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Comment Re:Good luck (Score 1) 82

But at no point are you REQUIRED to eat nothing but ultra-processed foods either. It's entirely optional.

Of course some will be cheaper, but that's like saying "Ah well, we can afford to smoke the PREMIUM cigarettes, which are healthier" - it's WORSE.

And the listing of what's in your food is a million times better than what's in your cigarette or your vape, for instance.

Allergies and preferences also don't come into this. If you have an allergy, you can't just force every food to be hypoallergenic to you when most people aren't allergic.

Sure the cheap crap burger isn't as good as the premium steak. Obviously. But this is then trying to sue the burger maker... even though what they are doing is within all the guidelines. And ultimately the result of that is... no burger for you. Can't afford steak? Oh well. You're not eating today then.

Comment Re:Closed source software and assets are a bitch. (Score 1) 14

There aren't many good open source fonts for Japanese. There weren't even that many good ones for Latin languages, until Google started releasing some under free licences.

By "good" I mean good coverage of all characters, proper keming, good hinting so that they render well and consistently on screen and in print, etc. It's a lot of work, and Japanese has a lot of characters.

Comment Consider the "Human Driven" equivalent (Score 1) 100

Imagine a headline: "Car driven by human hits dog, igniting safety concerns over allowing humans to drive cars."

It's silly. You'd laugh. It is equally silly to talk of 'self driving car hits dog' in the same way.
The question that matters is whether or not a self-driving car is less likely to hit a dog than a human driven car.
Improving standards of self-driving car software and hardware is in the same bucket as improving driver discipline.
And there are many drivers with poor discipline who are more likely to hit a dog than a self-driving car.

Comment Re:Update (Score 1) 10

It took every other company that has managed it a few attempts too. It's just hard. They did get their dummy payload to orbit this time, which is significant for this new rocket.

Note that they will be the first to land an orbital rocket. Other Chinese companies have landed sub-orbital boosters before.

They have a few firsts under their belt already. First methalox and first methane rockets to orbit, in the world. Fart powered rockets are pretty cool.

Comment Re:Wow! (Score 1) 62

There was that period in the 2000s when faux Celtic symbols were popular. They looked cool for about 5 minutes, then they were too common.

Most people with Chinese characters don't seem to have bothered to figure out what the actual word they want is, they just pick some that sound kinda like the English version, or what some website claimed it was. Often they end up being kinda funny to people who can read Chinese. I met a guy who thought he had is name in Japanese on his arm, but it actually said "Paula".

Same goes for clothes. Super Dry print complete nonsense on their clothes, for some reason. Not even a mistake, it looks like they just randomly selected some text that looks cool from multiple sources, fragments of words here and there, and mashed them all together. At least my Japanese shirt that says "assumption is the mother of screw-up" is attempting to make sense.

Comment Re: Of course it does (Score 1) 66

It doesn't work that way. And even then, it can still be slightly outside of that area. Photons don't work the way you think they do.

Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. Some phrases for you to look up to start to dig yourself out of the hole of your ignorance.

"timing advance"
"round trip time"
"propagation delay"
"triangulation"

You might study how Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's flight path has been investigated to get some popular and simplified explanations that will help you with imagining how this could be done.

You're making a ton of wild assumptions here, and no doubt you're predicating even those on top of your first assumption, which itself is very wrong.

In the meantime in this house we follow the laws of science and the experiment is in. 8m location accuracy has been demonstrated with Starlink so you are just fundamentally wrong. Once the experimental evidence contradicts your theories, that's the point at which you start trying to learn.

Comment Re: Of course it does (Score 1) 66

The only way to determine the precise location of a terminal is with plain old GPS, and that isn't at all foolproof.

Just wrong. The spacex satellites themselves provide location independent of GPS and 8 m accuracy has been demonstrated even without SpaceX cooperation. SpaceX themselves could probably achieve 1m accuracy if they wanted to, but in any case 50m accuracy would be enough for target location.

Comment Re:Wow... (Score 1) 60

It's supplementary information that the buyer should be aware of. If an area is liable to flood, they can look to see what measures the owner has put in place to prevent that, or if the elevation of that particular house is higher than the water is likely to rise.

Of course, even if that particular house doesn't flood, having a flood in that area is still a problem. It might limit the owner's ability to travel, it might cause utilities to be cut off for days on end.

It might also affect insurance. In the UK, if your house is within so many metres of a river or lake, you tend to pay more even if it has never flooded. Same with large trees near the property, which may fall on it in extreme weather, or cause its foundations to shift due to roots undermining them.

Comment Re:Check your outrage (Score 1) 17

The main issue is that he doesn't communicate much. For years people have reported issues on GitHub, he hasn't interacted at all with them, but they get quietly fixed in the next release. That was fine until this happened, and people were scrambling to find malware-free versions, and looking for updates.

He put out a statement saying he would publish a new version with a new signing key, and at that time explain exactly what happened. So far there has been a beta with the new key, and no other updates, which is pretty much how he has always done things.

To make matters worse, people on Reddit and on Github have been pointing to versions they claim are not infected, but with little evidence beyond maybe a VirusTotal scan. Given the lack of information from the developer, it is unwise to trust them.

It's a shame because SmartTube is one of the best apps ever. YouTube, with ad blocking, SponsorBlock (skips over in-video ads), and DeArrow (replaced clickbait thumbnails and video titles with descriptive ones), and many quality of life features like disabling auto-translation and having easy access to playing videos incognito.

Hopefully it recovers quickly. Normally he gets updates out within days or even hours when YouTube breaks something, and it's been several days already.

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