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Either those entities are registed as charities or they're not. From a quick google it seems they are, so Unity is (again) talking shit.

Dynamic pricing works for transport because people have little choice about when to travel, especially commuters. So you get cheaper pricing when there's less demand without everyone shifting their travel plans to save money.

Not sure if it'll work in a pub. I'll just go to a different one, or go at a different time.. there's no lock in, so dynamic pricing could actually cost the chain money as at the busiest times people simply go elsewhere.. and once you've lost the 'habit' of going to a place it's much harder for them to persuade you to go back.

'confusion'. Yeah, right. Not a single person was confused. You went for the cash grab and it blew up in your face.

Now you're going to go for slightly less cash grab and because it's 'better' and 'we listened' everyone is supposed to just accept it. Been here before..

That's pretty much what I do, spin up a container for anything I need to do and everything is within that.. once I've finished I blow the container away and all the dependencies go with it. Currently use proxmox as a frontend for that although I ran on the command line for ages before switching to a beefier server.

I do the same with docker - nest it in a container so everything is together (and also so it can't screw around with the host networking). eg. my lemmy container has the lemmy docker and its dependencies together.

You can control that using TC, also add latency and packet loss if you want. It's really powerful, although a bit difficult to learn.

Do we know yet if unity's plan won't work?

Games take 3-5 years to make.. you can't change engine mid-development so it'll literally be years before they see any negative impact - during which time they'll be making bank.

From their point of view that's a success.. shareholders care little about long term sustainability.

They can write what they like in the manifesto.. nobody believes they'd actually do any of it.

You need an EPC of at least C I think. Basically things like cavity wall insulation, double glazing.

Problem is.. They can announce all they like but there are no installers. I've got a deposit with Octopus and even the appointment for the assessment to see if they can fit one is a month away at least*, and if I can the earliest they can install is middle of next year.

• It's a fixed price install.. very reasonable but it means if they think it's going to be difficult they just back out. There's also the risk my house (terrace) isn't far enough from my neighbours to avoid noise pollution and could be refused on those grounds.

That's literally the law in many countries - commercial drivers (who are the kinds of people who would be driving those kinds of distances) have to take a 45 minute break every 4.5 hours. Because it's unsafe to not do so.

And they can tell.. how exactly?

I suspect that's just a sales pitch... 'buy it now whilst you can!' stuff.

So.. if your game becomes the most pirated game in history, you're on the hook for millions off zero income.

Way to go Unity..

It's a matter of power delivery at the moment. A modern rapid charger you can add about 10 miles a minute so 10 minutes is normally fine.. barely enough time to have a cup of tea.

Getting power to a battery faster starts to become impractical simply because of the thickness of cable you'd need to do it, and the internal heat the battery would generate if you threw power at it that fast.

Think of it like a swimming pool. You can fill it with a small hose, might take an hour or two.. bigger hose, maybe down to 30 minutes.. you want it to be done in seconds? Sure.. let me just turn up with this dump truck full of water...

Most of the things you read are about as useful as potato batteries. 'We've come up with this new compound that can take charge really fast'. Sure. Now make millions of them, the size of a car, for a price people will pay. Oh you can't... there's the rub.

Turns out there are a near infinite ways of combining materials that make a battery, and only a handful that scale to industrial production.

People have been saying programming would become redundant since the first 4GL languages came out in the 1980s.

Maybe it'll actually happen some day.. but I see no sign of it so far.

They can't really.. unity itself doesn't have an installer so not sure how they could track 'installs' reliably, the installer is added by the developer. If they add tracking to the library that (a) creates issues for people using app stores as now you have to declare you're tracking people, and that can be grounds for rejection (you need a watertight privacy policy at the very least, and 'we send it to a company in the US' isn't going to fly), and (b) not all apps are installed over the internet, or given internet access. 3d visualisation is more than games.

Knowledge of one field doesn't imply knowledge or even common sense in another.

If you're ever back on reddit, check out 'tales from tech support'.

It's always amazed me of the learning gap.. we learned how to get stuff working by hacking config.sys and our peers can it seems barely spell computer.

It's even worse as people get younger, even though it shouldn't be. How computers work should be in peoples DNA by now, but they still think you've deleted IE if you hide the icon..

Pixel 5 was the sweet spot. Then Google decided to only cater for people with enormous hands..

They can't.. in android the OS defines the navigation. Back works everywhere. You can do wierd stuff to make back do silly things and go to the wrong screen, but that takes a bit of effort.

In iOS, so far I've seen.. swipe left, swipe right, swipe from the bottom, click 'back on a button on the left', tap on the screen to bring up a button then click that..

Some actions are impossible.. you click on a link in mail to see for example a tracking number.. for me a daily occurrence. There is no back gesture available, you have to go back to the home screen and restart the mail app, which is utterly stupid especially when you have to do it multiple times.

On android it's simple. Want to go back? Wiggle your right thumb. Done.

The OS should define navigation. Always.

Definitely waiting for Godot (heh) to step up to the plate, it's missing some stuff at the moment but give it a year and I'm sure it'll get there. We're stuck with Unity for now but things like this mean plans are in place to migrate off it should it become necessary (by and large aren't hit by this yet because we charge a bunch for the app so 20p isn't a big deal.. although we don't and likely can't track installs so no idea how that works..).