i personally wouldn't described teenagers killing each other with luminous green hunting knives as a 'weird panic' but perhaps something that needs a lot of attention and a multitude of steps to solve. banning these insane weapons is, would you believe it, one quick step that might help.
How many crimes related to “foot claws”, “death stars” and “blow darts” were there before they were banned? The UK Offensive Weapons Act is a joke of a law that makes us look like morons afraid of cartoon turtles and farming tools.
It's just very easily substitutable with regular knives? Plus the Offensive Weapons Act already covers them? I would be very surprised if it has made a difference.
(those of us with longer memories remember the previous iteration and why the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles don't have "ninja" in their name in the UK)
Yeah, its almost as if the knives aren't the problem. The gang memebrs will use whatever gives them an advantage, guns, knives, acid, bats, bricks. We can't ban everything, we should possibly tackle the cause instead of the symptom...
But don't worry, in the mean time they're coming for our regular knives.
The BBC has already rolled out Idris Ebla to explain that kitchen knives shouldnt have points[0]. Yes this has been picked up by politicians with the minister for policing at the time calling it an interesting idea [1].
Maybe if the law required all knives to be pink they might be too embarrassed to murder someone. One problem then is the switch to acid attacks which are just clear liquids in containers.
perhaps people printing their own guns at home is actually quite bad and in fact should be controlled in some way without it being seen as a fundamental incursion on your rights.
The idea that we should let government software run on our printers to prevent the rate case where someone both wants to print a gun and do some crime with it is absurd. There are more important 1st and 4th amendment considerations here
NYC doesn't have a gun problem. They regulate the shit out of guns to no effect. They should regress closer to the national mean and spend the resources on stuff that matters more. And even if they do want to regulate it, micromanaging everyone's 3d printers is not the way to do it both because of bad efficacy and bad precedent.
That can be ruled out. Bit rot does not appear suddenly in a widespread manner and does not cause very similar visual effects in a variety of images. Also the original images are still available, just new modified versions were shown. To me it looks like a new compression algo gone wrong.
A bad bit wouldn’t even be noticeable in an image. Changing one bit would make literally no difference. Artifacts look like something the compression algorithm has messed up. Also since the images are actually intact according to Google this is likely just the compression algorithm used to browse the images.
Update: my limited knowledge on this is proof I’m wrong.
A bad bit might have no visible effect at all (e.g. Affecting part of EXIF metadata, or a totally black pixel turning again very close to total black) or can corrupt the whole image (flipping a bit in the file header or cosine quantization table).
As a total layman when it comes to storage: Don't they use forward correcting codes to make sure a single bad bit can reliably be detected and flipped without affecting the data at all? Or are these used only for data transmission?
I've encountered older digital photos where a small corruption affects all of the remaining parts of the image as it is presumably recorded in some linear fashion as shown in this Wikipedia entry's "Visual example."
i feel like a good business idea would be showing new product names / logos to a group of 50 people from various demographics and ages to see if the name clashes with something else.
It made me think of the old wireless application protocol stuff - WAP. I did create a site in WML around 2002 but all i remember is a <card> structure.
I am the developer of Wapp. I gather (from other comments) that the name "Wapp" collides with a recent pop song by someone named "Cardi B" - please correct me if I have misunderstood. For the record:
* I do not follow or participate in pop culture.
* I do not listen to pop music, ever.
* I do not know who Cardi B is.
Any similarity in the name of the Wapp software framework and music by the individual or group known as "Cardi B" is purely coincidental.
Yes, Cardi B is a female singer who is popular these days (as in, she's on the radio). WAP the song name is an abbreviation that refers to female genitalia.
That people associate "Wapp" with a sexually suggestive pop song name instead of "app" or "web app" might say more about them than anything inherent from the project name...
Well, all these people commenting know both. I have a feeling a majority of people who know about Wapp know WAP, just because of the latter’s overall popularity.
I went to a PTA meeting once and they were playing "OPP" while everyone's kindergarten age children danced to it. My wife and I were pretty sure we were the only ones that knew the lyrics.
thanks! will add some string and trumpet samples just for you.
been plenty of iterations over the past year or so, has been p cool to see people jamming on it between all corners of the world during the lockdown(s)
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