Comment Fix the game, not the warning. (Score 4, Insightful) 171
Photosensitive epilepsy isn't usually triggered in susceptible people by any old flashing light - it needs particular frequencies or patterns. The technology already exists to screen for these, and responsible companies use it. Probably only minor tweaks are required to make this game safe for everyone, with no adverse effect on the gaming experience. It's a $60 game from a multi billion dollar company, not some indie title hacked together over the weekend in the developer's bedroom. Stop pissing about and just fix it.
Comment Re:Good (Score 3, Interesting) 45
Brexit is a double-edged sword up the arse and the UK will have to live with the consequences of the mess its supporters have created through their tremendous spite, xenophobia and petty nationalism.
Comment Re:rapid tests have been available since Jan 2020 (Score 1) 55
This isn't testing for antibodies (which indicate you were previously infected), it's testing for viral antigens (which indicate an active current infection).
Comment Re:What about local files? (Score 1) 62
Hi-Fi Cast (has the unusual feature of gapless casting to Chromecast, and uses the Android media database like Google Play Music, so no long waits to refresh an app-specific database when you add tracks).
Rocket Player (nice all round player).
Foobar 2000 (has some unusual but useful features like the Meier Crossfeed filter for taming early stereo albums with extreme separation).
Comment Re:The Hudsucker Proxy (Score 1) 893
It took me a while to work out why Khachaturian's Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia kept running through my head while wandering around New York City at night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Re: Replace Chromecast Audio with regular Chromeca (Score 1) 88
Second RPi running the renderer for about the same price as a Chromecast?
Comment Re:Replace Chromecast Audio with regular Chromecas (Score 1) 88
Would it be easier to run a DLNA renderer on the Pi (or another Pi), add a DAC (HAT or USB), and plug it straight into the receiver?
Comment Can AIs create marketing hype? (Score 1) 172
It takes a human to create the level of lucrative hype that 'Paris-based art collective Obvious' have managed to come up with. Back in the day, Slashdot would have covered the more interesting story behind the Christie's auction, which you can read here:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
'Obvious' just seem to have grabbed source from an Open Source project, generated a few images, cranked the hype up to 11, and made a killing. The community this comes out of, and especially the programmer who implemented the algorithm, aren't terribly impressed:
If you want a go, the code is on github:
Comment Excercise equipment (Score 2) 51
The 24 volunteers living in the "hotel influenza" would have private rooms and bathrooms, common areas with with chairs and TVs, along with exercise equipment, and catered meals in a dining room.
All very well if you find yourself in the successfully vaccinated group, but you might not have much interest in excercise, meals or even TV if you get full-blown influenza. The last time I had it, all I needed was the bedroom and the bathroom, and shivering deliriously in front of a fan heater with the central heating turned up to max I would happily have paid $3500 to make it go away.
Comment Re:nikon! (Score 1) 101
They probably haven't made the F6 for years either, though it's still in the catalogue for now.
Comment In Korea after 7PM, (Score 1) 106
Email is Only for Old People (who have already retired, and can use the internet at home).
Comment Re:Pot Kettle Black (Score 1) 57
Yes, but that's another two taps to get to the actual page.
Comment Pot Kettle Black (Score 3, Interesting) 57
I really wish Google, apparently with the collusion of the websites, would stop shoving AMP down my throat in the first place. Since they helpfully nuked text reflow on zoom in the Android libraries, I've been using Opera as my main mobile browser because it fixes this. Except for AMP pages, where I'm stuck with their fixed format until I tap through to the original page. How about a 'load canonical page' setting in the google search options?
Comment Interesting responses from 7 other astronauts here (Score 3, Funny) 62
'What's it like to float hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface? We asked seven astronauts to tell us everything.'
Barry Wilmore: "You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he's Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he's just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he's the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective."