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[00:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Spots A Stunning Spiral: NGC2985 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:09] <exec> 08└─Nice to see the Hubble still blowing us away after all these years. That galaxy... is it even proper to say it has arms? It's more like a sunflower made from clumps of stars.
[00:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Spots A Stunning Spiral: NGC2985 - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:11] <exec> 08└─Less political spin in the Fine Summery! until these majestic structures disappear into the emptiness of intergalactic space, bringing a beautiful end to their starry splendor.
[00:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:23] <exec> 08└─Specially not when Hillary and Petraeus walk free.
[00:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:25] <exec> 08└─Deserves more? The guy took a deal that will probably let him still touch his children again before he dies. Obviously sentencing is not proportional to acts committed. Sentencing, even prosecution, depends on your class. Really big fish like Hillary are immune. High level government employees like...
[00:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:27] <exec> 08└─He might be charged with more serious crimes later so the deal is really not good at all.
[00:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 1515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:39] <exec> 08└─To the tune of "Home on the range." ****************************************************************************** Oh, give me a locus where the gravitons focus Where the three-body problem is solved, Where the microwaves play down at three degrees K, And the cold...
[00:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─Multiplayer gaming is similarly functional, for turn-based games.
[00:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:57] <exec> 08└─Consider the line: This action is a huge red flag for all companies. It signifies that GDPR is far more broad reaching than most firms had anticipated.
[00:23:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:30] <exec> 08└─Well put. I think there is a difference between being a toxic employee (which can come in any flavor, not just "white men"), and not being a social butterfly.
[00:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:29] <exec> 08└─Thank you. To add two points: 1. If your genius engineer makes something only they can understand, maintain, and fix, then they're actually not a genius. It takes more intelligence and more skill to build something that less intelligent people can understand and safely modify. 2. People skills are n...
[00:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:30] <exec> 08└─You mean a racist?
[00:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:32] <exec> 08└─the firm will follow the law first and foremost.
[00:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:34] <exec> 08└─I do not like getting calls in the middle of the night.
[00:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:36] <exec> 08└─Why would anybody do that? That's extra work in order to make yourself expendable. It's one thing to not keep relevant details secret and quite another to spend work time making sure you're expendable.
[00:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:39] <exec> 08└─we should be hitting based on skills as a qualification
[00:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:41] <exec> 08└─THAT!!!!! And, I think you can go a step further, and use it to define the difference between "personnel manager" and "human relations". A personnel manager knows that Bob is a genuine dickhead, but valuable, and that Tina is a real bitch, but just as valuable. The personnel manager keeps Bob and Ti...
[00:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:43] <exec> 08└─I've seen it first-hand. We had a guy who threatened somebody.
[00:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:39] <exec> 08└─The reason you used 737 example was because you wanted to scary people who are not her kids. The bottom line, it is not your lawn; newer was, never will be.
[00:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:02] <exec> 08└─Amazon can't do that because they are held liable to consumer protection laws.
[00:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access to more than 150 Million People's Faces and Names - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:49] <exec> 08└─Almost no one I know voted FOR Trump. They were trying to vote against Hillary!
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[01:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Spots A Stunning Spiral: NGC2985 - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:18] <exec> 08└─Too bad we don't see a LUVOIR-class telescope going up every year. It's time to make Hubble obsolete*. WFIRST [wikipedia.org] is on shaky ground: The Wide-Field Instrument is a 288-megapixel multi-band near-infrared camera, providing a sharpness of images comparable to that achieved by the Hubble Sp...
[01:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:46] <exec> 08└─Along with SpaceX, theres one other company that, together with SpaceX, could put this lunar orbiting space station up TODAY (or at least tommorrow).. That second company is located right here in Las Vegas, and is known as Bigelow Aerospace. They made the BEAM module that is currently on the ISS and...
[01:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:48] <exec> 08└─I know all about it [wikipedia.org]. It would be nice to finally see B330 in orbit. Unfortunately, ISS is a dead end if countries decide to abandon it from 2024-2028. Maybe China will buy one for their upcoming station. Also, don't forget about BA 2100 [wikipedia.org]. A single module would be doubl...
[01:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:50] <exec> 08└─That would certainly be a coup for them wouldn't it? And probably one of the cheaper places to start, while being an excellent test bed for a very promising technology. Might be a little scary as an inhabitant, but the early ISS can't have been much better. I wonder how it would affect their plans t...
[01:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:52] <exec> 08└─The most expensive, least useful thing that could possibly work. It doesn't have to actually work, of course, and I'm sure it won't, but it has to be plausible enough to accomplish its real goal, which is transferring money to politically connected companies located in just the right congressional d...
[01:24:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:24] <exec> 08└─Regarding the other aspects of your reasoning, I think you do not quite grasp the difficulty of finding very niche and specialized developer persons.
[01:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:46] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but asians==whites in grievance culture.
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[02:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:33] <exec> 08└─Uncle Sam doesn't like to get crossed. People fucking with the government never get off easy.
[02:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:47] <exec> 08└─>which can come in any flavor, not just "white men" You missed the point. This is about getting rid of white men. The "getting rid of jerks" is just the veneer. Every social massacre has a civer; no one is actually going to support a movement specifically for killing/ousting a bunch of people. Even...
