Tarquinn2049

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It also breaks other stuff like being able to output video to portable video glasses. A relatively niche use now, but something that will pick up considerably over the life of the console.

Having a floating 4k screen that you can put anywhere at any size is pretty nice. Don't have to look down at your hands or hold the system up to a comfortable eye line.

I do hope that at some point they open it up a bit more. And maybe only exclude stuff that would damage the system, which is ostensibly the -given- reason for locking it down. While of course, the real reason is likely a licensing opportunity.

I do still buy their stuff. But it has been more and more often lately that I buy it and then feel ok about emulating it to add in stuff like 4k 120 fps or VR/stereoscopic or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Wait... I see these all the time... is it maybe just a Canada thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's more late 90's sports car. But it is at least closer, hehe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Yeah, what I really want is a little electric late 80's/early 90's sports car. With modern safety features. I don't care if it doesn't have insane range, I drive less than 5000 km a year. I miss the look of that era of sports cars. It doesn't -need- to have pop-up headlights, but think of how much more responsive and useful they could be now.

My current car is a mark 3 supra, even if I could convert it to electric, the safety features are also pretty outdated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

They wouldn't be using the naked eye to spot the balloons. While I certainly am on the skeptical side that this happened. It is closer to being plausible than it originally seems. There are just some suspect details.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Yeah, even "powerless" narcissists need someone to feed their ego, and will eventually turn on that person and need a new one.

It's just worse when the narcissist has power.

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

Yeah, that is actually one of the other points people sometimes use to refute the atom bombs being a war crime. That they didn't kill as many civilians as firebombs or carpet bombing... I know you aren't, just brought it to mind. But yeah, that only makes those other types of bombs also war crimes. Hehe.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Does he not know that using the atom bombs to kill civilians was kind of considered a bit of a no-no?

The justification that "it ended the war early, actually 'saving' lives" is moot, killing civilians to save soldiers, is pretty much strongly considered the opposite of the point. It is a war crime.

Not having been charged with it, isn't something you want to go poking at. Everyone has kind of loosely agreed to leave it in the past. But that doesn't have to stay the case if you make people upset enough like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I guess we better get ready for some SLAMing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

"It's all computer"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I would say, instead of trying to 100% switch over, instead dip a toe in. Dual boot, or run a seperate system as linux first. Slowly grow into it, and then if in a few years, it feels feasible, put it on as your main and have your windows system as the back up. Then maybe eventually you won't need/want a back up at some point.

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

It is likely akin to sunk-cost. They have already spent so much of their life having a thing to point at, that they don't want it to have been wrong the whole time. Even though it was known to be wrong pretty much right away, that was already too late for some.

Some mindsets require assigning blame to an external locus in order to move on. There has to be no chance it was "their fault" even though it's hard to really describe genetics as such...

There hasn't really been anything else to suggest a fixed external potential source. So if this one is proven wrong, they are out of options. Ignoring, of course, that it has already been proven wrong. But, that is the reason why they feel it hasn't. Because it's so very important to them that it is right.

And of course barring all that, even the most profoundly affected individuals with Autism rarely blame their condition for the lowered quality of life, if any, they blame their surroundings or surrounders incapability of adjusting to their needs. With proper surroundings and surrounders, even at it's worst, the downsides are manageable and the upsides can be really nice/useful.

 

I assume they are two separate patents by two separate companies, but once those are both on the same can opener, there will be no reason to buy any other manual can opener. So when is the first one expiring?

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