I’ll accept that, only as long as Americans learn that route is pronounced “root”, not “rout”.
A Brit in Helsinki who likes games, tech and burgers.
I’ll accept that, only as long as Americans learn that route is pronounced “root”, not “rout”.
But I would suggest that any band names that use umlauts/foreign letters should be pronounced accordingly.
Motörhead still kind of works.
It’s been long established that coal produces more radioactive waste than nuclear power, and largely dumps it straight into the environment.
Somehow people think it’s worse if you keep it contained rather than massively diluted. If we thought of it like we do radiation in coal waste, we’d be happy to just dump it in the ocean.
Living in Finland, I’m proud of the fact that we’ve got one of the first long-term/final storage sites for nuclear waste in the world. YIMBY.
Oddly enough, it’s safer than wind.
Solar’s a little better in that regard, but all three are so much safer than any high-carbon sources of energy that any of them are great options.
take responsibility [… like] human drivers do.
But do they really? If so, why’s there the saying “if you want to murder someone, do it in a car”?
I do think self-driving cars should be held to a higher standard than humans, but I believe the fundamental disagreement is in precisely how much higher.
While zero incidents is naturally what they should be aiming for, it’s more of a goal for continuous improvement, like it is for air travel.
What liability can/should we place on companies that provide autonomous drivers that will ultimately lead to safer travel for everyone?
Archive.is used to block people with Finnish IPs too, allegedly because of personal immigration issues.
I don’t get the impression it’s something anyone should ever rely on.
Combat! I loved that, especially with bouncy bullets.
Tell me more about Hazel’s bush…
Nieces, nephews & godchildren.
Spreading and sharing those thoughts and memories, fragments of our selves, so that they can live on in everyone we ever interact with. People who will, in turn, spread those fragments on even further.
Even fewer will know that osteopathy is exactly the same type of nonsense. No, an osteopath is not (necessarily) a “bone doctor”.
The main confusion is that, in the US, schools of osteopathic medicine picked up enough real science that US Doctors of Osteopathy are real physicians… Even if the osteopathy part of their training is still pseudoscience.
2033 is the year of Linux on the desktop.
The SGU is the one podcast I have to listen to every week. They have been putting out such great content for so long now.
I’d recommend their show to anyone with an interest in science, technology, or thinking.
Laughing when someone’s angry at you for something you’ve done isn’t a very positive reaction.
Of course you know your friendship better than we do, but nothing you’ve written makes it sound like you ever owed him an apology.
People who turn every discussion into a debate that they must win.
Did your “friend” make you feel bad for getting mad at him? Frankly, it doesn’t sound like you owed him an apology at all - and if he didn’t apologise, he absolutely should have done.
When people get justifiably angry because their boundaries have been broken, emotionally abusive bullies often try to make their targets feel bad for “getting emotional”. It’s all an attempt to redirect the fact that they wronged you, not the other way around.
Sounds like your dad was taking about software daemons and Maxwell’s demon.