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Killing thousands of boars for fun/XP? This is basically ecocide. Shame on WoW for promoting such behaviour.

Boars and their spread as an invasive species is relevant here?

There is no evidence for that. Boars are presumably native to Azeroth, and part of its delicately balanced ecosystem. Other species rely the the boars in various ways, either because they prey on the boars themselves or because they keep other species in check that would become problematic and invasive otherwise.

> ”If you don't steer them, they'll hit a circular dependency issue sooner than you think. Will duplicate code. Add unnecessary comments. Mix up pure functions and side-effects. Disregard the principles of SOLID.”

This is one thing I worry about with AI-driven development on large projects. Every time someone comes along to add a feature it’s likely to lead to wheel-reinvention: dropping in a new bunch of AI-generated code rather than specialising, refining, and reusing some existing code. As the years go by this is going to lead to complex, hugely bloated code bases that are only maintainable by AI tools…


Nearly?

It greatly shrank some of the tumors but not all.

These WiFi products and the associated app aren’t actually from Motorola.

As mentioned in the article, they are products of Premier LogiTech, LLC, who have licensed the Motorola brand name.


Functionally, what does it matter? Motorola allowed them to put their name on it.

> “It suddenly stopped working, and no one knows why.”

Based on the screenshots I’m going to hazard a guess that it’s because someone forgot to update, or just stopped paying for, the server license.


If these apps were entirely local nobody'd care.

The insistence they go through a server is why they suck


So many things rely on date bound certificates now that local doesn't assure continued operation, see the recent Mac Office 2019 stories. I feel like there are so many of these ticking time bombs that expired cert based software failures are going to become a much more common issue.

Valid concern, yet a potentially solved problem. For code signing at least. Chexk out Time Stamping.

More info: https://sslinsights.com/code-signing-time-stamping/


Or a key employee who was handling that died, quit, or was fired.

I’m a big fan of the no-tie Quicklace system that Salomon use for my running and hiking shoes. Hard to go back to slow, fiddly traditional shoelaces once you’ve used quicklaces.

On the other hand, I’d probably be better at tying knots…


Also, since we're nit-picking, the positions of the planets are not being updated in real time. For example, I know that Venus and Jupiter are currently approaching conjunction: there are spectacular views of them both at sunset right now here in the Southern Hemisphere!


Human-centric thinking.


Series hybrids, where only electric motors drive the wheels, are becoming more common: Nissan now sells many models under their e-POWER brand.

Efficiency seems to match or exceed conventional hybrids in city driving, and only slightly less efficient for highway driving. And people like the instant torque and the smooth “EV like” driving feel.


I've got a Nissan Epower Kicks. I bought it exactly because the technology was different than standard Hybrid cars.

Here in Mexico there's no infra for fully electric cars, and they are still way too expensive.

The Nissan setup is pretty cool in that the generator is quite small, and the car doesn't need all the mechanical parts of an ICE car. It also gives us the range of a standard ICE car. So far it has been pretty good.


This happened to me back in 2024 when Supercell abruptly shut down the game “Clash Mini”. Lost $100+ in in-game purchases.

They did offer to transfer things to other Supercell games, but that had no value to me as I didn’t play those.

I complained to the App Store, but Apple refused to refund purchases made more than 60 days ago (IIRC).

I know things don’t necessarily last forever, especially digital assets, but to spend a lot of money on something only to have it shut down and made unusable within months really stings.


>Lost $100+ in in-game purchases.

You lost the money the moment you made in-game purchases.


Frankly if they kept the game up it might be $1,000 by now.


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