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What is something you encounter everyday that is completely divorced from reality?
  • The ones near me are heavily signed. There's usually 4 sign posts on each one. They're big, bright, and an utter blight on the landscape.

    I actually drive between them because my car is narrow. I drive down my entire street in the middle of the road and weave oncoming traffic. Again, I'm not sure what sped humps do for safety.

    One thing that makes them "equally unpleasant" for everyone is a straight-through muffler. At 2AM, my neighbors are just an inconvenienced as I am when I drop back to first gear 6 times. My council refers to speed humps as "traffic calming devices". In reality, it just aggravates it.

  • What is something you encounter everyday that is completely divorced from reality?
  • It's fun to play and complete in your local sportsball league. It's exercise while being fun. Spectating is fun when watching a sport that you also play. Seeing the pros play is it properly lets you bring something back to your own game. I don't actually care who wins. That's tribalism.

    Going to a "sports" bar to watch fat people get drunk and place bets makes no sense to me.

    I also hate sports trivia. It's just celebrity trivia but for people to star on the field instead of in movies. If I get asked who won a particular award in a particular sport in a particular year, I would have absolutely no idea. If you aksed me to explain the "infield fly" rule, I've got that covered.

    And yes, a full 8 minutes of the nightly news covering sports is just insane. I just don't care.

  • What is something you encounter everyday that is completely divorced from reality?
  • Speed humps. On my daily 5km drive, there are about a dozen of them each way.

    I have a 900kg car with sports suspension, and I need to slow almost to a stop for many of them.

    Meanwhile people in 2500kg road-blimps are blasting through without slowing.

    Most are bumps in the road that taper on the sides. Vehicles with a wide enough wheelbase miss them amlost entirely, whereas my 1.6m wide car gets launched into the air.

    The greater the kill capacity of your vehicle, the less you are affected by these "safety" devices.

  • T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users
  • I haven't financed a phone since 2008. I copped a fee for ending a 24 month contract a day early.

    I just buy a cheap outright handset, flash a community ROM and avoid everything my telco offers past a $20 basic service. Handsets with community support go for years past what the manufacturers support.

  • LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences
  • A monitor is an output device. It cannot transmit or operate on a network. (inb4 ethernet over HDMI: There is no implementation of the spec in the wild).

    If there's any ad tracking, it would have to be in your display driver on the PC.

  • Intel and AMD are unlikely allies in new x86 ecosystem advisory group – "we'll remain fierce competitors"
  • I would imagine that any x64 binary compiled to work with both chipsets would only use the instructions that are common between them. This would mean there's not much gain in developing a new insutruction unless both companies support it.

    I'm sure there's some super-optimised stuff out there that targets extra instructions when they're available, but it's very rare.

  • Winamp source code is now on GitHub

    github.com GitHub - WinampDesktop/winamp: Iconic media player

    Iconic media player. Contribute to WinampDesktop/winamp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - WinampDesktop/winamp: Iconic media player
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