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That's like asking why Scarlett Johansson doesn't give martial arts lessons because she plays black widow.

The skills that make porn look good and the skills that make you good at sex may be distantly related but any overlap is a coincidence.

You're better off learning how to make friends and build relationships with people.

I understand American football really well. I find it boring. Same with soccer. And baseball. And basketball. Pretty much the only sport I personally find entertaining the entire time is hockey, and only when I watch in person.

I know other people find value in those sports as entertainment but my brain doesn't work that way, and I am nowhere close to unique.

Doesn't matter what era.

First, before using the death note, publish everything you know about the future and its tech. For example, even if you barely remember the periodic table, filling out anything you remember about it would significantly expand humanity's understandimg at the time. Describing protons, neutrons, electrons, photons, quarks, positrons, neutrinos, bosons, etc would be a century or more ahead of its time. Knowing about radiation at all would save tens of thousands of lives from suffering just from avoidable exposure deaths.

Any modern common knowledge about germ theory, DNA, cell biology, virus structure, or the idea of antibiotics would be revolutions at the time. Just knowing penicillin comes from mold would save millions of lives, not to mention the isolation of stuff like insulin.

Asserting the existence of the photoelectric effect (photodiodes, solar panels), piezoelectric effect (phone haptics, timing crystals), the thermoelectric effect (any digital thermometer), and remembering that computer chips have something to do with silicon puts us ahead 100 years technologically. Knowing the best batteries are made mostly of lithium and something else puts us 100 years ahead in battery tech.

Knowing that rubber is supposed to be black leads to the discovery of vulcanization early and saves us from decimating the whale populations.

Knowing there are massive oil deposits in the middle east, Texas, Canada, and Mexico, or massive gold/diamond/steel/copper deposits in various areas makes nations supremely wealthy instantly after they extract resources.

For our purposes, though, photography need to advance drastically. If you know this is coming and have time to prep ahead of time, you learn everything you can to hasten the invention of the photograph.

Then you get to work with the death note.

In general: you start eliminating the elite class in whatever country you're in. Slowly, so as not to create a power vacuum that destabilizes the nation.

Because of your scientific predictions that keep coming true, elites keep wanting to meet you to see if you can make them richer. That's how you gather catalogs of faces.

Once your country moves to a strong collectivist government (socialist, communist, whatever) whose officials are chosen by true random sortition, you move on to the next one. Obviously you may have to do things out of order if there's an imperialist military threat to your country, but that's the idea. Keep society invested in the sciences and engineering to advance living conditions for all.

I'm in the US, so I'd focus on the immediate halt of the slaughter of native Americans. Oregon is already a state, so we'd still likely pick up idaho and Wyoming.

That'd probably result in an independent nation of natives in California, arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Oklahoma absorbs the Texas panhandle as a result.

A separate native nation forms in the Dakotas and Montana.

I'm not sure of statehood sentiment after that; it's likely the Dakotas/Montana vote for statehood as a single state rather than multiple territories- they're landlocked, so would become a vassal state to the surrounding countries (Canada, usa).

Next, tackle the US' existing slavery and apartheid systems. The civil war is over, but slavery still exists in the form of Jim Crow laws and such.

The next hurdle to cross is the rampant corruption inherent in the system. This era already had a great deal of progress- antitrust legislation primarily. I shepherd these movements along and make them stronger.

At the end of my life, from 1900-1920, (I'm 36, going back to 1876, so I'd be 60-80) I make sure to eliminate the political figureheads that destabilized Europe throughout the early 1900s. It's important to stabilize what is now the EU.

If your only metric is "long dev cycles bad", then yeah this looks bad because you're comparing games stuck in development hell to a game that has demonstrably had like 8 years of real dev time. Additionally, it's not like Rockstar have put out stinkers in the past. every GTA game I've ever played has been a fun single player experience. I can't imagine R* nuking the billions they've spent developing their game and the goodwill they've gathered in the past. Are there going to be scammy bullshit things in the game? Sure. It's literally impossible for them to raise money from investors if they don't put it in there. But if it's another game "only" just as good as GTA v, it will sell incredibly well and be worth the up front money.

If apple had a 1tb Mac studio, it'd sell so goddamn fast due to being able to run some of the largest open LLMs out there. I've been using GLM 5.2 and it's damn near opus 5.6, the first model I thought was good enough to just write code without intense guidance. 1tb is well within the range where you could run the model on your own hardware. The higher prices are there to head off the deserved intense demand

The only thing to do is ride the wave of the new technology. You either do that or drown. I've written a literal book's worth of text on how AI should think and behave when writing software and it straight up cannot write code as well as me when left to its own devices, even with all my guidance. LLMs, no matter the size, are structurally incapable of holding all the context needed to write good code in complex systems because they cannot compress complex topics into ideas they've never encountered and reason about the compressed state with their limited reasoning capacity (otherwise known as "learning").

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Subbed, because the Japanese VA is often the better actor and that carries the performance. If an anime has higher budget dubs, I'll watch those (not many of those; anything dragon ball usually meets the bar and witch hat atelier is treating English dubs with respect).

I learned with python and switched to rust when that started to piss me off. It'll be awhile until you know enough about why you want a different language for a task. Until then, python and JavaScript are totally fine; you may never even need to leave those ecosystems depending on what you want to do.