Not deep in the vtuber culture, but I thought the term comes from things like Love Live. The idols are supposed to be high school students.

At least they saved the Internet box. Otherwise, we’ll have to bother the elders of the Internet again.

Think pad? Think again.

Previously, loot box’s gain is a probability distribution over (market price - fixed box price). Now it’s (market price - rarity price according to Valve).

I think in the end the market will take the Valve price (fixed or with rarity) into account since it’s known and the same to everyone. Then it’s again just playing against the probability distribution of items.

You know how bad things are when I searched for some examples and the first result is a localization mod.

There are two cases.

When you run a game, the game is allowed to monitor your input (up to some configuration), so you shouldn’t e.g. open a game and do online banking at the same time.

When the game installs a malicious software such that your input is monitored even when you’re not running the game, then you can only rely on the additional defense mechanism. However, this is similar to all other software.

I had the same question. The author didn’t seem to employ the scientific rigor to call things by their correct names. It’s as if they’re treating it like spelling in a meme.

Any two coils that are not directly connected. For example, suppose we number from the head, coil 1, 2, 3, 4. Then pairs that are not directly connected are: (1, 3), (1, 4), (2, 4). The endpoints of these pairs of segments cannot be connected by an edge of the cube.

* non-Linux obscure question

How to defeat collective shout? A collective even louder shout.

Usually they pay graphic designers to extort others.

It’s like gym membership or books. If everyone with gym membership would go regularly, the business won’t be profitable. Or if everyone only buys a new book after they finish what they have bought, the publishing industry would be in shambles.

These businesses play the probability game. They are actually just insurance by a different name.

The BBC report cited mainly focused on the marketing industry, with the fixing mistake people being the copywriters. This gives a strong vibe of Madman, where you have the “old-fashioned” copywriters and the tension between market research.

For DevOps, it provides consistency for every CI run and production deployment, especially when a whole system needs to be shipped.

Aktually, for most Internet services in China today, one already needs a phone number to create an account, which is linked back to the national ID. So, there isn’t any anonymity to begin with.

“allegedly written”

That was my first reaction. I didn’t find the global average spending number reported by the OP, but according to this page, the 2019 average spending of $15,500 per student (38% higher than OECD average) did consider purchasing power.

According to the UK’s Labour Party’s report on worker co-operatives in 2017, the main difficulty is access to credit (capital). It makes sense since the model basically eliminates “outside investors”. It has to

1. Bootstrap with worker’s own investment, or
2. Get investment from credit unions, or
3. Have (national or local) government to back it up

Even in the above cases, the credit is often not large or cheap enough for the cooperatives to be competitive. (There are examples in the report that serve as exceptions, I highly recommend giving it a read.)

So at least from this, I’d think the appropriation of means of production would be more fundamental rather than being a simple result of some special way of organizing.

AVX-512 is x86’s SIMD extension.