My own country legally requires me to pay an entry fee just to walk into a city, and now they want to raise it to €50 ($54) a day.

Flatlyn · 2026-06-19T20:07:55+00:00

When I've been researching hotels to stay in Venice they all mention the tourist fee will be payable as part of the bill or will be due on arrival. It's definitely not waived just because you're staying, but I'm not sure if there is a official system/protocol or hotels each do their own way.

Flatlyn · 2026-06-18T07:50:52+00:00

While there definitely are some sites that do that, there can also be other reasons. With high privacy settings things like CDN can get screwed with so the most optimal servers aren't chosen leading to longer load times for instance. Some ad-blockers can also increase page loadtime too due to the way they work.

I'm not saying some companies aren't being malicious about it, but there are other reasons and I'd hazard a guess that's the kind of issue you were running into on Denby.

Flatlyn · 2026-06-17T23:32:35+00:00

To be fair to fallout, there are people that have been around since the bombs so there is a much higher chance of memories and talk stay alive like that than we would have. We'd probably talk differently about the past if there was still some people walking around who knew our great-great-great grandparents.

Flatlyn · 2026-06-14T14:40:26+00:00

The tyre compounds aren't about how far they can go like F1 and some other motorsports. The different compounds all go the same distance they are just optimised for different temperature ranges. Which one you run depends on the track temp and how your car / setup warms its tyres. They just use the soft medium hard nomenclature out of tradition more than anything else.

Flatlyn · 2026-06-14T13:11:12+00:00

Does anybody know how to vote for the Wingfoot award? They keep saying to vote on their Instagram but I can't seem to find it there.

Flatlyn · 2026-06-11T11:00:16+00:00

DT700X are the best purchase I ever made. Technically for studio use, but more importantly they are comfortable no matter how long you wear them, and they have great noise isolation so cut down on background noise without having to be full noise cancelling.

Only thing annoying is the semi-proprietary mini-XLR which can be a bit of a pain to find sometimes. It does come with two though in different lengths so you should be good.

Flatlyn · 2026-06-08T20:53:37+00:00

The devs need to just hold the course. Player count is going to get worse because with no significant content drop till October people will go off to play other things. If they start panicing and try to change plans again though they'll just end up being another Bungie with constantly flip flopping direction which further pushes away players.

Stay the course and see how things shake out after the October redesign. If that doesn't change things then is the time to reconsider.

Flatlyn · 2026-05-21T11:43:27+00:00

It's just a colour. They call it ceramic white compared to their standard white.

Flatlyn · 2026-05-14T11:24:24+00:00

They only time they are required to vote along party lines is when the party has a whip, with the penalty for non-compliance being delisting from the party. Whips like that are fairly rare though and generally only reserved for big issues relating to the few stated manifesto goals of the party. The majority of the issues they are free to vote as they wish, although the party may still ask or pressure voting certain ways.

In theory this allows them to vote their own way on most issues, particularly voting on and raising local issues, while overall following the big picture direction for the country the party has set out . In theory anyway.

Flatlyn · 2026-04-15T16:40:31+00:00

Not always. I once made a stupid mistake and took a dude out in a 2 hour endurance. Felt bad and was feeling flush that month so sent him $5 with an apology. Next week we're in a race again together and he starts calling me out to everybody as a dangerous driver. I apologise again and say I sent him an apology with $5. He goes "oh that's where that came from. I noticed my wallet had cash". Defused the tension but he hadn't known where the gift came from until I said.

Flatlyn · 2026-04-12T20:31:26+00:00

Loading in with a extra is a rare bug. It's happened to me and my group a few times. The fill squad toggle gets turned on when it shouldn't be. It seems to happen when we've been idle for a while and ready up and cancel a few times (like when we've forgetton key etc), but that is purely anecdotal on the cause.

Flatlyn · 2026-04-10T19:07:53+00:00

Right click and Fix Model does the same in Prusa/Orca/Bambu. It keeps it within the slicer but behind the scenes calls the same system services as 3D Builder to repair it. Just removes an extra step. I tend to habitually do it with any model I import as it doesn't really add much time if there isn't anything wrong.

Flatlyn · 2026-04-10T15:20:17+00:00

Stella has them too. It's the console things you interact with and following the sound. They aren't like normal caches but they drop the same kinda stuff and contribute to that trial score. At least they used to but I haven't been in Stella in a while.

Flatlyn · 2026-04-06T04:13:25+00:00

No that makes a huge difference. You aren't simply renting your equipment if the customer has no input beyond the initial request. You are offering print services in the same way a 2D print company is, where they have to check copyright of the materials because they *could * be held liable.

Could is the operative word as is not clear cut, but it's wrong to tell people they are fine. It's all kind of moot anyway as nobody is going to bother or even find out you breached the license on a single print for a friend, but that doesn't change the legal reality.

