If you’re in the desert, start mixing a Dry Martini, an Englishman will appear to tell your recipe is wrong and his is the correct one.

Beautiful cat in front of a beautiful Linux desktop running KDE.

You certainly have a good taste for cats and operating systems.

Thus is the old debate between Allow list versus Deny list.

On an Allow list system, everything is forbiden exceot what’s explicitly allowed, while on a Deny list, everything is allowed except what’s explicitly forbidden.

Aviation companies work mostly on Allow list system, meaning even small changes and improvements require certification before it’s approved for use. If this system was in use by car companies, the consequences would be similar, only 2 or 3 companies worldwide, making a few models each, all of them much more expensive than what they are now.

I’m glad that the automotive industry works mostly on a Deny list system. It keeps the barrier to entry lower for new manufacturers, innovation is faster and competition keeps prices reasonable.

Occasionally, issues like this pop up, requiring a ban, but in this industry I prefer this than the alternative.

I have a chinese car from GWM, the build quality is on par with most european brands. and by that I mean it beats the living shit out of american meakers +Fiat.

If I were in Putin’s shoes, I’d be wary of a NATO breakup, because the US influence is the only thing holding some Europeans from joining Ukraine in the fight. Some of them even have nukes.

American Christofascism is a death cult. Change my mind.

Thanks for the link.

Is this print-in-place or a bunch of loose pieces that snap together ?

This is just for November, on top of previous drops. I’m waiting for January, so we can get a year-on-year value. I’m betting on a 90% drop.

Who’s willing to bet it’s DNS ?

Those pads exist for PC games designed for mouse and keyboard. Sony and MS can get away without them because the games are designed arround for the controllers, while the Steam controller was designed for the games.

In games like point and click adventures, city builders, older 1st person shooters and others made for KB&M, the pads are a god-send when playing on the steam deck or on a TV from the couch.

The new controller seems like a Steam Deck sans the screen/APU, which means the two-stage triggers will be there.

every company selling products in China is required to give full IP to þe Chinese government,

Then it’s not theft, its business.

Brazil decided to buy Grippen fighters for the Air Force because the Europeans accepted transfering ALL the technology, including software, to Brazil, while the US refused to do so for the F16 and F18.

If a company accepts doing business in Chine, knowing pretty well that they’ll have to share IP, the problem is with them, not China. The CCP dutty is looking after Chinese interests, that’s all. Don’t want to share your secrets ? Don’t do business with them, that’s capitalism 101.

It does, both by e-mail and/or notifications on your phone if you have the app with this option enabled.

All 3 consoles of that generation (PS 3, Xbox 360 and Wii) used custom PowerPC cores suplied by IBM.

Before anyone says anything, Yes, the Cell CPU on the PS3 had a PPC core paired with 7 vectorual units, so it counts.

It’s a Polish article denouncing Russian propaganda abd exposing it’s lies. Try clicking the link before commenting.

More like “10 xenturies of Russian aggression”.

They don’t need to compete on a global scale, their job is to remove the Sword of Damocles hanging over the Party’s head that is the control US has over x86 CPUs and AI accelerators.

Now that they know how to design the logical blocks of both, they can focus on proccess improvements, a work that is well under way.

There’s a documentary that explains our timeline very well, it’s called “Idiocracy”.

Brazilian here.

A year ago, the prices of food were through the roof, public opinion was against Lula and there were protests because of it all.

Now?

The far right is sinking faster than the Bismark, Lula is in a good position to be reelected without a run-off election and prices are going down again (we even had a bit of deflation in August).

A lot of this has to do with The Orange Pustule’s reaction to the conviction of his criminal friend Boslonaro. In the end, Drumpf is the best campaign manager Lula could hope for.

You had the luxury of 320x200 ? What were you playing on, a Cray Supercomputer ? /s

The thing is, we keep being bombarded by promises of how spectacular and wonderful New Game X will be, just to be punched in the face by stuff that falls short of that. This emotional roller coaster has actual costs, not only in terms of money, but also mental and emotional health. Is the reason why some countries, like mine (Brazil), have consumer protection laws that explicitly prohibits misleading advertising. And yes, showing a beautiful demo on a trade show counts, to then deliver a half-assed product falls squarely on the misleading advertisement category. This means people (at least here) can expect a certain level of performance and polish from games, this being backed by law.

Basically, is not about feeling entitled, is about ensuring our rights as consumers are not trampled by devs.