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Half the people around here want a literal engine update on DII and hated the changes made from early D3 to release. This is more or less exactly what the public has been asking for. I haven't seen anyone complain about the D3 engine, just the art style, mechanics, and itemization, all of which...

Eh. The line between "sequel" and "expansion that resets almost everything" is just semantics and price.

Clean break, less baggage, lore and mechanics reset.

Well, runes confirmed. Looks like they just went full fan appeasement mode.

This version looks better than the gameplay trailer clips. Incremental improvement over D3, but there are some definite differences in detail and lighting.

No fucking around so far. Cautiously optimistic.

Same thing, IMO. Some ability to target which items you wanted to find would go a long way.

I used to think I wanted an Auction House, but having seen a few implementations in different games I'd really rather they tune the drop rates so that the good items are directly obtainable solo. It's just more fun to find the items yourself. I don't particularly care if this "trivializes"...

Sorry, I was assuming that you were using effort as a proxy for understanding, which I would have said was the point of education. If we just wanted to have people who could tip at restaurants without a calculator we could just teach a couple heuristics and be done with it. The general lack of...

No one is really saying this, either. What's being proposed is that balance be pushed towards exercises that teach conceptual relationships. It's a great way to measure how well he can memorize things, which is not the same as how well he understands the subject. I'm intimately familar with...

Yeah, we'll know everyone's pitching in and we're learning math correctly when our kids are killing themselves at the proper rate. You guys must enjoy pain. I got damn near zero benefit from memorization. If it's a byproduct of repeated problem solving, fine, but bulk memorization as a primary...

Yeah. I'm also the guy driving an 18 year old car because it still works and I don't give a shit about cars. Looking back, it's pretty clear that my consumption habits were formed growing up during some lean years when my dad's business wasn't doing well. My wife is similar (child of...

I owned a home in which I thought I was going to live indefinitely. Life changed, ended up moving after seven years and lost mid five figures between the maintenance, flat market, and transaction costs. Currently rent. Where I live presently, net of everything it's just flat-out cheaper to rent...

I bought one of those on fire sale for $5. I want my money back. Complete dogshit. Couldn't even get games working properly.

I've been doing this for eight or ten years or something, since when I first set up Plex I didn't have a dedicated NAS. I run Ubuntu on the NUC and it works perfectly, casting to tablets/phones and ChromeCasts. I don't do uncompressed BluRays or 4k or anything, so YMMV on those fronts.

I have hundreds of hours logged on some Steam games because of a honey-do initiated alt-tab that ended up being multiple days because I forgot the application was minimized.

Two losses in a row and he antagonizes Dana, which is equivalent to about ten consecutive losses.

"If anybody gets busted for something (and) no one’s saying what it is, it’s f----ng steroids. You’re all on steroids." -Nate https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2016/7/11/12145078/nate-diaz-if-anybody-gets-busted-and-hides-it-its-f-ng-steroids

I'd argue the problem is that most people come out on the far side of repetitive, boring work being able to grind out rote computations for structured problems but not grasping the abstract principles enough to pull off improvisational real-world applications and understand what conclusions you...

For me it works better in the other order. While it's true that repetition eventually leads to some level of understanding, in the context of academics where students are constantly min/maxing their time investments it's not obviously the case that conceptual fluency is completely achieved by...

YMMV, I guess. This approach led me to memorize a lot of shit, be able to superficially execute in a battery of intermediate applications, and stop pursuing upper level coursework in college because the conceptual complexity exceeded my ability to memorize and I didn't have an intuitive...

I'm a fan of project-based learning as opposed to one-size-fits-all classrooms for this reason. If you motivate the participants towards a goal and give them tools to self-direct they can experiment and figure out what feels the best for them. Now if only we could figure out how to manage that...

Let's not kid ourselves. Most people are math idiots now. I run into people in a professional setting in data-driven careers who clearly failed to absorb critical core concepts of numeracy. I'm fine with this. Rote memorization isn't very useful. I'd argue the opposite, personally. I've...

Yeah. If you read the preceding lesson the solution is generally trivial. They're just looking for a particular method to which we weren't privvy. People outside the class aren't the target audience.

For all the popular hate about new math, I've actually been fairly impressed with how my second grader is learning. He's slower on getting the answer and occasionally has trouble with "simple" questions, but is clearly developing a better conceptual understanding of the principles than I had at...

Without knowing the intended methods: 5 (no multiplication): Factor 12 and 16. Result is 4 x 4 x 3 = 4 x 4 x 3, therefore true. 6 (no division): Be a smartass and multiply by the reciprocals.

He was working on the car himself and forgot/didn't replace the drip tray that was supposed to prevent water leaking into where it leaked. Don't do shoddy repair jobs on your vehicles, kids!

As an ophthalmological surgeon friend told me, "Orthopedists are the carpenters of surgeons." This is kinda literally true. My hip surgeon had a steel-plated Makita rotary saw in the OR.

You're right, that's odd. Maybe it's a compromise for the purpose of authorization for testing and development? Last I'd read was one of their end-state ideas was along the lines of this, possibly with mobile drone hubs...

I think the idea is human time savings, where density would be a good thing. Instead of a human making 20 stops in serial over half an hour, you could have the delivery van drive to a location and a battery of drones would detach deliver light packages to a dozen houses at once in the space of a...

^ Been putting money in indexes since I was mowing lawns at 16. Not entirely self-made because of family help with tuition, but currently 40 and facing the quite real ability to retire indefinitely in the next 5-10 years, subject to lifestyle aspirations and how much we pay it forward for the...

My philosophy going into parenting was that it was my primary job to establish and enforce boundaries. It was fucking exhausting, but I mostly managed to never compromise on the important stuff (respect, honesty, follow-through, etc.). It's paying off in spades now. My 7 year old is a saint...

Stock returns aren't random independent events.

Schwab was interviewed on NPR the other day and he said commissions were <5% of revenue. It stings a bit but won't break the bank. Once the first player in the industry went to zero fees and everyone else has to suck it up and follow or get left out.

Better but varies wildly by kid and how much of a consistent hardass you are. My son would make bargains pretty early (~2 years) and hold to them, but my daughter (now 4) is more like yours and will come back with "Fine then, no dessert." You may not compromise when the negotiation is over...

Load times 5-10s on a 5+ year old PC. When I had a beta version I got ATROCIOUS framerates (like 10 fps) but retail has been silky smooth so far on the exact same hardware (GSYNC, 1440p on a GTX 970).