European banks do not accept cheques anymore. I sold an apartment in Canada and getting the money transferred to Europe was very difficult.

Read up on the Miocene Warm Period. It lasted more than 100 Million years and there were no cavemen with AC or SUVs.

I am in Central Europe. It is 38C outside and 27C inside. We went to swim in the local lake earlier and now I wear a wet T-Shirt. A wet shirt is not 'cold'. It just keeps you comfortable.

I live in the middle of Europe - AC is pretty common here. The neighbour across the road has an AC business - for decades. Installing them is not hard either - they just drill holes through an outside wall with a diamond hole saw for the pipes.

Next door in Slovakia, we call it summer and go swimming in a lake. The potato harvest is early - just dug up a bunch.

He said crooks use it to move money around - drugs, sanctions, proceeds of crime. It doesn't matter whether it is Mafiosi, Castro, Maduro, Kim, Gotha-Coburg-Mountbatten-Windsor or Trump. In the past people used overvalued paintings - Picassos - to do that - they still do.

Will gta vi even let you play it offline? What kind of drm will it have?

I hope Ford gave all those hapless engineers back pay for the whole time they were fired. (Hapless, because they took the offer to come back instead of finding an employer that properly valued their expertise and experience.)

It seems that the gestalt of the era is not just plain incompetence, but a complete disdain for competence. Fuck these bad managers and slipshod stewards.

I'll have to disagree with you on that. What matters for reproducible builds is that the person performing the build has power to set the seed.

One does not negate the other.

That said, my own current work car is a 2025 Chevy Equinox. I previously had a 2021 Equinox. The 2025 pushed the top of the hood up a good 3-4 inches compared to the previous, and changed a few other functional angles as well. The goal was evidently the "truckification" of a small crossover SUV. The result was terrible. Sight lines are dramatically worse out of the front of the vehicle. Short people can disappear in front of the hood now that it is that much taller. This is even worse on actual trucks; Chevy Silverado full-sized pickups are leaving dealer lots with hoods that are 5 feet off the ground for no functional reason.

It is fair to point out that such collisions shouldn't happen often at normal driving speed. However you're overlooking other places where collisions do happen often between vehicles and pedestrians; namely parking lots and driveways. While the new cars have far more mandatory cameras to help drivers spot obstacles, they don't prevent every situation. Car manufacturers should be taken to the woodshed over this awful decision, and it's not just the American auto makers.

Ever wonder why so many new pickups pull backwards into parking spots? I had a new Silverado recently as a rental and I believe I discovered why. Those new trucks don't have forward facing cameras, but they do have backup cameras. They sit so high the driver can't easily see the lines or obstacles in front while attempting to park but when backing up the camera shows what's coming up behind. Terrible, terrible decisions.

Higher standard of living in the US means a larger carbon footprint, so yes you are correct.

Yay they just beat a two year old supercomputer using tech from 2022.

I guess? They just beat a 2024 system using AMD CPUs launched in 2022.

You kid, but algae is a real problem for watercooled systems. That is the last place where people should be sourcing water for a watercooling rig.

There, nuf sed.