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[00:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:08] <exec> 08└─I will opt to give them 0% and ignore their leech-like existence.
[00:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:09] <exec> 08└─They didn't honor their sales promise, since my penis has not increased in either length nor girth.
[00:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:11] <exec> 08└─Lawyers performing services like this typically take 1/3 of the settlement. It looks like automation will start to nibble away at work for ambulance chasing lawyers -- first it's the slammed phone bill and other things often dealt with in small claims court, but little by little it will work up to p...
[00:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:13] <exec> 08└─is prison and property forfeiture for its officers. You aren't going to nickel and dime them to death. This creates another economy within the economy. The theft is tolerated by the cops as long as some of the money is returned I know people that let contractors do a shitty job on a building because...
[00:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:15] <exec> 08└─They did make you taller.
[00:24:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:48] <exec> 08└─She knows how to trigger the shit out of you. Not sure how it helps but it sure is amusing to watch.
[00:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03catholocism [8422] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:52] <exec> 08└─Fun fact, if you are making a Faraday cage, tin foil will work but there's a minimal thickness requirement that means if you are using standard tin foil its gotta be layered 3 deep, 2 if its "heavy duty". This works for pouches to hold cell phones, dunno about hats.
[00:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:07] <exec> 08└─Heaven and earth AKA the system full reset. An end where defining end is problematic. "where does space end?" technically nowhere, you can only possibly envision a limit, but a point outside space has no position defined. "when does time end?" technically never, you can only possibly envision a limi...
[00:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:08] <exec> 08└─And get doxxed by the insane progressives that infest this place?
[00:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:10] <exec> 08└─A society teaches its members since birth that they are to be euthanized at age 60, but it is an honorable and unscary death and something that should be looked forward to rather than feared.
[00:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:12] <exec> 08└─he word "until" is used, rather than another word such as "unless". I just checked six English language translations So the truth is out: you did not read the original in Hebrew or Aramaic! (Or Greek). There is no way that Matthew spoke English - as you say, you read a translation. Anyone who speak...
[00:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:14] <exec> 08└─Every case of old age has been linked to unprotected sex. And breathing.
[00:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:17] <exec> 08└─That's it khallow, you've finally crossed the line. I'm going to publish everything we know about you! He's someone who calls himself khallow. He might have an email address. And that's a hard "might." As in, there's a nonzero chance that he actually doesn't have an email address.
[00:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:19] <exec> 08└─I think you would have more of a dichotomy, and much sooner than 1000 years. People would either boredom out and suicide within an extra hundred years, or they would settle into a mindset/lifestyle that goes on indefinitely.
[00:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:21] <exec> 08└─"You are not ready for immortality." With the helpful assistance of Morden and a couple of Shadows, Kosh proved that neither were the Vorlons.
[00:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Hacker's Mom Broke Into a South Dakota Prison - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:44] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine does pen testing. One time he was going to follow someone through a biometric lock. So he stuck a page through the lock right as the door closed. He then waited a minute or two until a guy was walking up and made a show of opening the door in front of him. He was given free range fo...
[00:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Dam Right Across the North Sea: A Defense Against Climate Change, but Primarily a Warning - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:17] <exec> 08└─Not sure it won't look more like this. https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net [nocookie.net]
[00:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Dam Right Across the North Sea: A Defense Against Climate Change, but Primarily a Warning - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:18] <exec> 08└─No, all the "valuable" property lies along the Gulf and Ocean fronts - those property owners will pay to bring in fill dirt from the cheapest (closest) sources possible, lowering the interior of the state until it is lower than New Orleans, and the rednecks in the middle will sell it to them as chea...
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[01:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have I Been Pwned No Longer For Sale - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:29] <exec> 08└─It just attracts attention, and the bad guy is half way in. Better to just keep it to yourself and change your passwords occasionally.
[01:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have I Been Pwned No Longer For Sale - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:31] <exec> 08└─Thank you, fustakrakich.
[01:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:00] <exec> 08└─The galactic joke is on us - the Nurn of Gamma Leonis have limited information backward time transmission capacity, and when they detected Earth's thermonuclear explosions they directed all intelligent EM emissions this side of the central black hole to be stopped for a period of 286 Earth years sta...
[01:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:01] <exec> 08└─They found a planet inhabited solely by democrats and made the following announcement... There is no intelligent life beyond Earth.
[01:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:24] <exec> 08└─It's not particularly surprising that the two parties on opposite ends of a deal would have opposing aims and ideals. Your company's beancounters haven't all signed the hypocratic oath, am I right to presume?
[01:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:25] <exec> 08└─...and you were in HELL!
[01:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:28] <exec> 08└─Why is anyone afraid of having their address posted online? Nobody is going to mail you an envelope with ricin powdered in it or anything. we used to have things called phone books with your name and address in it. Nobody cared. I've posted my address in discussions both here and on the geeen site...
[01:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:30] <exec> 08└─I think they did more than not wash hands...
[01:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:32] <exec> 08└─Given that an increasing majority of populace spectacularly demonstrates it. As to food chain and gene turnover, Greenland shark looks at you as at a particularly ignorant prey: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06They are There and They are Gone: ICARUS Chases a Fourth Neutrino - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:32] <exec> 08└─But nobody's saying nothing's decaying to something, you're strawmanning. Several competing possible theories exist but what's common between them is that it might be possible for there to be a neutrino that almost never interacts with normal matter, but there are situations which can cause it to so...
[01:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06They are There and They are Gone: ICARUS Chases a Fourth Neutrino - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:34] <exec> 08└─You're conflating "neutrinos", a thing, with "neutrino types", one of its properties, which is a catagory error. A "redundant" mod may be informative.
[01:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06They are There and They are Gone: ICARUS Chases a Fourth Neutrino - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:36] <exec> 08└─Moderated you per your request!
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[02:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:04] <exec> 08└─When a well-known benevolent addon sells out to the evil, you know that you should beware. I refer to the various ad-blockers. "Oh, I'll block ads for you - except for these advertisers who pay me not to block them!" It's a buyer beware world when it comes to add-ons.
[02:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have I Been Pwned No Longer For Sale - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:27] <exec> 08└─I could see that, the timing would line up as they sold somewhere in late 2019. But that doesn't seem like a good match. They wouldn't be caught in the middle of M&A during their own M&A unless they were stupid or had cash to burn on privity guarantees that any half-way competent M&A lawyer of his w...
[02:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:58] <exec> 08└─Alright, I can understand that. But, what about the ansible? You've been promising us the ansible for years now! Is it just vaporware?
[02:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:26] <exec> 08└─If turnover were important, such a thing as lobster would not be living twice as long as a human, now would it? And still, it does. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:27] <exec> 08└─And yet you're still talking and not dead yet.
[02:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Great Tits are Killing Birds and Eating Their Brains. Climate Change May be to Blame. - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:22] <exec> 08└─What we need is a service that receives a page request, goes to the server, runs the js gets cookies etcetc, processes the result to HTML including turning the images into a local safe cache ref, and returns the page content to the requestor in a suitable form. We could call this: AnonPageContentRet...
