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[Flying Dice]

Same ol' lies, damned lies, and statistics.

[Cthulufaic]

Same ol' lies, damned lies, and statistics.

You just said the same thing 3 times.

still waiting for quantum porn

[Putnam]

GPUs are still exponentially getting faster. That's why you're seeing so many more machine learning breakthroughs these days.

Well, that an algorithmic improvements, which as usual are way more important than hardware improvements.

[Orange Wizard]

And CPUs are still improving as well. I mean, not as quickly, but it's only a matter of time before there's some new architecture innovations.

...

still waiting for quantum porn

reeee, 2d>4d

[Eric Blank]

So today a customer brought me a pack of skittles with only like 1/4 of what it should have in it. He probably did mention it, but I didn't notice that the skittles which were supposed to be in the package were all over the floor.

The thing is, there was no hole in the bag big enough for even a single skittle to be squeezed through. It was sealed tight save for a tiny little scratch about a millimeter in diameter; too small to fit a skittle through, and which either of us could have accidentally scraped into it while fondling it so much. I don't have a clue how he managed to spill skittles all over the floor without making a hole in the bag.

[Greiger]

Customers are able to break the laws of reality when it comes to causing more work for the person they are interacting with.  It is one of the laws of the customer service industry.

[JoshuaFH]

So I bought and have been immersed in Bravely Second, the sequel to Bravely Default. I'm really loving it so far, has all the great qualities of the first one  and then some.

Then the game dumps on me the most bizarre optional minigame, which is basically a Sweatshop Manager with mechanics in the vein of Cookie Clicker or some other kind of idling game.This wasn't in Final Fantasy 5 Square, and it was my understand that the Bravely series is just FF5 with voice acting and Fairy companions. It's so bizarre and out-of-place, and honestly it was kinda really boring since there's extremely little interaction and the game hijacks your quest line in order to shove it into your face. I mean, sure, I dumped like 3 hours into it in order to max out my little Toy Sweatshop, and the game promised no compensation besides maybe a little money, so I did it just for the joy of watching numbers go up, but I still walked away going "What the F?"

[ManMan]

First, let me make a short description of my windows. I'll have trouble 'cause I'm not good at english, but I'll try: They have the usual glass and windowy stuff, and then additional wooden things that you can open and close, for more safety I guess. I don't know if other houses have these kinds of windows.

Now that you know that, you are ready for the story. So this morning I woke up, did my morning routine, but all of a sudden I started hearing a very faint and unusual sound, coming from who knows where. So I (and my mother and brother and people that nobody cares about) started looking around for the source of that annoying sound, but I couldn't find anything. I decided maybe we were just hearing things, and opened my window to get some fresh air. And just as I opened my window (the glass part, the wooden part was still closed) I realized what was driving us crazy: bees! Like, four to eight of them, I'm not sure because I instantly slammed my window shut. Not before one of the bees managed to come out, so we had to kill it.

And now I don't really know what to do. Just felt like sharing the story.

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By the way, I forgot to mention how the bees got there: I'm pretty sure they slipped in through a small hole in the wooden window thing. Yeah, this house is old.

[IcyTea31]

I know Microsoft has been aggressive about pushing its newest product to its customers, but man, summoning bees to attack users? That's just not cool.

[hops]

They're trying to brand their new product the same way as how they did XBox, but they realized Windows One would be too obvious, and so would Windows Two. So they went with Windows Bees.

[Shadowlord]

Windows ToBeeOrNotToBee, eh?

I take it that's one of those windows that you lift up, instead of the kind that opens outward when you spin a hand-crank. Those ones you can have a metal screen (wire mesh, basically) on the inside of the window and still be able to open and close it.

[ManMan]

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Here's a picture of how the window looks like. It's not the infested window, but it's pretty much the same. There's the glass part outside and then some wooden stuff. I'm bad at describing things. And by the way, the bees seem to be gone, but I'm still spooked

[Shadowlord]

Ahh.

[Yoink]

Shutters?

[Sirus]

So I bought and have been immersed in Bravely Second, the sequel to Bravely Default. I'm really loving it so far, has all the great qualities of the first one  and then some.

Then the game dumps on me the most bizarre optional minigame, which is basically a Sweatshop Manager with mechanics in the vein of Cookie Clicker or some other kind of idling game.This wasn't in Final Fantasy 5 Square, and it was my understand that the Bravely series is just FF5 with voice acting and Fairy companions. It's so bizarre and out-of-place, and honestly it was kinda really boring since there's extremely little interaction and the game hijacks your quest line in order to shove it into your face. I mean, sure, I dumped like 3 hours into it in order to max out my little Toy Sweatshop, and the game promised no compensation besides maybe a little money, so I did it just for the joy of watching numbers go up, but I still walked away going "What the F?"

Didn't Bravely Default have a similar minigame, rebuilding the main character's town?