Hojojo

Depends. Ukraine, despite some service interruptions, still largely has cell service:

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/25/ukraines-telecom-en...

I think these networks can be a lot more resilient than we think and they can be maintained even during a war.

Based on how you talk to people, I see no value in discussing this with you any further after this.

> The correct thing to do is for the Stop Killing Games initiative to be more concrete and specify what features of the laws they want implemented to reduce latitude for the EU to screw things up. That's the outcome I'm hoping for - not that the SKG initiative doesn't pass.

They were as concrete as they needed to be. The people who wrote SKG aren't subject matter experts. They don't have to be in order to point out a problem that they want political institutions to discuss and address. It's not their place to specify the details. These people do not represent the wide population. They are not elected officials. This is what we elect political representatives for. Their job is to figure out the problem and the details.

If you do not believe in this process, that's not a problem with this petition. That's a you problem.

Don't bother replying. I don't care what you have to say anymore. I'm not tolerating your ad hominem attacks. It's not suitable for this site and I wish you'd go elsewhere to be toxic.

This vague handwringing isn't any better. None of us know what the law will end up turning into. But we shouldn't let that stop this being addressed properly in our political institutions. That's what they're there for.

Also, bringing up the DMCA is sort of rich, since it was always just a vehicle for the biggest content companies in publishing, film, television, music and software to protect their property online.

Now we have something that was brought into being by consumers and may finally do something to curb anti-consumer behaviour by companies like this, and you're against it because you have no idea what it'll look like. I just can't, man. What's even the point of legislation if we have to be afraid it'll all be corrupted? Why even have political institutions at all at that point?

It's not any form of lock-in or anti-competitiveness, and it's not an aspect that's specific to Steam. You actually need to substantiate that instead of just claiming it. Almost all the online digital platforms do this, even non-gaming ones, and it's weird that it's only being argued here because it's about Steam.

This is a digital media rights issue, not a Steam issue.

The other platforms on PC are exactly the same though. If you're against Steam because of this particular aspect, you should be against almost all platforms on PC as well as every console and phone platform. This is how it works on almost every digital media platform. It's not sufficient reason to treat Steam like a monopoly, because in itself it's not anti-competitive behaviour.

It's also not solvable unless you legislate platform agnostic licenses that are valid regardless of platform. Fat chance of that ever happening and I doubt that's actually what you're suggesting.

It means helping people is imperialism and imperialism is bad, so actually it's a good thing these people are starving. At least now they can finally pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Or something, I don't know. I don't understand these people.

There are labs where you can just send prescription pills for testing as an end user?

I feel like the article is fairly clear

> DB und Siemens Mobility haben bei Testfahrten einen neuen Geschwindigkeitsrekord für die Strecke Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle erreicht

> Der ICE-S der DB Systemtechnik wird hauptsächlich für Test- und Messfahrten eingesetzt. Er dient dazu, neue Strecken zu testen, die Infrastruktur zu untersuchen und verschiedene Hochgeschwindigkeitsprüfungen durchzuführen

The latter paragraph explicitly states the point of this specific train is to test new routes and to analyze the infrastructure.

I think, like usual, it's a case of people reading the title and then going off to write a comment.

Even Germany has this figured out. Getting a new passport just required me to make an appointment, fill out an online form and go to the appointment with a single person. The only document I needed was my personal ID. Took like 15 minutes, not including the wait before I was called up. I feel like if Germany can get its shit together, any other country can too.

If you're applying for your very first personal ID, then you need to bring a birth certificate and another adult who already has an ID, but it's also something that's been trivial to do for years now.

The price of gas isn't immediately and directly impacted by the price of crude because of futures contracts. This naturally means gas prices will move to match the price of crude over time. It's a feature of the current system, not an indication that the price of gas isn't heavily reliant on gas. Nobody is making gas with spot prices.

I don't really understand any of your comment. Can you explain exactly how to solve all the problems that she's rightfully pointed out? I'm actually not sure what your problem is with what she says.

Or why you think pointing out the toxicity of the manosphere is a bad thing?

You actually didn't provide any arguments for why she's wrong and you didn't provide any better solutions either.

I took away much more from her post than I did your comment. All I see here is somebody who's firmly in the alt right bubble who doesn't like being called out.

This is definitely the case. Since the layer key is at the thumb, it doesn't require moving your hand and you barely need to move your thumb. As somebody who suffers from wrist pain, this makes a huge difference.

