Those numbers are really good, though with Omikron being a more infectuous, but apparently not as-severe strain, that was to be expected.
But what we do not know about are long-term effects of a covid infection. In some school classes, about 4% of the kids suffer from long covid, they still have problems after 2 months…

say what? Over in Europe, they are closing one after another as the cruise line companies cancel their options for more ships and save money on refitting/overhauling their existing fleet. That has already cost thousands of people in that field their jobs in the past decade alone. Specialised people who then move to…

Not in a Sono Motors Sion. Probably sunny out there, so you get a little charge to get you “somewhere” “eventually” (the sion has solar panels in its bodywork to generate some extra juice just by standing around -

Well in Europe, you can not only request from every company that they disclose everything they have on file about you, you acn also request that they DELETE everything, and they HAVE to comply within 30 days. (apart from necessary information to complete any outstanding transactions or if there are legal reasons,…

ah, that attitude goes both ways I’m afraid. Saw Bruce Shelley (of Age of Empires fame) over here giving a lecture about game companies and their challenges, and the open discussion with him after the event was more interesting (and eye-opening) than the topics before.

you got suspended for WHAT?
Shit like that is illegal in most countries. Like, even in Germany, companies tend to put in clauses in their contracts that the salary may not be discussed with other employees, but these clauses are not legally binding. (and the rest of the contract is not affected because of the standard…

100, 120, 130 - some places are even 80km/h (and in most of those you are LUCKY if the traffic even moves that “fast”. Ask people from Cologne)

And yes, sometimes variable speed limits also apply. Bremen is iirc the first region to only have restricted Autobahn routes (120km/h upper limit everywhere)

If we assume that the Chiron can brake as good as a Koenigsegg, that would still mean that it would take him about 450m to come to a complete halt from that velocity.
Put that in contrast with a stopping distance from 100-0 which is around the 30-35m mark in an emergency stop for somewhat sporty cars.
Yeah. If someone…

Do you want to hear something really crazy about the gray imports?
For Germans, it could actually be cheaper in some cases to buy a car from a German manufacturer that was first sold to the US, then re-imported.
If you had the right contacts, you could get one with EU spec, that was deemed to be retrofit in the US, but…

Nothing that you are describing is done manually anymore in any company I know. All done through automated testing, they began introducing these methods almost 8 years ago, so I am sure all mid-to-major companies (should) have adopted it by now.
Even back then, there were special courses for QA testers, teaching them…

Not in the US though ^^
And yes, depending on the department it was great. But I think that’s correct for every company, management can be your friend one day, and hit you into the ground for no apparent reason the next.

I can only give the advice to get familiar with automated testing methods. And also with “device…

The person slowing down well in advance when traffic in front of him slows down should receive a medal. If all people drove like him, traffic on the roads would be more relaxed and fluent. The assholes that absolutely HAVE to overtake and then move into tight spots and break hard are the ones who cause mile-long…

I would disagree. QA, if done right, needs understanding of coding and game mechanics. In the last game company I was working, QA also started out as the department that “always played the newest games, found bugs and reported them back to the game teams”. In short, the devs hated QA, QA laughed about the devs having…

hm, maybe because I was playing most of the time on an RP-PVE server, I mostly had a friendly community all around. Originally started playing on a PVP-server, and it was... hard. (do you know how hard it was leveling a holy priest on a PVP server 15 years ago? :D )
It all went south when they started the LFG thing. On…

I clocked over 400 hours in Morrowind alone, doing every quest that can be done without resorting to cheats (to reset faction standing to do another questline). Yes, even all the hidden ones from the elder gods.
Same for Oblivion, not quite as complete in Skyrim. Got almost all achievements in Forza Horizon 3, played…

Why is it not worth it, though?
The game in its current state has been shaped through numerous paid for expansions.
Everybody who got in in the past had to pay extra for every expansion, unless (and this was not possible until a few years ago) you accepted to always be one year behind in terms of content, and not being…

I have not played any WoW since about 2 months after Shadowlands released (didn’t have the time), so I cannot really comment on the latest stuff. I am not playing ANY MMORPG constantly, always played a little when I liked it and then canceled my subscription when I didn’t. Did it this way since Ultima Online and…

With WoW, if you are not interested in raiding (which I am not at all), the game still offers you a lot of content. I am sad that a lot of long and winding quests have been removed with Cataclysm, but I can see the reason behind that. It is much more accessible now to people with less time on their hands.
But on the…

the microtransactions are mostly just cosmetic stuff though, nothing game-changing. Good for the odd gift or so, nothing more.
But: WoW has, at least in the past, regularly added content, small updates to events etc... and that stuff needs to be paid too. Also, their customer service was usually quite good. The timing…

Not sure sony has the MONEY for that. Remember, that for years the whole Playstation department has carried the rest of the Sony brand financially, even the movie studio part wasn’t really doing that good - the rest of consumer electronics was a money burning business (and as far as I know still is).
Sony is so small…