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Escape from Shawshank - that how the movie is called in Russian

Physics. Have you ever played a competitive/reaction based video game with high ping? It is very, very hard. And it’s a game, where there are many tricks to hide latency from you.

Cloud console shows pings between Google data centers in us-west and ones that are in proximity of Philippines around 160-200ms. Then you also have inherent lag of wireless connection itself. Then you have also connectivity from google’s data center to Philippines.

If you want remote driving in uncontrolled environment, you reasonably can expect only the same city/county operators.

I’m obviously uninformed, but I’d expect the remote operators job (from another country) to be like “car is safe to proceed, based on that picture that I see” or, in the worst case scenario, put some waypoints in the ui and let car drive on its own.


Thankfully technology hasn't advanced since 2010!

Sure, technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, but we haven't quite figured out how to exeed the speed of light just yet ;-)

Ohh, every geo join/spatial thing with picture that consists of those small cells over map is such pet peeve of mine. Facebook marketplace, craigslist, tinder, any app with “proximity search”.

No, this city isn’t 4 miles from my city. There is a literal lake between us. It’s 10+ miles.

Please, invent something, do precompute, but just avoid naive-ish searches.


Is this related to the article?

Hes just angry hes not a crow.

Yes. The pictures with those small grids that ignore highways, rivers and mountains is what bothers me

But that's just a way to explain the algorithm. No one will show that to the users. And they don't ignore anything, those features are inside the hexagons.

Some of games are releasing versions without copy protection and/or anti cheats when they are reaching end of their useful life for developers.

I don’t know about that particular game, but it could be the case that the devs intentionally ripped off the driver from it.


I never heard about it but the way you describe it sounds insane/sketchy, on the level of Tesla/racial slurs story with crazy millions initial verdict that ended up much lesser.

I mean, I can easily imagine mentally unstable person, that happened to be an employee, doing that shit, but I don’t see company with company processes acting like that. Like how do you expense purchasing and mailing dead pig? The life is full of surprises though, so I’m not ruling out corporate involvement completely. Can you provide sources and verdict?


> Can you provide sources and verdict?

sure. directly from the DOJ [0] and another from CBS. [1]

i get it, it sounds insane, but its very real. here ya go.

Department of Justice: [0]

> Jim Baugh, eBay’s former Senior Director of Safety and Security, was sentenced to 57 months in prison in September 2022;

> David Harville, former Director of Global Resiliency, was sentenced to 24 months in prison in September 2022;

> Stephanie Popp, former Senior Manager of Global Intelligence, was sentenced to 12 months in prison in October 2022;

> Philip Cooke, a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 12 months of home confinement in July 2021;

> Stephanie Stockwell, a former Manager of Global Intelligence, was sentenced to one year in home confinement in October 2022; and

> Veronica Zea, a contract intelligence analyst, was sentenced to one year in home confinement in November 2022.

CBS [1]:

> eBay to pay $3 million after couple became the target of harassment, stalking

> Devin Wenig, eBay's CEO at the time, shared a link to a post Ina Steiner had written about his annual pay. The company's chief communications officer, Steve Wymer, responded: "We are going to crush this lady."

> About a month later, Wenig texted: "Take her down." Prosecutors said Wymer later texted eBay security director Jim Baugh. "I want to see ashes. As long as it takes. Whatever it takes," Wymer wrote.

> Investigators said Baugh set up a meeting with security staff and dispatched a team to Boston, about 20 miles from where the Steiners live.

> "Senior executives at eBay were frustrated with the newsletter's tone and content, and with the comments posted beneath the newsletter's articles," the Department of Justice wrote in its Thursday announcement.

theres plenty more links out there if ya need them.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/final-defendant-ebay-cybe...

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-ebay-stalking-scand...


This is as insane as it gets. Thanks for sharing.


Do you think that water that the water that flows from kitchen sink and water that flushes in the toilet in normal house/apartment come from different pipes in any other place of the world?


Many homes around the world do in fact have separate drinking water taps in the kitchen.

But yes, it rarely enters the building via different pipes. I'm sure that's a thing somewhere too.


Yeah. For 20+ years, for many, the source of truth was like first google result (especially if it supported their opinion).

And let’s face it, with reproducibility crisis, the books aren’t sacred too. Their authors are also people, who also might cherry pick their facts at best and plain lie/invent them at worst.


Reading a book is an investment, and progressively larger and larger amount of books are not worth it, and, looking back, were never worth it.

For example, Look how the sentiment has changed about Malcolm Gladwell books. They were very popular among people who consider themselves smart, and now are debunked. Personally, I find it hard to read many recent non-fiction books because you clearly see - this is padding, this is filler, that chapter could’ve been edited out and no message would be lost, this is just self advertisement…


So much to say that some games are made as art first and games second, some games are made as games first and art second/none and some games happen to be both.

Is tennis(real, not a video game) an art? Is Quake 3 arena an art? Is super hexagon an art? Is Pathologic an art? Is Nier Automata art?


Pathologic is one of the best portrayals of depression I have ever played. Certainly art.


When I switched from 10+ or something years of android (used since Galaxy S) to iphone 13, I felt that “everything just works”. But recently it’s getting worse. I don’t know what they did, but last year or so the typing on the keyboard became progressively worse. Constant typos, wrong letters. Idk what is happening.


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