2915 pts ยท March 20, 2014
You think the people making money from oil or fracking who cannot have their minds changed will change their minds if instead you say solar is cheaper than oil? It's not about changing THEIR minds. It's about demonstrating that their message isn't agreed with. It's about allowing people watching the protest to see other people who think as they do, and feel able to voice that in ways they otherwise might not have felt comfortable doing. It wasn't a speech for the people in the room, but outside.
This comment should be rated higher. Quoting scientific discoveries without providing the underlying sources (and misrepresenting/mistiming/misquoting them, deliberately or accidentally) is an information hazard and should be treated with appropriate caution. Providing verified sources helps to combat that. Thanks!
Obviously compression algorithms bring this down (often significantly), but as someone who remembers the lightning speeds of a 52K US Robotics modem, I can confidently tell you that NO decent (or indecent) quality image would download in 13.65 seconds on 2400 bps! (2/2)
A "4K image" is not the same as a 4 kilobyte file, which is what the 32768 bit calculation there is doing. A 4K image file is significantly larger (in terms of bits) than 32768. Officially a 4K resolution is 4096*2160 pixels. Each pixel is usually 32 bits (8 bits each for red, green, and blue color information, plus 8 bits for alpha channel). So the actual bit size of a 4K image is likely closer to 4096*2160*32 = 283,115,520 bits, or approximately 33.75 megabytes. (1/2)
"do you think The Crew will be a functional and fun game without a working physics engine"More functional than it currently is! ;)For my own education, as I may be misunderstanding (not my field): why would the developer/publisher be on the hook for licensing e.g. a physics engine in a game that they no longer sell, support, or update? I understand that they'd clearly need to license any software/midware that they're currently using, but for historical, now-offline, unsupported games?
Imgur: hates big tech AI firms for their blatant and unethical theft of books for training their generative AI models.Also Imgur: here, go here to download free books, whee! :D
True - sadly truly crappy employers will always find a way to be crappy. But greater protections at least reduce the scope for crappiness overall!
The fact that "you can't be instantly fired and be out of work" is seen as unusual enough to be meme-worthy is itself a shocking inditement of what many (US-based?) imgurians consider to be the norm.
This isn't just France. Employers having to give notice for termination is pretty standard (in my experience) in many jurisdictions. Different if you're fired for gross misconduct or equivalent (i.e. something dangerous, illegal, or in breach of existing policies), but if it's just a case of "it's not working out", it's really rare to be able to just walk someone out of the door. In the UK, once you've been working somewhere for 2 years, you have a lot of similar protections to the above.
Just to keep the others on their toes.
"That just sounds like the Tragedy of the Commons with extra steps." Yes. Yes it does.
Agree, however the introduction of corporations (and other legally-considered-as-people structures) into the mix - a set of actors whose entire literal purpose for existence is to achieve "the best possible outcome" for their shareholders, drives this behaviour - because the best possible outcome for any given set of shareholders is maximised, ever-increasing profit. The consideration of external costs (e.g. total global collapse) is null and void to any given corporate entity, typically.
Loved it. Quite a slow burn at the beginning, but really well built and keeps the tension going throughout.
#28 Or, y'know, "my turn to cook tonight" works too.
Epitome.
Fourth rule: WAIT FOR THE GOTY EDITION TO GO ON SALE
#12 Sounds like you understand it perfectly.
In reality, your "just put buttons both sides of the door" solution is, of course, the right one. But it's a fun rabbithole. ;)
That solves the failure state, but now means that the fix of keeping the doors open only works until someone on another floor calls the elevator.I think one reliable fix to the divided-space issue might be to change the method of control so it doesn't collide with the problem - so, instead of the controls being reliant on a physical press, allow for e.g. voice-control.This, of course, creates a whole slew of other problems.
The controls point I agree with, though I feel that there are still blocker shapes that would prevent the person reaching either door side (topology's not my field though). The doors remaining open until a floor is selected prevents any other floor from calling an elevator car if it's been previously called but not used so that'd break it.(Elevator logic edge cases are kinda fascinating to me - I'm not being picky to be annoying, purely because I find identifying failure states fun. Sorry!) :)
What's the design issue? "Three dimensional space is able to be partitioned by a plane - plsfix"?
I absolutely loved the original Exile series - particularly Exile III (first one I played). While I've got both the remakes that subsequently followed, the original will always hold a special appeal to me.
Honest question: are charity shops not a thing in the US (making a big assumption that's where you're located, apologies)? Here (UK) we have charity organisations like Oxfam or Macmillan Cancer Research, amongst many many others, who run stores in towns where you can literally do exactly that - donate things to them for them to then sell to others, with the profits going to the charity behind it. Is that a very UK-centric thing?
I have absolutely no idea why you would want to know that. I also have absolutely no idea why you might want to search the reaches of the internet for "quick money 13 adela". Those two things are, of course, entirely unrelated, and I have no idea why you would think otherwise.
Oh man, the Build editor...that's just unlocked some memories that had disappeared off somewhere. Hours spent building levels which were simultaneously awful and yet, because we'd built them, absolutely amazing!
