I'm also from Helsinki, and I lived in Chicago, and I can tell you that Chicago gets MUCH colder than Helsinki does. Chicago regularly gets to -10-20C each winter, for weeks on end (or at least used to, I no longer live there), with winds and snow to match. Helsinki rarely gets that cold, and doesn't stay there for long periods. The darkness in Helsinki is brutal, but Chicago winters are nothing to sneeze at.
The industry has those roles now, and I know people in them. They're not wide spread, but they do exist and I do work in games. This is something that has come as the industry has matured.
Holy shit! I ran into this growing up in California. Would have been early 1990s. I have long been bitter that I had taken algebra in 8th grade, and starting high school in 9th grade they made me take algebra again because I was told I couldn’t skip ahead that far. I was too young to be in the class. For the record, I’m white snd middle class, so don’t fit that pattern, but I am neuro diverse. Anyhow, everyone has excused it at the time with shit like it must have been a technicality, or that the algebra was more advanced, or something along those lines. Anyhow, it’s nice to be validated sometimes, and this is one of those times so I thought I’d share.
Not anymore! These are allowed at least in the UK and in Germany (where I reside) now. It was not the case when I first moved here a few years ago, but read about how they're within code now. The problem I have is that they're not actually available anywhere that I've seen, and I doubt I'll find a plumber easily who will install one.
They are still forbidden in France, and not because of the code.
This is because the sanitizing stations are not ready for this kind of mash - they expect cleaner water + oil + larger particles. What they get instead is a substance that kills the bacteria in charge of the sanitization.
No, this is what we were discussing (it started with the device in a dishwasher (that one I have never seen) and then moved to the ein-sink one (that I saw when in the US and in horror movies)
I was fluent in 3 languages before school, as is my little brother. Parents from 2 different countries, and moved to America when I was a young child and my brother was born in the USA. It helps if the parents can communicate to each other in their native tongues (like my parents). Of all the 2+ language families I knew growing up, the children generally only learned their parents' native language if both parents either had the same native language, or if both parents were able to speak both native languages. Also thoroughly anecdotal.
Helicopters also glide, it’s called auto rotation. Helicopters can also land in much more confined spaces than airplanes, even with an auto rotation. As we helicopter pilots like to say, if an airplane engine quits, you just know you’re going to die for a long time unless you’re near an airport. All I need in a helicopter is a small area to set it down in.
Source: I fly helicopters
I also love my XM5s, but yeah, the touchpad is useless and far too sensitive. I kept accidentally touching it whenever I move my hair out of my face to tuck it behind my ears, or otherwise brush past it. I also turned mine off, and its stayed that way.
I moved to Germany from the US, and broadly speaking (I have my own issues with German policies and politics) I like the system here better. In Germany, outside of being a “public” figure, you own the rights to your own image. Without explicit consent and compensation, you are not allowed to distribute photos of anyone. There are specific carve outs for notable events (if you are incidentally in a shot for something else, it doesn’t count), but otherwise seems notably reasonable to me. It definitely seemed odd when I first moved here, but seeing it in practice it seems fine.
Multiple times in my game development career have implemented or worked with proprietary byte code in a project. I've done it on PCs, embedded devices, consoles, etc. The first game I worked on used MDL from the old Infocom days.
