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[00:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:59] <exec> 08└─This post contains random bold words you are supposed to pay more attention to than other words.
[00:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the bold in the story has actual points about agencies and names worth thinking about, unlike your post which makes those boldings seem random in nature. It is lousy typography, and violates the basic rule that one should communicate boldness with words and not by tricks of typographic emph...
[00:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/11/you-need-to-make-350000-a-year-to-live-a-middle-class-lifestyle-today-heres-why.html [cnbc.com] Anybody here does it an honest way?
[00:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:04] <exec> 08└─Is the SS more interested in catching the perps, or are they more interested in finding how badly contractors are screwing up? Or, more succinctly, who is actually under investigation?
[00:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Manufacturer Most Recent Target Of Lokibot Malspam Campaign - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:13] <exec> 08└─If this had been opened in an Android phone, would the dirty work still be done? You know...different OS. Maybe not as vulnerable as a business system. I have for quite some time been opening questionable email in my phone. I have more common sense than go in a business wearing a mask, which may con...
[00:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:43] <exec> 08└─They'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony, they'd like to buy the world a Coke ...
[00:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:19] <exec> 08└─not nearly enough of the rich, powerful assholes have been put to the knife.
[00:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:21] <exec> 08└─Not like the NSA, who have a narrow goal of "finding terrorists" and no open (and potentially collaborative) experimentation outside that goal.
[00:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:13] <exec> 08└─That's because you're bad. You're bad. Cpme on. (Really, really bad.) You know you're bad. You're bad. I know it. (Really, really bad.) I know you're bad. You're bad. Come on. (Really, really bad.) And the whole world has to answer right now as I tell you once again: Gaaark's bad.
[00:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:32] <exec> 08└─Citing a partisan thinktank [wikipedia.org]? Good one...
[00:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:34] <exec> 08└─The government was going to build a gas or coal fired powerplant for my home region (North Queensland, Australia), but given fuel transport costs etc... solar + hydroelectric [youtube.com] is the more economically safe option, even in the driest and flattest continent on earth.
[00:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:36] <exec> 08└─neither is a heat pump.
[00:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:38] <exec> 08└─You don't need to. Insolation (the solar potential of a location) is pretty decent for the majority of the United States. So, most of us can generate the power we need with solar where we are. Anyone who doubts that should read up on Germany's Energiewende. I think they got something like 23% of the...
[00:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:40] <exec> 08└─I am glad you raised the geo-political impact of fossil fuels. Hardly anyone does, but it is a huge, huge reason to jump to renewables as soon as possible. Just as one thing to consider: America buys $360 billion of foreign oil every year. Imagine the boon that money would be to the American economy...
[00:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:14] <exec> 08└─I don't see a problem with that, myself. Moose is fine, if properly tenderized. Screech is an excellent, mellow rum. The effect of drinking it is not at all what the name implies. Lastly, Newfies out-nice the rest of Canada; just think about that, they're so nice that they actually make a visitor st...
[00:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:15] <exec> 08└─My grandparents lived out of town and didn't have any city water or sewer. They had a septic tank, and a well. They lived quite happily on that property for 50+ years before their deaths. Never once did they pay the city a dime in property taxes. So, I guess it must be possible for a property owner...
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[01:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:40] <exec> 08└─All that it take for a fast death is the various municipalities to release the artificial scarcity introduced by limiting the number of cabs. Competition will do the rest.
[01:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:06] <exec> 08└─The summary left out one of he more interesting lines in the original paper. We observed, for the first time, that the CMS data show a clear deviation from the linear QCD model at their highest energy point.
[01:34:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 470 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:37] <exec> 08└─Fake news is the only news we get, always has been, likely always will be. Go witness an event firsthand, then travel 1000 miles away and learn as much as you can about that event from the available media - tell me how often the story you observed is fairly, objectively, accurately, and completely c...
[01:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:20] <exec> 08└─If the Epstein crowd aren't burned at the stake, then that means somebody took over his blackmail operation. Presumably, that would be Trump. But I don't want Trump to take over the blackmail operation, I want him to publicly hang the Clintons and every other POS who diddled children at Epstein's Is...
[01:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:22] <exec> 08└─Therefore, he should not enjoy a journalist protection. He is basically the same as we here or even as chan8 folks. Only hard core fact digging journalists should be protected. The rest are regular citizens.
[01:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:24] <exec> 08└─I doubt it's Trump. Epstein's "madam" is probably Mossad and that's where the handlers are. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:35:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:58] <exec> 08└─I agree with your statement but I feel that you may have missed the point. ... fans for harassment, deportation or arrest.
[01:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:38] <exec> 08└─We currently have only ONE source of clean energy that can do that - nuclear.
[01:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:39] <exec> 08└─I would agree that solar panels *CAN* be recycled, but this doesn't mean that they ever are
[01:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:41] <exec> 08└─Spent fuel rods are kept on site in cooling ponds until the really "hot" actinides decay, after which they are safe to transfer to more permanent storage facilities. Currently a new storage facility in New Mexico is coming online that will have a capacity to store some 120,000 metric tons of waste -...
[01:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:09] <exec> 08└─TFS title should read: "Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Yakima Police Department'" How to steal an American city: Montes v. City of Yakima - https://www.aclu-wa.org [aclu-wa.org] Embezzlement & swindling at the state level: McCleary, et al. v. State of Washington - S...
[01:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:17] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Airbnb, by not paying legitimate taxes, erode the tax base.
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[02:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:00] <exec> 08└─They'll find out the admin password was still admin or they used 'this is Windows calling' service for I.T. support.
[02:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:40] <exec> 08└─Uber didn't caught or the presence is less that what they'd like.
[02:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:42] <exec> 08└─After all, it's more important to protect Uber drivers from themselves rather than having a functioning riding hailing transportation system, wouldn't you agree?
[02:34:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:42] <exec> 08└─Same thing happened to me when I started recording my friends' conversations, reading their emails, logging their movements and (allegedly) activating the camera on their phones.
[02:35:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 374 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:00] <exec> 08└─What gets me is the number of people who don't even identify with a party OR an issue. It's just "God i hate party A: i'm voting for party B!" Then it's "God party B is shit...i'm voting party A!" Back and forth. Definition of insanity. They never once think "Hey, maybe i'll vote party C and see wha...
[02:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:25] <exec> 08└─"The Swamp" as you put it is a wholly owned subsidiary of industry
[02:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:27] <exec> 08└─If the Democrats really wanted to win, they'd stop trying to sabotage Tulsi Gabbard. She appeals to a wide range of people across party lines and could thus undermine Trump's base. But the DNC won't do it -- we'll get a warmed over 90s republican like Warren or a senile old man where everyone who vo...
[02:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:29] <exec> 08└─The better way to show that you think the process is bullshit, is to vote for Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck or whatever. Can you imagine the shitstorm if 40% of the country wrote in some cartoon character? It would take a concerted effort to get people to do that but man, it would be beautiful. The "n...
[02:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:31] <exec> 08└─When industry pays for something, they own it. There is no practical difference between the industry that has purchased your government, and the government itself.
[02:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:33] <exec> 08└─Tulasi is the Manchurian Candidate of the Jagad Guru (AKA "Chris Butler") from his ashram in Lanikai. Look it up.
[02:37:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:16] <exec> 08└─There isn't a nation on earth right now that has the resources to build that many solar panels.
[02:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:50] <exec> 08└─Spent fuel rods are kept on site in cooling ponds until the really "hot" actinides decay, after which they are safe to transfer to more permanent storage facilities.
[02:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:52] <exec> 08└─Solar & wind may be cheaper by 2035, but Fusion is just (always?) 20 years away, that's 2039. Oh, wait...
[02:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Lows At Bose As Firmware Update Woes Infuriate Soundbar Bros - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:52] <exec> 08└─> No one sits in front of a pair of speakers to listen to an album or CD anymore, I beg to differ. While I use headphones most of the time, it's really special to wait until everyone else has left the house, put on an album/CD and then sit down in front of my B&W speakers, similar to these, https://...
[02:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:31] <exec> 08└─Businesses are not people (wtf was wrong with your courts and your politicians to allow this shit of "businesses are people too")?
[02:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:32] <exec> 08└─Seems a case of negotiation power. A homeowner probably can't get a contractor to do a job like that for less than $3000, but city employees can do it for less than $1000 cost to the city. But why not cut the water by just shuting and padlocking the valve at the water main? Several hundred dollars m...
