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Overlunky spelunky 212/20/2023 ![]() ![]() You should clone this bag if u intend to travel the cosmic ocean til the end. Quillback, Olmec, and Tiamat bossfights are 100 custom - expect fun and. Fight and puzzle your way through a completely redesigned and very tough Dwelling, Jungle, Tidepool, Ice Caves, and Neo Babylon. You can also set the hired hand life, ghost speed, time stunned after spawning, revive time, time stunned after reviving, hired hand speed and an option for automatically killing all other hired hands on level start. If u succeed the sun challenge, u dont get only the arrow which can defeat Hundun, you also get a bag with 24 bombs and 24 rope. Inspired by Kaizo Mario rom hacks, prepare to die as you test your reflexes, dedication, and luck in a series reimagined, challenging worlds. Hired hand can transform into a slow angry ghost when it's corpse is destroyed. ![]() After the initial difficulty spike however, Youll find some of the later levels easier. 2.6c: Added crust items/enemies, fixed some trap. 2.8: Just bugfixes (watery crash, saving options, hud level numbering) - 2.7: Fixed some bugs, remixed some level gen, added water levels, moved level number to real hud. Its a bigger and more challenging game, with different physics. Changelog: - 2.9e: Random bosses, made reaching the top easier, tweaked balance, fixed some crashes, fixed some more bugs. Hired hand can become a ghost when is stuck, and become a hired hand again when is close (this ghost doesn't kill you) I have 200+ hours on spelunky 1/hd and watched at least 300 hours of spelunky 2 streams and still struggled a lot when I first played it yesterday haha.I may just be a total dunce here and the answer is in front of me but Im still confused. Hired hand can revive on death (also when crushed) I tried clicking on update releases and this weird message appears that says 'Attempting to cache playlunky releases while another task is running' when Spelunky 2 isnt running and it still hasnt done anything for like 10 mins now.If you're using Overlunky, just move the a script into Scripts folder Additional features: I still expect you to read the whole README after this video. If you use Modlunky 2, you can use the install button or the code to install automatically How to install Overlunky with scripts, play randomizer for Spelunky 2, press F8, and other mischief. If you just want to play it, and don't have any idea of those, I recommend Modlunky 2 because is more user friendly, and supports other mod types like level gen or asset mods, also it allows you to easily download and launch overlunky. You need to have a recent version of Playlunky (included in Modlunky 2) or a recent version of Overlunky. ![]()
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Lara croft tomb raider playstation 112/20/2023 ![]() An opening tutorial has Lara murder and cook Bambi for nourishment. The box art is tag lined “A survivor is born” although survival elements are sparse. In further regard to the vulnerability aspect of Lara, it’s a tone that fails to resonate when she’s brushing off twenty foot drops every few seconds like some sort of human bouncy ball.Īverage writing aside game play isn‘t particularly jaw dropping, not to say that it‘s altogether poor as it functions fluidly, but remains uninspired. Additionally they’re so monotonously voiced and lengthy that players are like to harvest them for xp and swiftly move on. While we’re talking literature, it’s worth mentioning that Tomb Raider attempts to embellish it’s narrative with collectable diaries and documents la Bioshock, but they don’t embellish it so much as contain every scrap of what could have made this story interesting. If someone rewrote Mansfield Park and recast Fanny Price as a busty gun toting **** I doubt it’d be met with such appraisal, or perhaps it would Pride and Prejudice and Zombies did alright, but I digress. The writers attempt to book end the narrative with mournful references to her dead dad, but everything in between reads like the script of your average cookie cutter action flick.Ī lot of the narrative’s credibility has been tied to the portraying of Lara in a vulnerable light, but this doesn’t instantly make for thoughtful characterizing. She displays brief turmoil following her first kill, but she soon goes on to find new and outlandish ways to expose the inner craniums of hundreds more men without showing any further remorse or having the excuse of being drugged up to the eye balls like Far Cry 3’s Jason Brody. The supporting cast is a too wide and nobody gets enough screen time or engaging dialogue to make a real presence, the main protagonist included. Large framed and even larger hearted Hawaiian guy keeps everyone’s spirits up while the island’s indigenous shower them all with fire based projectiles. Cute Chinese girl functions as a plot device by being kidnapped like athat guy