OK, but this was more like Serbia/Kosovo/Bosnia.

Maybe GP was asking about previous Yugoslavia war, where AFAIR there was no intervention and massacres continued for quite long.

Seems clear they were talking about NATO intervention in 1999 and the ouster of Milosevic. Also notable as a military intervention that was at the time widely seen as a "Wag The Dog" scenario.

What's wrong in using Linux. It is an open source project with origins in Finland and still lead by a Fin.

…who lives in Oregon, in the US.

Hey, we'd break away if we could.

They are a pretty small part of the population though.

> Teslas I've been in didn't seem to have great design or build quality

Design is subjective (I like it), and build quality. Not sure, I don't have issues with mine except one where after 2 years frunk latch started failing. It was replaced in an hour when I went to service center.

Teslas are the cheapest EV for the features offered in Europe. I would gladly buy another car, but they are either more pricey, or lack features. (I did market research 2 years ago when I was buying Model Y, the closest one was ICE - RAV4 for similar price, but I didn't want ICE).

not having door handles in an obvious location is such a subjective "feature" that people have been killed in fires because of the door handle placement.

I've lost count of the number of times i've seen tesla drivers "defrosting" their door handles. You may live in a sunny desert but many people do not.

Apple has better app selection? Where? Does it have Tasker? Or browsers that aren't reskin of safari?

"on your own Continent" != "in the EU."

Ukraine isn't in the EU, neither is Swicerland, Norway or, most famously, the UK. All of these are on the European continent, all of these have citizens living right near a border with an EU country and regularly having to communicate with the EU side.

This is for EAA, which includes Switzerland, Norway and even Turkey.

Yes, it does not include UK, but that's on them.

I encourage people living in other countries to complain to their goverment on Metas policies.

I'm in Switzerland and I can confirm that it applies here too

It always amazes me why image/videos/audio generated by AI are treated differently from code.

Are images somehow better? If one draws, is he better the one that writes code? Why protect one and not the other. Or why protect any form at all?

Also interesing one can find places like https://openinframap.org/#18.27/49.995951/18.966733 where 220kV line is just above a house.

I wonder how easy it would be to prepare a query in osm to find all such cases.

> In this sense Python is the worst possible language for vibe coding

Javascript would like a word

But JS has TS

But TS has JS

But Python is readable, it is the most readable language I've seen.

There is a reason why it is used nowadays as the first language in schools.

Assuming your editor is using tabs as spaces and preserving whitespace appropriately, for varying definitions of "readable".

I think both are readable

Do consoles support anything above 60 FPS?

My PS5 can do 4k/120 hz with VRR support, not sure about the others.

I'm bit puzzled, isn't VRR more for low powered hardware to consume less battery (handhelds like steam deck)? How does it fit hardware that is constantly connected to power?

(I assume VRR = Variable Refresh Rate)

Variable refresh rate is nice when your refresh rate doesn't match your output. Especially when you're getting into higher refresh rates. So if your display is running at 120hz, but you're only outputting 100hz: you cannot fit 100 frames evenly into 120 frames. 1/6 of your frames will have to be repeats of other frames, and in an inconsistent manner. Usually called judder.

Most TVs will not let you set the refresh rate to 100hz. Even if my computer could run a game at 100hz, without VRR, my choices are either lots of judder, or lowering it to 60hz. That's a wide range of possible refresh rates you're missing out on.

V-Sync and console games will do this too at 60hz. If you can't reach 60hz, cap the game at 30hz to prevent judder that would come from anything in between 31-59. The Steam Deck actually does not support VRR. Instead the actual display driver does support anything from 40-60hz.

This is also sometimes an issue with movies filmed at 24hz on 60hz displays too: https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/motion/24p

It reduces screen tearing without adding all the latency that vsync introduces.

VRR is necessary to avoid tearing or FPS caps (V-sync) when your hardware cannot stably output FPS count matching the screen refresh rate.

Are there games running at 4k 120hz?

Call of Duty and Battlefield both run at 4K@120 with dynamic resolution scaling, PSSR or FSR.

Most single player games (Spider-Man, God of War, Assassin's Creed etc) will allow a balanced graphics/performance which does 40 in a 120hz refresh.

Full 4k - very few, but lots are running adaptive resolutions at > 2k and at 120hz

Touryst renders the game at 4K120 or 8k60. In the latter case, the image is subsampled to 4K output.

Go and "simpler"? Really?

C is simpler, Python is simpler, but Go?

Indeed

https://leapcell.io/blog/the-origins-and-design-philosophy-o...

Go was originally designed to make life easier for googlers and make software engineering easy. In 2025, I can attest to the fact that Go is simple. Go is easy. Whether you can accomplish what you want in Go is another story. However, Go has a very basic structure and easy flow. Complexity comes from not understanding the go philosophy.

Go is one of the simplest languages there is. Not always easy to create something at scale IMO, but certainly simple.

Yes - Go is both a simpler language than Java which does not lend itself to (nor does the ecosystem tolerate) the kind of architectural malpractice that enterprise Java typically becomes.