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[03:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:09] <exec> 08└─There was a time where you did stuff in a program, then posted it to the web, or pushed/publoished a web site. Now, blogging vlogging even editing websites is all done "in the browser" these sort of attacks in TFA are just punishment for laziness.
[03:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:11] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter if it's click-to-run from inside the browser, or an extension, or an "applet," or whatever the hell - any form of easy-install software that has rights will abuse those rights, often surreptitiously. People are willing targets, it's why the APPle store is a walled garden, and even...
[03:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:13] <exec> 08└─Instead of acting as a ruler to measure your pages, it tries to become the ruler of your pages! Bow before the Page Ruler!
[03:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:24] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they stretched space time a little bit and that's actually your old penis due to time dilation.
[03:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:25] <exec> 08└─You were probably looking for that other site at /.goatse
[03:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have I Been Pwned No Longer For Sale - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:39] <exec> 08└─And that's a downside to requiring usernames be email addresses. I'm paying an email host so I can use unlimited aliases. I started that for spam/malware (and so I'd know exactly who gave up my address) but it also means my usernames aren't the same.
[03:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have I Been Pwned No Longer For Sale - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:41] <exec> 08└─After announcing last year that he was looking to sell Have I Been Pwned (HIPB)...
[03:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:13] <exec> 08└─Good thing they weren't looking at the White House.
[03:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:43] <exec> 08└─Your company's beancounters haven't all signed the hypocratic oath, am I right to presume?
[03:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:45] <exec> 08└─I will never understand how unafraid you are of that. In your position I'd be goddamn terrified, not because someone would mail me something, but because they might, I don't know, shoot the place up or set it on fire? Stuff like that.
[03:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 2990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:47] <exec> 08└─You have a problem, though... See, you're still thinking of "infinity" as "a really frickin' big number." Infinity is not a really frickin' big number. Infinity is infinity. What this means is that, since you are not God, at some point as time T approaches infinity, your finite mind will simply be i...
[03:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:49] <exec> 08└─Shut up, Opus Dei. If you were truly Christian you'd be working on a way to sort this out.
[03:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vitamin C and Immuno-Oncology - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:16] <exec> 08└─That's why it works.
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[04:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:21] <exec> 08└─If it's health care or insurance, my position is ZERO extensions. Logging into your own "browser" and syncing with Google, including your extensions, is a fireable offense. I'd use unGoogled Chromium, built from source, with adding extensions disabled at the code level. If they're on G-Suite or some...
[04:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:21] <exec> 08└─Didn't the Aricebo radio telescope get damaged recently when a hurricane attacked Puerto Rico? Can the SETI-at-home go on without its data feed? -- hendrik
[04:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vitamin C and Immuno-Oncology - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:24] <exec> 08└─Is that spruce bid tea anything like the soft drink known as spruce beer? I like it.
[04:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Discovery Can Lead To New Types Of Cancer Drugs - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:32] <exec> 08└─And what aspect that wasnt known 20-30 yrs ago?
[04:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Dam Right Across the North Sea: A Defense Against Climate Change, but Primarily a Warning - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:54] <exec> 08└─I intended it as a joke but only half a joke. After all Russians built a dam around Sait Petersburg and they did have the same issues, but they built water treatment facilities and they worked so shit smell never came and the ecology actually became better and they are adding valuable real estate al...
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[05:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:13] <exec> 08└─What's the man-page for systemd look like...the telephone book?
[05:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:14] <exec> 08└─Just read Charles Petzold's book "Programming Windows 3.2." All the core concepts are there.
[05:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:16] <exec> 08└─thatd be so Unix. manpage. lol.
[05:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:18] <exec> 08└─ls -latr ls -lSr mkdir -p ./goodstuff/pr0n bzip2 -c pr0n.tar.bz2 |(cd goodstuff/pr0n;tar xf -) chmod 0644 ./goodstuff/pr0n/*.[am][pkv][4vig] mpv `find ./goodstuff -name '*pr0n*.[am][pkv][4vig]' -print` rm -i pr0n.tar.bz2 rm -fr ./goodstuff The vast majority of command line options aren't useful 95%...
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[05:24:20] <exec> 08└─SYSTEMD(1) systemd SYSTEMD(1) NAME systemd, init - systemd system and service manager SYNOPSIS systemd [OPTIONS...] init [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND} DESCRIPTION systemd is a system and service m...
[05:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:38] <exec> 08└─> If it's health care or insurance, my position is ZERO extensions. Logging into your own "browser" and syncing with Google, including your extensions, is a fireable offense. Mm... > I'd use unGoogled Chromium, built from source HAHA BIG NOPE. You know what Chromium is licensed with? BSD. You know w...
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[05:24:39] <exec> 08└─Don't install random crap on your systems? The fuck is wrong with you? They're just extensions. They can't hurt you. I install everything all the time and it just fucking works. The miracle of modern technology! Look how many women have them in their hair, and unless they get caught in a fan or some...
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[05:24:41] <exec> 08└─he sold his extension to MonetizUs in 2017. "They didn't say what they were going to do with it but I assumed they were going to try to monetize it
[05:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:43] <exec> 08└─You know every piece of software comes with similar exclusion. Chrome has that exclusion in Section 13 [google.com], Firefox under Section 6 [mozilla.org], and Safari in Section 7 [apple.com] (using iOS as an example but the others have it too).
[05:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:58] <exec> 08└─I was screwed two years ago. I have an automatic bill payment set up from my bank to my mortgage. One month the payment was lost. The mortgage bank reported the late payment on my perfect credit history. I can't by guilty here, can I? However, my bank claims it sent the payment while the mortgage ba...
[05:25:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:20] <exec> 08└─Humanity is apparently the best the universe has to offer.
[05:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:20] <exec> 08└─Well, people weren't doing that in pre-Internet days when phone books were in every home, so the only thing that's changed is the internet gives people more ability to be stirred up on hate subjects. But those same people are too afraid to do anything in real life. Keyboard warriors indeed. The col...
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[06:24:13] <exec> 08└─Just learned something new -- even ACs can post small books here!
[06:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:14] <exec> 08└─sudo rm -rf . Just sayin'
[06:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:16] <exec> 08└─Hey, it's a joke. Whoever modded parent "disagree" must have had their funny bone surgically removed.
[06:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:18] <exec> 08└─His "Programming Windows 95" was a good read as I recall it. That said, I still don't want a portion of Windows with my Linux, thank you very much.
[06:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions - 3254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:40] <exec> 08└─Warranty? That's because the current agreement I have using a Chrome browser provides for me to shift legal liability to Google? That's new to me. Not sure that is actually true though. I'd probably let HIPAA come for me. I wouldn't let PCI compliance dictate I be at a lower level of security just b...
[06:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:56] <exec> 08└─That sucks. Did you have any kind of confirmation in place, from the mortgage holder to you directly, which acknowledged the payment?
[06:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have I Been Pwned No Longer For Sale - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:13] <exec> 08└─If that is what you are looking for, you are on the wrong site for that [pornhub.com].