who always disappears in The Hangover films. ![]() ![]() Sassy black chick serves as the critical voice to all the Lara’s concerns over the islands supernatural qualities. More than 58 million copies of the games have been sold worldwide.For a game with so much hype surrounding character portrayal the supporting cast is weak. Principal photography started in January 2017.The Tomb Raider franchise was first launched in 1996 with the original video game for PC, PlayStation and Sega Saturn consoles and is one of the more popular gaming titles. Alicia Vikander was cast as the new Lara Croft in April 2016, beating out the likes of Daisy Ridley, Saoirse Ronan, Emilia Clarke, and Cara Delevingne. GK Films acquired the rights for a reboot back in 2011, but director Roar Uthaug did not come onboard until 2015. The property was first brought to the big screen with a pair of films, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Cradle of Life, which starred Angelina Jolie as the character. ![]() If she survives this perilous adventure, it could be the making of her, earning her the name tomb raider.This latest film adaptation of Tomb Raider is mainly based on the 2013 video game of the same name, depicting Lara Croft's first adventure. Suddenly, the stakes couldn’t be higher for Lara, who - against the odds and armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith and inherently stubborn spirit - must learn to push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown. ![]() Eventually she becomes inspired to investigate her father’s disappearance and travels to his last-known location: a tomb on an island somewhere off the coast of Japan. Summary: Seven years after the disappearance of her father, 21-year-old Lara Croft has refused to take the reins of his global business empire, instead working as a bike courier in London while taking college classes. ![]()
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Halo pillar of autumn lift engines12/20/2023 ![]() You'll see the long beams below you begin to retract. Move to one and open the exhaust vent core. On the ledges here, you'll note a couple control panels. You'll have to battle through some Flood to get up to the level you need, but once you do, make your way to the nav point. On the next level, make your way to the Level 3 door. Proceed to the door that says Level 2, then work your way up the winding ramp. If you go to the Armory, head back to Engineering to continue your conquest. There's a Rocket Launcher there, if that's your thing. Note: You can also continue on to the Armory if you wish, grabbing any ammo and weapons you'd like. Then follow the path forward until you reach a crossroads. Follow the path until you see the path to Engineering. While it's fun to contribute to this fight, it has nothing to do with you. Take down the Elite and Hunter if you wish, otherwise, just torque into the hallway, take a right and leave all of the nonsense behind. If you look to the left, you'll see Sentinels and Flood. If you look to the right, you'll see Hunters and Elite. Then move over one more and hang out near the edge of the corridor. Move to the oppsosite end to find a health pack and bundle of Frag grenades near a sealed-off door. There are several routes into the passage to the left in addition to the one you just used. ![]() The fight will rage on without you, so let it. There's tons of everything in the passage you just tiptoed into-Sentinels, Elite, Flood, Hunter. When you enter these tunnels again, take the first left into the hallway, then quickly duck back into the tunnel. Grab what you can, then head back into the vents. In the destroyed area back here, you'll see plenty of corpses and plenty of grenades. Go through.įollow the narrow passages until you reach a small, grated green door. Here, you'll find a door into the air vents. Return to the gray hall and move left, toward a bunch of toppled debris. Once you wipe out the Flood that charge, move forward into the area they vacated and grab the Overshield here. Stay there for a second and prepare for another Flood attack, this time from the door on the opposite side of the passage. The path will eventually dump into a long, gray hall. Drop them as they attack, then move down this passage. Take down the Sentinels in the glassed-in observatory deck above, then get ready for a slew of Flood from the left. Slay anything that moves, then head to the far end of the room and climb the ladder here. Move into the room to find a group of Sentinels hosing down the Flood. In the next hall, you'll see a yellow arrow on the floor pointing toward the Cryo Bay. Smoke them, then move through the door here. More Sentinels wait in the passage ahead. Move forward and finish them off, then duck under a half-closed door on the left side of the hall. Move straight past them into the passage ahead, then move through a couple sets of doors to find some Sentinels and Flood battling. There's a