I'm constantly impressed at the writing coming out of the emulation world. I can't think of any other technical niche that produces such consistently approachable writing about such esoteric technical subjects.
I don't understand hardware, I barely program. I don't even use emulators. Yet I will always read write ups like this and from the dolphin blog and elsewhere which give me a great understanding of reverse engineering, the community nuances, and the hacks and shortcuts that made the games possible on the limited hardware available at the time.
I disagree that the sport is about bikes. I think the sport is about cyclists. The olympics is particular is built around human athletic competition not technical competition.
How do you find the best cyclist if the quality of the bikes is wildly different?
In any experiment, you have to control for the factors other than the ones you're looking to test. I don't think its fair to say that they don't care about finding the best, they're just trying to find the best of a different category than you're interested in.
As GP said. There is also space for different competitions about technology (in motorsport, formula 1 has both a driver championship and a constructor championship which is about the technology).
I think it's important to note that it has been condemned by BDS.
According to the website you linked to - "Even the BDS Movement has called on BDS Boston, a group promoting the Mapping Project, to cease doing so"
I don't know more about the issue than what you shared, and do not know the structure of BDS, but decentralised groups are vulnerable to their sort of thing where one autonomous group undertakes actions that are entirely unacceptable.
It's one of the reasons it is so important for groups to stamp out antisemitism within their own ranks and not let it fester.
Im not sure running TrueNAS counts as learning ZFS, which I think is GP's point.
If you want to use ZFS, then TrueNAS with sensible defaults is a great way to go. If you want to learn ZFS enough to roll your own deployment, change the configuration correctly and understand the changes you make then don't start with TrueNAS, and definitely don't listen to the TrueNAS community.
I see a thread of people talking about their experience of the game and how aspects of it made them feel. That's exactly what a forum is for, and a very legitimate way to engage with a piece of art.
Particularly for a game with strong sexual representationa and inclusion, it is legitimate to discuss aspects where the inclusion is still lacking. This may be useful for the Devs future plans, or it may change nothing but be useful for other prospective players to understand about the game.
You might not find the thread useful or engaging. I don't find the threads about compatibility with hardware I don't own useful or engaging. Not every thread is for every person.
Most western democracies dont publicise arrests and mugshots like the US. Most of these countries are more free and have better functioning democracies than the USA. In fact, many coutries would consider publicising every minor arrest as an imposition on personal freedom and a massive overstep by the government.
I do agree that police should be filmable in almost all circumstances.
I agree it's common and not underhanded. But it's not always smart business.
Most commercial tenants are still resonsibile for maintenance, which is the primary ongoing expertise.
It can be a useful way to free up capital, but only useful if it's used to expand the business and deliver a greater return.
Too often it's used to artificially increase the share price or pay out dividend. In these cases the company commits to never ending rent payments for no actual benefit.
There are whole bunch of businesses who have bucked this MBA trend, kept their freeholds and have ended up with a more resilient business better able to weather a change of economic circumstances.
You may have come across this concept already, but this is where clean rooms come in.
One person views the "contaminated" decompiled code and writes a specification. A separate person writes the code based solely on the specification. This is an accepted method of demonstrating that there is no infringement.
Digital goods are treated differently by the act to other goods(hence them being mentioned specifically in this section).
Purchasing non-digital goods online provides a greater right to return them even if they are not faulty. Digital goods, as your quoted section points out, can be returned if they are not of (objectively) satisfactory quality.
The two week mandatory, no-fuss return you mentioned originally only applies to non-digital goods/services bought remotely.
I think you might mean that unreal is "source available" which doesn't confer any of the rights of open source, but does allow you to view and modify the source code subject to a commercial license (which might be free for personal, small scale use. I don't know unreal's pricing structure).
The English Bill of rights is not what you think it is.
It wasn't about giving freedom to the people, but shifting power from the monarchy to parliment.
The freedom of speech enshrined in the English bill of rights also isn't remotely comparable to the USA idea. It was about parlimentary priviledge - the ability for MPs to have freedom of speech while within parliment. It was about the freedom of parliment to debate and vote without interference from the monarchy. (Parliment can and does impose its own limits on freedom of speech within the chamber and MPs have been literally removed from the chamber for things they've said).
The UK has never had freedom of speech. We even had an official censor (Lord Chamberlain's Office) until 1968. Blasphemy was illegal until 2008, and wasn't just a legacy law which had been forgotten, but there were convictions for it right the way through to the 1990s at least.
I'm constantly impressed at the writing coming out of the emulation world. I can't think of any other technical niche that produces such consistently approachable writing about such esoteric technical subjects.
I don't understand hardware, I barely program. I don't even use emulators. Yet I will always read write ups like this and from the dolphin blog and elsewhere which give me a great understanding of reverse engineering, the community nuances, and the hacks and shortcuts that made the games possible on the limited hardware available at the time.