Valve didn’t make Fex, and while it’s a compatibility layer, that doesn’t mean it runs everything.

Just look at Proton and you can see after years (and focusing exclusively on games) it’s still not near 100%.

Yeah, I know that can be an issue with comparing across countries. I know in the US we tend to count the surroundomg suburbs in these metrics, while that is less common elsewhere.

That only works up to a point before nations push back. Additionally it assumes there is value in those assets. If there really is a train that stops in the middle of nowhere, you’re probably never recouping those costs.

Deflation can be really damaging because it disincentivizes things like investments and longterm projects. Here are a couple of examples:

• One of the biggest issues with mortgages is if you are under water (can you pay off your debt if you sell the house). With deflation, you could buy a house today and owe more than the house is worth tomorrow.
• If the total cost to manufacture a car is $X, but by the time I can sell the car the market would only pay $X-50, then I’m actually better off not making the car.

Essentially, high deflationary pressure causes people to hold their money and not spend it. It’s what happened in Japan around 1990s-2010s resulting in basically negative growth in their economy - Source

Hyper inflation is a similar issue, but on the other end. The value of money is lost so quickly that things like life savings can become worthless due to money losing its value so rapidly.

Yeah, I think that’s a safe assumption. While discord and telegram aren’t inherently bad, I think they carry more risks than just going to some site like pornhub.

The article mentions this. They only mention a 77% drop in visits from the UK, but VPNs have seen increased use. So most likely people in the UK are using VPNs to view porn (however, they don’t mention other countries numbers being up or down).

Additionally, they call out that most likely people are also going to sites not following the law. This has always been a big issue with these laws, in that they push people to more extreme/unregulated sites rather than actually curbing the behavior (which is a problematic goal in the first place).

I’m really confused by this one. Usually China seems to take the smart calculated move, but this knee jerk reaction seems to just prove the Dutch made the right move.

If China feels like it can just cut off these chips whenever they want, then there was a real risk to continuing business as usual.

While I think the US was overstepping in how it pressured the Dutch, the overall outcome highlights the continued risk of relying on China for these supply chains.

Additionally Toyota seems the least impacted as they’ve apparently been shifting away from reliance on China for these chips, furthering proving that’s a smart move.

That’s fair, but expect to see even more of this in the future.

China historically has done a lot to protect their domestic industries (blocking access to the country, currency manipulation to keep prices cheap, required state involvement, etc.). That’s not to say other countries haven’t (US with Bailouts and Itar, etc.).

However, I would expect to see more of this across the world as globalization takes a bit of a hit. Both from rising tensions, but also from some of the fragility in supply chains exposed due to the pandemic.

It’s not like China hasn’t had protectionist policies. Why do you think they don’t let google/etc. operate within the country.

The only real options for the average user are Mac or Windows. Linux just isn’t as user friendly, and a lot of the customization and flexibility of Linux is actually a determinant for non technical people.

I’m a technical person and I can’t stand Linux as a main driver. Love it for development and as a server, but it can be very janky for UI things.

They aren’t going to make over a 1000 episodes for the live action, so they have to cut a lot of stuff. I honestly doubt we’ll get that far into the story as it is (given the rate they’re making it).

Honestly live action of animated formats always suffers, just look at all the Disney live actions. They’re not even limited by runtime and they feel a little less magical/right.

Ahh I overlooked the “polyhedron” part. Thanks!

I read through this and something I couldn’t quite understand is - is a sphere able to “pass through” itself. If not then that seems like a baseline proof that such objects exist, then the question is “are there any convex polygons”.

Yeah off the top of my head:

• Naruto
• AOT
• Full Metal Alchemist (sorta)
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Code Geass (at least I think that’s how it ends)
• DBZ (I feel like they fight multiple gods)
• One Punch Man (maybe not God?)
• Seven deadly sins

Hey, at least it had an ending.

I mean, it played out like a lot of action focused anime:

• Step 1: Come up with an interesting concept (big human eating monsters)
• Step 2: ??? (maybe a training arc)
• Step 3: Fight God

I can’t speak for this specific approach/system, but no. LLMs never really guarantee anything, and for translation roles like this, it’s hard to say how much help they provide. The main issue being that you now have to understand what the LLM generated before you can start fixing it and/or debugging it.

I mean, they made the big bad some random psychic kid. He’s literally the least “strange thing” in the serious except for the fact he got all scarred up by Eleven.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/danish_department_dump_microsoft/

Dutch moving away from US based software companies to have more ownership of the digital infrastructure is pretty similar to locking down more of their hardware infrastructure.

And that was with two seconds of googling.

You seem to be posing this as if there are only two sides, and that the Dutch (and Europe in general) don’t have their own self interests.

Many policies lately from the EU have been pushing back on both US and Chinese interests.