pair of big, bad Hunters off to the right. Head to the door at the end of the room and go through. Smoke them then move through the room they came from. There will be a door open that wasn't previously. When the cutscene concludes, shoot down the Sentinels that appear. You have set the self destruct sequence in motion, only to have the Monitor thwart your plans. Smite them with the mighty Shotgun and continue to the bridge area. Here, you'll find another batch of Elite. Move across the next hallway into a narrow maintenance passage. Blast the annoying Grunts with the green energy rifles, then fall back and let them explode. When all of the Elite fall, move through the room to the far left corner. Then enter one of the two doors that lead into the cafeteria. When both are dead, search the locker room in this hallway for Shotgun ammo, grenades and health packs. ![]() ![]() Use grenades and your Assault Rifle to take them down, making sure you don't go after one and leave your back open to the other. ![]() In the hallway that bisects it, you'll see a Hunter on either side. Keep moving down the path, removing enemies and generally kicking ass until you reach a flaming mass to the right. Fall back and waste them, then make your way through the door they burst open. Soon, a door will spring open and Flood will stream out. Drop them, then turn the corner, following the path until it appears to dead end. Spray them with the Rifle, then drop a grenade in the hatch to take down the Carrier below. You'll see Infection Flood popping out of the hole. Proceed inside and search for a ladder in the floor. To do that, move down the path until you find a small entryway into the vents. ![]()
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Winzip license cost12/20/2023 ![]() ![]() One of the main features of WinZip is, of course, creating compressed files. With the start-up info and registration forms out of the way the application itself will now be ready to use! Creating ZIP files ![]() ![]() Once fully installed and run for the first time we will be greeted by a welcome screen, this screen will provide tips on using the application as well as the ability to (optionally) register the software (you can use the 21 day trial without any form of registration required). Very little user intervention is required during the install, a couple of clicks and then the installer will go about installing and configuring everything itself. At only 995KB the installer can be downloaded and set running with very little waiting around, it did, however, then proceed to download a further 54.05MB during my own install. Installing WinZip 25 begins by heading over to the WinZip website where a 21 day free trial version can be downloaded. NB – You can see a full and detailed comparison between the editions at the official WinZip website. This version also has functionality for supporting flatbed scanners and allowing multi-page PDF documents to be created from multi-page document scans.īackup and automation are two big areas in which the Pro version of WinZip is really set aside form the Standard version, not only do we now have options to backup files to or from the cloud or CD/DVD/Blu-ray but we can also make use of an advanced job wizard which makes processing such automated tasks as easy as possible. The Pro version also features tools allowing PDF files to be automatically signed, merged and multiple PDFs combined into a single file. With a few additional file management and sharing features aside, the real difference provided in the Pro version of WinZip comes from the advanced PDF management and file backup functionality which both help the Pro version go over and above what is available in the Standard version. The Pro version of WinZip does take things a little bit further by providing more file management functionality (for example setting expiry dates on ZIP files and providing more file preview options) as well as also providing more scanning and sharing features from within the application also. Starting with the Standard version we see all of the core features of WinZip available, this includes everything relating to compressing and decompressing files and in-turn, most things relating to the management, encryption and sharing of files. WinZip 25 Standard vs Proīefore getting into using the software I want to compare the two versions of WinZip which are available, these are WinZip Standard and WinZip Pro (a third “Enterprise” version is also available but this is aimed more at corporations and not individual users so I will be omitting this from my review). Once installed I will be looking at the core features of WinZip 25 itself and evaluating how well it works as a file archiving solution. In this section of the review I will be looking at WinZip 25 in more detail, I will start by looking at the different versions of WinZip which are available before moving onto the installation process. ![]()
