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Yeah, we have no shortage of bicycles which leads to a whole different stance on bike theft.

Theft is also a given if you live in one of the larger cities, which leads to culture shock for those from the countryside. Not chaining your bike down to something firmly attached to the ground is a surefire way to get it stolen.

It leads to these interesting stances people have where buying a cheap second-hand (often stolen) bicycle that looks like it has been through hell for €50 is usually considered the best way to prevent theft.

Thieves usually have the audacity to take an angle grinder to your lock in broad daylight because they're counting on the fact that everyone will assume they are the owner and they've lost their keys.

Since the bicycle is usually the most efficient form of transportation, getting your bike stolen requires you to improvise and fall back on public transport or walk home. Which is why, in the moment, you'll be likely to commit murder if the thief was still around. Getting fed to a woodchipper is probably the least horrible way I would end you if you made me walk home in a bad mood.

[consults with other DMs]: "Wait...they can't do that, can they?"... "Really? Well, damn".

Your intern somehow manages to convince the local forestry corporation to share an old field map of the region. Problem is, the file is not georeferenced and she is having trouble doing so. Not being familiar with affine transformations, she picks some horrible references and her attempt has an error of a couple meters.

This is your chance to teach your intern a valuable skill and you're very close to finalizing the map of the region. What is your next move?

Success! You manage to build a somewhat useful TIN from the data. Upon further inspection, the contours of the watersheds you were looking for are vaguely visible. Occlusion from the surrounding trees has had an impact on the dataset though, and it seems the noise wasn't filtered out of the dataset properly, leaving you with the occasional ridiculously stretched triangle to work with. Generating nice vector data from this will prove challenging.

How do you proceed?

You're now playing GIS DnD:

The LiDAR dataset you're using was scanned in a forested area and doesn't include any secondary return data. As a result, your watersheds are occluded and the data doesn't provide the greatest cartography.

What do you do?

It's both at the same time. This conflict has caused populations of the yellow countries to be divided more than ever before.

This has caused many politicians to slip up in their first reactions, in which they declared unconditional support for Israel after the attacks by Hamas.

Even at that point more people than they anticipated took the stance that "self defence" should not automatically include fighting beyond your own borders and there was outrage. People felt their heads of state needed to represent ALL citizens, which means full support for the Israeli cause was unacceptable.

This has put several world leaders in an awkward position where they have to carefully balance protecting human rights within Gaza and simultaneously condemning Hamas as a terrorist organization. Abstaining from voting for a ceasefire is a direct result of that. Voting either way might open up new discussion with supporters of either side.

This is very obviously the cowardly way out and we as a people need to push for a resolution to this conflict that is morally just and protects human rights on both sides.

Not just Wayland.

Every experience I've had so far with running anything Linux on Nvidia hardware has been unpredictable to say the least. Not just personal experience but those around me as well. Somehow it always comes down to driver compatibility issues, and there is a reason Torvalds used such strong words when describing the developer experience in dealing with Nvidia.

And these problems will likely persist until they decide to fully publish the source for their drivers.

For this to become a serious issue a couple of conditions need to be met:

• there has to be enough second hand supply to meet demand and keep prices low.
• ...which means lots of people need to circulate their games.
• ...which means they didn't like your game enough to want to keep it in their collection for replayability
• ...which means you made an unremarkable game

Now, given the fact that I have full confidence in your ability to create something worthwhile (because you would do so from passion), this cycle will likely be broken at some point.

There's also the other option where people will circulate their second hand games with the knowledge they'll be able to buy back another copy somewhere down the road.

But yes, you're right that this will bring a new factor to the gaming industry that everyone has to take into account. Keep in mind that your financial security in the indie gaming sector is fully dependant on wether you develop something worthwhile. You are in no way entitled to be able to make a living from publishing games regardless of their quality. Which is the beauty of the indie games segment: the more love and care you put into your game, the bigger the chances are that it'll be a success.

A trend I've noticed over the years is that there are just very little jobs available where you "design shit". It feels like the market is saturated with designers and companies already have all the workers they are looking for.

Meanwhile most people I've seen graduate have no real talent for the job. And they never seem to get hired for positions that require talent in design for manufacturing.

You'd think there would be more jobs available, but there simply aren't. All the jobs are either trade skills, pure CAD or some other part of the product lifecycle that doesn't require any real design skill.

Minority is exactly right. With Brexit they managed to sway enough floating morons with promises of golden palaces and full autonomy.

In the real world, where you have to cooperate to get anywhere on big issues, we quickly find out that throwing a tantrum because you're a grown-up that can determine its own bedtime just gets you discredited and tasked with "all right, let's see you manage all this stuff on your own then".

Putting this into perspective: The PVV won dutch elections recently and did so with 23% of the vote. It is well known that a significant portion ot those voters don't support all of Wilders' policy, they just want to see change. And Wilders' main argument for leaving the EU is "migrants bad, we want border control". Not exactly fully thought out.

The exact percentage of people that will actually vote to leave the EU if it even comes that far is likely not much higher. Combine that with the fact that everyone can see the UK doing just great, and the cances are slim any of this big talk actually leads to Nexit.

We're seeing the power of stupid people in large groups at work, but there are simply not enough of them to do any significant damage. Our political system makes it so that anyone has to cooperate to get anywhere, and Wilders needs support of at least 27% of the elected officials to get anything done. It is highly unlikely any of his more radical policies will survive that process.

engineer UK /ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪər/ US /ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪr/

a person whose job is to design or build machines, engines, or electrical equipment, or things such as roads, railways, or bridges, using scientific principles:

• a civil engineer

• a mechanical/structural engineer

• a software engineer

Cambridge Dictionary

I'm all for letting people ramble, but Engineering is, by definition, the design of tecnical stuff.

Risk management is a part of "designing things", but it is not what makes you an engineer. Converting technology into objects that solve problems is what makes you an engineer.

And there are lots of disciplines out there that started calling themselves engineers while they are objectively very deep into the grey area. If your work does not involve calculus, logic or physics of some kind, it is highly likely that you are not in fact a real engineer. (Looking at you, Sales and Marketing Engineers)

We're not even quite sure yet that time is actually different from space. All research seems to suggest they are sides of the same coin.

Depending on how you look at it, considering time a separate dimension at all just seems silly.

Then again, this is just some more context for your context.

Fully relevant: This sketch by Viva La Dirt League