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I've always despised teen drama in media. Back when I was a teen, and now. Can't stand it. For that reason, I have zero interest in playing the sequels. Furthermore, some of Life is Strange's writing is downright amateurish.

But somehow, the game threads the needle of the formula in a way I can't explain (and from what I read the developers weren't ever able to fully replicate it either). The gameplay, the themes, the great acting/directing, the amazing soundtrack, the perfectly paced escalation of the stakes... It all works together to attach the player very deeply to the characters. I played it a decade ago and the ending absolutely shook me to my emotional core. To this day one of my favorite works of fiction.

Last time around Asahi Lina (major contributor to the Apple Silicon GPU driver) made a very nice writeup on mastodon about her attempts to mainline her work.

Part of the problem was that the C interface was straight-up broken; not only were a bunch of lifetimes undocumented, but freeing the kernel objects properly was impossible, but GCC doesn't care and neither did anyone because GPU drivers are expected to just... never exit (IIRC). So she refactored it to be saner.

Anyway apparently it was rejected for much the same reasons, aka Rust bashing thinly disguised as concerns over maintainability.

Technically the R4L project did have an impact. But what's the worst case? Spending some time on improving the C interface for an edge case? The ignominy! NAK.

All Russia did was give a nudge to the literal trillions of dollars in capital held by elites who wanted nothing more than full-blown fascism. All the Kremlin had to do was finance whoever could sow the most distrust in democratic institutions and wedge themselves in existing divides within the US. It's the most boring coup in history, people voting for Hitler not because of Bolshevism of whatever but because they're triggered by fucking vaccines and pronouns.

Conversely even if the EU went full hybrid warfare (which we aren't because we can't even do anything about the open fascists in our own Union), the counterplay is rebuilding trust which is harder by orders of magnitude than just buying up a social media, deleting moderation, and promoting the Nazi stuff.

Best we could hypothetically do is sanction y'all into autarchy and hope the subsequent recession/depression acts as an electroshock to the population, but you're already doing it to yourselves and besides I see no reason why the two thirds of y'all who either don't care or actively support fascism would change their minds. It will be just like Putin Orban or Erdogan, 15 years from now shit will be worse than ever for the 99 % but Republicans will still win elections without even needing to cheat much thanks to their complete control over state propaganda. Your democracy is dead, you should be moving through the stages of grief and planning your next move.

I'd love to be proven wrong but there's too much historical precedent, and zero precedent to Americans being even remotely close to politically conscious enough to engage in "forceful" political change (unless the force is being exerted on Black people, then the "well regulated militia" comes out the woodwork). Hell, the videos from "protests" I've been seeing this week in your major cities look so pathetic it makes Denver look like a large village.

The EU stopped using increasing amounts of power around 2010 despite continued economic growth (yes, even if you account for imported goods).

Not that consumerism and the exploitation of the global south aren't existential tragedies for our species, I'm just pointing out that while capitalism does require never-ending growth, it is interesting to note that it empirically doesn't require ever-increasing power to do so.

Fascism is a byproduct of capitalism but unrelated to energy prices. Doesn't matter if gas is 1€/L or 2€/L when Musk, Murdoch, or Bernard Arnault decide what gets voted, printed and shown on TV.

Also English is an odd germanic-romance bastard child that Western Europeans tend to like because it has a decent number of cognates for everyone and a simple grammar IF you're only aiming for simple conversational English. The barrier to entry is quite low, especially if you don't give a shit about having a thick accent and straight up mispronouncing tricky words (as anyone knows who had a conversation in English with a non-fluent Italian/Spanish/French person).

OTOH German used to be relatively widely spoken in Eastern Europe, and Slavic languages also use declensions AFAIK, and also even post WWII German held quite a bit of momentum in academic circles.
So if the Soviet block had gone the Chinese route and become an economic behemoth instead of withering and dying at the dawn of the Information Age, German being the lingua franca (or at least giving English a run for its money) would have been a distinct possibility IMO.

Ces airbags Takata ça fait des années qu'ils font perdre des milliards à de nombreux constructeurs. On parle de plus de 100 millions d'airbags partout dans le monde, c'était un constructeur réputé avant 2013.

