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doikor
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It is actually quite well optimised. It is one of the best looking video games ever made. Maxing everything means enabling path tracing which is a massive performance hit. Basically to do that you need a 4090 or a cheaper 40xx card and use
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Yes "garden leave" is one option. But also you did sign the NDA which still applies even after you no longer work for the company. Though most people working in tech work on such mundane things that their workplace really doesn&#x
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Yeah term of notice is a different thing which you can work around of with severance packages. Terms of notice in Finland change a bit based on position/field but in general (might be off by a year here an there but in general 6 months
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> What incentives do you have to keep putting in any effort? Your paycheck? You can still be fired on the spot if you are not doing your job. Though it might require a warning depending on the jurisdiction. > Aren't you in a weir
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It limits what plugins/extension can do. For example Firefox on iOS doesn’t support plugins at all and thus you can’t use the same Adblock you would use on desktop (unlock origin)
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> is there any law preventing showing the pre-tax price also? In the EU the receipt must show what amount of the price was VAT. This is so that companies can deduct the VAT in taxation (basically only the final consumer of the product&#x
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Vietnam isn’t that bad these days (it could be way better). Nobody is blocking you from moving away or starting your own business. And while it isn’t a democracy there is some freedom to do what you want (outside of openly criticising the g
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I think it depends on what people mean by lucky. I doubt he would have gotten to 45k/month if lives in North Korea (or many other terrible dictatorships) even if he did just as much hard work. Or maybe just have bad luck/genes and
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3y ago
Why should EU give preference to Linux over any other operating system? A much more EU "style" directive would be to force the companies to release enough of the specs so anyone can write the driver if they want to.
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3y ago
Usually this means that it is a street legal car that is/was sold to the public. In modern times this also means that it went through crash testing so modern production cars have much larger production runs to offset the costs of that
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3y ago
Can’t you just dilute it with more sea water? Basically before releasing it back mix it with sea water at 1:10 or 1:100 ratio and it should not make that much of a difference. And make the outlet pipe quite far away from the inlet directly
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Ice is fine. These and other planes routinely land on icy runways in Finland and all over the world. You do need to take that into account for the length of the runway needed. For snow you just use a snowplow. The same thing you used to kee
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It is also cheaper both to buy and operate.
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> there will only be a few of these highway airstrips In Finland there is hundreds of them of various levels of preparedness while we only have 4 actual air force bases. Some of them have nice extra wide tarmac, bunkers hidden in the for
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Planes in Finnish airbases are stored in hardened bunkers deep in the bedrock. There really isn't much outside of a direct nuclear hit that would take out the planes. Though without a runway getting them back into air is going to be r
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> 2) when you buy for a group. You may not have everyone's ID on hand at once, and it makes it harder for honest friends to get tickets together. You don't need to sit together at PAX. Have a day or two window to assign the nam
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I think it also has a lot to do with it being much easier to actually play the sport/game. When the pros are not playing you can just play yourself. With football/etc playing the game in a proper competitive setup is quite the has
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MOBAs are from the 90s. But yes the terms are from RTS games (MOBAs started as custom maps to starcraft) Aeon of Strife being the first one from 1998.
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Dota players play/watch Dota. Similar thing also applies to country strike players. At least this is the experience in my circle of friends. Got a couple friends who have pretty much only played Dota (or CS) for the last 15+ years and
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> Doesn’t seem like much more of an advantage than people yelling things at baseball players? The baseball equivalent would be the crowd knowing signals between the pitchers and catcher and yell them out so the batter always know what pi
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They don't cancel well enough. You can still hear some noise. You probably can't identify what it is but it is enough of a signal to react to (spoiling your surprise play/ambush)
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Now try to hire 20 level designers and 5 engineers who know how to work with your engine/tools. Same applies to most software. It isn't that hard to make a new programming language or a http framework. But once you make one findin
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In general one very rarely upgrade engines after release. Even during development you usually don't upgrade if there isn't a new feature in the new version you really need. Really it is only an issue for new projects and at that p
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Except that is what the Unreal Engine license allows you to do https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/unreal > 2. How You Can Use the Licensed Technology > Epic grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable,
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Yes you can. You just can't redistribute the source to anyone else but using it internally for your own projects to build executable that you share (and sell as long as you pay the royalties to Epic) is fine. The last UE3 game released
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> Epic is a multi-billion dollar corporation part owned by a massive conglomerate. More then 50% of the shares/votes is owned by a single person. The founder and CEO Tim Sweeney.
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> In some countries, the government sends out a tax bill as if it's a fait accompli and the poor citizens just have to take it. I highly doubt this happens in any working democracy. What the government does in those countries is ju
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The 100V low end is there due to Japan.
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That future generation can dig it out if they need it.
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> In a few decades after filling that place in It won't be filled until the last nuclear reactor is closed. With current plan that is 60 years from now (or 80/100 depending on extensions for OL3). It is actually a bit more then
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