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Ghost recon frontline registration12/20/2023 ![]() You may have to select a menu option or click a button. Follow the instructions for disabling the ad blocker on the site you’re viewing.You may have more than one ad-blocker installed. You’ll usually find this icon in the upper right-hand corner of your screen. Click the icon of the ad-blocker extension installed on your browser.When it turns gray, click the refresh icon that has appeared next to it or click the button below to continue.Click on the large blue power icon at the top.Click the UBlock Origin icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.It will turn gray and the text above will go from “ON” to “ OFF”. However, registration for Frontline’s upcoming closed test has begun and will run from October 14 to October 21, 2021. Ghost Recon Frontline’s full release date has yet to be announced because the game is still in its early development phase. Click on the “ Ad-Blocking” button at the bottom. Ghost Recon Frontline Release Date and Closed Test Dates.Click the Ghostery icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.Switch off the toggle to turn it from “ Enabled on this site” to “ Disabled on this site”.Click the AdBlocker Ultimate icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner. ![]() “ Block ads on – This website” switch off the toggle to turn it from blue to gray.Click the AdBlock Plus icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.Refresh the page or click the button below to continue. ![]()
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Retro modern cabinet pulls12/19/2023 ![]() We do understand, that not everyone likes a harsh interior with furniture and accessories limited to a minimum. The offer includes both simple and richly decorated vintage drawer handles and those heavily antiqued (with a rust effect). We offer, among others, beautiful ceramic handles, knockers, aged brass cup pulls and old steel handles. The catalog of vintage drawer handles is really rich – they are furniture handles in retro, shabby chic style, as well as in idyllic, rural or rustic style. Our range of antique and classic kitchen handles and knobs are a variety of accessories with a rich design and a wide selection when it comes to size and shape. What antique style drawer pulls you can search on our site? A wide selection of beautiful designs will allow you to easily complete the necessary furniture accessories. It is 100% hand-made, and the handles are made with several harmed techniques (iron, steel castings and hand forging). They are also very easy to install, useful and very durable. We offer products with cast iron, old iron, old steel or old silver finish. Old style furniture handles – what are they used for?Īntique drawer handles-type of drawer handles which can be attached to the door of chests, cabinets, drawers and even doors (they are massive and solid). Rustic decorations and furniture accessories are details that can work wonders and beautifully emphasize the rustic atmosphere in the room. We have a range of products specially aged to suit interiors decorated in retro, old, vintage, shabby chic style. Therefore, if you are a craftsman selling antique furniture, we would be happy to make a cooperation with you. They are functional and in themselves constitute a great decoration of furniture, especially wooden and those made in the old style. These are items used for mounting on cabinet fronts. Handles for drawers in old style- basic information.įor those who love the rustic style of furniture accessories, we offer, among others, stylish and solidly made furniture handles. If minimalism is too harsh for you, and other styles do not go to your taste, it’s worth coming back to the classic, old style and arranging the interior of the kitchen or living room in a vintage style. Vintage drawer handles for kitchen cupboards never go out of fashion. ![]() Thanks to this, you have the option of buying old copper, brass or rust iron old style drawer handles. There are many methods that give the effect of aging. They are often decorated with floral motifs and ornaments. They have the form of shells, horizontal and vertical handles and knobs or loops. Traditional handles in a vintage style are dominated by those of traditional materials: metal, wood, porcelain, leather (leather straps used as handles), brass. Let’s divide the handles into the more traditional and modern ones. ![]() When you would like to change something in the apartment, but you afraid of a big, problematic renovation, you can try to change small details that affect the appearance of the interior much more than you think. Drawer handles are usually quite easy to replace, so you can easily replace them ourselves. The range of designs, shapes, colors is very wide. ![]() On the market you can find virtually many types of kitchen handles that will match your space. On what the handle was created depends on what style we can match it with. We can also consider how the handles where made and the materials from which they were created. On the one hand, they can be divided into a style of finish, where you can distinguish brass, mat black,rust iron or glossy chrome. There are many types of vintage drawer pulls. