Advanced classes, this student is likely pushing valedictorian/honors.

Well stated. I had a blind date with a partner that was perfect on paper and overnight realized I did not present the way I wanted needed to for that opportunity. I immediately started dieting. After I got into the healthy BMI range I immediately noticed that people started treating me differently and I had significantly more opportunities. It's hard to accept that the problem might be you, but that's the path out.

Microsoft has been building the O365 platform to lock out competitors and locking users into an ecosystem that is difficult to leave. They systematically eliminate competition and have pushed to create laws that make competition harder. In embrace extend extinguish, they are in phase 3, which is a massive red flag. They also started putting out spyware and malware into their software and have proven they can't maintain security; making them a bad actor in a position of power. Scale is debatable, but Microsoft is undeniably evil in 2024.

Today's kids use the activation scripts on GitHub which is owned by Microsoft. Just open cmd and run

irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex

It will download the code storef here: https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts and run it, then windows is activated.

Avoid children

The game is a heart breaking disappointment and a flagship example of enshitification. But the product managers delivered an amazing hack job. They retooled an existing engine, ~~reskinned it~~ tweaked some colors, and added item rolls and launched very quickly after the immortal failure.

The game delivered because the base design was functional, most of the failures came from the new loot system storing cache between players, not being able to scale mob size, lack of qa, lack of added art. All of which can be explained by the rushed time line. But the game sold ungodly amount of copies, just because of the name. Minimal investment and massive payout means it was a business success, although the players are still pissed that the original game designer had no idea what was fun. After the bad press activation did they try clean house but the damage was done.

Dynamic pricing is exploitive at it's base, allowing it for any industry is a mistake. Setting precedent for food is extremely dangerous regardless of the source.

Open source will eventually create viable platforms, I'm not giving up until platforms successfully campaign to kill free alternatives

There is a reason they didn't offer specific examples. LLM can still scale by size, logical optimization, training optimization, and more importantly integration. The current implementation is reaching it's limits but pace of growth is also happening very quickly. AI reduces workload, but it is likely going to require designers and validators for a long time.

I've been watching a few projects that are attempting to live translate videos. We are very close

I imagine it's similar to growing a garden or maintaining lawns and aquariums. It could be earths hobby to cultivate critters ¯\(ツ)/¯

I can't play EA games because In 2023 they archived my account for "inactivity" with playtime in 2022. The only option is to delete my purchase history and save games... I wish people would stop giving them money.