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[03:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Farmer's Almanac 2020 Forecast: Big Chills and Strong Storms will Bring Heavy Rain and Sleet - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:55] <exec> 08└─Ok, the article is about the Old Farmer's Almanac. We have a competitor, the Farmers' Almanac: https://www.farmersalmanac.com [farmersalmanac.com] Just for comparison and so folks might judge for themselves which might have a better forecast based on past performance.
[03:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Farmer's Almanac 2020 Forecast: Big Chills and Strong Storms will Bring Heavy Rain and Sleet - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:56] <exec> 08└─butbut shirely global climate change is averted! there's a giant conspiracy among climate scientists not to update their graphs month-to-month! something about their lambos and porsches!
[03:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Farmer's Almanac 2020 Forecast: Big Chills and Strong Storms will Bring Heavy Rain and Sleet - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:59] <exec> 08└─Now let me get this straight. This winter is going to be cold? You're shitting me! And it's going to be winter until March when Spring finally rolls around? My god...
[03:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:41] <exec> 08└─BILLIONS of sources that just happened to be perfectly correlated with a small number of sources. You don't have a normal distribution that averages away noise. You have a noise amplifier that hides the signal. It's YOU. It's YOU, cunt.
[03:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:43] <exec> 08└─Nice insight - yes of course the social media companies just want you to get on there and FROTH. Good, bad, other - just get on there and get others on there. Sell the eyeballs.
[03:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:45] <exec> 08└─Reality TV on every channel 24/7?
[03:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:47] <exec> 08└─Like the man said, "I want him to publicly hang ... every POS who diddled children at Epstein's Island". Mossad included. This is the come to Jesus moment when right and left unleash in the same direction and the nation gets to feel what that's like again. Hopefully without starting WW3.
[03:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:49] <exec> 08└─Despite being drained, The Swamp (c) managed to fill right back up to record new levels. In fact, it didn't even dip, just went straight up. Lucky we drained it, else it would be even higher. AMIFRITE?
[03:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:51] <exec> 08└─Eyewitnesses are shitty, contradictory, and 2/3 of the time their accounts are contradictory and contradicted by physical evidence. People are just not very good at observing what's going on around them on a daily basis, and this is compounded during stressful events. It's a physiological response...
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[04:34:21] <exec> 08└─If you differentiate 42 then... it gets complicated. Don't do that.
[04:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:42] <exec> 08└─I'll be here waiting in case one shows up.
[04:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:44] <exec> 08└─Freedom? Bah.
[04:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:52] <exec> 08└─Honest reporters will own up to errors. I remember during one of my campaigns I was misquoted and it made me look like an idiot. I talked to the reporter , she looked at her notes, found I had said the exact opposite. She said she'd submit a correction, I told her not to bother, if anyone said anyt...
[04:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:54] <exec> 08└─I would suggest that there's a bigger story here - that Silicon Valley is increasingly seen as the problem, and not the solution. That people are starting to wake up to the stupidity of inviting Alexa into the bedroom to spy on their hem, and that tech is there to benefit itself at the expense of it...
[04:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:56] <exec> 08└─More like turkeys voting for thanksgiving. Same as the people who most need a union are the most anti union. I see Uriah and a lack of education cuts deep.
[04:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:58] <exec> 08└─Were you born yesterday? This represents a radical shift in the trust these companies were receiving even a year ago. As someone who has been advocating for this shift, I think it is newsworthy although the timing is arbitrary. Do you have any interest in this story not being true, perhaps? It seems...
[04:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 2975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:00] <exec> 08└─As someone who has been advocating for this and intentionally culture jamming these institutions for several years, it is nice to wake up one day and see other people are waking up. Being the person to own the first and only necessary railroad effectively gave you governmental control over a given a...
[04:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that link won't open in my browser. Probably requires javascript. The other link, the one that linked to a site saying solar panels would be valuable to recycle, didn't say that anyone was doing so.
[04:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:20] <exec> 08└─the heater was upgraded from a plain old natural gas heater to a condensing boiler, and water gets heated by that same boiler rather than an electric one
[04:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 2133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:22] <exec> 08└─The really nasty stuff only lasts about 2 or 3 years. The rest is stuff you wouldn't want to eat, but it's perfectly safe to store. A little known fact is that virtually all of the nuclear medicine supply comes from nuclear reactors. Shut them down and you will literally be killing people. The prim...
[04:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:24] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that link won't open in my browser. Probably requires javascript.
[04:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:26] <exec> 08└─The really nasty stuff only lasts about 2 or 3 years. The rest is stuff you wouldn't want to eat, but it's perfectly safe to store.
[04:40:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 1080 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:42] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Airbnb, by not paying legitimate taxes, erode the tax base. Airbnb destroys communities when it takes over entire city blocks. Temporary visitors don't buy monthly bus passes, don't do their weekly grocery orders, don't volunteer with local community groups, and they increase costs to the ta...
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[05:33:04] <exec> 08└─"British Airways (BA) should share more of its profits with its pilots." "BA has said the strike action is unjustifiable as its pay offer was fair." So, who is BA? Is it the staff and pilots who do the work and who serve you handjobs in Business. Or is it the ??? who want a bigger percentage off the...
[05:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Airways Pilots Ground Planes in Unprecedented 48-Hour Strike - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:05] <exec> 08└─A few low-cost carriers folded, so there is a glut of pilots right now, so BA is not budging.
[05:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:58] <exec> 08└─This story - every part of it - is from you. Isn't this just the same shit you're complaining about?
[05:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:50] <exec> 08└─"If the people that might be harassed, deported or detained is because they have already been found guilty in a court of law and the courts have ruled that they should face legal sanction, then it has nothing to do with your presumption of innocence." It's not about one or two people in a crowd that...
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[06:33:08] <exec> 08└─I normally toss my inventions in a tissue but whatever floats your boat.
[06:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Farmer's Almanac 2020 Forecast: Big Chills and Strong Storms will Bring Heavy Rain and Sleet - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:18] <exec> 08└─How about something a bit more scientific? [noaa.gov]. Although NOAA may not have a much better track record that far out, at least they're using models that we could presumably examine as opposed to the Almanac's proprietary methods that, AFAIK, they don't disclose. In terms of there being a snowy...
[06:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Airways Pilots Ground Planes in Unprecedented 48-Hour Strike - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:27] <exec> 08└─A few low-cost carriers folder for pulling the same shennigans.... FTFY. It's amazing how long people remember losing their 1 week vacation that they saved up for. Fuck 'em. The pilots must be cheaper.
[06:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:49] <exec> 08└─You know, instead of spending 20 minutes writing a shitpost about not understanding anything, go and spend 20 minutes understanding it. Not saying I am up with teh gluons but you can get "in the ballpark" with electrons and protons. Physics *must* be the same from every reference frame. Start here:...
[06:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:26] <exec> 08└─Until we get range voting or instant runoff or some other alternative, a vote for party C is a vote against your second choice. If you have any preference between the two front runners then in first past the post the way to get your preference honored is to vote for the one you prefer. Simple versio...
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[06:39:33] <exec> 08└─This means that you can take an arbitrary hash and compute a plaintext that when hashed produces the output you want
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[07:33:14] <exec> 08└─Do you have a statistically significant model to prove that, or is it just anecdotal?
[07:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Farmer's Almanac 2020 Forecast: Big Chills and Strong Storms will Bring Heavy Rain and Sleet - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:15] <exec> 08└─Entrails of late-born fowl, steeped in the blood of an unjustly executed man, mixed with eye of newt and toe of frog, and Trump administrations experts on Science! In response to the president’s request, Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, told Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary...
[07:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Airways Pilots Ground Planes in Unprecedented 48-Hour Strike - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:26] <exec> 08└─Airline pilots are free to strike, just like anyone else. However, there is a difference from most jobs: they severely impact tens of thousands of innocent people. In the case of an organized strike like this, I think the union (here, the British Airline Pilots Association) should be held liable for...
[07:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:17] <exec> 08└─Well, a lot of times the alternative is "let's use our development teams to build a brand new UI that everybody hates, and reduce the value of our premium service". See: Digg, Flickr, the green site, and even reddit--although they learned enough from the other examples that they haven't trashed the...
