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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 Sure, but that's not what I was talking about. The camera on my car, if a bright light shines at it, will wash out half the screen. The mirrors on my car show the bright light exactly where it is and nowhere else.
If there's a sufficiently bright light in my side mirror it might as well be the entire mirror because I can't see anything else in that mirror.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
environmental conditions (rain, snow, mud, etc) degrades the camera experience far more significantly than the mirror experience
Only if you have heated mirrors
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
environmental conditions (rain, snow, mud, etc) degrades the camera experience far more significantly than the mirror experience
Only if you have heated mirrors
Who doesn't?
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@pie_flavor How come Blizzard hasn't been sued yet for human rights violation? Infringing free speech is surely a prosecutable offence? Or at least taking away the prize money for practising free speech?
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@acrow The problem is all this unresolved publisher or platform thing. The free speech law only prohibits government to punish you for what you say, but publishers are still free to choose what they publish on their own whim. Now it would make sense to require the major platforms to apply some fairness in the publication, but the laws don't do that yet. So they can't be sued.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor How come Blizzard hasn't been sued yet for human rights violation? Infringing free speech is surely a prosecutable offence? Or at least taking away the prize money for practising free speech?
It's understandable they'd want to prevent their award ceremony from being used as a political platform. I strongly suspect trying to make political statements that blatantly at the Olympics will get you disqualified as well. The rest of it seems a bit heavy-handed though.
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@acrow Everything they did, they had the contractual ability to do. The only argument to be had is whether the contract is valid.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@acrow Everything they did, they had the contractual ability to do.
All these contracts are of the form "we reserve the right to do whatever the hell we want", so yes.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
The only argument to be had is whether the contract
is validwas read.FTFY
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 Sure, but that's not what I was talking about. The camera on my car, if a bright light shines at it, will wash out half the screen. The mirrors on my car show the bright light exactly where it is and nowhere else.
If there's a sufficiently bright light in my side mirror it might as well be the entire mirror because I can't see anything else in that mirror.
Indeed. It is even worse than a camera/screen because a sufficiently bright light behind me (e.g. the idiot behind me has forgotten to lower the lights after loading a significant weight in his trunk) will result in this searchlight-like beam into my face which affects me even if I'm not directly looking into the mirror. At least a display has a maximum brightness setting. A mirror does not - the only thing you can do is to flip it.
Also, "lag" and "frame rate"? If those become actual issues then something else has already gone catastrophically wrong.
The biggest advantage they bring to the table: No more blind spots.
Everything else is secondary besides that.
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@acrow In related news, Blizzard just force-renamed a WoW Guild called "Gay Boys". And no, it wasn't an automated response.
And it also doesn't look to me like it was a "joke" guild who were using the word "gay" as a slur.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor How come Blizzard hasn't been sued yet for human rights violation? Infringing free speech is surely a prosecutable offence? Or at least taking away the prize money for practising free speech?
May be because a human right to say whatever the fuck you want on a platform run by a private company that made you confirm you knew they could ban your ass for any reason whatsoever right when you signed up doesn't exist?
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Content Mafia: You wouldn't download a car!
Sterling Backus: Hold my beer.
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because of user complaints
Is there some journalist dictionary where "user" is another word for "Chinese government"?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
because of user complaints
Is there some journalist dictionary where "user" is another word for "Chinese government"?
I don't think they were behind this move against Gay Boys. But it's a highly incongruent move - after all, they made a big thing about Tracer being gay. And Soldier 76 as well.
(and don't read the comments under that article - they're showing pretty well which demographic was triggered by that guild's name. One commenter even stooped down to the level of "Why don't they include a pedophile character as well?")
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@Rhywden ISTR the Chinese government is intolerant of gay stuff, and it looks very suspicious especially with the other recent China/Blizzard news
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@hungrier weird, considering their overpopulation problem and their former one-child policy.
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Aside from "Material design sucks", I had a look at some of the award winners.
Trip.com
Its permissions include:
- read sensitive log data
- record audio
- approximate location (network-based)
- precise location (GPS and network-based)
- read calendar events plus confidential information
- add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge
- make/receive SIP calls
- modify system settings
- run at startup
- draw over other apps
- and some other ones that are invasive but "reasonable"
TLDR: Every permission that can be abused by malicious apps, plus a few that even those ones shy away from. I'm sure they would've put BRICK if it hadn't been removed a few API versions ago.
Ruff is a notepad app, seemingly without any onerous permissions, just storage.
The other two (some meditation one, and a language writing tutor) for some reason both want "Run at startup"
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How is it even legal to tack on fees after you signed a contract stating fixed prices? That would be highly illegal over here.
Hell, even those "normal" price increases would allow us customers to cancel immediately - without such shit as those "early termination fees".
