One is cloud based one is local install. They are pushing cloud based one because, their local installer is really bad (it's also bad for commercial version, people often joked, that the hardest thing about SW is getting it to run)

But yes, you pay yearly subscription. Which I am not a fan of, but it's a decent price, and I understand that such niche programs, can't sustain themselves on volume

They are saying "we are expending countries" but i check once in a while and hasn't changed in years.

And if you are ok, with having trunk open, and tied down, you can transport fridges (I used reno clio, that is slightly bigger). Done that myself (not two door wide ones, one door fridge).

That's said I just found out you can hire van for 35EUR 20min away from where I live, so nowdays I just do that.

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Look at steam top 100, sure there are 2 or 3 games you wont be able to play on there, but there rest work just fine. And sure there are popular games outside steam, but even if none of them worked (which is not true), for most gamers its a non issue. (And Valve is probably not really concerned about them)

The only games this limits are online competitive (most of the time FPS) games. There are plenty of gamers, myself included, that have 0 interest in such games.

In short even if 0 online FPS games are playable on steam console(which is not true), there are still 10s of millions of gamers, who wouldn't care.

As far as why wouldn't people pick something that can play 100% of games is because they cant. Even the best PC cant play Nintendo games, not all PS games are on PC or xbox, etc. You always have a trade off. And plenty of people still buy PC's,Deck, PS5's and Switch consoles.

My guess id more people won't buy it because, they want better specs, not because a few games wont work on them.

But that still leaves millions, potentially tens of millions of people.

Essentially, you have to preform risk assessment if your site contains any child inappropriate content (according to new law that is defined kind of vague ), you have to age verify all the visitors from UK or risk getting fines.

Since service allows for user upload, this means that their site could protentional qualify. And even if it does not, you need a lawyer to go through everything, to make sure you don't. Sure the chances their site get targeted is small, but not zero.

One of the reasons that a lot of studios struggle with bad performance on UE5, is because a lot of studios, fired their most experienced devs and hired bunch of cheaper new programmers, because they bought into the whole make game with blueprints idea. I have several friends (I know just one datapoint ), that were in games industry from 6 to 12 years that got fired, just for the studio to replace them with cheaper more inexperienced devs.

Baicly UE5 overpromised how easy it was. You still get some great working games that use UE5, but this are from studios that have experienced devs.

Sure its not impossible for C to get that, but at the same time, they are trying to write git not fix C.

* My point is, that hash maps and data structures like that are clearly not the priority of C or they would **exist by now.

** by exist I mean either in C standard, or a at least a community consensus about which one you pick, unless you need something specific.

Everybody is blaming Ursula for the deal with Trump, like it was her decision. The individual countries politicians made the call, she is just a convenient scape goat (Probably precisely why her position was created for, to push things politicians know will be unpopular). Politicians (leaders of EU states) have and do have all the power to give her the marching orders.

We are getting fuck on a lot of things because we feel the need to rely on USA. With better/bigger militaries ourselves, USA will have les leverage.

> youre risking getting trapped in a local minimum.

Or you are risking years of searching for perfect when you already have good enough.

I am familiar with most of that, and there is a BIG difference between trying to find a workaround for one site, that you scrape ocasionaly, than to to find workaround for all of the sites.

Big sites will definitely put entire ISP's behind annoying capachas that are designed to stop exactly this (if you ever wonder why you sometimes get capatchas that seem slow to load, have long animations, or other annoying slow things, that is why etc.)

And once you start making enough money to employ all the people you need for doing that consistently, they will find a jurisdiction or 3 where they can sue you.

Also good luck finding residential/mobile ISP's that will stand by, and not try to throttle you after a while.

You definitively can get away with doing all of that for a while, but you absolutely can't build sustainable businesses on that.

Your facebooks/twiters/instagram/stack overflow/reddit ... And they all have limited expensive api's, and have bulk scrapping detection. Sure you can clobber together something that will work for a while, but you can't runn a buissness on that.

Aditionaly most paywalled sites (like news) explicitly whitlist google and bing, and if someone cretes new site, they do the same. As an upstart you would have to reach out to them to get them to whitelist you. and you would need to do it not only in USA but globaly.

Anothe problem is cloudflare and other cdns/web firewalls, so even trying to index mom and pops blog site could be problematic. An d most of the mom and pop blogs are nowdays on som ploging platform that is just another silo.

Now that i think about it, cloudflare might be in a good position to do it.

The AI hype and scraping for content to feed the models have increased dificulty for anyone new to start new index.

But that's what 95% management is for. If you don't have humans, you don't need majority of managers.

And I know of plenty of asshole managers, who enjoy their job because they get to boss people around.

And another thing people are forgetting. That end users AKA consumers will be able to use similar tech as well. So for something they used to hire a company for, they will just use AI, so you don't even need CEO's and financial managers in the end :)

Because , if software CEO can push a button to create an app that he wants to sell, so can his end-users.

yes for whomever organized such a curse and didn't give such guidance.

And besides curse asked for project to do something. It did. It printed lines. We can call the email gimmick, the marketeering strategy, making a turd look good.

Don't blame students for failure of whomever designed the curse.

VIM is still among my top used editors. And Bram was the one that made sure it kept improving and being useful for all those years, since I first used it on my Slackware install.

Individuals also have their own personal goals such as high bonuses or maybe high IPO, where you will sell out and become rich.

And as CEO you have to not only have a plan, but also set up initiatives for people to follow it, which is often harder than it seems. That is why it sometimes seems a company is sabotaging itself. Sometimes there is something deeper going on but sometimes they are sabotaging themselves.

PII data identifying, documenting it, and periodic review's of that is becoming standard procedure.

I remember when GDPR was announced, where for most projects, there was not anyone who could tell you for any given project, what all data is being collected and stored where.

So GDPR did have positive* effect at least with the part of the market I am familiar with.

* As in positive for people privacy

I would. And firefighters and teachers are used to getting fucked by everybody anyway. (mom is a teacher, and have several friends who are firefighters).

But in reality, big union funds, invest only a little bit in any one company, so no, some big company loosing some of it market cap, would make little difference to each individual teacher and firefighter.