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Why? Companies that sell Windows laptops absolutely have these figured out for various customizations they want. Those are usually shit customizations to be fair, but in this case it'd be actually useful.

Corbyn was an unusually terrible leader even by Labour standards. Amazing that some people still support him.

> And if a law is so bad that it can't even get more than 1/3rd the people to support it

What? That's not what you wrote. If it only takes 1/3rd to repeal a law, then you need to keep up 2/3rds support indefinitely, not 1/3rd.

Democracies require supermajorities for stuff all the time, it's pretty typical, especially for constitutional changes.

And in this case, it would also mean that Britain would've joined the EU with a 55%+ majority as well.

I dunno about 2/3rds, but there should definitely be some kind of supermajority required for things like joining or leaving the EU.

Even a 55% requirement would be a lot better than a simple majority imo.

Browser defaults suck, then.

This is classic "works fine on my machine".

It sucks.

I wonder, is there something stopping Framework from having this change as the default?

I'm mostly a Windows/Android user, but one thing I appreciate about Macbooks is that the speakers are quite capable. I have a MacBook Pro from work and the speakers sound excellent, at least for a laptop.

I mean general QR code payments as opposed to QR codes on tickets. First noticed them at convenience stores, but vending machines have them too, and I think some restaurants.

The really nice advantage of Suica is its speed. Yeah credit card tap to pay is alright, but it's relatively slow, taking multiple seconds.

Now QR code payment seems to be taking off in Japan, but unfortunately you can't access it as a tourist.

Eh, what's wrong with using Unity or Godot or GameMaker?

What's time traveling debugging?

If the game has a sufficiently large group of players then yes that's not as bad. But you'll still end up with weak players fairly consistently having a bad time.

Yeah, Hades did this with God mode and it worked very well.

People who complain about SBMM being "sweaty" are typically stronger players who want to dunk on casuals. For them, it's true that non-SBMM is sweaty, because if you're even a top 10% player, you're gonna dominate most other people.

But what if you're a bottom 10% player? How non-sweaty is non-SBMM then? Is it not-sweaty to get absolutely demolished all the time even at your best?

Exhaustive list of team-based PvP games where people don't complain about matchmaking:

I mean good PvP systems have skill based matchmaking so almost everyone is winning and losing 50/50. Though, that's harder to do if you have a small playerbase.

In the 90s, almost everyone was still bad at these games (because they were relatively new as a genre), so the skill discrepancies were smaller. I was there, I remember.

When the skill gaps are smaller it's not as big of a deal to play "stronger" players. But when the skill gaps are huge, it becomes a real problem.

> Most new players did not want to get rekt for months on end while they learned the basics, however.

If that's the new player experience, you done fucked up. Making sure new players actually have fun is a critical part of the game's design. You can't just rely on "...and then new players will have to spend 50-60 hours getting demolished before they start having a good time."

Easing that transition could mean different things -- a campaign, skirmish mode vs bots, full-on PvE co-op mode, automatching that actually works, whatever -- but you do need something effective.

> which makes human-killing robots

I mean, that's just defense companies in general now. Would you rather have your own soldiers dying in a war, rather than robots? Ukraine is using AI in their targeting, is that something you condemn?

This is no different from the invention of machine guns or artillery. Yes, it's sad that these things will be used in war to kill (more) people. But intentionally avoiding that technology means you're just handicapping your own military and sacrificing others' lives for your principles.

> A new pick-up truck that once cost $40,000 now runs to $100,000. A wooden fence post has gone from about $6 to as much as $19. A quarter-mile roll of barbed wire has doubled, from $60 to $130. Everything he uses day to day, he says, has jumped in price since the Covid pandemic.

I know why pick-ups have gone up in cost (though I don't think it's quite to 2.5x levels like suggested here since the pandemic), but wooden posts and barbed wire, it's less clear why those are so much more expensive now.

That's a pretty ridiculous analogy. Simply inventing something doesn't force the invention onto anyone.

> The vast majority of cases are individual; owned by myriad businesses, charities, foundations.

Agreed, but the solution is more general. If you want handicapped people to have more access, that probably means widespread societal change through regulations, like the ADA (which obviously didn't fix everything, but was at least a big step forward).

I'll grant you Musk being terrible, no argument there, but that's not tech companies as a whole.

And California hardly needed any help to sabotage its HSR, the state's whole process for that kind of development is incredibly backwards and broken, sadly.

So it's basically just Tesla/Musk here, when people say "tech companies"?

Musk is an asshole, no argument there, but most tech company CEOs aren't nearly that crazy.

Really letting the perfect be the enemy of the good here. No, we can't let people attempt new inventions, some of which may actually help, because the mere fact that people will see them may result in less attention for more basic, important stuff.

Is there solid evidence that TED talks about stair-climbing wheelchairs undermine actual regulations and investments in ramps, or is this more of a "my source is that I made it up" kind of situation?

100% agree about the UX problems. Most engineers would be happy to fix those issues, but of course, companies always want the new features...because that's what customers want and what drives more $$$.

Sadly, it's true that the % of new sales generated by improving a11y beyond the bare minimum isn't going to be terribly large. That's why it's important to have regulations that mandate decent support, because the monetary incentive that drives corporate behavior just isn't there.

The fact that this is or isn't happening is basically unrelated to inventing new stuff. It's almost entirely a political issue, not one of engineering.

They generally would, though for the most part I imagine they're just ambivalent here. As long as workers can get to work, that's most of what they care about.