[06:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:21] <exec> 08└─As long as you manage to procreate before croaking with sufficient frequency to replenish/grow the population, then evolution doesn't really care. Fear itself is hardly necessary once you reach the stage evolutionarily where you can kill most predators without any issue.
[06:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:22] <exec> 08└─Suicide doesn't really count. It's incredibly easy to end your own life prematurely when compared with trying to extend it to arbitrary lengths. It would take an extraordinary length of time to truly become bored of everything. Just listening to every song on iTunes would take nearly 150 years. Simi...
[06:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:25] <exec> 08└─That's in the current model. When we get to the point where robots and computer programs can handle basically all the normal day to day processes we need to live, then that's likely to stop being the case. Jobs though aren't just about production, they're something that keeps people sane. Humans pre...
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[07:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:19] <exec> 08└─I get nervous when I see "The following options are understood". It kind of implies that there are more options that could not be understood.
[07:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:21] <exec> 08└─You bastard!
[07:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:23] <exec> 08└─I added 63 options to /bin/ps from Slackware 3.1 (1996) to Ubuntu 12 (2015). I got beat by /usr/bin/tar adding 81 options. Damn! Of course the real winner, gcc, was unfairly excluded. That has well over 1000 options.
[07:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:50] <exec> 08└─Couple days ago. Is 100% a spacecraft. Is this some sort of reverse pavlovian fnord training shit going on? anyway video... https://kfiam640.iheart.com [iheart.com]
[07:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:28] <exec> 08└─It would be nice to increase the healthy lifespan of humans, but if that means humans live considerably longer on average than we do now, that also means we'll have to deal with a significantly larger world population, unless we simultaneously manage to reduce our fertility. To lead a healthy long l...
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[07:28:07] <exec> 08└─endless stream of average but untalented Chinese grad students who barely speak English and probably pass everything we do back to China for personal gain...
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[08:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:05] <exec> 08└─This is just more M$ spam from ZDNet. There is far more to the development of Free/Libre and Open Source Software than M$ GitHub®. That was true even before the sellout and it is even more true since the developer exodus which occured after the sellout. Please, editors, bin any further links from...
[08:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:06] <exec> 08└─The software present on GitHub has little to do with actual, installed, productive code. And anyway, programming languages are not participants in some popularity contest. A language is a tool. A good programmer chooses the right tool for a task. No one is going to try to use Rust on client-side bro...
[08:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:26] <exec> 08└─Branko? If that's you, thanks for strace!
[08:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:27] <exec> 08└─Wow! That was just so...spiteful! Apparently, posts don't have a character limit or abbreviate to a "more..." link like articles do.
[08:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:06] <exec> 08└─IDK about your credit, but if the amount was gone from your bank, and didn't show up as a credit on your mortgage payments, yes, that's theft where you didn't ID the thief, and your bank statements where it shows on one and not the other will be useful if the police investigate. If they don't, do yo...
[08:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:57] <exec> 08└─The Centauri are coming....
[08:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:37] <exec> 08└─Male spiders willingly are eaten, inasmuch as they have wills, and it's quite effective as a survival strategy. Not all species of spider, but it's common. So, "longer than mammals" is the answer to "How long is a species that doesn't fear death and/or the unknown going to last in the game of evolut...
[08:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:38] <exec> 08└─Well, no. Part of many Christian theologies is that since the soul will live forever, it is infinite, not godlike but still capable of infinities, and that as a nonphysical entity such a soul isn't bound by things like conservation of energy, entropy, information theory, QCD, etc. So by that theolog...
[08:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:40] <exec> 08└─In fact, plain ol' law of large numbers states that at some point as time T approaches infinity, anything that CAN happen--that is, which is not logically impossible--WILL happen.
[08:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:42] <exec> 08└─Demonstrably false? Reproductive control technologies all have failure rates. Even tube tying and snipping! Also this is frustrating, I have a valid and usefu contribuition which would be better,. shorter, but instead some antispm rule is forcing me to add this line.
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[09:24:16] <exec> 08└─And anyway, programming languages are not participants in some popularity contest.
[09:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we've all seen that page. But on Google there are links supporting what the submission suggests but that now only reach the page you have indicated. There was something else there before. And that page is dated 28 Jan - doesn't look like it ever came back from that maintenance period.
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[10:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:17] <exec> 08└─TFS is referring to Redmonk as a source, so why not link [redmonk.com] to them instead?
[10:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:00] <exec> 08└─Good thing it isn't true. Unlike PCI, it doesn't require you to run certain software. It also doesn't require you to use vendors with HIPAA-compliant setups either. They are more worried about access control, privilege tracking, and at-rest/in-transit encryption existing, then they are about what is...
[10:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:10] <exec> 08└─Why does he assume that is 'must be US Air Force technology from Area 51"? Other nations have advanced technology and, if they have something that the US hasn't, they are hardly going to announce it to the world until they are ready. Alternatively, the fact that the crew don't discuss it might be be...
[10:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:54] <exec> 08└─It's not like your brain store all that memories since birth either. Something will likely go. Only most important things to you remain. Blurred as they might be. Then, maybe those will have to go too.
[10:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:55] <exec> 08└─I'm all for inventing an immortality serum. However, do you think we could wait until Trump is dead before finalising it?
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[11:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Suggest That Earth Was Covered Entirely With Water 3.2 Billion Years Ago - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:14] <exec> 08└─https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-08-16 [schlockmercenary.com] https://schlockmercenary.fandom.com [fandom.com]
[11:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:25] <exec> 08└─No one is going to try to use Rust on client-side browser code.
[11:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:47] <exec> 08└─My favorite and revered command line options are those of GNU ld: --omagic In some not-so-rare cases, self-modifiable code needs to select a proper codepath at runtime, mostly depending on a CPU family it is actually running on. Hardware assisted encryption is a fine example of such needs, evading e...
[11:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:21] <exec> 08└─While we currently might squeeze the amount of 2013 distributed teraFLOPS into one 19"-rack, I doubt if we manage to do the same with the 2013 distributed memory-bandwidth needed for these computations.
[11:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:22] <exec> 08└─Yes I agree Russa or China, perhaps even French, Israeli or Japanese could well have secret advanced spaceflight capability. I am however a little doubtful as to this being such a craft. As for not talking about it I don't think you can infer much as this is standard operating procedure for a UFO. R...
[11:26:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:38] <exec> 08└─From TFS: Pathologizing a universal process makes it seem toxic.
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[12:24:14] <exec> 08└─...from $8.99 No, thanks.
[12:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:47] <exec> 08└─That is, the one-letter flags to ls include every lowercase letter except for {jvyz}, 14 uppercase letters, plus @ and 1. That's 22 + 14 + 2 = 38 single-character options alone.
[12:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:49] <exec> 08└─No the problem is when seventeen different Linux implementations decide they need seventeen different sets of command line options.
[12:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:51] <exec> 08└─You'll have no choice. Wait until you get to enjoy all the stupidity of homed. Linux is going where the companies paying the bills want it to go.
[12:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Safety Trial Successfully Treats Common Form of Inherited Blindness - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:59] <exec> 08└─Inherited vision loss used to be cured by a form of gene therapy called Darwinian evolution.
