How do you detect these occurrences then? You can’t differentiate a lane change from a curving road without analyzing the environment.

Idea: cars all have too much AI in them anyway, let’s make good use of it. If a car detects that the driver turns or changes lanes without signaling 5 times in a row, it caps the speed to 50 km/h (or 30 in an urban area) for 5 minutes. Make this a mandatory safety feature in all new cars, like how they make noises if you don’t wear a seatbelt.

https://xkcd.com/566/

Thanks, I hate it.

I’m not sure. It’s kind of like a weighted blanket but with your body weight. It would be harder, but not a struggle. Also cats are lightweight so it’s not even that much harder.

Not to be confused with a slight leaper.

Just more confirmation that I should have been born a cat, that actually looks comfy to me.

What an incredible “coincidence”…

explainxkcd has an explanation now, and if that’s not good enough for you, try again tomorrow.

You better have video documentation of the pushing attempts! CYA.

My problem with RSS is the same as with email: I never remember to open it and read it.

A long time ago, I had a keyboard with an LCD screen on it (Logitech G15), and it had an RSS reader function. It would show me posts whenever my eyes happened to glance over it, without taking any screen real estate on my actual PC screen. It was a perfect setup for me.

Ever since I stopped using that keyboard (it was getting very old), I’ve missed this function. Never got a habit for RSS since. :(

I think I should make something like this with Arduino or something.

Everyone I’ve ever met had an age which is only one number. Did your age use to be a 3D vector? And now it’s… a quaternion?

I can totally accept the over tourism argument. In that case I’m doing my part, and telling people NOT to go there! :)

I’m surprised how many people vehemently refuse to switch and think I’m being insane. It’s a cultural thing I guess.

Thanks. Honestly the people weren’t the problem, it was moreso the way the city was managed and regulated. Again, it is in the top 5 (potentially top 1) tourist destinations in the world, you’d think the city would make it a priority to make tourists feel welcome from the infrastructure up. Again, pubic toilets alone can be the first and last straw. Every tourists needs to go at some point, it should not be a pain point.

Maybe I had inflated expectations, I don’t know. I’m not much into traveling anyway, I was with family and enjoyed my time with them, but everywhere we went felt surprisingly less welcoming than I expected. Except Disneyland, but that’s neither here nor there :P

It has been long enough that I don’t trust my memory on this, but I think it was really common to have no English signage anywhere…? This is not the Parisian people’s fault, this is the fault of business owners bafflingly choosing to alienate tourists, and the city regulators not caring either. In any other city I’d accept it, local businesses might not want the tourist traffic for plenty of good reasons, but this is freaking Paris!

In many countries including mine, it is such a fundamental form of communications that this amounts to becoming a hermit. I have two choices: either keep using WhatsApp, or:

• cut contact with almost my entire family (yes, I tried to get them to switch, no bueno)
• lose access to the best support communication option for most businesses
• miss updates and communications for groups (work, school, classes, etc.), including things like cancelled or rescheduled events
• make it harder for me to meet new people
• miss messages from delivery guys
• etc…

It gives me no pleasure to say this. Not using WhatsApp is not an option. I tried it for a time, when I was at my worst mental state. It didn’t work out.

I still don’t give WhatsApp phone permissions, which causes it to refuse to connect voice/video calls (even though it clearly doesn’t need this permission). Even this sometimes causes some annoyance, as people try to call me via WhatsApp and I can’t answer. I have to copy their number and call them normally. Small price to pay, I guess.

When I was in Paris some years ago, I was amazed how anti-foreigners it felt when it is easily top 5 international tourist destinations in the world. No public bathrooms anywhere, do the French never need to go?!

I went to the louvre and wanted to buy the 3DS museum guide software. I looked for it in the gift shop, it was available in one or two languages but not English. When I asked, the seller laughed at me like I’m an idiot, “oh we haven’t had English copies of it in months! what did you expect?”

What did you think I expected? I expected the most famous museum in the world to keep stocking something which is clearly selling out frequently!

The whole city felt like it didn’t want tourists there. It was such a strange feeling.

I just spend a couple of minutes researching and trying to understand the joke, but I’m sorry to say my efforts have been unsuccessful. How much ultra-specific information am I expected to know here?

Disclaimer: it’s past my bed time and my brain is malfunctioning accordingly, so this might be on me

Correct me if I’m wrong, but those games didn’t track official player rankings. Which is perfectly fine, and doesn’t make a game any less competitive, but official rankings is a legitimate feature that some people gravitate towards.

To be extra clear: I’m mostly with you, I think every multiplayer game should at least offer the option of self-hosted servers, and I backed Stop Killing Games to force them to do so (after official servers shut down).

Though to be honest… My opinion on this topic isn’t worth much. As I said, I don’t play any competitive games. So it’s very likely I’m missing some important info in my perspective.