Dark_Arc

Dark_Arc, 3 days ago

Trump can’t be both “different from everyone else” and “everyone’s worries about the guy are unfounded, he’s just another politician.”

While I know you didn’t say he’s the same, per se, you might as well by comparing alarms that Obama or Romney are going to be forever presidents to the guy literally “joking” about being a forever president that’s taken possibly criminal steps to subvert the results of an election already.

It’s not just the fringe paranoid folks saying “this could be the end of democracy as we know it if Trump wins.”

Dark_Arc, 3 months ago

Yes, climate change models predict the Midwest becoming more comfortable. Don’t get me wrong it’s still bad overall but the Midwest will likely benefit from its climate change in terms of being a relatively comfortable place to ride the storm.

Dark_Arc, 1 month ago

This is my take as an Akron resident:

1. We have a new community controlled local police oversight board.
2. The officer was called with the pretext that someone had been brandishing a firearm / pointing a gun at houses.
3. You can’t see very well what the officer could see because the view is obstructed. It’s entirely possible that the kid complied but accidentally pointed the gun towards the officer.
4. The officer shot exactly 1 time and shot in a non-lethal manner (the hand was shot). This was not a murder attempt, this was in a way the extra mile, the kid will hopefully make a full recovery.
5. The fake gun is not an orange tipped fake, it’s very similar to a real looking gun. The kid also was not with friends “playing pretend” or anything like that.
6. As soon as the kid started yelling the officer immediately deescalated the situation and moved towards first aid.
7. The officer does have a messy history, particularly when alcohol is involved and when off duty, but was entirely sober at the time of the shooting and has never been known to be drunk while on duty.
8. We have had issues in the past few years locally particularly with teen violence. They’ve been trying to solve it, but some kids are carrying guns and robbing people, some kids have been carrying guns to protect themselves from the other kids, and evidently some kids are carrying fake guns too.

I’m glad this kid got to walk away with their life. I hope their hand isn’t too messed up and I hope they don’t have too much mental distress. They never should’ve walked around in public with a toy gun and “showed it off”, and I hope they never do this again.

If the officer really did something wrong, I’m sure we’ll get to the bottom of it, but as it stands, I think the officer reacted reasonably.

Dark_Arc, 1 month ago

What does this one have to do with China?

Dark_Arc, 9 hours ago

I’ve heard dishwashers dull blades. I don’t understand the science (assuming there is some) behind it.

Dark_Arc, 19 hours ago

You can almost feel the paranoia that some folks have about a little bit of dirt or a couple of bugs in their house forming in 20th century advertising.

Dark_Arc, 5 days ago

Agree on the first part … disagree on the latter.

Joe has invested heavily in domestic production of “the next generation of technology” (chips, solar panels, electric vehicles, etc).

This is in no small part about protecting that … and I don’t think there’s much in terms of negotiating that China could do here.

Dark_Arc, 5 days ago

I’m opposed to the idea, we’ve got enough people that think their ideas need to be broadcast to everyone in the world.

Dark_Arc, 24 days ago

mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-jerusalem-post/

This seems to be a legit paper.

Following the anchor’s comments, footage from an Al-Jazeera interview was played which showed a woman in the enclave complaining that “the aid isn’t reaching all the people” because the aid “is all to their [own] homes. Let Hamas catch me and shoot me and do what they want to me.”

Palestinian civilians complained to the IDF that Hamas stole aid, The Jerusalem Post reported in January, alongside recordings of civilian testimonies.

In one recorded call, a Gazan civilian testified that Hamas murdered his cousin because he tried to seek help from UNRWA. In another conversation, a civilian said he does not leave his home because he fears Hamas will seize it and use the property to fire toward Israel and destroy his house.

I want Israel to stop killing civilians as much as the next guy … but can we acknowledge Hamas is not “the good guys” here either?

Dark_Arc, 2 days ago

I mean, the purchasing model was fine. It was like any other game store. It’s just it was a new service and lots of people already had existing libraries they wanted to take with them … which just isn’t how that sort of thing normally works. Particularly with the way Google had it designed so that you could play purchased games without a subscription.

Dark_Arc, 6 days ago

Not to mention this was the first 2 years, the years an administration is typically least effective.

If Biden gets years 4-6 with a democrat majority in the house and senate it will be a big deal.

