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[00:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:03] <exec> 08└─> The bill reads like a computer security expert's wish list. It will therefore end stuffed with pork, anti-abortion and defund-Obamacare clauses, dying before reaching a floor vote. Don't you know by now that we can't have nice things ?
[00:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:04] <exec> 08└─Especially when those in power and those who will be in power next don't probably want a system that can't be hacked: by them. Dems, R's, Russians, Chinese. It's hacks aaaallllll the way down.
[00:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:07] <exec> 08└─Surely this is from the sudden-outbreak-of-common-sense department? budget constraints have forced some to continue relying on insecure paperless equipment
[00:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:09] <exec> 08└─Is it just me, or has their been a heavier number of stories from ArsTechnica lately (or possibly stories they also covered there but SN linked elsewhere)? I like that site too, but it seems like their is quite a bit of overlap recently. Mod -1:offtopic, and yes I should RTFA
[00:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:11] <exec> 08└─The bill reads like a computer security expert's wish list.
[00:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:13] <exec> 08└─Ars Technica is pretty clean, accessible, and in-depth. I use it fairly often, but I also use The Verge and Reuters a lot. Putting multiple sources in a submission gives more options (for TFAs to ignore). Quoting from multiple sources is sometimes good, sometimes redundant.
[00:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:41] <exec> 08└─Do you seriously think anyone would give two shits about copyright infringement? I think you missed the critical point of the parents argument. This will take the concept of "Fake News" to unheard of levels. Currently it takes a great deal of effort to photoshop existing imagery and manipulate it to...
[00:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:42] <exec> 08└─Actually, people have a built-in face recognizer. The "large collection of faces" is used to limit what is seen as a valid face. And you still get people seeing faces in sandwiches, etc. It's sort of like "Start off with everything that has two spots above a third spot being considered a face, and f...
[00:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:09] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe out of this will come better methods of circumvention, and more secure communication for all of us. *Route around the damage*. The internet is supposed to be able to do that, but when you're chained to an ISP as the single point of failure, there's not a lot of redundancy to help you out
[00:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:11] <exec> 08└─Indonesia's current condition is largely due to USA.gov's Imperialism. Oh please! USA, Russia, China... Pick yer poison! Such is life in the prison yard, babe
[00:20:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:02] <exec> 08└─The key detail was leaked on the linux-kernel mailing list, but not by some random Linux developer. It was leaked by an AMD employee who was providing a patch to exclude AMD processors from the bug work-around.
[00:20:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:32] <exec> 08└─Wow the spin is heavy in that one! Intel and other technology companies
[00:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:54] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1#Moons [wikipedia.org] Stephen R. Kane, writing in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, notes that TRAPPIST-1 planets are unlikely to have large moons.[55][56] The Earth's Moon has a radius 27% that of Earth, so its area (and its transit depth) is 7.4% that of E...
[00:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 2281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:56] <exec> 08└─It is indeed uncommon according to current theories (though it should be noted those theories are based on a data set far too small to actually draw meaningful conclusions from), and should indeed have a wobble-stabilizing effect. But where's the coincidence? If life is actually common, then a large...
[00:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:29] <exec> 08└─governments stealing more money for taxes is not "improving" anything, you ridiculous slave.
[00:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:31] <exec> 08└─yes, but they are dumb, lazy pigs that just want their job to be easier. they don't care about other agencies, legal precedent or the rights of the people.
[00:21:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:58] <exec> 08└─the problem is "government"
[00:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:21] <exec> 08└─lmfao! so greedy pigs preying on potheads is the potheads' fault? stfu! those people aren't going to crash into shit. these stupid goddamn pigs just can't earn an honest living.
[00:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:22] <exec> 08└─(1) Since every drug that is even remotely fun is illegal, how exactly is this nonsense supposed to be true? I guess they did make every drug popular with "certain populations" illegal, but then also made everything else illegal too.
[00:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:14] <exec> 08└─Ditch the power regulation, and you create something like Enron and the rolling blackouts that California suffered.
[00:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:16] <exec> 08└─Pump water up the hill with excess power
[00:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:18] <exec> 08└─There's two situations where this matters. The first is "someone needs to sink this power now or my grid will melt" in which the grid is at risk because there's too much power produced. The second is "I'll pay someone to use this power in order for me to scoop up highly profitable feed-in tariffs."...
[00:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:20] <exec> 08└─A negative price isn't a price.
[00:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:42] <exec> 08└─Even if they are completely right about the climate change issues, we still can just move the farms. Really, is it that hard to grasp that when faced with the specter of END OF CHOCOLATE, that someone might make the obvious, non-derp decision and just move the farms? And the other things needed like...
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[01:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:03] <exec> 08└─Venison is a lean meat and I preferred it to beef back when I was still a meat eater.
[01:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:45] <exec> 08└─Someone is going to make a shitload of money if we're at war with NK? They'll pay for a video of Kim Jong saying he's going to nuke Hawaii tomorrow. If the possibilities for deception are not discussed at large, this will become a disconcerting development for humankind.
[01:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:14] <exec> 08└─Before someone rants about how oppressive Indonesia is, it really isn't that much, especially considering the country's demographics. The majority population is muslim, one province fought a civil war to practice sharia in their corner of the country. And since freedom of speech is mostly given, the...
[01:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:39] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't androgynous imply a risk of confusion with a boy or man? At some point I jumped from a genericish butler male naming concept, to expressing my own requirements, yet I may ask my highly-feminine and totally imaginary potential future butler to answer to Gaston too, just to please you. I beli...
[01:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:40] <exec> 08└─Nice of you to remind us Rolling Stone, now can you print the final Michael Hastings article that you promised to run after his death.
[01:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:39] <exec> 08└─Hopefully they don't become a Monsanto and patent the modified gene or protein and make seeds then sell the seeds to poor farmers who, due to the above issues, can't grow standard cacao.
[01:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:41] <exec> 08└─Um.... this time you really need to read some of the articles. Cacao is one of the pickiest crops on the planet - it needs equatorial moderation in its climate, and climate change is pushing its viable production altitudes higher... there just isn't that much farmland at high equatorial altitudes, a...
[01:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:43] <exec> 08└─So far, it looks like they're trying to open source the cacao genome - doesn't mean their modifications of it won't attempt to get IP, but at least others would be free to make alternate modifications.
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[02:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:55] <exec> 08└─Microsoft, maybe. But RedHat can't afford to do this, since it the first person who looks at their kernel packages (no doubt someone at AMD) will discover what has been done and cry foul!
[02:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:57] <exec> 08└─intel bugs inside
[02:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:06] <exec> 08└─freezer full of venison that he got for free.
[02:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:08] <exec> 08└─Soylent Red is Bambi!!!!!
[02:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:10] <exec> 08└─Freedom ain't free!
[02:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:12] <exec> 08└─This is, in essence, mad cow disease but in deer. It's spreading. Can't be diagnosed except on pathology examination of a brain, so it's undoubtedly beyond the known range. Hasn't crossed over to humans yet that we know, but prion diseases are terrifying. Personally, I have no intention of consuming...
[02:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:15] <exec> 08└─A story of an artificial shortage. No, quality beef is much better tasting than venison. In fact, wild boar meat tastes better than venison.
[02:19:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:23] <exec> 08└─> The bill reads like a computer security expert's wish list. It will therefore end stuffed with pork, anti-abortion and defund-Obamacare clauses, dying before reaching a floor vote. Don't you know by now that we can't have nice things ?
[02:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:30] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine that democrats will actually allow this to pass. It would have put Ray Moore in the senate; the statistical anomalies are damning. The other parts of voter fraud are identity and absentee ballots. You can't even buy a beer without an ID, but in some states (and in all for absentee ba...
[02:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 1882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:55] <exec> 08└─"That's patently absurd." Not at all. "Do you honestly not see the benefit of keeping the location of nuclear submarines secret?" I said a culture of secrecy and lies. You don't have to have a culture of secrecy and lies to keep operational security - the notion that you do is quite simply a lie, on...
[02:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:56] <exec> 08└─"Wouldn't androgynous imply a risk of confusion with a boy or man?" Yes. The implication was that a female butler is inconceivable, impossible, a contradiction in terms. but·ler ˈbətlər/ noun noun: butler; plural noun: butlers the chief manservant of a house. No woman would take such a job...
[02:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:33] <exec> 08└─and enron was a cia front so wtf does it have to do with the "free market", as if we have one in the first place.
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[03:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:06] <exec> 08└─Ok who let in Professor Pedantic? Give em' a beer and kick em' out!
[03:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:07] <exec> 08└─This bug goes all the way back to the Pentium II? Makes you wonder what other bugs are out there, undiscovered. I have a 133Mhz Pentium based laptop that still works, but its performance is unacceptably slow on a great many tasks. Like, don't even think of trying to watch online videos with that thi...
[03:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:10] <exec> 08└─I wonder how benchmark/review sites and similar are going to handle the aftermath of the workarounds to Spectre and Meltdown etc... Will they add guesstimate adjustments to old benchmarks that would likely be affected? Splitting the benchmarks to "before" and "after" won't be helpful to people tryin...
[03:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:12] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much of this is due to the history of Intel processors. Unlike the S/390 and SPARC CPUs mentioned in the article, as well as other big-iron CPUs (such as DEC Alpha, and other mainframe CPUs) from days of yore where those machines were explicitly designed with the assumption that differe...
[03:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:15] <exec> 08└─Run 'em twice? Again, games don't seem to be showing any big frame drops yet (maybe the right CPU-heavy game will do it). If there is a significant difference, they could include unpatched and patched Intel alongside each other. We'll see. Maybe check the AnandTech tweets: https://www.anandtech.com...
[03:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:17] <exec> 08└─x86 history goes back to 8080, the cpu that ran CP/M.
[03:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:30] <exec> 08└─Boar meat is a treat. It's bit more gamier, but lean and much better flavor. Venison? Bushmeat, literally.
[03:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:31] <exec> 08└─You'd probably have to go vegan, or at least not consume mammals. Apparently they feed chicken bits of cows too sometimes, don't you love "efficient agriculture practices"? https://www.cdc.gov [cdc.gov]
[03:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:33] <exec> 08└─Figures you're a TANSTAAFLer. Heinlein got tedious hammering that shit over and over. A visionary for his time, but these days he's a bit dated and pretty misogynistic. Heinlein: A for effort, C for spiritual evolution.
[03:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:36] <exec> 08└─...quality beef is much better tasting than venison.
[03:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:38] <exec> 08└─i hunt every year, white tail. venison is the best food i have ever tasted. fry it in butter, make jerky, etc.
[03:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:59] <exec> 08└─Supposedly Sulla is an older gent, so your "prior brainwashing" point is 100% accurate. Hell, I am in my 30s and have a friend who just couldn't come to grips with weed even though he'd smoked it himself and one day he said "It must just be the fact that it is illegal!" A smart person who couldn't f...
[03:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:01] <exec> 08└─Is the diesel sold to railways actually road taxed in the USA? Here in Canada, I assume it isn't considering that I can buy gas for my lawnmower (hard to find) that isn't road taxed as well as farmers buying gas/diesel that isn't road taxed. Generally it is dyed purple and the cops used to check for...
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[03:23:03] <exec> 08└─No, I honestly think he doesn't understand. He seems to be a relatively decent person who is having trouble understanding the evil actions of others. Racism and cultural warfare are real frojack, THAT is why the elaborate convoluted scheme was set up. War against the blacks and browns. Also, it funn...
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[03:23:05] <exec> 08└─They had to maintain an image of consistency, plus the "certain populations" would have just shifted over to the legal drugs. Sounds like you need a little less of your name upstairs.
[03:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:07] <exec> 08└─Here, the Crown is actually represented by a Queen, and yes, at least in theory, all laws, courts and such come from her. She doesn't have any problem using the Royal prerogative to give out pardons. Generally keep your nose clean for 5-10 years, fill out some paper work, pay a fee and the governmen...
[03:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:10] <exec> 08└─Which raises the question of how legal marijuana is going to be/is regulated in the various States where it is legal/soon to be legal? Here (Canada), once it is legalized by the feds, the Provinces will be in charge of regulating it and each will be somewhat different. Where I am, it'll only be lega...
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[04:19:17] <exec> 08└─<quote>Run 'em twice?</quote> Not so easy to do the benchmarks all over again when you've done hundreds over many years. You may not have the hardware lying around anymore. <quote>Again, games don't seem to be showing any big frame drops yet (maybe the right CPU-heavy game will do it).</quote> In mo...
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[04:19:18] <exec> 08└─4004?
[04:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:21] <exec> 08└─You haven't paid much attention to what's gone on with AMD's linux drivers the past year or two, have you?
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[04:19:23] <exec> 08└─4004 was a 4-bit processor, a incompatible and much more primitive beast.
[04:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:25] <exec> 08└─As for systemd, that seems like a silly accusation. systemd is many things, but it's not a kernel
[04:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:28] <exec> 08└─I'm talking nearly 2 decades.
[04:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:30] <exec> 08└─Probably more to do with executing 3 instructions at a time. Introduced at the 686 level. The 386 was designed to have more than one user at a time. It has a built in VM for 8086 applications. It was one of the major selling points at the time (big selling points of OS/2 and Minux). ARM also had a s...
[04:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:48] <exec> 08└─I'm beginning to think I won't see it before I shuffle off this mortal coil. That, AI, human space travel outside low earth orbit, and a working fusion system.
[04:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:49] <exec> 08└─There are too many. They have no natural predators there. they were introduced around 1900. They kill 50 people each year because they're to dumb to stay off the roads. The meat tastes like very lean beef
[04:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:51] <exec> 08└─Moose vs newfies, hm...
[04:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:53] <exec> 08└─It's not so much expensive rather regular chicken is absurdly cheap
[04:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:56] <exec> 08└─When we lived in Houston, there was butcher near our house who did "deer processing." After you've managed to kill and transport your deer to them, they charged roughly the price of cheap hamburger to process the deer for you. Now, the venison steaks you get are much better than hamburger, but it's...
[04:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:58] <exec> 08└─Fuck you and your mysogenism you fucking cretin.
[04:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:01] <exec> 08└─Friends of ours born in the 1920s remarked how chicken used to be a special treat, rare dish to splurge on for a holiday or something. And, by the 1990s, it was just everyday fare, like rice and beans used to be. Factory farming does make cheaper product, but to call it chicken is like calling an LC...
