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They say it's been restored:

https://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/with-26-wheels-and-se...

Star Control 3 was built by a different group of designers and developers, since the original ones decided to pursue other projects. Its history is a bit murky. Some say it's great and true to the originals, while others think it deviates too much.

You can think of it as The Curse of Monkey Island vs Return to Monkey Island. The original designers now wants to come back and build a sequel to the game they created.

For context. The original Ur Quan Masters was released as Star Control 2 in 1992. The source code was released in 2002, has been maintained as an open source project since.[0] They are referring to it as "Ur Quan Masters", since Star Control 2 is licenced.

[0] https://sc2.sourceforge.net/

> Under the legislation, anyone who creates such an image without consent will face a criminal record and an unlimited fine.

I feel like "without consent" to be pretty key here.

> It takes about 40 seconds to buy something with a physical credit card, compared to just 30 seconds to buy it with a smartphone.

Looking at the linked paper, it suggests someone was able to make a cash payment in 5 seconds (see table 2). Where the closest of other methods would be a contactless card of about 21 seconds. Just have exact change in hand! Cash also has the highest time of 244 seconds.

The original endlessh hints at this, but doesn't go further into details, and the endlessh-go's README doesn't mention it at all. Am I suppose to have endlessh run on port 22 and then have my real SSH server run on an obscure port? In none of the examples does it run on port 22. I feel like I'm missing something obvious, that the READMEs simply take for granted I know.

Sometimes countries need cash, and maintaining the land is not worth it, and someone is willing to buy. Should Denmark have sold the Virgin Islands in 1917? It was put to a referendum, and the people said yes. Napoleon also needed cash, so he sold a lot of useless land in North America to a willing buyer.

They were able to do it in the 1970s without the latency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIRAVI

Just no road feedback...

No, I am talking about entering the Common Travel Area (CTA) through Ireland. Suppose I am a Canadian citizen and a UK resident, and I live in Belfast. I've been to Nova Scotia and I am travelling back through Dublin. Will Dublin's passport control be available to determine my visa given my Canadian passport?

OK, but what does this mean for UK residents entering the Common Travel Area through Ireland? While not exactly the same, my wife is a Danish resident; when we travel in and out of the Schengen area, she needs to bring her residency card. While Danish passport control can phone up the right people, if she has forgotten her card, I doubt other Schengen area passport controls would/could.

They could then tell from her stamps, that she had overstayed her visa in the Schengen area, and would not permit her in, if she entered the Schengen area outside Denmark and without the residency card.

Is Irish passport control expected to look up UK residents' residency through the UK's website?

According to a Danish article on the subject,[1] it was the police who moved him through the passport area, because he had been in the Schengen area for too long (90 days) and needed to return home. But they basically left it up to him to figure out how to return home.

That's not completely ridiculous, since there are infamous cases of people who had lived at airports for years, because of similar situations. What's different here is that he managed to trick himself through onto a flight.

For the past decade, CPH has had automated security turnstiles before security that checks your boarding card. Here he managed to sneak in behind an unsuspecting passenger. They don't check your boarding card while at security proper, since they figure it's already been checked.

And then finally, he managed to sneak his way through the gate using the same method as through security.

[1] https://www.zetland.dk/historie/s8yyW0EN-aOPVxA4K-43526

There is a direct train Stockholm-Copenhagen and then Copenhagen-Hamburg. Just hope you don't run into some unforeseen disruption.

Edit: Looking at bahn.de, I found a direct train from Stockholm to Hamburg,[1] no need for a change in Copenhagen. There was also an option to change in Malmö instead of Copenhagen.

[1] https://www.zugfinder.net/en/train-EN_345

The normal web app[0] for finding journeys calls a file called "iphone.exe".[1]

[0] https://rejseplanen.dk/webapp/ [1] e.g. https://rejseplanen.dk/bin/iphone.exe?rnd=1704195748374

Seeing as everyone is posting other countries' live railway maps, here is Denmark's: https://www.rejseplanen.dk/bin/help.exe/mn?L=vs_livemap&tpl=...

