Kitathalla
Okay, I had given up on starcraft 2 since switching to linux. How hard is it to get it working under proton? Do I just add the blizzard launcher as a non-steam game?
That’s the way it is in the several company videos I’ve had to watch. In a cynical manner, it’s all about denying as many targets to the shooter as possible. If everyone is in the hall running, that’s a lot of easily accessible targets, and it’s harder to miss. If they all hide in locations, it makes it take longer per victim, as the shooter has to seek and find targets.
but it’s actually not as bad or ghoulish as it sounds
We’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. I think decisions made solely for making the company’s cost as low as possible while actively choosing to not care about issues just because their chance is low (we’ve all seen fight club, right? [If A > B where B=cost of paying out * chance of occurrence and A=cost of recall, no recall]) even if devastating are ghoulish.
‘Cold-blooded’ is a term that’s a little outdated, because of the confusion it creates around this very concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-blooded has some information on it, and even says it’s an informal term. Generally speaking, if we refer to something as cold-blooded, it’s more reliant on or affected by the external temperature, while warm-blooded creatures will ‘deal with’ the external temperature.
The reason is likely to compete with Uber, 🤦
A few points of clarity, as I have a family member who’s pretty high up at waymo. First, they don’t want to compete with uber. Waymo isn’t really concerned with driverless cars that you or I would be owning/using, and they don’t want (at this point anyway) to try to start a new taxi service. Right now you order an uber and a waymo car might show up. . They want the commercial side of the equation. How much would uber pay to not have to pay drivers? How much would a shipping company fork over when they can jettison the $75k-150 drivers?
Second, I know for a fact that the upper management was pushing for the cars to drive like this. I can nearly quote said family member opining that if the cars followed all the rules of the road, they wouldn’t perform well, couching it in the language of ‘efficiency.’ It was something like, “being polite creates confusion in other drivers. They expect you to roll through the stop sign or turn right ahead of them even if they have right of way.” So now the waymo cars do the same thing. Yay, “social norms.”
A third point is that, as someone else mentioned, the cars are now trained, not ‘programmed’ with instructions to follow. Said family member spoke of when they switched to the machine learning model, and it was better than the highly complicated (and I’m dumbing down my description because I can’t describe it well) series of if-else statements. With that training comes the issue of the folks in charge of things not knowing exactly what is going on. An issue that was described to me was their cars driving right at the edge of the lane, rather than in the center of it, and they couldn’t figure out why or (at that point, anyway) how to fix it.
As an addendum to that third point, the training data is us, quite literally. They get and/or purchase people’s driving. I think at one time it was actual video, not sure now. So if 90% of drivers blast through at the moment of the red light change if they can, it’s likely you’ll hear about it eventually from waymo. It’s a weakness that ties right into that ‘social norm’ thing. We’re not really training safer driving by having machine drivers, we’re just removing some of the human factors like fatigue or attention deficits. Again, as I get frustrated with the language of said family member (and I’m paraphrasing), ‘how much do we really want to focus on low percentage occurrences? Improving the ‘miles per collision’ is best at the big things.’
I’m waiting for it to be on sale, just like every other game. I keep my hours played:$$$$ ratio below 5 cents.