And, fun fact, the microwave was originally invented for these small-scale cryogenic experiments. Then researchers starting warming up their lunch in 'em.

Not sure about Italy, but Poland is relatively simple: as a front-line country with more historical beef with Russia than a Brazilian cattle farm, their answer to “Who should we buy weapons from?” is “Yes.”

They’re buying from other EU countries, the UK, the US, South Korea and more. They honestly don’t care as long as it increases their readiness for a potential war with Russia.

I’m really enjoying Jesse Welles atm, especially his song Masks Off

Gonna echo what others have said here from my general programming experience: you need to start WAY smaller. Build, for example, a top-down sprite art single-player extraction shooter. Once you’ve gotten the hang of the general problems with real-time gameplay, then move on to the next project.

I don’t think you’re wrong in starting with a particular focus and expanding the scope as you gain experience, but you’ve set your starting point aggressively too high.

Completely discharging a battery damages it. That’s why all phone OSes are programmed to… bend the truth a little bit. When a phone reports 0% battery to you, it’s often more like 20% in reality. Once it goes to a critically low state (under about 20%) it shuts down to preserve what it has until the user gets some charge into it.

Likely what’s happening there is that once a certain threshold triggering the emergency power-saving shutdown starts, it doesn’t matter what’s physically going on with the battery. The safety shutdown has already begun.

What profits? AI companies are burning through money like crazy.

There’s lots of countries that ended slavery without a war. Some via external diplomatic pressure, some via internal societal pressure.

As far as I understand it (I’m not a historian or American) the confederacy being economically weaker than the union was a significant factor in the civil war.

Completely agree. I’m hugely supportive of the EU, the things it has accomplished and the future potential. However, blindly agreeing with everything it does with black and white thinking is how we sleepwalk into our own authoritarian dystopia.

I am not quite in that demographic but getting pretty close. I’ve bought maybe a game a year for a very long time now. Most non-indie stuff is complete and utter trash. If I see a AAA publisher logo, I take it as a sign that it’s not worth my time or money.

In general, it’s true that Linux doesn’t need to restart for most updates. However, if you get a power cut right in the middle of an update, that could leave your OS in a really bad state. Therefore, for safety reasons, some distros (apparently including CachyOS) do updates in a ‘safe mode’ on boot, so that if there’s a power cut it just rolls back cleanly.

In short, how exactly distros approach updates differ slightly. A tradeoff between safety and convenience.

It’s so short because it’s special-purpose rather than general purpose. Perl is a programming language that can do lots and lots of different things. file-rename does one thing, and one thing very well: it renames files using regex

Seems pretty normal for an orange cat. There’s something about that colour that causes extreme stupidity. They’re normally good fun though.

I’m just a layman, but from the little I’ve read, the way people think is incredibly diverse. Vast majority of people think in some combination of words, images, speech and concepts but most people have a “primary” thinking method. Some people think only in speech, some only in text, some only in images, etc but they’re the minority.

If you’re an EU citizen, just paying taxes does a lot.

As an American

We could tell by the fact this conversation had to be about the US somehow

Maybe the shares could go to a sovereign wealth fund with staff employed to try and maximize the value of the fund over the long term?

Not terribly surprising, but no less horrific. A lot of my extended family either died or fled the continent in the Holocaust. As vague napkin math, I think about 30% died, half managed to get out to Canada, the US, the UK, etc, and I’m a descendant of the 20% who managed to stay and hide.

All that said, fuck all genocide deniers, regardless of the specific genocide you’re talking about.

Adam Something, is that you?

Even without the ratcheting, assuming the percentages are well calibrated, it works on everyone equally no matter your financial situation. A wealthy person paying tens or hundreds of thousands of euros for going 5km/h over the speed limit learns the lesson very quickly.

I hope you all go easy on us and help us fix a parasite in our society

I can’t speak for the world obviously, just 1 person, but I hold an individual US citizen in the same regard I would an individual Russian citizen: surrounded and bombarded by propaganda and disinformation while being systematically stripped of all ability to change the system around them. I hold no ill will towards anyone drowning in that system, and I hope things change for you.

With that said, in both cases, I think it’s basically impossible for outside forces to help. The change has got to come from within. We have basically infinite examples of how and why outside imposition, even with the best of intent (which it never is, but w/e) just doesn’t work. Good luck, but US citizens gotta clean their own house.