> Firefox, beyond being slower, also keeps constantly displaying ads
One tab with an ad opening when the browser has updated every few weeks or so is not what I would call "keeps constantly displaying ads".
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One tab with an ad opening when the browser has updated every few weeks or so is not what I would call "keeps constantly displaying ads".
> You automatically get:
> - Minor version upgrade every day.
> - Major version upgrade every month.
1. Isn't the order normally <major>.<minor>.<patch> ?
2. For sortability the order should if anything follow the ISO 8601 order.
3. Some way to optionally represent the specific rust edition used in the compiler/toolchain version would probably be a good idea.
Therefore, my recommendation would be (if you'd want to actually use this instead of semver):
YYYY.MM.DD(.EDITION)(-PATCH)Motorcycles of a power not exceeding 35 kilowatts (47 hp) and with a power/weight ratio not exceeding 0.2 kilowatts per kilogram (0.12 hp/lb)
and not derived from a vehicle of more than double its power.In Germany, the rule of thumb (based on reaction times) that's also taught in driving school for normal weather and road conditions during the day is "Halber Tacho" [1], i.e. at least half your speed (in km/h) as safety distance (in meters).
Example: driving at 100km/h the minimum safety distance to have is 50m, the distance at which the "Leitpfosten" [2] ("delineator"?) are usually fixed along the roadside.
[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicherheitsabstand#Ermittlung_... , translated: https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Sicherheitsab...
[2]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitpfosten , translated: https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Leitpfosten?_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery... , also known as "Skyhook" and pretty well demonstrated in "The Dark Knight".
> I never have to buy ink
You are buying ink, since you're not just sending documents/images/etc. off for some company to print on their hardware with their ink and their paper, you're getting ink in vendor-locked cartridges which you can only print while within their arbitrary "no. of pages" metric.
Also, you bought the printer, you buy the actual pages of paper, the subscription is called "Instant INK" and [1] literally says:
> To enroll in HP Instant Ink you need to have an eligible printer, which tells us when you're low on ink or toner and orders it for you. (emphasis mine)
Additionally their "plans" table in the FAQs of [1] makes clear that "unused" pages that you supposedly paid for with your subscription are limited in how many roll over each month, essentially invalidating a number of your "purchased" pages if you don't print as often as they would like you to.
Scummy all the way down
Politicians are mostly professional parasites and most political systems seem to attract, apart from the odd once-in-a-while genuine idealist, exactly that type of people.
Supermarkets are expensive but still not expensive enough for someone to bootstrap an operation to elbow themselves into the market as a new player and expect to still make profit.
> A price were willing occur until surviving companies are making minimal amount of profits.
> Related is if someone figures out how to produce the same amount for less effort/cost.
Existing supermarket chains have massive delivery networks and associated efficiency, already have
- the real estate and - all the internals of a retail store and - the associated warehousing set up, - all the personnel who know their way around the store and where everything goes (which is a huge part of the efficiency of distributing the wares in the store), - "brand" recognition of the store (Aldi, Tesco, Walmart, ...)
which means the new competitors would very likely have to massively loss-lead at a time when the already-established market participants are making more profit than before.
> If someone is making absurd profits for long periods, then usually some major factor such as government regulations is preventing new players from entering the market.
Selling foodstuffs especially is an area of business where a huge chunk of regulations are absolutely justified and it's not like all of the food singled out because of expired shelf life ("MHD"/"Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum") is getting thrown into the garbage (at least here in Germany). I currently work in a supermarket and have done so in a different chain before this one and from what I know most damaged or "expired" food is getting written off and then either set aside in the appropriate temperature store-room for the "Tafel" (food bank) OR if it's really unfit/unsafe for consumption (moldy, completely interrupted cold chain [1] or obvious signs of spoilage like bloated food packaging) it gets thrown into the garbage.
Raving about "free markets" from ones ivory tower is all well and good but the reality is that because of corporate consolidations and necessity-for-living many economic sectors are effectively locked down by (implicit) cartels, either because it's cost-prohibitive to even enter - let alone succeed in - that market or because the actual necessary infrastructure has been divied up between the current market participants (think USA and their local mono-/duopolies of ISPs).
[1]: For example when we find items which should be kept cool or frozen in other areas of the market having been taken and left there by customers who obviously don't care (like that one time I found fresh fish with its plastic bag bloated to bursting in a warm section of the market during summer time, thankfully the packaging wasn't damaged or it wouldn't have been pretty).
"Paying" the streamer for the ad(s) being not shown due to Turbo, i.e. fractions of a cent. If you're mainly watching 1-2 streamers subscribing directly to them does more for them for almost the same money. The streamer is still only getting 50% of the sub fee but at least that's ~ $2.50 rather than a few cents per month for many hours of watched content.
