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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

I want to note that Steam isn't inherently a DRM platform, as there are many games on Steam which are DRM free. Even ones that require the Steam backend can be bundled with Steamworks, serving all the same backend requirements without Steam needing to be installed on the machine.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This.

I fundamentally have no issue with the Epic Games launcher. Steam needs competition to keep it in check. Without alternatives, Steam can and will strangle Dev profits, which is a problem. But Epic is a mediocre service, another app to be running, and actively going out of their way to prevent games from being on the platform of the consumers choice, which I am not a fan of.

Related note: does Epic have any DRM free games? Even Steam has a fair portion of games that are DRM free and work perfectly well from a flash drive on a computer that doesn't have Steam installed. As far as I am aware, Epic does not.

There's just a series of minor ways in which epic is worse, and I don't like having front-end clients for my games as is, so a second, competing alternative going out of its way to push me into using it rubs me the wrong way.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

This could in fact be any generation.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't go making it sounds like an organization I'd actually support.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Capitalism for me, but not for thee.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe we let professionals decide what tool is best for their field

Hey, really appreciated. Having random potentially uneducated, inexperienced people chime in on what they think I'm doing wrong in my classroom based on the tiniest snippet of information really shouldn't matter, but it's disheartening nontheless.

While I take their point, I also wouldn't walk into a garage and tell someone what they're doing wrong with a vehicle, or tell a doctor I ran into on the streets that they're misdiagnosing people based on a comment I overheard. Yet, because I work with children, I get this all the time. So, again, appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I use it as a brainstorming tool. I haven't had a single question make it as-is to a student's worksheet. If the tool can't even count to 20 successfully, I'm not sure how anyone could trust it to generate meaningful questions for an ELA program.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

I regularly use ChatGPT to generate questions for junior high worksheets. You would be surprised how easily it fucks up "generate 20 multiple choice and 10 short answer questions". Most frequently at about 12-13 multiple choice it gives up and moves on. When I point out its flaw and ask it to finish generating the multiple choice, it continues to find new and unique ways to fuck up coming up with the remaining questions.

I would say it gives me simple count and recall errors in about 60% of my attempts to use it.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago (6 children)

On a related note, I'm very glad I pirated Starfield.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Eh, Nintendo is fiercely protective of their IP to a fault. I won't defend them, but I certainly don't view their practices the same as I view Sony's.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But you do know which one it is, because you said "other child". As soon as you ask the question, you assign a specific outcome to a specific child eliminating HH and HT (or in the new example, BB and BG). "What are the odds they have a female child" and "what are the odds the other child is female" are not the same question.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, I guess OPs point is demonstrated. People will in fact argue about it.

What you're trying to present has multiple holes, but only one matters: you're not paying attention to the question that's being asked. You can say first, second, alpha, beta, Leslie, whatever you want to assign the child in question as, but the question only asks you the gender of a singular child. The door opening child doesn't matter, because it isn't part of the question. No one asked what gender that child is. No one asked what the odds they have a female child is. It just isn't a part of the question.

Yes, I referred to it as the second child because the question that was asked happens to have a child in it and ask you about another. Because we're communicating in a hilariously precise language, we have to say "the other child". But that doesn't make the door opening child a part of the equation. The question could be "there is a child in a box. What are the odds the child is female? Oh, it has a brother by the way." Cool, who cares, the sibling wasn't a part of the question.

The Monty Hall problem spreads multiple outcomes across multiple choices and then eliminates one. The outcomes and options have a relation. This question just asks you about a singular variable with two possible outcomes and throws around an unrelated red herring.

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