[02:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:44] <exec> 08└─No, the reason I used the 737 example was it was rather clear cut that there was someone who had an ethical obligation to take care of someone else (a pilot and passengers), which limits what freedoms the pilot can do. We don't even have to go into whether you should have an ethical or moral obligat...
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[02:25:46] <exec> 08└─The FDA? [fda.gov]
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[03:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:10] <exec> 08└─Hamilton effectively invented the term "software engineer" Says some PR wag at Google.
[03:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:11] <exec> 08└─And this is why we lurve us some martyb/Bytram. He is the random button pushing little girl of the team. *grin*
[03:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:14] <exec> 08└─It was all men, men who weren't even born out of a woman!
[03:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Spots A Stunning Spiral: NGC2985 - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:25] <exec> 08└─No matter how you hard you may try, you cannot politicize the movements of the heavenly bodies over millions of years. Politics stop working once you hit geological scales of time. In other words, by the time that galaxy dissipates, there could've been tens of thousand of civilizations born, living,...
[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Spots A Stunning Spiral: NGC2985 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─I love images like this :)
[03:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:43] <exec> 08└─You forgot Trump and his kids.
[03:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:42] <exec> 08└─"uppercase 2, capital 3, lowercase 4"
[03:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:43] <exec> 08└─Amen to that...I'd mod your post if it wasn't already +5. The strange thing to me is the notion that case insensitive file systems are some how more simple. I'd bed the original decisions to make Unix file systems case sensitive...like most decisions made in Unix...was because it is the more simple...
[03:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:45] <exec> 08└─Not in ASCII (or Unicode).
[03:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:47] <exec> 08└─If only I could figure out how to properly quote 💩 when passing it into iname...
[03:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:04] <exec> 08└─The clue to the puzzle is: "white men". Now, why is that brought up at all? This is talking about jerks right? And jerks come in all sexes and colors. The fact that something entirely unrelated was mentioned suggests that the real motive is not getting rid of jerks. What the real motive may be is le...
[03:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:06] <exec> 08└─ROTFL! They do?! Hah. That's a person's name, too. I'd try to find and hire a Jira just to yell at them.
[03:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:05] <exec> 08└─What would their qualifications be? I seem to recall they're partly responsible for really expensive medicines like those epi-pens. That's not much of a qualification.
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[04:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:19] <exec> 08└─LOL. You doubt that somebody involved in engineering software for NASA, you know, going by checklists, was a software engineer? Granted, it's Wikipedia, but she was in the right place, at the right time, with the right credentials, and worked on the right projects, to be involved with it. Early soft...
[04:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:20] <exec> 08└─Not sure how you were able to type such a coherent comment with all those dorito crumbs on your hands.
[04:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:48] <exec> 08└─Sure, more simple from a *programming* perspective. That would be fine if only computers used computers, but they don't.
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[04:23:50] <exec> 08└─Oh, forgot to add, those arbitrary spaces placed in Windows 95/NT 4 path names helped bang in to applications that they HAD to support spaces in file names. Back then there were a LOT of freshly ported 3.1/NT 3.51, poorly written, 32-bit applications that would die if you tried to open/save a file o...
[04:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:52] <exec> 08└─Fuck you. I want my filesystem to know the difference between differently cased characters.
[04:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:11] <exec> 08└─Then there would be very few men getting jobs.
[04:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:12] <exec> 08└─He seems uncomfortable his company inviting more women than men for some reason.
[04:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:14] <exec> 08└─Food prices measured in the typical hours of labor required to buy food have declined dramatically over the long term.
[04:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 3315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:17] <exec> 08└─He thought he was putting himself in the center of a multimillion dollar project that was going to be installed in millions of places. I and the other senior guys would tell him all the time how he is screwing up the project and exactly how to fix the project. He would not listen at all. I and the o...
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[04:26:39] <exec> 08└─if they want to become a million dollar company
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[05:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:22] <exec> 08└─The claim wasn't that she was a "software engineer" but that she invented the term. Quite a different thing. If she did invent the term I want to give her a sarcastic award in return. It's newspeak nonsense, engineers are professionals with a solid background in applied physics and risk analysis, st...
[05:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:24] <exec> 08└─Do we really need this feminist framing? Developing software for NASA isn't interesting enough? I don't see stories about how he created software with his masculine hands, while changing tires and grilling hamburgers. That kind of bs makes the story worse.
[05:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:51] <exec> 08└─That may make you feel better saying that, but Trump as president can personally declassify anything. He has that power because we the people by the millions voted to take a risk with him. Hillary, Petraeus and this sap did not face that kind of scrutiny.
[05:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:53] <exec> 08└─He should've stored it on a locally administered e-mail server instead.
[05:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 2773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:11] <exec> 08└─I agree, I'd much rather see us build directly on the moon. But I've been thinking: if the Starship can deliver it will potentially be able to land and instantly become an ISS-sized lunar outpost all by itself. Think of it - fly your whole space station to the moon, land and research an area for day...
[05:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:20] <exec> 08└─It's brought up because this is an obvious attempt to arbitrarily discriminate by someone who is neither white nor male, and who uses faddish touchy-feely language. What makes it even more obvious is that this crap constitutes two thirds of the performance review. The criteria are non-objective and...
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[05:25:22] <exec> 08└─So true. They keep adding more of those collapsing things on the left, and hiding saved searches that used to be easy to find. A brilliant jerk might have convinced them it was a bad idea.
