MIT would always have more applicants than positions. The only thing that would drop total numbers of students should be fewer positions.

Which of course is just as much of an issue since it highlights a blatant attack on education in general.

You need to go many levels deeper on statistics to understand if it’s working or not.

So it's costing the USA 65k/yr per inmate on average right now with the 5th highest incarceration rate in the world. The 4 countries above it are not nice places to live contrary to the thought that locking even more people up would make the USA just like the other western nations of the world.

No other country is as stupid as the USA when it comes to homeless. They don't spend a lifetime $65k/yr repeatedly locking up such people. Instead they spend a fraction (when amortised over a lifetime of jail costs) on rehabilitation and public health programs.

Gunplay is weak. Accuracy drops off waaaay too fast based on maximum range of the gun and burst fire has arbitrary damage reduction per bullet. So short range guns almost always missed (mechanics documented from source in the above guide) and if they hit they did little damage. It means the only viable weapons are long range weapons. Rifles and assault rifles. A submachine gun is worse than a sniper rifle even at close range.

The plot has a key gameplay changing moment that triggers waaay to early meaning you have to work to see much of the game content. Everyone tries to avoid the trigger on the second playthrough which is a silly thing to do game design wise. A desire to teleport across the map was the original motivation to the above from my point of view.

Enemies are bullet sponges in the late game too. A lame way o balance weak ai and gunplay.

It could have been as good as ja2 but they just didn’t refine the above enough.

Did you try the above links? I haven’t shared the full source but all game mechanics listed in the ja3 guide including code snippets where helpful.

I’ve been having fun lately with agents and decompilation. You can literally point them at any game and ask them to decompile the game and structure and format as if it was the original source code. Asking them to ensure it compiles works fine.

Some proof: i made online save game editors for jagged alliance 3; grandcheaten.com and news tower; thedailycheat.com (.com domains are only $10 so i figured why not).

You can do this with any game i’ve found. Older games work best due to the forced simplicity of the source code though.

About 20 years ago the Microsoft for Startups program included the full MSDN subscription which was ~5 keys for every product they ever made. 5 keys of Windows XP, 5 keys for windows server, 5 keys for 2000, 5 keys for every variant of Office. Very popular at LAN parties and they never did recall any of those keys. Today it seems they just give you developer tools and office, not the OS.

Fwiw though i wouldn't want anyone to try to recreate VB6 or any low/no code style environment at this point. That ships sailed and i'm seeing non-programmers do much more impressive automations with agents at this point.

I did pay the $10 for the following domains but i’m ok with that so i can share some of the fun things that come out of the agent.

grandcheaten.com - a save game editor and guide for jagged alliance 3

thedailycheat.com - a save game editor for newstower

https://www.google.com/maps/place//@-31.9637446,152.4642729,...

If you zoom out on that link you'll see the entire area is cross-crossed by horse trails, they form a network for many hundreds of miles in every direction and everyone i knew growing up had a horse (they aren't that expensive if you have a paddock to feed them and with so many horses in the area the farrier/vets are relatively competitive).

Once a year during school holidays there was a horse jamboree (NSW pony club jamboree, still happening to this day) where you'd all make your way to one of the regions pony clubs with camping equipment (a different pony club hosted each year) for competition. They'd have routes planned out, camp sites assigned and stalls strung up with electric fence wire to keep your horse in. Some years we'd float (Australian term for using a horse trailer to get there) but other years could be a 100 mile multi-day ride.

The labels only relevant to the hours. For some reason the hour labels don’t align well to where the hour hand is.

Layoffs are truly unfair. You have no control over them and no performance or ratings process is good enough to justify snap firings of some percentage. You're going to hit some of your hardest workers.

Honestly i don't think it's the self-worth or anything like that that gets to you. It's the sheer unfairness of the situation. I also think simply realizing this is helpful.

I read the first version and thought the first half was good and that the second half felt clunky. To the point where i don’t recommend it to anyone (not a huge negative, there’s just better books out there).

Deprioritised means migrate usage out of this zone just in case anyone misreads the context here.

If you can download it client side you can likely place a copy in a folder and ask claude

‘decompile the app in this folder to answer further questions on how it works. As an an example first question explain what happens when a user does X’.

I do this with obscure video games where i want to a guide on how some mechanics work. Eg. https://pastes.io/jagged-all-69136 as a result of a session.

It can ruin some games but despite the possibility of hallucinations i find it waaay more reliable than random internet answers.

Works for apps too. Obfuscation doesn’t seem to stop it.

  {                                                                                                                                                              
    "sandbox": {                                                                                                                                               
      "enabled": true,
      "filesystem": {
        "allowRead": ["."],
        "denyRead": ["~/"],
        "allowWrite": ["."],
        "denyWrite": ["/"]
      }                                                                                                                                                          
    }
  }

That's entirely pragmatic in this data collecting age. Being silent and hanging up as soon as you hear the spam won't get you marked as a phone line that has a human on the other end nor do you risk your voice being recorded. If you're silly enough to say your name when answering you'll just end up with text and email that is now personalised with your name (it's much faster to identify and hang up when their best intro is to say "hello who am i speaking to?" on a single person line click).

I don't know anyone in my age bracket (45) who doesn't do this let alone those younger. It's entirely understood and expected. Fuck anyone who says it's rude and those of an age particularly prone to falling for scams (70+ and 15under) should be encouraged to do this. You should be telling your kids "never say anything on picking up, let the caller to your phone identify themselves! They could be scammers trying to get your details such as your name".

I feel all these "OMG the kids don't say hello anymore they have no etiquette!!!" statements are either from the clueless or from spammers frustrated that it's much harder to get through if you don't know their name.