[12:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:29] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Is tinfoil likely to be enough against EMP weapons or accidents? Or against a solar proton storm such as the Carrington event?
[12:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:14] <exec> 08└─Those are the males. What about the females?
[12:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:15] <exec> 08└─Clearly you've never been stalked, randomly selected for targeted fraud, or been part of a group subject to McCarthism style tactics. Just because you ignore reality doesn't mean other people don't take their own security for granted.
[12:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vitamin C and Immuno-Oncology - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:46] <exec> 08└─Vit C is cheap and easy to obtain. Thus it's easy to research for researchers who want to do research but can't afford other drugs and the drug companies want research saying it's not helpful so you'll buy their patented products. Both things end up creating more articles about Vit C.
[12:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Program Will Make You Invisible (to Your Webcam) - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:17] <exec> 08└─No, it was impressive 20 years ago. It's not impressive today. Well, unless you don't know anything about image manipulation. Perhaps then it's impressive. If you ever wanted to build an IR touch screen (there was a minor DIY craze of those around 2007), isolating the moving areas of a video feed an...
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[13:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Marsupial is the Only Animal That's Always Pregnant - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:07] <exec> 08└─Can't be shocked anymore. Just can't.
[13:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Marsupial is the Only Animal That's Always Pregnant - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:09] <exec> 08└─"For some, of course, it's normal to only have one or a couple offspring in a lifetime." No, that's not "normal." If a significant fraction of the females in a species do this, the species quickly goes extinct.
[13:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces "Tidal": An Underwater Camera System for Fish Farmers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:16] <exec> 08└─That's incredibly specific. Does one guy at Google have a fish fetish or something?
[13:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Suggest That Earth Was Covered Entirely With Water 3.2 Billion Years Ago - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:26] <exec> 08└─So now we know Noah was an (EXTREMELY) ancient alien.....No wonder we can't find his ark.....
[13:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:38] <exec> 08└─2003 for me. I ran a bunch of systems for a long time. I must have been quite the contributor back in the day, not run it for at least 10 years, but my stats say: 141,756 out of 3,962,879 1,330,453 Cobblestones of computation (1.15 quintillion floating-point operations)
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[14:24:13] <exec> 08└─Unless I'm missing something, cats are yet another animal that can become pregnant while pregnant [lovetoknow.com]: Cats can also go into heat during pregnancy and carry two litters at the same time. For this reason, a female should be kept indoors during pregnancy for her safety and to prevent addi...
[14:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces "Tidal": An Underwater Camera System for Fish Farmers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:21] <exec> 08└─He calls himself... Aquaman.
[14:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces "Tidal": An Underwater Camera System for Fish Farmers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:23] <exec> 08└─Self-driving cars were too hard. Google is getting into fish farming.
[14:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Suggest That Earth Was Covered Entirely With Water 3.2 Billion Years Ago - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:33] <exec> 08└─Now that would be a problem. I mean, aside from not having anything to cook your fish with. You'd have no idea where your good fishing spots were; no landmarks and that was pre-GPS.
[14:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Suggest That Earth Was Covered Entirely With Water 3.2 Billion Years Ago - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:36] <exec> 08└─DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-0538-9
[14:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:47] <exec> 08└─No one should use Prolog to write a GUI.
[14:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:48] <exec> 08└─There's no rational reason why JavaScript is ubiqious on the web
[14:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:14] <exec> 08└─Is there anything stopping a person from using tac instead of the ls option to reverse the list? Is there anything forcing people to know the full list of options? Is the complaint simply that the programs are getting larger? How many people care about larger versions of these programs when the rest...
[14:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:15] <exec> 08└─Any Gnu utility (coreutils) must have command line options that consist of the union of every feature ever requested by any user of that utility ever. Says so in the appendix to the apocrypha to the Gnu Manifesto. You know you're in Bizarro World when the 'true' command, whose function is described...
[14:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:17] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, forgot to add: McIlroy's dicta is often paraphrased as "do one thing and do it well"
[14:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:41] <exec> 08└─You know what the license says? NO WARRANTY.
[14:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:56] <exec> 08└─Aaaaahhhh... too lazy to do the math at this hour, but the memory bandwidth of a single V100 card is seriously impressive as compared to, say, 100 2013 era home PCs. Certainly a well architected SETI@Home replacement system would take more than just grabbing the easiest to find high performance comp...
[14:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:57] <exec> 08└─There are other antennas...
[14:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:45] <exec> 08└─> doxxed by the insane progressives Is that how life ends? Doxxed by blabbermouth progressives, then hunted down and shot by far-right, open carry conservatives who wouldn't be able to find you even with your address, if it wasn't for GPS, because no one learns how to read a map any more. Makes it s...
[14:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ageing a Disease? - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:47] <exec> 08└─I remember a cartoon with the punch line: There will be a population problem as long as people would rather screw than die. But, we may be seeing that it's not as much of a problem as one might think. If you can get the standard of living up to a certain level, educate the women and make birth contr...
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[15:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of ideas, but no strong plans. The Nautilus-X demonstrator [wikipedia.org] didn't get any funding, what makes them think Axiom will? Oh, they are Boeing-backed. Modules should be carried back to the Smithsonian instead of deorbited/burned. Future stations should be launched with reusab...
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:05] <exec> 08└─Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets [imdb.com] provides one road map. It's easier to keep an existing space station in orbit than to send another up. So why not invite an international effort to keep it up and expand it? If we want to settle the rest of the solar system and eventually go on...
[15:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces "Tidal": An Underwater Camera System for Fish Farmers - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:25] <exec> 08└─Rapper Jay-Z owns two-thirds of a music streaming company called Aspiro, which operates the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_(service)]Tidal[/url] subscription music streaming service. Is Aspiro's "Tidal" mark strong enough to qualify for [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_dilution...
[15:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces "Tidal": An Underwater Camera System for Fish Farmers - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:26] <exec> 08└─I apologize for using formatting codes that are incorrect for this website. I was interrupted. Let me try again: Rapper Jay-Z owns two-thirds of a music streaming company called Aspiro, which operates the Tidal [wikipedia.org] subscription music streaming service. Is Aspiro's "Tidal" mark strong eno...
[15:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:19] <exec> 08└─> formatted in various ways In some sense "the way" is the *single* choice that needs to be selected, where many options to select from. The problem with that is it doesn't work well with short options. However, gcc happily offers -O1, -O2, -O3, -Os, or whatever, so unix people should be used to the...
[15:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:20] <exec> 08└─The options for `true` are `--help` and `--version`. This raises the question: why wasn't the man page good enough? I might speculate lack of `man` on all platforms, mainly because I am always annoyed by the lack of it in my install of MinGW. Then again, given the proliferation of programs that have...
[15:26:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 370 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:35] <exec> 08└─There's also the fact that SETI@Home peaked around 668 teraFLOPS in 2013 (at the cost of millions of simultaneous PCs cooking probably 50W each extra to do the calculations... guesstimate 200MW) while a single GPU like the NVIDIA V100 can exceed 14 teraFLOPS in one 300W card, so less than 20KW (and...