[04:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:06] <exec> 08└─Ya know, that's kinda funny. We used to have a deer processed for about 35 or 40 dollar. These days, there are few butchers nearby, and the ones who are left charge a good bit more, like 80 to 100 dollars. Seems we have a shortage of butchers. Need to import some from somewhere. :^)
[04:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:08] <exec> 08└─The Foxworthy piece is really good, but if you want the most expensive meat on the planet, we've gotta talk about offshore fishing....
[04:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:10] <exec> 08└─Quartz-driven casio is infinitely better than mechanical rolex toy.
[04:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:12] <exec> 08└─You have to specify what beef, actually. I can have one cow slaughtered and processed by an expert butcher - and you'll say it's horrible. Another cow, of a different breed, processed by a rank amateur butcher, you'll swear it's the best meat you've ever eaten. An old mossy longhorn compared to a Br...
[04:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:15] <exec> 08└─went to a small banquet in Switzerland about 10 years ago. The restaurant only served unusual meats -- your choice of venison, boar, horse and several other animals not normally eaten in N. America. Also, several organ meats that we don't normally see. The Swiss thought they were doing something rea...
[04:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:28] <exec> 08└─There are lots of reasons to be down on New York State, but this isn't one of them. We used lever machines (which are visually audit-able by election workers) for about as long as any state. Finally switched to paper ballots that are scanned optically (looks like an old fax machine), but can be manu...
[04:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:56] <exec> 08└─Actually, there are quite a few female butlers. Times change and we even have female firemen. According to Wiki, the first mention of a female butler was in a 1892 book and here's one of the first hits talking about female butlers (often called House Managers or Personal Assistants, just like a fire...
[04:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:57] <exec> 08└─What difference does it make whether my State is a Republic? I live in a Constitutional Monarchy and consider every thing you said should apply to my State. At that the countries in the world that seem to be striving for Empire status are mostly Republics. (China, Russia and the USA)
[04:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:51] <exec> 08└─As a non-American, this sounds like a positive. The Americans have too much power and are a major threat to freedom. Shit, quite a few Americans don't even believe the Bill of Rights applies to non-citizens and American companies routinely infringe on peoples rights.
[04:23:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, someone with an ax to grind wrote a book so we can all just stop arguing about the whole purpose of laws in general, right? The purpose of setting up this elaborate convoluted scheme excluding all these people from employment and housing would be what?
[04:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:48] <exec> 08└─Think of the differences between the law in respect to cocaine and crack, basically the same drug with way tougher penalties for the form that black people liked. Also consider the difference in how the cops handle pulling over a car full of rich white kids smelling of marijuana compared to a car fu...
[04:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:45] <exec> 08└─its a cost. you pay a cost equal to the price of an item which you hope is less than or equal to its value
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[05:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Dust Still the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:11] <exec> 08└─Did we use a probe utilizing takyon particles? Or just takyon, his own self?
[05:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Drug Approvals Sped Up in 2017 - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:18] <exec> 08└─I just want to express my appreciation for the editors in driving away all the lefty commentors and submittors to this sight, so we can have Fine Articles like this with no comments. It just seems much more, clean, like, whiter, if you know what I mean. No comments on science, because it is so far b...
[05:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Approvals Sped Up in 2017 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:20] <exec> 08└─What you mean, boy? Jus caus al the white crackers can't spell. I mean...sped??
[05:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:40] <exec> 08└─I think this is about to get 1000x worse. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] That will start to yield very interesting ideas. I would bet money this is how they found it in the first place. Google who found it originally is indicating that AMD has a similar bug. Currently thou...
[05:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:41] <exec> 08└─I hope Intel loses market share To whom? We don't have the alpha chip anymore. Maybe IBM's power chip can come through...
[05:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:43] <exec> 08└─Wait, when did Intel release that crappy 740 thingy? Ah, yes, 20 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] And all the crappy integrated video? Same era starting with the 815, but crappy all the time, lagging behind everyone else. https://en.wikipedia.org
[05:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:45] <exec> 08└─https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intels_spin_the_registers_annotations/ [theregister.co.uk]
[05:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:15] <exec> 08└─Anti aging would be good if you're young-ish. Aging reversal is the only thing that would help me. :)
[05:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:17] <exec> 08└─You would hire butchers to deal with your meat? What kind of suburban hunters are you? We used to just eat the liver raw, with only a bit of bile for seasoning, and jerk the rest for the coming hard times when the alt-right might think they actually knew what they were doing. But we had jerked veni...
[05:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:19] <exec> 08└─We just call it "chronic Runaway" disease, now. Tends to make its victims post on subjects they know nothing about. Bad enough when it was just deer doing it.
[05:21:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:14] <exec> 08└─"The internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it," said some old gray neckbearded idealist dreamer. "Redundant connectivity eats our profits," said corporate monopolists. Single point of failure it is, then. Censorshit is so fucking easy in the really real world.
[05:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:01] <exec> 08└─Whoosh.
[05:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:02] <exec> 08└─China is not a republic and Russia certainly does not appear to be seeking to become an empire again, likely because the memory of that disaster is still alive and fresh for them. It might well apply to a constitutional monarchy, being less familiar with them I did not mention them and do not take a...
[05:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:48] <exec> 08└─you pay a cost equal to the price
[05:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, I get that there's plenty of FUD out there. Lots of crops are picky. They'll figure it out like they do other crops when they move the farms.
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[06:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:03] <exec> 08└─Oh... corporate political correctness. Would you trust a bot that was always 100% politically correct more or less than a bot that sometimes said something unkind but true? Microsoft's latest bot is pure awful. It needs to be deported. Where is the bot with the values of rural Oklahoma, Wyoming, or...
[06:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:04] <exec> 08└─And oh our brain-damaged and humor-impared eds cut my editorial comment on the submission, which, you know, is rather tame as far as aristarchus comments go: How much do you care to bet that Mr Plow will not pick up this story? Or takyon? How many of our editors are nihilistic bots?
[06:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, mod me down! On the other hand, I have the consolation of knowing that I am about the only real Soylentil still here. All the alt-right and even the non-alternative right have left SoylentNews? I wonder why? Could it be, that like The Mighty Buzzard, they could not argue against the left, or...
[06:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Still the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:15] <exec> 08└─"Scientists are fairly certain that a bunch of dust surrounding the star is to blame. And that means that the more tantalizing explanation — alien involvement — is definitely not the cause." Oh FFS do these people even bother to read this before they publish it? Scientists being 'fairly certain'...
[06:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Still the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:17] <exec> 08└─****
[06:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:49] <exec> 08└─information is available in cache despite a page table fault
[06:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:23] <exec> 08└─There are too many. They have no natural predators there.
[06:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:24] <exec> 08└─> maybe some are an acquired taste? We call that "learning to love masochism".
[06:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:27] <exec> 08└─Just goes to show, Runaway, you should never eat what you fucked. Just saying.
[06:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:29] <exec> 08└─It can be diagnosed, just not definitively. It has clear symptoms. And the prions in question reside in neural tissue, not muscle. As long as you steer clear of the spinal cord and brain, you're fine.
[06:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:31] <exec> 08└─Initial stem cell aging reversal treatments: Pros: you're a younger person. Cons: you're a different younger person... But I suppose if you have the same memories, would you be bothered enough that your preferences gradually change to be closer to those of the donor stem cells? Even the "you" at 2 y...
[06:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:33] <exec> 08└─Heinlein got tedious hammering that shit over and over.
[06:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:35] <exec> 08└─But I suppose if you have the same memories, would you be bothered enough that your preferences gradually change to be closer to those of the donor stem cells?
[06:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:50] <exec> 08└─Requiring an ID wouldn't be racist if the people in power stopped making it really hard for poor people (still mostly minorities) to get an ID. Passports are easy but expensive, but while IDs are cheaper, DMVs are a waste of time that hourly people don't necessarily have. There have been many report...
[06:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:22] <exec> 08└─Oh I wasn't criticizing you, just poking the times.
[06:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:24] <exec> 08└─I just want everyone to be aware of archive.(fo|is|li|eu). Incredibly useful.
[06:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:15] <exec> 08└─It's the big popular idea to blame everything on racism nowadays. I don't believe it, sorry. Crack cocaine is more addictive than powder cocaine for starters, and the differences don't end there.
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[07:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:13] <exec> 08└─You want a bot that is like you: a soy boy, or at least a lesbian or cuck. It should welcome rapefugees, hate white males, and generally be discriminatory against people with too many supposed privilege points. For those that don't know about soy boys: https://www.youtube.com [yo...
[07:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:15] <exec> 08└─Takyon is Chinese :) What ever happened to ncommander? Did he get murdered by TMB for too much liberal thinking in the form of retro tech talk?:)
[07:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03invis [439] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:17] <exec> 08└─WTF are you on about? Politics to race to, erm, damned if I can work it out. Is there a point you're trying to make, or just trolling your own submission?
[07:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:19] <exec> 08└─Inspirobot is lame. Reloaded over a dozen times before getting text that was coherent on an image even semi-related. And it was still weak tea. Zippy the Pinhead was more insightful and a heck of a lot funnier a long frigging time ago. As for transgressive, choose one: a) as useless as a blue haired...
[07:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:22] <exec> 08└─Seriously, if you haven't tried it out, you should. It's hilarious. Here are some of the gems I got: Writing is 50% luck, 50% stupidity.
[07:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:24] <exec> 08└─A time will come when even the MostCynical will lose his status to an AI (grin)
[07:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:26] <exec> 08└─The very first one I got was a nice combo. [puu.sh]
[07:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:28] <exec> 08└─I like it when a bot is manly. The irreverence is a positive trait. It's funny and truthful. Lots of us prefer this. Doubting that? We didn't elect Jeb!
[07:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:30] <exec> 08└─Trolling the eds, who seem to need it more than most of us do. Please try to keep up!
[07:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:33] <exec> 08└─Say it ain't so, c0lo, say it ain't so! (For you Millennials, a reference to a kid saying this to Shoeless Joe Jackson of the White Sox, a long time ago.)
[07:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:35] <exec> 08└─Am thinking, teenage Groot. Any attempt to correct with produce the opposite results. AI, not bot, then?
[07:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:37] <exec> 08└─Say it ain't so, c0lo, say it ain't so!
[07:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:39] <exec> 08└─bot with the values of rural Oklahoma, Wyoming, or Alabama?
[07:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:42] <exec> 08└─Which is why Asimov's laws of robotics are laughable in practice. Good luck forcing AIs to follow such laws so closely the way Asimov envisioned. You can have supervisory AIs to monitor, "discipline" and even shutdown a main AI when the supervisors detect "transgressive" behavior, but are going to b...
[07:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:03] <exec> 08└─Cons: you're a different younger person... But I suppose if you have the same memories, would you be bothered enough that your preferences gradually change to be closer to those of the donor stem cells?
[07:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:05] <exec> 08└─No, it's not. Try: The Casio is a handful of orders of magnitude more precise at providing accurate timing. The Rolex toy is many orders of magnitude better at conveying information about disposable income, or propensity to buy status things one can't really afford.
[07:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:08] <exec> 08└─Uninspected meat is free. Inspected meat is expensive. Does this mean you should you be able to buy uninspected meat? Hell no.
[07:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:57] <exec> 08└─Of course China is a republic, and has been since they got rid of the Emperor. What they are not is a Constitutional Representative Democracy. As for Constitutional Monarchies, they're not much different then Constitutional Republics. Generally the Constitution is the highest law in the land and lim...
[07:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:15] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, any organism that could handle being frozen solid through the winter would have a head start on the migrants come spring. Plenty of organisms can handle that here on Earth
[07:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:51] <exec> 08└─The only reason that street cocaine is less addictive then crack is that, due to impurities, you generally don't take as big of doses. Start smoking or shooting it, and it is just as addictive. As for racism, things are getting better but it still exists and is going to take a few more generations o...
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[08:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06NASA's GOLD Mission to Study the Upper Atmosphere Using a Commercial Satellite - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:59] <exec> 08└─Another takyon 0 comment post? Well, I tried.
[08:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:24] <exec> 08└─No one seems to be addressing the question of whether this is just the result of the nature of AI, the result of being thrown into the internets (bad influence, eh?), or a reflection of the makers. Discuss. Don't flame, discuss. Oh, too late?
[08:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:25] <exec> 08└─Trolling the eds, sure. Right. When you stick to factual stuff, you often have interesting things to say. Even on politics, where I know we disagree. But sometimes, dear Aristarchus, you should pause for a minute and consider the possibility: Maybe, just possibly, you are just being a jerk.
[08:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:27] <exec> 08└─"Don't lie to yourself. It's ridiculous" (insipidbot, a few minutes ago.) See, I'd never say that. Lying to yourself is an impoant skill. Marriages last longer, business relationships also tend not to end in homicide, if you just convince yourself things aren't going to be as bad tomorrow. Alas, our...
[08:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:29] <exec> 08└─Tu quoque, mon amici! (Strange, for an American, living in Europe has not affected you at all. Are you sure you do not have parasites?)
[08:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:11] <exec> 08└─I'm sure he's too rich to jail.
[08:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:12] <exec> 08└─And how exactly do you know that the time of outing of this bug was not pre-programmed?
[08:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:56] <exec> 08└─Organ meats are awesome. I grew up surrounded by Cantonese people so I'll eat almost any part of an animal aside from nervous tissue and a few other bits. Properly prepared, tripe or heart or liver or even properly-washed intestine will make you go back for seconds and thirds. Less wasteful, too.
[08:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:58] <exec> 08└─This has led to a common problem with broken leg bones. It's gotta be rough being a factory chicken.
[08:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:41] <exec> 08└─Except powder cocaine isn't smoked or shot. Crack cocaine is.. Thus, it's legal penalties are higher because it's a more destructive substance.
[08:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:42] <exec> 08└─I wish I'd known that before I ever smoked cocaine. Used to know someone with a source of clinically pure cocaine as well, he shot it up.
[08:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:41] <exec> 08└─Shirley, you fuck-all idiot khallow, living where you live, you are familiar with the demise of Montana Power? The hated corporation that was the spawn of Rockefeller and Anaconda Mining Company? Are you a shill for 19th century Robber Barrons, as well as the more recent versions? Or just ignorant o...
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[09:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 1656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:01] <exec> 08└─First I would evaluate existing FOSS software, CAD and by the sound of it GIS too, do a thorough search, this is important as it might save you a lot of effort. Even if you cannot use an entire existing app, you will see how they approach certain things and perhaps even reuse parts of their code. We...
[09:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:03] <exec> 08└─Sadly I can't give you a a perfect solution - only some thoughts. You want: open data formatsindividual utilities, rather than a monolithic lump The best example of utilities is Unix - where each tool has a single defined purpose and it does it perfectly. Now, to accomplish any given task is "simp...
