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Comment Re: 455 calls failed and two callers died (Score 1, Insightful) 18

It's certainly a testament to how many of those calls didn't need to happen, and I'm not seeing here that we're sure those people would have made it if the calls had gone through, or they'd even have had a good chance.

On the flip side, if anyone certainly died because of negligence around a critical emergency service, some heads should roll. Unfortunately, it won't be the ones which it needs to in order to prevent it from happening again.

Comment Re: Ohhhhh! (Score 1) 97

You can get a full sized convection oven. You can also power a medium sized one from 110v@15A. When I was a teen we moved into a mobile with a lousy oven and my mother bought a DeLonghi countertop convection oven that plugged into a regular outlet. It cooked about as rapidly as any normal oven, and had capacity between one and a modern air fryer. Just enough for a turkey basically.

Comment Re: Completely unnecessary (Score 1) 38

"Congratulations, you just coded an unplayable lagfest. This has been tried, this has failed"

This is nonsense.

You don't have to detect cheating before it happens. You can detect it slightly after the fact and then retcon scores and ban players. This is almost as good, much easier, and doesn't create any latency.

Comment Re:OP (Score 1) 28

The OP seems to think so.

What he said was:

I look forwards to the posts where because Apple is not an absolute monopoly they are somehow immune to any accusations of anti-trust.

A person who can read and understand English can understand that he didn't say that they had an absolute monopoly, but was anticipating stupid arguments about it not being antitrust if they don't have one. You are not that person, apparently, but you are a person whose knee would jerk and result in a defense of Apple's actions.

It's incredibly easy to not use any Apple products at all.

It's easy if you know ahead of time. If you're some poor fucker who got tricked into a "free" iPhone and then you bought some apps and shit and got your data into the iCloud and then you find out that Apple's anticompetitive* actions are impacting you, now there is an actual financial cost to changing. In a world where the vast majority of people are living paycheck to paycheck, it is not easy and no one should have to listen to your privileged assertions in defense of Apple's illegal acts.

* Fucking Mozilla didn't put this word into the Firefox dictionary, I wonder why not? Probably sucking off Google. I know we're talking about Apple here but holy shit there's a lot of sleazy shit going around. Ironically if you google "define anticompetitive" you get a nice big fat definition from Oxford languages so that you don't have to visit their site, which is itself an example of anticompetitive behavior.

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