#editorial | Logs for 2019-09-28

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[00:21:13] <Bytram> http://feedproxy.google.com
[00:21:14] <upstart> ^ 03NASA chief throws shade at SpaceX ahead of Elon Musk's Starship update ( https://www.cnet.com )
[00:21:14] <exec> └─ 13NASA chief throws shade at SpaceX ahead of Elon Musk's Starship update - CNET
[00:32:29] <Bytram> https://spaceflightnow.com
[00:32:30] <upstart> ^ 03Elon Musk to provide update on SpaceX’s Starship this weekend – Spaceflight Now
[00:32:30] <exec> └─ 13Elon Musk to provide update on SpaceX’s Starship this weekend – Spaceflight Now
[00:44:51] <Bytram> =submit from the got-lost-in-the-translation dept. If parents cannot understand their own kid's slang, in the same language, how can automated machine translation ever come close to an accurate translation between languages? https://www.propublica.org
[00:44:52] <upstart> Submitting "Google Says Google Translate Can’t Replace Human Translators. Immigration Officials Have Used It to Vet Refugees."...
[00:44:52] <exec> └─ 13Google Says Google Translate Can’t Replace Human Translators. Immigration Officials Have Used It to Vet Refugees. — ProPublica
[00:44:56] <chromas> Bytram: did you get the api code going?
[00:45:14] <upstart> ✓ Sub-ccess! "Google Says Google Translate Can’t Replace Human Translators. Immigration Officials Have Used It t" (27 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[00:45:26] <Bytram> haven't looked at it, yet. Spent better part of the day working on the investigation. My brain is starting to hurt.
[00:46:09] <Bytram> At this point, I think I have one or two more sets of tables to examine and report on.
[00:47:15] <Bytram> specifically wrt comments-related tables and seeing if there were any comments made to the allegedly deleted journal entry that persisted.
[00:47:39] <Bytram> Hmm, I think I already addressed that, though.
[00:47:45] <Bytram> :P
[00:48:37] <chromas> You've been DoSed
[00:49:12] <chromas> Some dildaberg whines about journal deletion and now you have to spend all your life looking for nonexistent evidence
[00:49:19] <Bytram> more like DoV'ed: Denial of Vacation
[00:49:27] <Bytram> Oh, yes, thanks for that!
[00:49:36] <chromas> it was probably the russians anyway. same amount of evidence
[00:49:43] <Bytram> I meant to add that to the top of the story.
[00:52:04] <chromas> Here's something better to spend your time on. How about some stats on the dept field?
[00:52:15] <Bytram> huh>
[00:52:24] <Bytram> what do you have in mind?
[00:52:40] <Bytram> how many stories that we published do NOT have a dept.?
[00:52:45] <chromas> How many story depts, which are most poopular, which ones are used the most or whatever
[00:53:11] <Bytram> I think you mean the topics?
[00:53:33] <chromas> I meant the dept but you could do topics too
[00:53:39] <chromas> or I could I guess. I haz access
[00:55:25] <Bytram> topics is just free-format text. As a guess, there is prolly not a lot of overlap. Most likely, the most common will be "empty field" and the next most common would be a variation on "RIP" or "R.I.P." and therein lies the core of the problem... how do you determine "sameness"?
[00:56:30] <chromas> I think we need to look into downsizing
[00:56:37] <Fnord666> deep learning of course. it's the answer to everything
[00:56:46] <Bytram> downsizing, what? The alphabet?
[00:57:01] <Fnord666> number of chars in the dept line?
[00:57:04] <chromas> How many businesses do you know with thousands of departments?
[00:57:05] <Bytram> =g mark twain improving spelling
[00:57:06] <upstart> https://www.plainlanguage.gov - A Plan for the Improvement of Spelling in the English Language ...
[00:57:22] <Bytram> that should be a gud start
[00:57:24] <chromas> If anything, the dept field should allow more chars
[00:57:41] <Bytram> that's vary charitable of ewe
[00:58:04] <Bytram> hold on for a bit... brb
[00:58:04] <chromas> yew wood say that
[00:58:22] <Bytram> =g m-w tew
[00:58:23] <upstart> https://www.researchgate.net - Min Wei Tew's research works | ETH Zurich, Zürich (ETH Zürich) and ...
[00:58:36] <Bytram> - research
[00:58:43] <Bytram> =g m-w tew - research
[00:58:44] <upstart> https://www.researchgate.net - Min Wei Tew's research works | ETH Zurich, Zürich (ETH Zürich) and ...
[00:58:46] <Bytram> =g m-w tew -research
[00:58:47] <upstart> https://www.merriam-webster.com - Tew | Definition of Tew by Merriam-Webster
[00:59:52] <Bytram> so there are: to, too, two, tew, and tutu
[01:00:04] <Bytram> better:
[01:00:26] <Bytram> So there are: to, two, tew, and tutu, too!
[12:13:04] <Bytram> https://arstechnica.com
[12:13:05] <upstart> ^ 03SSDs are on track to get bigger and cheaper thanks to PLC technology ( https://arstechnica.com )
[12:13:07] <exec> └─ 13SSDs are on track to get bigger and cheaper thanks to PLC technology | Ars Technica
[12:13:36] <Bytram> ~arthur https://arstechnica.com
[12:13:39] <exec> └─ 13SSDs are on track to get bigger and cheaper thanks to PLC technology | Ars Technica
[12:13:40] <exec> 960 stories loaded
[12:13:41] <exec> attempting to submit story: "New Intel, Toshiba SSD technologies squeeze more bits into each cell"
[12:14:10] <exec> submission successful - https://soylentnews.org
[12:14:16] <exec> 960 stories loaded
[17:27:15] <chromas> We need 3½" ssds
[17:28:44] <chromas> also need the 2½" and 3½" sizes to relate to something instead of just being random numbers they use to differentiate the sizes
[19:09:26] <Bytram> whereto? http://feedproxy.google.com
[19:09:27] <upstart> ^ 03How to watch Elon Musk's big SpaceX Starship show Saturday ( https://www.cnet.com )
[19:09:27] <exec> └─ 13How to watch Elon Musk's big SpaceX Starship show Saturday - CNET
[19:09:50] <Bytram> chromas: I am sure 3 1/2 inch SSDs exist, but for the data center and would be $$$$$
[19:10:38] <Bytram> ISTR we had a story a while ago with some insane amount of SSD storage on a single drive. IIRC, it was a Samsung and something like 16 TB or thereabouts
[19:10:42] <chromas> They should put the older tech into bigger ones for bigger but cheaper storage
[19:12:21] <Bytram> I noticed a long time ago that one could stack something like a half-dozen 2 1/2 inch drives, vertically in a full-height (?) 5 1/4 inch drive bay. Make it hot-swappable and you could have an SSD raid-in-a-box!
[20:46:28] <Bytram> http://www.youtube.com
[20:46:29] <upstart> ^ 03Starship Update ( https://www.youtube.com )
[20:46:30] <exec> └─ 13Starship Update - YouTube