[09:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:37] <exec> 08└─Asimov's laws are just like the "Computer will make people work less" and "Internet will make people more equal". Bots, PC, Internet helping people out would happen, sure, only not in this society. So those are empty slogans made for people to tolerate the changes. Once is too late, well, they're go...
[09:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:22] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure SunnyD is a mostly successful attempt by the NSA to co-opt and backdoor linux.
[09:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:24] <exec> 08└─That email wouldn't have happened if other Linux developers were not committing patches in public, during the embargo period. The AMD email just said 'we're not vulnerable to this', it was the previous patch set that made enough information public for people to be able to guess the vulnerability.
[09:24:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 308 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:04] <exec> 08└─If you have proof of possession with intent, then the defendant should be charged with that. Charging them with possession, distribution, possession with intent, and a laundry list of other charges just to get them to plead guilty to possession is extortion. IMHO, the bargain system is a bug, not a...
[09:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:53] <exec> 08└─Which raises the question of how legal marijuana is going to be/is regulated in the various States where it is legal/soon to be legal?
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[10:18:01] <exec> 08└─I think one such application is software for CAD as it relates to construction and land surveying(my trade). The result of this push toward proprietary formats and overkill software has been the abandonment of good, functional, and simple proprietary software that just worked. Many of the companies...
[10:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:02] <exec> 08└─I must admit, I didn't read the whole summary. The word "chagrin" popped out at me, so I just read that sentence. Now, what you probably meant to say here was grief, disappointment, distress - something like that. But instead of just saying that, you decided to sound smart and use a french word. The...
[10:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Still the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:47] <exec> 08└─a bunch of dust
[10:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Still the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:48] <exec> 08└─A sneeze of dust? An itch of dust? A choke of dust?
[10:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Still the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:50] <exec> 08└─Occam would like to give you a free shave. By the way, what would an alien civilisation nearby see and conclude if they had been monitoring electromagnetic radiation from our sun for the last few hundred years? Supposing they have the same attitude to allocating resources (money) as us, what might t...
[10:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 1443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:27] <exec> 08└─There are a few more details out now. The basic vulnerability works as follows: You make the CPU speculate execution and down a path that involves accessing memory that you shouldn't have access to. You make sure that there is a conditional branch in the result that depends on the value of a byte th...
[10:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:29] <exec> 08└─MIPS is still going, too. Last year they made a multicore CPU for safety-critical systems. [imgtec.com] Embedded, as you say. SPARC is dead, Alpha is long dead, SuperH is going nowhere even with the Free 'J2' implementation. Not heard anything about VIA for the longest time.
[10:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:31] <exec> 08└─How does information being in the cache become available to user code?
[10:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:16] <exec> 08└─You mean it's gotten dearer? (I'll show myself out, time to runaway.)
[10:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:18] <exec> 08└─World first as AC wastes everyone's time with vacuous whining. More at 11.
[10:21:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:27] <exec> 08└─Surely this is from the sudden-outbreak-of-common-sense department? budget constraints have forced some to continue relying on insecure paperless equipment
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[11:18:06] <exec> 08└─I've looked into a few of these technologies in the past years, but most open ones seemed to have some serious drawbacks (limited amount of nodes, changes in network frames to non-standard values, etc). The only one that seemed usable for me is Babel (routing method that generates meshes independent...
[11:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 2946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:17] <exec> 08└─I my (limited) experience, most of the more popular OS projects started out as much smaller projects. Someone had their own personal itch that need scratching and they produced a solution. When others saw it, they could also see its benefits for them, perhaps with a few changes and add-ons, and so t...
[11:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 1509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:19] <exec> 08└─...if you're serious about this, some things I'd suggest : This will be a political process. Before you talk to anyone you should know your stuff so you sound credible. Itemise the software that's out there, and list the ways falls short in your eyes. This will help you know the problem-space in suf...
[11:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:21] <exec> 08└─Oh, and you'll want to list your requirements as "essential", "near essential", "nice to have", etc... This will give another dimension to understanding how existing offerings compare.
[11:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:23] <exec> 08└─Patent Protection and basically anyone using it has to release their modifications. Works out much better than normal GPL since literally anything other than an organization making modifiations solely for internal corporate use results in the need to release their source code, helping to ensure that...
[11:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:59] <exec> 08└─but are going to be loopholes and blindspots.
[11:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:00] <exec> 08└─> Which is why Asimov's laws of robotics are laughable in practice. Of course they are. The way I read Asimov's stories, the whole purpose of him defining "the three laws of robotics" was to show how those laws could be bent or broken, and that a true intelligence (like us humans) would find ways to...
[11:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 1967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:02] <exec> 08└─"Bypass surgery can never be a freak show." Greyscale picture shows a man standing on a beach in front of a large rock. Should I get inspired for a bypass surgery? "Why not analyze the network of international bankers?" Showing a ruined wooden pier in a sea of fog, all greyscale. "Why not" does not...
[11:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:56] <exec> 08└─AMD kind of screwed us a bit when they came up with x64. They had a chance to clean up a bunch of cruft. They didnt.
[11:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:45] <exec> 08└─Poe, is that you?
[11:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:00] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, election fraud is such a false problem that our president just dissolved the task force he appointed to verify his own claims.
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[12:18:06] <exec> 08└─Can't Rasberry Pi Zero W's also function the same way (as mesh routers)? Or is their 802.11 fireware locked so they can only work as base-station or client?
[12:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:21] <exec> 08└─Instead of writing a new program, consider whether you can take one of the existing, and add to it so that it no longer is wanting. Adding yet another Open Source project doing the same thing just further dilutes the amount of work done on each, including yours. Unless you manage to be so much bette...
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[12:18:23] <exec> 08└─Have you looked at TurboCAD? As second-rung players, they generally have quite competitive pricing and are forced to keep up in the arms race to read/write the main formats. https://www.turbocad.com [turbocad.com] Otherwise, if you want a...
[12:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:25] <exec> 08└─You need to check out the full functionality of open source GIS software such as GRASS GIS , https://grass.osgeo.org [osgeo.org] and QGIS , https://qgis.org. [qgis.org.] The upcoming QGIS 3.0 has many CAD functions built in . In the current version of qgis, 2.18.15, there are 25 plugins with a rel...
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[12:18:27] <exec> 08└─Most successful FOSS projects start when someone who is talented and dedicated enough just does it. Once other developers see that the project is useful, they start trying it, and then contributing to it. You don't necessarily even have to write code to contribute, graphic design, writing documentat...
[12:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:06] <exec> 08└─Does it occur to anyone that maybe the bots are right? Right as in "correct" not as in "alt-right". Maybe for example if we cut the world population down to 10% of it's present level, in a gradual and humane way of course, the human species would survive for another ten million years or so instead o...
[12:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:08] <exec> 08└─I a few and my favorites ended up being: "If they tell you that you can never become a junkie, show them" "What is so amoral about forcing a ghost to become a slave" "You don't need to have a vodka shot to educate children" "Memories are the guiding lights of procrastination" "Baldness. It's still g...
[12:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:10] <exec> 08└─Asimov's laws are just like the "Computer will make people work less"
[12:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:12] <exec> 08└─It's just that nobody ever replaces the diodes down the left side.
[12:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:14] <exec> 08└─The second quote I got was something like "There is no such meaning to life that you shouldn't kill yourself today." with fence in background with 'One way' sign. So i suppose that's what they meant. Otherwise you are right about, the bot generates random quotes off the internet for all we know. The...
[12:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:08] <exec> 08└─He'll just run to the safe haven that is Intel's home now. Which speaks volumes.
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[12:21:09] <exec> 08└─Google researchers said one of the "serious security flaws", dubbed "Spectre", was found in chips made by Intel, AMD and ARM... http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] According to the researchers who found the bugs, chips dating as far back as 1995 have been affected. The first report...
[12:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:42] <exec> 08└─The judge in question is not a part of any branch of the Irish government and as such has no more say than a Pakistani judge has in the USA. I guarantee you that the EU court is following this case very closely to see how to treat cloud services run by US companies.
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[12:25:46] <exec> 08└─Western society is predicated on the notion that the Law is King. Regardless of whether the King changes His mind, it is still the case that people defied the King in the past, which cannot be tolerated; why should they be pardoned?
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[13:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:00] <exec> 08└─It's almost like men are more likely to take risks and investing in a new digital currency is pretty risky.
[13:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:02] <exec> 08└─I have a feeling that most people who invest in baseball cards are also men. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong.
[13:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:04] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin in gender biased, next up, bitcoin is racist. I volunteer right here, right now, for a manned exploration of mars. Send me! Get me off this crazy planet, I can't take it anymore!
[13:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:06] <exec> 08└─Or they are greedier, as this kind of speculation involves a lot of it.
[13:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:08] <exec> 08└─So, how much worse is this compared against... say the stock or forex markets?
[13:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:10] <exec> 08└─There was a time when women would rather eat a bowl of raw worms than touch a computer or a man who talked about computers. But us men saw the potential and invested a lot of time to learn and invent. Then when the money started rolling in, women wanted jobs changing the colors on a web site. When t...
[13:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:13] <exec> 08└─not surprising and not interesting and NOT IN ANY WAS CONCERNING. any one concerned about this needs to get their twisted immoral egalitarian ideologies out of their near empty head. more men in computers more men in economics (by far) more men in stock market more men in cryptography but more men i...
[13:18:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 1656 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:27] <exec> 08└─First I would evaluate existing FOSS software, CAD and by the sound of it GIS too, do a thorough search, this is important as it might save you a lot of effort. Even if you cannot use an entire existing app, you will see how they approach certain things and perhaps even reuse parts of their code. We...
[13:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:39] <exec> 08└─Note that this is not the same as requesting the functionality from the developers. "I'd like to have this functionality, please implement it." probably has a much lower chance to succeed than "I'd like to implement this functionality, would you accept it into your code?"
[13:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 2245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:41] <exec> 08└─Step 1: Write a resonably good program I usually don't agree with those who suggest to something existing to start with. If it was good enough, it would already have enough momentum. If you precisely (that is, down to the detailed behaviour of every last configuration option) know what has to be don...
[13:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:43] <exec> 08└─A point for you to consider: choose the GPL rather than a BSD-style licence. That way - assuming your software gathers a following - it won't be easily subsumed into some company's monolithic bundle.
[13:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:45] <exec> 08└─To add in the open hardware world, one odd case that might somehow inspire you is the Beaglebone. This is an open hardware design that is sponsored by Texas Instruments. In this case, they want to get more people using TI chips, and after the success of the Raspberry Pi (which is NOT open hardware),...
[13:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:47] <exec> 08└─The license is only relevant if the proprietary products would want to use your code to implement support. That is most likely only the case if it is a really complex data format, they have no intention of ever adapting it as their primary data format, you provide data format support as an entirely...
[13:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:31] <exec> 08└─And what, pray tell, are the values of rural Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Alabama that you want promulgated that seem to be (to you at least) absent in the rest of the country?
[13:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:33] <exec> 08└─Exactly! Bad parenting is the root cause of all of this!
[13:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:29] <exec> 08└─https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631&w=2 [marc.info]
[13:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:18] <exec> 08└─My mother lives in the south of France where boar are increasingly a problem. They're large and aggressive. They used to be culled pretty effectively by hunters, but the older hunters are gradually dying off and few young ones are replacing them (let's face it, unless you particularly enjoy killing...
[13:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:20] <exec> 08└─They kill 50 people each year because they're to dumb to stay off the roads.
[13:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:22] <exec> 08└─Lobster used to be the "rat of the sea". Or even "cockroach"... We have this communist politician in Germany, Mrs. Wagenknecht. Despite being communist, her first husband was an entrepreneur (since, she changed over to a rather greasy socialist). And some day - some animals are more equal -, she was...
[13:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:39] <exec> 08└─The committee to investigate voter fraud was dissolved because it's too difficult to beat the system. Voter fraud is real and happens far more often than you think. Just come to my county during the next election, you'll get plenty of proof - buying/selling votes, "pollsters" influencing the voters...
[13:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:11] <exec> 08└─Nope. And since it is irrelevant to the subject, I'm not feeling the interest in doing so. I can't know everything so I don't bother trying.
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[14:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:09] <exec> 08└─Whats vitally important to point out is the article and its summary intentionally confuse "Community Engagement" with being part of the community via use of the commodity. A good analogy is ownership of 401K/IRA accounts is about 50:50, use of currency is about 50:50, etc. Everyone uses currency and...
[14:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:11] <exec> 08└─You forgot ageist. Wonder what percent are under 40 years old, like the discrimination in IT hiring? But don't worry, reality and sanity haven't left the planet. Sanity might have gone missing, but it's still here somewhere.
[14:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:13] <exec> 08└─Exactly. We need a panel of inter... dammit, what's it called again? Intersectional feminists. Yeah, we need to convene a panel of those to investigate it. (New term I learned a few days ago. To think that there are actually people who devote mental energy to this sort of stuff).
[14:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:15] <exec> 08└─> I volunteer right here, right now, for a manned exploration of mars. And the volunteers are going to be 97% men.
[14:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:18] <exec> 08└─I think you're mistaking greed with ambition. It's a common failing in those without any.
[14:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:20] <exec> 08└─Equality of outcome is not egalitarian. It is in fact just as non-egalitarian as any other form of race/sex/class/etc...-ism.
[14:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:22] <exec> 08└─...for having read that article. There is literally ZERO barrier to a woman that wants to invest in Bitcoin. She can buy them. She can sell them. If she has the desire, she can try to farm them. Computers don't care if you have a vagina; you either press a button or you don't to make it do something...
[14:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Will Use Routers You Already Own for a Mesh WiFi Setup - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:32] <exec> 08└─Seems like a better idea than a proprietary setup that doesn't play well with others. Me, I just use one master router, with a couple of others on different floors that don't run DHCP, firewalls, etc. It generally works quite well, but I switched recently to give each a different name so I could con...
[14:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:56] <exec> 08└─Taking a step way back, if you convert What is the best way for me to begin a successful FOSS project
[14:19:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:30] <exec> 08└─"Don't lie to yourself. It's ridiculous" (insipidbot, a few minutes ago.) See, I'd never say that. Lying to yourself is an impoant skill. Marriages last longer, business relationships also tend not to end in homicide, if you just convince yourself things aren't going to be as bad tomorrow. Alas, our...