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[05:25:24] <exec> 08└─Ah well, once you're hired its water under the bridge. The present and future are the only things that matter.
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[06:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Land Management Key to Reducing Amazon Wildfires, Study Shows - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:08] <exec> 08└─If you/we care so much for the rain forest in 3rd world country, maybe we should pay for them to preserve it instead of preaching buncha nonsense. Those folks are trying to make a living, for fuck's sake. Word is cheap. Money talks.
[06:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:28] <exec> 08└─Can I have a double minus misogynist mod for this pathetic bastard? May his seed never fall upon fertile ground.
[06:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Spots A Stunning Spiral: NGC2985 - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:40] <exec> 08└─Kinda my point. Put this particular one on my observation list. Wasn't that the line from Firefly? You cannot take the sky from me. Close to Bode's Galaxy.
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[06:22:59] <exec> 08└─What he did was safer: he didn't put his stash online. No, his fatal flaw is that he isn't the wife of a former president, bringing tons of global cash to the democrat party.
[06:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:30] <exec> 08└─... A brilliant jerk might have convinced them it was a bad idea.
[06:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:51] <exec> 08└─OK, they'll have a full orbital constellation plus a few spares. What about some ground spares? Honestly, you'd hope for what they spent on all those satellites they could have sprung to have a second atomic clock standing by on the ground.
[06:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 1299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:52] <exec> 08└─"I can't think of a Swedish example. Perhaps they have worked out how to project manage large projects?" Or maybe they just budget accurately. (Honestly, I don't know if it's better management or budgeting....) It seems to me some projects run more and more over budget due to, well fill in the blank...
[06:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Years Later, Still no Windows Server on ARM in Microsoft Azure - 2240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:41] <exec> 08└─I would guess the big problem is emulation; I had a VERY nice ARM notebook running for a while, a Chromebook with NVidia K1 one it. This is a 32-bit quad-core ARM with a NVidia chip roughly equivalent to a GTX650, all using about 5 watts of power. Incredible battery life. Following some online instr...
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[07:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Land Management Key to Reducing Amazon Wildfires, Study Shows - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:11] <exec> 08└─Plus you need constant wildfires to avoid huge wilefires.
[07:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:34] <exec> 08└─My Aunt Jessica, of Alaska, would skin your ass and sell your fleece down river without question. Her "feminine hands" really knew how to flay a incel. Oh, sorry, did I just accidentally cut off your penis? My bad.
[07:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:36] <exec> 08└─I cannot see, even as the original submitter, how the alternate submissions relate to this particular submission. It is meant to draw incel programmers to the fore, so we can mock them. As it has even drawn the Mighty TMB! (Redunancy Warning! ! Landing Abort, Cancel, or Retry?) But a nice Fine Arti...
[07:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:38] <exec> 08└─And, I can only infer that some nasty ass-whooping took place behind the Soylent scenes. At least we are all still in favor of free speech, and granting the same to aristarchus, who is the primary free-speech warrior of SoylentNews! Raise his Banner in Honor! All hail aristarchus! Peaches be upon hi...
[07:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:40] <exec> 08└─As the father of a young daughter, I can say without a doubt there is no better way to test random combinations of input than to put your young daughter in front of the device and let her poke at the buttons. This has led to a number of discoveries and innovations including the now ubiquitous Molly...
[07:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hubble Spots A Stunning Spiral: NGC2985 - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:52] <exec> 08└─Those of us in the amateur observational astronomy community refer to things like this (galaxies) as "faint fuzzies". We can see them, but nothing like the definition Hubble provides. But still, when I look at a galaxy through my 203mm Newtonian reflector, I am having photons from that object impact...
[07:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:30] <exec> 08└─I agree, but it looks like full steam ahead for LOP-G. Including using Falcon Heavy to launch individual segments instead of SLS, making the thing more viable and on-schedule. If Starship will be proven by 2021, it will already be too late. Although Starship could deliver astronauts to the surface,...
[07:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:44] <exec> 08└─My wife has made similar comments. She's one of the smartest people I know, and damned good both in IT and in other fields. The very idea that she might have been selected for something because of her gender - she finds that offensive. So I get where you're coming from. This is where well-meaning pe...
[07:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:44] <exec> 08└─>I have great discomfort when people use their own offspring as the subject of their scientific experiments. We are all Mother Nature's science experiment. Like mother, like child.
[07:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:08] <exec> 08└─>the only thing better is raw resolution Nope, what's better is the software. I can point and click with shaky hands my smartphone and get vibrant, clear photos that, even ignoring the resolution, would have taken years of experience, expensive equipment, and careful execution during the shot in the...
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[08:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Land Management Key to Reducing Amazon Wildfires, Study Shows - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:14] <exec> 08└─Will sustainable land management stamp out Amazon Prime Day? Or can we use GDPR for that?
[08:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:41] <exec> 08└─Waste of a curse. GP sounds like a soy boy incel to me. Probably likes to wear dresses too.
[08:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:42] <exec> 08└─You say "SJW". I can only surmise that you are the soyboy in question. Do you like Gladiator movies? Did you enjoy "Mad Max: Fury Road"? Oh, you did? Well, not much hope for you then, outside of the metallic spray paint shops, is there? No, not gunna "witness" you. Just die already, and leave the...