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[07:36:22] <exec> 08└─For you the Epstine scandal was a transformative event, and peering back of the veneers that hide the elite and powerful. For Mossad it was Tuesday. Their crimes are the dark-matter that keeps this galaxy together.
[07:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:16] <exec> 08└─Your argument is about the use of video as a method of replacing tickets. I agree with this point of view and I would not wish it to be implemented. But, the problem is resolved by refusing to employ the companies that use video surveillance. However, that is not what the musicians asked for: UK Mus...
[07:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:51] <exec> 08└─Then we can cut the water and have them die. It's a win-win, they will finally be in socialist utopia they so richly desire, and we will have gotten rid of all the problems they cause.
[07:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:52] <exec> 08└─But you are linking the equivelent of Pravda yourself.
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[07:39:35] <exec> 08└─That degenerated rather quickly, and in a way almost no one could have predicted.
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[08:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:59] <exec> 08└─Make sure you migrate to Python 2.7 so you can re-write everything when it goes away [soylentnews.org]. And since the Python guys seem to want to obsolete stuff all the time, you'll probably get to re-write it again in a few years too. Talk about self-serving drivel. Sigh.
[08:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:01] <exec> 08└─Just reading through it and it goes into using Anaconda and conda and then IDEs and all this other junk. When I used to write in python, it was make a text file in whatever editor and then python blah.py I guess now everyone and his dog are pythonistas, judging by all the ads on LinkedIn and online...
[08:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:03] <exec> 08└─Forgot to mention, despite my criticism above, the article is pretty good in achieving its aims.
[08:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:05] <exec> 08└─Make sure you migrate to ...
[08:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret Strength of Gnashing Teeth - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:13] <exec> 08└─Needless to say, this is very interesting information although probably quite useless for most of us. But it tells you that composite materials are far superior. But it's also funny how people view improvements as "defects". What is a permanent magnet but a large defective set of small magnets?
[08:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Farmer's Almanac 2020 Forecast: Big Chills and Strong Storms will Bring Heavy Rain and Sleet - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:32] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine is a private climatologist for one of the almanacs. He tells me that despite the handwaving they do about using moon cycles and other wives's tales, they have an extensive and sophisticated meteorology department that uses a multi-model system comprised of some of the latest researc...
[08:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Airways Pilots Ground Planes in Unprecedented 48-Hour Strike - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:43] <exec> 08└─> BALPA [..] gave the airline notice of three days of industrial action in September That's very short notice. Intentionally to stop BA from being able to mitigate the damage? > This strike will have cost the company considerably more than the investment needed to settle this dispute Nice airline yo...
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[09:33:22] <exec> 08└─It's a common mistake people make. These anecdotal tales are pure conjecture. By his own admission, 85% of all innovation at the time was unaffected. If anything it contradicts the hypothesis that proximity in the same city is a major factor. And this "careful researcher" does not appear to have spe...
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[09:33:23] <exec> 08└─(the founder of Y combinator) I don't think there was hard evidence presented, but the essay made a good case that the proximity is due to simple favorable conditions plus network effects. Similar people tend to cluster together, so you'll get lots of inventors living near each other, and it's proba...
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[09:33:38] <exec> 08└─Sir! It is rude to speak with your hand outside your cloak.
[09:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Airways Pilots Ground Planes in Unprecedented 48-Hour Strike - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:51] <exec> 08└─Ah, you're a fan of the old Taff Vale case [wikipedia.org], then?
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[10:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:30] <exec> 08└─Sure, just like stalin and mao redistributed the farmland, then hundreds of millions of people died due to famine. Correlation isn't causation, some people just couldn't get used to their new low calorie diet.
[10:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:32] <exec> 08└─and they wisely decided not to patent their rubbish
[10:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Farmer's Almanac 2020 Forecast: Big Chills and Strong Storms will Bring Heavy Rain and Sleet - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:48] <exec> 08└─He can't even forecast the weather next month, but he wants us to tell that the next winter will be colder than last summer? That doesn't make sense! Don't believe those season scientists! It's clearly all part of a big conspiracy!
[10:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:27] <exec> 08└─Just because the battery systems are "expensive" doesn't mean that fossil fuel plants are cheaper.
[10:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:29] <exec> 08└─When you run a nuclear power plant, there's generally a large exclusion zone around the plant which is not used for anything productive - it's just buffer space.
[10:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:31] <exec> 08└─So is natural gas - from its extraction to the power generation.
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[11:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:07] <exec> 08└─Apple concept phone 2021 - codename "Three Pro Phobia" [ndtvimg.com] Lotus seed pods [google.com] Common Suriname Toad [google.com]
[11:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:09] <exec> 08└─That's another factor to be included into well-designed combat robots. Thanks for the tip!
[11:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:11] <exec> 08└─an intense, irrational fear of small holes and clusters of circles and bumps
[11:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:13] <exec> 08└─an intense, irrational fear of small holes and clusters of circles and bumps, such as those in a ...
[11:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:23] <exec> 08└─Certain reductions in numpy discards singleton dimensions when they are needed further down the line. For example, batched inner products might be needed for calculating certain quantities to be matrix-multiplied further down the line, so you would use `sum' across some axis e.g. to get a column vec...
[11:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret Strength of Gnashing Teeth - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:32] <exec> 08└─Just a little like palm trees vs oaks in the wind... Hopefully they can quantify the energy storage potential in the soft deformation and start designing materials with desired characteristics for mass production. I'd very much like to have a building material that's nearly as cheap as glass, but ju...
[11:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:45] <exec> 08└─If 'drunken invention' is not a thing yet, it should be. After all, the Balmer's peak is.
[11:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Farmer's Almanac 2020 Forecast: Big Chills and Strong Storms will Bring Heavy Rain and Sleet - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:01] <exec> 08└─"it will be a cold winter with warm spells"
[11:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:26] <exec> 08└─Note the first line In order to raise a family in an expensive coastal city like San Francisco or New York
[11:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:27] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/11/you-need-to-make-350000-a-year-to-live-a-middle-class-lifestyle-today-heres-why.html [cnbc.com] [cnbc.com] Anybody here does it an honest way?
[11:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:50] <exec> 08└─one could use it for something productive as well. That they don't is a failure of that particular regulatory system.
[11:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:52] <exec> 08└─No need for huge PV plants, they can be installed decentrally just fine. All those roofs have a huge surface, many can efficiently be equipped with e.g. PV.
[11:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:54] <exec> 08└─We need to stop with the unfounded hysteria over nuclear.
[11:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:56] <exec> 08└─black heat producing panels
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[11:40:41] <exec> 08└─Could be a pump and dump scheme, yes. Usually "real results" are not announced this way. My guess is to avoid massive SEC legal impact, there is a kernel of truth where they DID bust SHA-256 down to the equivalent of SHA-255.99999 AND SIMULTANEOUSLY theres a chance there might be a pump and dump sch...
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[12:32:54] <exec> 08└─the list was meant to reflect the world view of entering first year students
[12:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:01] <exec> 08└─TPS is an issue... Not the office space report but transactions per second. The ratio of drive size to file size is gonna be the access contention ratio for RAID stuff. For "most people" with "most raid/SAN arrays" I think their TPS needs will be the limiter which prevents using 20TB drives. I'm jus...
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[12:33:03] <exec> 08└─from wikipedia "The overlapping-tracks architecture may slow down the writing process since writing to one track overwrites adjacent tracks, and requires them to be rewritten as well." strange tech :P
[12:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:24] <exec> 08└─My experience with Matlab / Octave / R is you can show a script to a non-CS person and they won't (immediately) vomit. On the other hand, show them some Python and they'll WTF and yeet you right outta their office. Its like taking a DnD spellbook into an evangelical Christian's office, its just not...
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[12:33:45] <exec> 08└─15% of inventors were smart enough to focus on making stills and stuff for the local mafia, if not using their skills to take over. Think about it... academia is overstaffed which breeds cutthroat back stabbing competitive antisocial behavior... Not as big of a jump psychologically as you'd think to...
[12:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:47] <exec> 08└─Pure conjecture.
[12:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:49] <exec> 08└─So much more "off the books" opportunity presented itself during prohibition, not surprising that inventors turned to direct remuneration activities instead of abstract legalistic patent to profit in the future work. I'm terrible with names, but I watched a documentary about an inventor who was resp...
[12:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:13] <exec> 08└─Do you think that the "entry level for a local market is set so high that only the kind of Uber/Lyft enterprises can break through it"?