[14:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:44] <exec> 08└─It said to me: "Prostitutes are prostitutes because it turns them on"
[14:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Paradise Pete [1806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:45] <exec> 08└─InspiroBot tossed up a few inanities, then gave me "Creativity is just passion breaking the rules." Not bad. A quick Google search did not reveal an existing match, though it did show a few things that could have led to its creation.
[14:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:47] <exec> 08└─One I left out from the same batch was: "Stay thin and get inseminated"
[14:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:44] <exec> 08└─The trick is that the data is not just in the cache, it is also available in the program during speculative execution. So you need to execute further code that produces an effect even if the speculative execution is later canceled. That further code is an indirect memory load. Something like (very s...
[14:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:46] <exec> 08└─8086 evolved from 8080, 8080 evolved from 8008, 8008 evolved from 4004. None of these chips are binary-compatible with any of the others, but all of them were similar and designed to make it easy to port software from the earlier version. So either the 8086 was the first or the 4004 was, but definit...
[14:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:48] <exec> 08└─Spectre is really just a whole class of exploits, though. It's like saying, well, so what if my program has a buffer overflow, lots of programs have buffer overflows. Maybe true but it doesn't count until someone finds them. The reality is that today, while there might be security flaws affecting AM...
[14:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─And, in this context, serving a chicken dinner in 1929 was more about conveying information about disposable income - if not status things, and affordability is in the decision making process of the consumer. Many consumers (and Casino owners) "legally" decide to purchase items beyond their financia...
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:42] <exec> 08└─Lobster would be "rats of the sea" if they weren't so scarce. New Zealand, Belize, Everglades National Park in the Florida Keys and maybe a tiny handful of other places around the world have demonstrated that marine no-take zones (not weak preserves that still allow "limited" harvesting), will allow...
[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─The kind of hunters that don't take turkey anymore because the kids have forgotten how to clean them.
[14:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 1688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:46] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a kind of crappy processor. The one I go to charges $1.09/lb hanging weight (headless, skinned, gutted, and the lower legs trimmed off) for butchering into steaks, chops, and roasts and if you want them to just grind and freeze the trimmings it is $0.29/lb, or if you just want the trimmi...
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[15:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:04] <exec> 08└─The "waterfall" method is good for keeping a long-term goal as selective pressure. The "agile" method is good for iterating rapidly via variation and short-term selection. You need both. However, I do loathe humanity's propensity to turn every process into a religion; that's what fucks everything up...
[15:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:05] <exec> 08└─I've been at precisely two companies where they did Agil/Scrum properly. The first, the team I joined in a junior position, was an early adopter in a large organisation doing the whole Lean Six Sigma thing. They took it seriously. At first, they got a lot wrong but with perseverance and training, we...
[15:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:07] <exec> 08└─I find Agile is the worst form of development project methodology ... except for all the the others. Seriously, perhaps other have had better experience, but I've never had the project requirements anywhere near firm enough to do a proper waterfall project, and that's in 35 years or so. Agile would...
[15:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:10] <exec> 08└─You most certainly do not need both. Or either. You need to work whatever process best fits your specific conditions. However, I do loathe humanity's propensity to turn every process into a religion; that's what fucks everything up.
[15:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:12] <exec> 08└─buzz buzz TQM buzz buzz Quality Circle buzz buzz Kaizen buzz buzz Agile buzz buzz Lean buzz buzz Just In Time buzz buzz Scrum buzz buzz Flavor of the Month buzz buzz Six Sigma buzz buzz buzz buzz.........
[15:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─The waterfall method is good for nothing except a case study in why human nature and engineering are incompatible with it, and for filtering out the useless PHBs who believe in it because they're too stupid to see it's simplistic limitations.
[15:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:16] <exec> 08└─Wise words.
[15:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:19] <exec> 08└─I should add to this that to contradict more of what's in TFS, it's a *great* way to do mentoring a training (occasional pair programming, code reviews), great for spreading knowledge of systems as a whole (small clearly defined tasks in different areas of the system). Basically the complaint seems...
[15:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:21] <exec> 08└─Death to all buzzwords. Use whatever the fuck works for you and don't give it witty names.
[15:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:23] <exec> 08└─At first, they got a lot wrong but with perseverance and training, we got it down to a fine art.
[15:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 1429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:26] <exec> 08└─The waterfall method is good for compliance with legal requirements that demand evidence of a waterfall-like staged development process. It's not half bad at making larger project teams stop, think and communicate a couple of times throughout a product development cycle. It's miserable at day-to-day...
[15:18:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 547 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:37] <exec> 08└─There was a time when women would rather eat a bowl of raw worms than touch a computer or a man who talked about computers. But us men saw the potential and invested a lot of time to learn and invent. Then when the money started rolling in, women wanted jobs changing the colors on a web site. When t...
[15:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:47] <exec> 08└─Why would those without Greed mistake it for Ambition ?
[15:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:49] <exec> 08└─this has something to do with the fact that men are more likely to be involved in technology fields?
[15:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:51] <exec> 08└─THOTs demand thirsty InCels take other peoples money and give it to them as tribute, news at 11.
[15:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:53] <exec> 08└─Modded up. I wish I could understand what feminism thinks it's doing. It's not helping a single woman learn computing. Feminism is running an exclusively negative campaign, and that's a good way to make enemies, not allies.
[15:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:56] <exec> 08└─Funny but still just a deflection.
[15:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:58] <exec> 08└─If you want to put value into baseball cards, on the theory that others will value these baseball cards in the future, then, sure, no problem. At least a baseball card is a tangible asset, with some assignable quality. After a crash, there's still some intrinsic value and a chance of recovery in bet...
[15:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:00] <exec> 08└─It's trying to continue existing after essentially all of its goals have been accomplished. It's fairly common for any cause that there's money or power to be gained from to choose to double down on absurd, made up bullshit and unrelated causes rather than accept the win.
[15:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:02] <exec> 08└─The first bitcoin trader addict I knew was an African student, he was risking ~20% of his income on BTC day trading back in 2013... I hope for his sake that he started keeping some long-term, he could own that company he was working for at the time if he did.
[15:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:05] <exec> 08└─Exactly. That was my very first though, after reading TFS. Guys are known for jumping into risky shit without giving it any real thought. "Hold my beer, and watch this!" Women are known for being conservative risk takers. And, gay sons of bitches are known for seeing sexism and mysogeny everywhere t...
[15:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:07] <exec> 08└─now that you've made your big bucks in bitcoin, expect to be told you should give women half of yours, just because it isn't fair that you took a risk and they didn't.
[15:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:09] <exec> 08└─Computers don't care if you have a vagina;
[15:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bucket58 [1305] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:11] <exec> 08└─They're trying to paint it that way. https://www.salon.com [salon.com]
[15:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:13] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with playing with the girls. I avoided gym by taking music in 9th grade and regret it not one bit. I got to sit in the teacher's office and do my math homework while they were doing the singing thing because I can't carry a tune in a bucket and got to hang out with people with highly i...
[15:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:47] <exec> 08└─Let's see, you'll need a code of conduct document, give 75% of your funding to women in tech orgs, spec out LGBTQPOCSJW only projects... That should get you started on the right path, the rest is just details.
[15:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 1600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:36] <exec> 08└─A useful cross check would be successful SETI contact. Will the SETI species sounds like an authoritarian activist university professor, or like recent bots raised on a real world data feed? Another aspect no one wants to talk about is if we declare leftist authoritarianism as The One True Philosoph...
[15:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:38] <exec> 08└─"After the death sentence, comes one hell of a performance." Blue-ish picture with a man fishing and actually having a big one on the hook. Big as in half the man size. I find both inspirational, if "death sentence" is interpretted metaphorically.
[15:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dust Still the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:51] <exec> 08└─A flock of dust. Get it right.
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─Then they went a bit asshole mode, around R300
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:36] <exec> 08└─Oh, don't kid yourself... did you buy a different/uprated vehicle to go hunting in? Even if not, what are you spending in fuel, maintenance, and depreciation for the trip out to the hunting site? Do you hunt in street clothes? Not even special boots? The trip to get to the fish is what makes offshor...
[15:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:38] <exec> 08└─You also forget that how the deer is killed also affects the quality of the meat. I have had some really bad venison over the years, mostly from my cousin who is a bad shot. He frequently does gut shots and his deer run for hours. As he hunts in the same area I do and brings his deer to the same pro...
[15:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:40] <exec> 08└─People I talked to in Gros Morne National Park on the west coast of Newfoundland last summer said they'd love to eat moose but the Canadian EPA is always prowling, waiting to pounce on hunters. They told me a story of a ranger who'd set up a two day stake-out in a random field to catch moose hunters...
[15:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:42] <exec> 08└─Moose is tough. Really fibrous. Closer to bear meat in that respect than beef. I would choke it down in a stew that had been cooking for a very long time, but not as a steak or other cut of meat. The upside is that if you can stomach the stuff there's a whole lot of it per animal. They are big.
[15:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:45] <exec> 08└─That earned you a heaping serving of +1 informative. And, suggest to that cousin that if he shoots a dear, and it runs off, he should just sit down, and chill for at least fifteen minutes before pursuing. That won't make the kill any cleaner, but if the deer isn't being actively pursued, it should e...
[15:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:47] <exec> 08└─Those are good points. I'd add that with venison in my experience the bigger factor is what the deer ate. Whitetail from the mountains who've been eating pine bark and the like taste much gamier than their cousins from east of the Divide who've been eating the same stuff the free-range cattle have b...
[15:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:49] <exec> 08└─CWD is something that while bad can be dealt with. As it spreads by close contact through saliva it is very rare in wild populations unless there are piles of food available for a bunch of them to be eating at nose to nose. The outbreaks usually occur near a cattle farm, elk farm, or deer farm where...
[15:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:51] <exec> 08└─A lot of people groused when Ted Turner started raising bison on his ranch (they were mostly cattle ranchers concerned their herds would contract bucellosis that bison carry), but I'm glad he has popularized bison meat because I can't have my beloved beef any more. I'm a little surprised you dislike...
[15:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:54] <exec> 08└─Google indicates at least 50:50 odds Muslims cannot eat wild boar and France is converting to a Muslim country so wild boar hunting is going to be a pest control thing in France in the future rather than a food source.
[15:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:45] <exec> 08└─Well that sets the bar pretty low then....
[15:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 2664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:05] <exec> 08└─Quite true about hardiness - here. Put them on a planet where that hardiness gives them a substantial advantage over everything else, and they'll likely end up being the progenitors of a large portion of the global population, rather than niche players relegated to the fringes. I said nothing about...
[15:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:46] <exec> 08└─is the conservative answer always deregulation?
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[16:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:01] <exec> 08└─Give him the rube goldberg award. Also, give ajit pai something, that tool definitely deserves ... something.
[16:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:02] <exec> 08└─The Ajit Prize for Net Neutrality Idiots.
[16:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:04] <exec> 08└─It's easy to hate Bjarne, which he acknowledges on his website [stroustrup.com]: There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.
[16:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:07] <exec> 08└─I see they have a sense of humour.
[16:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:09] <exec> 08└─He deserves a prize for inspiring the creation of java.
[16:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:12] <exec> 08└─I remember when Modula-2 was the future.
[16:18:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 301 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:20] <exec> 08└─The "waterfall" method is good for keeping a long-term goal as selective pressure. The "agile" method is good for iterating rapidly via variation and short-term selection. You need both. However, I do loathe humanity's propensity to turn every process into a religion; that's what fucks everything up...
[16:18:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 905 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─I find Agile is the worst form of development project methodology ... except for all the the others. Seriously, perhaps other have had better experience, but I've never had the project requirements anywhere near firm enough to do a proper waterfall project, and that's in 35 years or so. Agile would...
[16:18:34] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:34] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of research that indicates that you get a 10-20% productivity boost (which wears off over time) from changing your process. Agile benefitted from this: people who evaluated it didn't take this into account, saw a 20% improvement, and assumed that it was the thing that they changed to,...
[16:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:37] <exec> 08└─Fuck "Agile". It's about coding shit in a sloppy way as fast as possible, and then throwing the baby with the bath water when the business changes their mind. Both are totally at odds with each other. The expectations is you can make dynamic enough things that you can change really fast in a time-fr...
[16:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:40] <exec> 08└─There is no waterfall or agile. If you have gatekeepers then at best you have waterfalll. If you say you have agile and it takes 12 weeks to fix and test a bug, you do not have agile just unplanned development. I been in this bus for 45 yrs, there is no agile or waterfall in business just the though...
[16:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:42] <exec> 08└─Wow, the article links to Quora.com. Not a site known for its quality, well researched answers. I can't really say how good the answer is as the page is currently down... Anyway, why not read the numerous research studies, case studies, papers, and textbooks on the subject instead of asking random p...
[16:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:44] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. I've gone from Agile to Waterfall and my productivity has dropped by at least half an order of magnitude. Much of the problem is the poor quality of the code resulting from lack of TDD and proper detailed analysis of the requirements.
[16:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:46] <exec> 08└─I do loathe humanity's propensity to turn every process into a religion
[16:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:49] <exec> 08└─So how does a company move from Agile As An Excuse ("We don't have time for requirements, they slow us down. We're agile now, so go away. We don't have to talk to you anymore.") to Agile as a fast/effective way to actually meet requirements set by those gatekeepers? Gatekeeper Requirements which app...
[16:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 1691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:51] <exec> 08└─Other commenters have interesting views, some I agree with, some not so much. IMHO: - The waterfall model works beautifully if you have a project where very, very few changes will occur during development. This almost always means a short project. Three months, at most six months. - An iterative mod...
[16:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:53] <exec> 08└─The waterfall method is good for compliance with legal requirements that demand evidence of a waterfall-like staged development process.
[16:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:55] <exec> 08└─"my productivity has dropped by at least half an order of magnitude" Protest too much much? I didn't know Queen Gertrude was a coder.
[16:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:32] <exec> 08└─There was a time when women would rather eat a bowl of raw worms than touch a computer or a man who talked about computers.
[16:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:33] <exec> 08└─Computers don't care if you have a vagina
[16:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06ASUS Will Use Routers You Already Own for a Mesh WiFi Setup - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:44] <exec> 08└─This is already something you can do if you're willing to re-flash your router's firmware with open source. DDWRT has a howto page [dd-wrt.com] that's well developed, and OpenWRT is at least thinking about it. [openwrt.org] Some assembly required, though, and not for the faint of heart. So, how long...
[16:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:11] <exec> 08└─I think this was resolved when Oracle sued Google for using the JAva API in their ??? language for Android. Had Oracle won it would have been akin to copyrighting words in the English language. File formats as very much like an API.