[15:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:03] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention the 37 percent more effective step of having two antennas.
[15:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:04] <exec> 08└─They're just resting. But have beautiful plumage.
[15:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:06] <exec> 08└─I make antennas on my tin foil hats. Technically, aluminum foil.
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[16:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:12] <exec> 08└─What is the DeltaV of air friction and what is the issue in just pushing it to a higher orbit? Is it damaged or something? Cannot stand stresses required for a orbit change?
[16:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:14] <exec> 08└─What about on board bacteria that grow? MIR [wikipedia.org] was de-orbited, in the very same month, March 2001, that Douglas Crockford first specified and popularized the JSON [wikipedia.org] format. Coincidence? There must be a cause and effect at work here! From the Mir wikipedia article (linked e...
[16:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:16] <exec> 08└─> It's easier to keep an existing space station in orbit than to send another up. That is a bold statement. What is the cost of maintenance of such a thing, compared to the cost of building new? E.g. dumb example - what happens if you need to replace the seals around a window (remember, it's in spac...
[16:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:18] <exec> 08└─"Stepping stones" are really "stumbling blocks." This is best illustrated by the Shuttle missions to the Hubble after the Columbia accident. NASA had to keep a rescue mission on standby because the Shuttle couldn't go to the ISS in case of emergency - even though the ISS is in a lower orbit than Hub...
[16:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:20] <exec> 08└─That is a bold statement. What is the cost of maintenance of such a thing, compared to the cost of building new?
[16:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:22] <exec> 08└─I can only speak from experience - once vacuum seals have been "caulked" a few times, one gets to a system that is more sealant than metal... at some point it is expedient to build new. My experience comes from vacuum seals in particle accelerators, so different regime...
[16:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:24] <exec> 08└─The ISS is from the previous era. Reusable rockets change everything. NASA will be able to launch a station with 10x the volume at 1/10th the cost. They can take into account decades of new technologies and lessons learned from operating the ISS. If the ISS's components are actually past their prime...
[16:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Marsupial is the Only Animal That's Always Pregnant - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:35] <exec> 08└─Humans can also become pregnant while pregnant. It's exceptionally rare, but I think this is a case of oversimplification for the purpose of not getting to the point of distraction in the article. This is National Geographic, not a biology science journal. Still, kangaroos can support three joeys at...
[16:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Suggest That Earth Was Covered Entirely With Water 3.2 Billion Years Ago - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:57] <exec> 08└─Since you brought up Noah, going back to Gen 1 [biblegateway.com] verse 2, that suggests the world was covered with water and dark? I think Mike Pence needs to be made aware of this new information. It has the word "scientists" and is perfect for cherry picked quotes. Everywhere would be equally fan...
[16:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:11] <exec> 08└─A language is a tool. A good programmer chooses the right tool for a task.
[16:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:12] <exec> 08└─Another good one is this: TIOBE Index [tiobe.com]. I've seen one survey recently (sorry no link) where Java was in the #3 spot. That is interesting because Java has been mostly in the #1 spot for over 15 years, never falling below #2. But things could be changing. Change is the only const.
[16:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:14] <exec> 08└─And anyway, programming languages are not participants in some popularity contest.
[16:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:16] <exec> 08└─the options were Assembler, C, and C++, with management ruling out the first
[16:25:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─That is, the one-letter flags to ls include every lowercase letter except for {jvyz}, 14 uppercase letters, plus @ and 1. That's 22 + 14 + 2 = 38 single-character options alone.
[16:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─The poster could have been polite and put that "book" inside a spoiler tag...but it seems that many people never learned good manners.
[16:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:30] <exec> 08└─It would have to make him shorter, therefore increasing the apparent size of his penis.
[16:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:31] <exec> 08└─Was the payment by ACH or paper check? You can take them to small claims court with bank statements. Though I doubt you will see any money out of it unless they decide to just blow off the court date.
[16:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:35] <exec> 08└─SETI's page has updated and reflects the article. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu [berkeley.edu]
[16:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03catholocism [8422] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:36] <exec> 08└─Dunno friend, only tested against wifi and 4g. Not sure that the strength is the important factor here as you are essentially just creating a mirror through which certain bands of electromagnetic phenomenon get reflected, instead of passed.
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[17:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 2517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:28] <exec> 08└─Air friction doesn't really have a delta-V, though I suppose you could calculate the delta-V loss per hour or year for a given orbit. And really, there shouldn't be any technical issue with pushing the ISS to a higher orbit - other than that it makes it more expensive to get things too and from the...
[17:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Marsupial is the Only Animal That's Always Pregnant - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:40] <exec> 08└─"Swamp Wallabies are the only animal that's always pregnant"
[17:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Marsupial is the Only Animal That's Always Pregnant - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:41] <exec> 08└─"Some marsupials, like kangaroos, can mate and conceive about a day after birth, but not before" omg! "but not before"... that's like having sex whilst still inside.
[17:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Marsupial is the Only Animal That's Always Pregnant - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:43] <exec> 08└─The first animal to always be pregnant are XBox chat moms.
[17:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces "Tidal": An Underwater Camera System for Fish Farmers - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:55] <exec> 08└─IANAL, but trademark protection should only apply to the industry you're in. So Tidal Music Streaming Service is distinct from Tidal Fish Farm Service.
[17:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Suggest That Earth Was Covered Entirely With Water 3.2 Billion Years Ago - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:08] <exec> 08└─Aye, and with light - even though there's still nothing - now you can see it!
[17:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Suggest That Earth Was Covered Entirely With Water 3.2 Billion Years Ago - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:10] <exec> 08└─first i am astonished there are places (near the plant surface) that can be considered unaltered for 3 billion(!) years and second, i think 3 billion years ago earth was still accumulating (read: bombarded) by lots of foreign bodies, like meteors and comets. maybe the earth was covered with water bu...
[17:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Suggest That Earth Was Covered Entirely With Water 3.2 Billion Years Ago - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:12] <exec> 08└─i think 3 billion years ago earth was still accumulating (read: bombarded) by lots of foreign bodies, like meteors and comets.
[17:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Suggest That Earth Was Covered Entirely With Water 3.2 Billion Years Ago - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:14] <exec> 08└─Once the Earth was cool enough for liquid water to pool on its surface, the processes driving land formation likely hadn't had a chance to synthesize lighter continental crust [wikipedia.org], rather than the denser oceanic crust [wikipedia.org] which subducts [wikipedia.org] under the lighter conti...
[17:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:32] <exec> 08└─Java Forever And Ever Movie (Java vs Windows .Net) [youtube.com] The Java Heist [youtube.com] Javapocalypse [youtube.com] Game of Codes [youtube.com] The Streaming (Texted version) [youtube.com] -- Be afraid: the JavaZone X trailer is in your computer! Do you dare to watch? LadyJava Music Video [you...
[17:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:33] <exec> 08└─"Assembler" is not the name of a language. Do you call C "compiler"? I mock anyone who calls Assembly Language "Assembler."