[12:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:21] <exec> 08└─When industry pays for something, they own it.
[12:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:22] <exec> 08└─May as well prep for dotcom 2.0. Right about now we're in January or February 2000. Dying "anything" always goes hard left and deep censorship as the rats desert the sinking ship and whats left is holier than thou virtue signalling. The old days of this cycle where enormous profits were generated of...
[12:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:59] <exec> 08└─America buys $360 billion of foreign oil every year. Imagine the boon that money would be to the American economy if it stayed here.
[12:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:01] <exec> 08└─The problem with nuclear power is that not enough people get filthy rich from it - not as compared to the alternatives. The more people you make filthy rich, the more people will support that idea through government lobbying - period, end of story.
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[13:33:02] <exec> 08└─twenty-something sexless men has gone up from like 5% when "we" were kids to something like a third now
[13:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:03] <exec> 08└─While every once in a while there was an interesting point made, most of this was so poorly written it was hard to even read.
[13:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:05] <exec> 08└─The list has devolved over time. Now it seems to be equal parts product placement and political jabs. They sprinkle in a couple hooks to bring in the punters. Who cares if we're in the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty? Seriously, who cares? This is not the Cold War, when such matters were important and...
[13:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, what the hell is a smart pen?
[13:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:18] <exec> 08└─Never bought another Western Digital. Two of them died.
[13:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:20] <exec> 08└─You lost me at SMR, sorry. I'll take more reliable drives that can read AND write regularly.
[13:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:22] <exec> 08└─Nice anecdote. You just confirmed you don't know how the industry works.
[13:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:33] <exec> 08└─i have a mix of triskaidekaphobia and trypophobia. Got any LINKS?
[13:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:34] <exec> 08└─https://firsttoknow.com/what-is-trypophobia-hand-the-truth-revealed/ [firsttoknow.com]
[13:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:48] <exec> 08└─While Matlab has never "gone away", Mathworks do change things around and break older code by removing or changing functionality. Another annoying thing Mathworks does is take perfectly good functions out of the mainstream Matlab and move them into specialized toolboxes, clearly a money grab.
[13:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:43] <exec> 08└─It seems you're not taking what I wrote at face value. My criticism is not based on the content of the story. It's based on characterizing the story as news when it's just the citation of the opinion of one man, who happens to be the Washington Monthly Executive Editor, of the political landscape of...
[13:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:44] <exec> 08└─I once voted and turned in a blank ballot. I hadn't had time to come to a conclusion about who to vote for, so I didn't want to vote for anyone (I basically never vote for anyone that is running unopposed, don't care enough to learn and thus don't feel I should support any of them). However, I wante...
[13:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:24] <exec> 08└─The TARP stimulus Congress passed in 2009 was $700 billion and it was a one-time deal. Stopping oil buying would be half of a TARP stimulus every year. That's a shit ton of jobs and a really excellent amount of money to not give to Saudi-funded madrassas.
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[14:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:50] <exec> 08└─While it's possible that these attacks are being discussed for similar reasons to those on smart meters – to receive resources at a cheaper price – it's entirely possible that gas pumps could be compromised for more destructive purposes.
[14:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:51] <exec> 08└─... and card skimming Although in theory the payment system *should* be disconnected from whatever else is running on that pump, I think we can all anticipate what the reality of things are.
[14:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:03] <exec> 08└─people are angry because why? (...) So what do women have to do with that and "nothing to lose"?
[14:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:04] <exec> 08└─A pen that makes a digital copy of what you write. Tried many times since the late 90's/early 2000's to make them a thing but they flopped every time. Currently Livescribe is the biggest company pushing them. They are expensive and most require special paper to work properly, or a special notebook (...
[14:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:17] <exec> 08└─The overlapping-tracks architecture may slow down the writing process since writing to one track overwrites adjacent tracks, and requires them to be rewritten as well
[14:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:18] <exec> 08└─I want a 20 TB floppy, so I can carry it in my pocket. Oh, never mind . . .
[14:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:32] <exec> 08└─I mean, with Potholes, shower drains, sinks, cell phones, computer ports, docking stations, mines... - pretty much everything in life involves a hole or a port of some kind... and the camera lenses aren't holes at all - they're completely covered with a mini camera inside. Why is this even making th...
[14:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:34] <exec> 08└─Although flippant, I do in fact understand that those who have this understand that it is an irrational fear. I guess I just don't understand why it took a 3-camera iPhone for this type of phobia to trigger this news story. Where was everyone when this popped up? https://mashable.com
[14:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:36] <exec> 08└─They learnt everything they know from the razor blade sales dep.
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:50] <exec> 08└─Realmen(tm) use Fortran.
[14:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:51] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has your back. Enter HPC Services for Excel: https://docs.microsoft.com [microsoft.com]
[14:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:16] <exec> 08└─The USPTO submission requirements state that this must be filed as an appendix and stapled to the patent application.
[14:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:17] <exec> 08└─I wonder if them intarweb tubes can cause proximity to become non localized in a way similar to how a pair of entangled photons can be separated and have non local effects.
[14:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Farmer's Almanac 2020 Forecast: Big Chills and Strong Storms will Bring Heavy Rain and Sleet - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:35] <exec> 08└─Wilbur reminds me of Mr. Ed's other end.
[14:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:01] <exec> 08└─When I bowled words, I try to get a perfect strike.
[14:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:03] <exec> 08└─They are interested in whether foreign enemy spies penetrated systems. If so, then how. And can they use that "how" to do the same to our allies?
[14:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:46] <exec> 08└─Uber's business model is not sustainable, never was (unless you have an unlimited supply of people desperate enough to slave in a gig economy).
[14:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:39] <exec> 08└─Just block the finger port.
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[15:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:01] <exec> 08└─So many attacks. So many systems hacked. Databases stolen. Cities, and other entities having ransom ware attacks. I seem to be reading an awful lot of stories like this lately. At what point to we begin to wonder if this is a more coordinated effort?
[15:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:02] <exec> 08└─You're giving "them" to much credit. There's nothing coordinated about it. It's just a matter of amateurs being allowed to write programs (I'm not even calling it software) which makes the number of potential targets (crappy systems) that much higher. It's just that there's that much more crappy stu...
[15:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:04] <exec> 08└─Having seen and interviewed at one of the bigger ones. They made them *very* complex. Complex enough I turned the job down. "So how are your VB6 skills?" .... in 2017. I assume it has an attack surface the size of Alaska.
[15:33:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:12] <exec> 08└─the list was meant to reflect the world view of entering first year students
[15:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:20] <exec> 08└─What is a smart pen? A pen that makes a digital copy of what you write.
[15:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:23] <exec> 08└─Is making a point, oh, look, a shiny outside the window, I wonder if it has rainbow colors and weighs as much as a gallon of grade A eggs.
[15:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:25] <exec> 08└─So then the problem with a smart pen is that you need a special surface to go with it. Given that I already have extremely cheap, reliable, and readily available pens and non-special surfaces (generally called paper) that I can carry around with me, along with a smartphone, I would argue that the di...
[15:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:27] <exec> 08└─For laughs, tell a modern kid that we used to watch hours of TV when we were their age, and they'll be like "WTF, why?"
[15:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:41] <exec> 08└─Just so long as you're happy to see me!
[15:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-microSD-UHS-I-Adapter/dp/B07PBY4VD5 [amazon.com] You can fit at least 100 of these in your pocket. Just don't bend it too much.
[15:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:44] <exec> 08└─You seem to be missing the primary intended applications for this drive. It offers sufficient capacity to have usable space left after installing Windows. It offers capacity to keep redundant copies of files on the same drive. That way if you suffer a drive failure, you're protected. If you really m...
[15:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:47] <exec> 08└─With an Append-Only filesystem. You can write new files to it. You can read the files. But that's it. Intended as a special purpose drive for making backups. In the case of SSD, maybe the append-only filesystem is implemented into the drive controller and accessible via some new type of API.
[15:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:49] <exec> 08└─Those drive are for service in need of almost cold storage, in those applications capacity and durability matters not TPS. Right in the summary it says that is designed primarily for write once read many (WORM) applications
[15:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:51] <exec> 08└─When discussing either a big hard di_k or a floppy di_k, don't use a typewriter with one broken letter. It would not be possible to infer which letter was intended until the discussion shifts to the subject of a micro _D _ard.
