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It is very likely that charging bar is more false than a wooden euro

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You get home after a long work day, you throw yourself into the couch, you turn on your console, you release the game you are already vitiating. Well, no, because before your avatar, the map and your mount appear before you There is a load bar that must be completed. It’s normal, you’ll think. You have to load the textures, the game or whatever, go to know, but that bar advances, so something will be doing. There is little left. A little less. Oh, how slow, will now be with something heavy, surely. Well, most likely no. Most likely, this load bar will be false and its only goal is to play with your brain. Charging… Load screens, with their bar, an illustration and perhaps a text with advice or some of LoreThey were necessary. They served to entertain the player while the machine was looking for, read and loaded the game information on a console whose power was not, from afar, the one that the current devices have. It was a normal solution, because the other was a black screen or showing a half -load level that would leave a bad impression. Load screen of ‘The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim’ | Image: The Elder Scrolls Wiki However, technology has evolved and, currently, the few bars of progress that we can find in video games have more customs and psychology than useful. That does not mean that there are no load screens, because there are even if they are very well camouflaged, but the speed of the components has allowed us to use alternative methods to avoid them. It is false. If we are in the tail of an attraction in Port Aventura, we calculate how much a trip lasts and we look forward, more or less We can estimate how much is left to ride. In a process that is happening on a computer without us seeing anything, that is much more complex not to say impossible. Load screens and progress bars are the only way that the software has to indicate that something is happening, that everything is going well, but they are false. Progress bars are the only way to tell us to indicate that it is doing something, even if we don’t see it Because? Because players They don’t trust fluid progress bars. A progress bar that moves slowly gives a feeling of bad optimization, but a bar that moves too fast or an instant load could lead to think that something has gone wrong or that is not well done. Mike Bithell, developer and creator of ‘Thomas was Alone’, He already pulled the blanket in 2023 When he confirmed that the cargo bar is fictitious and that, really, it is the pulls that the bar gives that indicate that something is happening. Load screen of ‘Guild Wars 2’. Below right can the progress bar that, in this case, is circular | Image: Xataka Basically, the bottom of everything is that we expect to wait, if that makes sense. Rami Ismail, video game developer and well -known industry disseminator, confirmed In X that he had “worked on projects where we simulate load bars, we extended load times or made the load bars move artificially at unequal speeds.” Raúl Munárriz, executive director of the Now extinct Tequila Workshe also said that “I have never worked in a game that did not have a false load bar. The reais cause anxiety.” Is your whole life a lie? Yes and no. Making a progress bar is something complex because there are many processes that come into play during a load, as many as factors can make it more or less fast. We could make a progress bar based on how many files they have moved from x a y, but it would not be fluid because the files, surely, have different sizes. Nor would it work to do it based on the transferred data, since moving few heavy files is faster than moving many small files. And neither depends on how much it remains so that all the steps of the process are completed because it is enough for Chrome to open so that the state of the PC is altered and the times change. There is no perfect solution. The load screens are still there. Although they are not seen as such, many current video games continue to have load screens. More dynamics, more concealed, but visible. Normally, when a game artificially slows you it is a sign that, in the background, it is carrying what is coming later. A known example is that of the elevators of ‘Mass Effect‘, but we can also think about travel through the hyperspace of’Star Wars: Jedi Survivor‘, any medium of teleport, the time we run through Yggdrasil in’God of War‘, when we receive a call in’Gears of War‘That forces us to walk very slowly or in a kinematics that jumps at the right time to separate one level from another. The techniques for video games not to disappear with a load screen are wide and varied. It is very likely that the game is carrying elements in the background while we do something else without realizing it. Or to load and download the textures in real time depending on the distance and our position. Image | Xataka, VECTEZY In Xataka | The milling of a programmer made a fateful mistake of this classic video game into a congratulation message

A trough ready to free us from the scorching heat, but charging its price on storms

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The worst of this warm episode has not yet arrived but there are those who already have their view at its end. It is not for less, as it is customary this summer, the only thing that is helping to reduce the thermometers is the arrival of storms. And again meteorologists foresee them. Change the trend. On Friday part of the peninsula will see A new transition Meteorological: The heat episode we now live will give way to storms. These stormy episodes will affect the north third and could be strong, leaving winds of intensity and hail. Dorsal and trough. Again, the alternation between scorching heat and intense storms is given by the succession of dorsal and trough, air masses in height under the influence of high and low pressures respectively. According to explains the geographer Samuel Biener in Meteoredthe change in the situation will come from the hand of an Atlantic trough driven in turn by the undulations of the stream in jet. Two seas to red live. There is another important element in the risk that these storms suppose in summer, Remember too Biener himself. It is in the seas, and more specifically in the temperature of its surface waters. Both the Western Mediterranean and the Eastern Cantabrian They are suffering their own “heat waves”. The waters of the surface in these regions have been accumulating several degrees above what would correspond to this time of year. This increases the risk of convective storms. Heat and moisture are transmitted to the air on the surface and then this air interacts with possible cold and dry air masses such as those dragged by the rush that approaches, generating important storms that discharge the humidity and energy accumulated in the environment. Uncertainty, for now. There is still uncertainty about the evolution of this new episode of storms but The forecasts From the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet), on Friday both cloudy skies are expected and “locally with a storm” rainfall. These will circulate from the west and will end up affecting most of the north third, being especially intense in the Eastern Cantabrian and Western Pyrenees. The situation is expected to refer towards the afternoon of Saturday, although the forecasts indicate the possibility that during the day there will be “strong and accompanied by storm” rainfall between the Eastern Cantabrian and the Northeast of Catalonia. For now the agency has not issued any warning related to these storms, but it is still early to rule out a worsening of the situation. In Xataka | The heat of the last weeks has been so extreme that we have already exceeded tropical nights: the equatorial nights are here Image | ECMWF