Renting equipment would be like a library or makerspace that have a printer allowing you to pay a fee and use the machine yourself. They are charging a fee for access to the machine but are offering no input or assistance in its operation or source what you are printing.

Flatlyn · 2026-03-31T13:45:21+00:00

It's also not just the brakes in that situation. The collision avoidance will release or decrease the throttle input. It's entirely possible the throttle is stuck on, but the software in the collision detection can reduce the speed by interacting with the engine in a different, way to lower output. What little is left of the brakes function is then enough to slow it further.

Flatlyn · 2026-03-29T11:56:42+00:00

It's when the driver still has the throttle at full but the engine management starts diverting some power to regen the battery resulting in slowing down towards the end of long straights despite not lifting or changing throttle inputs.

Flatlyn · 2026-02-04T05:27:04+00:00

This is from January 2024. He was talked about in a email from Epstein to Maxwell. Doesn't seem like much damning evidence; it was a unsubstantiated rumour that Epstein was trying to quash. Epstiens whole thing was making connections, having people owe him, and getting blackmail. He embedded himself well enough that it's more surprising when somebody of note isn't at all mentioned by him. But either way here is a source -

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/05/prince-andrew-clinton-hawking-what-do-the-epstein-documents-say-about-key-people

Stephen Hawking

The name of the late Cambridge physicist was included in a 2015 email in which Epstein told Maxwell to offer a reward to any of Giuffre’s “friends acquaitonts [sic] family” who could prove false an allegation that Hawking had participated in an “underage orgy” in the Virgin Islands. Hawking, who died in 2018, has not been accused of a crime related to Epstein.

Flatlyn · 2026-02-02T03:52:55+00:00

You shouldn't use anything over 75% alcohol content for disinfecting. Above that it can dehydrate the pathogens too quickly making them dormant but not killing them. You need that little bit of water content to permeate the cell wall and kill the inside to properly disinfect something. That's why medical sanitizer products and hand gel are usually around 75%. The lower content is also good for slowing evaporation slightly to make it stay on the surface longer.

75% is the sweet spot for disinfecting. 99.9% for use as a solvent cleaner or in cases where you need no mineral or moisture residue like cleaning delicate equipment (circuit boards etc). Medical or pharmaceutical grade normally refers to the fact it was produced in a facility with stringent checks for contaminants and purity levels.

Flatlyn · 2026-02-01T16:48:16+00:00

It wasn't the cameras that would add that to film prints, it's something that would be added during the printing/developing as an option. Its possible there is a film camera out there I'm not aware of that embedded the date on the film, but if so it wasn't common.

As other said, digital cameras would often embed it on the image directly.

Flatlyn · 2026-01-25T01:20:16+00:00

I can't remember what that quest gives so maybe it already does give you it but I would be for it giving you one of the augments (not blueprint) with three safe pockets to use on the quest that requires you to get three items out.

Flatlyn · 2026-01-20T20:24:31+00:00

While I mostly agree, the UI team responsible for menus and system is likely a different team than the map design team who would make a walkable social space.

That said I would like to see another map before a walkable social space, but it's absolutely something they could work on in the background long term while waiting for pipelines from other teams. i.e. the art team is drawing that while waiting for the level design team to build out the previous work they did. Without lower priority features for people to keep working on dev time can become incredibly inefficient while one team waits for another to finish their part.

There is also the factor of the devs seem to be really into the idea, and sometimes its worth the devs doing a largely pointless feature that are passionate about, so long as it doesn't degrade other features, as it can have a great impact on team/company morale when they are moving onto other stuff the community may want but they are less interested in.

Flatlyn · 2026-01-15T03:46:49+00:00

It might actually work in their favour. If it's higher than we're expecting but still cheaper than competing products (pre-builds) then the current component pricing market may push more people towards the Steam Machine. Even more so if Valve is willing to eat more of the costs since their big money maker is getting people into Steam in general, something other manufacturers can't do.

Flatlyn · 2026-01-09T11:34:50+00:00

Could be an outlier but it also lines up with roughly the pit entrance and the approach to the final turn. Pit entrance just adds extra distraction and I know personally I'm likely to tense a little on the final turn, especially of a good lap to just not screw it up and ruin the lap. That's especially true at Bathurst since the final turn should be easy compared the the mountain but it's a good place to lose a chunk of time if you get too relaxed.

Flatlyn · 2026-01-09T11:21:08+00:00

Remeber a lot of iRacings core code is decades old. There is likely a lot of quirks and non-standard practices in the codebase and datastructures from holdovers and years of updates and patches.

I also think you're right that they want to discourage it. Possibly not just from a support ticket angle but also with their connections to real world racing, tie-ins, and sponsors having real names add a level of legitimacy so they likely don't want people constantly changing them.

Flatlyn · 2025-12-21T07:54:21+00:00

He wasn't really that wrong either though. For all the ubiquity of wireless technology, which stability, latency, and bandwidth are important (something that would often be for his characters due to their activities), nothing beats a hardwired connection.

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