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@hungrier weird, considering their overpopulation problem and their former one-child policy.
Can't have Chairman Mao spinning in his grave, it would be bad for tourism.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
The only argument to be had is whether the contract
is validwas read.FTFY
Hilarious And Original
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@pie_flavor we’re here all day!
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@izzion OK, before I read the article, the question immediately comes to mind: will this be more or less of an ugly, tone-deaf mess than the StackExchange debacle?
I'm guessing... *flips a coin* probably more. Let's see if I was right...
Wow. Less. Lots of stupidity there, but in between it they actually acknowledged that, after some deliberation, they've realized that some of the punishments they handed out were too harsh and they're walking it back some. SE has done precisely none of that.
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@Mason_Wheeler I'm guessing that Blizzard employs at least one person who knows what bad PR is and how to start recovering from a blunder. SE... not so much.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@hungrier weird, considering their overpopulation problem and their former one-child policy.
Despite said policies, they still have a population (and population density) larger than most can imagine. Thus, public order and morals are actually pretty important to strictly enforce. Imagine if the <redacted retroactively for being in non-Garage> were 100x the headcount they are now, in roughly the same size area. Total chaos in the streets.
Edit: removed offencive reference to groups of people
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Imagine if the Pro-LGBTx crowd, Antifa, or some other cult were 100x the headcount they are now, in roughly the same size area. Total chaos in the streets.
Huh?
If you're going to continue along these lines, take it to the garage. Better yet, don't.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Imagine if the Pro-LGBTx crowd, Antifa, or some other cult were 100x the headcount they are now, in roughly the same size area. Total chaos in the streets.
Huh?
If you're going to continue along these lines, take it to the garage. Better yet, don't.
Ah, true, wrong news thread for that choice of wording. My apologies.
I simply meant that the kind of public protestation that the, ahh... more polarising subject matters invoke, would get much more out of hand when the population density rises to the level that it is in some parts of China.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
the Pro-LGBTx crowd or some other cult
Not the minorities themselves, mind. But based on the recent news, they seem to have what I could only describe as a sort of a cult following. If you have a better term for it, I'd love to hear it.
Edit: typo and clarification
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
the Pro-LGBTx crowd or some other cult
Not the minorities themselves, mind. But based on the recent news, they seem to have what I could only describe as a sort of a cult following. If you have a better term for it, I'd love to hear it.
Edit: typo and clarification
Sounds like you're talking about the SJWs.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
the Pro-LGBTx crowd or some other cult
Not the minorities themselves, mind. But based on the recent news, they seem to have what I could only describe as a sort of a cult following. If you have a better term for it, I'd love to hear it.
Edit: typo and clarification
Sounds like you're talking about the SJWs.
That term is a bit wide in both subject and type of behavior, and is arguably a misnomer to boot, even though usage here is mostly ironic and we all roughly agree on what it means. Further, considering that the subject is China, which is by their own declaration a socialist state, the term "social justice" gets even more meanings.
So, yes and no.
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The garage is
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
The garage is
As has been
'd above. If you'd like to Jeff my thread category awareness mishap there, be my guest.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
If you'd like to Jeff my thread category awareness mishap there, be my guest.
I obviously can't but you (and anyone else) could have continued that discussion there even if the original posts are still here.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
If you'd like to Jeff my thread category awareness mishap there, be my guest.
I obviously can't but you (and anyone else) could have continued that discussion there even if the original posts are still here.
I keep confusing you with one of the mods.
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@acrow He does a similar amount of mod work
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...and Mexico will pay for it!
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
school officials are worried the extra mile will force students to walk
along busy streets.
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
school officials are worried the extra mile will force students to walk
along busy streets.Sure to be a death sentence in the Arizona heat.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
...and Mexico will pay for it!
Surprise Elementary School
Who names these things?
parents have been using the street leading to the back gate as a drop-off and pick-up area, snarling traffic and blocking driveways
Would it be legal for a HOA to set up a road toll in their area?
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National Pen's international campaign is going a bit awry. They sent a sample to a deceased person's estate, with "Xxxxx Yxxxx's Estate" carved into it. (In Finnish, "kuolinpesä" literally means "deceased's estate"). I guess they skimped on a native proofreader.
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Sounds like a modern take on perpetual motion, not that I claim to understand quantum spintronics...might as well be cricket or Haskell:
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
...and Mexico will pay for it!
Surprise Elementary School
Who names these things?
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@boomzilla on the one hand, phys.org seems like a reputable source and not crackpots. On the other hand, even though I didn’t understand much, it seems likely they put in energy somewhere they didn’t account for.
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@topspin yeah, it seems like like the kind of things that will turn out to be some kind of measurement error in their experiments, but will probably inspire a few SF stories at least.