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15 years ago people would've called it spyware.

The EU parliament has 720 representatives (at the moment 719, one seat is vacant apparently), so 113 representatives didn't show up for the vote. The absolute majority would've been reached with 361 votes.

If it has been transmitted via hollow-core fibres it will obviously sound hollow.

You don't get double taxed, you get taxed on your salary and your company gets taxed on whatever profit remains after paying salaries.

we completely miss out on what's happening in our own local area.

Almost every larger city has a more or less active subreddit these days, on platforms like Twitter you can look what people post with a city name tag. And then there are Mastodon and Lemmy/Piefed with instances for geographic regions.

Almost all of these immediate mode UI libraries for C/C++ come without a rendering backend. Usually there are "example" implementations for libraries like SDL that you can use, or you implement your own backend. A lot of these libraries are popular for debug UIs in games and you probably need a custom backend for whatever graphics engine you use in your game.

I implemented a very rudimentary copy of it at https://fac3.org/slingshot.html

Drag on the red circle to set angle and velocity, let go to launch it, try to hit the green circle, avoid the blue circles (planets with gravity). To try again hit "r" or reload the page to create a new random set of planets. Doubt it works at all on mobile, only tested it in desktop firefox.

Reminds me a little of an old game called Slingshot[0], I think it implemented the idea much better as you actually had to slingshot and consider gravity. Someone should turn it into a browser game, would be much more fun than this.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/slingshot-game/

Probably not possible. Their Wi-Fi access point is inside the capsule, the capsule is made from metal and probably shielding the signal somewhat. Maybe even quite a lot if it's intended to provide some radiation shielding. Also it's low power as it only needs to work inside the capsule, at the given distances signal attenuation will make it almost impossible to pick up anything.

I would take low voter turnout more as indifference than as lack of enthusiam. To take the parking fee for SUVs example, I would assume a lot of people affected by it and complaining about it aren't even living in Paris, so they can't vote against it.

Considering that Korean is an SOV language it would've been interesting to see that factor into the design of this programming language.

I wouldn't call Android user hostile. What makes most Android phones user hostile is Google Play Services.

Which isn't easy considering they explode tin droplets in the machine. I think that's the point the other commenter wanted to make.

Especially in autumn and winter.

The largest "but" is that they only look at electricity generation, not energy in general. There's a lot of heating with natural gas and of course most cars still have internal combustion engines which burn petrol or diesel.

But that only works if you already know the exact movement and you basically end up playing a film on the background screen walls. You can't change anything of this on set anymore. Using real-time rendering with Unreal or whatever gives you more flexibility in exchange for visual quality.

Carbon tax is not about offsetting emissions, it's about disincentivising fossil fuels.

Announcements in English aren't done for every station. Usually only for central stations and airports.

Airbus would have been a terrible idea: no one had built commercial airliners before, and only the US had the know-how.

That's just plain false, Airbus started as a cooperation between a lot of european aerospace companies, which had different a lot of know-how in different fields. For example Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale, now Airbus) was the French part of the Concorde, they also had the Caravelle.

I would use "sei" instead of "lass" for "let" to be more in line with notation in mathematical proofs.

Imports being slow is annoying, but only matters to short running code.

It's two different computers with different CPUs, so different runtimes are expected and has nothing to do with the OS.

Framework laptop running Ubuntu Linux 24.04 (Intel Core i5 CPU)

Mac laptop running macOS Sequoia (M2 CPU)

What is done when electricians power down the apartment or worse, the building to work on something?

Well, I hope that any competent electrician will measure if there's still any voltage on the circuits after pulling the breakers.

Lithography is one of many steps, but probably the most important one. You use it to expose a photoresist to create a mask for further processing. After exposing the photoresist you need to develop it, remove either the exposed or unexposed photoresist. The remaining photoresist then is the mask and you either etch or dope the surface that is not covered by the mask or you deposit material on top. And then you need to remove the mask and start all over again for the next layer. The high water usage comes from repeatedly needing to clean the surface to remove chemicals and photoresist.

For submarine cables there are two things here. The first is lower attenuation which allows for fewer amplifiers along the route making it overall cheaper. The second is lower latency. There have been cases where high frequency trading people went wireless to get lower latency because of the higher propagation speed of EM-waves in air. For really long distances you can go theoretically use satellite links to get lower latency than a submarine cable even if the total distance increases.

No, at least in Erlang a variable is assigned once, you can then match against that variable as it can't be reassigned:

    NotFound = 404,
    case Status of
        NotFound -> "Not Found";
        _ -> "Other Status"
    end.

I'm currently using a Mac for private stuff, used to use Linux for work stuff, currently forced to use Windows. My font rendereing ranking is MacOS > Linux > Windows.

And what part of watching japanese videos in japanese makes superior?

Bilingual people exist and the AI translation YouTube currently uses sounds very unnatural and destroys everything that isn't voice.

It's c, but not the same c as in air or vacuum. The same applies in optic fibers. They're both around two thirds of the speed of light in vacuum.

(I had ChatGPT fix my grammatical errors and now this comment doesn't sound like me, sorry.)

And it didn't correct "distrupted" to disrupted?