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  • icydefiance@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldThe animation rules
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    19 hours ago

    The average is more like 25-30 minutes. If it breaks 45 minutes then either it’s a really even game (which is fun), or the team that has the lead doesn’t know how to use their advantage to win (which is excruciating for both teams).

    Still, you’re right, that’s a long time to be locked in with someone who is clearly weighing down the team. And of course, that person is probably embarrassed about their performance, so they’ll often lash out at other people to deflect from themselves, which will tilt the rest of the team even if they were chill until then.

    The advantage that a lead gives you is also a lot bigger than in most other games. Players get drastically more powerful as they gain XP and money, so if one team gets an early lead, no amount of mechanical skill will be able to counter their advantage. The only way to catch up is to avoid fighting, drag the game out, farm NPCs, and try to punish the enemy’s mistakes. That’s extremely frustrating if you’re not the one who died and gave them the lead.

    It’s hard to avoid getting caught up in all of that unless you decide to focus completely on your own game and improving over time, and stop caring about individual wins and losses. Most people don’t have that kind of perspective. I didn’t either back when I played League a lot.










  • icydefiance@lemm.eetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldContext
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    Lmao no it isn’t. It’s completely insignificant and barely even qualifies as news.

    The US Dollar is strong because we have the largest economy in the world, not because of the good will of some oil exporter.

    At least google things before spreading insane misinformation.




  • icydefiance@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldWebp Discourse
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    They do, most of the time. For example if you upload an heic file from an iPhone to a file input on a website that doesn’t accept heic files, it’ll upload a jpeg.

    Apple can’t see or control all the different ways of transferring files, though, so in practice it still causes problems sometimes.

    The strange thing is that some Android phones also save photos as heic files and make no attempt to convert them, so I still had to add logic to my websites to convert them myself.







  • You think in Reddit’s 20 year history no one has thought of indexing comments for data science workloads?

    I’m sure they have, but an index doesn’t have anything to do with the python library you mentioned.

    Analytics workflows are never run on the production database, always on read replicas

    Sure, either that or aggregating live streams of data, but either way it doesn’t have anything to do with ElasticSearch.

    It’s still totally possible to sync things to ElasticSearch in a way that won’t affect performance on the production servers, but I’m just saying it’s not entirely trivial, especially at the scale reddit operates at, and there’s a cost for those extra servers and storage to consider as well.

    It’s hard for us to say if that math works out.

    It’s incredibly naive to think that they don’t have a vested interest in identifying organic engagement

    You would think, but you could say the same about Facebook and I know from experience that they don’t give a fuck about bots. If anything they actually like the bots because it looks like they have more users.


    1. To compare every comment on reddit to every other comment in reddit’s entire history would require an index, and if you want to find similar comments instead of exact matches, it becomes a lot harder to do that efficiently. ElasticSearch might be able to do it, but then you need to duplicate all of that data in a separate database and keep it in sync with your main database without affecting performance too much when people are leaving new comments, and that would probably be expensive.
    2. Comparing combinations of comments is probably impossible. Reddit has a massive number of comments to begin with, and the number of possible subtrees of those comments would just be absurd. If you only care about comparing entire threads and not subtrees, then this doesn’t apply, but I don’t know how useful that will be.
    3. Programmers just do what they’re told. If the managers don’t care about something, the programmers won’t work on it.