You have to be the worst scumbag on the planet if a patent troll looks decent standing next to you.

There’s 12 times more land dedicated to parking than to the actual stadium. I think this one is a popular meme on anti-car communities because of that.

I once watched two idiots online argue between using sociopathy or psychopathy to describe a fictional character. Is there a difference? yes, kinda. Does it matter? no. It was mostly harmless, but psychologists avoid actively to use either term ever, both in discussions of cases and official reports. We stick to the definitions and terms on diagnosis manuals, and we focus on describing symptoms mostly. Diagnosis are long winded and arduous decisions that require observation, tests, logical argumentation about applicability of criteria. The goal is to help the patient, diagnosis is but a tool not the end goal. Either term appear exactly once on the DSM-V, and they appear together on ASPD.

But people love to argue online about asinine topics.

Traffic segregation, car free zones, public transport, lower speed limits, car size based taxing, stricter driver license conditions, three strike limitations, temporal license suspensions schemes, these are all measurements that would reduce car accidents just as much, and could be implemented within the next week anywhere at very low cost. It’s not a pipe dream, it’s a lack of political will.

It doesn’t take several billion dollars of R&D onto a tech that will never work outside of 1% of the road network and could actually not reduce cars accidents at all once it faces real world conditions.

If the goal is to reduce traffic accidents, this is the most expensive, slowest and inefficient way to do it.

EDIT: Autonomous driving will solve traffic and traffic deaths as much as EVs are going to solve global warning. They are plausible lies that techno oligarchs use to distract from the real causes of the problems they purport to solve and are actually just new money funnels for the oil industrial complex.

“We can’t stop killing children in the short term, so we are not gonnna do anything to stop the kid killing machine. To stop the kid killing machine would be a pipe dream. Instead, we have this automated machine that kills children, slower.”

That is a wild take, but the orphan crushing machine must keep churning, I suppose.

I can get you one better. There won’t be car accidents if there aren’t any cars. Car free cities, or walkable cities are preferable. We don’t need safer drivers, we need more public transport.

Apology for hitting kids is wild. An expansion of services will only raise frequency of accidents. Waymo only works in pristine infrastructure conditions. As it moves away from these conditions, accidents will rise. Then we will understand if these technology is actually better than human drivers.

There’s no such thing as nationalizing the vote. That’s fascist talk, we can agree with that.

But you do realize that the US is in this mess because people have been frozen into inaction by the perception that fighting back is just as bad as first hostility? This has frozen critical thinking and effective political activism (I have seen it work in other countries as well). There are healthy democracies in the world that work perfectly fine and are healthier because they have sensible limitations on voting rights and decision making procedures. You cannot have everyone vote, it is stupid. It is letting the Nazis into the bar. In the end you have a Nazi bar. You let irrational idealism run amok (unlimited freedom!) you end up right where the US is right now.

The US hasn’t been a democracy for several decades now, stop trying to pretend it is and actually start to fix it. Unlimited freedom is not a good value, a moral and well functioning society needs limits on people’s freedoms and rights, so they don’t curb stomp on other people’s freedoms and rights. The problem is how do you draw the lines. The US just gave the chalk to the KKK and the democrats think it would be impolite to wrestle its control back. The US is doomed to become a dictatorship or a country in civil war because of this attitude you express. “Uuuh, you are saying the same thing as Trump” Idiot! Trump will spout any shit that keeps him in power, his words should never be taken seriously. Just accept he is a bully authoritarian and stop taking up his bullshit. Stop being reactionary to everything he says and start actively building the democracy that is needed to have a truly functioning country. Trump is a symptom, the disease has been running its course since two or three decades before Reagan. I have seen other countries run this road, and it is always accelerated by reactionaries who have no other thought to offer than freeze in place out of fear.

To what? keep elaborating. Remember when we were told that gay rights to marriage was a slippery slope? to what? their answer was people marrying animals, because that’s what they think about gay people. What would this be a slippery slope to? we already limit the voting rights of adolescents and children, convicts serving crimes, active service military personnel. People under 30 cannot serve political offices in most of the world, in the US you cannot be president if you are too young, or a senator at 29. What would make this one instance different is we were to say, for example, people over 80 years old shouldn’t vote. There are parts of the world where judges, and other public offices have forced retirement ages. Why is the US the only country wheeling people on the brink of death to the senate floor on literal medical beds?

