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all of the text implies the opposite of the headline?

flickering lights are not "modern decor" but a broken (and possibly dangerous) appliance

Colors are a a continuous spectrum, yet we put them in a bunch of categories.

on the other hand 14 years of usage of a ~100$ device sounds ok. these days you need to be happy if things last more than a few months…

transportation is NOT "passenger cars"

while their children suffer

and (if there are too many of them) the rest of society

Most likely he will also help you if you file a Tech Support Incident with Apple.

cars are the leading source of carbon emissions.

WTF? cars are less than 7% and even including trucks we are barely around 11%. when you look at greenhouse effect instead of "just carbon", the percentages are even tinier.

If you are looking for leading sources of climate change look at electricity/heat, industry and agriculture.

just because (bad) politicians are always talking about cars when talking about climate it doesn't mean the are actually a meaningful component. it is smoke and mirros…

Many things are confused here. Why would you want to "own" media, physical or otherwise? What you actually want is

a.) to be able to use the media however you wish. no ownership is required, just download it b.) to give back to the content creator to thank for his creation. no ownership is required here either, you can send him money, go on a concert, etc

trying to merge those two points into one (=>purchase the media) is not necessarily the best way as you might end up with something you cannot properly use (DRM, etc) while not really giving that much to the creator anyway (90% for the label, wtf?)

All of the problems (high hood, bad visibility downwards) are fixed by sports cars and especially mid-engined and rear-engined sports cars. Plus, the brake distance is much lower.

No.

what is the evidence that being able to play games equates to AGI?

it seems if you want the same on macOS, this is the place to contribute:

https://github.com/Alien4042x/Wine-NTsync-Userspace-macOS-ba...

everything in germany's economy is going downhill, the troubles in their car industry is just one symptom (but not the cause)

I have fond memories of porting Cube, Sauerbraten and AssaultCube to the Mac back in the day. Given what i've seen from Wouter back in the day i am not surprised he is still on it full steam…

great article but the 44 tonne limit is not "physics", it is regulation. if an electric truck would be allowed to weigh 5 tonnes more all these calculations would be different.

trying to click on the link i got a "security verification" screen.

i aborted after 5 seconds of waiting.

that Bitcoin is a stable source of value

no sane person could have ever held that notion - there is no underlying value.

Spain basically does not do the required maintenance:

https://www.reuters.com/world/spains-deadly-rail-accidents-p...

on around 300 days per year i see a "severe weather alarm" on the iPhone Weather app, although nothing at all is happening, completely ridiculous.

does it include the breaths you take during coding? best if you can specify your lung volume and breaths per minute!

good explanation and i also wondered why many of the CGI effects today are so unbelievably bad - and worse than decades ago.

it still doesn't explain why it is done:

• why do directors and producers sign off effects that are just eye-bleeding bad?

• using a realtime engine to develop the effects, doesn't preclude using some real render-pass at the end to get a nice result instead of "game level graphics". a final render-pass can't be that expensive that ruining the movie is preferred? if 20 years ago a render-farm could do it, it cannot cost millions today, can it?

meaning you could order from a good seller but get counterfeit products sent in by a shady one

why allow shady sellers in the first place?

it irks me more that they are super tiny low resolution. where are the originals?

no year goes by without Italy imposing random >100m€ fines for 2-3 american tech companies. whenever they need money, they just hit another one without care whether actual laws were violated. the amount they take has no correlation to what has been blamed, only to how much the companies can afford to pay without threatening to leave the country.

the 'Guardia di Finanza' has a long standing tradition of trying to extort money without regards to actual laws. its not long ago that they told all companies 'if you pay X% more than your tax report says you own then we won't destroy your company'. more recently they went after the Agnelli family trying to extort money without having an actual case.

its not the rule of law, its simply Might makes Right or modern robber knights...

Can you link to a study backing this up?

I'd say most professional athletes are less intelligent than average…

google results were already 90% SEO crap long before ChatGPT

just use Kagi and block all SEO sites...

It needs to be stopped.

forcing germans to buy everything at 10 times of what it costs now is not the way to rescue the country

Manufacturing in Germany is dying

no surprise given the high taxes, extreme energy prices, massive bureaucracy, ridiculous regulations, work-hating employees and extremely business-hostile culture

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