This has been a hot topic among AAA developers for a long ass time. Steam is setting certain requirements, such as engagement with advertisements may not be forced - But product placement that fits within the world is fine

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/advertising

I'm European enough to have visa free travel to Thailand and that fact broke the passport checker guy. The Chinese officer could not comprehend visa free travel does exist for certain nationals.

Again there's no need for them to do the check, as I'd stay in the international zone of the airport. As well as the initial airline having checked everything was fine before departure, due to them having to cover a return flight if you're not accepted into your destination country - But yeah, it was a complete shit show to layover through China

Just don't do a layover through China, that's a complete shitshow. In the rest of the world, traveling from outside the country to outside the country. They'll just let you stick around in the international zone.

China tho, holy fuck. Has to get through another passport control, at which Chinese officers whom doesn't know the visa rules are examining if you have proper visas to enter the country you're traveling to, which funnily enough was already done by the flight company moving you to the Chinese airport. Then another layer of a security check and before you've blinked your 3 hour layover has passed. It literally takes 2.5+ hours to get through that shit

Looking at the 6 countries being more fond of the US, we essentially have 3 groups.

• China backs Russia: Poland
• China is a regional threat: the Philippines, South Korea, India and Japan
• They genuinely like Trump: Israel

But for most, China is reliable and you understand what their goals are. Because they literally have a 100 year plan and tells you most things in advance. Trump is just a smoking gun, he'll do something today, something else tomorrow and I can't even fathom what he'll do the day after - While being corrupted more than any leader of a major country ever has

A big part of games taking up more and more space is due to higher resolution assets. Creating installers only installing needed assets would drastically reduce the size for anyone not playing on extreme or whatever they call the maximum resolution.

But games do still tend to be among the archetypes of software, which hits bottlenecks that needs performance optimisations. You only have whatever hardware your end user has, you can't just buy a bigger server... well Google Stadia tried

It was the Norwegian Halland-Johannesen twins of Uno-X Mobility that had the great idea.

All of the teams carry mobile air-conditioners and purifiers, but for unknown reasons Uno-X didn't bring any to their hotel

It's not that hard to find viewing/listening numbers and site visitors.

You can frame it in a lot of ways, to balloon the number. Daily, weekly and monthly users would be interesting numbers to have.

The above numbers might indicate 94% interacts with BBC at least once a year, we can't know. As the quote isn't specifying how they determined it

20% of the parliament is women. Beating the US congress.

The guardianship rules doesn't apply for working and traveling. So any woman over 21 can apply for a passport and leave if they feel like it.

77% of women has a secondary (high school) education and 37% participate in the workforce.

Yes Saudi Arabia has a long freaking way to go, but they've been closing the gender gap in recent years.

Womens rights is a theme among several middle eastern countries, I'm naive enough to believe they understand it will benefit society and not done so entirely to befriend Europe

because the AI industry is “building AI-agent integrations into production infrastructure faster than it’s building the safety architecture to make those integrations safe”.

How dense are some people? No they don't build integrations to your prod environment, you hand them the access willynilly. I was in an AI related greenfield project 2 years ago, there's several reasons why communication with our db happened through an API. The primary one, control.

But is the current president separated from power?

The claim is the current president is a Fidesz supporter, rather than an independent onlooker ensuring democratic process.

Presidents/Kings in Europe's role is to stop a parliament in case they begin to transition into authoritarianism or enact laws that are indisputably against the people.

There's a few systems that differ, such as the French at which the president is responsible for foreign politics

But he's the establishment candidate! Just ask Farage!

Veritasium themselves has a video on the topic, they've indeed sold parts to investors