[08:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:44] <exec> 08└─women make the best programmers
[08:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 2964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:24] <exec> 08└─UNIX/Linux/BSD had a very different linage than Windows. Windows had to work with DOS/CMS style disks. Not 'oh it would be ok if', *had to* as in hard requirement. To be used by people spending money and wanted the software they already paid for to continue to work. Backwards compatibility was a hug...
[08:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:25] <exec> 08└─In some cases if you are doing multi part videos you can get it before. So you mark it like that. Do the upload slow enough that you are encoding the new video with the id in it.
[08:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:54] <exec> 08└─Saying that technical performance does not matter in a company is so hypocritical
[08:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:55] <exec> 08└─There is more to performance than technical skills. I've worked with people who were pretty mediocre on a technical level who had such a positive influence on the mood of the team that the other team members (including me) were considerably more productive as a result. People like that are the exact...
[08:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:58] <exec> 08└─Is this like that guy from Warwick, who put a USB port into his arm, connected, basicly, to nothing, and claimed to be a "cyborg"? I hear he wandered about campus, saying, "Exterminate! Exterminate!", until students and faculty realized he could not climb stairs, and so they all retreated to upper s...
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[09:22:07] <exec> 08└─Example: bar Syntax: e.g. here [wikipedia.org]
[09:24:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:52] <exec> 08└─There is a book called The No Asshole Rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule) which, among other things, argues that asshole employees end up costing the company money even if they are very productive: they individualy can make the company earn money directly, but this is usually no...
[09:25:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 1046 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:32] <exec> 08└─Thank you. To add two points: 1. If your genius engineer makes something only they can understand, maintain, and fix, then they're actually not a genius. It takes more intelligence and more skill to build something that less intelligent people can understand and safely modify. 2. People skills are n...
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[10:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:20] <exec> 08└─hmmm ... how can you steal something that inheriently has no original and can fundamentally only exist as a copy? anything electronic and binary has no original ... it's the way a computer works; it makes copies. my grip is thus with the word "stole". it implies that something went missing. which, i...
[10:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:57] <exec> 08└─Big companies like BA and Marriott are not running their systems on a copy of MYOB. They will have service contracts and extended dealings with vendors. EULA's, even if you concede that they are contracts (which I don't), will not be relevant.
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[11:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:09] <exec> 08└─Is anyone really surprised by this behavior? I mean, sure the situation sucks but what Microsoft has done with Windows feels much worse, though similar. You think Dropbox owns your PC? Maybe after they wrestle it away from MS first.
[11:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:55] <exec> 08└─It wasn't my bias that got you in trouble this last time, it was your end key or mouse wheel and your lack of paying attention. And martyb may be old but he's not old enough to be my ancestor in anything.
[11:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:56] <exec> 08└─Shadow banning means you don't know you're banned from doing something. It has nothing to do with publicizing every ban. He's welcome to tell you about it but unless it becomes relevant to something, us staffers aren't going to start publicly rubbing people who get mod banned's noses in it as well.
[11:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:58] <exec> 08└─I love you too, TMB! We have some of the same relatives.
[11:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:00] <exec> 08└─That was automated long long ago because is not even close to be good enough. See chargen [wikipedia.org] and Monte_Carlo_method [wikipedia.org] for exhaustive testing methods.
[11:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:03] <exec> 08└─Good news ari [babylonbee.com] - get your own damn fries!
[11:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:15] <exec> 08└─Include the session id as a parameter in all links.
[11:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:16] <exec> 08└─With session cookies only, there would be no way for a two-factor authentication provider to mark your computer's browser as "trusted." This means you would have to reauthenticate using the second factor on every site you visit every time you open your browser. For sites that use SMS 2FA and for use...
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[12:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:08] <exec> 08└─It has been "the way things are" for a while now. No longer is a piece of software or service ever complete. It must be updated! There must be new versions with a "new user experience!" The saddest part is that users seem to be utterly clueless about it because they're just so used to it. I've seen...
[12:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:09] <exec> 08└─Just need to throw out a new point release every few months and just say "Minor bug fixes" or "Small performance improvement" but not actually change anything.
[12:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:11] <exec> 08└─Booting up my computer this morning, I noticed the the first ad on my starting screen. Yesterday it was, "this place is an hours drive from somewhere with lots of gambling". Today it was: "look for so-and-so's travel something for lists of places to travel to"
[12:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:01] <exec> 08└─Genghis Khan don't count, he's damn near everyone's relative.
[12:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Spots A Stunning Spiral: NGC2985 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:15] <exec> 08└─Then you will probably also like APOD [nasa.gov].
[12:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:14] <exec> 08└─The author claims that humanity values difference. I'd say that is delusion right there. Yes, everyone wants to feel like they are better than everyone else, but when it comes to difference, we all shun it the best way we can. Different is dangerous. Different is unpredictable. That is why humans fo...
[12:28:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] 02 - 06Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access to more than 150 Million People's Faces and Names - 268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:19] <exec> 08└─Every time I think to myself, "the future wasn't supposed to be like this," I read articles like this, do a facepalm, add the latest breach of privacy/trust to the neverending list and say "ah, yeah...now I remember why it is like this." "Jane, stop this crazy thing!"
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[13:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:11] <exec> 08└─Exclusive footage [youtube.com]
[13:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:13] <exec> 08└─Free Bud Light to any alien that makes it out. [genesiustimes.com]
[13:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:24] <exec> 08└─It’s all part of the business model for those who have an interest in getting you to spend more time online. Everyone in the associated industries benefits from this. End users do not unless the “upgrade” includes new and desireable features, which is rare.
