means. We're probably not going to get along anyway. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586171/full

Perhaps they realized it would be cheaper to stop the growth of a superior product. Especially when that superior product would likely require more types of costs that would eat corporate level profit. More higher paid employees that can't be mechanized.

Status quo is incredibly profitable, assuming nothing threatens it. That's why big business does everything they can to increase the barrier of entry, and happily overpays to buy out successful competitors, with the leadership of the competitors having enforceable noncompetes for the model.

Maybe the prompt said some shit about making sure you couldn't see that it's AI, or hide that it's AI. There remains to be an issue that prompting it not to generate something increases the chances that it will do that.

Yeah, and King George III had all sorts of shit written down that people in governing roles agreed to. People under tyranny were pretty upset and tried diplomacy back then as well. Violence is what eventually solved it, and the people that went through that wanted to make sure violence was always an option, hence the 2nd amendment. Anyone, Republican or Democrat, that says otherwise is just wrong.

There's some nature vs nurture question here. Let's take twins with an identical ND brain. Due to random chance, from an early age one twin is interested in things society finds highly valuable, and the other is interested in things society doesn't value at all. What are the outcomes from childhood on?

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That's a nice analogy. If the world was sane and just, those in power would quickly get their shit in order now that they've been reminded what the 2nd amendment was actually meant for. Doesn't matter if it's king, president, or CEO, people in power over Americans are meant to respect the threat of violence.

Hate the right and the NRA skewing it for stupid individual self defense reasons just as much as the Democrats trying to claim it has something to do with militias.

Whenever you do get it clean, treat it with RainX or similar. We do that every few years and squeegee after each shower, our glass is spotless after 10 years. Our water is super hard too, saw the house next to ours which was built at the same time, disgustingly opaque with scale.

For some kids here it's the only good meal they eat. No one is mandating people's kids eat the school food.

I came back to my office after the new year's break and a stray bullet, from I'm assuming celebratory gunfire, was shot through the wall and hit my screen. Admittedly it wasn't a hole and the screen was totally unusable after, but I'll be a close n=1.

I've played both Balatro and Hades, both are rogue likes, Balatro is just in the subgenre of deck builder. Balatro's gameplay loop is closer to Hades than to poker, you're wrong or uninformed to say otherwise. No one is playing Balatro and getting addicted to gambling and going off to play poker, but I can totally see it being a gateway to the rogue-like genre.

Fuck LG, not like they made good BR players. I've sworn to avoid buying their shit since they discontinued support for a BR player within a year of release, which back then meant you wouldn't be able to watch any BR movie released after a certain date due to new DRM or whatever. They just up and decided to not release new firmware for units still under warranty.

All three should be one table, at least based on the diagram and your description. Read this https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-computer-scientists.html.

Look into the concept of sub-ledgers if you're wanting some additional tables along with the general ledger.

Past that, historical balances being rolled up by various dimensions is another thing I've done. No point in continuously summarizing the GL from the beginning of time when those values should never change and people only care to see summary values for a period.