And massive subsidies, don’t forget those

Peak capitalism!

No, it really isn’t dope. It is okish, there are far worse but also far better. But the whole idea of forcing people to learn a new language is bad, and needs to stop. We do not need more languages, we need better languages.

• Indent based flow control is a massive fail right from the start.
• No short ternary expressions (there is a convoluted one), which is something you do super often. Makes no sense to not include it. Just because you can abuse things is not a reason to not include them.
• Lambda functions only exist on a select few, and not as native. Instead you call them with another method name.
• Some confusing naming, for example class vs class_name which means completly different things. The latter should have been something other than class with a name suffix.

All in all, it is not bad. But certain aspects of it are not that good. The main point is that forcing people to learn a new language raises the bar of entry a lot. I think that is one of the things Unity got right, for the most part they used microsoft java (aka C#), with all its warts.

Speaking of which, if there are native bindings. Why does the .net version even exist as a separate download? And why aren’t there bindings for other languages? At least I haven’t seen any, everyone just says “use gdscript. C# version is older and not well maintained”

If there are first class bindings, then great.

Edit: I would be very happy if there was a way to write in typescript, lua, perl, c# (without .net), etc… even if I had to drop in a plugin to support it.

Personally I would really like it if they just exposed an API/bindings style and let people write in pretty much any language they want. Gdscript is okish, but not more than that. Forcing a new language with all it quirks is not the way to go.

Now I know it would be a lot of work to do so, but I hope they will at some point.

.er .db

All two letter TLDs are exclusive to countries. So unless you make a country called Ergostan and Dbaseistan and get them internationally recognised you are out of luck. However, if you manage you don’t have to pay the fee!

I don’t remenber actually, maybe if you don’t have enough fuel? But I found the biggest problem was that it got destroyed by meteors rather than fuel issues.

Mostly going back and forth between planets I found to be annoying. I liked the different worlds (some more than others), but the traveling and time suck made it annoying.

Also the space ship introduced a way to get stuck without save scumming, which the base game didn’t have. Or at least not nearly as bad, if you went out into the wilderness you could get a lot of biters on you but it was less of a problem. If you started a journey between two planets and your craft wasn’t good enough you basically had to just load a previous save. Afaik there was no “oh dear, this going bad. Let me turn back”, which well to be fair is realistic.

I didn’t like all the back and forth between planets. Just not my play style I guess.

I don’t think the expansion is bad, and I support the factorio devs in making a really good game. I just personally didn’t get sucked into it.

Did not care much for the expansion, just didn’t like the game play. Didn’t even finish it, so it is almost all base game and mods.

Same here. Started around ham/slink and then just kept using it.

Mostly on servers but for over a year it has been the only booted OS on my desktop (maybe time to recycle the windows m2-drive soon). Sid on desktop is great.

No way, that is “zero man”!

You sound surprised?

Still doable, but you can’t have external RAM. Hence, lack of RAM is a bigger issue.

It is not a lot, but it is not that hard to extend storage. For example with an external SSD/HDD or a NAS.

Servers are debian, desktop debian. Why swap when you found the best already? 😁

I guess technically steam deck is not on debian, but I didn’t choose it so it doesn’t really count.

I don’t mind the assignments if they aren’t too big. If they are, which is quite rare, I just tell them it is too big.

Rather have an assignment than some stupid live coding meeting.

Now it was many years since I saw it, so my memory might be a bit off. It is true that ISS does an orbit in ~90 min, but in order for them to get hit by the debris in that time… They have to remain totally stationary?

And during the EVA there was an invisible force tugging on them and pulling them away?

I know the purists might sneer at me for this, but I just spun up a server via Hetzner so I could run Docker in the cloud

Not an answer to your question, but don’t let some gatekeeper… well, gate keep. There are many ways to selfhost. Running your own hardware is one, renting a VPS but hosting the services yourself is another one. One is not better than the other.

Just pick what is the best solution for you and your problem.

Ideally the services should only bind to localhost and not 0.0.0.0 or similar as well. Allowing both proxied and non-proxied requests will 99/100 times cause problems, and then one time it doesn’t it is just confusion for no benefit.

Won’t the companies doing it create another company outside EU and then sell all their extra stock to them for €1, and then let them destroy it? There is no law you have to sell at a certain price.

Seems like a good idea, but I can’t imagine it will work.