Dark_Arc, 9 hours ago

It is

Dark_Arc, 3 days ago

That reduces a lot of relevant context, like why they needed the 08 bailouts in the first place, how many times they’ve been bailed out, and the fact that China has heavily subsidized these cars to the point that even if they were making the same vehicle, it would be significantly more expensive.

Dark_Arc, 4 days ago

The reason the US and Canadian governments are doing this is to stop that $10k car from destroying the auto motive industry in North America resulting in layoffs that make the recent tech layoffs look like peanuts.

I agree we need cheaper EVs in North America, I want one too… There’s an Ars Technica article where Ford basically goes “we thought everyone wanted expensive trucks … we made those electric … we realize we missed the mark, we’re going to work on smaller, cheaper, EVs.” So, they are coming hopefully within the next couple of years.

I’m not sure how important manufacturing still is to the Canadian economy, but for the US economy … trying to protect domestic production is important (and we should’ve done it years ago instead of letting cheap Chinese imports destroy a large amount of the factories in North America).

Dark_Arc, 4 days ago

Well… That sucks. It looked like a decent update on Dirt Rally 2 as well

Dark_Arc, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Any doctor worth their salt is going to be able to answer the question “how do you know that?” way better than “I just do” or “I have a medical degree” and that’s the point; I’ve yet to find a problem space where that isn’t the case. I don’t try to win arguments by waiving my credentials around and I don’t expect people to take my for “my word” just because of my credentials.

There are plenty of people with titles and fancy degrees that are not worth listening to, like the Ohio doctor (that somehow recently got her medical license back) that claimed the COVID vaccine was making people magnetic, Dr. Oz, etc.

Put another way, do you trust the alleged internet licensed electrician that says a ground wire makes you safer but can’t explain why, the alleged internet licensed electrician that says a ground wire is worthless, or the person that says “fuck who I am, ground wires are important because they allow tying things like a metal mixer’s body to an incomplete circuit, so that if the metal becomes electrified the circuit is instantly completed and the breaker trips. Alternatively, the circuit becomes completed when you touch the metal and you might die before the breaker trips. If you don’t have a ground you can protect humans with a GFCI which detects current loss at the outlet and cuts the power locally. However, a GFCI may not detect some situations that a ground wire would resolve, like an arc that makes use of a grounded portion of the appliance and may generate enough heat to start a fire. AFCIs have been created to help detect this situation. However, both GFCI and AFCI can fail and thus a ground wire is still a useful backup option that also has value for some sensitive electronics.”?

Most professionals aren’t going to volunteer all of that, but many will volunteer more and more if challenged/questioned.

For reference, my background is in Software Engineering but my father is an electrician at a factory, and a good friend of mine is a forensic electrical engineer. I have no formal credentials in electrical engineering … but I do know a fair bit about the what and why … because I have been inquisitive, I’ve questioned the experts that I’ve come across to understand their field and learned from them.

Dark_Arc, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

This reminds me of the new game Andrew Gower and his brothers have been working on, Brighter Shores. It’s a pure passion project based on a from scratch game engine that was created to make programming (even massively) multiplayer online games much easier.

The goal isn’t profit but rather, to have fun, and make a cool enjoyable game. He’s said they’ve made more than enough money from the sale of Jagex and RuneScape back in the day (which FWIW, he regrets that sale and a lot of what has happened at Jagex/to RuneScape).

I love to see game developers (and people in general that … “make it” and then go “you know what, I do have enough”).

Dark_Arc, 5 days ago

That sounds like a really cool title for a game if nothing else!

Dark_Arc, 3 months ago

Actually it wouldn’t. If they connect to the federal grid they’re subject to federal regulation. The whole reason they did their own thing originally is that they didn’t want to be subject to the tyranny of the federal government.

Dark_Arc, 1 day ago

Some of those apps are optional but advertised as if they aren’t. For instance, I’ve yet to encounter a router that actually needs the app to set it up, but most will tell you to do that rather than trying to give you the “old school” instructions.

Dark_Arc, 4 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

I think their point is legality is relative … surely what China is doing is legal in China. “Unreasonable” would be a better term than illegal.

Dark_Arc, 27 days ago

Click bait avoided, a prerelease build of Windows suggests some kind of general advertising in the start menu beyond promoting ads.