Good. Gaming is (should be) for everyone. The industry should be as well.

Damn. Does the debt get erased eventually?

Exactly. A 10% decrease in run time for a method is a small optimization most of the time, but whether or not it’s premature depends on whether the optimization has other consequences. Maybe you lose functionality in some edge cases, or maybe it’s actually 10x slower in some edge case. Maybe what you thought was a bit faster, is actually slower in most cases. That’s why you measure when you’re optimizing.

Maybe you took 3 hours of profiling and made a loop 10% faster but you could have trivially rewritten it to run log n times instead of n times…

How’s that possible? Genuinely wondering, I’m from a country with free uni which is still cheap ish if you don’t qualify for free for some reason. I understand the concepts of tuition and loans, I’m just wondering how the loan ends up so far underwater if you’ve been paying.

This seems like a very American thing. I’ve never not received my food. No, the drivers aren’t well paid here either.

The one time food did not arrive, it was driver error (similar buildings on one lot) and we contacted the service, got a new order for free (the old one would’ve been cold already)

You’d need an operating system that uses it. It’s going to be at least as difficult as flashing a custom rom, but likely even more so, as there might not be a ready-made build. Definitely something to experiment with on a secondary phone. PostmarketOS is your best bet, here are others that support Plasma Mobile.

Yes. But it used to be free to watch remotely. It’s 99% your own hardware doing everything. Their services get used for discovery, not as proxies for the connection itself, AFAIK.

You already had to pay them to allow transcoding with your own GPU, etc.

Right now it’s still not too bad, but just watch, enshittification will affect paid users too. For one, I expect the lifetime pass to go away, and go away retroactively eventually.

I thought the Concorde stopped flying because of the operating costs and environmental impact. It didn’t have comparable competition as such.

Oh wait this is a games community. What’s Concord? Maybe it would’ve done better if I’d heard of it BEFORE it shut down. Or if they didn’t take 8 years to make what sounds like yet another Overwatch copycat?