Schadenfreude
Release date of Valve Index: 2019-06-28
Release date of first Oculus¹: 2016-03-28
There were about three years of tech adoption by consumers between these releases, Oculus was, before their first commercial HMD release, was acquired by Facebook for US$2 Billion, FB which could also use its near monopoly in social networks to place ads and thus influence billions of people to buy the product(s) of one of its subsidiaries.
In contrast:
> It sold an estimated 149,000 sets in 2019, 103,000 of which were in the fourth quarter due to the announcement of Half-Life: Alyx, which buyers received for free. The sudden demand caused the unit to be sold out in all 31 countries except Japan in January 2020. As of December 2019, 6.67% of the VR units connected to Steam are Valve Index sets. While Valve had anticipated supply for many of those that had ordered the Index in time for the March 2020 release of Half-Life: Alyx, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted production of the Index which left Valve with a reduced number of units available on the release date.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Index#Release (emphasis mine)
¹: since you didn't specify which of the range of Oculus HMDs you're referring to
I heard in one documentary following the defusing/safe detonation of one of these that the "KBD" (one of the shorthands for the civilian ordinance disposal services) is estimated to have to work in this field for at least several decades considering the (potential) amount of explosives still hidden in the ground and water. Especially the water is another hot topic since after WW2 the Allies just dumped huge amounts of explosive ordinance and chemical weapons into the North and Baltic Seas which are slowly corroding under the water and releasing their toxic innards into the ecosystem(s).
A bunch of people employed by the ordinance disposal service have died doing their work over the years (relevant portion cited):
"Despite a professional and extremely cautious approach, deadly accidents caused by uncontrolled explosions occur time and again when defusing bombs. In the years 2000 to 2010, eight explosive ordnance clearance personnel were killed in action, [11] three of them alone in the detonation of a 500 kg Allied bomb on June 2, 2010 in Göttingen." -- https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Kampfmittelr%...
> AAA video games have been $59.99 for like fifteen years
Be warned, the author/presenter of the following linked video is quite a character, but they do actually make sense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7kaK2-725w (2020) deals with those BS excuse as the very same trotted out for years, debunked even by quotes from top gaming execs, the corporate financial filings and exposees on the industry.
- $60 has for years just been the shell price with predatory monetization practices raking in more money than ever
- the same excuses have been used a few years ago to justify cramming "micro"-transactions down the collective throat of customers, nickel and diming them for the complete experience after having already paid for the shell price; now it's still being said that games' prices haven't increased in decades, while only the entry prices on the box haven't changed
- the audience size has only gotten larger
- distribution has largely gone digital, saving costs of physical distribution
- wages have been stagnant while inflation rose, even some employees of these very same games companies aren't making enough to eat in that very same company's cafeteria
- tax evasion by the games companies through pretending their IP is registered in empty offices/basements the world over means they gift themselves hundreds of millions of you US taxpayers money every year.
No, the forced use of "unsafe" in Rust for some kinds of safety mechanisms to be disabled makes the code to audit easier to locate and reason about.
IF the code in the "unsafe" block does not actually isolate the "unsafe"-ness THEN conclusions can be drawn about the rest of the code.
Contrast that to C where the code introducing unsafeness, UB and unsoundness could be basically anywhere instead of a convenient "rg/grep unsafe" away.
[0]: "the accused is/are the asset/s not the person/entity robbed by the police/TLA"
Holy fucking wall of text!
It seems to me issuing a public warning about this persons "paper trail" is probably the only real option to shut down this behavior that these OSS projects can see.
Example: in my home city the winters have been getting warmer on average pretty drastically. I'm in my mid-twenties, around the time of my birth the average winter weather YoY was still cold enough to freeze the sound (not the audio one) near my home deep and hard enough anyone could walk nearly the whole width from one bank to the other. During my early childhood we had ~0.5m of snow nearly all winter but I can't remember having even a "white christmas" since I was ~14. Even this winter we had like 10-15cm of snow total, most of which melted as soon as hit the ground, a layer of ~5cm stayed for around a week a bit before christmas. The holidays themself were cold (not freezing) and it rained almost the entire time.
> For wilderness canoeists
In that case I would still suggest going with the laminated maps over the ziploc bag since once moisture gets into the bag containing paper maps you've already started them on the road to colors smearing, mold, etc.
Couldn't you laminate the maps yourself, when you're already going through the trouble to print your own?
On a more serious note, AFAIK (IANAL) Elon and other celebs are public persons who don't necessarily have the same kind of expectation of privacy since they've chosen to be in the public eye. Meaning unless it's something protected by law like medical records or something done/talked about on their private property out of the public's view they can reasonably expect the public will know/talk about whatever they do.
I had a similar issue with my previous GPU, an RX560, where my system would sometimes freeze either while turning the monitors on or other times when it was locked with both monitors off.
On the 560 I had no choice but to connect 1x DP + 1x HDMI but on my newer 6700xt I connected both monitors via DP and the whole class of issues just went away.