I have been playing since 1.5 and agree. I personally don’t care at all about skins, and just want to play the game.

It’s fine to have some cosmetics, but the economy Valve had created brought so much toxicity to the game.

FFS/FFS2 has been reliable for me, but unfortunately don’t have reliable power. It does frequently require fsck -y on boot. It’s not the most pleasant with my headless units requiring a serial cable.

My solution has been a huge UPS so they never turn off. Softupdates prevented this issue for over a decade (?), so hoping we get HAMMER2 or something down the road.

I’ve been running OpenBSD continuously since 3.4, and no other OS beats it in simplicity IMO. The upgrades have ticked along quickly and flawlessly year over year. I wish more systems would take a page out of that book and implement something like sysupgrade.

I prefer it simply due to Apple’s privacy record.

IMO it’s better than Signal as far as UX goes with enough privacy to be practically for everyday chat. I actively avoid WhatsApp because Facebook. They recently changed their privacy policy to no one’s surprise.

I feel like a hail would cause a strong radar return that would have been noticed or at least documented by NEXRAD or onboard systems.

I’m sure the NTSB investigation will consider this angle, and we will find out eventually.

Totally agree. They should be flagged 18+ and required ID verification if we want to play on a level field.

How about "a small, strapped project that can use all the friends it can get shouldn't be wasting time on maintaining irrelevant metadata"?

Not having categories like "NSFW" would be a nice level playing field.

I’m not saying I agree with the rules, but we do have these categories requiring age verification now. They also seem to be arbitrarily applied.

I’m just advocating that violent texts like this should also be included rather than treated specially.

Wait, F-Droid is doing/going to do age verification?

Guess I have to find another app store. To use and to donate to. Stupid wars over what's NSFW are ignorable, but knuckling under to the AV gestapo isn't.

I’m not sure about f-droid specifically, but I know in the USA, 18+ content online is now required by law to have age verification in many states.

Very few of those laws apply to services that only have "incidental" content, especially if they're small, and for those that actually do apply, the right answer is to refuse to serve the affected states.

They would definitely have to blacklist the UK as well. And other places if I remember right.

In this case, it should be easy to detect genetic or biological material if it was a meat sack strike & rule out space debris. They don’t tend to do well when hit at several hundred mph.

The only other thing really up that high would be space debris, weather balloon payload (the balloon itself is very thin and soft), or maybe a sounding rocket (but don’t these come with NOTAMs?).

Or just look for the blood splat.

A bird at hundreds of miles an hour leaves a heck of a blood trail.

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

NOTAMs are kind of a joke.

I wonder how fabrics will handle the mechanical wear vs the durable tape “track” used in a traditional zipper

They won't. They only work with garments < 1.3mm. Nothing here is about durability.

Our “distributed database” at a fortune 90 company spans at least 10 different database products.

UUIDv4 lets us sidestep this.

Is it bad design? Probably. Is it going to happen at huge companies? Yes.

You’re not wrong, of course. It’s a natural consequence of the eschewing of DBAs, and the increasingly powerful compute available - even if someone did notice that the slowdown was due to the PK choice, they can often “fix” that by paying more money.

I still feel like calling something like uuid.v4() is easier and less cognitively complex.

There are advantages in monotonically increasing UUIDs, they work better with BTrees and relational databases.

I just meant having UUIDv7 internally, and UUIDv4 externally if date leakage is a concern (both on the same object).

UUIDv7 still works great in distributed systems and has algorithmic advantages as you have mentioned.

Clearly you have thought a lot about carbon reduction, so I have a question for you.

Is a plug in hybrid or EV less polluting if you don’t have rooftop solar?

edit: I think I know the general answer, but I’m splitting hairs comparing a replacement car for an ICE vehicle that I have.

You don't need your own rooftop solar. You can time your charges for when power is cheap (i.e. renewables are highly represented in the grid mix). In many locations you can get an electricity tariff that changes by time of day, either fixed times of day or nearly real-time to track the current wholesale price.

Here in Scotland, we have an EV electricity tariff that give us low rates between 00:30 - 05:30 while the wind turbines spin and demand is low, and our plug-in hybrid is programmed to charge during those hours. (We also run the dishwasher, washing machine, and tumble dryer on time delay during those hours as much as possible)

With nearly all of our car trips being local, the ~25 mile electric range the plug-in hybrid is rarely exceeded. We fill the petrol tank maybe once every 3 or 4 months, or when we're on a road trip.

Pure EVs are harder to justify in the UK currently unless you do basically all of your charging at home, because with 20% VAT added to the price of electricity from public chargers, and too-low fuel taxes, the per-mile cost is similar to—or sometimes more expensive than—driving on petrol. It's shockingly bad public policy.

Octopus Energy in the UK. Sometimes you can get paid to take power off the grid. Unfortunately batteries are too expensive to make really good use of it.

The EV is by far the least polluting option. In a year or two of normal driving, even on a dirty grid, you generate less pollution than if you were burning fuel in the car.

Grids are getting lower carbon intensity every year, so it just gets better after that.

It's also not clear that rooftop solar is better than anything else, the carbon involved in getting it to you, installing it, the business that does the installation… It's not very efficient.