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The energy mix for electricity in Sweden, Norway and Finland is mostly made up of hydro+nuclear+wind, especially wind and hydro complements each other very well since hydro is very…

Gonna add the comment about FT2 vs IT, in the demoscene FT2 was probably favoured a bit more since third party replayers (required for embedding the music into demos) were at least…

Like mentioned FastTracker was created by people in the demoscene, also the module format fasttracker created was fairly dominant in the demoscene from maybe 1994 to 1998-1999 (whe…

Hmm, interestingly here in Sweden we have "free evidence" (way of gathering is not considered even if "illegal", however someone doing something illegal to obtain it could instead …

Someone who is a lawyer knows any details about the US justice systems precedents with regards to the fifth amendmend (regards to self incrimination) vs obstruction of justice (by …

The encryption/hiding is done by the firmware, hence.. 1: The drive more or less looks like any boring old usb-stick, it isn't even uncommon for cheap fake Amazon sellers to sell s…

Where are we with modules, isn't pimpl there largely to avoid costs related to including the world? I was pondering on why he was putting the defaulted methods in the cpp, any part…

The irony is that including/using many standard c++ headers is far far more expensive than including a lean windows.h these days. To make hobby-coding fun, i use a mstdp.hpp that i…

I think part of the entire design is that it's quite hard to detect. 1: Reads/Writes are just routed to a COTS SD-card. 2: Unless the (correct?) password is detected in the write-d…

Ah sorry for being coy, the G was meant to be a shorthand for gyr or am I misremembering?

Can't remember the exact featureset of the popular D one (because boy, was there many languages called D and E and so on over the years in the 80s/90s), I'd say to be a car it need…

You went by that g nickname back then right? Remedy 2003 in that cramped student apartment.

Ice skates with a rocket engine on your back?

For those that weren't around (or didn't do programming back in those days). The GUS soundcard just filled a niche perfectly at point in time with a reasonable pricepoint. It came …

It's the old craftsmen vs industry issue, Andrew comes from the craftsman tradition that prefers all other people developing to also be proud craftsmen. What Java, JS, Python and C…

I think that's the issue in some cases though, while being totally absent is a major negative, the perception the kid has of the parent _while_ present is more improtant than when …

RenderWare was quite a special case that made trust in third party engines go down significantly since EA closed it to external customers just as the PS3 hit (Renderware kind-of sa…

The pandemic and scalpers really destroyed peoples apetite for the "new thing" when this generation came out, and with that boost missing studios saw little point in going exclusiv…

You mean in the sense that async methods return "awaitable" (Value)Task objects that contains the actual activation machinery that can be queried for liveness status? It's funny th…

Iirc often the frameworks don't have worker affinity, anyhow environments like .NET has "AsyncLocal" to provide an aware alternative.

You're thinking of older early coroutines or in singlethreaded runtimes (JS). It's M:N threading, most logical threads/tasks are more lightweight than full OS threads, the logical …

Nah, coroutines/async/etc often lives in various threads (ie, the workers can schedule one of them on different threads during the lifetime and they live concurrently), so you stil…

The United States might be 85 times larger than Switzerland but it still has a higher population density than Sweden, and even in rural Sweden (similar population density to Wyomin…

Again, it's all still tied to that one device, the phone, if it's hacked it's really game over and with a big enough hole in the Android or iOS ecosystem that could be wormable a l…

Well that is the point of this entire digital wallet thingy, there's going to be a transition period since everything here is more or less hardcoded to bankid not to mention tons o…