[17:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:35] <exec> 08└─Assembler is shorter to write. Therefore it must be more optimized?!? But you are right. It is the name of a tool, not a language.
[17:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:37] <exec> 08└─You can implement Prolog in Lisp.1 You can implement Lisp in JavaScript or Python.2 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp - Peter Norvig [amazon.com] (I got this one for Christmas in 1992 and could not put it down.) 2...
[17:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:09] <exec> 08└─I think my biggest 2 complaints are: - inclusion of an arbitrary set of compressors into tar. If pipes are too slow, fix pipes - that helps *everyone*. If your OS vendor refuses to fix pipes, maybe you're buying your OS from the wrong vendor.
[17:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 2982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:10] <exec> 08└─The first UNIX man page I ever seriously studied was fsck(8). The provided an excellent context for my future studies because almost everything else I studied was simple in comparison to fsck(8) and some of the other early UNIX commands. As a systems administrator, I am something of a connoisseur of...
[17:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Safety Trial Successfully Treats Common Form of Inherited Blindness - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:19] <exec> 08└─Let's stop giving Darwin credit for the ideas of natural selection. Those ideas were around before Darwin. For instance Edward Blyth talked about natural selection before Darwin. "Blyth published several articles describing the process of natural selection in Magazine of Natural History between 1835...
[17:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Safety Trial Successfully Treats Common Form of Inherited Blindness - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:21] <exec> 08└─If we want to be intellectually honest we should give credit where credit is due, not to those that hold beliefs that most closely align with yours just because their beliefs are what you believe. Darwin does not get credit for the ideas of natural selection. It's very intellectually dishonest for t...
[17:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:59] <exec> 08└─Many people quietly laugh at me for the way I pay my bills. You see, I write paper checks and mail them to the payee. Yes, snail mail, with envelopes and stamps and everything! I've been doing this for 30+ years, and yet only one check in all that time didn't get to where I sent it. When you have so...
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[18:24:05] <exec> 08└─Ya know, the other day, I looked out my window at our swamp, I thought - "ya know, there's a swamp that needs draining". So I got my shovel, and I got my pick, and I dug a channel and started pumping the water out. It took a day, the swamp level dropped, it took a year, that swamp level was so much...
[18:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:06] <exec> 08└─You probably didn't have lobbyists refilling the swamp as you drained it.
[18:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Zealand Birds Show Humanlike Ability to Make Predictions - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:14] <exec> 08└─I wish that in high school, after Algebra, and maybe Geometry and maybe Trig, that INSTEAD of Calculus, they started teaching Statistics. That would be useful to many more people in their lives than Calculus. If you are going to need Calculus in some field that you will study in college, then you ca...
[18:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand Birds Show Humanlike Ability to Make Predictions - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:16] <exec> 08└─Statistics was my favorite class as a freshman in college. Bar none the most practical and useful single class I have ever taken. It is truly a shame that high school didn't touch on statistics beyond simple coin flips and lottery numbers.
[18:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand Birds Show Humanlike Ability to Make Predictions - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:18] <exec> 08└─If this is true, what are we really saying about bird-brained people? I think it would be more appropriate to say that humans are showing more birdlike behavior.
[18:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:34] <exec> 08└─Your last paragraph almost sounds like you might be thinking of SpaceX.
[18:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:36] <exec> 08└─I had gotten the idea in the 90s that the main purpose of ISS (unofficially) was to have a place for the Shuttle to go. Instead of doing endless circles around the earth. And the purpose of continuing the expensive (reusable but at what cost) Shuttle was to service the ISS. Nice, neat circular think...
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─I'd have to look this up, but maybe they don't want to boost it to a higher orbit because where it is now gives the occupants some shielding from cosmic rays because it's not fully out of the atmosphere or something? It's not like the walls of the thing are very thick.
[18:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:40] <exec> 08└─Our little stepping stone in LEO is at an inconvenient orbital inclination for missions to Europa, Enceladus, and Titan so we certainly won't be launching missions from it. It's also at too low of an orbit for me to be comfortable using it as a biocontainment facility for looking at possible life sa...
[18:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Marsupial is the Only Animal That's Always Pregnant - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:53] <exec> 08└─Well, I suppose that's right. While cats can also manage getting pregnant again while still pregnant easily enough, it's still the exception rather than the rule for them, unlike the way it is with these wallabies and the brown hares, where such a thing is actually normal.
[18:25:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 668 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─This is just more M$ spam from ZDNet. There is far more to the development of Free/Libre and Open Source Software than M$ GitHub®. That was true even before the sellout and it is even more true since the developer exodus which occured after the sellout. Please, editors, bin any further links from...
[18:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:44] <exec> 08└─Change is the only const.
[18:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:18] <exec> 08└─In a large sense yes. On an individual level, no. And there are a lot of individuals. Remember the rise of open source vs the mighty unassailable Microsoft. Or the rise of these pesky "microcomputer" toy things vs the mighty IBM. For the most part, I expect the companies paying the bills to make cho...
[18:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:19] <exec> 08└─I have discovered some people are not born with funny bones.
[18:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:21] <exec> 08└─Wow! That was just so...spiteful!
[18:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:24] <exec> 08└─I propose a project to format the systemd man pages as ASCII art and maintain them that way. Sponsored by The Microsoft Linux Foundation.
[18:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:26] <exec> 08└─AC who posted the man page here. Don't blame me, Gaark *asked* for it [soylentnews.org]. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) And putting it in spoiler tags would have given the impression that Gaark was wrong. He wasn't.
[18:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:28] <exec> 08└─sudo rm -rf . Just sayin'
[18:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:30] <exec> 08└─It seems like true should have a --lie option.
[18:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:17] <exec> 08└─Paper check. The mortgage bank is a small local one.
[18:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:19] <exec> 08└─When I became aware of the missing payment I reported it to my bank and they cancelled the check and sent another one that made it. Meantime my credit report got a negative mark for 7 years.
[18:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:21] <exec> 08└─What do you plan to do if/when payee claims they did not receive the check?
[18:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:23] <exec> 08└─Well, by default my bank starts to ask about missing checks after about a month and so the mortgage company about missing payments. See, I set up this auto payment 15 years ago when the target bank did not even had a web site and it never failed. After the incident I did set up alerts on both sides...
[18:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:27] <exec> 08└─not true the launch codes were "00000000" at the time. that only changed when someone wrote about it in a news article. the idea was that complicated numbers would be too hard to remember during a stressful event much like what would happen when anyone wanted to enter that code in to launch somethin...
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[19:24:12] <exec> 08└─An analysis that would explain or justify the transition from the Obama-era policy to the new one, using Obama's own words: Elections have consequences. There is no "detriment, if not outright exclusion, of pre-decisional opportunities for the public to contribute to the decision-making process affe...
[19:24:13] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:13] <exec> 08└─Elections have consequences.
[19:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:15] <exec> 08└─Trump says he's above the law.
[19:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:17] <exec> 08└─How many such products of politicking from the bench, have already been thrown out by the upper courts, hmm?
[19:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:20] <exec> 08└─With the swamp gone did you have to move back into your parents basement?
