OK.

But that's not the actual reason I don't use rust or go. The actual reason is that I don't trust downloading stuff off the net from sites that I don't feel are sufficiently monitored. I prefer stuff that resides in, e.g., a debian repository. (Also programming in rust feels like programming with one arm tied behind my back. Safety measures that only make sense when one is doing multi-threading being applied everywhere.)

C is pretty good at that, but I haven't seen statistics for Rust. I suppose all the complex stuff could be optimized away during compilation, but I don't know that it is.

Well, it's not measuring dates, but it's measuring steady intervals. And IIRC correctly, the scale if femtoseconds. (Nope, that was a laser-comb clock. Perhaps attoseconds.)

Good point, but probably not (directly) related to this study.

Yeah, it's not a good study. If nothing else (and there is much else) the sample size is too small.

OTOH, I find it difficult to understand why so many people seem to think it's "obviously wrong", when I would have predicted that result from a good study. People tend to be unreasonably biased, and not just about sex. There've been studies where two groups of people were divided at random. Those who ended up in each group tended to prefer their group over the other, even though the group didn't exist outside of the study. (I say that, but I don't know for sure that the folks didn't maintain their groups after the study was over...but it was a pretty short study.)

Lots of people anthropomorphize their car or motorcycle. It's one of the things people do.

That's a difference, it's just not a significant difference. It might well justify a larger study with more careful controls. But the result they produced is what I would have guessed, so I'm a bit biased.

Still, look at any sports team match. People tend to favor one side over the other for reasons that have nothing to do with skill.

I'm sure that's happening. I'm also sure it's only a part of the story. Some of the other posts have raised other contributory issues, like image quality. And actually I think your point is a valid example of a more general trend, i.e. people tend to favor those who are more socially approved. The reasons for the social approval are nearly irrelevant, but different groups within society will use different measures. (E.g. Catholics will tend to approve of different people than Unitarians, even if they adopt the same proposals.) Think of how some people rate their favorites sports team vs. the way they rate the other side.

That's a single data point. I've seen it be true, but I've also seen it be false. Also they tend to be differently Machiavellian, but I wouldn't say men were more Machiavellian than women, or the converse. Just that they tend to do it differently.

The study *is* flawed. The sample size is too small, and I doubt that the people tested replicate the world population average.

But it *is* "food for thought", and the result is the one I would have expected. People *do* tend to be biased in favor of the socially more approved of groups. (You don't need a study to prove that. Just read either the news or history, especially the history of a conflict.)

Do you really think those suggested biases aren't present? My guess would be that they are. People generally feel that "the superior group" deserves better treatment, where "superior group" is basically defined by public relations, with a large helping of "people like me".

As I told you clearly, not changing the clock kills MORE people.

So fuck yourself.

because there is no disc to "authenticate your ownership" to the Xbox, so it will attempt to reach some remote server to look at your "account".

You can play it offline. But only on one console. Xbox has the concept of "home console" or "primary console". You can download a game to it and as long as the console checks in every so often (once a year or so) the license will be valid on it.

All other consoles you log into must be online to validate the license.

So it's not truly offline play but you could play the campaign offline as it doesn't need to do a license check on your primary console. Note that this only works to keep that console offline - you put it online and it'll refresh the licenses you have so if it got transferred it'll stop working. Or after a year, which ever happens first.

That way you you don't have to deal either with the sun beating down on you while you try to sleep at 4am or with your poor children getting run over in the dark on their way to school.

In the summer, the sun still rises around 4:30AM with daylight saving time. I don't see how 3:30AM or 4:30AM makes much of a difference. And it sets at 10PM or 11PM. Either way it doesn't make much of a difference. Or to put it, "the juice isn't worth the squeeze". Because you just get that daylight for another couple of weeks and then it's back to darkness or daylight again. And I'm close to the US border.

And then we get close to winter and the sun doesn't rise until 9AM so your kids are still going to school in the dark. And then starts setting right when they get dismissed. It's not unusual for it to be light when they leave school, then darkness when they get off the bus 40 minutes later.

The US states that did do it were more mid-latitude states where it's not a bad idea. But in Canada, it's likely to not make much of a difference because in the summer it's been out for hours at 6AM (daylight time) and in the winter it's still dark when you drop the kids off at school (standard time) or head into work.

Anyhow, if there needs to be a transition to standard time, going from daylight to standard time is generally much easier than the other way around. Just stop screwing with the clocks.

I don't care if the clocks auto-set. Not being sure about the current time (did this clock change?) is way more damaging than having to adjust clocks. There used to be clocks you can call to get the current time, but those died out decades ago. Now you're just not sure. Even public clocks aren't always right - there are plenty of clocks I run into still using the old daylight saving time schedule, decades after Dubya changed it. They're off for a couple of weeks until they change. And no, you can't check on the internet because most of them just use the current system time.

If you had any critical thinking skills, you'd realize that my original point applies not only to keeling over, but also to feeling unwell.

More feeble people would suffer throughout the year with either permanent DST or standard time than the current one bad night in March. (Which, BTW, could be totally avoided by planning ahead and adjusting your bedtime a few minutes per day in the preceding week.)

Biology matches DST adjustments more than a fixed clock. Most everyone woke up with the sun from the dawn of humanity until the late 19th century, and adjusting the clock for the seasons stays closer to that.