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  1. Re:what a stupid design on A Software Malfunction Is Throwing Riders Off of Lime Scooters (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they didn't go with powered braking. It's almost certainly electrical brakes on the DC motor (I haven't used these scooters but I've used other electric scooters). Remember you don't need to lock the wheel to make the scooter completely useless for theft, and a DC brake is capable of a large force when the motor is spinning.

     

    That would be massively irresponsible for a vehicle that they know isn't going to be subjected to actual fail-safe designs standards and qualifications.

    As a quick comparison do you realise that your car has both non fail-safe brakes (loss of braking system results in loss of brakes), as well as electronic control capable of reducing your ability to brake, and depending on how much you paid for your last car a system where the computer is able to apply the brakes at whim?

    Irresponsibility bears out in engineering, not in the original design. Some incredibly critical safety systems are purposefully not "fail-safe" for a reason, which is precisely why we don't

    As an exercise of engineering:
    You have a scooter. It has a singular braking mechanism. What should the "safe" action be? Brakes engaged, or brakes failed?

  2. Success immunity is a thing, but that didn't bear out in my post. Specifically success immunity would be me pointing to the positive vs negative aspects of the metric, in defense that it could not be right. Instead the point isn't the positive, it's the unlikelyness that there are 44000 people (70x higher than normal) that actually give a shit.

    So my argument should have reminded you of this:

    Occam's razor
    Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. In this case the one that requires the least speculation is usually better. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation. Occam's razor applies especially in the philosophy of science, but also more generally.

  3. Are you sure that is the correct sequence? Fans do exist, and I wouldn't be surprised if a large portion of those 12k were fans clawing back against the reviewbomb (which I guess can be a reviewbomb in its own right) when the story dropped.

    7 days ago reviews were up in the 80% range but total numbers were around 3-4k (according to a Reddit discussion I saw, since RT doesn't show historical trends). If you said it was 95% before then it would point to perfectly normal responses on this metric. My own guess (and it is just a guess) is that comic nerds are clawing back against the negative attack.

    There's usually little incentive to positive review bomb a movie like this on the onset. The difference between 10 reviewers and 10000 doesn't change the percentage on Rotten Tomatoes. Also the internet tends to get angry not happy, and let's face it, given how Larsen has run her mouth in the past few weeks there is a lot on the internet to be angry about :)

  4. None of those movies had the lead come out and say that they wanted to hear from fewer white males. I think that's one of the key indicators.

    So what you're saying is someone nerd raged and organised a campaign to review bomb Rotten Tomato's want to see metric? Because while your logic sounds perfectly fine it would be played out if the movie resulted in a cool 1000 negative reviews. Shattering the record of the metric 4 times over points to a campaign, not genuine interest (or disinterest) in the movie. There's been plenty of SJW fuckwits who have tried to ruin their respective movies, and it has never resulted in moving the dial on the number of people giving their opinion on Rotten Tomatoes.

  5. Re:Aaaaannd they gimped it with 6gb of ram on NVIDIA Turing-Based GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Launched At $279 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I always did for a mid range card in 2019. But we weren't talking about 3GB. You can't even seem to follow the discussion in the title of your own post. You also can't seem to actually focus on current generation cards since every mid-range 3GB card you linked to is obsolete and not part of NVIDIA's current lineup.

    Now it's only a small step even for a stunted intellect such as yours to notice that 6GB is also pathetic for a midrange card.

    Retarded non-sequiteur. Allow me to apply tough love logic for a moment: 3GB is pathetic so you agree that {insert arbitrary number here} is also pathetic. Why do you love your 8GB card? It's obsolete garbage. Wake me when AMD comes out with a 24GB card.

    You really suck at logic, forming arguments, oh and understanding gaming requirements.

  6. Re:I like my passwords... on Android Is Helping Kill Passwords on a Billion Devices (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't want to be dependent on a given device or ecosystem for using a website or an app

    It's not. There's always a fallback.

    and I don't necessarily want to tie it to my identity via biometrics.

    It's not. That's not how fingerprint authentication works on any device with any standard.

    and even write them down in a little book (kind of hard to hack remotely).

    Please do us a favour and don't ever talk publicly in an article about security again.

  7. Re:Android is helping to spread pervasive tracking on Android Is Helping Kill Passwords on a Billion Devices (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    FIDO standard is effectively a Real Name Only policy disguised as progress.

    With the exception of FIDO not being anymore tied to my Real Name than my Slashdot pseudonym is. Sure. A bit less of the tinfoil hattery and a bit more understanding how public key cryptography works please. You're on a tech forum. Act like it.

  8. Re:What's wrong with keepass? on Android Is Helping Kill Passwords on a Billion Devices (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Because he's a normal person safe in the knowledge that unless his phone is entirely made of fake Chinese PlayStore copycats that distribute only malware he is actually safer using his phone's custom app than transmitting a banking password on a complex PC using a standard browser?

  9. Re:What's wrong with keepass? on Android Is Helping Kill Passwords on a Billion Devices (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with Keepass? You mean other than having to send your credentials across the internet? Also if you don't trust your Android device then you can't trust running Keepass on it and you've already lost.

  10. Re:Web developers on Android Is Helping Kill Passwords on a Billion Devices (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    for your new special feature

    FIDO2 is not special, and given Webauthn is 3 years old it's hardly new at this point either.

    How about you design your FIDO2 thing to automatically type passwords into regular password fields

    How about we don't gimp new protocols by reverting their security to the lowest common denominator, a denominator which has been repeatedly shown to be wildly insecure and susceptible to all manner of attacks to say nothing of rampant end user misuse.

  11. The key part is that this is not at all within your control. Your message may be encrypted between you and your server, but that's where your knowledge and control ends.

  12. Aussie Rules never meant ballsy. It meant "Go grab and egg and run around kicking it as if there were no rules what so ever".

  13. Re:985MB/s Sustainable Into or Out of the Card? on SD Association Unveils microSD Express Format That Promises Transfer Speeds of Up To 985 MB/s (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Interestingly the heat throttling of modern NVMe SSDs has nothing to do with the memory and everything to do with the controller. I would highly recommend a heatsink, and when you get the heatsink you want to apply the pad so it touches only the controller. NAND works better when it's hot which is why it has a minimum temperature rating.

  14. Ignore the OP. He's buying cheap Chinese shit. Most reputable cards will happily max out the SD card's current bus for a sustained write across their entire capacity and despite his assertion that NAND is the limiting factor to 7MB/s you'll find most SSDs have either 2 or 4 NAND chips on them and happily crank out several gigabytes per second of data.

  15. NVMe on a single chip shitNAND? lol. this is pure marketing bullshit.

    Hmmm I have only 2 chips on my NVMe SSD and I can do 3400MB/s so as usual there is more to technology than counting the number of black things on the bigger thing that is plugged into the other thing.

    And I'm genuinely surprised. I think I have a 256GB SD card with a 256GB controller buffer on it. Who knew. After all I can sustain 88MB/s on my SSD card just fine when copying massive amounts of data to and from it. I guess all those people who actually record 4K footage also have those magical SD cards you've never seen.

    Have you considered not buying shit from China?

  16. It seems to me extending to the PCIe bus to all kinds of untrusted hot plugged devices has bad idea written all over it.

    Do you bolt your TV down to your house, or do you lock the front door? I agree that there are security implications with exposing a bus like this, but none that can't be managed externally.

    But in reality how is this any worse at all than Thunderbolt or ExpressCard?

  17. Re:Does anyone actually care about rottentomatoes? on 'Captain Marvel' Review Bombers Have Dropped Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating To Lowest Among MCU Movies (comicbook.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah sure I'll just listen to what a bunch of complete strangers on the Internet have to say rather than making up my own mind

    Those weren't the two options presented. The two options presented were:
    1. Listen to complete strangers on the internet.
    2. Watch a presentation from a marketing team spoil the major plot elements of a movie with a deep voice overlay and (as recently shown) presenting something completely unlike the final movie.

    Given that choice you presented I'll pick the random people on the internet. The great thing about sites like Rotten Tomatoes is they aggregate reviews. That doesn't mean they are right, but it's always worth listening to people if for no other reason than to find out what makes the masses tick.

    Personally I take option 3: Listen to complete strangers on the internet, then completely ignore what they say when I see the movie regardless.

  18. Re:Aaaaannd they gimped it with 6gb of ram on NVIDIA Turing-Based GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Launched At $279 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    3GB, pathetic.