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:07] <exec> 08└─Remember when the news focused on . . . news? Yeah, me neither.
[15:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:23] <exec> 08└─You can still use notepad++ / notepad, then do python blah.py to run your program, but you're missing out on some very nice things. I went hunting for a decent IDE for Python a couple years ago and settled on PyCharm. It has a dark color theme, syntax highlighting, auto-indentation, code completion...
[15:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:24] <exec> 08└─Ahh.., I forgot to mention, projects. It's easy to be working on multiple projects, with multiple versions of python, and various packages when using something like PyCharm. It just makes your life easier, so you can get to coding, instead of managing your code / project.
[15:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:27] <exec> 08└─Realmen enter in their code by front panel switches
[15:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 1838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:36] <exec> 08└─Just generally keep in mind that that's monthly expense for an entire family, not a single. $70/day food makes sense if one eats out daily and has a family. Even iHOP or Denny's can get to that level. $400/month clothes... You're living in SanFran. Expect not only higher prices for *everything*, but...
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[16:33:01] <exec> 08└─I measured 120 V at four outlets giving a total of 960 V. Last I checked 960 V > 860 V. So this is fake news.
[16:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:02] <exec> 08└─Google says 1A but it seems like a lot of current and I cannot find the primary source for that information. For comparison 75mA through the chest is enough to cause febrilations followed by cardiac arrest if no defibrillator is used in the minutes following the electrocution¹. According to the na...
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[16:33:14] <exec> 08└─Blah blah blah lower bills blah remotely change the name blah blah all turned into bitcoin miners.
[16:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:16] <exec> 08└─Seems like a reasonable target. Consider the price of gas. If you can hack the machine to give you super cheap or free gas you could just clean out or drain gas stations (possibly just get your own truck), drive away and resell that at some other place. Certainly if done at night or at gas stations...
[16:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:18] <exec> 08└─I might learn how to hack these things if it means I can turn off or at least mute GSTV. Within the last year or two every gas station in town has put in pumps with a video screen and a speaker that blares advertisements and pop culture tripe while people are pumping gas. My favorite station near my...
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:36] <exec> 08└─I'm quite sure your significant other would deem sex with a prostitute as sex and likely a very bad thing. Unless, your relationship is like Snow's Soap Opera.
[16:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:37] <exec> 08└─Assuming "like 5%" and "like a third" are based on actual surveys and not made up, why would people lie less about being incels today? Incel pride? No, there is a clear trend towards more "herbivorous" men in certain countries.
[16:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:40] <exec> 08└─Thumb, jump, and USB flash drives have always pushed floppy disks further into history.
[16:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─Many years ago I saw photoshopped pictures like these and the image has always stuck with me. [warning: gross, mildly nsfw pics] https://says.com [says.com] Would I say I have a phobia? Hell no. But I do understand...
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─I hope you covered your mouth! Seriously, though. Cover your mouth. Nothing worse, than to be walking along and some rude person sneezes in front of you, without covering their mouth. The Flu, is a thing, it even has it's own season. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:19] <exec> 08└─Mental illness is always news when it pertains to Apple drones.
[16:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:38] <exec> 08└─No, they use butterflies [xkcd.com]
[16:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:39] <exec> 08└─Emacs is the closest thing to an IDE I've used in ages. Whether we're talking Python or other languages. I understand why they use IDEs in articles like this though: A lot of programmers not only like them but also think that means their language is "modern", whatever that means.
[16:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:05] <exec> 08└─And they roll the streets up at 9pm Coincidence, or conspiracy?
[16:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Airways Pilots Ground Planes in Unprecedented 48-Hour Strike - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:36] <exec> 08└─Why the pilots and not the airline? The airline is equally responsible for the events leading up to the strike, and they're the ones with whom customers have a contract.
[16:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:48] <exec> 08└─Only turkey I saw that baked itself is you barbarahudson! You're caught quoted admitting you stalked apk https://soylentnews.org by unidentifiable anonymous and you blew it on C/C++ vs. Pascal on security and speed. You are a mental...
[16:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:50] <exec> 08└─APK made you look a bumbling idiot you are caught lying he started it when you did with you quoted proving that here in the end of it https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] and you were destroyed on technical data regarding C\C++ agai...
[16:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:52] <exec> 08└─You are an idiot. APK proved it 3 ways in you caught quoted admitting you stalked him by unidentifiable anon posts + your blunders on C\C++ vs. Pascal security\speed advantages https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] + you are a mental...
[16:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:54] <exec> 08└─There's physical evidence of you not being good at programming C or C++ as APK schooled you on Pascal's speed/security advantages a blowhard wannabe in you ae unaware of https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] & you're caught stalking...
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[17:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 2051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:02] <exec> 08└─Actually it's the energy delivered that is far more important than either voltage or current alone. Defibrillators operate at 200-360 Joules depending if the charge is delivered biphasic or monophasic, and for cardioversion as low as 50 J can convert Atrial Flutter to normal rhythm but 150 J is comm...
[17:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:03] <exec> 08└─What you really want to know is what the peak output power level is, or, alternatively to know something about the output impedance of the eel's electrical system, i.e. how the output voltage is affected by load current. Certainly 1A must represent something more like the short circuit output curren...
[17:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 2191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:05] <exec> 08└─Well that reply explanation went to crap and I AC'd it to boot. Then I submitted during editing. Let's try just laying out my points in bullet: * As little as 30mA can cause a fatal condition of respiratory arrest that doesn't recover. * Around 75 - 100 mA at 120V AC, delivered straight across the h...
[17:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:08] <exec> 08└─and more more error for the pile. Where I say "power" above, I meant "energy". Not Watts, Joules. Sheesh.
[17:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:10] <exec> 08└─Great information, thanks. The rule of thumb I always heard around lab environments was that 10 mA to 100 mA across the chest cavity was considered to be in the lethal zone for electric shocks, but it was never talked about in terms of energy or time duration, as you point out.
[17:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:25] <exec> 08└─Dispense more fuel than is being charged for (screw over the owner - because fuck that guy)
[17:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:26] <exec> 08└─People are calling their job "writing software code" when it means "writing code of conducts for software projects."
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tbuskey [6127] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─Definitely on the decline. I don't watch TV anymore (as a gen-xer) and I don't see ads. I'm amazed at how many are on TV at the grandparents. TVs are for gaming consoles or computers. Who watches shows by appointment anymore? Or does research only when the library is open; google, wikipedia and yout...
[17:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:49] <exec> 08└─Car windshields do not get covered with bug splat when driving at night World population has always been over 6 billion
[17:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:51] <exec> 08└─Not really, its a press release to get PR to appeal to parent age (grandparent age) people.
[17:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─Context for you: http://gwynnedyer.com [gwynnedyer.com] Personally, anything that reduces nuclear weapons and delivery systems is a good thing, thank you.
[17:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:33] <exec> 08└─take a gander at this beauty https://ksassets.timeincuk.net [timeincuk.net]
[17:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:34] <exec> 08└─It's advertising (or "raising public awareness" if you like) disguised as news.
[17:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:55] <exec> 08└─I've got some math for you! expensive and proprietary vs free and Free
[17:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:57] <exec> 08└─"All the time" Python 3 was introduced in 2008, so you should have at least a good solid 12 years before it goes EOL after they release Python 4 (for which there aren't yet plans). Are we going to be upset that they aren't still supporting Python 1 as well?
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:59] <exec> 08└─IF there exists an open source or SAAS implementation of a spreadsheet that also understands embedded python...
[17:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Airways Pilots Ground Planes in Unprecedented 48-Hour Strike - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:56] <exec> 08└─Don't you believe in personal freedom? Should these pilots not be free to choose not to pilot a plane? And before anyone brings up contracts, the people flying BA do not have a contract with a single one of these pilots, because BA understands that they have to be the middle man in this situation in...
[17:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:57] <exec> 08└─Management: "Hey thanks for building us our money machine. Now fuck off and die."
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[18:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:52] <exec> 08└─What is this about?
[18:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:53] <exec> 08└─They have discovered that black holes are quite puny compared to the human ego.
[18:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:56] <exec> 08└─Black holes are just dark matter spirits cursed to bound to themselves, forever. That explains them as well as thermodynamics of gravity. Those forgiven ones are slowly released back into universe as Hawking's radiation.
