It is a very old strategy for monopolies to buy up competition when there are no anti monopoly protections so they can kill the competition, it’s how Microsoft was founded.

Rip obsidian, I enjoyed pillars, avowed, and pentiment

Don’t use LLMs to learn, if you insist on using them use them to automate things you already can do yourself. Treat university like a 40 hour a week job, you need to put that time in to build knowledge & retain it through practice if you want to develop your knowledge and intuitions. If you’re going to dedicate that time to it you’ll be less inclined to take shortcuts since saving time won’t matter because you’ll spend the same time working at it either way.

Ah the old esoteric demon languages

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

Billionaires and democracy are not compatible systems

My week

RT with a red/white/blue color palette swap

They bought a bunch of their competitors for that very reason

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Look to labor statistics to see general trends, but also know there are outliers for every stat. Old intuitions say work closer to where the money comes (issuance) from for stability; banks, governments, financial sector, etc. Next best is selling to people/organizations who have money when others don’t. If you’re in a country without reasonable, universal healthcare working for the healthcare industry can afford cheaper coverage or better adherence to equality requirements if you or a dependent are prone to frequent illness. Use whatever talents and interests you can, but most people keep their passions for hobbies and choose a career based on capabilities, opportunity, and what kinds of stress they can manage.

Biggest financial mistakes were mostly related to education, going into it without a clear goal/before I was ready, and paying for some courses that weren’t accredited by a university or association.

It’s corporate media quoting Goldman Sachs, ‘the economy’ means capitalists wealth and holdings, not workers

Android is getting to the same point as Windows, just tried a Samsung a11+ and the native os appears hijacked by the manufacturer, but allows termux and termux-x11 to run Linux VMs

I think there’s 2 good failure states, one is you learn something from why you failed so you want to try again to update your strategy and see if it works. The other is you carry over advancements or abilities from previous attempts so even if you try to brute force it it eventually works. Or I think most games have some mix of the two. For the first style having a recap at the end that shows a summary of how you did and also what you did so you can see if it improves with different actions seems less frustrating, like a damage parser you can only see at the end when you lose or win, or just a count of abilities used or structures built or whatever.