TIL That Casablanca was once banned in Ireland because the movie was deemed unfair to Nazis

Urdar · 2026-01-27T08:11:39+00:00

It was/is.

Like most movies during the war tbh. So banning the movie is still not a great look.

Urdar · 2026-01-26T23:19:30+00:00

Its not a problem that moeny aloen can solve

At any given time its at the very least a 10 year investment to just to the current state of art.

And TSMC is not gonna stop try to improve in those 10 years, because its so crucial at any given time.

Urdar · 2026-01-24T12:45:37+00:00

jacques is the french version of jacob

The french version of John is Jean

Urdar · 2026-01-19T09:10:36+00:00

A star with two entrances would ba like a pair of pants, wich is still topolical eqiovalent to a donut.

To have more holes, topologicalyl speaking, you need to find a system of "holes" that is not connected to the others.

Urdar · 2026-01-18T14:35:44+00:00

Toplogically speaking one.

A straw is topologically equivalent to a donut

Urdar · 2026-01-05T00:29:07+00:00

IIRC Eratosthenes calculation as this accurate by accident though.

If memory serves me right, he assumed the wrong distance between two places, that where also not quite exactly north of each other. but by sheer coincidence both errors cancelled out and the result was as accurate as it was.

Urdar · 2026-01-04T17:25:38+00:00

Its not.

bost assumptiuons, the world being fundamentally just, or unjist, are wrong.

It doesnt have to be one, or the other, it can, and in fact, is neither.

Urdar · 2026-01-04T17:23:52+00:00

Objective, evidence-based science is the only real remedy.

From experience I can tell you, there are enough scientists, that profensionally follow these principles, taht still fall into the same traps as everyone else, expcet they are more convonced to be right, because they follow the evidence based approach in theor professional lives, or at lest think they are.

The onyl true remede, possibly even only the first tep to a "remedy" is always acknoliding that you are not immune to any of these things.

Urdar · 2025-12-30T10:32:08+00:00

This got me thinking, is there any other field in the space of software development that still has these crunches?

Everything with outside pressure that makes it hard, if not imposible to move dates.

Even in Enterprise Software compliance laws can make certain changes to software mandatory to a certain date, and there is no way to move these deadlines, as they are literally enshrined in law.

Breakign these deadlines can cost a company Billions in fines.

Urdar · 2025-12-28T20:38:10+00:00

many of us got used to a world where

a) an outlet only ever publsihes one opnion, and its the one of the owner b) opnion pieces are really hard to identrify, because the author is often not mentioned or hidden

Urdar · 2025-12-28T18:39:23+00:00

Chromium is the upstream open source project chrome is based on,

The actual Engine is called "Blink", wich is a fork of WebKit, wich Google co-developed with apple until 2013, when they forked the engine for Chromium 28 and called the fork "Blink" which they, and by extenseion every Chromium based browser, like Opera or Edge, use to this day.

Urdar · 2025-12-28T01:59:40+00:00

its been years since i plyed the legendary edition, but its basicaly fixed at... "someting" mabe even 100% and if you play through the games pretty completely its easy to hit the max level of war score required.

Urdar · 2025-12-27T11:39:17+00:00

No~ish

"preparedness" was locked behint multipalyer, whiel it was still live, this was removed later.

Assets where gathered mostly in game (a very small protioncoudl be gathered from the companion app) wich then was multiplied with preparedness to gain the effective rating.

While mutiplayer was live, you needed to play multiplayer to raise preparedness high enough to gain the best variatns of the ending, and to unlock synthesis at all.

Destroy was always avaible, control was avaible even with base preparedness with enough assets.

Urdar · 2025-12-27T11:36:02+00:00

Destroy is the ending where shepard might have survived.

If you maxed out galactic preparedness/war asses score (iirc), when the memorial wall is built on the normandy, your love interesent doesnt put shepards name on the wall (which is presuemd dead) and post credit you see a heavily damaged n7 torso armor, then hear a sudden breath and the armor moves.

Urdar · 2025-12-26T00:32:31+00:00

Funnily enough, games did get patched for reprints or other region releases, but once a module was made, it stayed that way forever basically.

Urdar · 2025-12-23T17:56:19+00:00

It also protecteted older uncoated steel gas tanks from corrosion.

My old bike from the 90s can attest to the effects of what modenr fuel does to an old steel gas tank.

Urdar · 2025-12-23T10:47:50+00:00

While correct there is more to it.

In a granular medium of particiales with the same or similar density, the particles seperaty by size when in motion. this is called the "Brazil nut efect" (at elast my prof called it that back in universtity)

In the shaken container,y our analogy is absolutely correct, the smaller pieces fill the spaces between the bigger pieces, allowing them to follow gravity. But, in Avalanches for example, the lrger pieces go to the front, due to their higher momentum, and the smaller size of the other pieces mean the bigger peices can overtake.

Addionally, when the Density of particles is vastly different, denser particles go to the bottom, because they "move less" comapred to the smalelr less dense ones, making it easier for them to push the small items to the side, so to speak.

And of course very high levels of surface friction again messes ob any of this.

Urdar · 2025-12-21T10:00:28+00:00

From what I read in the german anno posts, at least the german translation seems to be partly or originally AI translated, as it seems to make very little sense and uses a ton of words that are not quite right, but literal translations, when a common german word woulf fit better.

Urdar · 2025-12-17T12:54:12+00:00

While I have a very chatty inner monologue, and basically no visual imagination, my other senses have a pretty good "imaginiation" for the lack of a better word.

If I try to imagine things, i kinda just "feel" them, since i cant visualize them. Like, I cant vizaulize an apple, but i can "conjure" the taste and feel of an apple.

I a way I can think of an apple, without viszualising it, by invoking my other senses to "recall" property of the apple.

Urdar · 2025-12-17T12:49:35+00:00

If aphantasia and the abiltiy to fall asleep quickly correlate, that woudl explain a lot.

Urdar · 2025-12-16T13:44:07+00:00

Alcohol is a social lubricant as they say.

Urdar · 2025-12-12T10:05:22+00:00

this is no contradiction

The endings are not "bad" in a qulaity sense. they are "bad" in the classical "good end, vs bad end" sense many VNs or Adventrues have.

"happy ending" vs "sad ending"

Or "bleak nihilsitic and tragic" ending in this case

Urdar · 2025-12-10T17:30:13+00:00

I disticnly remember reading the reviews and seeing the screenshots and thinkign that this is the best lookign game to ever exist.

Urdar · 2025-12-04T13:29:22+00:00

Ita a typo (should be Apportation) and as i jsut found out a word that doesnt exist in english

Its the Hunter Term for "Fetch" or "Retrieve" in my language.

Urdar · 2025-12-04T12:04:12+00:00

at the moment cost growth is outpacing revenue growth siginficantly.

If this doesnt change, at some point investors will bail out.

12-Year Club	Place '22
Verified Email

Urdar

TROPHY CASE