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MacOS was already dead for gaming since they have no hardware that can play most games. Killing OpenGL and not adding vulkan just finished it off.

Google is very good at precisely controlling what happens to the data. You never hear about some huge leak where 1B google accounts had their whole data taken.

And a linux version of the C++ version.

Sounds like the game was perfectly realistic then.

I sometimes send emails out of hours but I have absolutely no expectation that they will be replied to soon and I do not check or reply to emails after hours. Sometimes I just have something I need to send before I forget or remember that I forgot to reply to something.

Some kind of real time pricing api would do wonders. I wonder how we would solve the issue of having a bunch of devices waiting for the price to drop under $x and as soon as it does all of these scheduled devices kick in to action causing the price to immediately shoot up. Probably need some way to distribute price cheap times so not everyone gets it at the same hour.

When I was looking I saw a fair few rental properties advertise that they have solar installed and that you will not have to pay electricity bills for reasonable usage. It was still a minority of properties set up like this but I imagine in the future many more will have solar since it will make them highly desirable.

Also the fact that at 30km moving speed you will come to a total stop if you braked before impact

That doesn't stop the fact that you first have to identify that the car will not make an action automatically and by that time it is too late for a human to take manual controls back. That also doesn't stop people who are looking out the window but not really focused on what is going on since they likely spend hundreds of hours looking and nothing ever happens.

Human brains were not designed for this kind of task. Everything about the task prompts a resting mindset but the task requires 100% full concentration for hours.

Is it? The driver was the one who decided to make the situation dangerous. A walker on their own would find it impossible to harm someone by walking. If you are driving in a place where people are walking (Anywhere not a highway) you must be driving at a speed where you could stop very quickly (30-40km/h).

If you were driving at 30km/h it would be almost impossible to seriously hurt someone even if they stepped out in front of you.

What I remember seeing at the time is that it was programed specifically to ignore them since it is unable to detect if an object on the side of the road is just a stationary postbox or a person about to jump out.

To be able to safely handle pedestrians the self driving car would have to limit itself to much slower speeds or place fences around every road. I guess we will find out in a few years which option was preferable.

Of course they were. Almost no one is capable of staying totally focused on a task they have no input in and is incredibly unstimulating. Even if they were looking at the road their thoughts would be "Oh, someone is crossing the road. The car will slow down for this. Oh shit it didn't and now its too late"

The car either drives itself with no user input required at all or it needs constant user input.

Its copyright infringement but as usual, nothing will happen if you did copy and paste it.

I am aware of a legacy system powering a local business which runs on Rails 1 on a version of debian from 2012 and stores users passwords in plaintext, downcased.

I have tried to explain so many times that this system needs to be replaced urgently not for security reasons but because no one actually knows how to use rails 1 anymore.

Its funny how we let this all slide when it comes to tech. Imagine if someone said "Food safety regulations only hurt the small businesses, they don't have the resources to wash a cutting board after cutting chicken while McDonalds serves unhealthy but legally safe food"

My mum got a pair and they just worked out of the box. Then a few months later I got a pair and when I turned them on they just kept saying to connect them to the app and refuse to pair to bluetooth. I then knew someone who got a pair after that and also had to connect them to the app.

Once paired to the app the first time it doesn't require it again and you can use them as regular bluetooth headphones. I'm guessing some product manager decided that not enough people were installing the app and had a change made so you were forced to use it at least once.

The physical cable probably did work. Initially I thought it wasn't working until I looked it up and found out you have to push it in harder before it clicks a second time

Android isn't as bad as windows. There is no requirement to sign in to a google account for android. I simply installed f-droid and continued using my phone. There are some improvements that could be made, the calendar app requires a google account which is annoying and arguably the play store should allow installing free apps without an account.

My pebble watch does this. When it goes "flat" it reverts to time and alarm only mode which lasts for about 24 hours.

It is never made clear that an app is required either. Often devices have an app but you don't need it at all since it was just slapped on as a feature checkbox.

I recently got a pair of Bose QC 35 headphones and out of the box they are non functional until connected to the app. I had to borrow a phone to connect them to the app to set up and then thankfully they started working on my own devices with bt and wired without needing an app.

Headphones should just work out of the box. The only useful function the app provides is firmware updates and a way to map the button to NC level.

>It's not ridiculous.

Its not ridiculous if you think of an operating system as a tool for generating profit for microsoft.

It is ridiculous if you view an operating system as a tool to serve only the users needs and not suck all of your data up for advertising.

The facebook brand has such negative feelings associated with it but the new logo is really refreshing.

>They'll just say the tracking is part of the business model and therefore needed to provide the service.

This is unacceptable under the GDPR. You must allow users to opt out. If this affects your business model than the legal option is to remove the free plan and charge a fee for the service.

What is very simple is just creating a law stating that you may only use exactly the data needed for the purpose of providing the service and any extra data must be requested from the user with the easy ability to decline. Now rather than years of cat and mouse where advertisers always have the upper hand, the advertisers suffer massive fines for misuse.

>We need the ability to not only disable browser APIs but also make them return fake data to fool the website.

Browsers have been trying this for a long time but its not simple. Chrome has had multiple attempts at making it impossible to detect incognito mode but people keep finding ways. The old way was checking if the API to store data was available so chrome made it so that there is an emulated data store for incognito mode and then websites just check how fast the local data store is to check if it is on disk or in memory.

It would be an extraordinary effort to remove all of these issues since many of them are outside of the browser like what exact gpu and driver is in use could slightly change how the page is rendered or how long certain things take.

> I'd immediately resign

You are assuming that is actually an option. There is nothing to suggest the current Australian government would not prevent you from resigning until the task had been completed. This is the same government currently attempting to make it illegal to boycott businesses that are damaging to the environment.

I don't want a browser that comes up with 10000 popups asking if it has permission to render an image or permission to add 2 numbers together.

I want a browser that can get the task done with the least friction possible and a legal system that prevents abuse. The website should be the one to inform me that they are actually using the audio api for tracking and not just playing audio. With a large penalty for lying.

If we were talking about the issue of people being stabbed you don't suggest "Why should the stabber be penalized? The victim should have been wearing a Kevlar vest that doesn't allow them to be stabbed. If they weren't then they should simply expect that people will stab them."

Pretty much. Back when apps were native to the platform they would be windows only. It is insane to require every app developer to have to put in 3x the work to rebuild the app for every single platform using its native tools. I would rather have one app that is 3x better and works everywhere. We just need to solve the massive memory issues with electron.

The memory usage issue is insane. My work laptop is regularly at 20GB memory usage partly because all of these electron apps take up 300mb to sit in the background and show me a notification every now and then. Its hugely refreshing to see my notes app (Zim Wiki) using 19mb of ram while being super fast and providing a huge amount of utility.

And hope that no one else has the same idea and that they are able to provide for all of their own needs and that they don't go insane on an island away from everyone else.

In order to survive an unlivable climate you would need some advanced technology which I'm not sure how you will maintain or source replacement parts after society has collapsed.

Pretty much. There is basically no way anyone, no matter how prepared will get out unharmed if global warming goes too far. A doomsday bunker won't help you much when a crowd of starving people smash your solar panels for not letting them in.