They may be brilliant engineers, but they’re adults who’ve decided to become enemies of the state.

Fun visualization.

First thought that this would be https://timeflies.buzz/ a fun game I played at pax this year, though I'm a little worried I played the whole thing.

The areas where these would be used are super crowded, it is likely that the riders are constantly bumping into people.

I see. Why not just limit the speed to that of a fast walking / slow running human and/or fine those who would ride carelessly enough to bump so people would have to remember deciding to ride means taking responsibility? Maybe also ban using smartphone while riding.

>people would have to remember deciding to ride means taking responsibility

And that, dear reader, is where the plan falls apart entirely.

But for real, regulation exists because large groups of people generally can't be expected to act rationally.

>But for real, regulation exists because large groups of people generally can't be expected to act rationally.

Especially tourists, who are the main users of these electric suitcases.

I think a formal way to assert that someone will follow those rules/be mindful is a license..

I imagine there is also a real concern that a lot of these things are using Lithium batteries from no-name companies that cannot be tracked down and held responsible if there is an explosion.

Was also sold one by my dentist. Turns out you still have to floss so it was just another thing I paid for at the dentist that I didn't really need. Cool.

try alternately flossing, then using the waterpik, or vice versa. You’ll find that either way, the second modality dislodges food particles left behind by the first. I take that as evidence that both > one > neither in terms of dental health and this of course assumes you then also brush your teeth.

I can’t recall where but I read something about southern US rice (especially Texas) having high levels of arsenic. California rice was reported as safer

On cotton fields lead arsenate was used as a pesticide to kill boll weevils. Some of that land now is rice fields. USA rice is marked Product of USA to differentiate from foreign crop. California grown is marked California to differentiate it from US south grown rice.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/11/arsenic...

The incentives at meta around code production are all wrong. The team behind this is absolutely gearing this around lines of code and number of diffs produced. This'll just be another codegen tool creating another mountain of code that is difficult to debug.

You weren't kidding. I just asked it this and got seriously scolded.

He died from an accident. Stairs can be hazardous.

Source?

Private forum post at Scanalyst. I accidentally posted a ref on HN to it earlier not noticing it was not public.

Thanks.

How functional you are in later years certainly correlates to exercise and diet.

no cause of death is given. people who are healthy can still die early from accidents

Some basic searching says this is based on an even older game called Legend of the Green Dragon. Looks kinda cool honestly. Anyone know if the writing is okay?

You can try the game without logging in.

The writing reads like tolerable fanfiction, so it's not stellar, but cringe moments and needless cussing are still present to some degree.

As someone who used to write room descriptions on MUDs, I can say I I remarkably difficult to strike a balance between immersive writing and functional prose that English speaking persons of different comprehension levels can engage with. We also had to be mindful of screen readers for sight-impared players, the idea being keep your descriptions informative and short without being boring.

I'm not a big fan of Impossible Islands writing, but they have my respect for it because it is quite the task to please an audience like that.

I'm heavily biased, having been an avid player of the game for ages. It's got a very distinct style, and I can definitely see how it's changed over the years, but I quite like it. The world that's been built in it is a delightfully quirky and fun one, but the writing also delves into some interesting territory both in darkness and in philosophy.

I'm also somewhat biased because one of the most well-fleshed out stories hits a nerve for me in how it confronts the horror of the loss of one's identity, enough that I can't comfortably read it. I say that in an absolutely positive way, much like a horror movie might be so unnerving that I can't bear to watch the whole thing.

It's generally light-hearted, with some dark humor, odd humor and silly humor, and I highly recommend giving it a go. Meet the community! Discover the setting,! Fight your own tongue, an ambulatory pair of pants, your past self, and a Panthzer (50% jungle panther, 50% Panzer tank, don't ask questions)!

This same comment gets posted on nearly every layoffs thread. A lot of people work at tech companies. Despite that, it sucks for someone to lose their job.

As I always mention in these threads, these are not mutually exclusive. We can both have empathy for those laid off while at the same time questioning the organization's size.