It's such an interesting document full of fascinating tidbits, even if the overall structure is a bit dense and confusing.
>The first paragraph under Perform Main Ac�on says:
>To perform the Main ac�on of an Ac�on Board, first count the number of different coloured unlocked workers
already present on the board. You must pay this much cocoa before performing the Main ac�on. If you cannot, you
may not take the Main ac�on.
>In other words, you need to pay extra resources to use an ac�on space that already contains players' dice. The teacher didn't see this rule while scanning the rulebook, so we weren't paying this extra cost. Since our ac�ons had lower costs than they should have, we were taking lots of high-level ac�ons. We decided to finish the game with the same rules that we started with.
This exact same thing happened to me in Teotihuacan. Got to the end of the game wondering what cocoa was for.
+1 to this. It's also visually confusing, the gate looks like it's covering two cells.
Great game! Feature request: add a button that shows my submitted solution. I'd like to be able to compare it with the optimal solution (so it'd be nice if a single tap could toggle between my submission and the optimal).
Has it shipped? Has it been reviewed? Has it been verified in any way? So it is vapourware, at the moment.
In the next moment some source of verification could appear, which is fine, then it wouldn't be vapourware. But as of commenting - as of the moment - this is the state of affairs.
This article seems based in a poorly defined statement. What does "joining the workforce" actually mean?
There are plenty of jobs that have already been pretty much replaced by AI: certain forms of journalism, low-end photoshop work, logo generation, copywriting. What does the OP need to see in order to believe that AI has "joined the workforce"?
> We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies...
"materially change the output of companies" seems fairly defined and didn't happen in most cases. I guess some kicked out more slop but I don't think that's what he meant.
TikTok, Youtube, news, blogs, … are getting flooded with AI generated content, I'd call that a pretty substantial "change in output".
I think the mistake here is expecting that AI is just making workers in older jobs faster, when the reality is, more often than not, that it changes the nature of the task itself.
Whenever AI reached the "good enough" point, it doesn't do so in a way that nicely aligns with human abilities, quite the opposite, it might be worse at performing a task, but be able to perform it 1000x faster. That allows you to do things that weren't previously possible, but it also means that professionals might not want to rely on using AI for the old tasks.
A professional translator isn't going to switch over to using AI, the quality isn't there yet, but somebody like Amazon could offer a "OCR & translate all the books" service and AI would be good enough for it, since it could handle all the books that nobody has the time and money to translate manually. Which in turn will eventually put the professional translator out of a job when it gets better than good enough. We aren't quite there yet, but getting pretty close.
In 2025 a lot of AI went from "useless, but promising" to "good enough".
We just bought a new fridge yesterday. We lugged our old one around between 5 different properties - 20 years old, still going strong.
The big problem is that fridges are not a standard size, and hence the spaces in kitchens are not a standard size. So there's a good chance when you move it won't fit (ours only worked because it's so small - which also made moving it not too onerous). It's a much better result for everyone if the apartment/house has a fridge that perfectly fits the space.
Also:
>Why would you want to use somebody else’s fridge?
This is a weird question. You're ok with using "someone else's" apartment, someone else's toilet even. But you draw the line at a fridge?
> Unlike most of the country, or even many other cities in California, Los Angeles renters are often responsible for buying and installing their own refrigerators
- France: absolutely fricking nothing. Bare walls. You may have to install cupboards for your kitchen. Instead of overhead lights there will probably be just wires hanging out of the ceiling. If you're moving to the country for a year or so it sucks...
They're becoming much more common -- most new apartment buildings since the mid-2010's stack a washer and dryer vertically in a dedicated closet. Less to do with "higher end" and more to do just with designing for it (e.g. washer water hookup, dryer gas and ventilation hookup, and dedicated closet).
In many buildings, the cheaper in-unit machines don't wind up being any more expensive to the landlord than the much more expensive heavy-duty machines in a dedicated area over the long run.
The distinction is, if there is room provided for one, is it expected to be provided by the landlord or the tenant, not whether a typical apartment has one as an amenity.
Toilet seats are something that people transfer across apartments in France? What the fuck. I'm assuming a lot of tenants furnish the absolute bare minimum and spend their time somewhere else?
I lived for ten years in a German housing cooperative, which is a member-owned, non-profit organization that provides rental housing within a market economy alongside private landlords.
Tenants are also members, which offers long-term security and participation in governance, without the housing being state-owned or socialist in nature.
When I eventually moved out, I was required by my contract to remove all wallpaper from the apartment—even though I had lived there alone, the walls were plain white, and everything was in very good condition.
Scraping wallpaper off every room turned into a surprisingly tedious and nerve-racking process.
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