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by gmueckl 2y ago
Any free, unregulated market will eliminate competitors until they create an oligopoly or even a single monopoly. It's an immediate consequence of the rules of the market.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
The government won't make things cheaper. The point of the regulation would be to actively encumbered the monopolist company and either give strong incentives to split up or make room for nimble competitors.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
This is all a result of a lack of active market regulation. The government needs to step in actively to keep a free market from collapsing into one of the natural end states. But the US has consistently been far too passive and accepts gre
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by gmueckl 2y ago
The fact that they plan to start in Texas makes me think that the whole thing is just the biggest pork barrel of all times.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
What about privatized utilities then? What prevents e.g. electricity or phone companies from shutting down when they don't like some rules? It's a little more nuanced than "all or nothing".
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Have a look at heptapost.host for paid hosting and foss.heptapod.net for free public hosting for OSS. Is that what you are looking for?
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by gmueckl 2y ago
It is the unquestioningly better tool right now. It's available, stable, battle-tested and it's actively supported. It's a case of "being the change you want to see". Just use it. Claims that it lost are counterpr
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Wasn't the hate because of a botched implementation that ended up spamming the original sender or something?
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Was the Linux port made by Loki Software by any chance? That shirt lived company did a lot to make Linux viable for gaming. They developed a bunch of new libraries to help with porting and open sourced them. SDL was one of them. Edit: OpenA
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Can't use the word "error" in corp speak. "Something unexpected happened." Or maybe just "Oops." Sometimes this extreme spin just makes me angry, to be honest.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Cynically, this feels like Corporate Messaging 101: don't ever admit that anything bad happened. Ignore it if you can. If you can't anymore, spin it into something positive at all costs. If it's bad news, be as vague and eup
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by gmueckl 2y ago
This spot in the Atacama desert isn't special for it's lack of light pollution alone. The sky is rarely, if ever covered in clouds or haze. And the temperature gradient in the air has a shape that prevents random atmospheric disto
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by gmueckl 2y ago
The closest unit I can think of right now was the SR-71's celestial navigation unit. I don't know how it worked internally, but it supposedly navigated the spy planes to targets across the globe before GPS existed.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
On the contrary, this project creates tremendous value for society because it is a way for people to upskill significantly in areas that would otherwise be very hard to get into. OS development is a domain where it is very hard to gain expe
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Would that matter in the end when it was fun and/or educational while it lasted?
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by gmueckl 2y ago
You still have to distinguish between hard, absolute facts which definitely exist and representations thereof in human language. The facts never change (the distance between Dallas and Houstom doesn't change while we are having this co
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Facts exist. Your first sentence has 11 words. Easy to verify, right? Doesn't matter who's counting. May I suggest that your confusion comes from a conflation between facts and generalizations. Hard facts exist in strictly defined
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by gmueckl 2y ago
What I think is going on here has to do with lousy game engine implementations: with modern graphics APIs you have to take extra steps beyond relying on the swapchain to avoid running ahead of the GPU for multiple frames. It's not obvi
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by gmueckl 2y ago
In the US, maybe. But other countries don't need to launder research money through their defense budgets.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Prebaked lighting is a rather crude approximation that only looks good in certain scenarios. Correct dynamic indirect lighting provides a much better integration between different scene elements and better spatial cues. Movable and static o
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by gmueckl 2y ago
I think this is because of how extremely cleverly they picked the art style for the game. You have a lot of diffuse surfaces for which prebaking the lighting just works. Overcast skies allow for diffuse ambient lighting rather than very dir
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by gmueckl 2y ago
These bills also had sizs that increased with their denomination.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
EU countries aren't forced to stick to the union. If they dislike EU decisions, they are free to leave and do their own thing at any time. This is very unlike US states that aren't allowed to secede from their union.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
I don't have answers for your questions. My wording is also imprecise. I only meant to say that I remember that the location of Turkey was used as an argument against starting membership negotiations when that was deliberated within th
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by gmueckl 2y ago
1. Yes, outside the areas where EU has sole responsibility. 2. Yes, within the areas where the EU has exclusive responsibility and to some extent when it shares responsibility with member states. 3. Yes. Any country is free to leave the EU
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by gmueckl 2y ago
I guess that one can find a political definition of Europe that is lax enough to justify inclusion of these countries if so motivated. Turkey is formally in (suspended) membership negotiations and a major discussion point was that most of i
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Factually, the claim of complete loss of sovereignty is just dead wrong. This list details the division of responsibilities between the EU and member states: https://commission.europa.eu/about/role/law/areas-e
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by gmueckl 2y ago
The rejection was expected. The EU and its associated organizations are only open to countries on the European continent by their current rules. Canada would have to broker a hell of a deal to get even partially in. EFTA membership might be
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by gmueckl 2y ago
So you see the point that governance on the level of the EU is needed! The current lawmaking process on the EU level is still too convoluted and there were some minor reforms already to straighten it out a little. If we keep honing it, we&#
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by gmueckl 2y ago
You can explicitly move old content to an archive and put big banners on it that it doesn't reflect current information. MS does an OK job of making it obvious that you're looking at documentation for an older product, for example

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