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Why the Epic Games Store receive much dislike compared to Steam?
  • In addition to the exclusives issue, the client and store were not particularly well made and were missing pretty standard features stuff like no shopping cart so if you wanted to buy multiple games at the same time you had to do them as separate purchases and stuff like wishlisting.

    I remember Valve got quite a bit of dislike when they first introduced Steam as a requirement to play Counter Strike Source and HL2 (of course back then it was only for Valves own games).

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    Europe to End 'Salary Secrecy': Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026
  • I assume there may be some cutoff point, but what if you have a low number of people in the role say for example 2. Wouldn't that be pretty much narrowing it down to being per employee?

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    Rees-Mogg told Truss to plug nuclear submarine into the grid
  • So from some googling it looks like the biggest nuclear subs top out at about 30MWe of output, which is roughly the same as EDFs West Benhar wind farm (https://www.edf-re.uk/what-we-do/onshore-wind/) which has 7 onshore wind turbines and can power about 18,000 homes.

    Subs reactors will also be designed around the needs to power the sub with will presumably have much different load requirements to commercial nuclear power station.

    I'm also willing to bet it isn't exactly economically viable running it long term.

    Slightly related but there was a time they used a engine as an emergency generator for a town https://youtu.be/FWYbD2ga8DM

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    Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
  • It's more they are focused on running ASP and CLI apps on Linux, there is no official MS GUI library/framework for Linux which is one big thing missing from modern .net, there are a couple of thrid party ones like Avalonia however.

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    Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
  • The transition to the Manifest V3 framework means extensions like uBlock Origin can't use remotely hosted code. According to Google, it "presents security risks by allowing unreviewed code to be executed in extensions." The new policy changes will only allow an extension to execute JavaScript as part of its package.

    Is this a badly worded paragraph, but is uBlock Origin really using remotely hosted code? I thought it was a different restriction in manifest V3 that stops as blockers being effective.

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    The punctuality of trains in Europe
  • I'm intrigued by what they class as a long distance train, are they counting domestic only services? I wonder if the size of the country plays into it as well as most of the top ones in that list are relatively small, so presumably less long distance routes, and they are presumably shorter routes as well so maybe less chances for delays.

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    evergreen meme
  • It was serious, in my head both were just terms for left wing further left than central left but not like extremist left wing.

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    UK says it is not about to impose tough tariffs on Chinese EV imports
  • How many of those brands actually have factories in the UK or are even owned by a UK company anymore.

    MG are just a brand under the Chinese company SAIC and as far as I can tell don't have a UK factory, some quick googling suggests they are considering one last year but not sure how far that has got. And the majority of their models are EV.

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