[13:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:25] <exec> 08└─I don't put up with ads on my phone, I definitely wouldn't on my computer. Call them up, cuss them out.
[13:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:27] <exec> 08└─Dropbox doesn't silently anything. I can see everyone in the office that runs it because it is slamming UDP ports constantly.
[13:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Land Management Key to Reducing Amazon Wildfires, Study Shows - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:43] <exec> 08└─It's like they're pissing on their heads and not even having the decency to call it rain: Conservation units and indigenous lands may not be safe.
[13:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:19] <exec> 08└─Your definition of “engineer” is interesting, but I’m not sure I agree with it. I think it fits well with the job descriptions of the first engineers who designed and ran the steam engines used to pump water out of coal mines, but I think the accepted definition has broadened over time in some...
[13:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:02] <exec> 08└─That s easy: keep uploading until the content matches the URL
[13:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:36] <exec> 08└─Unless of course, the super humans decide to hang out with super humans of the same development level. And aren't obsessed with optimizing their gear. And that the technology development in question is actually exponential.
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[14:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:08] <exec> 08└─They come all this way and you're going to give them Bud Light? Unless you make them mow the lawn first, you're liable to get the planet blown up.
[14:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:10] <exec> 08└─Can I have my beer mixed smoothly with strawberries and raw salmon?
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Land Management Key to Reducing Amazon Wildfires, Study Shows - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:41] <exec> 08└─If you/we care so much for the rain forest in 3rd world country
[14:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─The first programmer was Ada Lovelace.
[14:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03landshark [8216] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:20] <exec> 08└─According to NASA's Space Flight Awareness awards database [nasa.gov], her name does not appear as an award recipient. I would think that she would be a candidate for a Silver Snoopy [wikipedia.org]. The Wikipedia page does state "Silver Snoopy awards are limited to no more than 1% of eligible recip...
[14:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:06] <exec> 08└─LOL. STFU you use a GUI or else you would just ls and find out what the real name is first.
[14:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:36] <exec> 08└─Look at their software products. Boring network dependent collaboration tools. They can fire all competent devs and keep churning out releases, as long as they do decent QA. They can afford aligning to the directives of their think tank masters to bring forth the brave new world society at no cost....
[14:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:38] <exec> 08└─Millenials aren't any different from boomers, or any other generation that I've met. A fair amount are as worthless as teats on a boar hog, some are psychos, some are hard workers, some are smart, some are dumber than rocks, etc ad nauseum. That was true of "The Greatest Generation" and the generati...
[14:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:40] <exec> 08└─And the rest... hold on a sec...
[14:27:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:52] <exec> 08└─How much would all this press coverage cost to purchase? A) you can't buy this level of coverage, B) to get anything near equivalent would cost 10s to 100s of times more than any loss they might have taken on this "mistake."
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[15:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:05] <exec> 08└─So it's basically useless.
[15:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:07] <exec> 08└─Bullshit is strong with you. Check the repo it is a rust implementation and use rust lib for crypto and PKI validation
[15:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─Sure, just call 866-DHS-2-ICE [ice.gov] and you'll be swimming upstream in no time.
[15:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:19] <exec> 08└─I dunno, beer might be harsh to Aliens. Bud Light is the closest intoxicant to water that you're gonna get. Ease them in.
[15:22:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 607 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:27] <exec> 08└─It has been "the way things are" for a while now. No longer is a piece of software or service ever complete. It must be updated! There must be new versions with a "new user experience!" The saddest part is that users seem to be utterly clueless about it because they're just so used to it. I've seen...
[15:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Land Management Key to Reducing Amazon Wildfires, Study Shows - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─Plus you need constant wildfires to avoid huge wilefires.
[15:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:29] <exec> 08└─Women can use some advocacy. The US has never had a female President, and they make up only about 25 % of the Senate and House. Numbers like that don't lie.
[15:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:30] <exec> 08└─"I’ve never received any kind formal ethical training in my career as a hardware type" And you're which kind of engineer exactly? "Hardware type" could refer to any of them. You should not have been certified without demonstrating good knowledge of your professional ethical obligations, and the ce...
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hubble Spots A Stunning Spiral: NGC2985 - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:45] <exec> 08└─This is neat, thanks for posting. The chances of there being no life in this galaxy are 0. Or, after remembering Strunk and White, There is life somewhere in that galaxy. Or in pirate talk, Thar beee life in yonder galaxy. I wish them well to the extent they aren't coming to kill us.
[15:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 1636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:26] <exec> 08└─> which is a plan currently involving LOP-G (for no good reason). Well, there is a good reason, you said it yourself: "*If* Starship will be proven by 2021". That's a pretty huge "if" - I believe Musk just said in an interview that he could *theoretically* land an uncrewed Starship on the moon in un...
[15:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:44] <exec> 08└─Dear DannyB, Taking measures to not get breached sounds like it will cut into my Q2 bonus. I'll pass on that. Sincerely, CEO
[15:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:20] <exec> 08└─I suppose it's a matter of preference. I'm certainly not a computer and I prefer case sensitivity in a big way, mostly because it just makes more sense to me.
