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> Utensils are a great idea. The west uses forks, the East uses chopsticks.

Cultures have very different foods. My uninformed guess is that foods and utensils evolved side-by-side. The west doesn't use chopsticks because most food wouldn't benefit from being eaten with chopsticks.

Just because you're in the finance division of a bicycle company doesn't mean you can't drive a car to work.

This is OT but books can vary in quality too - specifically the paper used and the print quality. I was looking at "Physically Based Rendering" (http://a.co/bL8bjUw) after seeing the post here about rendering a scene from Moana and was disappointed to see comments about bad print quality. Hopefully this is fixed in a later print run.

I don't know if Amazon has this feature, but I've seen sites that let the seller answer back to reviews - for cases where the seller has addressed a reviewer's feedback, they could reply and say that this has been fixed.

Or make a new listing, and in the description mention what has been fixed.

From my uninformed point of view, most of those things apply to human drivers as well.

Automated trucks seem appealing because they solve (what appears to me to be) a large problem with human drivers - fatigue and allowable working hours.

Building a fixed-route automated truck seems more doable than a self-driving car that can handle arbitrary roads. I don't know if it's actually any easier, but the problems that need to be solved seem smaller in scope.

> A side effect is that you'll pick up a lot of geography by osmosis, which is in my experience, the easiest way to learn that subject - you're looking at maps and borders and terrain features constantly.

My son loves Crusader Kings 2 (and EU3), and had such an easy time in his history class because of this. He knew the geography of Europe down cold.

He's currently digging into Hearts of Iron IV.

To be honest these grand strategy games aren't really my thing but I should give them a shot. Their systems just seem overwhelming to a new player.

The API only makes it easy for the good guys to use twitter.

This is the best map I could find (linked off wikipedia):

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/146FC/production...

I recall seeing one of a vertical cross section so you can see where the kids would need to go into the "submarine", but I can't find it again nor do I know how accurate that map is.

In any case, the above map has a few cutaways showing you the cross section size of the tunnel to human scale.

> Novels are written to satisfy the social milieu of the time in which it's written.

Some of them are, some of them aren't. It's easier to see this with movies. Pop-culture references and characters using the latest technology are easy ways to make a movie more ephemeral.

A character popping memes holding an iPhone X will not age well.

I'm surprised to learn that pressing the "stop spin" button actually makes a difference - I had assumed that your results are calculated and fixed when the spin starts, and stopping it is just cosmetic. Why risk the house edge by allowing users to pick when to stop your spin.

I think this helps people who legitimately want to get some piece of content and are confused/misled when they stumble upon a pirate/torrent site. They don't know what bittorrent is and are confused when they think they can download a movie and end up with a .torrent or a magnet link.

If you're going to pick something to say "Kids doing X don't drink a drive", vaping would probably be pretty low on that list.

Ads aren't win-win. They're taking up the space of the content I want to see. Accidentally clicking on them sends some of my personalized data to who-knows-where. They often run code not vetted by the site owner, making them a security risk. Getting a personalized ad is hardly a "win". It's like stepping on a piece of poop that is your favorite color.

(I'm fine with ad-supported products, but I see it as a necessary evil of the transaction, not as a win).

> Why can't there be a way to get a regular, no frills coffee without waiting for tens of minutes?

McDonald's has acceptable black coffee if that's what you're looking for, and usually less hassle than Starbucks. I can't really say anything either way about the taste - to me coffee is coffee.

If GP had stock mostly in tech it doesn't seem like a bad idea to diversify.

> Of course this all assumes legit "soAndSo bought it too" messages

And this is why I would never trust such messages. It's way too easy to fake it, and too much work to make it real, and there's no way for customers to verify it's real anyway.

In addition I hope to see independent 3rd party reviewers developing their own autonomous car test suites so we can see how off-the-lot cars operate under hostile test conditions.

I don't know about OG diablo but you might be able to register your cd key on Blizzard's site and play the game through their on-line launcher.

I know this works (or worked) with Warcraft 3.

At the end of the day it doesn't matter if this experiment properly simulated a stationary car - unless you could argue that the Tesla was prescient enough to understand it was going to run into a car dummy. Any kind of road obstacle, be it construction, debris, or a wall, isn't necessarily going to look like a car.

> You did, until Golden Eye N64.

Improvements in aim assist really make console FPS games more approachable. Still not up to the usability of a mouse, but if the game is thoughtfully designed it meets a "good enough" bar.

Although I wasn't a big fan of Rare's cursor aim functionality, it felt very clumsy.

Personally I'm a fan of sticky aim assist (halo) or snap-to-body aim assist (call of duty, gta). These kinds of systems are the kind of work where players may not even realize they are being helped.

I don't know if I buy that - Fortnite is still a shooter at its heart and anything you build is extremely short-lived.

Compared to Sims/Minecraft/Stardew Valley, where your creation lives on for the entirety of the time you spend with the game.

> In Windows, when you type "help", it actually gives you helpful commands: COPY, MOVE, DEL, REN/RENAME, etc. and at least the basic commands are actually what you'd expect. At least you have a foothold somewhere that you can ground yourself, and you start learning a bit more every time.

Yes, this. I recall back in the MS-DOS days that I frequently used a text-GUI help menu that showed all the commands you could do and what each one did.

Personally, this is what I struggle with on *nix shells - I can do the very basics but there's little guidance showing you a broad overview of what is possible. Granted, the world is bigger now but if you asked me how to do a random task I'd probably google it first instead of reading a man page.

You can get it to recognize fingerprints or a short version of your password if it's even been fully unlocked for the current phone session. It's a little fiddly and may not meet the level of security you're looking for, but it's an option.

The key part is that you have to bring all of those all together. In hindsight it might be straightforward but if you had a blank slate, how would you approach the problem of "stop Iran from refining Uranium"?

Although for a product like this, having it work in less than ideal conditions is showcasing their product in the best possible light. I'd agree with you if they were doing a live demo.

Same here. I have cable but never use it. Nothing aside from the modem is even plugged into the cable outlet.

I do occasionally watch what might be considered "TV" but it's all through on-demand apps (Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and reluctantly Comcast's streaming app).

Broadcast television was a staple of my childhood and it's something that I miss (e.g., schoolyard discussions about last-nights episode of such-and-such tv show), but streaming television is so much better.

I feel that they're getting their legs back under their consumer division, although I agree their laptops have been really mediocre.

However I have enjoyed using their enterprise workstations for the last 10 years are so (various models of Z4xx's) and haven't had any complaints.

I've recently been having problems with Keep losing data that I've typed in (common scenario - paste in a paragraph of text from my spouse that has a list, I line break the list to get checkboxes, then portions of that list disappear when Keep tries syncing). This seems like a pri-0 feature but Keep has become unreliable recently.

Otherwise it's great but the fact that it loses data means I've shelved it for now.

> I've even seen websites that give solutions to Kumon homeowork. For those who don't know Kumon - it's an after school curriculum to help kids develop academically, to get to grade level if they are behind, of to accelerate ahead even further if they are already ahead. What's the point of cheating on those...

Smh. Cheating at Kumon is pointless. It's the process that matters, the end result is meaningless.

People are willing to go quite far sometimes: https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/8fu7wi/albertan_cha...