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What if, as a very high number do, the server uses something like a proprietary SQL database?

You only need that fancy database when you have lots of users. When you release a server binary that anyone can run it doesn’t need to support quite so many. Have a compile–time flag that excludes the fancy database when set, and have it fall back to something simpler like SQLite or Postgres or whatever you want.

So what, dedicated hackers will find a way around that. There's bigger fish to fry.

Dedicated hackers already find a way around limitations. By that logic there’s no reason to do any of this.

After years of plugging away at it, sure. We can't rely on years of free labor from the community to make the games we bought work. Even if they had to substitute some proprietary libraries, it would be a much better starting point.

Oh I agree - I don’t think saying hackers will find a way is a good solution at all!

"Manufactured home" probably isn't what you're thinking of.

It's what we used to call a mobile home or trailer. They get around a lot of zoning restrictions because they aren't permanent construction.


I think you're right, I wrote my comment after skimming for stuff on planning and before getting the mobile home part. I hadn't considered trailers

> The comment from here onwards is about Sydney specifically, so if you're not interested this is your chance to get off.

Unfortunately in Sydney Australia this is almost certainly also regulated https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/policy-and-legislation/housi...

It seems if you want you're allowed to set it up on your own property, which is surprising reasonable for Sydney standards. Just no more than 6 months after which you need to make a permit, possibly make a development application or something as it may be viewed as a permanent increase in floor space which tends to be tied infrastructure levies and maybe rates (think property tax). You can't set it up in the middle of the outback without some kind of planning proposal to rezone it to permit it.

At least with NSW (the state Sydney is in) the criteria are likely consistent across the state)

In Sydney Trailers likely aren't subject to Development control plans (DCPs) but other kinds of prefab/manufactured homes definitely are. Here's an example of a DCP, here is an example one from Randwick (one of 20-30 councils sydney is compromised of): https://hdp-au-prod-app-rcc-yoursay-files.s3.ap-southeast-2....

It regulates room size relative to floor ceiling distance, solar and privacy impacts on adjacent sites, minimum privacy and solar inside the dwelling (such as the amount of sunlight during the least sunny hour of the least sunniest day of the year), setbacks, etc, etc. If its next a heritage item it can't mimic it, it also can't take attention from it, has to confirm with some abstraction notion of sympathy to the heritage item


The large number of actual bands from that era still around?

Consider yourself lucky if they still make music in their vintage style

You're thinking of simcopter maybe, which follwed 2K and was full 3D.

"Defund the police" was such a dumb slogan. "Demilitarize the police" would have been much better.

Agreed, although in addition to that the hope was to do other things too like divert funds out of tasks the police do that they shouldn't be doing in the first place (like mental health calls and wellness checks) and into social services/EMS instead and also away from internal affairs and into independent/community oversight boards (no more policing themselves).

I doubt any pithy slogan would have encompassed all of it, but the least they could have done was avoid something that most people would reject instantly for being insane. It's amazing that so many people managed to get past the slogan at all to get into the "well actually what we mean is..." and it was totally predictable that the slogan would be weaponized against the movement by opponents


The cynic in me says because they want to select candidates whose work IS their life.

This is a $300k car with over a thousand horsepower. Housewives are not the target market.

Why would you think that? Rich housewives/spouses do exist.

The Urus is at least to me the equivalent kind of car. Captures a market that does not appeal to traditional lambos. I could see this doing the same.


Wouldn't the Purosangue be the competitor though?

I am pointing out that manufacturers introduce models to capture new demographics. Just like the Urus did.

I would assume even they would prefer buying something sexier than an iphone on wheels.

You’re confusing your taste to the taste of someone who is probably making a purchase solely on brand and it being an EV.

This thing might sell incredibly poorly but one thing I have always found to be true. The taste of HN commenters is wildly different than target demographics.


Most housewives in dubai buy Rolls royce anyway. It looks better

Ok? Still does not defend anything you are saying.

why would the ultra wealthy care about it being an ev? operating cost and climate impact are not a priority when you are dropping 650k and living in a oil rich ME kingdom.

performance and aesthetics s would be more important, surely?


EVs are legitimately better to drive.

Why fixate on Arab countries? Rich people live all over the world and there are increasingly more emission restrictions. And again, as I keep repeating myself, just because you are not the target demographic does not mean it does not exist. I could easily see someone who does not care about cars wanting this because of the brand and yeah even EVs can matter depending on social circles.

You guys are defending this to death. I am only pointing out that it would not surprise me it fits a demographic they were targeting.


The car isn't $300K. It's $640K (€550K).

You think ultra rich housewives don't want ultra expensive cars?

Ferraris situation is absolutely, 100%, totally NOTHING like JLR

*yet

No, the V12 buyers will buy these in droves. Ferrari is incredibly elitest. You’ve got to buy multiple lower tier vehicles to even be allowed to maybe eventually buy a build slot for one of the high end cars.

Never buy a Hyundai/Kia. They make the dumbest cost cutting decisions, like their recent immobilizer fiasco. The dealers are also, largely without exception, terrible.

Several Kia models produced around 2005 incorporated the questionable design of having the engine control electronics located below the oil sump - as I've seen first-hand what that does to the vehicle's maintenance costs, I'm inclined to agree with you!

I know a number of people with this view on Kia and Hyundai. "They were garbage back in 199X or 200X so they're still garbage now." Except that was twenty or thirty years ago and from what I've heard they made advances in design and quality since then.

The immobilizer issue I mentioned effects virtually every Kia built between 2011 and 2021.

They also do not do well in CR's annual surveys.

They're still bad, and there is ample objective evidence.


Most of what I've heard is about the electric vehicles they produce, not the ICE cars. My understanding is their EVs are different beasts and much better.

Kia has some competitive vehicles in niches that not many seem to want to service, and I suspect many of their buyers do not live in areas where immobilizers are going to be a major issue.

Our dealer was fine, and it's been fine. It's a car car, not really doing anything amazing.

Brands, but especially Asian ones, seem to go through cycles - this thing is absolute shit, nobody buy it, company fixes the problems and gets reliable, but still thought of as crap, company keeps improving, people start to notice, becomes known as a real good and reliable deal, company starts charging more and more. Kia's on the ascendant right now, where Toyota was 20+ years ago.


The immobilizer thing isn't due to stupidity, but corner cutting taken to ridiculous extremes. I don't think a company can recover from being run down by bean counters.


Maybe, but anecdotically people I know who bought new Kia's also got rid of them, after trying different models that all had interesting problems.

Kia is pretty much well regarded in Europe. It was the first company to offer a 7 years warranty. I've been very happy with mine.

They offer (still I assume) a ten year warranty in the States. They offer such a long warranty because the perceived reliability of their vehicles is so low.

The dealer issues are true, but we have been very happy with our 2021 Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy after owning it for 5+ years and 82k miles. Budget luxury with pretty good handling and performance. It's a great value package if you need a 3rd row vehicle (I have 4 kids).

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