darreninthenet
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- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 weeks ago:
Some countries take it further and anything above a tiny amount (like 0.02) will get you a criminal record… although usually at such small amounts it’s just a fine and/or points on your licence, using bans and prison sentences for higher levels (like the US levels you describe).
This to me is the right approach - it’s long been proven that even regular drinkers suffer an impact on reaction times and anticipation with even a small amount of alcohol, so it really should be zero tolerance. I can’t think of any other situation where you’d be allowed to control a two ton piece of metal at 60+ mph around other people, houses, cars etc without having proper control.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 weeks ago:
What’s the practical difference between illegal and criminal in the US? To me, a Brit, they are the same thing.
- Comment on When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere 1 month ago:
GOG has it - https://www.gog.com/en/game/blade_runner
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 6 months ago:
When they start to bend and crack
- Comment on As Microsoft bids farewell to Windows 10, millions of users won’t 9 months ago:
Ditto… just yesterday I went all in and wiped my drive to put Mint on, decided not to bother with a halfway house or dual booting.
Apart from some minor hardware driver issues, so far so good!
- Comment on Can mental health medication change nature of dreams? 9 months ago:
I used to take an antihistamine called loratadine before bed and it started giving me horrendous nightmares, so yes meds can definitely affect dreams. Doc moved me onto a nose spray called Avamys and they went away (and the spray was more affective anyway)
- Comment on CrankBoy - the original Game Boy game emulator for the Playdate console (my article) 11 months ago:
Cranking...
- Comment on OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ 11 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ 11 months ago:
It did for me 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ 11 months ago:
FWIW, ChatGPT 5 gets this correct
