Sounds like a nothingburger, sovereign wealth funds investment in a diverse set of industries. And especially industries their own economy isn’t big in.

I don’t see PIF here though 🤔

I’m sure Norway has a higher density of various dialects to the factors you mentioned, but Maghreb is vastly greater in size, so you’d think there would be more than 5 dialects. It’s fascinating if there aren’t.

I’ll never forget the first time I went on holiday to Greece and jumped into the water. Saltiest water I’ve ever felt, ended up just swimming in the pool instead. Much better water up here in the north, even if it’s a bit cold.

That’s possible, but that doesn’t really answer my question which was if the dialect is the same/similar for each group internally on the map, or just a very rough generalisation. The map covers some incredible distances so it would surprise me if they managed to keep a consistent language across it all that space. Didn’t mean to dunk on the map if that’s how you interpreted it.

Those are surprisingly large zones, I would have thought it would be much more fractured. Is it just a rough generalisation, or would someone in Mauritania speak similar to someone in Algeria?

Even this map of Norway doesn’t really represent all the dialects in our tiny country.

This exaggeration gets tiresome, there are some great uses for LLM. The copilot autocomplete got to be one of the greatest QoL functions in a modern IDE.

It also generally work great for tech support, and lowers the skill requirement for installing and maintaining a Linux distro. Nowadays I will usually just redirect tech support questions from family members to an LLM.

Just because it won’t solve cancer in 10 years like the tech bros preach doesn’t mean the tech is without uses.

Don’t worry, next entry will be the prequel 28 hours later.

Thank you :) She’s at her most striking now that her coat is fresh. Like most new world tarantulas she has urticating hairs. It’s more noticeable right before molting as she will get a noticeable bald spot on her abdomen. I’ve never seen her use them though, she prefer just running away, which is also what the species is known for.

It’s been a decade since I last checked up the market, but it’s a relatively rare species that can only be bought through breeders. They are closely related to their much more famous “cousin” Chilean Rose/Grammostola Rosea

The phone camera isn’t all that great at capturing the blackness. The species is called Brazilian Black/Grammostola Pulchra. They are generally docile so safe to handle, though Bob tends to get scared and curl up to a ball when I need to handle her, so I rarely do. She’s ~11 years old at this point.

Just gave Bob 3 crickets. She recently molted and got her black coat back which is nice. Once she’s fed and calm, I’ll have to change the soil in her terrarium. I’ll spare you from sharing a picture as I’m sure not everyone here wants to see black tarantula in the comments.

They have said that for so many years that at those point we could have had multiple power plants running…

The iphone

Microsoft’s new phone were supposed to spell the end for it.

Thanks for clarifying

Skimming through it it wasn’t fully clear to me, is this just for their pdf editor?

After ublock origin and dark reader, it’s definitely one of the best extensions out there, cool to see it getting further support.

The industry overextended during the free money era. Got nothing to do with the bogeyman

I see where you’re coming from, but I don’t agree with the conclusion.

The PS5 is selling as well as the ps4 did, despite shortage and worse economy for most people. Many people don’t want to go from sitting in front of their computer at work to sit in front of a another computer at home. A console is a much more streamlined and casual experience. You don’t have to mess around with 5 different storefronts and a hundred different launchers. You don’t have to worry about the specs of your computer, rising GPU prices, driver issues or half a dozen issues due to bad PC ports. For those sensitive to stutters, the jedi games and a bunch 2023 PC ports are still unplayable.

The mobile market is an almost entirely different demographic and much of that revenue comes as disguised gambling. Mobile gaming market won’t replace the traditional console market, it’s a completely different experience.

Nintendos will continue as long as there are children out there. Nintendo offers a “safe” and curated market for children, both old and young.

The game pass also isn’t much of a moat for Microsoft. Sony has their own offering and nothing stops them from extending it to the PC market, though highly unlikely.

I just don’t see the market of gaming on your couch going away. Many people value the simplicity of consoles, and PlayStation is the big name on the market.

I honestly don’t get your point. Both Sony and Microsoft are working on their next consoles and Sony got VR, though I’m not sure it’s profitable. Their PlayStation department is doing great, what concerns do you actually have? The pc market isn’t a threat, it’s just another revenue source for their developers.

Why do they need to put more effort? Their biggest games are all coming to PC already and they’ve acquired Nixxes for porting games.