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Comment · 7 days ago
Last official update was in February this year, so not really abandoned.

But no new models since 2019.

Comment · 5 months ago
I did buy one of those for 155eur on 9 November 2025.

Very lucky me!

Comment · 5 months ago
I've just finished playing Metro Exodus, which is another example.

The "good ending" depends on your behavior in the three open areas of the game.

You can still kill "monsters" (mutated humans, animals, cannibals, bandits) without impact, but you should minimize killing other humans, such as slaves, or even hostile but "misguided" NPCs (people that just want you to stay out of their settlement, that you are required to traverse, and who will shoot you on sight).

This is something you can actually achieve pretty easily, just by using stealth.

But reading older posts on this game, many people found this difficult, as the game made easy and satisfying to kill from the shadows.

Comment · 5 months ago
But that it's not really the case in the example above.

It's not the software engineer duty to know about how a given product is legal in what regulatory environment. That is something that must be hashed out upstream, well before tasking somebody to write a program.

Granted, an expert engineer with strong domain knowledge could be aware of those kind of pitfalls, and offer insights during the product development phase. But again, that should be done before committing to a schedule or making implementation decisions.

Comment · 6 months ago
Ukraine government also issued a statement saying that the US forces used 800 Patriot interceptors against Iran in three days at the start of the current war.

While Ukraine used just 600 interceptors in 4 years of war.

Comment · 7 months ago
He wanted seven perpendicular lines ?
Comment · 8 months ago
I still got it. Has been in storage for a long time.

My child did build it some years ago, now it's in his room.

Comment · 9 months ago
If they plan to put this things in a low orbit their useful life before reentry is low anyway.

A quick search gave me a lifespan of around 5 years for a starlink satellite.

If you put in orbit a steady stream of new satellites every year maintenance is not an issue, you just stop using worn out or broken ones.

Comment · 1 year ago
Well about that ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case

This is well know case of a "person of interest" kidnapped by the CIA in Milano, Italy. While the CIA was assisted by the Italian Intelligence, it was a completely illegal operation, without any due process or judiciary oversight.

Comment · 1 year ago
For what is worth, I read the book this year, after reading about it in the blog Bits about Money by patio11.
Comment · 1 year ago
The part where it gave you access to a thread you were not a part of seems scary to me..

In this case your absence from the thread was probably an oversight, but in general there could be a very good reason for it

Comment · 1 year ago
A friend that was going to deliver a child told us about a dad-to-be that was going around the maternity ward making videos ...
Comment · 1 year ago
> JavaScript / Ruby / Python: All provide JSON-style literals ([1,2,[3,4]], {"x":1,"y":[2,3]})

The Perl syntax for this is pretty similar:

[1,2,[3,4]], {"x", 1,"y", [2,3]}

that can also be written, with a bit of syntactic sugar:

[1,2,[3,4]], {x => 1, y => [2,3]}

For many, if not most, cases, given a Perl data structure, the round trip "Perl -> JSON -> Perl" is transparent.

Comment · 1 year ago
Also here in Italy, of all places.
Comment · 1 year ago
Geothermal energy is also a thing.

Is the heat produced inside a planet, mostly from the radioactive decay of natural isotopes.

Volcanoes are not powered by the Sun. Of course this production will cease when all isotopes will be depleted, but that will take a very long time.

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