Je ne connais pas les détails du dossier, donc c'est possible que Citroën ait trainé des pieds sur un rappel préventif. Si ils ont été mis au problème dans le mois passé cependant la réaction me paraît plutôt décente. Mieux vaut éviter de prendre des risques pendant quelques jours le temps de trouver un garagiste qui peut faire l'intervention.

La bonne nouvelle c'est que quand ils disent qu'ils ont les pièces j'ai tendance à les croire... Les garagistes ils remplacent des millions de takata depuis une dizaine d'années, c'est de la routine à ce stade-ci.

Someone who thinks rope is a recent invention needs to, in the most literal sense, go touch some tall grass. If he can't figure it out from there, it's time to book an appointment at the neurologist's.

This can be - and has been - generalized to all industrualization.

Tolkien wrote Isengard the way he did for a reason.

The history of Brutalist architecture is closely associated with fascism as it promotes societal ideals of a neatly segmented and ordered life.

Henry Ford. Just, Henry Ford.

Elon's technocratic nazi grandfather.

I would also like to remind everyone that fascism is simultaneously extremely dangerous but doomed to fail. That obsession for finding rigid rules where there aren't any, of constraining the real world to simplified models, makes fascists eventually lose touch with reality because they can't account for the messiness and human factor. At first they destroy everything they touch, kill anyone that doesn't fit the model. They then make fatal, obviously irrational mistakes like opening an Eastern front in Europe before tidying up the Western one because the Ideology says Bolsheviks are weak. Attacking the US in Hawaii. Not installing Lidar in supposedly self-driving cars. Invading Ukraine with an incompetent army and cardboard supplies against a dug-in western-supplied army.

It's not particularly helpful to the tens of millions killed by fascism yet, but at least we can rest assured that the fascist technosolutionists will lose and that plants will grow out of their corpse.

Grids work on economies of scale. The bigger the better. Ask anyone who lives on an isolated island for their power bill. That's why it was such a big deal when the Baltics switched from the Russian grid to the EU one.

Bigger grid = more intertia&redundancy = less likelihood of failure, more options, lower costs.

Electricity isn't like chicken eggs. Transporting it is for all intents and purposes free. The network is expensive, but whether your house is pulling 1 A or 5 A is a non-difference to your utility. So to think local generation is "better" is a complete fallacy. Unless your house is fully disconnected from the network (not "net zero", disconnected) then it's not helping to generate power locally. Like someone else said, it's actually way more expensive per kWh than grid-scale solar.

Now this would all be a "you" problem, except the big problem with microgeneration is that current tech is "dumb". It's either pushing power on the network, or sometimes tripping if the voltage goes above 250V or so. Which actually happens in rich neighborhoods on very sunny days where everyone is pushing power.
What this means for the operators is that on very sunny days, they cannot do anything but account for the extra residential solar power. Which might mean they have to very quickly spin up or down alternative power generators which were not meant for this. Or they might be dealing with complex issues with current flowing the other way than designed and large voltage fluctuations on specific parts of the network that don't have the necessary infrastructure to "dump" that extra solar somewhere else.

The end result is that, counter-intuitively, microgeneration is one of the many failures of the neoliberal electricity market. It's more expensive and more disruptive for society than if those solar cells had been put to use in grid-scale solar production. They only end up where they are through political mismanagement and misaligned incentives (e.g. net metering which does not account for negative externalities).

Using the suffix -er for a two syllable word isn't any correcter than verbing a noun and would probably make quite a few English teachers red in the face.

Both have a linguistic use; the verb "vaguing" is a shortened form of the cumbersome "vague-posting", while "stupider" is a more emphatic and/of colloquial form of "more stupid". Neither can be replaced by their more formal form without changing the meaning of the sentence slightly.

Objectively they are very similar linguistic quirks, the only reason you'd use one but dislike the other is familiarity. Why dismiss it out of hand when you can excitedly marvel at a novel way people can remotely transfer thoughts?

That’s what happens when you woke out and become more focused on arguing instead of coding

Comments are gold lol. You heard it first here folks, Rust is Woke.

If you think "cranky old dude" is hate speech you need a hard reality check. Must be nice to not have to deal with actual hate speech about who you are.

Also old is a mindset. I have no idea who that guy's age is, but when you're dismissing a 13 year old tech out of hand as a fad then you're acting old and cranky.