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"Next they will want scans of my photo ID and a picture of me holding the ID next to my face with a timestamp."
Is this a bad think? F2P games are more lottery than video games. There would be statistics how many kids play it. In the best case scenario this would result in regulation of those practices.
On the other hand consuming huge amounts of face masks generates a lot of emissions which will have negative effect in future. The question is if those measures are actually net positive in case of influenza or we just kill more people later by air pollution and climate change.
I think they lost/overgrown competition. Other IDEs started to loose development speed and newer programs like sublime, atom and vscode are not comparable (they are more like improved vim + plugins experience than heavyweight IDE).
I have switched to clion from eclipse CDT in 2018 (because of missing support for newer C++ standards) and never looked back (tried vscode but its UI is not customizable at all). Later I have subscribed for all product pack as I have projects in multiple languages (personal license is quite cheap especially with discount for long term customers).
The only think I hate about jetbrains IDEs is their licensing. It is not possible to have all features in one project:
* idea ultimate has plugins for everything except native (support is limited without debuger etc.)
* clion has plugins for native but limited plugins for everything else (pycharm community, limited JS support, no big data tools for kafka etc.)
I work on python project with some parts being C++ modules and I have to switch between IDEs for one project to have all features.
I do not want to defend cheating but I see 2 big issues which promotes this behavior.
1. Course was created to scale so cheating is super easy and harder to spot without side channel (common pool of multiple choice questions).
Author fixed this, which deserves huge thumbs up. Also making course more interesting is great and I would love if all teachers reflected this. Punishing students without changing course would probably did not solve anything.
2. Technical course students have zero clue about technology they use but they completely trust it.
It looks like they do not care about learning how thinks work. Probably they are there just for a degree. Imagine hiring someone like that, freshly from college, without experience and not willing to learn anything.
I do not think that it is that easy. It is more like Russia does not respect international law so they will be cut from world economy as soon as it is possible.
Sanctions cannot stop this war unless they will lead to coup or state collapse (both are unlikely in near future). Sanctions put pressure on Russian elites and together with foreign aid also probably will prevent Russian victory in Ukraine.
I hope that no one is so stupid to resume business with Russia if they end the war quickly. They need to completely change their mindset from imperialism first. Otherwise it is similar to doing business with North Korea.
This time their foreign currency reserves are frozen in banks around the world. They will have to carry gold to China.
Do not worry, they still have a lot of homemade vodka.
Actually real attack on Kiev have not started yet. Ukrainians probably deliberately let Russian army to get close to the Kiev and than destroyed all supply convoys for Russian vehicles.
I have this info from one of the journalist who were close to Belarus border in the beginning of the invasion. First he wrote article about how hopeless situation is because he rode a few hours to Kiev before seeing first defense. But after two days all the attacks on Kiev stopped so it probably was smart strategy to make supply lines too long to defend them. Even on Monday he reported that only shelling he saw was from Ukrainian army.
I doubt that China would pay the same price. They will use it to get discount.
Distribution in the country is not the problem (look what "Medecins sans frontires" do). Mostly 3rd world countries do not have medical standards as high as in first world so you can instruct taxi drivers how to jab people and give them trunk full of vaccines and they will empty it in the same day without problems. And it will be still safe enough as those vaccines are applied to muscles.
I think it is the problem of supply and demand because EU and even more US* are making vaccines way more expensive.
* EU is buying vaccines together to not compete for price between states but the price is probably way higher than African countries can pay. Imagine the whole world teamed up together and vulnerable people would be vaccinated at the same time before young healthy people as it is done now in EU.
Totally agree. I am 30 and already got 2 jabs. I will probably need to get 3rd in less than 6 months to be able to normally live (covid pass in Europe). Risk to person of my age is low even without vaccine. I got myself vaccinated only to help the society (and to get covid pass) but I do not feel that I am helping if they are wasting vaccines on people like me instead of sending them to people who actually need them. It is sad that this is official EU policy to require re vaccination of young people (official recommendation to member states is that vaccine is effective for 9 months for all ages).
Not to mention that climate in central Europe effectively stops virus from May to October so it will be way more efficient to vaccinate people in August and September.
It is archaic but not in all contexts. i.e. If you talk about 125 ccm motrbike, it is always "german" way. Also it is used for human age or dates.
German swapped numbers are also possible and correct in Czech language "sto sedmdesát pět" is the same as "sto pětasedmdesát".
I really like jetbrains academy courses[1]. Their subscription is quite expensive but some courses are free and they have 2 months free trial.
