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Drunk_Engineer··on A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
The only winning move is not to play.
Drunk_Engineer··on America.gov
Let's hope advertising doesn't come to .gov sites.
Drunk_Engineer··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
Shade structure is not required at all. California has also been experimenting with floating plastic "shade balls" in the water.
Drunk_Engineer··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
If it is a business no one cares about, then why has Google been fighting this?
Drunk_Engineer··on Woman wrongly flagged by ID scanner as nationwide 'public safety concern'
Privacy experts are raising concerns after a Winnipeg bar flagged a woman as a nationwide public safety concern through its ID scanning system, which led to her being denied entry to a Calgary Stampede venue in July.

Alexandra, a Montreal-based lawyer, went to the Riverside bar in St. Vital on June 6, where a person working security scanned her driver's licence at the door using a Patronscan ID scanner.

Alexandra soon learned the Winnipeg bar is part of Patronscan's flag network, a system the Calgary-based platform uses to alert other venues about problematic people.

Drunk_Engineer··on California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year
This company is working on a pollution capture device:

https://thetyrecollective.com

Drunk_Engineer··on Canyon HUD helmet for road riding
US.

Here are 2017 numbers (ok...only 96% that year). https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

Drunk_Engineer··on Canyon HUD helmet for road riding
Same author, same BS.
Drunk_Engineer··on Canyon HUD helmet for road riding
"one study suggests that helmet use may reduce the risk of head injury by 83%"

That one study has been thoroughly debunked...yet decades later it still gets cited.

https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/06/04/feds-no-longer-ba...

Drunk_Engineer··on Canyon HUD helmet for road riding
99% of bike fatalities involve car crashes. There is no styrofoam helmet which will protect against that, and the VaTech test notably does not model that type of crash.

To my knowledge, the only group that tried to test bike helmets against a car is Volvo -- and all helmets failed.

Drunk_Engineer··on Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
My son took CS10 a couple years ago, and even I (Masters in EECS from UCB) struggled with some really obtuse multiple-guess questions he showed me on the homeworks. Much of the classwork is done in Snap, a weird and stupid graphical "programming" language. If 1/3 of the students are failing, that may have more to do with the professor.
Drunk_Engineer··on MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
Enterprise Mac still has occasional problems -- mainly due to Microsoft crapware IT departments insist on installing.
Drunk_Engineer··on [dead]
A series of Youtube videos critical of Battleborn batteries has now led to a lawsuit by Dragonfly Energy.

https://diysolarforum.com/threads/battleborn-batteries-suein...

Drunk_Engineer··on Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
The CBOSS fiasco, which added $200 million in costs, certainly can't be blamed on Atherton.
Drunk_Engineer··on Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows
There are some trials underway testing that hypothesis.
Drunk_Engineer··on "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2
An almost identical security issue in iterm2 reported 6 years ago:

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical...

Drunk_Engineer··on Just Put It on a Map
Nice idea, except the actual mapper site requires a google login to view.
Drunk_Engineer··on Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US
I can find only a single paper making this claim about marathoners. And that study has attracted a lot of criticism.
Drunk_Engineer··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
By that you mean the fines should be made much higher, right? Because traffic crashes have a huge economic cost.
Drunk_Engineer··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
> they cannot use that fact against you to prove it was in fact you driving- they have to prove that independently.

5th amendment protections are much weaker for civil cases though.

Drunk_Engineer··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
For those who don't get the joke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpEF6QPSVJE

Drunk_Engineer··on White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue"
IANAL but she could also have a good case that it will be impossible for her to get a fair trial.

Some potential jurors will have seen these doctored photos. With the prosecution putting out obviously false info then it calls into question their credibility and any other evidence presented at trial.

Drunk_Engineer··on Xous Operating System
Trust and transparency: https://betrusted.io
Drunk_Engineer··on LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]
Possibly related:

https://badspot.us/Brown-Ring-of-Quality.html

Drunk_Engineer··on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices
Yes, but local permitting is a complete shitshow. For example, I should be able to plug in a simple balcony-solar system, but my PUC prohibits the technology.
Drunk_Engineer··on Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia
Literally car-brained.
Drunk_Engineer··on FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses
So Retinox5 from Star Trek?
Drunk_Engineer··on Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/marietta-hotel-...
Drunk_Engineer··on The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
That was the second one (Reloaded). Filmed in downtown Oakland and Alameda Naval air station.
Drunk_Engineer··on German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
Suspended sentence…not prison.

Winterkorn has spent the past decade getting various postponements in his trial. Now that he is approaching 80 it is unlikely he will suffer any serious punishment.

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