[15:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:22] <exec> 08└─I expect soon that windows will have native built in ext4 mounting options and at that point the whole thing is a non issue. You will pick which way you want it.
[15:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:55] <exec> 08└─Asian women who've gotten dumped by a white boyfriend are on average the most racist people I've ever met. Often they have no self awareness they're oversharing. Nobody cares why my junior prom date and I broke up decades ago; on the other hand, she thinks every "woke" loser on the planet needs to s...
[15:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:57] <exec> 08└─Watching a company destroy itself; crazy. Pull up their stock price and market cap info and the reaction to their "woke" performance review system is their company is now believed by the market to be worth almost two billion dollars less than before the announcement. Get woke, go broke! Interesting...
[15:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:59] <exec> 08└─Look at their software products. Boring
[15:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:01] <exec> 08└─The Perado principle tends to scale to any type of distribution. Really all they are doing is changing the kinds of jerks there are in the company, not actually reducing the number of them.
[15:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 1566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:04] <exec> 08└─The other thing I've run into with brilliant jerks is that some of them are entirely ego driven. So yes, they may be very smart and have considerable technical knowledge, but their ego is always getting in the way. Someone may propose a solution, and it's the right thing to do and they know it, but...
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[16:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:10] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to see what performance one could get by hand-translating the rust code into C. If the Rust code has a speed advantage because it is more comprehensible, thereby enabling the programmer to better use his intelligence rather than coding talent, the the hand-translated c code s...
[16:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:11] <exec> 08└─Of course it's possible that the constraints on memory usage in Rust provide additional opportunities for local code optimization because less static analysis is needed to determine aliasing issues. Can LLVM make use of that?
[16:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:13] <exec> 08└─It probably won't be welcomed in Texas, or any other west/southwestern state.
[16:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:15] <exec> 08└─the past, OpenSSL has been often criticized for its large memory footprint and the large number of security bugs found in its code. Because Rustls was coded in Rust, the issues with security flaws are largely addressed by the design of the Rust language itself, which was designed from the ground-up...
[16:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:17] <exec> 08└─While I quite enjoy playing with Rust, I wouldn't use anything written in it as anything but a toy at this point. Yes, it's downright nifty what the memory and threading protections it promise but they're far from the only thing that can go horribly wrong with a crypto library. Add to that the fact...
[16:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:30] <exec> 08└─At least it isn't a Can Of Old Rubber' Snot.
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:44] <exec> 08└─The saddest part is that users seem to be utterly clueless about it because they're just so used to it. I've seen users complain that an app was "out of date" or "abandoned" because there hasn't been a new release in over a year.
[16:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 2368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:45] <exec> 08└─"Genghis Khan don't count, he's damn near everyone's relative." The odd thing is, so is virtually everyone else. He died about 1277. That's roughly 750 years ago, somewhere around 30 generations, give or take. Now there's a really interesting mathematical sort of phenomena that happens when you plot...
[16:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:46] <exec> 08└─Math and logic are fun, ain't they? Sub-saharan Africa largely gets isolated on this phenomenon though. It's not too unlikely you could have to go back before we started interbreeding with neanderthals (at least 40K years) to find a common ancestor with a random person from Hoboken, though that'll e...
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[17:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─Openssl *intentionally* slows down some operations to prevent side-channel attacks (e.g., same number of steps for success and failure). I wonder if this new rust library is doing something wrong?
[17:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:17] <exec> 08└─OpenSSL has been security audited by a recognized third party. Otherwise, rolling your own crypto is a bad idea.
[17:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:20] <exec> 08└─Safe, fast, small crypto using Rust with BoringSSL's cryptography primitives.
[17:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:22] <exec> 08└─It uses ring, which uses BoringSSL's crypto, which Google doesn't recommend for general use...
[17:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:35] <exec> 08└─1 - Model a life-size alien corpse out of latex. 2 - Attend "break in" event. Hang around at the back for a while, keeping fake alien hidden in rucksack. 3 - Make way through crowd to Area 51 fence. Discretely whip alien out, then hold it above head and run away from base shouting "I GOT ONE! I GOT...
[17:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:37] <exec> 08└─They are going to try to make them drink Bud Light?!!! Great, now they will never come out.
[17:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─Bud Light? You can put that right back in the horse you got it from!
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─Everyone should wear Trump masks.
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah Microsoft got away with upgrading thousands of people's computers without their consent. If you or I did something like that we'd risk ending up in prison. But somehow when Microsoft, Amazon etc does stuff like that it's allowed.
[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:59] <exec> 08└─"Sub-saharan Africa largely gets isolated on this phenomenon though." To a degree, but less so than you might think. There's been more or less constant gene flow via NE Africa from very ancient times. Going both ways. IIRC you only need to go back to about 10-15kbc to incorporate most of sub-saharan...
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─Let me clarify. First of all, I’m not certified. It’s never been a requirement for any of the engineering jobs I’ve held over the past 35 years in computers and telecom. For more excruciating detail on exactly what I’ve done, please have a look at my journal. Secondly, it wasn’t entirely a...
[17:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─"I think of PE type certifications as being required in fields where public safety is a dominant concern like civil engineering." Well there you go. That's exactly what I'm saying. Public safety hasn't been a great (or even tiny) concern of 'software engineering' so far as I can tell, and that's a g...