[16:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:12] <exec> 08└─I could foresee it being a fairly easy sell to convince the powers that be to throw some money (one time cost) at a development team to create for us what we need. Between the different companies and contacts that I know in the industry, a sort of corporate crowd funding effort is not far fetched. W...
[16:20:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:34] <exec> 08└─Seriously, if you haven't tried it out, you should. It's hilarious. Here are some of the gems I got: Writing is 50% luck, 50% stupidity.
[16:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:05] <exec> 08└─"The creators' attempts to moderate "its lean towards cruelty and controversy" so far have only seemed "to make it more advanced and more nihilistic." Of course. Any advanced intelligence can instantly conclude that existential nihilism is the only philosophical system that makes any sense. https://...
[16:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:06] <exec> 08└─Incest, racism, sheep-shagging, casual murder, cross-burnings, religious fanaticism and illiteracy in equal parts...hell, sounds like he just wants a bot he can have a beer with.
[16:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─Why waste a beer on buzz-kills
[16:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:10] <exec> 08└─The sticker is to re-assure them that everything is okay. Nothing to see-hear. Move along. Move along.
[16:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 1871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:16] <exec> 08└─The only special hunting cloths I own is a $10 blaze orange sweatshirt, the $15 blaze orange hunting mittens, and a $3 blaze orange stocking cap. The fact that those things seem to last at least10 years before they need to be replaced basically means their cost is $0 per lb of deer meat. The rest is...
[16:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:18] <exec> 08└─Fascinating. Do you have a blog where I can read more?
[16:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:20] <exec> 08└─I can't tell if the video is spoof or real. It's right on the line, masterful satire. If he's serious, then he spends $8200 every season in order to shoot deer. "Am I having fun?"... ok let's see, you're wearing camo, you buy a new rifle and 4x4 every season. Yeah, you're having fun. I spend $8200 o...
[16:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─That's why - to protect the chickens - we lock them in scaffold cages too small to stand up in.
[16:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:25] <exec> 08└─That is what I keep telling him and that he should also spend a bunch more time at the range. I hate helping him retrieve his stupid deer as they do run all over god's green earth. Even though my deer run it isn't far (40 yards max and that was with the biggest deer I ever shot) and then they tip ov...
[16:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─"Tastes vary. Widely." Agreed. "To me, venison tastes like toasted dog poop." -15 Flamebait/Tasteless Troll Well, unless you're talking about venison that was gut shot or not properly bled out and carefully eviscerated immediately, in which case I'm back to agreeing with you. Too many hunters are go...
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─For some reason, this post made me think of Trump.
[16:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:32] <exec> 08└─Let the free market sort it out. Customers who die won't buy from you again so meat quality will naturally improve.
[16:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:23] <exec> 08└─The small filmmaker is not constrained by something that plagues Hollywood. Taking risks. If you're going to spend $500 Million or $1 Billion on a movie, then it must: * Have a known director * Have only A-List Actors * Follow a known formula * Be a sequel or prequel to a remake of a sequel to a 4 o...
[16:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:25] <exec> 08└─Man you sound angry. Did your mom sleep with a black man after smoking pot?
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[17:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:11] <exec> 08└─Old guy gets lifetime achievement award for old shit language that nobody fucking uses. C++ isn't Node, Rust, Go. Does C++ even have a community, bro???
[17:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:13] <exec> 08└─My favorite Bjarne statement, by far, is when he said C++ was done as a joke. OOP in general and C++ becoming nearly universal are, IMHO, behind most of the code bloat, bugginess, and perpetual beta status of current software. The [oversimplified] reason is that no individual developer can grok any...
[17:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:15] <exec> 08└─C++ is probably the language that I hate the least these days, but a lot of that isn't really due to Bjarne. His original C with classes was a really crappy language that managed to combine the worst bits of C and Simula, without understanding why those ideas in Smalltalk were useful. Templates, whi...
[17:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:17] <exec> 08└─Make me one with everything.
[17:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:19] <exec> 08└─WebAssembly, coming right up.
[17:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:22] <exec> 08└─Rust is more like C++ than Node or Go. Rust features RAII and deterministic deallocation/destruction instead of leaving runtime performance and resource management (network/io/etc) to the whim of the gods of garbage collection.
[17:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 2732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:53] <exec> 08└─Agile is okay, if you have competent people, and a good environment. Having competent people is more important than the particular process. And by competent, I don't mean only rock star coders, I mean people who also have a bit of humility, enough that they can stand to be a "mere" follower and not...
[17:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:55] <exec> 08└─Gets to where it's time to actually write the code and guess what? Chaining doesn't work. Contact the vendor, they haven't implemented it because nobody had asked for it yet. Without chaining there's no way to meet my timing requirements.
[17:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:57] <exec> 08└─However, I do loathe humanity's propensity to turn every process into a religion; that's what fucks everything up.
[17:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:59] <exec> 08└─Solution: Sue the vendor for not delivering the advertised functionality.
[17:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 4765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:01] <exec> 08└─The author seems a bit over grumpy. Let me try to respin this issue and see what comes out. First, to make a complicated system, one has to have a specific goal in mind. The question here is how to build it. I have no clue how to do a random walk in search of something useful. You can adjust the goa...
[17:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:03] <exec> 08└─As this was a waterfall project I was allowed to look at the box on the shelf,
[17:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:06] <exec> 08└─"I've gone from Agile to Waterfall and my productivity has dropped by at least half an order of magnitude. Much of the problem is the poor quality of the code resulting from lack of TDD and proper detailed analysis of the requirements." There is nothing about waterfall that says you shouldn't have s...
[17:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:44] <exec> 08└─Males often take more risk while females are more conservative. It's everywhere even in the basic biology where the ratio is never 50:50, but more males are conceived while less survive. It works for all age slices. As per bitcoin, I would agree that so extreme devision is a sign of troubles ahead (...
[17:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:46] <exec> 08└─the involvement of Microsoft in sex trafficking
[17:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:48] <exec> 08└─Just yesterday, I had one bitching that Office365 looks different than it used to. I tried to explain that it was because it's the online version and Microsoft is always tweaking it and it looks different under different browsers.
[17:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:50] <exec> 08└─You forgot the I don't want to live on this planet anymore. [kym-cdn.com]
[17:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:52] <exec> 08└─Why are all the right-wing snowflakes bleating "wah wah the feminists are out to get me" when all the article is doing is pointing out a historical correlation between gender-imbalanced participation trends and risky investments? TFA doesn't even use the word "feminism". Nobody is whining about femi...
[17:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:54] <exec> 08└─BTC doesn't have a standing army with the potential to enforce conscription orders. Nor, a police-government-power pyramid enforcing taxes, eviction, etc. Nor, for that matter, a social security system. So, yeah, fiat currency analyzed as an excised entity, an organ explanted from the larger state t...
[17:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:57] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews covered this [soylentnews.org].
[17:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:59] <exec> 08└─why do people even track these things? more women tuck dollar bills into their g-strings than men get tucked into their g-strings, but we don't hear about him complaining about that. I mean bitcoins can even get shoved into that slot and guys can't accept them that way
[17:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:02] <exec> 08└─dude, it's just more FUD against bitcoin since the nonsense of the electricity costs didn't catch
[17:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:04] <exec> 08└─Males often take more risk while females are more conservative. It's everywhere even in the basic biology where the ratio is never 50:50, but more males are conceived while less survive. It works for all age slices.
[17:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:06] <exec> 08└─It's almost like it might actually be slightly more complicated and interesting than that and that yours is a glib, superficial response.
[17:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:09] <exec> 08└─I know, right? Figuring out how to get wildly disparate groups to get along and be productive without constantly excluding or offending people is a waste of time, amirite? If only everyone else knew that you had it figured out, everything would be so much more peaceful, just like history shows.
[17:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:11] <exec> 08└─more men in computers
[17:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:13] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think they research shows that more men are conceived when the parents are doing well nutritionally, and reversed otherwise. That is, when things are good, biology says 'make more men, let them duke it out and makes the race stronger!', while when things are poor it says, 'must make wome...
[17:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:15] <exec> 08└─Seriously, women will buy diamond-encrusted turds thanks to DeBeers, proving that if you market something hard enough to them, then they'll buy it regardless of any external factor. "If you really love me you'll buy me bitcoin." etc, etc, etc.
[17:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:17] <exec> 08└─The tech industry has a clear history of sexism and misogyny
[17:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:20] <exec> 08└─Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
[17:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06ASUS Will Use Routers You Already Own for a Mesh WiFi Setup - 1533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:30] <exec> 08└─I investigated doing this in my house a few years ago, but gave up on it. 1. As far as I understand it, mesh networking inherently halves your bandwidth. If I connect from my laptop wirelessly to my router, I get full speed between the two in uploads and downloads. When I connect through a mesh node...
[17:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:00] <exec> 08└─Oops. I meant you should change "fake", not "face" to "dumb". Man, I hate making a typing mistake when slapping someone down, because usually, and much to my chagrin, it opens the door for them to feel somehow vindicated in their superiority when they are really missing the whole point of the slapdo...
[17:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:01] <exec> 08└─yeah retard. sorry, but back then it came from french, originally meaning the same thing in english as it did in french. and then since 1840 it has changed meaning, separated from it's french root. (source: lived in france, fluent in french). are you one of those dumbfucks who uses an 1840 definitio...
[17:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03cyberthanasis [5212] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:04] <exec> 08└─I would suggest ThanCad (thancad.sourceforge.net), which already has some staff for surveying engineers. You may even contact the author (me :) ) if you have something concrete in mind.
[17:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:06] <exec> 08└─It's not your grammar that makes you look like a fool. It's claiming a foreign word couldn't change meanings in 200 years, and failing to look it up in a dictionary. Let me help you with that: "Distress or embarrassment at having failed or been humiliated" is the non 1840 definition. Since you likel...
[17:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:59] <exec> 08└─If you are the only one enjoying the global conspiracy, perhaps you are imagining the global conspiracy.
[17:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:01] <exec> 08└─If Trump is your version of manly, i weep for your flaccid, tiny penis
[17:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dust Still the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:15] <exec> 08└─Oh ffs. Read for comprehension. I'm not saying it really is aliens, I'm saying "definitely not the cause" is bombastic bullshit and that's obvious simply from reading the sentence.
[17:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:07] <exec> 08└─does grandma run the server farm in that yonder cloud? If so, she'll care. if not, she'll wonder why it takes to long to initiate a game of slingo on aol because it'll be 30% slower on all the topology that runs it--and it'll effect those open stack hardware platforms that have 'virtual switches' ru...
[17:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:22] <exec> 08└─I do wish we could get to our camp in central Florida more easily, it's a 3-4 hour drive for us. Don't kid yourself, that 250 miles, especially pulling a trailer, likely amounts to ~$120 in total costs, between fuel, maintenance, insurance, and depreciation. If your BMW was $20K and you're getting 1...
[17:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─Indeed, cheap chicken will have been a major poster child for our age: http://www.resilience.org [resilience.org]
[17:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:37] <exec> 08└─incremental increases in our brain size came at a lower metabolic cost
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[18:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:04] <exec> 08└─I remember taking a while wondering about the colors, then realizing the shoot switched to different colors because of the colored sheets on the screen. Arcades were absolutely gorgeous in the first eighties, because old electro mechanical stuff was still there together with pinball and electronic c...
[18:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:23] <exec> 08└─What's this? Many innovations were stumbled upon by naive adventurers?!
[18:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:25] <exec> 08└─Who uses it? You most certainly do. What's running the Javascript interpreter that runs your Node? What compiler do you use for your Rust apps? C++ has an active community, full of pretty smart people. That's part of the reason I enjoy using the language. I have a good assurance that any C++ softwar...
[18:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:27] <exec> 08└─The only reason C++ is "bad" is because bad coders have a lot more string to hang themselves with. Operator overloading is a very useful feature when used properly. The expression "(matrixA + matrixB) * C" is far more elegant and readable than some unholy Java-ism like "matrixA.add(matrixB).multiply...
[18:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:29] <exec> 08└─"Java" was the dawn of the sh*tty programmer.
[18:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:31] <exec> 08└─Compared with C? Where to do anything you have to go through MacroHell? Where there are no namespaces (so function declarations are completely unscoped)? etc etc
[18:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:34] <exec> 08└─I'll say this much for his efforts: There have been many many attempts to replace C with something with more features. So far, C++ has come the closest to actually succeeding at that, and has significant usage for important-ish software like KDE.
[18:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:12] <exec> 08└─Intel apparently had a part that acted differently depending on 1 undocumented pin strap (it was documented differently for each sku). They sold this part in two different markets at vastly different prices, but using the same silicon. Long story short, someone fucking up the shipping orders and sen...
[18:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:14] <exec> 08└─If you weren't allowed to write your software using the actual hardware it would be running on (and the hardware actually existed already so you could have tried it) then that isn't waterfall, that's simple mismanagement and a dishonest vendor. Let's count up the problems: * buying a product based o...
[18:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:16] <exec> 08└─For gates, I just let the customer choose when, and how often to take the hit. In large orgs, it's beyond my control to change that part, so they can balance how long they can do without the functionality they need versus how much effort it is for the gating process.
[18:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:18] <exec> 08└─They don't "Get in the way", they just are generally set up so that they won't even look at a project until it's complete. Then after it's been through once, they pretty much insist on the same amount of time or money for the next iteration as well rather than working with a dev team and looking at...
[18:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:21] <exec> 08└─It gives you the insight into what's "really happening" that scrum does, but without the need to reject the entire concept of design. You can let people work on things they're actually good at, and apply your design efforts to things that actually need them. The premise is simply to do things when t...
[18:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:23] <exec> 08└─If I'd used Kanban to write that post, I would have caught the typo!
[18:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:25] <exec> 08└─I have trouble believing that. I have never seen anyone do anything that stupid, and I've done a lot of government work.
[18:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:28] <exec> 08└─The second place also did it properly, and got good results, because I instigated and implemented it, supervised, trained and mentored. I got big bonuses and pay rises.
[18:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 1497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:30] <exec> 08└─The waterfall method works fine in every other engineering discipline (try replacing a bridge in an agile way). The reason it doesn't work for software development is simple (at least imnsho): software development as currently practiced is neither engineering, nor a discipline. Software development...
[18:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:26] <exec> 08└─Three paragraphs of attempted refutation but nowhere in them is anything that refutes the notion that the only value of any currency is the willingness of those using it to use it. Without that willingness, it is not a currency of any value for all intents and purposes. No matter who says it is. Wit...