Courses are project based. You are doing some small programing project. You will learn both theoretical and practical knowledge to be able to successfully finish it. Their courses are integrated into jetbrains IDEs or you can use web version.
i.e. See projects from "python core track" https://hyperskill.org/tracks/2/projects
I have the same experience. I was locked at home playing games, gaining weight and loosing friends.
So I stopped playing games and started to live again. First I was not in the shape to meet people a lot. It was too exhausting to concentrate on them. So I started running and exercising regularly. It helped me cope with uncontrolled mind. Tiring myself physically really improved my mood and sleep. After half the year I felt so fit that it also boosted my self confidence. This also helped me to look attractive for other people. I stoped looking like nerd wasting time with games, but I started to look like fit guy full of energy ready for anything.
Computer games felt the same as medication. It did not help me to recover but it just helped me not feel shit about myself and kept me at the same place.
You can install ublock on mobile firefox too.
Murders or "abortions" in final stages of pregnancy were commonly used in China to enforce this policy. See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8923482/
I use gnome on desktop and I liked it. Keyboard shortcuts are the most important way to control desktop for me, I do not care if it is hard to control using mouse. I do not need hierarchic program menu, start button and lots of configuration dialogs.
It is true that some defaults are annoying and lots of configuration options are missing in GUI programs but it is still possible to configure basically everything using gsettings or gnome extensions (which I prefer over KDE style config).
I do not like some gnome apps (i.e. nautilus or gedit) but there are alternatives so no big problem there.
Even bigger problem than distrust is incompetence. The only think czech prime minister is good at is PR. He does not care about anything else . Also the most import quality for his colleagues or advisors is loyalty. So czechia is ruled by marketing experts and people which agree with anything prime minister says.
This new lockdown will not help at all. PM will see popularity loss in april so he will open the country too much and it will lead to another outbreak.
I have 10 years old samsung smart TV and use it with internet connection but I use firewall on my router to block access to samsung sites. It works perfectly, TV is not able to call home and I can use smart features. If I want to download new firmware it is easy to temporarily disable firewall rules. This is better solution than using 3rd party device as I do not trust them either. But I am not sure if this works for newer models too.
I have been in Helski half the year as erasmus student. I really liked it there except how long is dark in autumn and winter. I feel depressed every autumn 1000 km south from there so autumn in Helsinki was really rough experience for me.
If you want to be productive from home you need place where no one interrupts you. For a lot of people it means renting place where they can work. This basically shift costs for workplace from company to employee. I do not think that removing offices for solo work is good idea.
Winamp has way better user experience so if you do not need social features it is huge let down. Spotify app UX is so terrible. It is super hard to open play queue. Play queue is being filled with random stuff and there is no way to clear it. The only use case which works is random play of whatever spotify wants you to listen.
To implement scope guard you can use with statement and implement __enter__, __exit__ methods. It is not real RAII as object is not destroyed on exit but it is still quite useful.
It is easier for developer but risky for end user. Docker runs as root and you have to trust application developer to use latest security patches for all dependencies.
Try to use it for python or c++ and you will see the problem. I switched to clion as I work in node, python and c++. vscode python support is bellow average and c++ support is bad. clion works great for all those environments.
My biggest problem with vscode is lack of UI configuration. You can have only one panel which is huge waste on big screen. Some useful features compete for screen space (outline vs. project explorer, project explorer vs. debug window etc.). This makes me way less productive than using heavyweight configurable IDE.
I have 4K monitor on laptop and also as external monitor but I have no problem with linux (using debian testing with gnome 3). I can easily combine it with 1080p monitors. Everything works out of the box.
I still switched to 1440p as 4K is just better looking 1080p. You cannot fit more information on the screen with scaling and without scaling everything is too small. I work as backend developer so space is more important for me than visual quality.
Problem is that you rarely find good books this way so you have pile of books which are not worth reading. Determining which books are good takes a lot of time. This is reason I have stopped hoarding books from cheap or free sources. It is way better to download/buy/pirate books recommended on the internet than trying to find them myself.
You can disable it on your DNS server using canary domain [1]. Last time I checked it was already implemented in Pi-hole.
1) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...
I have checked Prague claims and it does not look like surveillance. It looks like plan to build system for traffic control in 2022. Source article does not say anything about surveillance.
Also source article is really incoherent I do not know what author tried to say maybe some vague claim about possible bribery? Those newspapers are owned by czech PM and he uses them to attack political opponents. I would not believe a word from them otherwise there is another source.
Prague is now ruled by Pirate party and they are against using cameras for surveillance. They stated it in November 2019 when police wanted to start using face recognition. I am not sure why they added Prague to the list.