They are very precise, cover the whole french territory, are all in the same format, follow the same standards and the paper maps are not too expensive. There are topographical maps at a 1:25000 scale, and roadmaps at a 1:250000 scale. And these paper maps are as sturdy as they can be, my dad has been rocking some of them for almost his entire life.

I guess I just get too excited about state funded institutions that provide good service to the public and still exist in 2024. Them paper maps can really be a lifesaver when you’re hiking in the more remote parts of France though

Also IGN (Institut géographique national) maps are amazing

I guess it could be construed as racist when it’s literally “master/slave”. But I have never seen it as a normalization of slavery because there usually is no value attached to the terms, it’s just describing the relation between them. And I don’t think acknowledging that a slave generally doesn’t have much say in doing what their master tells them is racist in itself or endorsing/normalizing slavery.

But also, I am white, and there are other terms we can use that can describe this kind of relation just fine, so, whatever. I just get mildly annoyed when some stuff that was working perfectly fine gets deprecated just to change these terms and I have to adapt to it.

laughs in unreal engine

Who needs 1000hz 4k when 120hz 2k is already stupidly expensive to achieve with most AAA games

Arizona is goddamn right.

I have only used it for a little more than a day so far, but I’m already in love with it because it basically required 0 tinkering to get my Nvidia GPU to work, and the few games I have tried have been running almost flawlessly.

“;”

Previous commit was some stupid easy fix I didn’t even bother compiling. Well, I should have, because it was the first time in recent memory I committed some code with a missing semicolon…

Before anyone asks : no, we don’t do reviews ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Good thing that the existence of a GUI for a program doesn’t prevent you from using its CLI version then !

Yes, stocks were made to finance human businesses and be traded between humans to exchange “parts” of a company easily. I’m not fond of capitalism but I can’t deny that the stock market provides value under this system. But I don’t see where high frequency trading actually brings any of the value it “generates” into this.

My main issues with our current brand of capitalism is that money can be very far removed from reality, with things like greenhouse gasses emissions being effectively “free” even though they affect everyone on the planet, including our economic systems. So, the way I see it, it heavily incentivizes short term profits at the cost of basically everything else. Unless we regulate the hell out of it I guess, but apparently that is a sin against the free market

Sure, it’s probably only worth it for huge banks that hook almost directly into transcontinental internet cables (to which my anti capitalist ass would say, that’s probably why it’s legal), but to me, that still basically generating some profits by exploiting a “glitch” in the implementation of stock trades while bringing absolutely no real value to the system.

Also high frequency trading generating money from dips/spikes in stocks’ values that are too short lived to affect anything on a human scale. And banks lending money (and thus generating interests from it) they don’t actually have yet but I think it’s related to the fiat currency thing ?

8th letter of the alphabet (H), twice => short for “Heil Hitler”. Very common way for nazis to recognize each other

What are they gonna do next, ban the symbol from history books or popular games like Wolfenstein?

History is history, so I don’t think it’s banned from history books as long as it doesn’t glorify nazi Germany or engages in revisionism. About videogames though… Until 2018, yes.

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. I only remember this stuff from my German class and my mom who lived in Germany for a few years in the 70s. Also, read the article. This isn’t a legal thing, this is simply a brand trying to avoid getting associated with nazis

88 is too “generic” to be banned. The double sig rune in a similar graphic style as the SS symbol is pretty damn specific.

Edit : actually it’s nothing like a ban. This is just Adidas understandably trying not to be associated with neo nazis. They could very well “ban” people from buying custom 88 shirts too because of the association and the fact that no actual football player uses it in the first place

I very rarely grab code online because I work in videogames and it’s very hard to find good code for the things I struggle with since all the publicly available stuff is for hobbyists and thus usually very basic/unoptimized as hell

Most of the time the stuff I can’t figure out myself isn’t even mentioned anywhere on hobbyist forums because it’s not needed for these applications (for a recent example: assets management. For hobby projects you can usually get away with hard references to all of your assets, so it’s not even a thing)

I think you’re missing the point. I don’t like copilot/chat gpt for important stuff because if I have to double check their solutions I barely gained any time. Especially since it’s correct more often than not because it will make me complacent over enough time (the professors who were patient enough to actually explain why we shouldn’t be using Wikipedia as a primary source also used the same point which I thought made a lot of sense).

Wifi card. Well, I don’t really use it but it is plugged in.

Basic C++ isn’t really confusing (if you are not handwriting makefiles). It starts to get fucky when you get into memory handling, templates, etc. I’m assuming they are only using C++ over C for basic OOP (class/structs inheritance etc).

This was actually tried btw. Mostly as a joke iirc

Edit: Looking into it, apparently it’s not confirmed. Damn, that was a very popular urban myth in french programming circles back in the 2010’s

“gangs of idiots” smashed the prototype looms because they knew they would put them out of work. And they were right, even though the machines were probably a net benefit for society in the end.

It will be the same with AI. If it ends up actually benefiting humanity as a whole, it will 100% be a side effect of a few assholes getting insanely rich, or from massive governmental regulation.