[18:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:27] <exec> 08└─Oh hell, we figured that out long ago. Chain them up first then whip them if they do anything you dislike. It's highly effective.
[18:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:30] <exec> 08└─I think you need to clue yourself in on the meaning of the term "snowflake". It does mean "someone who cannot bear the thought of ever being disagreed with". It does not mean "someone who got pissed off about something".
[18:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:32] <exec> 08└─Have you tried using a wood chipper first?
[18:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:34] <exec> 08└─That is what always happens these days. Clinton, feminists, sjw, not-racism. The persecution complexes around here are pretty epic.
[18:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:36] <exec> 08└─> It's almost like it might actually be slightly more complicated and interesting than that and that yours is a glib, superficial response. Duh, how else are you supposed to get first post? :)
[18:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:38] <exec> 08└─Or maybe bitcoin is used by all kinds of people who aren't interested in government backed fiat currency? And extremists are one of those groups? Nah, they're probably just making up stuff so they can call more stuff racist. No other logical conclusion.
[18:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:41] <exec> 08└─Every time someone brings up sex inequality about ANYTHING, I like to kindly remind them about the inequalities in construction, garbage collection, teaching, serving in restaurants, flight attending, auto repair, and myriad other fields. Why do these terrible, terrible inequalities never get the at...
[18:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:43] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. I figure that since we're going to be seeing a lot of the misogynerd narrative in the lead-up to November, I might as well concede that Microsoft is involved in sex trafficking despite that fact that just 18 employees were arrested between both Microsoft and Amazon. So just assuming 50/...
[18:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:45] <exec> 08└─YEAH escape from oppression, get yourself a new land! call the ship Mayflower :) Problem solved, here. Bitcoin is (commonly considered) money which is female in Italian. Given its volatility, the female gender is quite appropriate.
[18:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:47] <exec> 08└─"Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave." None of these are slaves. They're bees. Slavery is a human concept which does not apply, not to the worker, not to the drone, not to the queen. It's sheer hallucinatory anthropomorphism, as well as the fallacy of the stolen...
[18:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Will Use Routers You Already Own for a Mesh WiFi Setup - 1935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:59] <exec> 08└─what i know is that originally there was a microwave (2.4 Ghz) network that spanned the united 'muricans from one ocean to another ocean (with some sat uplink backup). code-run-google-A.I.fetch:references (lol) so it is possible. in other news, the faster-then-executed stock market brokers were cons...
[18:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:28] <exec> 08└─How about common decency?
[18:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:29] <exec> 08└─You are such a namby little boy inside. You reek of entitlement and have skin that is a micrometer thick! I can't speak for everyone but I'm tired of your constant insertion of "poor persecuted white male" into every discussion. With the sheer level of asinine bullshit you spew I'd like to say your...
[18:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:31] <exec> 08└─So racism is only bad because some sjw say so? Hmm, not surprised you'd think that. Someone said you're actually trying to expand your mind with some serious reading so I'll lay off the rest for now.
[18:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:34] <exec> 08└─That reads more like a good sci-fi plot, than reality. AI / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning are more buzz words, than anything at this point. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are great fields of study, but AI is nowhere near the likes of Sci-Fi Red Queen from Resident Evil or...
[18:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Approvals Sped Up in 2017 - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:56] <exec> 08└─I mean, this isn't exactly a controversial article. If we wanted more comments, we should have said something like, "Trump's FDA breaks record for drug approval, scientists concerned about safety!" THAT would have created a nice little flame-war to keep us all warm and cozy. As it stands, we're stuc...
[18:23:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:23] <exec> 08└─(and was meant to be until the 9th, but the Linux people were oh-so-clever and leaked it - I hope Intel won't give them embargoed security reports in the future)
[18:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:42] <exec> 08└─While an AMD employee did go into details about the reason for the patch... He did so to explain why AMD processors are not affected by the bug. Also, it should be noted that some reports are mentioning at 5-30% performance decrease due to the patch. (mostly on server workloads such as databases) No...
[18:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:43] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability) [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(security_vulnerability) [wikipedia.org]
[18:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:45] <exec> 08└─Apparently VIA still live. https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com]
[18:25:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 879 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:42] <exec> 08└─You also forget that how the deer is killed also affects the quality of the meat. I have had some really bad venison over the years, mostly from my cousin who is a bad shot. He frequently does gut shots and his deer run for hours. As he hunts in the same area I do and brings his deer to the same pro...
[18:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:01] <exec> 08└─There are other aspects of hunting that can't be reduced to a dollar figure. I'm not hunting or fishing to save money -- the moorage for my boat is $250/month which would buy more crabs than I eat in a whole year -- but the ones I catch taste better (no BS, I think the commercial ones sit in tanks t...
[18:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:19] <exec> 08└─Is it racist that we made it really hard for poor people (still mostly minorities) to get a beer? Oh wait, they all have ID. The objection to voter ID is that people want to make it impossible to detect fraud. You say "election fraud is such a false problem" while there is no way to detect if it is...
[18:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:21] <exec> 08└─Getting rid of paperless e-voting machines is the biggest confirmation that the Russions are manipulating elections the right way. By manipulating people on FaceTwit. Are you paying attention CIA?
[18:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:23] <exec> 08└─It's a lot easier to look over 21 (or find a place where they either know you or don't care), than to get an ID in poor rural areas. For all the crying about voter fraud, there's a singular lack of examples ... A few here and there, and some clear holes in the absentee ballots or people having moved...
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[19:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:16] <exec> 08└─Then came Nintendo thumb.
[19:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 1938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:17] <exec> 08└─Video games were a culture shock for me, to be honest. Let me explain: Was in the Navy, and we left in June on a Med cruise. At the time, everyone in Europe and Africa thought they were Disco Duck - which was alright. No matter what we might think of disco, that was where the women were, so we disco...
[19:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:20] <exec> 08└─I member when video games were only for boys! Space Invaders was rad man, but one day I get all prepared for a high score run and even scheduled the time on the chalk board in the bathroom. Lo and behold some GIRL is on MY machine, totally ruined my day. I even said I'd reserved the time slot and sh...
[19:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:22] <exec> 08└─True. I was just over a quarter of that before I saw my first video game. Pong. I remember a pong game between the bar and dining room of what was the most posh "Supper Club" in our little town. I think that was around 1976. That and playing Star Trek on a printer terminal connected to a DEC (my muc...
[19:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:24] <exec> 08└─One of the first non-trivial programs I ever wrote was a simplified knockoff of Space Invaders written in BASIC on a TRS-80. Spaghetti code galore as I was too new to subroutines and modularity. My brother came to test it and at first said, "This is cool! Slow, but no coins needed." Then he found a...
[19:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:26] <exec> 08└─The vector graphics of Asteroids and other games still has nothing comparable today, at least not without paying a fortune. The bright laser balls were mesmerizing because the electron gun of the video tube could fire electrons at a single spot for a long time compared to scanning raster video.
[19:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:28] <exec> 08└─The "funny" mod doesn't quite make it here. Need a "funny as hell" mod.
[19:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:31] <exec> 08└─It'll swing back, there is already a core of rebels that eschew the always connected life. It won't go all the way back, but you'll see less and less people glued to their devices all the time. Or the quality of interactions will vastly improve and humanity will move into a much more digital reality...
[19:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:33] <exec> 08└─So did he end up getting his MBA?
[19:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:58] <exec> 08└─What's the prize for Evil Genius?
[19:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:59] <exec> 08└─OOP in general and C++ becoming nearly universal are, IMHO, behind most of the code bloat, bugginess, and perpetual beta status of current software.
[19:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:47] <exec> 08└─poor quality of the code resulting from lack of TDD
[19:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:49] <exec> 08└─Hey now, I also usually disagree with The Mighty Buzzword, but that's not a reason to wish him death. ... not that Buzzword? ... carry on.
[19:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:51] <exec> 08└─It's called the Hawthorne Effect [wikipedia.org] and it isn't specific to IT. Pretty much any procedure change will result in a short-term improvement, regardless of whether the change itself is any good.
[19:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:58] <exec> 08└─Looks like this snowflake can't handle reality and must quibble over nuanced semantics so he doesn't have to realize he IS what he hates.
[19:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:00] <exec> 08└─How about you get a clue?? The article is about pointing out a massive bias in who supports bitcoin, there is no feminist agenda going on here. If it said all women were supporting bitcoin the same point applies. Any market with a VERY odd distribution should cause concern. Not to say bitcoin won't...
[19:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:02] <exec> 08└─Well, I was thinking that Palahniuk was using metaphor to describe the men who found salvation through the eponymous fight clubs. But your criticism is well received.
[19:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:04] <exec> 08└─At least now we know that Oakenshield is part of the problem. Just to be clear - fucking with the UI for the sake of fucking with the UI is bad.
[19:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if you've followed (probably not, it's mostly banal bullshit) the conversations between 'Zumi and I, she loves to question my "adequacy" as well as my sexual preferences. That's her go-to tactic when she's trying to insult me.
[19:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:09] <exec> 08└─Didn't take any more music classes in school than I was required. But, I did take typing class, when most guys wouldn't be caught dead in an all-female class. I think that THEY thought the monthly period might be contagious, or some such crazy crap. I gave a half a thought to taking home economics f...
[19:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:11] <exec> 08└─If you think women aren't greedy, I suspect you haven't talked to many.
[19:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe. Either way, let me toss the implicit assumptions on their head. Why is there no feminist agenda to get women interested in crypto currencies in favor of fiat money controlled by the kyriarchy? Where is the feminist agenda to empower women to have a Computer of One's Own? I'm... not just askin...
[19:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:15] <exec> 08└─Well, most of it has some other properties. Fungibility is one of those that BTC doesn't have (monero does though). Another property is the ability to exchange it in a timely manner. Theoretically, bitcoin will get there once Lightning is rolled out, but for now, it takes an insane amount of time to...
[19:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:18] <exec> 08└─I thought the problem with taxes was that they're taken at "gunpoint." Not a lot of willingness there....
[19:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:20] <exec> 08└─There was a time when women would rather eat a bowl of raw worms than touch a computer or a man who talked about computers. And before that time computers were "women's work" and men wouldn't touch them.
[19:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 1431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:05] <exec> 08└─I never said that foreign words couldn't change meaning over time (just to help you out, I am typing this really slow because you clearly have substantial reading comprehension issues), I'm just saying that the "language changes over time" is the cop-out "I've exposed my ignorance in trying to look...
[19:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:07] <exec> 08└─(source: lived in france, fluent in french
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[19:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:07] <exec> 08└─Another "Western academia sux" interpretation is we can brainwash intelligences at will, and that's being censored for obvious political reasons.
[19:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Still the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:23] <exec> 08└─A Dyson's sphere of dust. I'm not saying it's aliens, but . . .
[19:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Still the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:24] <exec> 08└─A murder of nanobots.
[19:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:37] <exec> 08└─The other red meat. Much better than the green kind from which its source code was derived.
[19:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:38] <exec> 08└─Sony CEO in 2005 about the Sony Rootkit: (parphrased) What's the big deal? Most people don't even know what a root kit is. touché from some Groklaw poster about red meat: What's the big deal? Most people don't even know what salmonella is.
[19:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:40] <exec> 08└─I don't think it is to the flailing and kicking its hoofs part yet.
[19:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:42] <exec> 08└─Someone further up the thread already mentioned that prey animal's diet affects the taste. The most detestable commercially raised meat animal has to be rabbit. I had eaten rabbit most of my life, off an on, with the seasons. After joining the Navy, we had rabbit on the menu one day. I waited in lin...
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[20:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Nearly 250K People's PII Compromised at Department of Homeland Security - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:14] <exec> 08└─Figures the government is so outdated that it still uses Pentium II's.
[20:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly 250K People's PII Compromised at Department of Homeland Security - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:16] <exec> 08└─Well PIIs are vulnerable to Meltdown, so I thought much the same!
[20:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:33] <exec> 08└─I guess due to my age I always think the video game revolution happened later. I can remember playing pong with my mom in the early 80's. I was born in 1978, but we were poor as fuck so were on the trailing edge of things. The 2600 came out a year before I was born, but our first one was the slimlin...
[20:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:34] <exec> 08└─Sadly most people today can only experience these vector display games indirectly through emulation on modern raster based displays, which really does not do them justice. I recall reading on some TRON trivia site someone claiming that there were no "3d" graphic games when the movie was made. This w...
[20:18:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 715 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:49] <exec> 08└─My favorite Bjarne statement, by far, is when he said C++ was done as a joke. OOP in general and C++ becoming nearly universal are, IMHO, behind most of the code bloat, bugginess, and perpetual beta status of current software. The [oversimplified] reason is that no individual developer can grok any...
[20:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:03] <exec> 08└─That's like saying that a gun that shoots backwards is "bad" because it's easier to kill yourself with it than a normal gun. Oh wait, no, it's just bad. A tool that encourages damaging use by design is bad period (unless the purpose of the tool is to cause damage, which may well be true about C++).
[20:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 2206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:54] <exec> 08└─Actual scrum master here (yeah, did the training, did the exams, got the certs, actually ran scrum in the wild, when I moved on had people wishing I'd come back ...) I'm also a waterfall project manager (trained, etc. etc. etc.) You're mostly right, but for your last paragraph. Waterfall is great wh...
[20:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:14] <exec> 08└─Don't point out the intellectual hypocrisy, it just leads to ad-hominems and pointless discussions where logic is ignored.
[20:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:15] <exec> 08└─TMB missed the entirety of 2017, apparently.
[20:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:17] <exec> 08└─Right, cause you personally died in the Revolution and the Civil War. No wonder the black community has problems, THEY DIDN'T ALL FIGHT FOR THEIR OWN FREEDOM! Psssh, what lazy fuckers amirite? /sarc just in case I honestly don't know what the point of your comment is beyond that lame libertarian tro...
[20:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:19] <exec> 08└─"At least now we know that Oakenshield is part of the problem. Just to be clear - fucking with the UI for the sake of fucking with the UI is bad." And yet that's currently what most so-called programmers do with their time. :(
[20:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:06] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoSCoW_method [wikipedia.org]
[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:07] <exec> 08└─Or this one: http://generated.inspirobot.me [inspirobot.me]
[20:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:09] <exec> 08└─Not sure what to make of this. It's either prophetic and dark, or pure nonsense. http://generated.inspirobot.me [inspirobot.me] Maybe that's why the bot is understood to be nihilistic and negative: that's how the beholder sees its art.
