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New comment by Rayearth in "Tesla Model S and Model 3 comparison"

Rayearth — Fri, 26 May 2017 17:43:44 +0000

That, or they could try switching up the descriptor:

Tesla Type T

Tesla Version V

Tesla Mark III M

Tesla Ausf. A

New comment by Rayearth in "Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]"

Rayearth — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:23:18 +0000

>the userland here isn't just GNU

Ah okay. Shame that calling this "GNU/NT 10.0" would not be proper then.

New comment by Rayearth in "My Watch Runs GNU/Linux"

Rayearth — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 17:06:58 +0000

Also there's now a thing called "GNU/NT", or as Microsoft calls it, "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows".

New comment by Rayearth in "Emperor Akihito of Japan Raises Possibility of Leaving Throne"

Rayearth — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 15:25:41 +0000

To add to this, Canada in 2008 went through a "parliamentary dispute" that Canada's Governor General played a large part in the resolution of. While the Governor General is pretty much chosen by Canadian ministers in a democratic fashion, on paper the officer is appointed by the Queen and ideally represents her in Canada.

So I do agree that the monarchy has some influence on the Commonwealth, more than just having "the right to be consulted, to encourage and to warn".

New comment by Rayearth in "Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its first week ever"

Rayearth — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:31:02 +0000

When I first heard that multiple players can fight in the same gym battle instance, I got excited with the hope that there might be the conventional raid versus boss combat mechanics present - a main tank, positioning being important, taunts and so on.

Of course gym battles are a lot more simple and fixing the many issues both combat-wise and in general take priority compared to adding such mechanics in.

New comment by Rayearth in "Microsoft no longer allows admins to block Windows Store access in Win10 Pro"

Rayearth — Thu, 05 May 2016 18:58:59 +0000

> internet exploder

You mean the "Chrome/Firefox Install Downloader"? But that's a great product for what is was made for!

New comment by Rayearth in "Visual Studio Code 1.0"

Rayearth — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:29:34 +0000

Even WinForms is still around somehow, though in a "cannot be killed" legacy Form as opposed to WPF having a direct descendant in UWP.

Silverlight, though...

New comment by Rayearth in "Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be"

Rayearth — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:34:15 +0000

Just do what Japan does and put into place super strict vehicle maintenance and emissions standards...that go into full effect when the car is six or so years old. Though in this case it wouldn't be a truly complete obsolescence, since the owner could just spend more to keep up with the standards.

New comment by Rayearth in "Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions"

Rayearth — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 19:02:26 +0000

Indeed, I feel like a combination of the "amazing city sites" being already occupied by city-states as well as how terrain bonuses seemed weaker, especially production bonus terrain, made exploration in 5 less exciting.

New comment by Rayearth in "Unsafe Lead Levels in Tap Water Not Limited to Flint"

Rayearth — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:07:06 +0000

He was also chosen to tour and report on post-Second World War Germany due to his experience from similar humanitarian missions he undertook in Europe in the aftermath of the First World War.

Does anyone think that it's possible that there will be another career engineer as POTUS? I've heard that there remains a sort of stigma to such a thing, perhaps in part due to the Hoover administration.

New comment by Rayearth in "HN is in the same cluster as 2ch, not Techcrunch, on Twitter"

Rayearth — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 23:30:41 +0000

So HN is close to nico (Japanese youtube) and pixiv (Japanese-centric art and fanart site)? Interesting.

New comment by Rayearth in "Debt Dodgers: Americans Who Moved to Europe and Went AWOL on Their Student Loans"

Rayearth — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:02:30 +0000

A decade ago I was berating myself for my laziness and other personal factors that led me to going to a "backup" in-state tech school instead of the #3-in-nation that I tried for but could not get acceptance.

Now, seeing that the place I could not get into had quadruple the tuition as the in-state and almost double the room and board, I'm starting to believe that perhaps it was for the best that I did not get in that place.

New comment by Rayearth in "Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April"

Rayearth — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:19:19 +0000

Indeed, I was a little surprised that AJA was both a thing at all and also a thing completely different from AJE. I first discovered AJE while living abroad in a place where the only english news channels were CNN, BBC and AJE, and my impression was that AJE was worthy to stand alongside the other two channels.

New comment by Rayearth in "Suleiman the Magnificent's tomb believed to have been found in Hungary"

Rayearth — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:33:27 +0000

World history class taught us that Suleiman's domestic policy was what made him legendary. Much later I learned that he almost took Vienna - essentially the high water mark of the Ottomans. Imagine what the world would have been like if he succeeded...

New comment by Rayearth in "The Cannons on the B-29 Bomber"

Rayearth — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 23:51:06 +0000

I think in one of the EU novels (Courtship of Princess Leia) Luke flies the Falcon while using both quadlasers, and if I recall correctly Han mentions that the controls in the cockpit allowed for such a thing but with a major accuracy penalty compared to having actual gunners at the gun stations. I don't recall if Luke was using the Force to make the cockpit quadlaser controls super accurate or if he was just reaching out with the Force to directly operate the controls at both gun stations.

New comment by Rayearth in "An 80-Year-Old Prank Revealed, Hiding in the Periodic Table"

Rayearth — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:06:47 +0000

So how should one take a prank like this to the next level? Use abbreviations like Bs and Fu, or even outright spelling out dirty words by discovering and naming a bunch of elements with consecutive element numbers?

New comment by Rayearth in "Is there a Belgium? (1999)"

Rayearth — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:27:31 +0000

So basically a Belgian edition of "Die Macher" (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1/die-macher).

Though if one were in the mood for a more morbidly entertaining political game, a re-theme of Republic of Rome may be in order. It's also a game of up to six factions trying to be the most powerful at game end...but there's also a crisis every turn that if ignored can cause everyone to lose! You just need to replace "Hannibal at the gates" with some EU 2015 equivalent, and maybe have the "senator (+ legions) in my faction declares himself emperor" action be replaced with "Flemings/Walloons declare independence".

New comment by Rayearth in "Footage of life in Nazi Austria, thanks to a new video archive"

Rayearth — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:30:13 +0000

Interestingly, the assassination of Dollfuss caused Mussolini to almost go to war with Nazi Germany. One might wonder what would have happened if tensions remained such that Italy stayed out of the Axis and the war in Europe...

"Hitler will create an army, Hitler will arm the Germans and make war- possibly even in two or three years. I cannot stand up to him alone. We must do something and we must do something quickly." - Mussolini, 1934

New comment by Rayearth in "More parents, students saying 'no' to homework"

Rayearth — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:34:10 +0000

I've come across two outstanding examples of this:

Kerbal Space Program in AP Physics (https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1jcnyl/...)

Diplomacy [the Avalon Hill boardgame] in 12th Grade Humanities (https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/386460/diplomacy-classroom-...)

The second example is particularly fascinating. We can expect games to apply and reinforce studies in a technical field or to stimulate interest in history, but using a game to teach rhetoric and its ability to express and manipulate is something else.

New comment by Rayearth in "Unreal Engine 4.9 Released"

Rayearth — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:16:51 +0000

Even with the asset stores, have UE or Unity reached the point of being a "one stop shop"? It still seems like an art tool like Blender or Maya is also a required link in the toolchain for anything but the smallest of projects.