[19:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:22] <exec> 08└─Enforcing laws that Trump doesn't happen to like is not activism. Maybe if he would bother to learn how government works he could do something to change those laws.
[19:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:52] <exec> 08└─There are people reading these words who have had the ISS orbiting overhead for their entire lives,
[19:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:53] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see them carried back, unfortunately we don' t have anything capable of doing the job.
[19:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Announces "Tidal": An Underwater Camera System for Fish Farmers - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:20] <exec> 08└─There are two different torts: Trademark infringement refers to use of a mark by another party without authorization in the same or related field of use that creates a likelihood of confusion as to the producer of a good or service.Trademark dilution refers to use of a sufficiently famous mark by an...
[19:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces "Tidal": An Underwater Camera System for Fish Farmers - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:22] <exec> 08└─Pichai Sundaquaman?
[19:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:42] <exec> 08└─Who boy, thought those were supposed to break at some point. This definitely won't be abused!
[19:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:38] <exec> 08└─Depends on how thick the skull is.
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[20:24:21] <exec> 08└─Enforcing laws that Trump doesn't happen to like is not activism. Maybe if he would bother to learn how government works he could do something to change those laws.
[20:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:23] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to understand the point of your post and just can't. So draining the swamp isn't hard? It takes a little while but gets done in the end? Is this a weird pro-Trump thing? Or a sarcastic jab at Trump's supposed swamp draining that only accelerated the corruption and swampiness?
[20:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:25] <exec> 08└─Only conservatives can hold such weird cognitive dissonance. "Get government out of our lives, small government good." "Let big government do what it wants, oil companies need taxpayer assistance to maximize profits!" So government bad when it helps the majority of the people, and great when it funn...
[20:24:26] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 1459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:27] <exec> 08└─Only 25%* of the voting age population in the United States voted for the current administration. The election was not about BLM land. People voting for an administration does not mean they support every decision that administration might make. Tradition holds that we discuss these things and expect...
[20:24:28] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:29] <exec> 08└─I've noticed an interesting pattern here: Judges that say "Yes, the president has to follow the law as written, and if you don't like it you have to get Congress to change the law" are being declared "activists" and presumably aren't supposed to be listened to. Meanwhile, judges that say "The presid...
[20:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand Birds Show Humanlike Ability to Make Predictions - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:40] <exec> 08└─Not a particularly hot take. AP stats is offered at most schools that offer AP calc. At the same level. Here's a hot one though. Formal logic and philosophy before geometry.
[20:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand Birds Show Humanlike Ability to Make Predictions - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:42] <exec> 08└─In New Zealand mammals never evolved so birds took all the ecological niches mammals occupy everywhere else. If you have ever seen Keas in the wild you may be struck by how similar they are to monkeys in their behaviour. They may well be as clever as monkeys too.
[20:24:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 692 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:57] <exec> 08└─The ISS is from the previous era. Reusable rockets change everything. NASA will be able to launch a station with 10x the volume at 1/10th the cost. They can take into account decades of new technologies and lessons learned from operating the ISS. If the ISS's components are actually past their prime...
[20:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:06] <exec> 08└─Starship will be capable of doing it, especially if ISS is hanging around up there until 2028-2032.
[20:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:14] <exec> 08└─You can implement any* language in any Turing complete language. *Any language with no greater expressivity of a Turing complete one, in case one ever becomes available.
[20:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:56] <exec> 08└─Who's calling the shots for Linux development ? IBM, and to a lesser extent, Microsoft. Welcome to the new bosses, same as the old bosses.
[20:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:57] <exec> 08└─Danny, do you stay up all night to invent these horrible puns or do they just come extemporaneously? 🤣
[20:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:59] <exec> 08└─Oh, well then. Remind me to never wish for a million dollars to rain on me. You'd probably deliver in pennies.
[20:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:01] <exec> 08└─You'd probably deliver in pennies.
[20:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:53] <exec> 08└─Here is another tech company to save you!!!
[20:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:01] <exec> 08└─Too bad the ISS doesn't have 8K resolution cameras.
[20:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to an End - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:02] <exec> 08└─The main https://setiathome.berkeley.edu [berkeley.edu] page has this "hibernation" announcement in the news section.
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[21:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:26] <exec> 08└─It occurred to me today that our two party system, as practiced recently with near total solidarity, has made impeachment and many other of the checks and balances basically irrelevant when one party has achieved control of two branches of government. Things like conflict of interest in politicians'...
[21:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:27] <exec> 08└─Some votes are more equal than others. * 62,984,828 - votes Trump/Pence 65,853,514 - votes Clinton/Kaine 250,056,000 - Eligible American Voters ** 327,000,000 - Total population of the United States 62,984,828 - votes Trump/Pence ...
[21:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:29] <exec> 08└─Um, let's correct those numbers to show what really went down * 250,056,000 - Eligible American Voters 128,838,342 - votes Trump/Clinton 51% of eligible Americans voters voted for the status quo A lease here, a war there, it all evens out...
[21:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:31] <exec> 08└─81%** of Americans either voted against this administration or did not vote at all.
[21:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:33] <exec> 08└─This is why it is important to consider public comment and not act so capriciously.
[21:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:35] <exec> 08└─All psychopaths say that. Until they commit suicide in jail.
[21:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:37] <exec> 08└─My take is the latter. The swamp on the Potomac can be drained, but it will take time. Trump claimed to want to drain the swamp, but in reality just added more water and alligators to it. Government transparency has been plummeting almost as fast as corruption has been rising. The US Corruption Inde...
[21:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:39] <exec> 08└─Kind of depressing that I had to question that level of sarcasm.
[21:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:41] <exec> 08└─Epstein didn't kill himself.
[21:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:16] <exec> 08└─Starship can land, but can it do it with a large payload? And, anyhow, it would take dozens of launches to get all the big modules back. It would cost billions and billions of dollars to do it, and no scientific benefit.
[21:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Marsupial is the Only Animal That's Always Pregnant - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:31] <exec> 08└─"For some, of course, it's normal to only have one or a couple offspring in a lifetime." No, that's not "normal." If a significant fraction of the females in a species do this, the species quickly goes extinct.
[21:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Suggest That Earth Was Covered Entirely With Water 3.2 Billion Years Ago - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:01] <exec> 08└─Makes sense. I think I read somewhere that if the earth was a perfect sphere with no continental shelfs (shelves?), the ocean would be over 2 kilometers deep. On geologic timescales continental crust is like the buoyancy of ice cubes floating in water.
[21:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Suggest That Earth Was Covered Entirely With Water 3.2 Billion Years Ago - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:03] <exec> 08└─I know. However, scihub is illegal in most western countries and a mere public pointing to it can put you into jail in those which enforce copyright hard by police. A minimum risk in my country is a confiscation of computers and equipment, as a proof of crime or offense, which itself is disturbing e...
[21:26:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Common Joe [33] 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:17] <exec> 08└─A language is a tool. A good programmer chooses the right tool for a task.
[21:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:13] <exec> 08└─Why is linus such a fag?