"it's in your wedding vows to have sex with your spouse"Citation needed.
criminal activity, or if you hang out with people for whom violence is a natural problem-solving approach, then your odds increase. [end]
It's not something that I find myself typically worried about on a day to day basis. It's a big city. Shit happens. If you're involved in[1]
You think the people making money from oil or fracking who cannot have their minds changed will change their minds if instead you say solar is cheaper than oil? It's not about changing THEIR minds. It's about demonstrating that their message isn't agreed with. It's about allowing people watching the protest to see other people who think as they do, and feel able to voice that in ways they otherwise might not have felt comfortable doing. It wasn't a speech for the people in the room, but outside.
This comment should be rated higher. Quoting scientific discoveries without providing the underlying sources (and misrepresenting/mistiming/misquoting them, deliberately or accidentally) is an information hazard and should be treated with appropriate caution. Providing verified sources helps to combat that. Thanks!
Obviously compression algorithms bring this down (often significantly), but as someone who remembers the lightning speeds of a 52K US Robotics modem, I can confidently tell you that NO decent (or indecent) quality image would download in 13.65 seconds on 2400 bps! (2/2)
A "4K image" is not the same as a 4 kilobyte file, which is what the 32768 bit calculation there is doing. A 4K image file is significantly larger (in terms of bits) than 32768. Officially a 4K resolution is 4096*2160 pixels. Each pixel is usually 32 bits (8 bits each for red, green, and blue color information, plus 8 bits for alpha channel). So the actual bit size of a 4K image is likely closer to 4096*2160*32 = 283,115,520 bits, or approximately 33.75 megabytes. (1/2)
"do you think The Crew will be a functional and fun game without a working physics engine"
More functional than it currently is! ;)
For my own education, as I may be misunderstanding (not my field): why would the developer/publisher be on the hook for licensing e.g. a physics engine in a game that they no longer sell, support, or update? I understand that they'd clearly need to license any software/midware that they're currently using, but for historical, now-offline, unsupported games?
Imgur: hates big tech AI firms for their blatant and unethical theft of books for training their generative AI models.
Also Imgur: here, go here to download free books, whee! :D
True - sadly truly crappy employers will always find a way to be crappy. But greater protections at least reduce the scope for crappiness overall!
The fact that "you can't be instantly fired and be out of work" is seen as unusual enough to be meme-worthy is itself a shocking inditement of what many (US-based?) imgurians consider to be the norm.
This isn't just France. Employers having to give notice for termination is pretty standard (in my experience) in many jurisdictions. Different if you're fired for gross misconduct or equivalent (i.e. something dangerous, illegal, or in breach of existing policies), but if it's just a case of "it's not working out", it's really rare to be able to just walk someone out of the door. In the UK, once you've been working somewhere for 2 years, you have a lot of similar protections to the above.
Just to keep the others on their toes.
"That just sounds like the Tragedy of the Commons with extra steps." Yes. Yes it does.
Agree, however the introduction of corporations (and other legally-considered-as-people structures) into the mix - a set of actors whose entire literal purpose for existence is to achieve "the best possible outcome" for their shareholders, drives this behaviour - because the best possible outcome for any given set of shareholders is maximised, ever-increasing profit. The consideration of external costs (e.g. total global collapse) is null and void to any given corporate entity, typically.
Loved it. Quite a slow burn at the beginning, but really well built and keeps the tension going throughout.
#28 Or, y'know, "my turn to cook tonight" works too.
Epitome.
Fourth rule: WAIT FOR THE GOTY EDITION TO GO ON SALE
#12 Sounds like you understand it perfectly.
In reality, your "just put buttons both sides of the door" solution is, of course, the right one. But it's a fun rabbithole. ;)
That solves the failure state, but now means that the fix of keeping the doors open only works until someone on another floor calls the elevator.
I think one reliable fix to the divided-space issue might be to change the method of control so it doesn't collide with the problem - so, instead of the controls being reliant on a physical press, allow for e.g. voice-control.
This, of course, creates a whole slew of other problems.
The controls point I agree with, though I feel that there are still blocker shapes that would prevent the person reaching either door side (topology's not my field though). The doors remaining open until a floor is selected prevents any other floor from calling an elevator car if it's been previously called but not used so that'd break it.
(Elevator logic edge cases are kinda fascinating to me - I'm not being picky to be annoying, purely because I find identifying failure states fun. Sorry!) :)
What's the design issue? "Three dimensional space is able to be partitioned by a plane - plsfix"?
I absolutely loved the original Exile series - particularly Exile III (first one I played). While I've got both the remakes that subsequently followed, the original will always hold a special appeal to me.
Honest question: are charity shops not a thing in the US (making a big assumption that's where you're located, apologies)? Here (UK) we have charity organisations like Oxfam or Macmillan Cancer Research, amongst many many others, who run stores in towns where you can literally do exactly that - donate things to them for them to then sell to others, with the profits going to the charity behind it. Is that a very UK-centric thing?
I have absolutely no idea why you would want to know that. I also have absolutely no idea why you might want to search the reaches of the internet for "quick money 13 adela". Those two things are, of course, entirely unrelated, and I have no idea why you would think otherwise.
Oh man, the Build editor...that's just unlocked some memories that had disappeared off somewhere. Hours spent building levels which were simultaneously awful and yet, because we'd built them, absolutely amazing!
"it's in your wedding vows to have sex with your spouse"
Citation needed.
criminal activity, or if you hang out with people for whom violence is a natural problem-solving approach, then your odds increase. [end]
It's not something that I find myself typically worried about on a day to day basis. It's a big city. Shit happens. If you're involved in[1]