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Like Haskell's (unofficial) motto, "Avoid success at all costs". Depending on circumstance, that should be read as "(Avoid success) at all costs" or "Avoid (success at all costs)". We're mostly in the latter condition I think, with only a couple of things (such as DMs) being shoddy enough that success should be avoided.

Hey, now, Stellaris is the true atrocity simulator.

The criteria as set out in the treaties is to be "a European country", what "European" means has been deliberately left open. Geography is at best a secondary factor.

Having Pratchett as a surname surely gets your foot into the door but it doesn't get you short-listed. Her track record does that.

True nepotism would be her getting hired by someone because the hiring company wants to get into good graces with her father so he'll bestow them some boon. That won't work for reasons ranging from Terry not having that kind of power over him not being that kind of asshole to him being dead.

The reason I quit Catalyst early was the insane loading times. The game just doesn't play right when you're too afraid of making mistakes.

Story-wise the original is perfectly adequate, I'd say even good. You can't put too much story in that kind of game, it's much more about the vibes and unlike say Doom you can't hide lore in the environment either, investigating that would destroy the overall gameplay flow. It's a well-paced game, but the quiet parts aren't still the quiet parts is when the running is easy and straight-forward. Ideally, you never stop, and the points where you have to stop (elevators) are orchestrated to make you feel restless.

Yeah that was the time where maliciously maligning creeds was made a criminal offence, to stop Lutheran and Catholic preachers alike from inciting people, and religious freedom codified. Fast forward 400 years and Americans are telling us that we're limiting free speech with that kind of thing while basing their identity on the theocracies of New England which they founded because England wouldn't let them oppress people at home.

We did not send our best, and it hasn't gone uphill since. The US slept through the whole Age of Enlightenment. There's some trappings, sure, and their revolution certainly quoted it a lot, but try to find a trace of Kant anywhere in the US. Just consider the US's insistence on a punitive criminal system (instead of rehabilitatory) in the light of the Categorical Imperative. Who, in any sensible state of mind, would consider inflicting suffering to be a desirable universal law.

The more recession, the more bankrupt millionaires, the more billionaires will be able to gobble up, the higher the chances (now former) millionaires realise that they have more in common with burger flippers than with billionaires.

No way around accelerationist logic when the system is launching itself against a wall and the bureaucrats responsible for system inertia to work against that are running around like headless chicken.

Tariffs will increase until sanity improves. We (that is, the EU) certainly aren't going to back down from a trade war.

No. Stop projecting.

Yes. Like I did by telling you to do that instead of preaching from the pulpit, you're starting to get it.

First comes fodder, then morals. When will US libs understand that. How does it feel there, up on your high horse, telling the pedestrians to stop wearing leather boots they should be vegans?

Try calling for solidarity instead of attacking people for wanting what's due to every human by sole virtue of being human. Food, shelter, those things aren't wishes of someone trying to deny the same to others.

note: “Europe” here refers to imported European culture in America

Yeah I was already wondering it's not like actual Europeans get defensive about our influence. There's nothing European about WASP(ish) culture, they're about as European as chuds with Greek statute avatars are Greek: It's a fetish, a signifier to dangle around in front of one set of people to consider themselves superior, and then hide when they're facing the Old Continent proper, then it's "Europoor", "we pay for your healthcare", whatnot. It's a culture which refuses to recognise itself, and thus is forced to define itself in opposition to others, for doing otherwise would imply acknowledging that the cultural highlight of the year, what everyone is talking about for days and weeks on end, what unifies them as a people, are the ads during superbowl. When pressed, then, you point their mind, deliberately or not, to address the question "are you actually European", and of course they'll get defensive you're attacking the charade surrounding the core of their identity. If I were pressed to describe that kind of culture in a single sentence I would choose a single word: Alienation.

And I still can't find a phone that has a replaceable battery, proper IP rating, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg, alternatively, costs thrice as much as the potato display and CPU would warrant. You can get two of the things, but not all three. I won't even begin to speak of having an unlocked bootloader, or, while having the rest in place, also a flush camera. FFS I'd be fine with no camera I just don't want a hump. I'd be fine with 720p, it's a tiny screen after all, but good contrast and not 8k doesn't seem to be a thing that companies think anyone would be interested it.

Stop fucking innovating, just apply lessons already learned. Design a phone with the mindset of designing a bottle opener.

