The system architects were right.

We have everything needed for it to work: Linux allows installing the same library multiple times as long as it's different major versions. Semver ensures that an old program written for libstuff v 1.1.0 will work on a system that has 1.87.65.

The theory is sound, the problem is that libraries developers do not respect semver enough and don't understand you should not break compatibility when releasing a minor version.

And when something breaks, the blame isn't put on the lib's developer to fix it, but in the program's dev to update to work with the newer lib.

And we somehow accepted that and developed the belief that a software not actively developed is dead and that is not a problem is it doesn't run on recent distribs.

And then we wonder why people stay on windows. That's why, that's because the most stable api to develop against on Linux is fucking wine.

Not really. You need a reference for the top score anyway. It can be the best score of the students, or it can be what the teacher decides.

Using the top student is a good way, but you're right it can affect differently based on the top student. A good teacher would use the top student but adjust based on his experience.

And it doesn't change the fact that using rank instead of score makes it even worse.

What you're taking about is irrelevant. Making exams that are impossible to finish, and using the top student as benchmark and adjusting everyone's score based on that is common.

What matters is how the grades were then given. Were they based on the students rank, which is stupid, as the guy above rightly said, or were they based on their score relative to the top score?

While you're right, it seems the problem is deeper and not only about commit messages: some devs still know how to rebase and edit commit messages and push force, but even then, github still lists slop generators as contributors on the project, even weeks after.

"It's only a matter of" may actually be enough of a hurdle if there's a "good enough" translation already, since ai translation isn't free, especially on that scale.

And as someone else said below, translation is hard, especially that kind, since video game magazines are full of obscure references, made up words, and sentences that, in a video game context, don't mean what the ai thinks. Ai translated video games and mangas is dogshit, for now.

I'm using ai translation tools, it's good for general stuff, but it's awful for that kind of context. Maybe the one they used is better, but at least, they should have made an evaluation, take a human translated issue, ai translate it, compare both for accuracy, and then make a decision to use it for the rest or not.

Will it get better though?

I mean, AI translation tools will get better, but will the translations produced by current tools get better? Once material has been badly translated today, will someone actually use new tools in 2, 5, 10 years to update the "good enough" translations?

History tells us no. The risk in using AI tools for such a project is to create bad translations (and considering that AI doesn't do a good job today when translating technical or specialized subjects, they'll be bad) that will be near worthless and lower the value of the preserving work that has been done until now.

Please tell me how a rogue employee could print those rare cards on his own. Do you understand that those cards require specialized equipment and card stock not really available to the public?

Counterfeits are easy to spot, or if there are put there counterfeits indistinguishable from the real ones, then it seems the counterfeiters make sure to keep the market high.

What can, and did, happen though, is that done guy can print drawings, glue them on cardboard, say they are prototype cards from before the release of the game, and sell them for over 100 000 $...

That's called making proxys and everyone playing those cards games is doing it when playing with friends to test cards or to use prohibitively expensive ones.

Not legal in tournaments, but noone cares outside. And yes, some websites offer alternate, tasteful or not, arts for those cards.

The card printing companies aren't dumb, they are quite aware of the secondary market and most do what they can to at least not tank it, because it could kill their business if they do.

One thing they do is make it easy to distinguish which card is a reprint or is original, with symbols or serial numbers, or different design or arts, or different back. And many card games these days have anti counterfeit measures in place for their most rare cards (which are usually foil, so harder to counterfeit in the first place).

Some companies also pledged to never reprint some cards in a legal to play them way. Wizards of the coast do so for Magic. Cards put on the reserved list will never be reprinted as legal cards (dick move for people who just want to play the game and can't buy those cards). They did reprint some extremely expensive cards but with different backs and square corners, making them illegal in tournaments. They still fetch a high price, but nothing close to the original legal card.

