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  • Yes, Paradox are aware that a “barrage of DLCs” can scare away new players, for all their bundles and discounts

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  • They are one of very few studios who update their games for years after release. Games make the biggest chunk of lifetime revenue at release. Unless you are a unicorn and have low development costs (Minecraft, Terraria, factorio), you will simply go bankrupt updating your game for free. See the rise of industry dude, made 4 million and now lost his house. Why? He kept funding development for four years without any revenue. Everyone who wanted the game bought it in the first year.

    If you want to keep updating your game for more than a couple of months you need cashflow. You have the choice of micro transactions, subscriptions or dlc. You need to do this or go bankrupt.

    Paradox gives free content updates along every DLC. I really fail to see how that is bad. The alternative would be to simply release the game, patch it for a couple months, then start working on the next game, like every other game studio. But people would hate that to. You can really do nothing in the games industry without people hating on you.

  • View from Europe: The Increasingly Convincing Case for Canada Joining the EU

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  • I think a lot of Europeans would be against the idea tbh.

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    French newspaper : Many Germans have a deep relationship with combustion cars. For them, buying a quiet electric car is emotionally hard to accept.

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  • What would Europe be without French/German love-hate relationship.

  • Berlin: Mieter darf mit Untervermietung keinen Gewinn machen

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  • Ist das nicht, wie die meisten WGs organisiert sind?

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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  • Depends on how important it is. Looking for a hint for a puzzle game: never. Trying to find out actually important info: always.

    They make it easy though because after every statement it has these numbered annotations and you can just mouse over to read the text.

    You can chose different models and they differ in quality. The default one can be a bit hit and miss.

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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  • I use kagi assistant. It does a search, summarizes, then gives references to the origin of each claim. Genuinely useful.

  • What are super-computers used for ?

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  • If your gaming computer can do x computations every month, and you need to run a simulation that requires 1000x computations, you can wait 1000 months, or have 1000 computers work on it in parallel and have it done in one month.

  • At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic?

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  • These are the official diagnostic criteria, which helped to open my eyes and stop drinking:

    • Alcohol is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than intended.
    • There is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control alcohol use.
    • A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain, use, or recover from the effects of alcohol.
    • Craving, or a strong desire or urge to use alcohol.
    • Recurrent alcohol use resulting in a failure to fulfill major role obligations at work, school, or home.
    • Continued alcohol use despite having persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems caused or exacerbated by the effects of alcohol.
    • Important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of alcohol use.
    • Recurrent alcohol use in situations in which it is physically hazardous.
    • Alcohol use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by alcohol.
    • Tolerance, as defined by either a need for markedly increased amounts of alcohol to achieve intoxication or desired effect, or a markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount.
    • Withdrawal, as manifested by either characteristic withdrawal syndrome for alcohol or alcohol (or a closely related substance) is taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms.

    In a 12 month period:

    • 2 - 4 criteria met: mild
    • 4 - 5: moderate
    • 6+: severe

  • Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows

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  • Whenever this comes up it is important to realize that the way emissions are measured here is "product lifetime CO2 emissions". The products are fuel. So basically it is just another way of saying " cars, airplanes and ships responsible for 50% of CO2 emissions ".

  • Someone turned on AI Facilitator for Teams meetings at work

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  • But have you involved all relevant stakeholders?

  • The epiphany hits hard

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  • This is great. Since some concepts only exist in certain languages, this will open up the thoughts you can express.

  • What thing at work made you rage quit your job?

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  • More funny than rage inducing.

    Worked as a Senior DevOps engineer at a startup. They have no proper automation for deploying their code. Manually updating config in a GUI type situation. This takes a crazy amount of time, there are many errors, and it generally slows down development progress. There are 300 people working there, at least five dev teams, its hundreds of work hours every month wasted by this.

    So I start writing a system to automate it - what is called Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery or CI/CD. Issue is, they have many projects, they are all a little different and managed by different people. No problem, I write the thing super configurable and write another system that will automatically deploy this thing to all the hundreds of repositories, taking into account their local config. We start rolling it out, when I suddenly get a new boss.

    They are very smart but the kind of person that wants to do everything their way. So they did all the architecture and just delegated the most menial implementation details. At my previous company I pretty much rebuild every system from scratch. Yet now I was super bored and underutilized, while they were pretty overworked and stressed out. All while the company was held together with duct tape.

    While this boss was really good in certain areas, I was more experienced in others, and they kept making errors that could have been easily avoided if they just asked me earlier. And they did not like when that was pointed out. Thing is, I was hired as a senior engineer. It is my entire job to be more experienced and point issues out, especially security related.

    So this new boss is being super careful about this CI/CD system that I wrote. They are scared that deploying my system may break things - understandable. So the entire project grinds to a halt. I keep pushing for it but give up after a while.

    Then, one day, my boss says "alright, today we deploy the CI/CD solution to ALL repos. By hand.". I'm a bit puzzled by this: has the reason for being careful suddenly disappeared? Why not use my automated system to deploy it? Doing it by hand is super repetitive and annoying. Also, if there is a bug in our solution, we would need to roll out the fix manually as well. That's why I wrote automation for that.

    So I ask to clarify: " so you're sure we should deploy this to all repos now? You always wanted us to be careful about that". Answer: "are you incapable of reading?! New information > old information!". I laugh, think about it for 15 min and put in my resignation, suggesting they hire a Junior instead. Bit of a shame, the place was pretty cool. Just the boss was a dolt. Also they quit a month later.

  • China stages record drills designed to encircle Taiwan

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  • I just want to point out that this is not like for example Italy invading Africa. ROC was the government of mainland China before the revolution, they fled to Taiwan which used to be a part of China. Both ROC and the PRC think they are the true rulers of all of China, meaning both Taiwan and Mainland. If ROC would be militarily stronger, it would probably plan to invade the PRC.

    People may or may not think that that is imperialist, but at least it should be taken into consideration.

  • Radiating

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  • Her chair is still radioactive.

  • (S+) Selbstständige: Warum ihre Existenz zerstört wird – ausgerechnet von den Sozialgerichten

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  • (S+) Selbstständige: Warum ihre Existenz zerstört wird – ausgerechnet von den Sozialgerichten

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  • Im IT Bereich ist es nun so, dass die meisten Firmen keine Freelancer mehr akzeptieren, nurnoch 'Arbeitnehmerüberlassung", aka Leiharbeit.

  • (S+) Selbstständige: Warum ihre Existenz zerstört wird – ausgerechnet von den Sozialgerichten

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  • Wenn du gewerblich tätig bist, also z.B. 300 / Jahr YouTube reichen schon.

    Das ist aber erstmal nicht so das Ding, kostet 15 EUR online und wenn man es nur als Nebenerwerb macht hat man kein Problem mit KV. IHK muss man aber zahlen.

  • Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball

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  • They wrote this without googling anything.

  • EU to relent on combustion engines ban after auto industry pressure

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  • What I really don't get is: why even lobby for this? There is no benefit to anyone. EVs are just better. They will take over.