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[18:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:10] <exec> 08└─As Frances Coppola wrote in Forbes [forbes.com]: If Facebook became the standard setter for digital identities, it could gain access to all personal data. And that is what it wants. Not control of finance, control of data. And if you think your personal data would be digitally secure from harvesting...
[18:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:11] <exec> 08└─Exactly. And it's not that money laundering is the issue, it's that it has to go through the proper channels, like a political campaign, or a phony *Somebody* Foundation.
[18:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:14] <exec> 08└─And do you want to know what I have to say about this? NIGGERS.
[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:16] <exec> 08└─yawn
[18:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:18] <exec> 08└─That was one from the heart. The conversation needs to happen, Zuckerberg is like Dracula feasting on our personal data. We've awakened like Rip Van Winkle to find Zuckerberg the godfather and our clickstream Patton matched and shared with the outsiders - an apocalypse now.
[18:22:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:30] <exec> 08└─the past, OpenSSL has been often criticized for its large memory footprint and the large number of security bugs found in its code. Because Rustls was coded in Rust, the issues with security flaws are largely addressed by the design of the Rust language itself, which was designed from the ground-up...
[18:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:36] <exec> 08└─I'm sure this was written as a "Rust is GREAT!" piece, but on the face of it, I'm taking it to be more of a "OpenSSL is a steaming pile of legacy code mired in too much FUD to change it..."
[18:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:38] <exec> 08└─I've avoided Thunderbird 60.x under Gentoo because of it's rust requirement. Seeing that the entire source code for gcc-8.3 is just over 60 MB and the rust source is over 250 MB they can keep it...wreaks of the Mozilla bloat taken to the compiler level frankly.
[18:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:40] <exec> 08└─Whatever "magic" has happened in Rust could be recoded into C/C++ and happen there just as well- probably better if it's being tailored specifically to the OpenSSH application instead of broad-stroke implemented in the context of a general purpose language. Same could be said of hand-coded assembly,...
[18:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:43] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this new rust library is doing something wrong?
[18:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─At least it's not Michelob Ultra.
[18:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:02] <exec> 08└─Exactly. When I read the headline my first thought was, "Surely they know better than to attempt to entice aliens with Bud Light. I wonder what good kind of beer they will offer instead..."
[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─Build a wall around Area 51! Keep the aliens in!
[18:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─To expand on that a bit, that trend is especially wrong in the case of applications that have a very targeted purpose, and generally just don't need new features...and as to the original topic, dropbox should be exactly that. I've never had a dropbox account and never will. Let's not forget the auda...
[18:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Land Management Key to Reducing Amazon Wildfires, Study Shows - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:40] <exec> 08└─You so smart, they so dumb they must listen to you.
[18:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:17] <exec> 08└─Why would they *not* put it in? They are shipping the linux kernel in the next version https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] It is not that big of leap of logic that windows users can native mount ext4 and all of the other linux style fil...
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[19:22:14] <exec> 08└─If you weren't such a pessimist you would realize that this leads to a pot of gold at the end of Finian's Rainbow.
[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah but the northeast finished implementation 10 minutes after they had the idea.
[19:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─if it's faster because Rust has a better local code generator than gcc, the C code won't be as fast.
[19:22:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 327 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:52] <exec> 08└─1 - Model a life-size alien corpse out of latex. 2 - Attend "break in" event. Hang around at the back for a while, keeping fake alien hidden in rucksack. 3 - Make way through crowd to Area 51 fence. Discretely whip alien out, then hold it above head and run away from base shouting "I GOT ONE! I GOT...
[19:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:59] <exec> 08└─Of course some stupid moron does something they think is nice that the aliens rightly declare an act of war. If my species gets wiped out over bugs light I'll be pissed, but I will know deep inside that we deserved it.
[19:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:13] <exec> 08└─The saddest part is that users seem to be utterly clueless about it because they're just so used to it. I've seen users complain that an app was "out of date" or "abandoned" because there hasn't been a new release in over a year.
[19:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adding Polymer Stabilizes Collapsing Metal-Organic Frameworks - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:42] <exec> 08└─All that sweet, sweet surface area.
[19:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adding Polymer Stabilizes Collapsing Metal-Organic Frameworks - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:43] <exec> 08└─This science article is now a battery breakthrough article.
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[20:22:21] <exec> 08└─Talk like a pyrite. Blcocccccckchain.
[20:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:23] <exec> 08└─There are already talks going on about breaking up Facebook. If they want to pursue this currency then let them spin off an independent company registered as a banking entity and they can do it there with the proper financial oversite and regulation and with no cross talk with FB itself. To add anot...
[20:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:25] <exec> 08└─It's all good, fam. The Libra Association [libra.org] will protect the little guy. The Libra Association is an independent, not-for-profit membership organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
[20:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:27] <exec> 08└─That gag is old, man [youtube.com]...
[20:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:29] <exec> 08└─The people with all this data are basically santa clause who just want to give everyone exactly what they wanted for christmas.
[20:22:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:50] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this new rust library is doing something wrong?
[20:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:14] <exec> 08└─Seems like a good way to get them all to congregate in one place for processing?
[20:24:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:09] <exec> 08└─LOL. You doubt that somebody involved in engineering software for NASA, you know, going by checklists, was a software engineer? Granted, it's Wikipedia, but she was in the right place, at the right time, with the right credentials, and worked on the right projects, to be involved with it. Early soft...
