Um…delivering?

Maybe I’m missing the point as I’m not from the US (and I assume from your content that you are) - but here we pay a delivery fee which covers the cost of delivery, and a tip is an optional bonus for the delivery person if you feel like they went beyond.

Well he didn’t just get takeout for some reason /s

Did you consider getting takeout?

20yrs ago I had to help my comp sci housemate build a website for his module. I was not a CS student.

Some things never change.

Alt: a single pane comic in which a person says to another person: "silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars.

The other person says: “and quartz, of course”

The first person replies: “of course.”

The caption to the comic reads “even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field”

Are your teachers reading your screens a lot? Because it’s a PITA to read if you’re not using it yourself.

Also if you demo code you should switch to the more traditional so that others don’t have a hard time reading.

Basically it’s just down to the human brains amazing ability to do pattern recognition subconsciously so you don’t have to actively think about what that symbol means - unless someone used a different symbol.

Peak Zimmer I feel. Although his score for Gladiator 2 (Inception) was also very good.

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

IANAD so seek medical advice, but exercise more and sit less. You want to strengthen your glutes, core and I think your quads. You also want to loosen your hip flexors.

Why is 2x2 meant to be 1.5x1.5 and not 2x2?

Excellent thank you. Cited on the wiki too - neat.

So I take this as an affirmative to my original suspicion - given they can change form at will, they could be any sex they like today, tomorrow and then be a tree the day after I guess? So they do just use the analog to represent themselves, as their existence is not constrained by such biological limitations like “sex” and they would be even less constrained by societal structures like gender!

So that tells us they can at least take the required form, but doesn’t tell us they are necessarily fixed to it?

I know nothing about this lore so I’m really just fishing for someone with more knowledge to give definitive answers based on the literature.

Unless that’s just the nearest analog they had to describe the relationship?

As a (I assume) neurotypical person, this seems somewhat insulting to me. I like to think I’m a very conscientious person and have a reasonable understanding of neurodiversity - I don’t think I’d respond in the ways portrayed in this cartoon.

That said the cartoon itself I found amusing, but your comment seemingly to paint us all with such a broadbrush seems insulting.

Europe has 10 sq km. Let’s not compare pommes to oranges.

Thank you

Look I get it, you want to argue about the cause. You go ahead and do that…but I’m here discussing the merits of inference in order to make judgements that may well affect longevity.

Good day.

And?

The discussion is around what the controller tells us about the approach to the design and development of the vehicle.

The fact that there are people readily defending the use of an entertainment controller to navigate at the limit of human endeavour tells me how they managed to find people to sign up for this death ride.

Hundreds of millions of people is likely an overestimate given the PS5 has sold only 50m and while there are likely sometimes multiple users per device, and likely some PC users, it’s unlikely there are anywhere near 200m. Additionally most of these users will be using Sony controllers - which I believe was not the case here.

Further: all of those users are not expecting to rely on this device for their personal safety and continued existance.

So just in the same way I don’t use a straw for breathing underwater, I also don’t get on deep sea submersibles controlled by a PlayStation controller that, at the point of design and manufacture, did not have life support anywhere near its specification.

So to answer your question - no, an imaginary “hundreds of millions” of users using a device for an entirely different purpose is certainly NOT enough for me to entrust my life to. But that’s just me - you feel free to do you.

In this context it absolutely is a life support device - if it fails, the occupants are dead.

Do you have any other examples of a time where such a device is used in such circumstances?

The best anology I can think of is planes, and none of them are using entertainment input devices AFAIK?

As a scuba diver I have a buoyancy control device, which I am totally reliant on for life and thus I take 2. Did they even take spares with them? If they did then i can see this being a legit way of being safe.

Not taking it as being mean - its an interesting conversation, hopefully you feel the same.