eRac

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[–] eRac 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Banks like to think that branch employees (bank tellers) are sales people. Most of them give 'goals' to each employee requiring them to open a certain number of new accounts, land a certain number of loans, etc each week/month. It isn't ethical since the only people you can really sell on those services are the ones who should least get them. Anyone who actually wants/needs the services will come to you.

Wells Fargo differed from the rest of the industry by setting completely impossible goals, not just unethical ones. This led to them developing a culture where signing people up for services they didn't agree to became commonplace.

[–] eRac 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel the need to point out that a float isn't an integer with a decimal stuck on. A floating point number is called that because the precision on both sides of the decimal point changes depending on the size of the number.

It's actually stored as an exponent and a value to apply the exponent to. This allows you to express incredibly tiny numbers and incredibly large numbers, but the gaps between representable numbers is inconsistent.

You know how 10 / 3 * 3 is often not 10 because the decimal representation loses the repeating .33? In float, you run into the same issue but in much less predictable places.

[–] eRac 7 points 1 year ago

Check out the demo if you have a chance. The game is a lot of fun and it has some pretty funny demo-exclusive writing.

[–] eRac 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His ultranationalist coalition partners have threatened to bring down his government if he ends the war without destroying Hamas.

His government is coming down then. You can't destroy an insurgency through non-social means.

[–] eRac 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cucumbers have much better shelf-life when shrink-wrapped. It ends up a debate of which is worse between food waste and plastic waste.

[–] eRac 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably. She was not found guilty of lying about her reason for selling the stock in question, though she was found guilty of obstruction and other lies, along with conspiracy.

She was never charged with insider trading, so if she hadn't lied, she would likely have been fine.

Interestingly, they also charged her with securities fraud. They argued that, as the face of a publicly traded company, covering up a crime was market manipulation even if it had nothing to do with that company. The judge dismissed that charge.

[–] eRac 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No. She went to jail for lying to the feds.

Her financial manager was suspected of insider trading. The FBI questioned her about it and she lied to them in an attempt to protect him.

[–] eRac 15 points 1 year ago

That's exactly what it is. Firefox's advanced tracking protection blocks connections to social media sites from other sites so that social media can't see your behavior on the rest of the Internet.

Twitter started moving some things to a different domain and FF saw it as a third-party, blocking connections from it to the old Twitter domains.

Yet another reason the rebrand is dumb.

[–] eRac 8 points 1 year ago

A single registry edit to a key that doesn't exist because they wanted to obscure that it was possible.

[–] eRac 7 points 1 year ago

This is what I've found too. Tutorials help to learn tools and some basic techniques, but actual learning requires doing. That's easy if you have something you want to do, but incredibly difficult if you don't.

[–] eRac 4 points 1 year ago

What's almost more crazy is that a few of the tiny number of people who finished the first one went on to speed run it. Skipping entire sections with crazy shortcuts, nailing insane maneuvers over and over.

A shocking amount of the difficulty is in knowledge.

[–] eRac 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much all of the environment is CG, which makes nearly every shot a VFX shot automatically. Additionally, almost all shots of a vehicle in motion where the actors are acting was shot still and all motion is CG.

Practical and CG are not mutually exclusive.

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