Not sure if the only one, but not getting ploughed by a Tesla with a guy shooting YouTube videos from the backseat certainly takes first place.
funny yet sadly true
The only time I’m actually glad I don’t live in the U.S. and that we (Europe) get access much later (or never) to the cool new tech
> "How do you go from ‘Apple is offering a new payment method’ to a rant about how you don’t care about privacy?" Because some other people started ranting about cashless payments, payment processors and their privacy.…
Not 100%, but we can outlaw PII selling, and therefor everybody wins. I get “peace of mind” knowing IKEA doesn’t get targeted information, and IKEA still gets some level of anonymous demographic data from advertisers.
I never said “remove cash”. It should continue to exist nevertheless, because it’s a level of system redundancy and backup. I just said that I shouldn’t have to sacrifice quality of life improvements and STILL have my…
Man, I swear sometimes I feel like I’m on a forum full of wanted criminals, state actors, and/or felons. I’m not saying I’m against privacy. I am all for not being tracked, but we are approaching absurdity. I really…
I did a lot of cheat development and always read the related forums. Let me tell you that kernel anti-cheats are the funniest and ugliest pieces of software out there. Almost ALL exhibit rootkit behaviour. Capture all…
They did make one. It was called FairFight[1] and was mainly used by EA in the Battlefield franchise. It also was a dumpster fire: bans were applied to legit players all the time, moderators were overwhelmed and manual…
Yes, I know! I don’t remember what video I saw but the wings were bent beyond imagination. Made me realise that what I saw while flying wasn’t even 30% of what they can withstand. Incredible engineering.
Fuel pumps have backup pumps. Matter a fact, the whole fuel system is a lot more complex than this. And as for “the wings fall off” part, makes me remember a quote of an engineer I once read that goes something like…
Not sure if the only one, but not getting ploughed by a Tesla with a guy shooting YouTube videos from the backseat certainly takes first place.
funny yet sadly true
The only time I’m actually glad I don’t live in the U.S. and that we (Europe) get access much later (or never) to the cool new tech
> "How do you go from ‘Apple is offering a new payment method’ to a rant about how you don’t care about privacy?" Because some other people started ranting about cashless payments, payment processors and their privacy.…
Not 100%, but we can outlaw PII selling, and therefor everybody wins. I get “peace of mind” knowing IKEA doesn’t get targeted information, and IKEA still gets some level of anonymous demographic data from advertisers.
I never said “remove cash”. It should continue to exist nevertheless, because it’s a level of system redundancy and backup. I just said that I shouldn’t have to sacrifice quality of life improvements and STILL have my…
Man, I swear sometimes I feel like I’m on a forum full of wanted criminals, state actors, and/or felons. I’m not saying I’m against privacy. I am all for not being tracked, but we are approaching absurdity. I really…
I did a lot of cheat development and always read the related forums. Let me tell you that kernel anti-cheats are the funniest and ugliest pieces of software out there. Almost ALL exhibit rootkit behaviour. Capture all…
They did make one. It was called FairFight[1] and was mainly used by EA in the Battlefield franchise. It also was a dumpster fire: bans were applied to legit players all the time, moderators were overwhelmed and manual…
Yes, I know! I don’t remember what video I saw but the wings were bent beyond imagination. Made me realise that what I saw while flying wasn’t even 30% of what they can withstand. Incredible engineering.
Fuel pumps have backup pumps. Matter a fact, the whole fuel system is a lot more complex than this. And as for “the wings fall off” part, makes me remember a quote of an engineer I once read that goes something like…