That’s actually quite easy to explain. Reddits entire monetary value (or at least a very large portion) depends on how relevant it is as platform to mine user interactions - to use as training material for AI.

Reddit getting references less is a sign that the models, or the owning companies, value reddit data less compared to before.

Still the point is you don’t spend money without knowing what you get so it is better. Still predatory, but better

Do we work for the same company? Exactly same story here. Also just botched the Oracle to Aurora migration.

I don’t know, so I can only guess.

The desalination plant could have been there already, because for whatever reason it was more practical (or even required) than taking the water from the river.

Or maybe the desalination plant requires very little power, maybe less than what the osmotic plant produces.

Or the whole thing is indeed energy negative, but not as energy negative as having just the desalination plant. So at least they get to use the brine from the desalination to recoup some of the energy. Because the osmotic plant is power positive.

It’s easier to understand with a picture of the process:

It’s not energy negative. Osmosis doesn’t require any energy input. You only need to pump water to the plant,but the harvested power from the pressurized water exceeds the required pumping power. Freshwater and saltwater are freely available. Using the concentrated brine from a desalination plant only increases the efficiency.

but you get deep enough and it would become an issue

Really? Since your whole body is submerged there’s little to no difference in pressure. Our body is not a hardshell.

It’s also bullshit. My parents (both 50+) are both learning English right now. Of course they’ll never be close to native speakers. But they are absolutely able to communicate to get around, well beyond the basics too.

It doesn’t get easier. But it also doesn’t get impossible. Motivation is a big step towards it.

People who know programming already, yes. People who are getting into it / want to get into it, see it as an amazing shortcut.

I had two working students already, who thought and communicated that they don’t really need to learn programming, because they can do it with ChatGPT / Q. It was quite infuriating.

I was so hyped when I saw the trailers, because the visuals and ideas of the story they showcased were exactly my jam. But oh boy, what a dumpster fire the whole movie turned out to be.

Edit: yep, still goosebumps watching the trailer

It wasn’t for a long time. That was also a very controversial decision (albeit I think it was necessary).

The developer is a cash hungry idiot, with no intention to ever listen to the community.

The community is great, battles intense, and the skill ceiling sky high. Sailing mechanisms second to none.

There’s a lot more ships than the DLC ships. But yes, it’s almost inevitable you will end up buying a couple of them, because the DLCs let you spawn a ship for free every day.

I stopped playing when the Dev decided to split the already low-populated PvP server into two separate instances, which is currently being reversed (to noones surprise).

No. Marathon has strong marketing.

That question is so broad it cannot be answered.

There’s a myriad of games which are or have been wildly popular (e.g. Mario, CS, GTA, WoW, Minecraft, Fortnite)

There’s games which pushed the borders to new limits (e.g. Tetris, Doom, WoW, VR Chat)

And there’s games which warped the industry or their players (e.g. mobile games, micro transactions, loot boxes)

No shit. If you artificially limit your customer base… and then open up.

French electricity leaves the chat in summer when their plants need to be shut down because the rivers are too warm or don’t carry enough water in the first place. And that’s nothing to say what they will do in the next decade years when a good portion of their reactors should be commissioned out.

Thank you so much for the comprehensive explanation,includong the edit.

Coincidentally I discovered kwriteconfig by myself yesterday - but not the interaction with qdbus.

Thanks. I’ll have a look later, and will try to understand.

Scalability is not viability.

My impression came from headlines like this:

Tech moguls Altman, Bezos and Zuckerberg donate to Trump’s inauguration fund

I didn’t follow these donation news too closely, but from the headlines it always sounded like they do it personally!? Maybe Trump makes a point out of it that it comes from them personally? Would make them personally attached to him.