I have my layer switch key configured to require only a button press, then the next key I type will be from that layer. So I don't have to hold it down. It's so much more comfortable to use special symbols this way. I've also done this for my shift key.

There was this Reddit post yesterday where it completely makes up being able to plant flowers in Elden Ring https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/1k6hupy/thanks_g...

The AI overview is worse than useless. It either hallucinates things or it treats shitposts as equally valid information-wise as anything else.

I'm extremely confused by this article.

1) The board game community is largely agreed that Final Frontier is responsible for its own problems. This isn't a surprise to anybody.

2) Afaik and from what I could find, the 125% are baseline blanket tariffs on everything from China. And up to 245% depends on what kind of goods.

You realize your experience can't be generalized to anybody else except for those who were abused in the same way you were? It also isn't what people in these comments are suggesting should be done.

I wonder how the frequency compares with other countries. Is this as common in Europe or in Asia? Or even Mexico or Canada?

I know my work and it largely isn't shoddy. I have a keen eye for detail and code quality is incredibly important to me. But yeah, I am lazy and I hate wasting my time. AI has been a huge boon in the amount of time it's saved me.

> And the vast majority of people using them are either too stupid or too lazy to actually review their own output.

I don't know if that's true or not. But I'm not stupid or too lazy to review the code, because I review every line and make sure I understand everything. The same way I do with every line of my own code or every line a colleague writes if it's relevant to what I'm working on.

You're in the wrong place if you want to talk about people, particularly fellow developers, in this way. You're just being toxic.

I really liked the new Xreal glasses because of the built-in head tracking. But I was getting a lot of drift over time such that after anywhere between a few minutes and maybe half an hour, the center of the screen wouldn't be straight ahead anymore. Meaning I would need to reset the display location far too often. I ended up returning them because of it.

Gemini works with large files surprisingly well, but from my limited experience, the token usage (and cost) explodes and I'm not not sure it's worth it. I try to keep my file lengths fairly small because of it, so I have more control over what is pulled into the chat context.

The tariffs on that must be astronomical.

I've experimented with making it more explicit in one project I'm working on where 99% of it is written by AI, but the chat logs from Roo Code are way too verbose. Ideally, I could export a version of the chat with my prompts and metadata about which lines were changed, then I could commit that with the rest of the changes. I have every chat associated with changes made solely with AI in a chat folder named similarly to the commit, but the chats themselves are just impossible to read, so I haven't committed any of them.

Probably important to know what percentage that fire truck is of the overall fire department's budget. Has that budget increased with inflation at a comparable amount?

I find it baffling for anybody to take this stance. Accessibility doesn't matter anymore, I guess. Doesn't matter that the US is basically the melting pot for the entire world or that US citizens are so incredibly diverse, nothing matters but English. I would've argued otherwise. I don't think anybody would debate the point that providing translations for government services is a great idea and incredibly helpful to many people.

That's what we do in Germany. Many of our services on a city, regional and national level provide at the very least English translations.

Case in point: https://www.stadt-koeln.de/index.html

Click on the button at the top with the translation icon and it'll show you tons of languages. Are any of these official languages in Germany or in Cologne? Nope. But we generally care about people who visit or might not be fluent in German, so we provide it anyway. It's the right thing to do.

But I guess wanting to help people, or in general being helpful to others, is a dying value in many places.

The German weather service also provides an English version:

https://www.dwd.de/EN/Home/home_node.html

Wow, that's awful. I wonder why they do that.

Honestly, it's crazy that any country allows online media to control the national discourse about politics without having any insight into how the algorithms decide what kind of content is shown to whom and how content is moderated or controlled. Then there's bot/propaganda accounts run by who knows who poisoning any political discussion.

Or that none of them will ever see any of that money and none of it will ever go towards helping them in any way?

I'm glad the EU and most Europeans disagree with you. Because this take is just wrong on so many levels and I'm not sure where even to begin.

This pretty much. I've had a lot to do with GDPR in the projects I'm involved with. It's largely trivial if you aren't already doing terribly risky things, in which case yeah, it's a pain, but it doesn't change the necessity of fixing issues that put user private data at risk (with or without the GDPR existing). GDPR just puts more incentive on solving issues in regards to privacy instead of just letting companies shrug and move on because it's not their problem if data is stolen or leaked or letting them do what they want with the data without permission.