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  • Probably more war:

    1. Depending on the country who developed it, the risk of nuclear war could go up.

    If I don't have to worry about nuclear retaliation, maybe I'm very confident in engaging in war. After all, my nukes will still work, and everyone else's won't.

    1. If the technology is shared equally to all countries at the same time, the risk of conventional war could go up.

    Imagine the nuclear armed countries who are enemies of another nation with a bigger military. North Korea vs USA, Pakistan vs India. In these cases, nuclear weapons are a deterrence against the stronger opponent. Without this, the country with a stronger conventional force may be more likely to they think they'll win a war unscathed.

  • every single time I’ve gotten past the first round I am rejected for someone who was recommended internally/someone with job experience

    Sounds like unfortunate timing. Unfortunately, there's no way to know how far along in the hiring process other people might be, so sometimes you're interviewing for a job that's right about to be filled by someone else. My only advice on that side would be to make sure to be responsive to recruiters and try and get your interviews scheduled quickly.

    Getting to first-round interviews is a good sign, especially with so much of the interview process being sloppified by AI tools. Your resume is catching eyes and someone thinks you're worth talking to. Give yourself some credit then: you've set yourself up for success. The beginner career market is always going to have tough competition, so getting your resume on the desk of a real human is very important.

    My only other advice would be to focus on getting past those first interviews, and that might require you to examine your shortcomings on that stage. Are you failing the coding challenge? Find opportunities to practice and improve. Are you failing technical questions? There are github repos with common interview questions (eg "Tell me the difference between private and protected keywords in C++"). If you're failing while talking about your technical/school experience, find some time to refine your thoughts and practice selling your strengths.

    The more times you get past introductory interviews, the more chances you have to be the first candidate who "checks all the boxes". Sometimes that's all it takes.

    • Dunmer inhabitants of Vvardenfel generally dislike foreigners, so there's a base level of racism whenever the player interacts with them (even as a Dunmer yourself, you're too cosmopolitan for them)
    • Slavery (plantations and mines) is the driving economic force on Vvardenfel. There is extra racism when the player is a Khajit or Argonian
    • Everyone lives under a stagnant theocracy
    • One faction, the Telvanni, are powerful wizards who ignore the government and believe that might makes right

    All of these mean that there's a certain subset of players who are into this ancap racist stuff IRL and get excited by "roleplaying" Dunmer racism on Reddit threads and the like.

    But for any normal person, these are just aspects of a setting that make for interesting conflict and stories. It's such a great game, and OpenMW is the best way to play it.

  • I prefer to call for food because it guarantees that the restaurant (which I presumably like) will get all of the money I spend on food.

    Nearly all of those online ordering platforms take a cut from whatever they facilitate. Sometimes that means prices are more expensive online, or sometimes it's the same price on my receipt but less money for the restaurant.

    And I'm not sure what your point about minimum wage workers is. Normally it's already someone's job to talk to customers and enter their order in a system.

  • Bought an eBike last weekend because I'd rather be soaked by rain than sitting in traffic to/from work. It feels damn good to finally be the person in an otherwise empty bike lane, passing countless cars that are going nowhere.

  • I'm not going to say "Don't learn gentoo next" but if you're already well versed in Nix or setting up a base arch install, I feel like the only thing Gentoo will teach is "How long does it really take to compile Firefox from source?"

  • Not a Polish film, but Hard to be a God (2013) is that.

    It's a 3hr B&W Russian film about futuristic scientists who are living on a medieval planet to study it. Everything is disgusting, claustrophobic, and filthy (the main character is a germophobe). As he watches a fascist theocracy take control of the kingdom, the protaginist wrestles with whether or not to get involved.

  • M1 Abrams: Requires an advanced economy plus an army of General Dynamics contractors for maintenance

    Trebuchet: Can be completely repaired by one hammer-wielding villager

    Plus, I assume that tanks count as a cavalry archer unit, which means any old monk can start converting them. Meanwhile trebuchets can't be converted until your enemy researches redemption at the monastery.

  • A division by zero is incalculable. On computers, this is sometimes represented by a special value NaN, which stands for "Not a number".

    So we could be NaNs? Although a few Anglo countries use Nan to refer to a grandmother.

    Another benefit: NaN implies a kind of freedom. To quote from the cult 60's show The Prisoner: "I am not a number, I am a free man"

  • It was a giant open-plan office and there were only 1-2 people constantly vaping, so I didn't smell much. It was quiet though, so it could be easily heard.

    Everyone else did the right thing and smoked/vaped on the roof every hour. Any why wouldn't you? It's a guaranteed break away from your crummy desk.

  • In my anecdotal experience, French people vape a shitload.

    I had French coworkers who vaped nonstop in the Paris office. You could hear the click of the heating element every few minutes. I've also seen old French ladies ripping from huge tricked out vapes.

  • At my last job, there was no planning of work/projects. Like, there was a general plan of "We need feature X by Q3 and here's what it should do", but nothing about breaking work down into smaller units or prioritizing different tasks.

    The manager would drop an email: "Hey, can you do ...." and that was it. Now it's another thing to throw down the waterfall. Big surprise, the same bastard would harp about how the project was underperforming!

  • It's probably using WebView, or whatever it's called where an android app brings up a browser window. If you have Firefox as your default web browser, apps will use it instead of chrome. It's usually pretty nice, because if you have adblock in Firefox you also get adblock in the app.

    It's possible that the sign-in webpage wants to talk to the camera before returning control to the app.

  • If it's trying to talk to a device over Bluetooth or USB, it's not supported in Firefox. Mozilla refuses to implement WebUSB because they think the danger of letting people accidentally flash malware onto a physical device outweighs the benefits.