At some point it starts sounding like an amateur mumble rap cover of the Pillar Men theme.

I don’t find it confusing at all. The function doesn’t test equivalence, and the return value is not meant to be a logical value.

That’s not the truth. It’s one of infinitely many truths. They hated him because Jesus didn’t understand how implicit type casting between int and bool worked.

Since the article fails to link it (and also reads like slop), here is the actual publication: https://commission.europa.eu/document/8af13e88-6540-436c-b137-9853e7fe866a_en

The title is gross clickbait. The EU is not banning virtual currencies, but introducing informing publishers of regulations guidelines to ensure the user is informed of their real monetary value, and that deceptive or unfair pricing practices are avoided.

The EndeavourOS forum to give support (I use base Arch, but they’re close enough), the Lutris forums, and Blenderartists. Stackoverflow and similar services, and various issue trackers, if you count those.

I’ve had the same mechanical pencil for ten years. It’s comfortable, reliable, easy to reload, but if I had to choose one for the rest of my life, I’d still go with the traditional wood/graphite pencil. It’s cheap, it’s everywhere, it’s durable, and not a great loss if you lose it.

Tomorrow for sure!

But how will Americans justify their private arsenals if they don’t have 30-50 feral hogs running into their yards while their small kids play?

Funny how time works.

• 1995 was ten years ago.
• 1997 was three years ago.
• Every year of the 80s was 20 years ago.
• 2010 was 10 years ago.
• 2016 was two years ago.
• 2018 was two years ago.
• 2019 was one year ago.
• 2020 lasted for six years, but ended three months into the year.
• 2021-2022 didn’t happen.
• 2023 ended just a few weeks ago.
• 2024 still hasn’t ended. We also invented time travel. Consequently:
• 2025 apparently started in the 1960s, and rapidly progressing towards the 1940s.

Pretty good, and somehow getting better with time; especially considering how much you can get out of the game for completely free.

The game’s main premium currency is platinum. There’s no way to get it through in-game activities. You can buy it directly, it is included in most cash-only purchases, or you can trade it freely with other players. Most of the trading is organized on the third-party market board warframe.market, and the in-game trading chat… exists, I guess.

Most of the game’s items (weapons, warframes, companions, upgrades) can be farmed through regular gameplay from random drops, from specific missions or boss fights, crafted from gathered resources, or bought using in-game currencies. You can buy most of them for platinum, but don’t have to. The only payment-exclusive items are cosmetics (skins, helmets, color palettes), but not all of them, and inventory slots. There are also many late-game items that are impossible to buy and have to be earned. Some items are also sold in discounted packs. As of the latest major update (released literally a few hours ago), you get an additional discount for items of a pack that you already own.

The worst limiting factor for a new player is warframe and weapon slots. Your account can only hold a limited number of certain items, and slots are almost exclusively purchased with platinum (a small number can be earned through Nightwave, a free battle pass-like system). A new account starts with 50 non-tradable platinum – my recommendation is to buy 2 weapon slot packs (12p for two slots, 24p total) and a warframe slot (20p for one).

I’ve had Friday evening sessions that were ended by the morning sun. I wasn’t kidding about the crack simile. Time is just a suggestion when you have an assembly line to complete.

I have the most hours in Warframe, but Factorio is on a different level. If you’re anywhere on the spectrum, it is pure crack cocaine. The only reason I haven’t bought the DLC is because I know it’ll consume a month of my free time.

By the way, Warframe 1999’s soundtrack fucking slaps.

“If you don’t have organic intelligence at home, store-bought is fine.” - leo (probably)

I’ve read a story on the forbidden website where a “database” was a single table with a single column holding a single row that contained the actual data as a CSV blob. I’m willing to bet the muskies are not beyond such acts of genius.

You're officially an asshole.

Magnetic tape. It’s one of the better long-term offline backup solutions. It is compact, inexpensive, has no moving parts (bearings, motors, reader heads), no scratchable surfaces, and can last for decades in a moderately climate-controlled room.

Just keep it away from magnets… or iron vaults. According to an anecdote (that I can’t find right now), a large bank vault was repurposed as an offsite backup storage, except it kept wiping the magnetic tapes because the thick iron walls reacted to changes in the geomagnetic field.

ADS-B can be disabled (not unexected for military aircraft) or made private at the request of governments.

You wrote an SQL statement?

The largest providers use CDNs to serve content, which are designed to be redundant and resilient. Cloudflare alone has 335 datacenters on all inhabited continents. Services that don’t need to talk to a single centralised server would be fine.

Оф корс ит из сэтайрь. Ай’м виллинг ту бет мост Американс вуд шит брикс иф дей хед ту лёрн а секнд алфабет.

(Approximate transliteration of: “Of course it is satire. I’m willing to bet most Americans would shit bricks if they had to learn a second alphabet.”)