I would say that map size never was “most important”, at least not to the players, they’ve been complaining about huge but empty maps for years (the poster child of this, AC Odyssey was released in 2018, six years ago). It was just something devs and publishers pushed to one up each other in some kind of “bigger = better” way.

Looks like htop.

“Fake” interviews with dead people is surprisingly a common thing in journalism.

Yeah, there used to be an instance for mostly synthesizer related stuff but they shut down and no alternative community took off. There also used to be a relatively active sci-fi community but then some drama happened and it died down a lot.

Between AI and shitcoin mining, these two “technology branches” already consume more power than all the green power added to the grid combined.

And your sources? I only did a cursory search, and according to the IEA data centers are responsible for somewhere in the range of 2-6% of electricity demand. Renewables are currently around 30% globally.

Source: https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2024

Hashcash isn’t “cryptocurrency”.

Sony shuts down all of their Japanese studios and redirects their efforts into developing “cinematic” experiences to appeal to western gamers

They shut down Japan Studio, that’s a name, they still have studios in Japan.

Yeah, it’s the wrong generation and has a little too much power, the closest would probably be a 3060 which was available shortly after the launch of the PS5. But it was still more than half the price of a PS5 and you need more than a GPU for a computer.

Whenever I open Nano basically all the commands it has are listed at the bottom, for small things it’s perfectly fine.

Oh, I was talking about driving with a controller.

Good game, had a lot of fun with it. It seems a lot of people didn’t like the game because the graphics got downgraded from what they showd in the first trailers. They only real complaint I have is the handling of cars is weird.

Modern C compilers have a lot of features you can use to check for example for memory errors. Rusts borrow-checker is much stricter as it’s designed to be part of the language, but for low-level code like the Linux kernel you’ll end up having to use Rust’s unsafe feature on a lot of code to do things from talking to actual hardware to just implementing certain data structures and then Rust is about as good as C.

Lots of categories which Rust doesn’t prevent, and in the kernel you’ll end up with a lot of unsafe Rust, so it can’t guarantee memory-safety in all cases.

Just enable all compiler warnings (and disable the ones you don’t care about), a good C compiler can tell you about using unassigned variables.

Xcode implies MacOS, you can use make there too, just beware that some commandline tools take different arguments on BSDs.

Battery and hydrogen-powered trains exist, they’re mainly used on less frequented lines because it would be more expensive to electrify them.

As the other comments have already said it’s not Python. Not sure what you mean with text formatting, do you mean that it’s multiple strings that are concatenated using +? You don’t need the + in Python, you can do

some_function(
    "part one of really long string"
    " part two of really long string"
)

Which is identical to

some_function("part one of really long string part two of really long string")

Am I the only one who thinks vacuums, washing machines, fridges and so on shouldn’t be connected to the internet?

It’s quite simple actually: The user wanted to delete their account, but forgot their password so they requested a password reset. Before the password reset email was delivered, the user remembered their password and deleted their account. The password reset email is finally delivered and apparently some email clients open all the links in the background for whatever reason, so it wasn’t actually the user who clicked the password reset link.

It goes both ways, your employer can’t fire you at will either. But it goes further, usually you have a probation period, in Germany it’s up to 6 months during which you can leave any time, or be fired at any time. Beyond that there’s always the option to agree on a shorter notice period, but if you’re getting fired and you agree to a shorter period you won’t get unemployment compensation for that time.