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Yes you’re right, of course, I was conflating the ability to move freely within the EU member states with the Schengen Agreement which was not correct. Border control was always necessary between Britain and the Schengen area, it was just streamlined.

I do not expect it to happen in my lifetime. I dearly hope we manage to strike a deal that restores our freedoms to live and work within the EU, but I’m not holding my breath.

Because the UK had a preferential agreement with the EU and a leadership position. It would be impossible to restore that state.

Even if there were a UK referendum where a clear majority voted to rejoin the EU as a member state, not at the top table, our return to the EU depends on the EU accepting our application. We burned a lot of bridges on exit that we need to rebuild.

And also the favourite party to win in the next election is spearheaded by the very people who orchestrated Brexit. The EU will not be receptive while it seems that a majority of people are still voting for an anti-EU party.

The sensible course for rejoining is to work towards Schengen or similar, while acting as a partner state in good faith for a decade or two.

More like “we won, don’t mention it”

It was recently the 10-year anniversary of the Brexit vote. Not a single firework.

Turnout was about 72%, so really it was (approx) Leave 37%, Remain 35%, Don’t Know/Care 28%.

Also worth pointing out that the hard Brexit we got, where we left Schengen and abandoned much of our cross-European programmes, was almost unthinkable, and not seriously considered by the media. Whenever it was brought up, it was decried as “project fear” by those who pushed for it.

Adversity forces a scientific budget and for jobs to be created in related research areas. For some reason we don’t find it important to maintain that level of funding when there’s no adversity.

They are cheaper, that’s why in most of the world, datacentres are being built where there’s copious solar or wind power.

The problem is that they need full power 24/365.

“There's no body. NOBODY. There's nobody in the study.”

I’m not sure free will has anything to do with it.

If you don’t have enough upward velocity to escape earths gravity, hitting the ground is also inevitable.

Steam doesn’t need a AI disclosure label for things that are not player-facing IIRC.

This is true, but you don’t want people to bounce off the game immediately, so they have a bad time and refund it before giving it a proper go.

This can happen if they feel it’s easier or harder then expected.

What is ‘normal’ is unfortunately subjective and can mean a lot of different things to different people. Also often what is listed as ’hard’ is often normal, because most people will see ‘normal’ and decide they’re better than that and have a miserable old time.

Apples to oranges, I think. Blue Prince was self-funded and solo developed for much of its long development time. Publisher funding was sought to polish and market the game.

The developers in the article are taking about seeking upfront publisher funding for a small studio to develop the game with a much shorter time horizon. The publisher would likely need to invest much more, but would take a much greater percentage of revenue, and with an established franchise like Myst and a team of veteran devs the risk is - in theory - lower.

That’s a weird value to get funding for right now.

If a publisher wants to fund something cheap and niche, maybe a bit of a gamble, it’s too much.

If they want to fund a more fleshed-out title that is likely to succeed with a bit of marketing spend behind it, it’s almost too little.

So I think they might be right, they’re in a weird space that publishers don’t want to look at right now.

PCG is authored, its usage has intention.

> Because what loosened those patients’ grip on reality was prolonged exposure to a voice that sounded informed and assured, and always felt supportive and patient.

Elites have been surrounding themselves by Yes Men for centuries. Is this any different, I wonder, or has there always been such a psychosis?

Yes, but the testing bit is what makes it a scientifically-proven method and not a folk remedy.

There are also a lot of folk remedies that have been disproven as medicine. They too were ‘common sense.’

This is a misunderstanding of how scientific research works, why it is done and how it is done. Reducing the number of people who can do science will not pay off in the long run.

The purpose of hiring grad students isn’t to advance science, it’s to train experts.

In a thread talking about the Dunning-Kruger effect, no less

My favourite theory is that the climate crisis is stressful to think about, reducing its impact requires everyone to make sacrifices, and there’s a lack of control over the situation.

People will be inclined to latch on to anyone making an alternative suggestion: it’s a hoax, it will all be fine, the real problem is those people making you make sacrifices. It’s a relief to think that way, because the alternative is harrowing. It’s an easy sell for populists who are willing to say anything to get votes.

See also Covid: it’s easier to think of it as some kind of hoax than parse the true horror of the situation. Someone comes along and says it’s far less bad than the news is reporting, that these solutions aren’t necessary. You don’t need to feel guilty that you want to break isolation, find masking uncomfortable and find the jab unpleasant, because it’s all made up.

The current trend is saturation. The current rate is over 4000 new games a month on Steam. The problem isn’t that great new games aren’t being released, it’s finding them.

I think it describes the methods needed to obtain and process a large amount of data in a field where getting a small amount of data is expensive and requires incredible hardware.

Bluntly, I think this just highlights why software engineering is not a serious engineering discipline. There are some exceptions, like safety-critical systems, but on the whole, software is not designed and developed with a rigor comparable to physical sciences.

You don’t need spinning reserve, but you do need enough reserve power that can supply grid-forming generation on demand.

Batteries can react fast enough to peaks and troughs in voltage load, so long as there are enough of them where needed. Grid-forming batteries can react to frequency fluctuations electronically.

Flywheels are another approach for grid stabilisation without a baseload.

It’s not an either-or.

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