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Generally speaking, trackers that require a ratio above 1.0 and don't have freeleech/point system are designed so that you pay the website to fix your ratio and/or rent a seedbox from one of their partner.

It's a 0 sum game; for every account with a >1.0 ratio, that implies other people will be <1.0.

And when you compete with 10gb/s seedboxes that have scripts to automatically grab all the new torrent the second they get posted, it's extremely difficult to improve your ratio. Even for super popular torrents, you have a few minutes to seed as much as you can before upload speed goes to 0 forever. You can't slowly accumulate upload over time the same way you would with a torrent from a public tracker.


Because the ones pushing it down your throats are trying to capture the entire market and get you to adopt their AI instead of a competitor.


>LLMs don't do this

They did at the beginning. It used to be that if you wanted a full answer with an intro, bullet points, lists of pros/cons, etc., you had to explicitly ask for it in the prompt. The answers were also a lot more influenced by the tone of the prompt instead of being forced into answering with a specific format like it does right now.


>While she was moving my legs using her upper body, it felt quite intimate and I admired her for being so professional while doing her work physically and giving psychological support as a bonus.

Have you considered that from her pov, there was nothing intimate about it? I wasn't there to watch it, but in my experience, these situations are only "intimate" or awkward AFTER you start talking about how intimate and awkward there are. For people who have to touch bodies regularly at work (eg. me when I was a gymnastic coach), there is nothing intimate about it. The only ones who think it's sexual/intimate/awkward/weird/etc. are those who have no experience with it.

It's the same thing when you get a medical procedure done. Believe it or not, the nurses and the surgeon do not give a single fuck about seeing your dick. Its not intimate or sexual for them.


For her it probably did not feel intimate indeed. Still giving care can give a sense of emotional connection, with or without physical contact. Like I wrote, what made it most satisfying was the combination of the physio with empathetic conversations.


I participated in that competition a decade ago. The best teams had a hull that was less than half an inch thick and it didn't leak. We put glass fibers and iirc latex in the concrete mix.


>were too dangerous to handle

Too dangerous to handle or too dangerous for openai's reputation when "journalists" write articles about how they managed to force it to say things that are offensive to the twitter mob? When AI companies talk about ai safety, it's mostly safety for their reputation, not safety for the users.


The best I have found so far with good specs is the "sandisk SanDisk ultra dual drive go". The spinny thing is super annoying but you can glue it in place if you don't need the type-A. It's a bit bigger than the yubikey, but it's smaller than the other alternatives.


That's the one that I use now! I'm weary of the spinny kind because with other brands/models the outer spinner has ripped off the flash drive, but at least so far I haven't had that issue with the "SanDisk ultra dual drive go". The only modification I've had to do to it so far is lubricating the spinny bit because it was all grindy and rough.


I got the ultra dual drive (non-go), no silly spinny bit, just a sliding mechanism that locks into place in either configuration as well as fully retracted on both sides.


when I realised I never use the type-A, I glued it in place with epoxy. Now I don't have to worry about it breaking.


That doesn't surprise me. I find it hard to believe it's a pure coincidence that I would get stuck in the loop regularly when I'm on the university wifi but it would never happen anywhere else ever. After a dozen try, I would remote connect to my home pc and it would magically work on the first try every single time.


Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google.

I know it's still not justified, but it's the easy solution that works for preventing DOS attacks.


>Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google.

Kinda wild that someone scraping google's data would prevent me from getting into my PAID (>90$/yr) Dropbox account. That experience is a big part of why I pay extra to host my host data on my own server now.


Yep, that's how the internet works now unfortunately.

Decentralization, hosting your own stuff, is great until you run into DDOS attacks and have to make maintaining your server a full time job. Sure you have the skills (or can acquire it), but do you have the time ?


If you are talking about the gyroscopic precession effect that happens when you push on a spinning disc, this is the best video I've seen so far that explains it in an intuitive way: youtube.com/watch?v=n5bKzBZ7XuM


>Overall, the development world does not intuitively understand the difficulty of creating good interfaces

I think it's because they are not using the product they are designing. A lot of problems you typically see in modern UIs would have been fixed before release if the people writing it were forced to use it daily for their job.

For example, dropdown menus with 95 elements and no search/filter function that are too small and only allow you to see 3 lines at a time.


There’s a real difference in usage style between developers and most other users. Having the background knowledge to understand what’s going on behind the curtain makes it easy to deal with things like interactive visual complexity, tons of data and moving parts at the same timetime, implementation warts, etc.


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