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In my case, the workspace contains only a single target, and the workspace itself is generated by Cocoapods. Multiple commands produce ' / Users/ razvanu/ Library/ Developer/ Xcode/ DerivedData/ Runner-aeiwqtydtcicmbcjpyzoxtfwhzig/ Build/ Intermediates.noindex/ ArchiveIntermediates/ Runner/ IntermediateBuildFilesPath/ UninstalledProducts/ iphoneos/ GoogleUtilities. 1 Have you found any solution without switching the build system veradiego31 at 15:12 AshleyMills Resource you linked describes situation where two targets produce. ![]() Note: Target ' GoogleUtilities-54e75ca4' (project ' Pods' ) has create directory command with output ' / Users/ razvanu/ Library/ Developer/ Xcode/ DerivedData/ Runner-aeiwqtydtcicmbcjpyzoxtfwhzig/ Build/ Intermediates.noindex/ ArchiveIntermediates/ Runner/ IntermediateBuildFilesPath/ UninstalledProducts/ iphoneos/ amework' Note: Target ' GoogleUtilities-00567490' (project ' Pods' ) has create directory command with output ' / Users/ razvanu/ Library/ Developer/ Xcode/ DerivedData/ Runner-aeiwqtydtcicmbcjpyzoxtfwhzig/ Build/ Intermediates.noindex/ ArchiveIntermediates/ Runner/ IntermediateBuildFilesPath/ UninstalledProducts/ iphoneos/ amework' Note: Building targets in dependency orderĮrror: Multiple commands produce ' / Users/ razvanu/ Library/ Developer/ Xcode/ DerivedData/ Runner-aeiwqtydtcicmbcjpyzoxtfwhzig/ Build/ Intermediates.noindex/ ArchiveIntermediates/ Runner/ IntermediateBuildFilesPath/ UninstalledProducts/ iphoneos/ amework' error: Multiple commands produce 1) Target has copy command from 2) That command depends on command in Target : script phase Run Carthage Script. We wanted to reach out and see if the issue you mentioned is still persisting. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused. In my case (I'm using Carthage) the problem with. Hey, deepbag92, Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Im using Carthage in my project and currently trying to migrate from. I have a problem suddenly by archiving my app in XCode 14.3 I'm getting this errors: Showing All Errors Only 1- Remove DerivedData For all Apps 2- Open Terminal 3- Update Pod Every thing Done. ![]()
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Aftermath movie 201712/19/2023 ![]() Though expect less from it or from him, as he's not young anymore and this film is not an action flick, just a decent drama. Once viewable film, especially if you are the actor's fan, then the percentage goes up. So, overall a simple film, but depicting the real event matters here. But the film was slow.Įverything about the film was the opening and the end parts, the rest of the film was just a drag in the name of gap between the events and letting us know more about the film's two main characters. I think decently written screenplay with good performances. Like how people related to the event coped with. If you understand the title properly, you won't ask that, because the film is not about that. Like how it happened and whose fault it was. There's no judgement on the crash, that's how the story carefully evolved. A year later, when everything was coming back to normal with a book on the plane crash is getting released, a twist in tale emerges and fast forwarding to a few years, the story comes to an end. On the other hand, Jake was mentally disturbed, that's affecting his family. Roman was not happy for how the officials treated him, and the declaration of the result of the event. Focused on Roman, the one who had lost his wife and daughter in the crash and the Jake, an air traffic controller who was on the duty on the day. This is the story that follows after the event of two planes crashed head to head in the mid air. The best part of this film is it was based on the real. But they didn’t.įull Measure (Breaking Bad) “Full Measure”Īfter Gus orders Mike to kill him and Jesse, Walter orders a hesitant Jesse to kill Gale.Not about the plane crash, but the aftermath of the event. There’s no doubt that the creative team behind BB could have made it unambiguous that Gale was in love with Walt. There is nothing to suggest that Gale felt anything beyond fawning admiration. Judging by the series as a whole, Gus only intended death for Walt after he ran over his dealers, breaking the peace to save Jesse’s life, who was still considered a lowly junkie by Gus. Gale would eventually replace Walt because Gus felt it was no longer viable to keep Walt around. ![]() The second time, Walt had Gale killed because it had actually come down to that. He would eventually replace Walt so he got rid of him. thats why Walter White asked Jesse Pinkman to kill Gale so Walter White was the only person who could cook meth and Gus Fring couldnt kill him. once Gale was able to cook pure meth, Gus Fring was gonna kill Walter White. Walter White was a threat for Gus Fring, he is a genius. “It’s for my new movie ‘Wakefield,’ ” he said. Did Bryan Cranston lose weight?