I feel like many programmers (or their management) have grown ignorant to resource limitations over the past decade or so.

Obviously there is good examples like many linux distros running well on 4GB RAM and the like, but when it comes to windows, websites and proprietary programs, they gobble up insane amounts of RAM to provide almost the same functionality as in 2010.

Jokes on you, i tried using qwant and they just straight up deny me access because using a VPN apparently is “suspicious”.

The Epstein story still is ongoing in the MAGA base. The whole thing is eating away at Trumps base and despite them getting some of their major talking heads in line, it is still brooding.

Specifically the person got raided on a wrong address, so actually his ex partner and child got raided, the raid came after the owner of the twitter account already had identified himself to the police and admitted to the “crime”.

There was absolutely no possible investigative reason for the raid. It was purely meant to intimidate someone for an insuot that is rather mild in German language

I know it is a bit of a silly answer but here we go:

My brother had installed a game-boy emulator on the family PC when my parents had prohibited gameboys from the house. My older siblings bought some though and hid them, but i was too young for that. (They also didn’t tell me).

Anyways, so at the time Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire was the hot shit. I played Ruby on the emulator and i loved it. There was just one problem. The “nebula” animation that is transparent in the gameboy version was solid in the emulator. When i entered a cave i had to find a way to pass it blindly. This was before we had proper internet access at home, so i couldn’t look up the cave layout.

I had to gave up after the second gym or so. When i got older and my grandma bought me a gameboy, i played Ruby like crazy as i finally could progress.

I agree that the use by states is hypocritical and the designation currently is meaningless.

But the definition in itself is relevant imo. to call out states when they engage in terror, which many, but not all, do.

using violence to further political goals.

Unless you want to go down the road of saying that every word and thereby every definition is a matter of perspective, i fail to see how this definition is “based on perspective”.

Yes you can. Problem for governments is that they usually are terrorists by the typical definitions of using violence to further political goals.

In particular the UK is heavily involved in the terror genocide against Gaza as it facilitates arms transfers from the US to Israel and runs spy flights over Gaza to help the Israelis find civilians to murder. They recently went to pay American contractors with British tax money to hide the fact that they continue their direct intelligence support to the genocide.

That is the purpose. Create ambiguous rules to justify authoritarian crackdowns.

Are they extra expensive? More complex install?

Like with an AC you need a place for the outside unit and do some piping. They are also more expensive, but the costs usually amortize well before a new unit is needed. They don’t heat as hot, so you might need a bigger tank.

At the core it is the same thing like an AC unit or the cooler in your fridge. The technology itself is very reliable.

You need to check though if your house installation is suitable for it and that it has the appropiate size and can be placed in the right place outside.

It might make sense to combine systems. Maybe keep the gas-heater for hot water but run your heating on the heat pump.

Oh boy. So the heat pump is probably one of the most important inventions without which modern society wouldnt exist. It uses a refrigerant that has a low boiling point. It is liquified through the pressure of a pump on one side, and let to evaporate on the other side.

Because of the evaporation it can draw heat from there and then give it off at the other side. This way it can cool the cold side more and warm up the warm side more, subsequently “pumping” the heat from one to the other side.

Your fridge uses a heat pump. Most AC units use heat pumps. Any industrial room cooling like warehouses, trucks etc. involves heat pumps.

Now comes the neat thing. For heating a heat pump can have an efficiency factor up to around 4. So 1kW of electrical power can give you up to 4kW of heating power. This is because the electricity isn’t transformed to thermic energy, but rather used to move thermic energy from the outside inside.

Heat pumps are amazing, especially as modern ones provide both AC and heating efficiently. Only caveat is that the efficiency is dependent on the temperature difference it needs to surpass. Because of that older radiator installations that were designed for a higher temperature might need replacement with newer larger radiators. Also if it gets really really cold you might need a classical heater to support the system.

The tiger got to eat and they need a meat based diet.

Option A: Feed them animals that have to bee euthanized and die either way.

Option B: Bury the animal that had to be euthanized and on top of it kill another animal so the tiger can eat.

Option A means less animals killed. Now of course we can talk about whether zoos should exist in the first place, for which there are good arguments that they should not.

Yeah, but he was paying the provider for providing the redundancy on this level.

We shouldn’t blame him on the technical level for what is a problem with the provider on the organizational level. If this had happened to a Fortune 500 company, Amazon would have had an army of lawyers descend on them.

Imagine you had 2hours more every day so you could work through the todo at home and enjoy the rest of your time at home or anywhere else that is neither your work nor your car.

Here is the “recent” update talk from the group who uncovered the whole thing.

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-we-ve-not-been-trained-for-this-life-after-the-newag-drm-disclosure#t=0

From how they describe it, it seems to be a typical SLAP lawsuit and the company has pulled a lot of ridiculous stuff in meetings at the parliamentary inquiry group, but at the same time they seem to have backing from a relevant number of corrupt politicians.

Pacifists who punch Nazis simply is self contradictory. It is like a virgin who had sexual relationships. It simply contradicts itself.

Somebody who chose to punch Nazis instead of killing them is hesitant to killing people, but he isn’t a pacifist.

Also it is problematic to say that Pacifism would entail anything but killing people, because that will mean anyone who does not call themselves pacifist would be easily equated to be a killer.

The problem is that the Democrats are as crucial to them being the “only choice” as are the Republicans. And we see how they still fight tooth and nails to prevent progressives being put on the ballot from inside the party.

At some point you got accept that repairing your old heap of crap car is more expensive than getting a new on, where the old rusty parts aren’t constantly making the replacement parts rust away too.

Depends on what the hype among management consultants was ten years ago.

All those people gotta be paid. What else are they supposed to do? Deliver food or clean bathrooms?

If you think bullying stops after high school, i have bad news for you.