[18:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:58] <exec> 08└─Were always wrong about everything. We're just are slightly less wrong than yesterday.
[18:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:00] <exec> 08└─Hawking just needs: a new, bigger Hadron Collider the size of the Milky Way was needed to collect more data to prove it.
[18:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:34] <exec> 08└─If they are sanely designed (why are you laughing!!!), they would have a physical interlock to disable pumping when the hose is docked. I am not sure if i expect this in reality or not...
[18:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:36] <exec> 08└─Skim credit card transactions?
[18:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:02] <exec> 08└─I would think they mean something like an ipencil. They are rather popular to use in class.
[18:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:04] <exec> 08└─Not really, its a press release to get PR to appeal to parent age (grandparent age) people.
[18:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:06] <exec> 08└─I think that's kinda the point "Like Pearl Harbor for their grandparents, and the Kennedy assassination for their parents, 9/11 is an historical event. " They consider it a historic event, something in the past that they don't dwell on as much as their parents whereas their parents and grandparents...
[18:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:08] <exec> 08└─Car windshields do not get covered with bug splat when driving at night
[18:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:27] <exec> 08└─I remember reading about some people using LTFS [wikipedia.org] on SMR drives [snia.org]
[18:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:29] <exec> 08└─Oh those were the days, when IBM Deskstar got the nickname of "Deathstar" for a reason. However, if you look at the statistics now, HGST has had some of the best reliability statistics in the industry for quite some time. Western Digital and Toshiba is somewhere in the middle-high range. It is curre...
[18:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:51] <exec> 08└─How many holes does it take to fill an iPhone? You may find that one of them is missing.
[18:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:53] <exec> 08└─In case you want a serious answer, for many people that does have close enough "holes" or big enough ones to trigger the phobia. Plus, an iPhone release is going to get more press, as is people's negative reaction to it, compared to some Nokia phone out of sheer market percentage, raising the requis...
[18:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:55] <exec> 08└─One article I read, but can't find again, said one of the more commonly accepted hypotheses is related to bees, wasps, and other stinging insects. They commonly make hives and nests, and what do they look like? A plain background full of large, closely-packed holes, that can have different shades du...
[18:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:19] <exec> 08└─Those wanting an excellent Python replacement for Matlab need look no further - http://www.sagemath.org [sagemath.org] SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima,...
[18:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:21] <exec> 08└─They also allow single precision and complex numbers, however 1/2 the functions barf if you use those types. Any they will not fix it - just template the underlying C++ for CHRISSAKES.
[18:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret Strength of Gnashing Teeth - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:31] <exec> 08└─No. It tells you that composite materials *CAN* be superior. At least if flexibility and shock resistance is important. This is usually, but not always, true. The difference between "are superior" and "can be superior" is quite significant. Lots of composite materials are generally inferior. The one...
[18:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:37] <exec> 08└─APK made you look a bumbling idiot you are caught lying he started it when you did in you quoted proving it here @ the end https://soylentnews.org + you were destroyed on technical data regarding C\C++ against Pascal.
[18:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:39] <exec> 08└─Only turkey is you barbarahudson caught quoted admitting you stalk apk https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] by unidentifiable anonymous & you blew it on C/C++ vs. Pascal on security/speed. You are a mentalcase deluding yourself you...
[18:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:41] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot. APK proved it 3 ways: You admit you stalked him by unidentifiable anon posts quoted directly, + your blunders on C\C++ vs. Pascal security\speed advantages https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] + you're a mentalcase...
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[19:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:59] <exec> 08└─Remember black holes are mathematical constructs. We can see spots in the universe that act like these mathematical constructs. We are pretty sure what they do and how they will act on the outside. Inside however is a whole different story. We can not observe inside. We can speculate. Our math point...
[19:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:01] <exec> 08└─We need to shed some more light on black holes.
[19:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:03] <exec> 08└─Black holes are just the "edge" of the universe. The end.
[19:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 1447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:05] <exec> 08└─When you buy socks for your feet, buy a bunch of pairs that are identical. Don't just buy one of a particular style, but buy about a dozen pairs. On topic: Socks disappear into block holes. In a reverse Hawking Radiation like phenomena. Only one sock disappears behind the event horizon. The other so...
[19:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:07] <exec> 08└─The philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds
[19:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:09] <exec> 08└─Black holes have a lot of properties that are analogous to the laws of thermodynamics. It's a lot easier to study thermodynamics than black holes, so we use thermodynamics to draw conclusions about how black holes work. But there isn't really proof that black holes actually work this way. This physi...
[19:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:12] <exec> 08└─It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a hole.
[19:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:14] <exec> 08└─If we're talking about hard science we need to use the fucking hard science definition of entropy. Which isn't "disorder". It's a co-related concept to enthalpy that measures the distribution of enthalpy across possible states. The second law of thermodynamics describes the statistically true tenden...
[19:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe we'd fix our p-hacking and reproducibility problems if more scientists appreciated the philosophy of science. Because that sure seems to be a glaring weakness through the kinds of papers with those problems. No one asking "How am aligning my hypothesis testing to the ideals of the scientific m...
[19:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:52] <exec> 08└─Good point, that's probably what that flippy thing in the cradle is.
[19:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─Gawd I hate those fucking things. I want to beat whoever came up with it. Followed up by whoever wrote the code to make it happen. It is total tripe garbage. Some doucebag figured out another way to ruin our lives with more advertisements. Because we sure as fuck did not have enough of those!
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─Is that an American thing? I don't recall that being a thing over here in Euroland yet. They do have the little screen on the pumps and such but besides the usual graphics on "how to pump gas" they just display how many liters you pumped so far and how much money it cost. They have not started to ru...
[19:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:24] <exec> 08└─How many tech toys have there been that seemed cool but were completely impractical?
[19:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:26] <exec> 08└─https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/insect-apocalypse-really-upon-us/583018/ [theatlantic.com]
[19:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:12] <exec> 08└─"3000 holes in Blackberry Lancashire..."
[19:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:13] <exec> 08└─Windows's logo triggers me, I have Panephobia. I roll up into a crying fetal position. Pay up Satya, or I'll sue.
[19:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret Strength of Gnashing Teeth - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:48] <exec> 08└─This is why concrete/sidewalks have spacers or contraction joints. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (scroll down)
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[20:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:53] <exec> 08└─For archiving??? Um, none.
[20:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:54] <exec> 08└─I do not care about compression since LZ4 is now everywhere deep in the system where it belongs.
[20:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 1587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:57] <exec> 08└─In practice, error correction for compressed archives is bullshit. Most error correction assumes a single bit gets flipped, but more often archives will have gaps of 512 bytes or larger due to bad sectors reading a hard disk, mysteriously missing areas in the center due to network copy errors, trunc...
[20:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:59] <exec> 08└─I do not care about compression since LZ4 is now everywhere deep in the system where it belongs.
[20:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:01] <exec> 08└─Be sure to have inside and outside MD5 and/or SHA1 hashcode files protecting your data -- make many backups on many different types or brands of media
[20:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:03] <exec> 08└─At present, I'm getting a .zip file from our Windoze dev ops server, everything else I shuffle around in .tar.gz format because... it's easy. If you want to be "safe," make multiple copies. If you want to be "safer," keep those multiple copies separated as far as practical from one another. If you'r...
[20:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:05] <exec> 08└─At the moment I am rsync-ing to a series of removable drives that get rotated offsite, no compression. The backup has grown to about 1.2 TB or so, which I suppose is not a massive amount of data, but restores work fine when I test them, so I'm happy without compression.
[20:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:07] <exec> 08└─Error correction for archives, compressed or not, isn't bs at all. Distributed storage with erasure codes easily handles bitrot and large errors (sector rot?). This comes at a cost of complexity and increased space but does allow for self-correcting of errors.
[20:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:09] <exec> 08└─DVD Disaster [sourceforge.net], extra space but more safety.
[20:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:12] <exec> 08└─Dumbest fuck on soylent news? barbarahudson without a doubt as APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org
[20:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:14] <exec> 08└─I am of the mindset that compression should be at the filesystem level, be it LZ4 or other. I would suggest checking out the btrfs wiki page on compression for more reading: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org [kernel.org] Since we are talking archiving, apply the common 3 2 1 backup...
