JohnEdwa

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's should to be close enough, the spec is called sensitivity (SPL) and most headphone manufacturers try to hit around 100dB/mW.
Hopefully the setting would allow you to fine tune it based on what headphones you have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

If the service is decent enough with servers close by, it really isn't bad at all. In a PCgamer test, the input latency for Metro Exodus and Destiny 2 went from 46ms and 51ms local to 96ms and 75ms from GeForce Now, and 179ms and 129ms from Stadia.

For comparison, back when Tekken 7 was released on the PS4, it had 120ms of input lag.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Only if the 94% are now completely immune to long covid and wouldn't suffer from it if they do get covid in the future. If that's the case, then the risks really are only the tiny chance of dying to it, usually requiring being immunocompromised or unvaccinated. Otherwise there is also always the additional, orders of magnitude higher risk that you get long covid, and with that comes the risk that you might get stuck to your bed not being able to do anything for over a year for example.

Using the numbers from your other comment, for those 45000 deaths by motor vehicle accidents you also have the over 2 million injuries and disabilities that didn't kill anyone, some of them permanent and debilitating. The risk of death is only one number among many.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Long covid symptoms are affecting 6% of the entire US population - 1 in 4 who caught covid. One estimate says the cost of long covid to the US economy might be as high as $3.7 trillion.
Just because you don't necessarily die to it any more doesn't mean it "poses no issues".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (19 children)

If it somehow guaranteed your success it would be safer to play a round of russian roulette at the base camp before you begin your climb as that has only one in six chance of killing you. That's how crazy your odds of success on the climb sound like.
Yet they all know the statistics and the risks, and go do it anyway. Are they mental, suicidal, or do they truly believe they are so awesome and everyone who died clearly was their inferior?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The only two decent ones with that Wipeout feel that I know are GRiP and Redout.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They are used to push through the lockscreen e.g. when you get a call or when a timer finishes. I assume camera apps might also use it for the button shortcut (double-tapping the power button opens your camera in most Android phones). If the app doesn't do calls or alarms of some type, I can't really think of any valid reason why they would need that permission unless it's something weird like Tasker and you want it to.
Other permissions that are also "revoked by default" like this are using the accessibility services or drawing over the screen - you just need to have a popup in your app that says "the app needs \ to work, please enable it in the following screen" and then opens the settings page.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Usually they don't. Something like Horizon Forbidden West credits almost 3500 people even though Guerilla Game has less than 500 employees, most of the rest is absolutely massive bloat from different outsourced teams and Sony departments - like the "Head of Opportunity Markets Business Operations Tim Stokes from Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.: Global Business Operations" was undoubtedly very important for the development of the game.

As for Baldurs Gate 3, Larian Studios currently has 450 employees in 6 different locations, so they are actually around the same size as Guerilla. I wouldn't be surprised if the credits end up being well above a thousand people (D:OS2 has around 500 credits even though Larian back then had only 130 people).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Youtube knows I have subscribed to 515 channels, I have liked 2364 videos and favourited 685. It already floods the recommended videos with others based on "Users who follow\ enjoy videos of ".
They for sure do not require my watch history to be able to recommend videos to me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

You haven't seen a Sphynx yet, have you?

They can be, uh, rather... unique looking.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Directly regulating the size isn't the only possibility though, huge cars are really rare in the EU even though there isn't anything prohibiting you from buying them. You just won't fit anywhere with one if you do :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Here in Finland it's legal to cross the road if the closest crosswalk is further than 50 metres (164 feet), but cars still have the right of way so if you get hit, it is mostly your fault - they aren't obviously legally allowed to just drive over you though.

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