has been charging without working seven months

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Imagine being hired by an important company in which you are going to collect a good salary but, when it is time to incorporate and assign your tasks, nobody does. They pay you for Do nothing Throughout your day. Would you give up such a job? Although the argument of a sitcom may seem, that is exactly what happened to a Reddit user who He told his experience in a job in which I had “working” seven months without doing anything. In spite of everything, the employee was satisfied with his work: “I will not get a second job while I do this. I am a vague auction and I do not even want to do this job, nor talk about a second.” Schrödinger’s employee: he is, but he doesn’t work The user resident on the east coast of the USA, counted in his publication that he was hired in one of the world’s largest real estate companies for an administrative position with a salary that almost reached the six figures. However, a week before joining the office, the person who hired him was fired. In fact, on his first day, someone from another department had to show him what his table was. “I’ve been sitting in an office behind the office that occupied the woman who hired me, completely alone.” This unexpected situation left the new worker without a direct superior to supervise him, and Without clearly defined tasks From the first day. Faced with such an unusual situation, the employee tried to contact other managers and department leaders warning them that he has no assigned tasks. However, their requests have not obtained an answer, and continues to perform minimum tasks that it has assumed on its own. Its only official activity is to develop spreadsheets on the list of the equipment, something that does not use more than 15 minutes a week. Then, send the files to the department head and attach a hidden copy to the office coordinator, only to save appearances. An exemplary employee Despite the total absence of tasks and supervision, the employee has chosen to religiously fulfill his working hours. He explains that, to leave registration of his assistance, he goes to the office three days per week to validate his credential and meets the agreed schedule. Even so, the employee confesses that some days leave early. We assume that it will do it without leaving pending tasks. Your company applies a Hybrid Day Modelso the other two remaining days does “his work” from home. The employee says that during the seven months he has been in the company, he has always received his salary promptly, despite not having real responsibilities. “They pay me every month, although I barely have a job. No one seems to realize that I exist,” he says in his publication. According to other users, when you need one day free, send a request by an application and someone approves it without major problems. But “I have not talked to anyone in months,” he confirms. Some users tell you the possibility of searching A second job remotely with which to entertain During “your work day” and, incidentally, get an extra income without having to spend more time. However, the employee has refused full assuming that his goal is to maintain the minimum effort. He really found work of his. Although the case of this employee may seem isolated and unusual, in reality work audits discover similar cases quite often, even in Spain We have had some cases. Meta, for example, hired engineers during the pandemic to prevent their competition from signing but, like later confessed, He really had no assigned tasks and They charged for doing nothing. In Xataka | Boreout: When you get bored at work you can ruin your professional career as much as being burned by stress Image | Pexels (Startup Stock Photos, Andrea Piacquadio)

Google Deepmind has made possible the dream of some employees: charging without working

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Large technology companies are immersed in a Armament career for AI. As in any war, The soldiers They are a strategic element for each of the parties. That is why Google Deepmindhe has chosen to pay some employees the full year’s salary without having to go to work. His only purpose: no The competition fiche. Google pays for not working. Although large technological have adopted policies in which the performance of your employeesGoogle has made the decision to pay some of them for doing nothing. Something that remembers the Tactics used by goal During the pandemic, in which some employees denounced that they had no assigned functions and that they were only hired to avoid the competition. According to The published by Business InsiderDeepmind, Google’s artificial intelligence division, has signed non -competence agreements in the United Kingdom that prevent certain strategic employees from working for rival companies or starting own projects for a year. During this time, professionals receive their full salary, but they are not obliged to work or can search for employment in other companies. A lost year. This type of non -competition clauses seeks to prevent the knowledge and acquired skills By employees of a certain company, they benefit their competitors once their employment relationship is over. However, far from being an advantage for workers, this period can become an obstacle to their professional development that does not occur in any other business sector. Although receiving a salary without working might seem ideal, many affected employees consider that these agreements are harmful to their careers. The damage to employees is evident in a constant development sector such as artificial intelligence, where technologies evolve at a frantic pace and, being out of the market for a year, implies losing key opportunities for Learn and grow professionally. Talent here and now. A former employee of Google has declared Business Insider than startups that are developing models They are not willing to wait between six months and one year to hire talent, so employees with non -competition clauses are trapped in labor limbo that, in reality, remains relevance in the sector. Nando de Freitas, Vice President of Microsoft AI, confirmed in a publication In your X account which receives weekly consultations of desperate employees for escaping these non -competence agreements. “Do not sign these contracts. No American corporation should have so much power, especially in Europe. It is an abuse of power that does not justify any end,” wrote the Microsoft manager. Freitas has urged workers not to sign this type of contract and has pointed out senior Deepmind executives as responsible for this situation. Made the law, made the trap. In the United States, the Federal Commerce Commission (FTC) prohibited most agreements of non -competence due to its harmful effects on workers. However, this regulation does not apply in the United Kingdom, where Deepmind has its main headquarters. California labor regulations He relaxed his position in 2024 With respect to the non -competence clauses and accepted those agreements signed by foreign companies. This administrative subterfuge allows Google Deepmind, based in London, implementing these clauses without legal restrictions. So you can include these clauses in the contracts of your Silicon Valley employees. In Xataka | If you are angry with your company, congratulations. Anger makes you more productive In Xataka | The Z generation sharpens the talent retention problem in companies: they do not marry anyone Image | Unspash (Tommao Wang)

