What makes you say that? I've never heard of the Red Cross being bad. Maybe slightly inefficient, but not on that scale.

You're going to have to get it attention on social media and reddit (puke) if you want it to go anywhere.

I have a PhD too. A pretty huge...

Debt.

Heyooooo.

Yeah, panhandling/begging was made illegal, so people would sell small, inexpensive/free items instead.

It's still a thing all over the world, often using kids now.

Is it unpopular? I really don't know anything about it.

Sometimes things take way longer than we would like. This statement says they want humanitarian law applied, which may mean the case will be taken to The Hague.

I hope the people around him never let him live a minute without being reminded about what a weak little boy he is for whining about taking a soft, succulent sub to the shoulder.

She said Trump's rhetoric is unfortunate and she wants prospective Canadian visitors to know they are welcome in California.

They don't even get what the issue is apparently.

We're being warned to leave our phones at home when crossing the border. People are being detained for weeks for visa issues. Our government has issued a travel advisory about how US border guards are screening travellers.

This isn't just "oh, we're upset you hosers are calling us the 51st state, eh."

This is genuine fear of what might happen if we go to your country. A friend of mine was almost in tears because she had non-refundable tickets to go to the states to see a friend and was worried about crossing the border.

Sorry, but it's going to take more than, "please come visit because we like you, really."

The wording of the title made it sound like authorities forced them to close. In this case the manager/owner decided to shut down because it was too hot for their own staff, so kudos to them.

What language was that jpeg compression written in?

and is likely to end his career as a hitmaking music executive, fashion entrepreneur, brand ambassador and reality TV star.

About to kick start his career as a politician though.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the paywall click: https://archive.is/8WWq2

HDDs have doubled in price recently too. Not a good time to try building a computer.

My bad, I started downloading The Lord of the Rings movies - Extended Edition. Sorry!

He's talking about how long young people will last on the supreme court. Still gross, but this article is click-baity and dumb with its premise.

Never buy the first model year of any vehicle. And that includes new generations with the same model name. They always have the most problems the first year, so you're just paying to be a beta tester.

More than 250 Canadian citizens and residents have signed a petition calling for Elon Musk to be stripped of his Canadian citizenship.

It was 250 thousand. But I'm pretty sure it got even higher than that.

This is next-level stupidity. The neighbour, the cops... absolute jokes.

If this had happened in my neighbourhood as a kid, the neighbour who called the police would be the target of relentless eggings, TPings, and just general mischief for years to come. Good luck buddy.

Party pooper: Consuming alcohol significantly increases your chance of getting cancer. To the point that it compares with asbestos, radiation and tobacco.

https://www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/topics/alcohol-policies/background-statistics/

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health

https://www.aacr.org/patients-caregivers/progress-against-cancer/americans-largely-unaware-of-link-between-consumption-of-alcoholic-beverages-and-risk-of-cancer/

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/alcohol-use-cancer-risk

A recent study counters that info a little bit (says there isn't a link for some cancers) but it's important to note that the study is still disputed. Also, cancer is on top of liver and heart disease, dementia and many other things that alcohol is known to directly increase.

You should do your best to reduce your alcohol consumption or cut it out completely - if you care about your health.

The problem with Unreal Engine is (and always has been) that Epic makes the engine to make the game they're currently working on. So right now it is a Fortnite engine. Previously it was a Gears of War engine. (Maybe throw Paragon in between.) It started out as the engine for Unreal Tournament.

So if you want to take that engine and start making a different type of game, it's not necessarily going to have the tools you need. It's not necessarily even going to do what you need it to do at the base engine level. Not that it couldn't, but Epic doesn't give a shit. So they give you all the source code and support for building your own version of the engine so you can add the features you need.

You want to make a vast, persistent, open world with vast dungeons you can enter and explore? Yeah you're going to have to build support for that in the engine yourself. You want to do it without loading screens? Better get deep into that engine code. You want to have vehicles or mounts? NPCs, companions, AI enemies? When they hadn't added them to Fortnite yet, totally up to you to figure out, and probably through modifying the engine. Need to make major rendering improvements? Better dig in. Problems with the art pipeline lacking features you need

Every time you touch engine code, that's new tech debt. If a new version of the engine comes out, you have to integrate the changes. The longer the project goes on, the harder that becomes. Then Epic finally comes out with the feature you built yourself (say vehicles) but its only partly the way you did it. Now you're fucked and you have to decide right there: strip out your changes, switch to theirs and redo most of your work, or, stop taking engine upgrades and integrate new features piecemeal. Now you're in tech debt hell.

Almost every developer starts off with saying, "we'll use the engine as is, no engine changes allowed!" Three months later the cynical director is having a high level meeting about allowing a major feature get implemented in engine code. But it will be alright, they tell themselves. 3-5 years later they're up to their eyeballs in tech debt of engine changes, and realizing Amazing Game 2 either needs to be built using the old version of the engine they're stuck on from 2-4 years ago, or built from the ground up on a new version of the engine.

I'd be thinking long and hard before switching to UE5 if I were Bethesda. And they have the advantage of having access to some of the best Unreal Engine developers in the world (Obsidian, The Coalition) now that they're part of Microsoft. They're also probably getting a bunch of pressure to make the change as the studios create a corps of experts.

If I were them I would be very tempted to make the necessary changes to Creation Engine, and stay far, far away from Unreal. Sacrifice a year or two and your top engine devs to overhaul the pain points of Creation Engine, keep full control of your pipelines and versioning, and make the game you want to make, not the one Epic wants you to make. You can even make awesome DLC or a smaller sequel game on the old branched engine while the overhaul takes place, and just have a small core team working out the kinks on the new system.

I guess my point is, tech debt is not the point, because there will always be tech debt. It's a much bigger decision than that.