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Comment Re:Oh wait, you're serious? Let me laugh harder (Score 1) 9

As it mentions in the summary, it's not full self driving, it's just driver aids that are common in cars now. Cruise control that automatically maintains the distance to the car in front. Automatic emergency braking. Self parking and summon. The only bit specific to scooters is the self balancing. It seems like it only works at low speed and uses the steering system to do it, not a gyro or something like that.

Comment Re:interesting re-framing of their failures as "su (Score 1) 99

None of the bad DC movies were bad because they were "woke". They were just badly written on a technical level, and the stories were not that interesting. There was clearly a requirement from on high to make them into franchise set-up vehicles. The early Marvel stuff that was actually good worked because they were good movies by themselves, and most of the new stuff is bad in no small part because it's just there to set up the next thing.

The Snider ones had their own issues of course.

Gunn seems to have the formula. Movies that are good as stand alone stories, and he leans into the silliness of the comics. Peacemaker is a great example - low level criminal who for some reason that is never explained has access to sci-fi level weaponry from the pocket dimension accessible from his old white supremacist dad's house.

And ironically that show was actually kinda woke, at least as far as it mocked both white supremacists and gullible believe-everything-they-read-on-Facebook types. It's not the wokeness that is the issue, it's just plain old bad writing.

Comment Re:if u want 2 kill dolphins (Score 1) 62

I'm not familiar with that particular case, but they might just be NIMBYs. For example the panned Severn Barrier, which would use tidal energy to produce electricity and combine it with a barrier that can hold water back and thus shift availability to match demand, has been objected to on all sorts of grounds. Actual environmentalists Friends of the Earth supported it. While there would be some disruption to wildlife, it would also create new habitats, and most importantly it would displace a lot of other sources of electricity that are far worse.

Generally speaking the UK is crap at infrastructure. It takes forever, it almost always goes over budget, and it almost always gets botched. It's a political problem and it's unfixable without radical changes to the UK political landscape.

Comment Re:Tides change but are predictable (Score 1) 62

Tides are at different times in different parts of the UK, let alone in wider Europe. They can always be used with tidal barriers to shift supply, as is being planned in the UK for the Severn. The fact that it is completely predictable and not subject to any weather also means that shifting demand to meet availability is as simple as setting a timer.

It's an excellent solution.

Comment Blender is such a great open source tool. (Score 1) 5

Currently have a project going using Python scripting in Blender using scipy.optimize.differential_evolution and Cycles rendering to optimize the shape of a reflector to match a desired light distribution pattern. It's not a perfect tool for the job, but it seems to be pretty accurate.

Comment Re:A handy tool (Score 1) 23

Kind of surprised that it's over half a gigabyte. I guess there are a lot of drivers for storage interfaces in there, but beyond that it's only using basic text for the interface, isn't it?

I suppose maybe they thought that as long as it fits on a CD there isn't any point trying to optimize the size.

Comment Re:Creating FUD (Score 2) 70

When two copies of the same game are running at the same time, that's proof of guilt

It's proof that somebody is guilty of something

You may have been unknowingly complicit, but you are still guilty of participation in a crime

but this is so moronic that you should really be ashamed of yourself. This is a website for nerds. Being that stupid is basically a crime. Your nerd card is hereby cancelled.

If somebody makes an unauthorized copy of a cartridge and then sells the original, the original is not tainted. The person who buys the original is not complicit in anything. The person who used or resold the copy is the one who is guilty of something.

Comment Re:Superhero ethics in the modern world. (Score 1) 99

I hate relying to AI slop, but there is a more interesting argument that it doesn't address here.

Imagine Superman appeared in the real world, today. There would be immense pressure on him to resolve current on-going conflicts. The situation in Ukraine is perhaps one of the easier ones, with Putin being the clear bad guy. What about in Palestine though? One side is committing genocide, while accusing the other of terrorism. Superman would be accused of anti-semitism the moment he got involved. Would be implement US foreign policy, even Trump's policy which seems to involve the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and turning it into prime real-estate, or would he become an enemy of America? Or would he just refuse to get involved, or only involved on a humanitarian level?

The point is that Superman couldn't be both a force for morality and good in the world, and not an enemy of half of it, including the country he lives in.

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