Case in point, the Charizard in question that can fetch absurd prices has been reprinted at least 17 times, in a functionally identical way game wise, must of them with the same art and legal in tournaments, and you can see here how the first editions versions are still way more expensive https://www.cardmarket.com/en/...

You can get a foil good condition one from the evolution set for less than 50â (still an absurd price, I agree), but if you want a base edition one, you'll need to shell at least 500â for a shitty condition one, which isn't even foil.

Those people's kids, now adults, can try to let go of the past and build a country on the land they have and create a good future for their kids, or pass on the hate and their impossible quest to get land back to their children, ensuring they'll suffer the same misery.

And Italians and Germans and French and British and half of Europe had very real reasons to hate everyone else too 80 years ago.

They cut their losses, didn't pass on the hate, they rebuilt and now there're no borders.

Palestinians have a place to go to : where they are currently. At least for the west bank, the population density there is high but viable, and the Palestinian authority is probably open to peace. They won't get any more land anyway, and everyday that passes where the Palestinians don't cut their losses is a day israel uses to grab more and more land.

Gaza is an issue, but at this point, it's completely blocking any peace attempt. The palestinian authority should just recognize gaza as a lost territory (which it is, de facto), give it up, and work towards building a state on the west bank and peace with israel, with the objective of later reclaiming gaza.

The current stance can only make things worse for the Palestinians, and israel won't change its stance, since it's winning. The ball is on the west bank.

In 1948. Everyone who participated in that is dead or will soon be.

Wars happen, conquest of land too. Some win, some lose, many die, people are moved, treaties are signed and borders established. That's how it worked for millenia and how it still works today.

Or should all white Americans go back to Europe, and all arabs in Africa back to the arab peninsula, how far back do you want to roll history back?

You may not like it, I don't either, but reality doesn't give a shit about what we think.

There was a war, israel won it, they took the land, and Palestinians don't have and won't have the means to wrestle it back. That's reality.

At one point, you lost, you should cut your losses and try to get the least worse deal with the last bad cards you have in hands.

But Palestine acts like the addicted gambler who bets ever more in hope to win back what he lost, while crying to other people that the casino should give him back everything he lost. As if that would happen. Except in a casino, you have 49.5% chance of winning. Here the bet is always losing, and israel is the croupier that is all too happy to incite the gambling, knowing that every new bet will get them more land.

Imagine if germany was constantly crying about the parts of its old empire that it lost during the 2 world wars while bombing Poland every other week. It would still be under the allies rule, maybe not unlike Palestine is now. Instead they cut their losses, accepted their new borders, the land they lost and the reparations they had to pay and now they regained their sovereignty and became a successful country.

History happens, cut your losses, sign peace and work for a better future.

And for me it's important to be able to change the screen resolution from the command line.

I have some old games with a low resolution and 4/3 aspect ratio running through wine and the only way to play them well is to lower the screen resolution.

Something really done with xrandr, that I put in the scripts I use to run those games, and which lowers the resolution at launch and resets it when the game is closed.

Last time I checked, it was still impossible to do in Wayland, with the response by some Wayland fanboys being "no Wayland doesn't lack functionality, you can still change the resolution, you just need to go to the settings and click"...

So I don't have much hope, and it will remain a blocking issue for me.

I agree, hence the "(or shouldn't, at least)", but tell that to my country's leaders...

But those who aren't satisfied with the current status won't (or shouldn't, at least) be satisfied with that 99%.

When you think about moving nation-level strategic data to a cloud, it doesn't matter if the probability of it leaking to the US gov is 1% or 60%, as long as it's not 0, it's an issue.

That's weird, right? Maybe it's similar to Georges Lucas with star wars: people were allowed to tell him "no" during the first movies, and he didn't have much power. Then for the newer ones, he was completely unchecked.

It maybe the opposite, he had freedom at the beginning, but now big mouse has a day in the scripts.

I was hopeful when I learned he'd return, especially with Tennant for the specials, but then said specials were released and that hope was obliterated.

I don't know what happened, but something did.