It is a member since 2004, adopted the euro as its official currency since 2008.

But it is in a rather complicated situation since half of its territory is occupied by Türkiye (Turkey).

Drones were launched toward an EU nation (Cyprus). As an ally and one of the main EU military powers, France couldn’t just turn a blind eye.

They don’t make money on the hardware, but on the games sold.

Selling unlocked console would put them at risk of getting cannibalized by Steam.

Probably, but I won’t touch that shit unless I have no way doing otherwise.

Edit : As an example, I got an “add or update” stored procedure that start line 5, and ends line… 226.

Yeah, you can do pagination, but you need two request : one to select everything, the second to only return the results between id x and id y. Needless to say, the performances are far from ideal.

But in recent version you do skip and take x, which is far easier to write. But my codebase date back to the 2000’s, and it uses the old ways.

As an example, an SQL request to filter on an handful of parameters, and paginate, easily amount to 40-50 lines of SQL. And that’s the easy ones, because some request uses multiple view, in which case I wouldn’t be surprised to find a request doing more than 100 lines of SQL, maybe without even factoring the view in.

I work with a client using an Oracle DB. You have to do multiple request to even do something basic as pagination 😂.

They improved it over the years, but given the choice, I’d advice for anything else than Oracle. I’d even prefer MS Sql, which, given I’m pretty anti-MS, is a miracle.

To rethink something, it would require to think first.

Because heat diffuse at a limited rate. More heat won’t magically make it faster.
Increasing the heat will continue cooking an already heat soaked layer, unable to radiate that heat to the inner layer fast enough.
At best you’ll get an overcooked exterior, at worst a carbonized one. In both case, the inner layer will be barely warm, and raw, of course.

There really is an xkcd for everything 😂

Sound more like you learned the hard way what “abusing the system” mean.

But, think about the capital…

Idk, I still see 256GB Emtec ones for 10€ in my local supermarket.

That a shitty analogy… But a good one.

You are right. But I didn’t mean that as “doing one thing well”, but rather “focussing on a long term objective”.

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Depends on the juridictions. Some countries make pedaling mandatory (mine does), other don’t.

Wouldn’t say GOAT, but I sure try to do my work the best I can.

France has a lot of spy satellites. Part of why they didn’t follow the US in Irak.

I think there is multiple factors here.

First, Europe wasn’t a major weapon producer, and ramping up production takes time. You have to recruit people, teach them, and buy heavy machinery, which also take time to produce.

Secondly, Europe isn’t as unified as the US. It formed around the idea of preventing future wars, and on that aspect it worked spectacularly well. There was no war between EU countries since WW2. But cultural differences are still there, and its institutions require a consensus, not a majority. So it is hard to take immediate decision. Ironically, USA withdrawal is what made the consensus easier to reach, because major countries that were reticent became aware that they had to act now or fold to Putin.