    Indeed, which is why NVIDIA hasn't made any in the 1060 series for over a year. Now do you want to link any other obsolete 3 year old hardware when making your point? I mean AMD is shit. Those Zen processors never lived up to their hype. It's a shame they don't have a Zen+ architecture right?

    Idiot. But keep talking man. Your line of reasoning is fascinating.

  19. Don't worry Intel is immune. They don't provide enough PCIe lanes to attach useful peripherals.

  20. Re:Does anyone actually care about rottentomatoes? on 'Captain Marvel' Review Bombers Have Dropped Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating To Lowest Among MCU Movies (comicbook.com) · · Score: 1

    I go to Rotten Tomatoes. Who in their right mind watches a preview? If I want the only interesting plot points of a movie spoiled I'd just watch the previews and skip seeing the movie altogether.

    Seriously do NOT watch previews if you're interested in enjoying a movie. **spoiler ahead**

    **spoiler ahead**
    Oh look Henry Cavil's character was just introduced to team up with Tom Cruise, what an amazing team they would make if we didn't know that Henry Cavil plays the bad guy thanks to the preview showing him fucking shooting at and punching Tom Cruise.

    I purposely tried to get to the cinema late to skip the spoilers section but FUCK I screwed up that time.

  21. Re:Is this just an attempt to drum up controversy? on 'Captain Marvel' Review Bombers Have Dropped Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating To Lowest Among MCU Movies (comicbook.com) · · Score: 1

    And as another poster pointed out it's not reviews, it's the "Want to See" rating.

    A distinction without a difference. Point is if you look at the stats either Captain Marvel is 70x more interesting to opine about than all other blockbusters coming out this year (avengers excepted), or there is still a coordinated effort to make it look bad.

  22. We're a victim, always a victim, somebody's out to get us.

    To be clear are you implying that the film is not being "want to see" bombed? Maybe have a look at how many ratings this movie is getting vs any other movie on Rotten Tomatoes and then come back and tell me if you still think someone's not out to get them.

    Since you're probably busy I'll give you a spoiler: Captain Marvel currently has 70x more "want to see ratings" than most movies coming out this year, 40x more than all other super hero movies coming out this year with the exception of this years biggest expected blockbuster: Avengers Endgame. ... It's only 4x more than that, and significantly the Avengers game is 98% positive.

    Odds are, they are really out to get them.

  23. People NOT wanting to see a film, is NOT review bombing. STOP LYING!

    What is the lie? The difference between a review or a "want to see"? It's a distinction without a difference. Or maybe you think they are lying about bombing? In which case I suggest you check just how many people have given a "want to see" rating to Captain Marvel, vs any other film coming up including far bigger blockbusters, bigger expected hits, bigger expected flops.

    Then come and explain to me how a relatively minor comic hero manages to get 4x the interest of the biggest expected blockbuster of the year, and 70x the interest of most "want to see" ratings.

  24. It has to be bombers!

    This is something we can check. Let's see. Open up any upcoming movie and let's see how many people gave an audience intention rating. Let's keep it interesting and limit it to major blockbusters:

    Frozen 2: 1161 ratings
    Wonder Woman 1984: 423 ratings
    Lion King: 747 ratings
    Spiderman Far from Home: 941 ratings
    John Wick 3: 680 ratings

    I think I'm missing something really big. .... It was cartoon based too.. Oh that's right:
    Avengers Endgame: 10236 ratings. Holy shit that is one of the highest and most interested movies with the biggest hype ever, and it's completely positive!!!!

    I'm sure no one is more interested in any other movie than the ones listed.
    Captain Marvel: 44735 ratings.

    Now I challenge you to find forty-four thousand seven hundred and thirty five people who know about the movie and further more give enough of a fuck to jump online to let someone else known they don't want to see it.

    My friend Occam's Razor would like to introduce you to the Russian troll farm. Yours to be had for a only a few rubels.

  25. I don't think I can blame people for not being interested in Captain Marvel either...

    That's called observer bias. While I understand people are being fatigued and that Captain Marvel isn't exactly Iron Man, the odds of the audience interest score *actually* being as low as 28% given the interest in the Avengers, and the teaser that she has something to do with Avengers: Endgame would likely put that number in the 70-80% even with the people who don't like the Marvel movies.

    It's like saying a large portion of a stadium would walk out on a currently tied football match 10 minutes before the match is over.

    At this point there'll be enough people seeing it just because they want to make it to the end of the Avengers story.