[21:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Overcharged by a Tech Company? New Service Could Help Get Your Money Back - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:06] <exec> 08└─Well, then it seems a pretty open-and-shut case. But I have 0 understanding of taking a corporation to small claims court. Definitely seek out legal advice, and as you already learned law enforcement will do exactly jack shit about something like this.
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[22:24:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:19] <exec> 08└─You probably didn't have lobbyists refilling the swamp as you drained it.
[22:24:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:34] <exec> 08└─This is why it is important to consider public comment and not act so capriciously.
[22:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:39] <exec> 08└─Enforcing laws that Trump doesn't happen to like is not activism.
[22:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:41] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the US Constitution, and many state constitutions, were written without considering political parties, among other things. The plan was for each representative or senator to be representing their constituents, not a faction or party. And as you might have guessed, that's almost n...
[22:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand Birds Show Humanlike Ability to Make Predictions - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:53] <exec> 08└─Consider the way a nervous system could evolve. You start with a sensor and a reactor. Sensor senses (food, problem) then reactor reacts (eat, U turn). Then the sensor becomes more complex to better assess the reaction. Then the reactor "misfires" when the sensor has sensed a situation that resemble...
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[22:25:19] <exec> 08└─> NASA will be able to launch a station with 10x the volume at 1/10th the cost. That is what they said for the shuttles too ;-)
[22:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:20] <exec> 08└─We should ignite it on fire with Oxygen and then fire its thrusters to move it out of orbit, viking funeral style.
[22:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Suggest That Earth Was Covered Entirely With Water 3.2 Billion Years Ago - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:08] <exec> 08└─The book of Genesis in the Bible states the earth was initially completely covered in water before the first supercontinent appeared. Genesis 1:9: "And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
[22:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, true. But the amount of effort is a factor in whether anyone would produce a specific implementation. Especially a goal of UI written in Prolog.
[22:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Programming Language Rankings: Python Now as Popular as Java, as TypeScript Climbs - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:34] <exec> 08└─The solution to that problem is tenure, as one of the last lucky bastard with job security comparable to tenured professors, I have no need for resumé padding. As a result I am free to choose the right tool for the job. Tenured positions come with theirs own set of problems but fad chasing isn't on...
[22:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:21] <exec> 08└─They come naturally. On the fly.
[22:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:23] <exec> 08└─When people can't marry adorable young girls, all that's good in life is money.
[22:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:25] <exec> 08└─There is a major deficiency with shell pipelines. Only the exit status of the last command is returned, the exit status of all other commands are silently ignored. Consider the example given (I will note that specifying a file of - is redundant, tar will write to standard output by default): tar cf...
[22:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:27] <exec> 08└─"No worry, systemd will guide us back to the true Unix Microsoft way." According to Wikipedia, Microsoft had the highest volume Unix license for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]They distributed Xenix for a variety of microcomputers. The distribution I remember came w...
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[23:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Process Nodes Will Trail Behind Competitors Until at Least Late 2021 - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:09] <exec> 08└─Well, this was exactly the kind of news I was going to start digging for in the next few weeks. A friend of mine is considering building a new computer and he's seriously considering AMD, even though he's been an Intel user for decades. Performance, power, and features like PCI 4.0 are all in favor...
[23:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Process Nodes Will Trail Behind Competitors Until at Least Late 2021 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:11] <exec> 08└─We are projected to be all caught up with today's standars in 2 years. By then hopefully the competition hasn't advanced any and we would be all caught up.
[23:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Process Nodes Will Trail Behind Competitors Until at Least Late 2021 - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:13] <exec> 08└─If one company leapfrogs the other in performance, the other company can try to compete on price. Except with Intel, the CPUs currently use 2x the energy or worse to hit those high clock speeds. Even if you think Intel's upcoming 10-core 10900k [wccftech.com] is a good idea, the motherboard will be...
[23:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Process Nodes Will Trail Behind Competitors Until at Least Late 2021 - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:15] <exec> 08└─He's willing to spend money to build what he wants now, but he's not very patient. I expect he'll settle for a Zen2 chip or MAYBE I can talk him into waiting for the holiday season if Zen3 looks like it'll arrive on time. This coronavirus thing could be a big disruption if things get bad.
[23:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Process Nodes Will Trail Behind Competitors Until at Least Late 2021 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:17] <exec> 08└─Process tech relies on volume, and Intel focusing on processor chips can't compete with contract foundries (TSMC) and dram foundries (Samsung).
[23:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unstable Rock Pillars Near Reservoirs Can Produce Dangerous Water Waves - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:25] <exec> 08└─I've seen this movie. It's called "The Wave".
[23:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:55] <exec> 08└─Cities don't enforce federal laws. I wish you guys would learn how our government works before opining about it.
[23:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:57] <exec> 08└─The swamp has a hysteresis built in. See, when water level goes down, number of crocodiles per cubic meter increases. Not to worry though as phase shift is coming.
[23:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:59] <exec> 08└─Lots of posturing and fighting, thousands of lawyer-hours burned, people working overtime, all to... just retain status quo. Great work, team! Great work, coach! Hut hut hut!
[23:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:01] <exec> 08└─Where did I bash Trump? This Trump Derangement Syndrome must be a projection in your case. I'm not going to argue about the numbers. I'm not talking politics. It is pretty clear what I'm talking about in response to your partisan mumbo-jumbo.
[23:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Lease Sales - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:03] <exec> 08└─Right? T'is a shame.
[23:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Birds Show Humanlike Ability to Make Predictions - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:16] <exec> 08└─I agree. I took a year and a half of calculus at my local community college and it's mostly useless. OTOH I sometimes use statistics to help make investment decisions. I can use bollinger bands (a moving average with standard deviations) or a regression line or curve with standard deviations to help...
[23:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Birds Show Humanlike Ability to Make Predictions - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:17] <exec> 08└─(Same poster) and I also look at the R^2 value to help determine which curve is the best to use (but you have to be careful with this, I can always create a complicated but ridiculous curve/equation that has a good R^2 value).
[23:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Birds Show Humanlike Ability to Make Predictions - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:19] <exec> 08└─Parrots have the mental ability to integrate several kinds of information, while muslims do whatever the Koran tells them to do.
[23:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:46] <exec> 08└─The plan is for Starship to land with up to 50 tons. Launch cost of a Starship could be as low as $2 million. Not all of the modules would need to come back, since the Russians wanted to start a new station with theirs, for example. Total cost would be well under $1 billion.
[23:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:47] <exec> 08└─There are a laundry list of reasons that you can't push ISS into a much higher orbit. The hard problems to solve would be significantly increased radiation exposure, comm system link margin, and the power+cooling systems are designed for a ~90 minute day/night cycle. None of the issues are such that...
[23:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Expanding, And Eventually Replacing, The International Space Station - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:49] <exec> 08└─Only 5 astronauts traing for years and a complete rebuild of 1970s tech every launch. Sure costs sure were way down on that. Thanks Al Gore.
[23:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Marsupial is the Only Animal That's Always Pregnant - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:05] <exec> 08└─Depends on the ratio of female to male births. A high ratio means that females can have somewhat less than two births and still grow a population. But there needs to be a really good survival rate.
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