It’s not altruistic, but the blog post outlines why they’re doing this. Underappreciated volunteer-run dependencies can have security flaws that impact huge swaths of the tech sector. Investing a few grand now to secure those tools instead of significantly more money to do damage control after a vulnerability is found and exploited makes sense. It’s a preventative measure that benefits the entire industry, GitHub and its parent company Microsoft included.

To my understanding, vacant housing refers to housing in which someone is not currently living, including housing that is under repair/renovation, needs repairs, or is abandoned/condemned.

https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/census-reveals-vacant-housing-mysteries

Also, of the housing that is vacant, two thirds are vacant for 6 or fewer months, and ~85% are vacant for 12 or fewer months. The median duration of vacancy is about 2.4 months. Only a small portion of vacant housing is actually vacant in the way people typically think when they hear vacant housing. Freeing up the ~10% of housing that is actually vacant long-term the way people think just would not alleviate the housing crisis. We gotta build more housing, y’all.

https://www.tiktok.com/@divasunglasses/video/7189814160165702955

Unfortunately it isn’t actually that straightforward. That number includes abandoned and run down homes that are currently unlivable, houses that aren’t actually on the market because they’re being remodeled, they exist in the middle of nowhere where people don’t want to live, etc. Fundamentally, the problem with housing in the US is supply. We don’t build enough housing in the places people want to live.

While on the topic, a lot of people say that housing is commodified and that’s why it sucks. This is not accurate. Housing is treated as an investment that should go up in value over time, not a commodity that can be easily bought, sold, and traded.

If anybody is interested in learning more about housing in the United States from someone who studies this full time, I recommend Clayton Becker

Yes. The scores aren’t bad so much as they’re not particularly good. They’re barely skating by with those scores, but a 2.0 will still let you graduate at most colleges.

GPA stands for Grade Point Average. Assignments that score 90–100% get an A. 80–89% are Bs. 70–79% are Cs. 60–69% are Ds. Everything below that is an F. Don’t ask me what happened to E. I don’t know that’s just how it is.

Your GPA is a reflection of your average scores for all your assignments. Usually people mean GPA to refer to their cumulative GPA from all of their classes, not just one. A 4.0 GPA means you average an A on every assignment. 3.0 means you average Bs. 2.0 means you average Cs. 1.0 means you average Ds. 0.0 means you average Fs. So a 3.8 GPA would be good because it means you’re scoring As and Bs on your assignments. A 2.0 would not be great because it means you’re consistently averaging Cs (either lots of Cs on assignments, or lots of Bs and Ds averaging to a C, or some combination like that).

It’s possible I messed some of this up because this is stupid and confusing and needlessly convoluted, but the tldr is that yes, a 2.0 and 2.1 GPA are not particularly exciting. That said, Cs get degrees.

I feel like Allay would be a nice name

My understanding is you can absolutely end up with a lien and other such things, so it wouldn’t be a good idea unless you’re ready to burn every financial bridge with the US for the foreseeable future. But if you’re not coming back, then that’s that I guess.

nO yOu HaVeNt sorry for not including a link that took me three seconds to google, asshole

https://www.reddit.com/r/expat/comments/1bwy9qt

Europe doesn’t use the same credit history system as the US; so yes, it quite literally is a different planet in that sense and you quite literally can start new. This is not financial advice.

I’ve heard of people getting their credit score up, taking out all their lines of credit, then dipping to Europe for 10 years to start a business. By the time they came back, their credit scores were fine again because it had been long enough to not affect it. Obviously planning to do this ahead of time is illegal, but if it just happens by circumstance and you’re stuck in Europe and can’t pay back the debt for 10 years then like…

Oh my god I think this is one of the two games from my childhood that I first played and have not for the life of me been able to find

The other is some weird frog sidescroller platformer I got at Staples as a kid in the late aughts or possibly early 2010s

Turns out I already follow you! You have the cure alien girl oc!!

do you have a bluesky i can follow so i can retweet these characters :O

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sigma lion:

I’m guessing she meant Luanti

I’m having the same issue on Android. For me, switching to desktop mode to load the Anubis check then back to mobile mode so the website is usable again worked.

For anyone interested in why, C was new and didn’t yet optimize to the same level that a clever and experienced human could optimize Assembly. IIRC, by the time he was developing Roller Coaster Tycoon, C compiler optimization was on par with human Assembly optimization, so it was the last notable game written entirely in Assembly for optimization purposes.

I think this was the video I watched where I learned this: https://youtu.be/0JouTsMQsEA

I would argue UE5 enables and encourages bad development practices that lead to the unoptimized mess that “modern graphics” games are right now. Their work is cool, but so many games rely on temporal aliasing for in-game effects now, and UE5 is the common denominator.

Steam and GOG have a strong history and userbase. 0% commission is nice, but Steam in particular offers a world of more value than Epic Games Store, including but not limited to a usable fucking user interface (I use Rare to play my EGS library because it’s so bad).

Steam games are DRM free unless you consider Steam itself a form of DRM. DRM is implemented by the developers of the game, not by the marketplace it’s sold on.

And I find it strange that you think GOG has a better business model than Steam and will be more competitive long-term. Why do you think so?

olyester mentioned :D

Here are more curious pokemon :3

Never heard of bin but this is cool as hell thanks for shouting it out!

LOVED Pantheon it’s one of my top shows easily

Am I mistaken that docker creates temporary volumes with a nondescript name and you can potentially dig up the volumes that were being used in /var/lib/docker/volumes?