In a competitive market, companies on the supply side are price accepting, like people on the demand side. Gaming in general is relatively competitive.

If a company can sell a game for 60 EUR, they won’t sell it cheaper. If they can’t make it for that cost, they won’t sell it for more, they just won’t make it.

Costs of producing the game generally have no direct impact on the market price.

My hero

Nah, these aren’t assassinations, just plain domestic murders.

Where is the video

Can’t upvite this enough. I’m not really vegetarian, but I love the fact that it is gaining traction, since it’s just so much better food. If there is a vegan option of anything, I’ll go for that.

The best burger I’ve ever eaten had a giant mushroom as the main thing in it, sterotypically served by a trans girl at a street food vendor in the gay quarter of Amsterdam.

It literally ruined burgers for me, I’m still chasing that high. I think if you want to be a vegan activist, learn to cook well and open a restaurant. That’s how they got me.

Sacrifices have to be made for a better world

Yeah that shit is more common than people think.

A big part of the business of cloud providers is that most orgs have no idea how to do shit. Their enterprise consultants are also wildly variable in competence.

There was also a large amount of useless bullshit that I needed to cut down since being hired at my current spot, but the amount of containers is actually warranted. We do have that traffic, which is both happy and sad, since while business is booming, I have to deal with this.

I know using work as an example is cheating, but around 1400-1500 to 5000-6000 depending on load throughout the day.

At home it’s 12.

Car heating can be adjusted to decimals usually. So can the heating in my home. The oven can’t, because the chicken doesn’t care if it’s 180 or 181 degrees.

My guess is that the Google org culture breeds people who don’t care about the users of their tech one bit.

Make something that’s fun and interesting for the person making it, release, get promoted, abandon.

It’s the kind of people I tend to avoid hiring, and for a good reason. Google makes pretty much all its money from search ads, and hasn’t innovated on that in decades.

Nah, you had to use all 3. It was 3 connectors for different things.

Our codebase is a mess and I suggested putting “we are not stupid, we just work with Google” into our job ads looking for data engineers proficient with C and JRuby.

I just had someone on my team work with 3 closely related Google data libraries, basically 3 connectors for the same data churning thingy.

One was only compatible with Python, the second was only workable in C, and the third was in fucking JRuby.

Maybe we shouldn’t fill up international organisations with slimy idiots failing upwards. See also, von der Leyen.

Honest question, wouldn’t enforcing a hard speed limit on them be more useful? If a bike is going 25 km/h, does it matter if it got there with the rider turning the pedals or not? And if it is going 45 km/h, same question, why does it matter? IMO it should be a hard speed limit, and a limit on torque, but the “no throttle” thing is kinda missing the point. Maybe require a licence, and make registration mandatory in an easy way.

I’ve had one of those fatbikes, and of course I wouldn’t ride them in the Vondelpark at full speed, what they were good for is a long commute on rural bike paths going a safe 25 km/h. What I liked about the electric motor was that it would get me back at 25 km/h after stopping at a light without effort. The fat tires meant that if some branch or other random shit was on the road, I would be safer, and of course it also made for a smoother ride.

That said, “pedaling” with these only means exerting the slightest effort, it’s not at all different from a throttle, except it’s harder to control the bike. There is hardly any way to apply only some throttle as opposed to all of it for example. And it’s also easy to fuck up by resting your foot on the pedal and applying torque by mistake, while forgetting to hold the brakes that cut the engines, and ending up with the bike lurching forward.

This is about electric ones, that are registered as bicycles but can go 45 km/h.

You can buy one of these for around 1k, and it’s a long button press to reconfigure it from the legal 25 km/h, assistance only, no throttle, “EU legal” configuration to the 45 km/h, throttle active “US legal” config.

I mean if they are going to be doing model collapse, might as well go full throttle

Nixon fucked the world through the dollar.

In short, the world is paying the US to fuck around, since Bretton Woods replaced gold with the the USD, meaning that the US gets unlimited money while they get to spread their inflationary pressure around the world.

Charles de Gaulle, president of France at the time wasn’t as stupid as most world leaders, and ended up preserving at least some semblance of fiscal independence by smuggling the French gold back from the US.

Switzerland has more than 120 agreements with the EU, including being part of the Schengen area, the UK is just getting started of having the first few in place. The UK also made it a political sticking point that they are not EU members for the past few years, kinda going against the ideal of ever closer European integration.

Okay, but Google uses it in a way where directly going to the server they host F-Droid.apk, downloading and installing it counts as sideloading.

If anything, using Google Play is sideloading by that definition, since I can’t just download a release from the originators’ server, they need to first transfer it into a secondary location, Google’s servers, and I can only install it from there.

How do you know they honour your decision to deny them the footage, instead of taking it without your knowledge or consent?