tldr?

Twitters primary problem was that they had not build a system that was designed to shard, not Rails. They'd have needed a rewrite no matter which framework they'd started with.

I have no love for Rails, but blaming it for Twitters old problems is not fair.

That said, Mastodon has much of the same problem, and is only "saved" by the combination of federation and ten years of hardware advances. Thankfully, the federation means there's plenty of opportunity for people to experiment with other implementations of ActivityPub (or even implementations of the full Mastodon API), or fixes to it.

Rails doesn't scale.

And yet it runs sites magnitudes larger than Hachyderm just fine.

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In what way will Ukraine winning (whatever that means) help us in terms of energy?

Best case scenario is a revolution in Russia leading to a new democratic free country that immediately withdraws from Ukraine, starts selling gas and what not for needed cash and goodwill, sends war criminals to The Hague, etc.

Of course that's highly unrealistic. There is very little chance of a peaceful settlement between today's Russia and today's Ukraine (what Ukraine wants - its territorial integrity and probably reparations and war crimes investigations, is simply incompatible with the very nature of Putin's regime and situation), thus there's very little chance for Russian gas to flow as it did before any time soon. Hopefully by the time it's again possible it would have been replaced by alternatives.

> Of course that's highly unrealistic.

That's very realistic, actually. We just need Germany to send the man.

Russia is already going broke. They could be forced to resume gas sales by financial need.

Not in the US, where Twitter is located.

You're missing the point. Twitter can't operate in those places where it is illegal if they keep that stuff on there. They want to, so he's gone.

No, Twitter has been censoring tweets and entire accounts in specific countries for years. They could have done that.

https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/help-twitter...

Before, the checkmark was mostly held by people who work hard against my interests and the interests of my people.

Openly admitting racism is pretty brave

In the meantime CSGO makes changes to explicitly increase player contrast in maps: https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2020/06/30428/

This was only required because they started selling very camo-like player skins which nobody wanted, and didn't even fix the issue very well. people just had to accept it, and I still regularly see some skins blend into the background way too well...

> some skins blend into the background way too well...

That's kind of the point of camo.

I'm guessing the issue is that this is a supposedly cosmetic item you can buy with cash, so if it has an impact on gameplay, it creates a pay-to-win environment.

That isn't the point of in game skins that aren't supposed to give you any advantage though

This is interesting game tuning. I guess the tactics isn't as fun, when you're less likely to see someone before they can shoot you?

The gameplay is quite complex so that difficulties parsing enemies due to visuals just detracts from the experience and reduces that gameplay complexity. There are still situations where it's intentionally more difficult to recognize enemies, but that's an explicit choice made by map designers, not an accident, and requires you to learn how to deal with that in specific situations (while also adding to the decision space for the other side).

I haven't played CS except for the OG version,but that just seems like the same to me (and I have a gaming laptop)

I'm looking at it on MacBook with 40% brightness and I can tell the difference, but yeah it's only slightly better. Reading the comment I was expecting some orange outline but there's only a very light "gamma" difference.

You have to imagine that we're recognizing and reacting to these things faster than we're often aware of. It's largely an unconscious process where edge detection is the very first step. Even a subtle change like this will have a significant impact on how quickly you can visually process and react to it. This patch is meant to make it easier to discern the model from the background and it does that perfectly without affecting game balance too much across the game.

I have an ASUS and I switched to its "FPS" mode in Armoury Crate.I was then able to see the difference, but it is really subtle. My monitor doesn't have 4K, so maybe that might make the difference.

eyeOS was quite mature, it's just that just like Puter it was a terrible idea

It's not limiting you now, what you mean is that you have just hit a limit that you didn't know existed. I've worked with the twitter api and there always have been strict limits that depend on the app, account and ip address that you post from