Yeah, I don’t think you understand Calibre at all, because you are somehow annoyed by it. I get it. But there’s no e-reader on the market that supports Calibre. Quite the contrary, there’s a titanic effort from the Calibre team (it’s been several people since 2009) to reverse engineer support with every single e-reader and tablet in the market that should not be minimized. You’re also painting a picture as if somehow Calibre is the Windows of e-book and everyone hates it but is forced to use it, when in reality that is not at all the case. Yes, it has quirks and people have constructive criticisms, but calling a guy’s name “rough” is not positive criticism. Overall, most people appreciate and like Calibre for what it has achieved and enabled for readers all around the world.

Again, it’s fine if you don’t like it, don’t understand it, and don’t want to understand it. But that doesn’t excuse insulting a person who actively is making your petty life a bit easier and free from corporate control. It takes a very weird person to feel like commenting negatively on someone’s name is somehow appropriate, it’s bully attitude. If that is all the criticism you can bring to a discussion of software, save it for yourself and stop replying. You’re all over this thread complaining, completely unprovoked like a little wuss. No one is forcing you to use Calibre, it just so happen that no one has done anything better, as you yourself admitted in another comment.

Good, so if you know what needs to be fixed it should be easy for you to make a new alternative, with modern web UX, self-hosting in mind and NO quirks whatsoever.

Really, it’s so easy to insult those who are making solutions when you have never contributed at all. There’s constructive criticisms, but calling people who are fronting free labor for your benefit as nerd aliens is not it.

the devs thought it was ok to put it into their game

That’s the point. They didn’t thought it was OK and didn’t.

They could have just used stock textures as placeholders like developers have been doing for decades.

That is exactly what they did, any texture left in the first version of the game was a mistake that was promptly fixed as soon as they noticed it. We have the advantage of judging four years later with new info something they did back then and have since corrected. Ethical considerations must include intent and context, and here there was definitely no intent to harm.

Calibre is so old that it’s use case and architecture precedes the current popularity of self-hosting. It is as old as the premiere of the very first e-ink reader in 2006. It’s not obtuse or weird, it was just the way things were done 20 years ago. The problem is that adapting it to work as a self hosted app or even multi user sync requires rewritting all of its backend from scratch with fundamentally different principles and use cases in mind. And guess what? Everyone is way too lazy to face that massive undertaking. Thus the hobbled together solutions.

Fortunately, one way backup to a NAS works perfectly fine to keep libraries secure. It’s not this way out of caprice, and the Dev is definitely not an nerd alien.

There have been attempts to create modernized replacements for calibre. But they all fall through because, Calibre already does 99% of what they want to achieve. That one percent is covered by addons and shoddy workarounds? Yes. But that’s an effort to reward analysis any Dev is faced with. Calibre does much more than what the average user need, and they keep adding features. Because they’re not catering to one particular user but a community of a complex mix of users. Developing software is hard, rebuilding 20 years of features is daunting.

They didn’t sneak anything and they never will. Looked into it deeply. They used AI assets as placeholders during development. But everything in the shipped game is human-made. No further use of generative AI is expected, since the game awards controversy the company’s management published a statement of banning AI use entirely in their company.

The whole controversy around indie game awards was also blown beyond proportions. A company used a new technology at a time when the tech was new and the debate around it’s use was still inmature. Then dismissed it for it was not good enough. They failed at quality assurance and a couple of textures weren’t deleted. They replaced them as soon at they found out. By all intents and purposes, this controversy does not qualify sandfall as an AI using company, and to affirm so is ignorant of the context of all that went down in reality.

It’s OK, these stages are not supposed to be sequential. They can go through them in any order, and even cyclically return to other stages. Even full acceptance can be relapsed from time to time.

It’s not hard rules, though. There’s a myriad of publishing styles. Each define different rules and guidelines to when and where numbers are spelled out. Hyphen was dropped from several guides, for example. The and has also been optional for certain publishing houses for a while, but in England it is still mandatory. Academic and literary will differ in how they enforce this guides and exactly what they are. Language is relative, changing and fluid, and this was all different mere 30 years ago. It moves with the expectations of the audience.

Also, it is six seven. Respect the memes guidelines.

150 million, what?

Individual users, prompts, prompts per second, accounts, installs, subscriptions bought?

Numbers on their own have no meaning. This is still rubbish trying to cosplay as information. Active copilot users means nothing until explained how the number is calculated.

The NES and Atari are separated by mere 6 years. The NES and Xbox 360 are separated by nearly 22 years. That’s how much the perception of graphical advancement has decelerated. Sure we keep making leaps on graphical fidelity, but ever more in areas that are less and less noticeable every time.

I agree wholeheartedly.

But objectively…

Good thing morality is not objective, right?

Yeah, that’s kind of the point. It was benign, you didn’t have to do it. If you didn’t do it, you wouldn’t hurt anyone. But if you did it, it displays a modicum of kindness towards an invisible fellow that speaks of a considerate moral character.