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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Whether out in public or in private is better, depends on context.

Although it's probably a bit beyond social media debate. When it comes down to "seeing a strangers body floating in the river" , "finding your sibling hanging in the next room" or "found at a kindergarten playground".

spoilerAll of those examples are based on real life acquaintances who ended their lives, and their discovery. And to be clear: The kindergarten one was discovered before the kids arrived.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Air currents and long straight road surfaces heating up simultaneously as the sun moves.

Long straight roads in grids can cause the air to "stick" to the ground as wind moves overhead. And the sun hitting roofs and sides of buildings over shorter periods mean less "stored heat".

Some of it can be alleviated by having trees along the sidewalks. Since they help disperse wind and creates shade for the concrete/asphalt that store heat a lot longer.

EDIT: If you have more "random" road layouts with trees, there's less sun heating up the sidewalk and road. And the wind is more likely to be pushed around and prevent hot air from stagnating or circulating in an area.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I think the biggest one by value is Meta with €1.2b. Although their revenue is in the $150b+ range, so not maxed out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It started as showing off how new something was, and sometimes brand and/or price. And it turned into a fashion statement. Caps are probably the most famous for leaning into the trend and having giant gold and silver stickers covering the top of the visor.

Obligatory Key & Peele sketch

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Jokes aside, that's actually beyond amazing for the future. They're documenting photon to photon and photon to nucleus interaction from near-misses, that can eject a small number of neutrons and protons. And they create gold from lead on lead nucleus near misses for a split second.

Although I can already see the pop-science headlines about how they've discovered "Matter conversion" and they'll be "printing gold". And then buried at the bottom of the article there's some line about how it would take two centuries or so to reach that point.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

For anyone not reading the article: She was the co-founder and was putting together a collection of games they had made and needed the source code for the game Wasteland.

I asked for the source and was given a blank stare. I went to the COO's office and he gave me a cardboard box that looked like it was run over by a truck and it had some of the source on floppies. I ended up contacting friends at Electronic Arts to get a copy of the source we sent them when Wasteland shipped.

After that she started keeping backups of everything she worked on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

At this point the only reason they aren't openly transferring money into their own accounts, is because they still have some fear of the international banking system.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Indeed, they specifically called it genocide when it was announced. And they voted against their leadership who only wanted one of those "culture and academic" boycotts(a small part of the leadership also wanted to call it "unimaginable suffering" instead of genocide). But the people voted 240 in favor and 69 against an economic boycott. They're also backing up the UN's demand of the occupation ending by September. At which point they want Norway to initiate an international boycott if it has not happened.

They have some ties to the current major political party, the Labour Party, who's leader said he "disagreed".

For reference, this an "umbrella organization" with two dozen smaller unions totaling over a million people, out of Norways 5.5m total population. They represent around 35% of working adults, meaning that if they go into strike, the country shuts down.

EDIT: It should be mentioned that this was at a yearly conference, which is also why it didn't happened sooner.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

Lufthansa and Air France might have some massive fines incoming.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Now to be fair, there is a massive difference between using the fancy "AI" autocomplete to fill out the rest of a line when writing a function or something. And actually generating music, voice acting, art, etc.

That's at least where I personally draw the line between proper generative content and not. Partly because the autocomplete is possible without any form of ML. Some of the suggestions are often of similar quality as ones I got in Dreamweaver over twenty years ago.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Wait, it doesn't appear to be the same within the EU.

Both the French and German EULA seems to say that if you alter a digital product, the digital product might be rendered unusable. Although my French and German is bad, so someone please double check.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Grid cities, specially when combined with tall buildings, also tend to create more pronounced microclimate issues and "heat islands".

San Fransico has a varied terrain and enviroment that cause microclimates on is own, but the grid layout means the temperature can change as much as 9F/5C from one block to the next.

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