TL;DR: "It’s about real estate."

Real.

I think it is about the idiotic old mentality of control, sense of 'ownership' and distrust.

I resonate with this, unfortunately. I wish things in our field were better.

It's so disheartening that a lot of effort is put towards presenting ads to people in all spectrum of tech.

Sorry for the very basic question, but, is DSA, in this context, Disabled Students' Allowance?

Data Structures and Algorithms.

Very common acronym here in India. All CS "students" just want to "crack" "DSA".

I hate this terminology and more so the underlying idea and motivation behind doing all this.

That CS is a rote mechanical thing to do for the end goal of getting a job.

I'm yet to come across a "leetcoder" type who can write even basic code without constant help, even if it's mostly algorithmic in nature.

Data Structures and Algorithms

I agree that being the first is important. I have had a paper reviewed, then rejected, only to see the same idea elsewhere a while after. I cannot say the reviewer "had the same idea" nor prove, but it is known to happen. Putting into arXiv remediates that. However, my personal issue with that is that the journal might not be that keen to want to publish your paper after knowing it was publicly available elsewhere, as they thrive "innovation" and "being the first" as well. It's a very difficult problem, indeed.

What we did in the past was contact the editor first and ask if they have any problem with it being pre-published. Some do (most of them in our experience), some don't. The paper always change between arXiv and the journal, so the source of truth is the journal.

> I have had a paper reviewed, then rejected, only to see the same idea elsewhere a while after

I've seen worse. A grant being rejected by the grant reviewer, only to be re-submitted slightly changed by a reviewer's friend (this is a small world, we know each other) the next year. The inners of science suck, most of us keep doing it because we are like monks: we love God (Science), but we hate the Church.

For anyone interested, I've wrote a while ago this book: "Markov Chains for programmers". Link: https://czekster.github.io/markov/

Roblox is a huge problem for me, as a parent of a 8y kid. Let me explain: I try to block violent apps in his tablet using Google's Family app, however, Roblox internally keeps 'offering' my kid almost any game, whatever if there's violence, drugs, killing others, and so forth.

It's a headache and a source of fights, so, I thank the responsible (/sarcasm).

Roblox really needs to create some better parental controls so that it includes the option for a parent to be required to "ok" what they call "new experiences". The various limits you can set on content are great in theory, but they are apparently impossible for Roblox to enforce and as such are meaningless.

I do like Roblox from a creator perspective (I'm not a creator) since it's rather easy to guide your children into building games rather than "just" consuming them. Something which is very hard with basically everything else they do digitally.

My kids use Roblox. There _are_ parental controls you can enable through Roblox. When my twins turned nine, I had to enable 9+ games for them. I believe the age cutoffs are 9+, 13+, and 17+. I think anything with drugs should be 17+, and realistic violence/blood might be 13+? Not totally sure.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Roblox employee, but speaking only on my own behalf, and don't work on anything related to age guidelines.)

I have my kid’s set to “all ages” (the most “restrictive” category with the most “appropriate” content) and he does get gun violence, disturbing and scary games, and games based on non-kid characters (The Amazing Digital Circus).

Sometimes a game is shown and when kid tries to access it he gets a “this game isn’t allowed by your age category” or some such. This is an unbelievably dishonest way to tempt kids into content that’s not for them. If the content is not usable for them it should just not show, period.

If you work at Roblox maybe escalate the fact that content filtering by age category is totally worthless and could use fixing.

Happy to route the feedback. Obviously we should be filtering out games that aren't accessible to a given user.

Lots of people here played Doom or Mortal Combat

It's hilarious how plain Mortal Kombat becomes without the K.

I'm not calling you out for making a typo, I'm simply amused at how much punch (no pun intended) it loses when spelled "right". I guess it's true that Ks are Kool.

The problem with Excel, in my view, is that people start using it as a database, and things get convoluted from there on very fast.

I always thought of it as a datastore. What else is it? A document with one or many tables, each containing rows of highly unstructured records (that can cross reference each other), but essentially it is a data store. Or is this view completely wrong?

There have been multiple points in my life where I’ve been tasked to create a plugin for excel for essentially this purpose.

It is a database though, one that is very accessible to most savvy people (aka, your domain experts) and you should lean on that instead of pushing them out. At least at smaller scales.

Is it at that point they should upgrade to Access!? (Only half-joking…)

He surely has a point stating that creators will compete with AI generated content in the years to come. Virtual stars are already plaguing the platform and companies are seeing those as costing less to produce content (and they don't have to handle PR campaigns whenever the 'physical' stars do something controversial).

Well, welcome to the future, I guess.

Please, elaborate.