✅ but I can’t give the competitors too many ✅ so let’s go with ⚠️

That doesn’t mean anything. If you have tons of free RAM, programs tend to use more than strictly necessary because it speeds things up. That doesn’t mean they won’t run perfectly fine with 8GiB as well.

So you’re saying we should create a programming language called “Welsh” with C-like function names?

Wouldn’t (30px)² be 30*30*px*px and thus 900px²?

cataas - not to be confused with catass

Wait till you find out what Russia and China are doing on Facebook

It really depends on what you want. My experience with Gnome extensions has been rather frustrating. For example, finding a working and maintained extension for app indicators is a pain - and you have to do it again for each new release when inevitably the extension is no longer updated.

…what? SpaceX is years behind schedule for delivering crewed space flight to NASA. US tax payers have had to cough up billions of dollars for seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to at least be able to get to space somehow in the meantime.

Iterating and failing is okay, but SpaceX has neither been faster nor cheaper in doing so than NASA’s original moon landing program.

…what?

Also, you should probably mark this as NSFW with a title like that.

They missed April fools by about a month

How to write a package in R

Step 1: Use C++

Sounds like a “no true Scotsman” argument tbh

I’m skeptical given how confident many recent AI models are at making wrong claims. Fact checking seems to be a rather poor use case for current AI models IMO.

Giving some real 1984 vibes

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

investment gamble

FTFY

It really speaks for itself how you were the only one here feeling the need to insult other people.

I guess the snarky headline might’ve been a bit too much for some people

I’m not arguing about the fines themselves, those can indeed be scaled by revenue. I also agree that many fines should be higher to prevent companies from merely seeing them as an operating cost.

However, my point is that company revenue can’t be used 1:1 to pay off fines. That doesn’t take into account that revenue also has to cover all other operating expenses and taxes. As an example, the article states that Meta would take roughly 5½ days to pay off its fines, but taking the 23.42% profit margin into account a more realistic answer is 23½ days.

Revenue is the wrong metric for this type of comparison. Last I heard even big tech didn’t have a profit margin of 100%.

Lawmaking is a slow and tedious process full of compromises, and the EU is apparently the only governmental body that cares enough to actually do something against the wild west of digital tracking. I for one am happy about that, and contrary to public opinion the GDPR is actually being enforced (albeit not strictly enough).