[20:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:16] <exec> 08└─You could use a high compression ratio scheme based on LZMA2 ( xz and 7zip use that) then you could split the resulting archive with par2, a fancier version of uuencode with builtin error resiliency based on Reed Solomon coding (t additional symbols can correct t/2 errors and detect error in t symbo...
[20:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:37] <exec> 08└─Definitely some signs that, no, we're getting more wrong than yesterday about some things. For example, I'd go as far as to conjecture that the field of economics is so far astray from anything resembling reality and so far up it's own ass, that if you used methods produced in 2019 for a problem we'...
[20:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:38] <exec> 08└─Yep, dark matter, string theory, everything based on NHST. Science is in a bad place currently.
[20:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:40] <exec> 08└─They just have to read good philosophy of science, ie Paul Meehl and Imre Lakatos.
[20:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:42] <exec> 08└─Were always wrong about everything. We're just are slightly less wrong than yesterday.
[20:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:45] <exec> 08└─In the epitome of laziness (aka efficiency) have two dishwashers. One named Clean and one named Dirty. Remove dishes from Clean, use them, then place into Dirty. When Clean is empty and Dirty is full, then run the dirty dishwasher and flip their names. You never have to unload dishes, and save cabin...
[20:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:47] <exec> 08└─The assumption that science culls bad ideas runs against the problems that bad ideas help some people stay rich.
[20:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:49] <exec> 08└─shed some more light on black holes.
[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:51] <exec> 08└─It has been established: socks disappear while hangars increase. Thus: socks are hangar larvae.
[20:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─If you want to make something happen in this world, make a large number of people rich, rich to the level that they can buy politicians, a larger number of people than the entrenched alternatives that are being harmed by the "new thing."
[20:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:55] <exec> 08└─Someone has been reading too much Godel.
[20:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:57] <exec> 08└─It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a hole.
[20:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:00] <exec> 08└─two dishwashers. One named Clean and one named Dirty. Remove dishes from Clean, use them, then place into Dirty.
[20:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:19] <exec> 08└─Really informative post, thank you
[20:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:21] <exec> 08└─No problem, happy to share what I know... And I think the reason it's usually rationalized to current is because most people think in terms of 120VAC when they think electrical shock, and because of the potential of grip reflexes and possible inability to move from the source the amount of time usua...
[20:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:44] <exec> 08└─It is an American thing. These screens are totally separate from the digital clock looking ones with the cues on how to use the pump, volume pumped, and cost. These are more like someone embedded a small tablet in the pump. The things will run weather, entertainment news and stuff like that trying t...
[20:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:45] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for a Code of Conduct which is a violation of it's own requirements. One possible mechanism is that enforcement of the CoC would be a violation of the CoC. But even better if merely identifying someone's conduct as a violation, is itself a violation. So stating "Look, Joe violated...
[20:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:47] <exec> 08└─It's not the little guy that is the problem. It's the suited whores at the big companies.
[20:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:49] <exec> 08└─it's almost like they are part of a CIA mind control program because i want to hurt the people in the videos...badly.
[20:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:20] <exec> 08└─OK, just let us know who you would like to argue this with, and we'll see if it can be arranged.
[20:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:43] <exec> 08└─That seems like it would not offer good random access read of files.
[20:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:44] <exec> 08└─LTFS has some kind of index for searching and seek the files you are looking for, a great advantage to just wind the full tape. As the application were store and rarely read, this approach has some advantage from a some very particular point of view. In hard drives should be much faster than on tape...
[20:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:37] <exec> 08└─I can write Fortran in any language!
[20:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Farmer's Almanac 2020 Forecast: Big Chills and Strong Storms will Bring Heavy Rain and Sleet - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:23] <exec> 08└─Same difference. Either way people will remember the hits and forget the misses. Such vague statements are a key to prognostication.
[20:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─it should be a crime to use closed source shitware with tax dollars. compromises of said shitware earn extra jail time.
[20:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:59] <exec> 08└─The analogy I was going for was more along the lines of a shareholder. If I buy shares in the soft drink company, I am an owner. If you look at who provides the funding for your politicians to be re-elected I think you will find that most of the money comes from industry, who become the major share...
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[21:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:50] <exec> 08└─The planet is nine times the mass of Earth
[21:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:11] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't use compression, unless absolutely necessary. Also, you want multiple backups, ideally at least one local and one off-site. I should also take my own advice. I don't care about the games, etc. I have installed. I should at least do that for my photos and maybe some documents.
[21:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:13] <exec> 08└─Bzip2, then sha1sum and par2 -r 30% or more per directory, then duplicated to at least 2 disks/discs, each media from different vendors or prouction lots. Verify sums/par2's and Re-duplicate to new media every 1-2 years. Also assume that eventually your data will be unrecoverable when you most need...
[21:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:15] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] made technical errors galore vs. him....
[21:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:17] <exec> 08└─I would suggest checking out the btrfs wiki page on compression for more reading
[21:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:19] <exec> 08└─After you run md5sum on your file to create the .md5 archive, remember to delete the now useless original file or folder.
[21:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:21] <exec> 08└─If you want to be "safer," keep those multiple copies separated as far as practical from one another.
[21:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:23] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:25] <exec> 08└─I got burned 3 times by Windows. 1- Not throwing an error prompt when copying files to a floppy drive only to find out later it was corrupt. 2&3- Windows decided there was something wrong and repaired the flashdrives which lost several backups. Use Linux.
[21:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:28] <exec> 08└─Use your choice of Al Gore rhythm. Compress. Then compress the compressed file. Repeat until it is compressed down to a single binary bit. When you need to restore, simply take that 1 or 0 and decompress it multiple times back to your original content. (With apologies to Information Theory.) I had a...
[21:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:30] <exec> 08└─/. still misses you.
[21:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:32] <exec> 08└─Your archive system should be some kind of append-only operation. Even if computers are compromised, erased, or encrypted, the malware should not be able to affect your backups.
[21:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:07] <exec> 08└─oh please, we all know schrodinger's cat is in the box.
[21:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:09] <exec> 08└─Economists just don't collect good enough data to test their theories. So they are left philosophizing.
[21:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:11] <exec> 08└─Nominally, as a philosophical point, economics should absolutely be a soft science. It should, at its core, make testable predictions that can help guide understanding reality. And it sucks shit at it.
[21:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 1348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:13] <exec> 08└─"Anything clean can be put away" means it has a place to go that isn't in a dishwasher, which according to the plan it shouldn't need. It's always in a dishwasher. And that's where it breaks down. We go through enough dishes like you that we might have to run it daily, if not twice a day. But we don...
[21:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] made technical errors galore vs. him a...
[21:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:17] <exec> 08└─Economists also cannot generally conduct live real-time experimentation unless they can persuade government officials (or others with authority) to do so, or more accurately become government or banking officials themselves. Even then, the experiments are never clean and have so many counfounders as...
[21:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:19] <exec> 08└─We can not observe inside. We can speculate.
[21:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:21] <exec> 08└─Astronomers did fine with much less information available. At least once they got the positions of all the planets sufficiently precise.
[21:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:24] <exec> 08└─But it is like looking at a totally sealed cardboard box with no writing on it and asking 'whats in the box'
[21:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:26] <exec> 08└─But the sheep will suffocate in that box!
[21:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:28] <exec> 08└─I don't know about you, but I eat vastly different types of food from the same of plates.
[21:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:30] <exec> 08└─Nominally, as a philosophical point, economics should absolutely be a soft science.
[21:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:32] <exec> 08└─Well, any theory of everything is full of holes, many of them black. I do think the storage space occupied by a 2nd dishwasher might be a good trade for the otherwise general storage space. I don't think that maintaining two functioning dishwashers sounds like a good idea.
[21:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New High-Mass Gamma-Ray Binary Discovered - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:40] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:56] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:58] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:25] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:58] <exec> 08└─You mean the Apple Pencil? I doubt it. "Smart Pen" has been it's own niche category for a while now and I've never heard anyone refer to a stylus for a tablet as one. I think the profs who put this list together have just aged out of the ability to put this list together. The gap has grown too wide...
[21:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:00] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:25] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:53] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:21] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret Strength of Gnashing Teeth - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:32] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:51] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Farmer's Almanac 2020 Forecast: Big Chills and Strong Storms will Bring Heavy Rain and Sleet - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:10] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Airways Pilots Ground Planes in Unprecedented 48-Hour Strike - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:26] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[21:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[22:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:54] <exec> 08└─Whenever they talk about water they mean hydroxyl ions. Same as what they detect in comet tails. They assume hydroxyl ions can only be formed from hydrolysis of water, this is wrong. Oxygen and Hydrogen are the first and third most common elements in the milky way and can fuse into hydroxl ions via...