īryan Cranston got thin. ![]() Though it’s been years since the conclusion of Breaking Bad’s fifth and final season, Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston have such a friendship. Doing the work of performing together day after day forges incredibly tight bonds. They launched a Mezcal line in 2019 and reprised their “BB” roles for a 2019 Netflix sequel movie.Īny show that has a long run is bound to have close friendships develop among the cast and crew. StarringArnold Schwarzenegger Scoot McNairy Maggie Grace Kevin Zegers Bill Kelly. Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston met as costars on AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” In the years since the show ended, the two actors have remained close and gushed about each other. Two strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash, in this story based on real events that occurred in 2002. Are Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul still friends?Ī stylized letter F. Kim IS In Breaking Bad (Viewers Just Don’t See Her) It may not be the most satisfying, but Gilligan has left things open-ended and ambiguous before, so it’s possible he could do so again. Is Kim Wexler ever mentioned in Breaking Bad? ![]() Much of his impressive wealth comes from his TV work, as the actor worked his way up from the stage to land roles in several commercials before hitting the big time. What is Bryan Cranston’s real net worth? Bryan Cranston is worth $40 million, as reported by Celebrity Net Worth. ![]() Skyler White: Alive Despite how grim things were looking for the White family throughout most of season five, all of Walt’s immediate relatives (Hank aside, RIP), made it out alive. Maybe the house is Walt, the rot is Heisenberg and he’s projecting his hatred for that part of him in that way(because we all know consciously he’s not trying to get rid of it). Probably because it’s something dark and disgusting and hidden below a clean and proper facade. R (US) Drama, Thriller 1h 32m User Score Play Trailer All he had left was revenge Overview A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. ![]()
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Tian tao 77 kg12/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Add to that Tian Tao's reputation for inconsistency (he made just two lifts at the last Olympics) and he may well not get the pick. He is capable of a 178+ snatch and a 232+ c+j, so will be in the right range to beat Tian. Meso hitting a 232 c+j so comfortably will worry team China. Tian's best total during qualification has been 410. Irawan is aged 31, so is very much at the end of his career, so team China may consider him less of a threat than the still-emerging Hassouna. Li Fabin has experienced competition in Eko Irawan, but Irawan hasn't totalled above 310 since 2018 Worlds, while Li hit his 318 in 2019. That leaves one more slot that looks like it will go to either Li Fabin or Tian Tao. TIAN Tao (96) – 6kg (this is negative if you think Moradi has a chance to make it)Ĭhen, Shi and Lu look set to get picked (unless team china decide to send Li Dayin at 81 – he is pretty much level with Lu and Lu has some injury concerns). Here are their best male lifters with the amount they have out lifted their closest foreign rivals during qualification: He found success here and set the clean & jerk world record at 231kg (508.2lbs) back in 2019 at the Tokyo Test event. In 2018 the Olympic weightlifting weight classes changed, and Tian Tao moved up to the 96 kg class. Since they can only send four male weightlifters, they will select the four categories where their lifters are most dominant. Tao set an Olympic record that still stands at this event, where he lifted 217kg (477.4lbs) in the clean & jerk. If you believe you have an injury, the safest course of action is to consult a professional.Ĭhina select their teams to maximise their gold medals. A place to diagnose injury or prescribe treatment addressing injury.A place to post slurs or other derogatory remarks toward anyone's race, religion, gender or sexual identity.A place to post sexual content of any sort, including comments on the attractiveness or lack thereof of any lifter.If the only discussion created is congratulating the OP, post it elsewhere. ![]() A place for you to post your NSVs or any other threads of similar nature.A place to post memes, self promotional content/blogspam, or things that provide no value.A place where all members are held to a standard of excellence not found in larger subreddits.A place where all weightlifters - regardless of training goals - are