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by qwytw 3y ago
> So how is it possible the tires are losing significantly more tread (and as a consequence, polluting more) but also lasting a long time? Sorry, I probably phrased it in a confusing way, I was comparing the ratio between tire/brake
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by qwytw 3y ago
> For the record EV use 99% regenerative braking so at least that source is practically zero 99% or "practically zero" are hugely overexaggerated claims but yes it's an improvement > Really, really, don't let perfe
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by qwytw 3y ago
Yeah, my argument is mainly about pollution in inner cities/densely populated areas (where just switching to EV certainly does not go far enough)
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by qwytw 3y ago
EVs are not the solution for that, brake and tire wear contribute to as much or more PM2.5 and 2-3 times more PM10 pollution than modern ICEs . Also while there will be some improvement it will be possibly partially outweighed by the fact t
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by qwytw 3y ago
> "heavy loud polluting traffic" in the city. yeah, that's great but.. Modern engines are already pretty "clean", significant proportion (if not the majority?) of PM 2.5 and PM 0.1 particles come from breaks and
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by qwytw 3y ago
> I believe Greek replaced it I think that was only the case in urban areas and/or amongst the more educated upper and middle classes. Syriac and other Aramaic languages were still widespread amongst local Christian population well
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by qwytw 3y ago
> The Israelite accent is quite similar You mean modern Hebrew speakers?
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by qwytw 3y ago
So they actually cancelled their subscriptions and/or stopped development of their current games? What proportion of all developers did that? > As an employee at Unity I don't think they are even remotely close to being as tran
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by qwytw 3y ago
> _not_ in the TOS! It's a side-channel communication/agreement I never implied it was otherwise. However if we look at their TOS from 2019 (the time of this blog post) they do have this: > if the Updated Terms adversely im
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by qwytw 3y ago
Are you talking about the Nord Stream pipeline blown up last year? Because this specific pipeline has nothing to do with Russia. The opposite, it connects Finland to the Baltic States which have a pipeline with Poland and then the rest of E
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by qwytw 3y ago
Steam games don't have scary dialogs. Neither do apps distributed directly by third parties as long as they are signed etc. (you just need the $100/300 per year apple dev. account for that).
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by qwytw 3y ago
Yeah, I was talking about retroactive changes of course (and not changes for future versions). Their founder/CTO (who seems to be MIA these days) published this back in 2019: https://blog.unity.com/news/updated-ter
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by qwytw 3y ago
It's much cheaper and faster (at least on the web frontend) so if you don't need high accuracy/have simple tasks/etc. and have a lot of data it's probably a better option than 4.0
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by qwytw 3y ago
Unless model size/computing cost grows at the same pace or faster. As cool as GPT 3.5 seemed when it came out it's horribly inadequate compared to 4.0 for many use cases so I doubt we'd be content using current models in 3 ye
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by qwytw 3y ago
> It constantly invalidates its own technology every 2-3 years I'm not sure about that. Unity itself is not at all a particularly modern engine (just like most engines being iterations of something designed in the 00s or early 10s)
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by qwytw 3y ago
> which means the opportunities are also great there Opportunities to spend significant amounts of time working on tooling and other engine features (with a non insignificant likelihood of still ending up with something inferior to Unity
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by qwytw 3y ago
> I think we both agree that small indie studios will not be returning Why are you so certain that a significant proportion of them even left in the first place?
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by qwytw 3y ago
> They may have only 10 staff, but easily make 50 mil a year Considering Unity's previous pricing model (per seat) it really didn't matter that much whether their client made 5, 10 or 50 mil unless they massively increased thei
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by qwytw 3y ago
It would've had to have been an extremely different game though. F2P P2W shovelware games are designed as such from the ground up. You can't just add micro-transactions to a normal (especially story driven) game and hope to make s
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by qwytw 3y ago
> It's conjecture Just like the entire staircase argument? Except that we actually know that: > Frankly, if you find yourself in this position the castle is probably already lost. Was true in almost all cases.
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by qwytw 3y ago
The event has to occur relatively frequently for that slight advantage to become statistically noticeable. Direct assaults on castles with hand-to-hand combat occurring in stairwells were extremely rare as far as we know.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Because it's a multi-purpose utility knife that can also optionally be mounted on a rifle? Having a knife might be useful in various situations even outside combat as far as I know.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Chrome, when it came, was stupidly faster than any other competitor Wasn't it just using WebKit initially? IIRC you could actually use Safari on Windows back then.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Idk if you are aware but this means physical surveillance on everyone, because with Tor you can't narrow this stuff geographically. Would you rather to be physically surveilled. Presumable the content is actually produced at some
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by qwytw 3y ago
> How you consider this not comparable in privacy invasiveness? How is that comparable to having access to someone's personal communication? What's so particularly private about the 'inside' of anyone's body? Phy
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by qwytw 3y ago
PN 2.5 data is also pretty bad https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2023/...
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Serfs were not one thing. Well yeah, never implied they were. That comment was a reply to a specific claim about serfdom being a relationship which might have been beneficial to both sides. That certainly wasn't the case by the 18
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by qwytw 3y ago
> owners did not provide services Maybe they did in the initial period or in case by case basis. Initially serfdom (in the Roman empire) was a somewhat voluntary contract individuals chose to enter into. When serfdom became an entrenched
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Food is significantly cheaper Only when eating out (if you're comparing to Northern Germany).
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by qwytw 3y ago
According to this one which shows (PM2.5 instead of PM10 though) county level data it's still pretty bad even in remote areas https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2023/... Especially co

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