The first party app is pretty good in this case. No ads. Supports offline downloads, including auto-downloading videos from your subscriptions. The search is obviously good, because Google.

2y ago

Ubisoft sued for shutting down The Crew

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cbarrick @lemmy.world 2y ago

it's unrealistic to assume it would exist forever.

Older multiplayer games would let you self-host the server, long before the current trend.

Ubisoft doesn't have to continue to host servers. They just have to release the server code. Zero cost to them.

2y ago

Ubisoft sued for shutting down The Crew

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cbarrick @lemmy.world 2y ago

It won't

2y ago

How Good at Math Does a Programmer Need to Be?

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cbarrick @lemmy.world 2y ago

So, I'd argue that "frontend" and "backend" are the default modes of software engineering these days, and that embedded is a more niche field.

That said, if you're doing encryption code, you're doing far more advanced math than backend monitoring and alerting.

2y ago

How Good at Math Does a Programmer Need to Be?

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cbarrick @lemmy.world 2y ago

You often need to be pretty good at math. But not because you're "doing math" to write the code.

In real world software systems, you need to handle monitoring and alerting. To properly do this, you need to understand stats, rolling averages, percentiles, probability distributions, and significance testing. At least at a basic level. Enough to know how to recognize these problems and where to look when you run into them.

For being a better coder, you need to understand mathematical logic, proofs, algebra/symbolic logic, etc in order to reason your way through tricky edge cases.

To do AI/ML, you need to know a shitton of calculus and diff eqs, plus numerical algorithms concepts like numerical stability. This is kinda a niche (but rapidly growing) engineering field.

The same thing about AI also applies to any other domain where the thing being computed is fundamentally a math or logic solution. This is somewhat common in backend engineering.

I'm not "doing math" with pen and paper at work, but I do use all of these mathematical skills all. the. time.

I am an SRE on a ML serving platform.

2y ago

Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Oprah Winfrey Set for Kamala Harris’ Election Eve Pennsylvania Rallies

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cbarrick @lemmy.world 2y ago

As someone living in Pittsburgh, I hate this.

Traffic is going to be a mess on Monday.

Both Kamala and Trump have rallies on the same day...

2y ago

A lot of state poll results show ties. So are they tied because of voters — or pollsters?

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cbarrick @lemmy.world 2y ago

BUT good poll results aren't just "we polled 1,000 people and here's who they're voting for."

Good pollsters take demographic data when they poll. They model the biases of different demos, and they correct for those biases in their models.

Yes, reducing underrepresentation at poll time would be ideal. But pollsters are smart and are doing their best to put out good models. Pollsters know Gen Z is underrepresented and are accounting for that already.

In other words, don't let Gen Z underrepresentation in the polls lull you into a false sense of security. The polls are accurate. The race is neck and neck.