More likely he flew from Israel to Denmark given his documents, but when he said he left his passport on the plane, it might have been the first plane.

Or he might have been going to Kiel, and came in from an non-Schengen origin to catch a connecting flight in Copenhagen to Kiel.

The ground crew that check people's papers during boarding are not the same crew who are on the flight. Copenhagen Airport has a separate area for non-Schengen flights. He may "simply" have arrived from a non-Schengen origin and then avoided leaving through passport control and gone on a different flight, somehow.

Nixon never went to jail.

Eritrea? Since there are actually two exceptions, although one is definitely less notable than the other.

Firefox is also supporting Manifest V3, like Chrome, but Firefox is not removing support for Manifest V2, unlike Chrome.

I feel like it's kind of unfair to put Factorio's release date as 2020. Yes, that's what Steam says, and that's it's 1.0 release date. But Satisfactory is listed as 2020, and that is still in early access. So maybe note on the list when a game is still in early access?

The details of the leaks were published slowly over several months. The one revealing the Danish-NSA partnership came out in 2014.[1]

[1] https://www.information.dk/indland/2014/06/snowden-dokumente...

> I find it beyond belief that you're allowed, even as a government, to drag someone to court and accuse them of actions that could harm the country, while refusing to let them or their defense know exactly what they did wrong.

Given the Supreme Court's verdict, it sounds like you are not allowed to do that.

You got it... somewhat wrong.

The NSA wiretap has been in effect since about the late 1990s, long before Findsen and Frederiksen held any position on the matter. The Snowden leaks in 2014 revealed this. So in a sense, it was already public knowledge.

But then it was sort of re-leaked around 2020. The accusation is that Findsen and Frederiksen leaked this information to journalists and the public. The watchdog situation is technically a different matter, but the theory is that Findsen is being hit with these accusations of the leaks as revenge for the other thing. Though, I am not sure how true that theory is, but this is how these two things come up as seemingly related.

Why even have years? Like Unix epoch, pick a start date, and just have the number of weeks increment indefinitely. If you really wish to do some separation, just say "last 50 weeks" or something.

> numeric column

Worth mentioning that numeric in Sqlite is still just a float.[0] A table of two rows where column a is 0.1 and 0.2, respectively, sum(a) will not yield 0.3.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html

This article reads more like an ad for mORMot 2 than Pascal. I've been out of the Pascal game for a few years, so I had to look up mORMot 2.[0] Apparently Synopse are the maintainers of it.

The article basically compare their CSV/JSON serialising library to Go's standard CSV/JSON libraries. Looking at the Go code, it's pretty clear why it has memory issues, it reads all the lines into a single object (well, `[][]string`) immediately, rather than reading line for line (which takes advantage of the stream).

I am not sure how this is remarkable and impressive for Pascal. They talk about how you don't need to use the `try..finally..Free` routine all the time, but that's only if the object in question is an interface. Interfaces are somehow handled by a reference counter in Object Pascal, so you need to know how to operate on objects vs interfaces, because they act very different. Pascal is full of these quirks.

[0] https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2

Ah, you use a NA VIN check. My understanding is that there are five versions of VIN, three of which do not have the check digit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_identification_number#...

This is definitely an EU VIN. After 25 years, cars can be imported into the US, so there are definitely non-NA VIN cars driving around the US. And prior to 1981, it was basically a free for all. I have a car with an 8 digit VIN!

What does "That is not a valid VIN" indicate? Does it just mean the VIN wasn't found, or do you actually verify that the VIN lives up to specifications? I entered a VIN that I know is valid, but has never had US plates (but has been in the US and US insured), and it claimed it was invalid.

Whilst encouraging, I also feel like US policies are part of the problem, besides allowing it for so long. The fact that sales tax in the US doesn't just depend on state, but can be down to the house number on a street, means it's difficult to present automated listing of all fees online. There are reasons why sales taxes are not included in price tags in shops. Among them, that the tax could be different if you went across the street, and you don't want to advertise that. (There are numerous other policies contributing to hidden fees, like minimum wage laws leading to tipping.)