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Comment Re:it's how aerospace engineering works (Score 1) 76

but when Musk does the exact same thing - he's an idiot and has no idea, according the lying legacy media......

Errr no. Musk hasn't done the same thing. The only thing he's been called out an idiot for are precisely the things he was doing that were idiotic. Many of those ideas have been reverted or in other ways found to be completely impractical by his own engineering teams.

No one called him an idiot because this first rockets failed, they called him an idiot for specific reasons, and the specific things he says (which largely have proven false especially in his timelines). Please don't show your overt fanboism like this in public, keep that shit for your bedroom.

Comment This should hit hard to all the idiots (Score 1) 10

who proposed Apple simply pull out of India, or criticised Apple for not following "local laws". Everyone seems to jump to some extreme end-point in every debate, completely forgetting that most such issues are sorted out one way or the other along the way.

Yes laws need to be obeyed, that doesn't mean you can't fight against them in the process, especially if you have the money to weather fines and start a legal battle in the process.

Comment Re:Wow! (Score 1) 184

In the young groups I am around, Tattoos are considered passe', and not cool. As one young lady said, "In 40 years, we'll hear "Tattoos? Ewwww, my Grandma has them, they look gross" "

We don't need to guess and go out and talk to kids. The statistics can be looked up. Depending on studies GenZers are only about 10-20% behind Millenials. If you then look at the general distribution of *when* people get tattoos you can expect GenZ's percentage to increase further over time while Millennial's are unlikely to change from this point forward.

Anecdotes and soundbites are irrelevant.

The rest of us are allowed to have our opinions (and sometimes facts) about that.

Indeed, but when your opinions don't fit facts (such as the fact that 25% of millennials don't actually have a criminal record) just know you run the risk of having other people form the opinion that you're a judgmental arsehole.

Comment Re: Wow! (Score 1) 184

You're funny, most people don't have tattoos. somewhat less than a third.

I'm not sure what your point is. My point is there's no significant differences between generations and Gen-Z also have plenty of tattoos. Is your point that 1/3rd of people is not a big number, and that 1/3rd of people have poor self-image? If so WOW.

My anecdote: The only people I know with tattoos are those with such good confidence in their self-image that they happily display their body as a canvas. Very much the opposite of what you say.

Before I hit submit I decided to see if there was any information as to your comment. Turns out this has been studied: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a... and it turns out only 10% of tattooed people have body image problems. Doesn't really fit your view does it...

Comment Re:Closed source software and assets are a bitch. (Score 1) 81

That's insightful, what open source alternatives do you propose? There's hundreds for our alphabet, but there's fuck-all out there for Japanese / Chinese, many thanks to literally thousands of glyphs existing in the language.

Here's one character https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... just one of the several thousands which has more strokes than the entire Latin alphabet, Greek alphabet, including both lower case and upper case combined.

There's multiple orders of magnitude more complexity here with multiple orders of magnitude less demand for the work. It's just not a good target for open source.

Comment Re: Making a note... (Score 2) 81

Is it reasonable for a (chain of-) provider(s) to suddenly increase licensing costs? Surely the work has been done already.

To be clear it's not that they "increased" the cost, it's that they specifically eliminated a cheaper plan that the industry was relying on. Yes ultimately it's a distinction without a difference, but I really wonder why games specifically were getting a discount in the first place?

Comment Re:That's pretty rich (Score 1) 48

Apple already preloads hidden carrier/government spy crapware but

Citation Needed. I mean if what you say was true why are the TLAs constantly suing and fighting with Apple rather than simply flipping their hidden privacy invasion switch?

Or does your conspiracy run so deep that the government and Apple run a perpetual legal battle rather than simply admit what you already know to be true?

Comment Re:What about Russia (Score 1) 48

Apple isn't pre-installing anything in Russia, not even their own OS because they do not sell iPhones in Russia nor do they have business there. They pulled out of the market in March 2022.

Now if someone buys an overseas iPhone and resells it in Russia that person would have to preinstall the app before selling it. And the MAX app technically doesn't breach any App Store rules so it is actually available to install.

Comment Re:The next couple of years (Score 0) 48

EU trying to outdo dictatorships in privacy invasions

Never go full hyperbole man. If you want to make a point then make the point. The direction the EU is going is bad, but when you equate it to dictatorships your otherwise valid complaint starts to lose credibility and look like ignorant biased drivel.

Comment Re:Conclusions (Score 0) 157

We don't know if the dog shot out from under a parked car, so it was literally impossible to avoid. All the folks trying to assign blame one way or another are doing so completely prematurely.

False, you even admitted it in your post. We know the dog was unleashed, hence the fault is completely with the owner of the dog who didn't take care of them. How fast or slow the dog entered the street is irrelevant. And the owner should be fined $500 as well since San Francisco as strict dog leashing laws.

Comment Re:One dog and one cat... (Score 1) 157

100,000 dogs get killed each year by human drivers (sometimes just their own owners stupidity, like having them unsecured in the tray) https://www.petscare.com/news/...

So far Waymo has killed zero dogs, and one cat. And that dog that didn't even die was off-leash so the owner should be sued for damaging the car.

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