It would have been around the time of the EverQuest release I got cable Internet, before that it was dial up shared with a frequently used house phone (11 people in the house). Mostly used dial up for web sites like geocities and forums and instant messenger chats (Yahoo, MSN, icq, etc).

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Connecting ads masquerading as posts to bot posts shilling the same crap, got it

It’s a sub problem within the field to try to predict good enough values to default to, search terms like optimizing hyperparameter values minimizing a loss function

Redshift, it changes the brightness/color on the display bluer closer to midday and redder at night. Twilight is a similar app on android.

I’m a lumberjack in Antarctica, the pay is mostly commission based

j’accuse and pamplemousse are pretty good and fun to say

It’s just a tool, like a search engine or a guillotine

The first level of MegaMan x and good springs in fallout: New Vegas are really good examples of how to convey info to the player about how the game works and what you can do without pulling you out of the game itself into a separate tutorial

Yeah having the emotional content from the dream can change short term emotional and intuition reactions even if you recognize there’s no logical, rational reason for it. Best you can do is just be aware of the unfair biases our brains sometimes construct and try not to let it change your behavior.

Why use age instead of a knowledge check instead?

A bunch of scenes in Kentucky route zero, the secret of monkey Island you could do this in game by just wandering around the lava area endlessly, or maniac Mansion: day of the tentacle starting screen is a TV in the distance playing fake late night commercials

And for fake commercials the radio in vampire: the masquerade - bloodlines between the late night DJ Deb of night and the mud slinging political ads.

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There’s a minimum speed on highways because it is dangerous to slow below that limit, the stopping distance for 70mph is around 240 feet and 2.5 sec for perception & reaction.

It’s May 2024 data from 2022 respondents, biased towards people willing to respond to pretty long consumer surveys. I have similar suspicions you’d see a higher % from a larger sample size or reporting from video game platform and store owners who can differentiate that better than your average consumer.

Signatures as a form of authorization I think held up the facsimile tech way past it’s best by date

Yes, the survey summary below shows no exceptions for physical hardware vs emulation in the question

https://article.images.consumerreports.org/image/upload/v1718112414/prod/content/dam/surveys/Consumer_Reports_AES_May_2024.pdf