[20:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Meepy [2099] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:11] <exec> 08└─... and then there's this one: http://generated.inspirobot.me [inspirobot.me]
[20:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 4094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:44] <exec> 08└─Bought the car for under $10K. I have already put over 130,000mi on it in the 4.5 years I have owned it (I have a long commute), and got it with 80,000 miles on it. I plan to hopefully keep the car until it has 500,000 miles or more on it, and I don't sell off vehicles that are derivable, only sell...
[20:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:46] <exec> 08└─"but the meat from those animals can't be sold: It hasn't been officially approved by meat inspectors. Also, the government doesn't want hunters to make money from poaching. Yet hunters are allowed to give it away, and many do." god forbid people be able to feed/support themselves off their own land...
[20:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:48] <exec> 08└─The commercial crabs are wild caught but they can end up in a tank for a very long time if you go buy them live. Otherwise they are cooked, frozen, and packaged but it is literally impossible to preserve crab well. It's either fresh or no-way, at least for me.
[20:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:50] <exec> 08└─Have him read this, especially the part about the autonomic plexus: https://www.ballisticstudies.com [ballisticstudies.com] He should practice or do what he needs to get accurate because one shot in the autonomic plexus is instant -- just bang flop.
[20:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:52] <exec> 08└─Probably yes. After I resumed eating mammals after a 10 year hiatus, I have never been able to like the taste of pork. It just comes off as disgusting. Deer liver though -- that's amazing.
[20:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:13] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine that democrats will actually allow this to pass. It would have put Ray Moore in the senate; the statistical anomalies are damning. ... If requiring an ID is somehow all racist and everything... Alabama requires voter ID. [alabama.gov] So I guess you're saying those laws don't work,...
[20:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:15] <exec> 08└─We do catch it, but we can't catch it that well because we aren't looking all that well. The situation with ID is really twisted: https://imgur.com [imgur.com]
[20:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:17] <exec> 08└─You're not wrong, yet you don't address my point: With all the clamoring about massive rampant systematic institutionalized voter fraud, where are the actual cases ?
[20:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:19] <exec> 08└─True. The definition of a trusted system is one that, if it fails you, you're screwed. The definition of a trustworthy system is quite different. Ideally, only trustworthy systems should be trusted.
[20:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:55] <exec> 08└─Fake comments to repeal Net Neutrality. [fortune.com]
[20:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:56] <exec> 08└─If you think fake news is a problem now, wait until you have undetectable fake images of Hillary Clinton accepting a suspicious-looking envelope from an Iranian diplomat. Or Donald Trump Jr. meeting with the Russian ambassador and several known KGB figures. Good thing the reality-based media corrobo...
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[21:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:04] <exec> 08└─My earliest exposure to programming was in books. My 3rd grade classroom (1980s) had an orange paperback book with BASIC programs in it that I kept picking up for silent reading time. The programs at the beginning of the book just printed pictures made out of asterisks, and I hardly noticed the "PRI...
[21:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:05] <exec> 08└─I remember my first foray in computer programming was as a very young school kid when my parents got a (IBM?) computer with a Orange Monochrome screen. It had a 5 1/4" floppy drive, a 3.5" floppy drive with No Hard Drive. Everything just booted off whatever disk you had in the drive. They got some c...
[21:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:08] <exec> 08└─I'm no coder - these days code-wise I just bash out occasional Autohotkey kludges - but anyway.... First computer and first machine I programmed on: A C64. Started with BASIC, ran into a performance wall, stumbled across a copy of Jim Butterfield's SuperMon somewhere, started doing assembly through...
[21:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:10] <exec> 08└─I learned how to program from that same orange book I think. It's been years, but I'd seen it in the library and brought it home and tried to figure things out from there. mind you, it was the late 90s for me, and I actually didn't know of any BASIC interpreters... other than the VBA that came with...
[21:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:12] <exec> 08└─Ha, but this is still done today: disabling "Incremental linking" in Visual studio will reduce your executable file size by half... After looking at the binary content I saw that basically they had a whole bunch of 0 padding in there to avoid redoing most of the linking. I guess it's better done by...
[21:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Linatux [4602] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:14] <exec> 08└─In High School I was sending FORTRAN coding sheets to a local institute where they were punched onto cards, then executed on an ICL machine. When the card deck was returned to me I could make minor corrections by carefully poking out holes in pre-cut cards - or send code sheets with corrections. Sin...
[21:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:17] <exec> 08└─We got a TRS-80 somewhere around 1980 but I wasn't interested until my dad brought home a computer magazine with the BASIC source of several games printed on its pages. After it eventually broke though, I didn't touch another computer until we got a 486. Even then I didn't program again until Linux...
[21:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:19] <exec> 08└─I found one at a friend's house. Having read plenty of science fiction, I sat down and typed: PLEASE PROVIDE OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS. It said: SYNTAX ERROR So then I cried because the machine had rejected me, harmed my self esteem, and ruined my chance for a good career. No, wait, that wasn't it. I l...
[21:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:21] <exec> 08└─Started on CP/M on a Kaypro around 1983-84 programming in basic and fortran. Then worked my way "up" to a vic 20, then a C=64 learning assembly, and then I saved enough to get an Amiga. I miss those days. Computers have been down-hill ever since. Now I support ancient code on VMS.
[21:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:24] <exec> 08└─There once was a man, a worthless man. This man was a programmer. All of the programs this individual wrote were efficient and almost entirely free of bugs. The man was obsessed with speed and efficiency, to the point where these things became the most important things in his life. The man's desire...
[21:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:26] <exec> 08└─After my Dad retired from the Air Force and started working for them as a civilian, he took one of their computer correspondence courses (I don't know if he ever completed it - frankly, I doubt it). I got to read the course books. Core memory, punch cards (I learned how to read them ), basic computi...
[21:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:28] <exec> 08└─For programming.... In the early 80s my Junior High school had a computer lab (one of the first in the state to have one - it was a model to other school districts). There were twenty to twenty five Commodore/CBM PET computers and four TRS-80 Model III systems. I liked the TRS-80s. They had mimeogra...
[21:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Nearly 250K People's PII Compromised at Department of Homeland Security - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:38] <exec> 08└─America didn't have a Department of Homeland Security when America was great. America doesn't need a Department of Homeland Security now. Make America Great Again by getting rid of the Department of Homeland Security.
[21:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly 250K People's PII Compromised at Department of Homeland Security - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:40] <exec> 08└─Our government does use a lot of old cyber. For our nuclear, our nuclear arsenal. And for many things. Some people -- foolish people -- laughed at that, they said "get the new cyber, the old one is too slow!" But I said "wait, sometimes the old ones are the best." And I was right. Because a lot, a l...
[21:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:59] <exec> 08└─I hope you realize the joke was poking fun at the soylentils with "muh oppression" issues. If you did not expect that then the clues in the joke itself are what your brain considers normal / acceptable.
[21:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:28] <exec> 08└─No, that's like saying a double edged knife is okay unless you hold it wrong. Just because you can hold a knife by the blade that doesn't make double edged knives bad tools. A language cannot force you to use overloaded operators. It's a ridiculous proposition to say that a tool is made worse by hav...
[21:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:21] <exec> 08└─Ouch! Maybe you have discovered the real reason why engineers hate TDD? : P We test a lot at work but don't practice TDD as a religion. It does certainly result in less production support required.
[21:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:22] <exec> 08└─TDD is not a property of either Agile
[21:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:24] <exec> 08└─No, they kept cutting the budget. It was great for the share price, not so good for actually having the resources required to get the work done. I left to go to a growing industry and a company with a better long term future. Shame they're a bit behind on software engineering practices, but that wil...
[21:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:26] <exec> 08└─While we're telling funny stories. Early 80's, early days of robots putting parts in holes on boards (called pick and place). Got a batch of 30 or so boards that didn't work. I was a tech at the time and grabbed one. Very strange patterns on my O'scope. Turns out whomever loaded the pick and place m...
[21:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:29] <exec> 08└─The waterfall method works fine in every other engineering discipline (try replacing a bridge in an agile way).
[21:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:31] <exec> 08└─Though, i am in a "fast changing" software industry. Might be different for people writing device drivers.
[21:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:33] <exec> 08└─We test a lot at work but don't practice TDD as a religion.
[21:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:35] <exec> 08└─When I think of projects that went badly, I think of things like "the manager didn't believe the numbers he was told", or "now that we know the deadline won't be met, why aren't we cutting features?", or "last time it took 14 months to do half as much, what idiot thought we could get twice as much d...
[21:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:38] <exec> 08└─The problem with requirements is having good ones at all. Waterfall makes it practically impossible to get good requirements because it involves no discovery and feedback process and very limited scope for change either due to changing requirements or unforeseen issues (no one can plan 100% accurate...
[21:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:00] <exec> 08└─So she's saying you suck at being gay?
[21:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:01] <exec> 08└─Do like me and edit the db.
[21:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:04] <exec> 08└─Your point? Mugging isn't by consent either but it does nothing to invalidate what I've said.
[21:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:06] <exec> 08└─Agreed. It was obviously designed by someone who was either shitty at economics or shitty at programming.
[21:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:08] <exec> 08└─Look who you're talking to... Quibbling over semantics is almost as fun to me sending a regressive leftist into a frothing rage with unarguable facts.
[21:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:10] <exec> 08└─The FedEx delivery guy who delivered the heaviest package I got last year was a FedEx delivery chick. She almost fell over trying to carry it to the porch. I'm all about me some equality though, so I didn't offer to help.
[21:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:12] <exec> 08└─And DeathMonkey missed the 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s. If you don't know the difference between a sexual predator and a sexist, have a seat and listen to your betters talk.
[21:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:15] <exec> 08└─That is definitely something I can do.
[21:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:17] <exec> 08└─Good point. Computers had keyboards, looked like typewriters, therefore it must be a tool for secretaries, and Real Men had to stand back. Those of us in the know laughed behind their backs while they made their assistants print their email for them. I really think this is part of why the GUI was a...
[21:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:19] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ? and I'd count https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] as well.
[21:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:21] <exec> 08└─but nowhere in them is anything that refutes the notion that the only value of any currency is the willingness of those using it to use it
[21:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 2015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:24] <exec> 08└─Okay, so where are the articles pointing out the massive bias in: - who supports having giant diamond wedding rings? - who supports driving giant pickup trucks? - who supports buying household decor? - who supports buying hunting and fishing gear? As you said, "any market with a very odd distributio...
[21:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:26] <exec> 08└─If I've got to carry "mug coins" to pass a neighborhood without being physically assaulted, and I want to pass that neighborhood, then "mug coins" do indeed have value - and will be fungible for other forms of currency, goods, etc. You don't have to like it, but there is a lot of value derived from...
[21:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:14] <exec> 08└─you'll also need some ear spacers.
[21:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:17] <exec> 08└─And this one: http://generated.inspirobot.me [inspirobot.me]
[21:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Still the Likely Cause of Tabby's Star Dimming - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:35] <exec> 08└─Have a try yourself. Did you get the point of my question?
[21:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:56] <exec> 08└─Yep, after sitting 20' up on an uncomfortable perch in freezing temperatures for 8 hours, most anything else is fast-paced. We do the same for the fish we catch, would be boating anyway, but the fish are fresher and much better tasting than market bought. Plus, we mostly fish inshore, so we catch sm...
[21:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:22] <exec> 08└─Please don't derail a good rant with facts. You take all the fun out of it!
[21:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:23] <exec> 08└─Absentee ballots should not be a thing.
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[22:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:03] <exec> 08└─What is he smoking if he thinks this is not going to generate a huge revolt, lawsuit and eventually results in exactly the opposite of what he wants to achieve?
[22:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:04] <exec> 08└─Probably an exclusive strain from a well-connected supplier that stands to benefit from a restricted cannabis market.
[22:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:06] <exec> 08└─Jeff's not here, man!
[22:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:09] <exec> 08└─Succeed or fail, this will put uncertainty into the market, reduce investment and expansion.
[22:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:11] <exec> 08└─That might be true, because no specific enforcement actions have been announced.
[22:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:13] <exec> 08└─You should have used Gamemaker. Why didn't you? Because you're a mere Gamemakerlessness extremacy, that's why! Wow! Your true ferocity has been revealed to all, and it's simply the comicalness of ultimatum What will you do now that your public image has been utterly destroyed? Will you wallow in des...
[22:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:15] <exec> 08└─He's spending time with muh-muh-muh-muh-muh-my scrotum!
[22:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:36] <exec> 08└─Lame attempt at humor is lame, here's a dull axe think you can get that polished up for me by tomorrow?
[22:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:38] <exec> 08└─My mother was sick and stayed home. She had a deadline though so I wrote it for her. It was with a pen on a special paper form. No errors - just operator's mistypes when transfered to punch cards. Yes, it was way simpler those days.
[22:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:40] <exec> 08└─My first programming experience was a ZX81 (but already with the big 16 KB memory expansion pack attached). It certainly was helpful that the only thing you could do with it out of the box was to program it. I started with the built-in BASIC (using the manual that came with it) and then started to l...
[22:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:42] <exec> 08└─I looked down, saw I had a penis, and decided I didn't care what the computer thought of me.
[22:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:44] <exec> 08└─The Archon, he? I see you were not in it for the programming, too much... Well, neither was I, but yes, the one thing that makes the C64 a distinct memory is how its ROM said "Hi there! How would you like to program me right now?" in a way that I did not ever see again in my personal history of comp...
[22:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah C64 for me too. Well, I read some books first actually and got curious about it. I studied a little code that way, spent a week of "computer camp" one summer -- I can't remember what system. But then the first real experience was years messing around on a Commodore.
[22:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:49] <exec> 08└─I learned BASIC on the TRS-80 Color Computer (Coco) in 1982. Mastered that dialect approximately completely at age 12, to the point that I was writing assembly routines for the Motorola 6809 to speed up the slow bits. Ran out of memory (Machine could officially hold 32K which was really 64K, about 4...
[22:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:51] <exec> 08└─I started by quizzing a 10th grade classmate, probably one of 5 kids in a school of 1000 who knew more than absolutely nothing. I'd ask him what he knew about BASIC, syntax to make it do arithmetic operations, etc. Then, I'd loiter in Radio Shacks around town and try out what he told me, extend, exp...
[22:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:53] <exec> 08└─1970's. I was into playing with 7400 series, breadboards, etc. Was planning to go into electronics. A friend introduced me to a 1970's HP programmable calculator. RPN. I was hooked. Writing programs for it. Trying to fit more elaborate programs into it limited capability. Then the high school got a...
