This is also entirely optional for those kind of purchases, and meaningless if you don't have one (which you probably aren't going to if you are just a tourist passing through the country) so you should just not fill that field. I seriously doubt it is mandatory.

Or maybe the idea was to create a typesafe template wrapper around the generic function which is also very common and really nice. No need to create one wrapper per type, a single template should work.

Some people argue that the whole system is going against the objectives of recycling stuff but at least it's better than just burning it to get rid of it.

In the end, users might complain about purity of things or something but the mainteners are the ones doing the work maintaining all that and end up deciding what gets used.

Honestly, I'm rather outside of all that stuff and I had my share of problems with systemd issues but that's mostly because I've been using pretty old systems anyway with thus older and buggier versions of the code. And I also remember the pain it was before unit files to get those sys V scripts working correctly. From my perspective, both systems had weird bugs I had to track but systemd clearly wins on the "creating a new service" part.

Or how about making sure the corrupted US society do something about them messing up the world economy because rich people want to be richer and so they bought their governments through once again their propaganda arms of all the social media and news corporations they bought?

What about the parts where the US would bomb constantly the ME thus making the people living there want to move out. But of course they won't go to the place that bombed them, especially since there's a whole ocean between them so instead they come to us in the Europe. Oh and if it's not bombs, it's global warming anyway, another thing the current US government pushes hard for.

When some country parliament decides to mandate age verification, it's really easy and lazy for them to just say "verify ages and do it reliably!" and stop at that. As a result, the services affected don't really have a choice to go towards those horrible solutions of scaning our faces or IDs or both and all the issues around that.

What should happen rather is "we'll build a system for age verification that is privacy focused and all you sites that are adult only will have to use it or any other system we deem acceptable" But this requires effort on the part of the government doing the law. And money.

What's next, a new tech allowing you to turn food into money at a rate nobody can afford to eat anymore?

So a crawlers that goes very ethically and does very little strain on the server should indeed be able to crawl for a whole week on a cheap compute, one that hammers the server hard will not.

But then, how would you even train and replace those competent seniior engineers that do the filtering when they retire? The whole system was predicated on having a chain of new hires that gain experience in the process.

So instead of buying 100cm planks, buy 120cm planks?

Or the US companies could do a minimum amount of effort to tailor their product line for the target market.

Also, video games are used to take a high poly model and bake a normalmap corresponding to it on a lower poly model anyway so it might also be used that way. I think Doom 3 was the first game to show the technique?

Housing price dropping is good for basically everyone I say.

Of course you use gamma so that you have a more perceptually correct colorspace, mostly because 8 bit isn't enough accuracy to represent correctly the various shades of black the eye can percieve. Or because it's easier to make a perceptually linear gradient in gamma space.

But the blending in gamma space looks WRONG. It isn't perceptually correct! Try blending at 50% pure white and pure black and the grey you obtain is the wrong one, far too dark. Surely this cannot be what people want.

I know for example that EnTT, a C++ ECS project has snapshots available to allow you to save the game state in the background without blocking gameplay as an example.