I used to work at the Ubisoft studio in Sweden, and honestly, it’s sad to see this. That studio was full of amazing, talented people who built The Division—a game that brought in massive income for Ubisoft for years.

The problems really started when Ubisoft headquarters began interfering more and more with the studio's decisions. Because of that management pressure, a lot of the top talent just decided to leave.

Ubisoft leadership has made so many bad moves lately. They wasted huge amounts of money on NFT/crypto stuff that nobody wanted. Then they made that awful comment about how "gamers should get used to not owning their games." Even if that’s where the industry is heading, saying it out loud to your own customers is just crazy. It’s like they don't understand their own audience anymore.

Hey, ok I get it for coumarin but just out of curiosity, what can introduce heavy metals in this mix?

Some people add yellow lead salts to turmeric to increase profit margins.

Turmeric and cinnamon are both notorious for lead contamination.

In many locations it's legal to sell consumables that have disgustingly high ppm of heavy metals as long as the recommended daily dose is small so that the absolute amount of heavy metals stays below a fixed threshold. Also many companies just flagrantly violate the regulatory levels.

Getting clean turmeric extract is possible by knowing which brand to trust. Natural Factors is trustworthy, they are transparent with heavy metal testing and have third-party validation in academic studies and by consumerlab.com. But even if it's clean, you would still need to manage this risk: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK548561

For cinnamon, avoiding coumarin is possible by making sure it's ceylon cinnamon. But I don't know of any brand selling ceylon cinnamon that I would also trust to have low heavy metal levels. The intersection of reliable brands and ceylon cinnamon sellers is a very sparse set.

> The acute hepatotoxicity caused by turmeric appears to be due to an idiosyncratic injury, perhaps immunologically mediated.

idiosyncratic means they don't know why (because they're idios?), but it happens to some people for unknown reasons. The chances are very slim that you'll have whatever pre-condition to be affected by this.

Turmeric, but I think it's only some suppliers?

Tried windsurf and the beginning was amazing, last few days I start realizing that is getting annoyingly stupid and slow. Open reddit and realized lots of people had the same issue with a lot of wild theories about it. I stopped my subscription and I am considering trying cursor just to compare. Tldr;×trying an agent Ai coding assistant was amazing and I think I will never go back!

They use a lot of custom models and logic chaining, so I think this is more search and retrieval optimization or similar problems, I guess maybe some Anthropic API issues as well. I’ve seen the variance too and was wondering if was load related. Overall, still loving it, even if there’s some bleeding edge bumpiness.

Thank you for sharing. I can assure you that there are many people with exactly the same difficulties including me :)

You can't compete with HFT firms even if you have this equipment because you need to install your equipment in a colocation, aka a data center that exchanges sending their raw data and your equipment trades there. In this kind of trading receiving the data nanoseconds late from the other players matters.

This is only true for arb opportunities on exchanges that offer colocation (which leaves almost all crypto exchanges as fair game). But if you can't get colocation, there isn't much point in having the FPGA anyway since the network latency is going to be so much higher than any savings from FPGA vs low level programming.

yes, this would be non-colocated on AWS. wouldn't everyone have the same network latency if they had a node in the same AWS region? and wouldn't that even the playing field, making FPGAs relevant again (you can rent an FPGA there)? i guess the importance of low latency also depends on the update rate of the exchange server.

I was incredibly fortunate to meet him at CERN the day before the Higgs boson announcement. As an intern, I encountered him the evening prior; he was dining alone in the CERN cafeteria, blending in like a kindly elderly gentleman. He was exceptionally humble and courteous. I feel so lucky that I mustered the courage to speak with him and shake his hand. Rest in peace, Mr. Higgs.

These are the kind of opportunities one must take when they present themselves. Well done.

I made a test few years back and I really regret it. I requested my sample to be deleted from the db and I downloaded the dna in my local server. Hopefully they really deleted my DNA and it didn't leak while was there.

All they'd need to do is create "shadow" companies where they store backups of the data, suddenly you can't really get them to delete your data anymore.

GDPR works within a legal framework.

It requires investigations and evidence and it metes out fines for non-compliance, eventually.

A fine doesn't reverse stolen/hacked data, nor does it work particularly well on the megacorps who just eat it as the cost of doing business.

If there is more profit to be had than it would cost in fines then that's not a deterrent, its a tax.

Until the fines are proportionate to the offence (whatever the profit is/was + punitive percentage) it's only going to deter those who can't pay the current fixed rates.

Cries in American

The cynic in me says data is never deleted, just housed separately, forever.

Someone prove me wrong, please.

Probably not even housed separately, the "deleted" tag is just now "true". That's just how pretty much all these corps roll since they can get away with it.

I think humanity deserves it after so many consecutive weird years

Norm Macdonald responding to Neil Degrasse Tyson on twitter.

Neil: The Universe is blind to our sorrows and indifferent to our pains. Have a nice day!

Norm: Neil, there is a logic flaw in your little aphorism that seems quite telling. Since you and I are part of the Universe, then we would also be indifferent and uncaring. Perhaps you forgot, Neil, that we are not superior to the Universe but merely a fraction of it. Nice day, indeed

Norm was a man of faith, so I could see how Neil's comment could rub him the wrong way.

We're as much a part of the planet as its rocks, and we care. You could say that your bones don't care, but the organism that is you cares. In the same way the planet cares through the subsystem that includes us even if its rocks don't care.

You're right if you define a planet as its rocks, and would also be right to assert that humans don't care if you defined a human as its skeleton.

I think you might have answered the wrong person by mistake.

Who cares?

If room temp superconductivity leads to a practical fusion reactor, a good portion of earth destruction for energy development will end. Starting to fix things first involves stopping the destruction of things.

We already have SC (if expensive to run), how does room temp SC make fusion possible where it wasn’t before?

It simplifies and it makes it less expensive - it's one less thing to go wrong.

In the long run, life on Earth would expand from the extra CO2 in the atmosphere. Pre-human CO2 levels were on a long downward trend, likely just a few million years from dropping too low for photosynthesis.

I am also interested to know that!