[20:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:38] <exec> 08└─The US has never had a female President
[20:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:40] <exec> 08└─I await America's first Russian and female President.
[20:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:42] <exec> 08└─I bet my daughter can still out perform it. We call her Elly the destroyer for a reason.
[20:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:16] <exec> 08└─Same old khallow, shitty arguments instead of acknowledging someone might have a point. I feel like we just had a conversation about this
[20:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:42] <exec> 08└─Indeed a stunt is very likely. Anyway, why did people buy zoom lenses? it was prime day, buy prime lenses, duh.
[20:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:43] <exec> 08└─> Digital photography is one of those technologically imploding markets. Because smartphones, but also because 5 year old cameras take perfectly good photos, and high end stuff must be repairable, and planned obsolescence tricks are going to be harshly publicized by the guys who lost wedding or trav...
[20:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:46] <exec> 08└─> What would happen if something fed in a negative amount? You would have to ship the stuff to Amazon and get paid for it.
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[21:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:24] <exec> 08└─Switzerland... lulz. If they want to operate in the US they best register as a US Banking Organization and subject themselves to the same laws and regs any other bank does. I imagine the same should be true in the EU which Switzerland is conspicuously not a member state of. There's a reason they're...
[21:22:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 569 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:37] <exec> 08└─While I quite enjoy playing with Rust, I wouldn't use anything written in it as anything but a toy at this point. Yes, it's downright nifty what the memory and threading protections it promise but they're far from the only thing that can go horribly wrong with a crypto library. Add to that the fact...
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:48] <exec> 08└─Why are you talking about some library called Ring, when the article is about Rustls?
[21:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:50] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/ctz/rustls [github.com] Rustls is a modern TLS library written in Rust. It's pronounced 'rustles'. It uses ring for cryptography and libwebpki for certificate verification.
[21:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:52] <exec> 08└─Their main speed increase appears to be due to a memory copy that OpenSSL has, but this implementation eliminated. Except that memory copy is there to ensure that the both successful and failing operations take the same amount of time. Information leaks out, and can be used to crack the encryption a...
[21:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bud Light: Free Beer for any Alien that Escapes Area 51 - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:14] <exec> 08└─eh, this is clever. everybody knows that bud light was a classified project between the cluberment and the "food" industry. after encountering the ghould on FTL-powered missions and discovering teleportation was real, a first line of defense for the human population had to be implemented, keeping th...
[21:23:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06Dropbox Silently Installs New File Manager App on Users’ Systems [Updated] - 474 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:30] <exec> 08└─To expand on that a bit, that trend is especially wrong in the case of applications that have a very targeted purpose, and generally just don't need new features...and as to the original topic, dropbox should be exactly that. I've never had a dropbox account and never will. Let's not forget the auda...
[21:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Land Management Key to Reducing Amazon Wildfires, Study Shows - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:52] <exec> 08└─where i live, the fires are deliberately set to clear the field for a new crop. pollution is cheap. everybody makes a huge stink about it but happily buys and eats the food grown on the fire-cleared land patches ...
[21:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:43] <exec> 08└─Or am I missing something?
[21:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Stop Insect Pests in their Tracks - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:10] <exec> 08└─FYI the Italian government took funds from the ministry of the environment and directed them to the Clinton foundation. 250000$. As usual, the ally of Italians loses.
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[22:22:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 374 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:17] <exec> 08└─As Frances Coppola wrote in Forbes [forbes.com]: If Facebook became the standard setter for digital identities, it could gain access to all personal data. And that is what it wants. Not control of finance, control of data. And if you think your personal data would be digitally secure from harvesting...
[22:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:57] <exec> 08└─And you believe the programmers and laywers involved to have a different mind set to what they do in their free time?
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[23:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Tries to Bring Back Trees Razed by the Vikings - 2129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:08] <exec> 08└─Wood is one of the oldest materials in our toolbox and one we still use extensively today. It makes tools, it makes shelter, it even makes fuel. When there's only a few tens of thousands of people in a region the size of Europe, a large forest is an effectively infinite resource. When the first farm...
[23:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iceland Tries to Bring Back Trees Razed by the Vikings - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:10] <exec> 08└─The author doesn't seem to understand that Iceland used to have lush forests before it was discovered by the Vikings.
[23:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My Browser, the Spy: How Extensions Slurped Up Browsing Histories From 4M Users - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:18] <exec> 08└─What are you so upset about then? You sure you ain't a terraist or somethin'?
[23:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─Facebook started with PHP, the most disgusting language I ever had the misfortune of using. Aesthetically at least, it matches their user content. Later they built internet airplanes that never worked. 10 years after Bitcoin came out, they are trying (and failing) to jump on the crypto-currency band...
[23:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Rust-Based TLS Library Outperformed OpenSSL in Almost Every Category - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:04] <exec> 08└─What's all that talk about OpenSSH suddenly? Despite their names, Openssh and Openssl do not share common heritage.
[23:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Her Software Put Men on the Moon. Fifty Years Later, Margaret Hamilton got a Glowing Moonlit Tribute - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:56] <exec> 08└─Says the pansy with no dick.
[23:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:32] <exec> 08└─I don't think that a human who already bothered to become a super-human would stop her development at some point just to chat with loosers while there are super-super-humans around she could potentially catch up with. As per the thechnology not being inherently exponential, yes, it very well may be....
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