welcome.Between them both men took away Karlos Nasar’s two world records in a week when the Bulgarian teenager suffered a serious injury that will severely disrupt his progress towards Paris 2024. A place to ask questions about form, training style, programming, or anything related Winner Li had two world records, 180kg in the snatch and 396kg in total, while Tian Tao came out at the finish to make a record-breaking 222kg clean and jerk.A place to discuss weightlifting theory, methodology, and programming in a professional manner. ![]() Please keep general strength training, powerlifting, and other strength sports in their respective subreddits. This subreddit is for the sport of Olympic-style weightlifting, which tests the snatch and the clean and jerk, and related links and topics. 260 weightlifters are set to participate at the Games across fifteen events.Attention! Please read the Sidebar/FAQ before posting This is a list of the weightlifters who will be participating for their country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5–21, 2016. Main article: Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics ![]()
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Profile chinese aidriven news break maus12/19/2023 ![]() ![]() The next step seems clear: If you thought Nigerian prince emails were bad, wait until you see Nigerian prince chatbots. Scrolling through product reviews already feels like the world’s most annoying Turing test. Political campaigns are leveraging AI tools to create ads, while Amazon is flooded with ChatGPT-written books (many of them about AI). The Atlantic imagined a looming “ textpocalypse” as we struggle to filter out the generative noise. “In a few years, the vast majority of the photos, videos, and text we encounter on the internet could be AI-generated,” New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose warned last year. Pessimists argue that we could soon drown in a tsunami of synthetic media. While large language models and text-to-image generators have been evolving steadily over the past decade, 2022 saw an explosion of consumer-friendly tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E. (In a recent test, an early version of GPT-4 showed that it knew how to hire a person on Taskrabbit to complete a captcha on its behalf.) The fates of entire companies have rested on the issue of spotting fakes: Elon Musk, in an attempt to wriggle out of his deal to buy Twitter, cited a bot detector to boost his argument that Twitter had misrepresented the number of bots on its site. ![]() Once some bots could handle that, captcha added other detection methods that included parsing images of motorbikes and trains, as well as sensing mouse movement and other user behavior. After Google introduced its PageRank algorithm, which favored websites with lots of inbound links, spammers created entire ecosystems of mutually supporting pages.Īround the turn of the millennium, the captcha tool arrived to sort humans from bots based on their ability to interpret images of distorted text. Search engines countered by down-ranking those sites. (This type of message, dubbed “litspam,” became a genre unto itself.) As search engines grew more popular, creators looking to boost their pages’ rankings resorted to “keyword stuffing”-repeating the same word over and over-to get priority. Spammers responded by surrounding their pitches with snippets of human-sounding language lifted from old books and mashed together. Early spam filters sifted emails for keywords, blocking messages with phrases like “FREE!” or “be over 21,” and they eventually learned to filter out entire styles of writing. Life on the internet has always been a battle between fakers and detectors of fakes, with both sides profiting off the clash. Tian remembers McPhee saying he couldn’t tell his students how to write, but he could at least help them find their own unique voice. Using a projector and slides, McPhee shared hand-drawn diagrams that illustrated different ways he structured his own essays: a straight line, a triangle, a spiral. McPhee assigned exercises that forced them to think rigorously about words: Describe a piece of modern art on campus, or prune the Gettysburg Address for length. So Tian was surprised when, sophomore year, he managed to secure a spot in John McPhee’s exclusive non-fiction writing seminar.Įvery week, 16 students gathered to hear the legendary New Yorker writer dissect his craft. One of his journalism professors said that Tian was good at “pattern recognition,” which was helpful when producing news copy. But he describes his writing style at the time as “pretty bad”-formulaic and clunky. As a computer science major at Princeton, he’d taken a couple of journalism classes, where he learned the basics of reporting, and his sunny affect and tinkerer’s curiosity endeared him to his teachers and classmates. Edward Tian didn’t think of himself as a writer. ![]() |