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Linus hasn't distanced himself enough from the company. If LMG "wants to be a real company", which it is now, it needs to be able to take criticism. Nobody is criticizing any individual at LMG, we are criticizing the company. Companies are not individuals and need a mechanism for dealing with any criticism, abuse, harassment, dogpiling, ect that's not a defensive CEO taking it personally and blurting out their emotional reaction. I don't know how Linus can live being the sole punching bag for such a large company.

"Nobody should buy it" is probably true, but it's not the problem here. LTT did not do their due diligence before publishing that conclusion. Even a product that no rational consumer should buy deserves a fair review that explores why you might buy it anyway.

Linus does this all the time, he makes excuses based on some technicality that only he understands. He's said in the past that "it's only a review if we explicitly say it's a review, and if it's not a review we don't have to be held to the same standards", despite the fact that most of their viewers won't assume that distinction, and it's not exactly obvious with their nonsense clickbait titles on all videos. His ego is way too big and he cares more about being right than making good content.

I don't think he wants to fight the alphabet soup, I think he wants to watch the alphabet soup.

Why not, after you clicked on a post in a piracy community?

Are you interested in proving me wrong, or figuring out the right answer? If you actually read that article instead of just the title, you would have noticed at the end it says

This leads us to say a few words about the widely held opinion that, because complex numbers are fundamental to quantum mechanics, it is desirable to "complexify" every bit of physics, including spacetime itself. It will be apparent that we disagree with this view, and hope earnestly that it is quite wrong, and that complex numbers (as mystical uninterpreted scalars) will prove to be unnecessary even in quantum mechanics

They literally say that "complex numbers are fundamental to quantum mechanics". In other fields of physics complex numbers are just a convenient tool, but in quantum mechanics they are(as far as we know) fundamental, even if the author hopes that to be proved wrong at some point.

You seem like you know a bit about alternatives to complex numbers in other areas of physics, so it would be interesting to have a further conversation, as long as you stop being so defensive.

Complex numbers seem to be used either as 2d vectors or as representation of waves/circles in exponentials, is there an alternative that combines both of those uses?

Which is offset by the lack of safety regulation

Citation needed. SUVs tend to be modern which would generally have stricter safety regulations

high center of mass, heavier weight to crush the cabin in a rollover

I wouldn't have though that rollovers are a common cause of deaths or serious injuries in cars. The higher center of gravity is going to be offset by the wider wheel base, so it depends on the car.

Traction seems like a much bigger problem, although many SUVs solve this with bigger wheels.

and much higher likelihood of running over your own kids.

Agree 100%

Stop spreading propaganda by cherry picking,

Look, fuck SUVs, obviously. If you aren't a psychopath you should not feel safe driving those things. My point was specifically about the physics of collisions. What you're bringing up can't be answered with physics because it depends on the details of the car, we need real world statistics to continue this conversation.

Who would use this? Wouldn't you either walk on the grass or clearly in the middle of the street?

Physics says that in a collision, the heavier vehicle will always come out better. Higher mass means more resistance to acceleration, so it will take longer to change speed and impart less force on the occupants. This is one reason why buses sometimes don't have seatbelts, when the bus collides with much lighter cars it will be largely unaffected.

If everyone has a heavy vehicle, it's worse overall because of higher kinetic energy causing more dramatic collisions. And obviously significantly worse for everyone outside a car.

Hence the arms race.

Nope, you're just wrong. Quantum mechanics without complex numbers(real quantum theory) is less predictive than complex(regular) quantum theory. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-physics-falls-apart-without-imaginary-numbers/

True, but singular they is undeniably clunky. Unfortunately it's the best we have, so we will have to get used to it. Opposition to the natural evolution of language has never worked.

We aren't saying that they should be driving, quite the opposite. We're saying that it's completely fucked that in some places you have to drive to participate in society, precisely because many people shouldn't. There needs to be alternatives to driving so that law enforcement can remove anyone's license without effectively placing them in house arrest.

Since I don't know how well their manipulation works

I do. It works really fucking well. $900 billion per year well.

Quantum mechanics, as far as we know, requires imaginary numbers.

They're all pretty equivalent stock Android with a few extra customization options. I've usually ended up on CRdroid. Havoc comes with a bit of bloatware which may or may not be what you want.

That's to be expected, you're only 0.55% of the way to your first death.

One person posting the same thing to multiple communities is bad etiquette, whether the stated purpose of those communities is the same or not. Anyone who does this should be shamed, blocked and banned. Find the biggest and most relevant community and post it there, don't spam.

I focus on comments rather than posts, but if you care about finding new links then I agree that duplicate communities is a problem. But it's not the biggest problem on the platform, and obviously while instances are independent there's no way to force a solution. Communities have merged, but it's usually small communities on small instances dying as their users move to a large community on a large instances. This is a disaster for decentralization, everything needs to be as spread out as possible across instances.

The multiple communities doesn't bother me, I just join both and usually don't notice the difference. It's a better problem than all the communities being on lemmy.world which defeats the point of federation.

Each instance is it's own server, then it has many communities which are created by users. Ideally we spread the communities across instances, but unfortunately most of the big communities are clustered on the big instances, because finding communities on small instances is hard.

Broadband is broadband, the only relevant thing to discuss is customer service.

Vodafone support didn't know what port forwarding is, then told me they didn't support it. It's a basic function of the internet, so they definitely do. 0/x, they focus more on dumb rebranding than actually providing internet services.