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Comment · 19 days ago
The new engine is Vulkan based which released around 10 years ago if I'm not wrong.
Comment · 19 days ago
They said they implement a lot of the Unity APIs for mods. If there's something like that used by 99% of mods, they would have easily detected it and implement it.

Someone tested the version with like 1500 mods and it launched.

Comment · 23 days ago
Just like the US is bullying them for let me check: dare to try perosnally having a bank account and do online payments.
Comment · 23 days ago
It has as much if not more authority to judge crimes commited in the member countries that gave it that authority than Trump has to sanction them in the first place.
Comment · 1 month ago
That surface area map is a seriously bad argument: We are talking about bus lines here. Local transit just requires local lines. This isn't about train lines crossing through the whole country.

And how come China does a much better job than the US while they have the same surface area? Why aren't you overlapping those two maps?

Comment · 2 months ago
Better get used to that. Nearly every time you buy something in Portugal they'll ask you for your tax id so that they can print it on the receipt. This is because this is something you can use for some tax breaks later and also there is some lottery going on I think? Though obviously the original reason for it to exist is to combat tax fraud.

This is also entirely optional for those kind of purchases, and meaningless if you don't have one (which you probably aren't going to if you are just a tourist passing through the country) so you should just not fill that field. I seriously doubt it is mandatory.

Comment · 4 months ago
There's no need: there's std::copy already.

Or maybe the idea was to create a typesafe template wrapper around the generic function which is also very common and really nice. No need to create one wrapper per type, a single template should work.

Comment · 8 months ago
There is in France a kind of shared network of hot water used to heat up our homes (well, those that are connected and paying into the system at least). Part of the system works by burning trash and capturing the heat in the process. Supposedly they also work on using renewable energies to do the work.

Some people argue that the whole system is going against the objectives of recycling stuff but at least it's better than just burning it to get rid of it.

Comment · 9 months ago
Because most maintainers love it compared to Sys V scripts.

In the end, users might complain about purity of things or something but the mainteners are the ones doing the work maintaining all that and end up deciding what gets used.

Honestly, I'm rather outside of all that stuff and I had my share of problems with systemd issues but that's mostly because I've been using pretty old systems anyway with thus older and buggier versions of the code. And I also remember the pain it was before unit files to get those sys V scripts working correctly. From my perspective, both systems had weird bugs I had to track but systemd clearly wins on the "creating a new service" part.

Comment · 10 months ago
This is short sighted too It can also turn out worse for the Venezuelans, it doesn't have to become better.
Comment · 10 months ago
Or maybe we should stop the propaganda arm of the US fascists distorting the reality around here and inventing needs that our population doesn't actually need so that they are pushed towards far right parties?

Or how about making sure the corrupted US society do something about them messing up the world economy because rich people want to be richer and so they bought their governments through once again their propaganda arms of all the social media and news corporations they bought?

What about the parts where the US would bomb constantly the ME thus making the people living there want to move out. But of course they won't go to the place that bombed them, especially since there's a whole ocean between them so instead they come to us in the Europe. Oh and if it's not bombs, it's global warming anyway, another thing the current US government pushes hard for.

Comment · 10 months ago
The reality is that it's probably mostly about incompetence and lazyness. And tight purses of course.

When some country parliament decides to mandate age verification, it's really easy and lazy for them to just say "verify ages and do it reliably!" and stop at that. As a result, the services affected don't really have a choice to go towards those horrible solutions of scaning our faces or IDs or both and all the issues around that.

What should happen rather is "we'll build a system for age verification that is privacy focused and all you sites that are adult only will have to use it or any other system we deem acceptable" But this requires effort on the part of the government doing the law. And money.

Comment · 11 months ago
This mostly means richer people have too much money if they can do that.

What's next, a new tech allowing you to turn food into money at a rate nobody can afford to eat anymore?

Comment · 1 year ago
I thought the point (which the article misses) is that a token gives you an identity, and an identity can be tracked and rate limited.

So a crawlers that goes very ethically and does very little strain on the server should indeed be able to crawl for a whole week on a cheap compute, one that hammers the server hard will not.

Comment · 1 year ago
In a similar vein, I remember people advocating for replacing new untrained hires with AI. After all, a competent senior engineer is needed to validate the contributions of the new hires anyway and they can do the same checking the AI code.

But then, how would you even train and replace those competent seniior engineers that do the filtering when they retire? The whole system was predicated on having a chain of new hires that gain experience in the process.

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