[22:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:56] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[22:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:58] <exec> 08└─The equation is just: g = G*m/r^2 If you increase m by 9x you need to increase the radius by 81x, etc.
[22:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:00] <exec> 08└─Higher amounts of water could lower density, but too much and it could become an ocean world. At some point the planet could become big enough to capture too much gas and become a mini-Neptune with harsh surface conditions. The radius would increase and you can't be sure about how much of the planet...
[22:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:02] <exec> 08└─I always laugh when I hear or read that phrase. just in the last 50 years we have discovered living things in places that "life as we know it" should not have been able to exist. Deep see thermal vents, cold methane seeps, 2.8km underground (using radioactivity to survive) and myriad other places so...
[22:33:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 1587 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:12] <exec> 08└─In practice, error correction for compressed archives is bullshit. Most error correction assumes a single bit gets flipped, but more often archives will have gaps of 512 bytes or larger due to bad sectors reading a hard disk, mysteriously missing areas in the center due to network copy errors, trunc...
[22:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:34] <exec> 08└─Why bzip2 instead of LZMA2? I don't get it, if you are willing to wait after an encoder why not wait a little more to get even better compression? If you wanted speed would you be using something based on DEFLATE anyway? I get the par2 part, I posted it before you, but can you please explain your ch...
[22:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:35] <exec> 08└─I'm satisfied with two external hard drives, connected to the same machine. Sure, lightning strike, fire, etc. could take them both down at once, but... so far I have been robust against 3 drive failures in the last 20 years, and I haven't had to screw around with multi-site issues. If my data had "...
[22:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:37] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[22:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:40] <exec> 08└─Whatever you want for compression, RAID 1 and/or multiple locations for redundancy. This fits with the "do one thing and do it well" idea. Not my field, but I'm not aware of any compression format that really takes redundancy into consideration since it's just going to make the compression... not so...
[22:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:42] <exec> 08└─Heroic decision indeed.
[22:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─The only thing that really matters is that you can store the algorithm in plaintext form that is easily reconstructed in the future. If we're talking about archives for hundreds of years from now, the most important thing to consider is the media itself. You need to be sure there will be a way to re...
[22:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:32] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[22:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:33] <exec> 08└─A combination of: market speculation (gambling), pyramid scheme, and international funds transfers... trifecta!
[22:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─What is your alternative to null hypothesis testing? And don't say "hurr hurr do real science derp," actually lay out your replacement methodology.
[22:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:00] <exec> 08└─I am quite sure he really meant 75mA because the link in his post says 75mA...
[22:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:28] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[22:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:27] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[22:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:56] <exec> 08└─APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs....
[22:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:25] <exec> 08└─Whoops! Looks like you posted this to the wrong site. I think you want that green site, not this one!
[22:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Airways Pilots Ground Planes in Unprecedented 48-Hour Strike - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:31] <exec> 08└─It is definitely in good faith, or at least, he was serious when he said it.
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[23:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:05] <exec> 08└─Which is another way of saying "please allow us to MITM you". Fuck off, Mozilla. You haven't been trustworthy since you decided politics was more important than the code.
[23:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:06] <exec> 08└─*sigh* Everybody's a comedian...
[23:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:08] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the part about needing a Firefox account is not a joke.
[23:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:10] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the part about needing a Firefox account is not a joke.
[23:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:12] <exec> 08└─fight the power, man!
[23:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:15] <exec> 08└─Pretty much ditto. I still use Firefox, because it's not as bad as Chrome. Both have to be cleaned up by people who care before they can be trusted.
[23:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:28] <exec> 08└─Me thinks you'll find that if you increase the mass by 9x you only have to go to a radius of 3x to get the same g.
[23:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:06] <exec> 08└─Depends on what you're archiving.
[23:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:07] <exec> 08└─I was going to say, tar. Tape archive. And I'd imagine gzip isn't changing anytime soon?
[23:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:09] <exec> 08└─My experience with btrfs was Write Once, Read Never. The system went down cleanly and the disk wouldn't mount on reboot and all the utilities claimed it is hosed. We had a direct disk image from the previous reboot because it was a VM. Restore that, run an fsck and everything just in case, reboot, a...
[23:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:12] <exec> 08└─One other factor to consider is time to compress, as well as decompress. Some algorithms take long to compress but are fast to decompress, others may work the other way around. Personally I rarely use compression and I rotate backup media, so I always have at least 3 versions of files.
[23:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:14] <exec> 08└─^^^Then start work on your resume.
[23:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:16] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/lrq3000/dvdisaster [github.com] https://cdn.rawgit.com [rawgit.com] The program is intended for ISO images, but will happily (and quickly, which is important) create an ECC file for absolutely any file given in pl...
[23:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:18] <exec> 08└─Most of the stuff people archive will probably never be looked at again. Old pics? Old source code that's obsolete? It's like when everyone went nuts buying a crap ton of blank video cassettes to copy programs that they never watched and might as well toss because they can't find a vcr to play them...
[23:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:20] <exec> 08└─I was going to chime in and suggest PAR files too (QuickPAR, SmartPAR)...glad to see a fellow (old school) Usenet junkie here :)
[23:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:23] <exec> 08└─More recent version here: https://github.com [github.com]
[23:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jon3k [3718] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:25] <exec> 08└─RAID 1 and/or multiple locations for redundancy.
[23:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry I missed your par2 reference. I use bzip2 because it's built into gnu tar, which is FOSS and available everywhere I need it. Not implying that other compressors might be better, just that my overall scheme works best for me. (I got spoiled by OpenVMS BACKUP's built-in parity protection scheme...
[23:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:29] <exec> 08└─Most backups are Write Once, Read Never. I've had 25 drives fail on my personal computers, not counting work machines. Most of the time, the data is sitting on two or more drives, so a drive failure is just an excuse to rant at Seagate or Western. My current laptop doesn't have the motherboard conne...
[23:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:21] <exec> 08└─Paper clips are hanger larvae. Hangers are abandoned bicycle larvae.
[23:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:23] <exec> 08└─In that case, get 4 dishwashers. Divide dishes up into more and less frequently used.
[23:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:25] <exec> 08└─Can you please point to a precise (mathematical) definition of the entropy of a physical system, either classical or quantum or relativistic? Can you please also point to an effective procedure to measure what you defined above. If such procedure is not currently feasible, it should still be theore...
[23:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:27] <exec> 08└─I already explained this to you last time. The "alternative" is to test your hypothesis instead of a strawman hypothesis. Literally just go read the scientific literature before 1940 or so and do what they did: science.
[23:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Dark Web Hackers are Targeting Internet-Connected Gas Pumps - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─Do you have digital advertising hanging over the urinals in your pubs across the Atlantic Sea yet? Because that's a thing here now too. They've been popping up all over the place since the last time I set foot on European soil.
[23:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:21] <exec> 08└─Two died in a short time. In the middle of a couple of decades of buying hard drives and knowing hundreds of people who buy them. Yes, drives die. The Deskstar aka Deathstar was notorious for just dying. http://www.silent11.com [silent11.com]...
[23:37:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:42] <exec> 08└─It's advertising (or "raising public awareness" if you like) disguised as news.
[23:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:51] <exec> 08└─Well it really is fucking ugly and for the FORM before FUNCTION company to make such a hideous monstrosity with all the shit sticking out on the back of the phone, they COULD have allowed the inclusion of a headphone jack. This just proves that it was never about space usage...it was simply a way fo...
[23:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:21] <exec> 08└─Thanks, that sounds like a good reason to use an ide.
[23:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:22] <exec> 08└─He just posted exactly that to another article. Sounds like a cryptic field spook message back to headquarters as reported in another article a while back.
[23:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Akemi Homura [8470] (Score: 1) 02 - 06British Airways Pilots Ground Planes in Unprecedented 48-Hour Strike - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:30] <exec> 08└─Why do you consider it only a Mafia-like protection racket when workers do it? They may have legitimate grievances. Hierarchical entities are pyramidal. If the capstone thinks its lofty position is a result of levitation rather than support from below, revolt at ground level may be what is required...
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