Ireland is luring the EU subsidiaries of those companies to Ireland by being, in comparison to other EU countries, a tax haven. Luxembourg does something similar, that's where e.g. Amazon is.

Without those policies US companies would still have EU subsidiaries as you need to have one to operate in the EU. And a lot more money would stay in the EU, instead of flowing to the US. In short: Trump is complaining that Ireland, to the benefit of US companies, is a traitor to the EU's tax offices.

I have no idea but this article includes a section. German manufacturers feared a tariff war and aren't as exposed to Chinese competition in the first place as unlike e.g. the French German companies aren't competing as much on the low-budget market.

Running vanilla linux on that kind of device is silly, kernel-wise android has very sensible features and ui-wise it's not even a competition.

Now, getting lineage (or similar) on a phone that doesn't cost an arm and a leg for comparatively potato hardware, like the Fairphone, that's another issue.

Or how about a steam deck with an m.2 slot for a cellular modem. Also, headset, because I'm not going to hold that thing to my ear. But still, android compatibility is an issue: The reason I even have a shoddy smartphone is to use things like public transit and package delivery apps.

They started the whole thing. They invented and implemented a whole programming language to implement the thing. Then they integrated Stylo (Servo's CSS engine) and a couple smaller bits into Firefox which made it a hell a lot faster. Then they set Rust free and shelved Servo because from the perspective of Firefox going forwards with rewriting more in Rust would've been a lot of investment for diminishing returns. Stylo was the big one, enabling before unseen parallelism in rendering.

Servo, even with FSFE funding, still has ways to go. Ladybird, I wonder why they even bother. If they want a C++ browser engine that hasn't been touched by big money then there's KHTML, Webkit/Chromium's direct ancestor. There's a reason KDE dropped development: It wasn't worth the effort. Qt wasn't willing to pick it up either.

Quoth Article 8:

1. Where point (a) of Article 6(1) applies, in relation to the offer of information society services directly to a child, the processing of the personal data of a child shall be lawful where the child is at least 16 years old.
   Where the child is below the age of 16 years, such processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that consent is given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility over the child.
   Member States may provide by law for a lower age for those purposes provided that such lower age is not below 13 years.
2. The controller shall make reasonable efforts to verify in such cases that consent is given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility over the child, taking into consideration available technology.
3. Paragraph 1 shall not affect the general contract law of Member States such as the rules on the validity, formation or effect of a contract in relation to a child.

The referenced point (a) is in the conditions for data processing to be lawful:

the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

In essence: The age of consent is 16 when it comes to your personal data. A completely different question is whether lemm.ee even processes personal data, even more so in a matter that requires consent. Because unless you doxx yourself lemm.ee knows nothing more about you than your IP and, presuming best practices, only keeps limited logs around for strictly technical purposes which don't need consent. That point (a) is only one condition under which personal data can be processed, there's also b, c, d, e, and f.

...not that I'm saying that the legal notice is bad it's good. It's overzealous and overcautious going beyond the letter of the law and event intent, reaching into the fabled realms of actually giving a fuck. Like, if the law says "assault is bad" then this notice is saying "please all cuddle, ok?"

I guess Bookchin would be a good start. And then some western-compatible Zen, like Peter Ralston. Be sure to trace that stuff back also through your own culture because none has really forgotten it, it's just been suppressed, before you go all "grass is greener on the other side" and try, often in vain, to adopt foreign forms while you could just as well realise what you already have and put fuel on that ember.

Not a matter of instruction set, though. Current RISC-V designs are built from scratch by companies pretty much doing their first chip and/or design studios out of the microcontroller space, if say AMD would spend a year slapping a RISC-V insn decoder onto their existing designs that shit would fly.

I guess of the big performance vendors Quallcomm will be first, they have a bone to pick regarding ARM licensing.

There's also a lot of efficiency in hardware-specific kernels. A generic rocm build vs. one with hand-written kernels (not even for the proper card just a close enough one to have the same instructions) is like a 10x performance drop. That's on the matrix multiply up to convolve these tensors level, on the layer above that you then have things like smart memory management and scheduling as well as minimising how much work needs to be done in the first place (re-ordering operations so tensors stay small) and stuff.

You can port cuda code to vulkan or opencl -- but you're going to have to reimplement all of that. Just getting the BLAS layer to not suck is a challenge.