Japan has been charging a 0% tariff to foreign cars. You will not find one among the 50 best selling

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Japan is a fascinating country, of those that it costs to understand from the point of view of a western one. Perhaps because we ourselves have turned our backs on Asian culture during our years of teaching or because, simply, they have historical and cultural peculiarities that we are complicated to assimilate. What is certain is that the Japanese have entrenched the consumption of the local product. You have to keep in mind that Japanese society is deeply nationalistperhaps because it is surrounded by other countries where this feeling is also entrenched as China or the Koreas, which has caused continuous tensions in the area. After the Second World WarThe United States financed the recovery of Japan, with the clear objective of putting a geopolitical cap to communism that threatened from China and Korea. A movement that could have diluted this nationalist feeling. Little by little, the country was growing and in the 70s managed to diversify its industry and, at the same time, apply technical novelties that placed it at the world avant -garde in many sectors. Taking advantage of the weakness of the Yen against the dollar, they decided to put all their effort into export as much as possible of your products. Those exports flooded the world product economy. One of the most significant were cars. In its technical innovations, the country prioritized the efficiency of its engines, key to flooding the market when the oil crisis. In front of American and European cars, The Japanese were cheaper and more efficient. It was at that time that the industry shot completely and Japan decided to make a decision: he raised tariffs on foreign cars. Pass and see Something like that should have thought of Japanese politicians in 1978. With the aim of being more competitive in the face of foreign markets, the country raised all tariffs for those who wanted to import a car to their country. That is, any foreign brand could sell its cars in Japan without paying a single extra euro. In Japan they should not be afraid of what was going to happen. Its industry was so powerful and cultural factors so decisive that foreign vehicles have not finished cauling in the market. For proof, In 2016 the European Union lifted the 10% tariff with which he taxed Japanese cars. The 3% paid by Japanese manufacturers to produce in Europe but use Japanese pieces, but also raised Japanese. In return, the European Union found the open door to sell other products, such as cheese or wine. So, The European Union He came from buying 575,000 cars worth 9,000 million euros while we were barely sold 279,000 vehicles for a value of 7.3 billion euros, they collected in The world. From Auqí we can get two readings. The European Union, a specialist in the export of cars, had barely placed in the country Japanese 279,000 cars in a market in which Five million cars were almost sold that 2016. Of the 12 best -selling brands that year in the country, only one (Mercedes in tenth position) was foreign. And none of the 30 best -selling cars in the country was a foreigner. The cars that the European Union managed to place in Japan were high -price vehicles. The average unit cost Japan more than 26,000 euros while those bought by the European Union cost less than 16,000 euros. That is, it costed Europe (and much) to compete by volume. When Japan opened its doors to the world, it had to be aware of the country’s particularities. The hard emission and space standards have made the center cars of large cities disappear. From the 60s The Shako Shomeishhothe obligation to have a space to park the car to have the right to buy a car. In a country that is concentrated in cities, the limitation is decisive. In addition, the Japanese client fully trusts his companies and has trouble opening to new technologies. The host of the hybrid car in front of any other technology (and the Resistance of Japanese firms themselves The electric car attests to it) is a good example of this. To this we must add that, by price, the great generalists cannot compete since local vehicles are sold much cheaper taking advantage of a manufacturing within the country that is more competitive than beyond their borders. The value of YEN, lower than the dollar, the euro or the pound, allows them to obtain large amounts of money for the development and manufacture of a product that allows them to lower prices in their local market. On the contrary, foreign companies that have to sell there face A cut market For emission regulations, the space regulations barrier and that have the obligation to change the production of the car since when driving on the left they need to position the controls on the opposite side. An added cost that puts another lock. The result is that Europeans and Americans end up offering Japan cars that do not interest. In addition, in Japan the minivans, contained on the outside and of wide interior space are religion. A type of car that has disappeared in Europe while in Japan the Toyota feels, the Nissan Note and the Honda Freed occupied the squares of third, fourth and fifth best selling car In the country. And you can keep going down in the list of the 50 best -selling cars in Japan In 2024. You will not find one that is a foreigner. Photo | Toyota In Xataka | The problem of US cars in Europe is not tariffs: they are not interested in the least

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