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I did buy one of those for 155eur on 9 November 2025. Very lucky me!

I've just finished playing Metro Exodus, which is another example. The "good ending" depends on your behavior in the three open areas of the game. You can still kill "monsters" (mu…

But that it's not really the case in the example above. It's not the software engineer duty to know about how a given product is legal in what regulatory environment. That is somet…

Ukraine government also issued a statement saying that the US forces used 800 Patriot interceptors against Iran in three days at the start of the current war. While Ukraine used ju…

He wanted seven perpendicular lines ?

I still got it. Has been in storage for a long time. My child did build it some years ago, now it's in his room.

If they plan to put this things in a low orbit their useful life before reentry is low anyway. A quick search gave me a lifespan of around 5 years for a starlink satellite. If you …

Well about that ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case This is well know case of a "person of interest" kidnapped by the CIA in Milano, Italy. While the CIA was assisted b…

For what is worth, I read the book this year, after reading about it in the blog Bits about Money by patio11.

The part where it gave you access to a thread you were not a part of seems scary to me.. In this case your absence from the thread was probably an oversight, but in general there c…

A friend that was going to deliver a child told us about a dad-to-be that was going around the maternity ward making videos ...

> JavaScript / Ruby / Python: All provide JSON-style literals ([1,2,[3,4]], {"x":1,"y":[2,3]}) The Perl syntax for this is pretty similar: [1,2,[3,4]], {"x", 1,"y", [2,3]} that can…

Also here in Italy, of all places.

Geothermal energy is also a thing. Is the heat produced inside a planet, mostly from the radioactive decay of natural isotopes. Volcanoes are not powered by the Sun. Of course this…

The difference between the clarity of Dijkstra writing and the text at this link is astounding.

I'm not doubting that Washington was very very rich. I'm doubting the different and very specific claim that "George Washington could have financed the entire Revolutionary War" wi…

> George Washington could have financed the entire Revolutionary War out of his own pocket and he still would have retained two thirds of his wealth Is that true ? As far as I am a…

In 200 years we will spread at most up to 200 light years from Earth. This is way way less than the observable universe.

Read the text, he transferred the money to Kraken, presumably to buy cryptocurrency that he then sent to the scammers.

Wasn't the steam survey heavily skewed towards the multitude of PCs in the internet shops in China? I doubt those are regularly updated.

More so with "rich people" sports, like golf. One of the reason professional golf players get a lot of money for sponsorship deals.

> He was so convincing that 250 poor Scots went on board the ship, the Edinburgh Castle, armed with his guidebook to Poyai. They then spent two years dying in the jungle. Forty of …

> shipping This is the odd one here. Sure, shipping/transportation as it is is highly polluting. But it's not something from which we as a civilization can opt out. We have to figu…

"The hard way is pretty hard, but not as hard as the easy way" -- Granny Weatherwax

Somebody said: "God was able to create the world in 6 days because he didn't have an installed base."