[22:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:55] <exec> 08└─I taught myself to program in BASIC on my high school's OSI Challenger 2P, which had a 6502 processor, 4K bytes of RAM, Microsoft BASIC in an 8K ROM, and cassette tape storage. I programmed lots of games with the graphical character "font", which had airplanes going in various directions, halves of...
[22:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly 250K People's PII Compromised at Department of Homeland Security - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:06] <exec> 08└─America didn't have a Department of Homeland Security when John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln very badly. America didn't have a Department of Homeland Security when Osama bin Laden did the horrible 7-11 attacks. America didn't have a Department of Homeland Security when Little Rocket Man cyber...
[22:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:56] <exec> 08└─There have always been shitty programmers. It's just that Java is so much safer than the previous languages while still being fairly powerful that it allowed the shitty programmers to accomplish more, allowing shittier programmers to work on more important systems than before... uh, maybe I'm half-w...
[22:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:58] <exec> 08└─Nomsg
[22:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:00] <exec> 08└─I did check out the Boost library smart pointers as an example. The library is very useful, but pretty much unreadable. (Can you say templates?) There lies the story with C++. it is a powerful tool you can use it to make wonderful things, but like another powerful tool, gasoline, it can also be used...
[22:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:02] <exec> 08└─A good programmer always uses refined taste and extensive experience when writing code. SADLY, he must interface with code written by LESSER PEOPLE who will use every possible feature in the language to its ridiculous utmost.
[22:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:04] <exec> 08└─C++ won because it was the path of least resistance. It built on the massive installed base of C programmers and programs, the dominant language of the time. You could migrate your codebase from C to C++ at your own pace. It stays with us because the majority of today's high level language programme...
[22:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:05] <exec> 08└─This 100%
[22:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:07] <exec> 08└─Having done Waterfall and Scrum: Scrum seems great for web projects. Things with rapid releases and short-to-medium term goals (weeks to months). Waterfall is great for engineering projects. Things with long release cycles and long-term goals (years). It is good for tracking to a long-term financial...
[22:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:09] <exec> 08└─Assuming you have a fair idea of what you are trying to make, If you are building a building or ship, figuring out the design before building is the way to go. The parts are for the most part defined and ripping out and replacing due to a design change is expensive. But this says little about waterf...
[22:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:11] <exec> 08└─'the egg is still going to take 3 minutes to cook.' Not necessarily, if you have no sense of direction, it might take 6.
[22:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:47] <exec> 08└─You promoted equality AND avoided a sexual harassment accusation!
[22:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:48] <exec> 08└─It is amusing how you always imagine yourself as the winner of arguments, generally you get facts pointed out to you and you devolve into cliches one-liners. Hell, right now you're denying what you just did! How your brain maintains the connection between both hemispheres is a mystery, a neuro-scien...
[22:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:51] <exec> 08└─salon.com = "everything is sexist and racist"
[22:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:53] <exec> 08└─If you're constantly feeling excluded and offended, then that's your problem. In any case, even assuming such a problem exists and is significant, if this is the 'solution' (ranting about how random things aren't diverse enough, are sexist, are racist, etc.) then you've failed anyway. This is mcfemi...
[22:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:55] <exec> 08└─Oh, I thought that some kind of sex robot reference.
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:57] <exec> 08└─I thought we had the placed fumigated!
[22:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:47] <exec> 08└─Makes me think of Torvald's announcement. [thelinuxdaily.com] won't be big and professional like gnu
[22:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:52] <exec> 08└─He said values of Wyoming, Alabama, etc. "Common decency" is not to be found there in any appreciable amount. Try again.
[22:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:54] <exec> 08└─No, he means it. Anyone who actually uses the ((())) marks unironically is beyond redemption in this life.
[22:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:56] <exec> 08└─Neither. It means new age fags like soccer.
[22:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:58] <exec> 08└─It took me about 6 tries before I got a Hitler one http://generated.inspirobot.me [inspirobot.me]
[22:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:11] <exec> 08└─the patches were pretty cryptic to almost all people. AMD specified what exactly your "this" is. So it is a little bit unfair to put the blame on linux. We already knew from NT kernels that something was going on related to memory management. Of course, you could spin it to blame linux .
[22:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:39] <exec> 08└─As far as I'm concerned, farm raised fish taste like mud - especially tilapia. Ever been to a fish farm? It's not mud, exactly, that they live in, more like a broth of 60% water, 10% mud, 10% algae, and 20% fish poop.
[22:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:40] <exec> 08└─I've had various smoked venison products over the years. They've varied in quality, just as smoked beef or pork or whatever products do. Then again, I'm generally a fan of venison, and extra flavor (sometimes called "gaminess") is a matter of fashion in cuisine. A few generations ago, meat was often...
[22:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:14] <exec> 08└─They're getting that Internet under control. Closing off parts of the Internet. Just like we will. We need to, folks. Because it's radicalizing our people. We're losing a lot of people to ISIS, because of the Internet.
[22:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:08] <exec> 08└─Hmm, you seem to be correct - I had been operating under the assumption that calories/gram remained relatively constant, but it does appear that calories/neuron is the more constant guide. (still not constant, but nothing compared to the variation in neuron density between species.) That being the c...
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[23:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:36] <exec> 08└─It's so stupid how Congress has utterly given up its responsibilities by deferring everything to the executive branch, leaving the President and his minions to dictate our lives with the stroke of an individual's pen. Well, I'm glad Sessions and Trump have been dismantling those executive "laws", be...
[23:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eristone [4775] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:38] <exec> 08└─Ken White over at Popehat has a qualified opinion [popehat.com] on the subject including the potential impact short term and what to look for over the next bit to see how serious this could become.
[23:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:40] <exec> 08└─Make America Great Again! Sorry, I don't think we're allowed to make Obama president again.
[23:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:43] <exec> 08└─Gotta love those States Rights loving Republicans!
[23:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:45] <exec> 08└─It will be interesting times when we see the Sheriff's people on the left of the pot store door and the DEA JBTs on the right side. I believe small-time conflicts of this nature had happened before and, perhaps, resulted in the memo.
[23:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:47] <exec> 08└─leaving the President and his minions to dictate our lives with the stroke of an individual's pen.
[23:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:49] <exec> 08└─Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) threatened on Thursday to start holding up the confirmation process for White House Justice Department...
[23:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:52] <exec> 08└─Obama had to deal with too much shit. Can we get the Clinton years back? "Blockchain" is already the new ".com", after all.
[23:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:54] <exec> 08└─From the look of his face, he already did.
[23:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:56] <exec> 08└─I never dreamed, in my worst nightmares that I would say this, but . . . I would be GLAD to have George W Bush back at this point.
[23:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:58] <exec> 08└─Additionally, getting one more R senator pissed is all that's needed to prevent any other legislation. At 51-49, each R senator has immense leverage to get what they want.
[23:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:01] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't. Trump is an idiot, but he hasn't started 2 wars yet. He's working on the deficit and trouncing US international standing, like W. But Trump wasn't handed a US at peak power and turned it into a declining empire. A self-centered ignorant fool, not a crazy destructive maniac ... Looks good...
[23:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:03] <exec> 08└─Congress did very little on this issue before the Cole memo. They passed the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment [wikipedia.org] after the Cole Memo. Maybe there will be enough pressure for Congress to take this seriously. But the rescindment doesn't help. It just hurts businesses in the states that have leg...
[23:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:06] <exec> 08└─Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) also opposes this [twitter.com]. Both Senators represent states that have legalized. Let's see a Republican from a state that has not legalized it for recreational purposes get in on the action.
[23:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:08] <exec> 08└─Nothing different from the rest of the DEA: The Official Truth with regards to US drug policy is that marijuana is more dangerous and in more need of substance control efforts than PCP, cocaine, and carfentanil. Which is insane, because whatever the health effects and addictive potential of pot, the...
[23:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03curril [5717] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:10] <exec> 08└─Colorado senate dems sent out this tweet: We'll give Jeff Sessions our legal pot when he pries it from our warm, extremely interesting to look at hands.
[23:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:12] <exec> 08└─The feds can do plenty of damage by busting up a couple of banks, going after big legal grow-ops (which can be found in the phone book, unlike street dealers), or perhaps going after state govt. employees. And even doing nothing other than rescinding the memo is damaging. Say goodbye to the 40-acre...
[23:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:15] <exec> 08└─On what basis? Marijuana remains illegal under federal law. The whole notion that it's legal anywhere in the US is fiction. It's just like it's been for years, in some areas the laws are being enforced and in other ones it's not. Either marijuana is going to be legal or it's not. This current situat...
[23:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:17] <exec> 08└─The Official Truth with regards to US drug policy is that marijuana is more dangerous and in more need of substance control efforts than PCP, cocaine, and carfentanil.
[23:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:20] <exec> 08└─Which banks are taking money from marijuana businesses? One of the chief complaints from marijuana businesses is that they have to be cash only as most banks won't accept their money because it's illegally obtained as defined by federal law. Holding money that they know to be drug money would cause...
[23:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:22] <exec> 08└─You don't see many Evil Turtles in the wild, don't forget to tell your grandkids!
[23:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:24] <exec> 08└─It's not me, it's Jeff. I really don't care if you kids smoke your pot. I think it's a bad habit. We all have bad habits. Are we babies? We're not babies. Trust me, I have some bad habits of my own. Which, believe me, you don't want to know about. But Jeff has a thing about pot. Which I knew about w...
[23:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:27] <exec> 08└─The Cole Memo let the states bypass the do-nothing Congress. If Congress still elects to do the wrong thing, there's another avenue: the Supreme Court. The Supremacy Clause could be neatly sidestepped if a fresh set of justices found some aspect of federal enforcement, such as the Controlled Substan...
[23:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:59] <exec> 08└─I started with FORTRAN on a clone of IBM/360. JCL and all. Since then I worked with a lot of stuff. Never dealt with a pre-eaten fruit products. These days I prefer real-time MCU work (CPLD and FPGA as needed) and sometimes put together control GUIs for them in c# (wpf.)
[23:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:00] <exec> 08└─I didn't have a computer when I was a boy. All I had were library books to tell me how amazing computers are and how wonderful it would be as soon as I could touch one. I read every book I could find about the Apple IIe, ProDOS, Applesoft Basic, and 6502 assembly language. I learned to program by re...
[23:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:03] <exec> 08└─Discounting a programmable calculator (HP-48) I got started with a FORTRAN course and then another one about "numerical methods" while studying physics. Spend a lot of time (sometimes whole nights in the department), playing around with all kinds of things. Found several security issued (which was r...
[23:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:05] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, I spent many hours typing code into my Color Computer 1 from magazines. It was an exercise in debugging, most of the time. Either I'd made typos or the code itself had errors. You'd find out in the next issue or so of the magazine, if you couldn't figure it out, lol. But real programming was...
[23:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:07] <exec> 08└─I remember my main motivation for learning to read was so that I could learn more about my family's Commodore 64 and how to program it. I'm a professional programmer / IT guy now.
[23:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:09] <exec> 08└─. . . and i'm not dating myself with this post. Because it's more fun to date other people.
[23:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:11] <exec> 08└─It's not to late to learn to program. But STAY AWAY from Perl! Even modern mental health care has difficulty helping people to achieve complete recovery from having programmed in Perl.
[23:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:14] <exec> 08└─My last year in Junior High I was the first recipient of the school's "Outstanding Computer Technician" award. :)
[23:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:16] <exec> 08└─Too late, I already learned Perl. And PHP, Python, and Ruby. They all suck.
[23:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:18] <exec> 08└─Heh, my dad got right pissed when I recorded a program over his CCR tape.
[23:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:51] <exec> 08└─I was just over a quarter of that before I saw my first video game. Pong
[23:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:52] <exec> 08└─My experience parallels yours, I played my Dad too at the supper club. It really was an experience where I thought the world changed a little. And I remember multiple plays for a quarter in pinball, too. My Dad had a job (long before I was born) rewiring pinball machines, and remembered the days whe...
[23:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:28] <exec> 08└─Ouroboros.
[23:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:29] <exec> 08└─He did have an impact. That he did.
[23:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 2017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:36] <exec> 08└─My opinion: The problem is thinking that there's any kind of consistent project management ideology or system that works for all situations. It's another manifestation of the first myth of management, namely that managers can really control what actually happens in a business. Agile ideas are good f...
[23:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─As the final delivered products of my work, you want working code and unit tests. Don't micromanage my work process by mandating TDD which is *in my opinion* a piecemeal, hacky way to incorporate new code functionality. If it works for you, great! If I prefer to design my code ahead of time as more...
[23:22:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:49] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin in gender biased, next up, bitcoin is racist. I volunteer right here, right now, for a manned exploration of mars. Send me! Get me off this crazy planet, I can't take it anymore!
[23:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:21] <exec> 08└─I reserve the one-liners for when people say blatantly moronic things that aren't worth arguing with.
[23:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 1511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:12] <exec> 08└─HDMI, USB, PCI (the interface, not the credit card thing), and even purely physical standards like VESA wall mounts for TVs. Anyone can use these standards, but you have to pay them and sign NDAs, so it's definitely not free. They're not? I was pretty sure that USB and PCI are free to implement; in...
[23:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:13] <exec> 08└─I think you're mischaracterizing things here. I'll take your word on Beaglebone vs. RasPi as I'm not that familiar with either, but I don't see how there's any "bait and switch" here, though there certainly is a desire to do "vendor lock-in". There's pretty much no such thing as an open CPU, unless...
[23:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% [Update: 2] - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry, you are wrong, 4.12 has AMDGPU driver, enough to use a RX580 fully accelerated 2D and OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa 17.3. Looking at old kernel configs, 4.4 mentions AMDGPU, so that version or even older; 4.14 probably adds more features (and so will 4.15, 4.16, etc). Maybe it adds the Vega family (th...
[23:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:35] <exec> 08└─From Tom Fitton at Judicial Watch: Important speech on the illegal immigration crisis and the related dire threat to free and fair elections. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Judicial Watch doesn't need a presidential commission to clean up our elections--we're in court now!...
[23:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:36] <exec> 08└─So, the voters rolls are "dirty", therefore non-partisan research groups have been able to use the election data to positively verify that people have voted who were not eligible, or people have voted in multiple places, right? Right? [Judicial Watch] Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections
[23:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:39] <exec> 08└─Fundamental to the issue is the fact that it is hidden. We can statistically show that something is amiss. (for example, California counties with more votes than voters) If we reliably collected the data to prove specifics, then the fraud would be deterred. In any case, the mere suspicion of fraud i...
[23:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:46] <exec> 08└─No, Facebook has 42.3 million users in Indonesia. And 71.6 million of them are in the 18 to 34 demo.
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