I don't use any of their products but pretty cool that they stand up for the Apple/Google tax and charge more when bought in their stores.

However, AFAIK Apple charges 30%, so for EUR 10.5 to remain, they would need to ask for EUR 15 = 10.5 / (1 - 0.30).

The RS-70 was named to to indicate its role of reconnaissance and strike. As in, first do reconnaissance and if that results in the detection of enemy activity, strike afterwards.

The SR-71 simply matched a change of strategy to strike first and then do reconnaissance to confirm that the enemy was hit. /s

July 3 was the hottest day ever recorded globally

"Hottest day ever" would mean that there never will be a hotter day recorded in the future. I find that highly unlikely given the current state of where climate change is going.

"Hottest day so far" would have been a more appropriate wording.

Why only refuse to export ASML tools to China?

Don't export them anywhere!

Then TSMC, Samsung, Intel, AMD, Nvidia and the like have to build their fabs in EU, and EU only. Which will bring a lot of employment, tax money and regional wealth. For sure. Right?

An attorney for the law firm also told the judge that lawyers have historically had a hard time with technology, particularly new technology.

Tech people have historically had a hard time with laws, particularly new laws.

That does not change the fact that they still have to comply to these laws.

So if someone passes away their YouTube videos will eventually disappear.

Not going to defend Google, but this is consistent wit their "If it's free you are the product" strategy.

If you are dead, they cannot monetize you by showing you ads, so they might as well remove all the data they used to compute which ads to show to you.

Pretty sure they are smart enough to keep videos around that people still watch because they can indirectly monetize those. So Total Biscuit should be save for a while.

TFS mentions (multiple) "coding problems" while TFA only seems to describe a single one. And that's some palindrome toy function which is pretty pointless concerning real world usage.

It would have been nice to have seen a couple of tasks that are representative for day to day developer work.

So 1 in 80 of the whole world population is a developer... and with a GitHub account?

According to TFA, they have their own definition of the term developer:

Today, developers are no longer just people building software for technology companies. They're an increasingly diverse and global group of people working across industries, tinkering with code, design, and docs in their free time, contributing to open source projects, conducting scientific research, and more.

I would also be interested in the number of people who interacted with GitHub in the past year (issues, comments, reviews,...) and also those who committed actual code. I#d expect both numbers to be still impressive but significantly less than 100M.

I have worked for decades to make it possible to write better, safer, and more efficient C++.

Just because you've done something for a long time does not mean you are good at it.

TFA only elaborates on 2021. But are the current numbers for "bosses" really that different from, say, 2018?

Over the years I worked with several good "bosses" and they regularly were off site talking to customers, "bosses" from departments in other regions, exploring opportunities with people outside of the company, haggling vendor contracts etc.

These are also activities where it makes sense to meet in person because the topics are vague, conflicts can arise and things can become emotional, so one would want more information than just a washed out face and a robotic voice in a video conference tool.

To quote George Carlin: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

In general this is wrong. He would be correct though if he were talking about the median person.

f anyone asks, I still use ascii smileys like: :-)

If you wait long enough they for sure will be hip again. Just like the flood of indie trash games with pixel art and chip tunes music.

Only Fallout 1-2 are RPGs. Bethesda games are closer to shooters with RPG elements. Especially Fallout 4.

Yes, Fallout 4 is a themepark ride shooter devoid of almost any role playing. There are some blimps, especially in the Far Harbor DLC, but they do not define the game.

Fallout 3 did not have much of a story but plenty of side quest that encouraged you to role play with a lot of freedom for your choices. The "Tranquility Lane" quest got rewards AFAIR for its originallity. And how many games give you the choice to blow up an entire town with an atomic bomb (and drastically changing the landscape surrounding it and also removing persons and whole quest lines)?

And Fallout New Vegas is about as much RPG as RPG's ever got. Probably because it was not done by Bethesda, but it's a Fallout game nevertheless. The amount of stories and choices is downright insane, especially if you consider how many story parts are locked or unlocked depending on your choices.

Although, as Deane pointed out, data centers are essential to modern life,[...]

And earlier (emphasis mine):

Behind every TikTok, Zoom call, and cat meme is a data center that stores, processes, or reroutes that data around the world.

Maybe modern life can be improved to use less power?

A far better idea would be to simply allow the player and crowd to mute a problematic player. The player can play, but be completely muted. That will take care of the griefing problem since the only thing they can do is play, they can't say anything or type anything into chat. So either they have fun playing and not saying crap, or they leave because no one can hear them. Trolls only work when they can have an audience.

There's plenty of things you can do while being muted, for example:

• Position yourself in front of a team mate's scope about 1m away from him. He can't see any targets, and if he shoots you in games with friendly fire, the game typically auto kicks him.
• Play medic and wait for a team mate to get shot. Run up to him but don't revive him. Instead just tee bag him a couple of time and then run somewhere else.
• Troll pick a useless role and stick to it, like a 3rd sniper.
• Play the entire match without using your gun and just provide easy kills for the opposing team.
• Just remain AFK at spawn without helping your team in any way. (Some games auto kick for AFK, so you might have to move a little from time to time.)

Of course I never actually did any of this.