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[00:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:08] <exec> 08└─thanks for the memories
[00:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:09] <exec> 08└─As you leave, you hear behind you a sound like a forty-five degree angle landing on a pile of forty-five degree angles. "Oh shit! Not again!" you hear Mitre moan.
[00:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:11] <exec> 08└─I guess I'm not an old fart, as I only know one answer without Googling, and I only know it because I worked for a bank from 2003 to 2014. (It's number 12, the COBOL question. And I know why it's a trick question...but I ain't telling.)
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[00:24:13] <exec> 08└─Had something to do with clothing and *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) a fella named Leonard, as I recall.
[00:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:15] <exec> 08└─If you turn on bi-directional printing alternate lines look like this. and then this....
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[00:24:17] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) For years fast memory (used like RAM today) was made of tiny ferrite cores (donuts) strung on even tinier wires by tiny fingers. Core memory came in planes, takyon would love it, they were stacked in 3D!
[00:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:20] <exec> 08└─Number Six: Was the character played by Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner [wikipedia.org]. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Because memory back then was "core" memory, and "dumping core" meant copying the contents of that memory to a file if the running program aborted
[00:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:22] <exec> 08└─Well, I must be an even older fart, because I know number 6 (either that or a pervert because I know the answer to number 5). All of the rest of these seem to assume you worked with PCs rather than "real computers" during the mid-to-late eighties. Sadly, I also know the answer to number 16.
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[00:24:24] <exec> 08└─#9 In graphical mode, describe what the "man" does in smit.
[00:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:26] <exec> 08└─"1. What is the advantage of unidirectional printing on a dot-matrix printer?" I'm guessing the bidirectional ones are faster but perhaps the unidirectional ones are cheaper and jam less? IIRC if the unidirectional one jammed you can often fix it by pushing the header back to its starting position b...
[00:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:24] <exec> 08└─By your logic, my deadbolt is useless and I shouldn't bother locking my door at all. Well, by my logic, if the deadbolt is made of paper mache, or if it's a black box that pops open when an airliner flies over the house [we remember our old electric garage doors] it does little more than look nice.
[00:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:26] <exec> 08└─Please, do explain how encrypting data across the internet is worse than *not* encrypting data across the internet. This ought to be mildly amusing.
[00:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:28] <exec> 08└─Spamming in genpop?
[00:25:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03etherscythe [937] 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 347 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:39] <exec> 08└─You're half right, in the sense that it's not ALL in the Y, technically, but males with ZZ still live longer than the females with ZW. Female birds, butterflies and moths were usually found to die earlier than their male counterparts, giving credence to the unguarded X hypothesis – although strict...
[00:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:55] <exec> 08└─Males are not the ones who carry the babies. In a tribe, if half the men die because of the stupid shit they do, then it won't even make a dent in the birth rate of said tribe. On the other hand, the same risk-taking that killed half the men will allow the other half to bring valuable resources that...
[00:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:56] <exec> 08└─Was it a study made by a woman, perchance?
[00:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:58] <exec> 08└─I'll second Ikanreed's post. Fuck off.
[00:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spring is Arriving Earlier Across the US, and That's Not Good News - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:11] <exec> 08└─Ha! It is true, we did have one Sunday afternoon in January when it looked like dusk at 2 o'clock, but I think the Aussies have been peeing on the fires for a while now, and have them under control.
[00:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Process Nodes Will Trail Behind Competitors Until at Least Late 2021 - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:13] <exec> 08└─That is answering an architectural question which drives the schematic. That's another interesting story. I was asking a process question as to why they are behind at least two different other companies? It takes both tick and tock to be great in that area. I pointed out tick, you pointed out tock....
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[00:30:09] <exec> 08└─I accept it. What's your problem? Are you a racist?
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[01:24:19] <exec> 08└─"Keith Hernandez" Who's on first.
[01:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:21] <exec> 08└─Yep, number 6 is the only one I got for sure. And if 5 isn't Leisure Suit Larry then I guess I'm a one-answer pony.
[01:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:23] <exec> 08└─Back then you could double the throughput by printing every other line backwards. You saved the time wasted bringing the print head home.
[01:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:25] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter the type of printer, you can always move the head by shoving it. If that doesn't work, it was broken anyway. There are lots of things that you can fix, even today, with BFMI.
[01:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:27] <exec> 08└─14. Out of my head. The instruction is not "eioio", but "eieio": "Enforce In-Order Execution of IO". Sets a sequence barrier for superscalar execution of the Load/Store unit, so the loads and stores are guaranteed to come in a determined sequence. Not as much of a performance penalty as "sync" which...
[01:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:29] <exec> 08└─So I was still in HS for #5 and I can make a few guesses here and there, but I totally failed: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) #5: Leisure Suite Larry was first released, and the first one I played was the one where he is on an island, I believe the 3rd release, but if I was to t...
[01:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:31] <exec> 08└─Damn. 1 second after posting, it occured to me: 5 must have been *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Infocom's "Leather Godesses of Phobos".
[01:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:33] <exec> 08└─Wow, I finally found a use for that copy of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List I have sitting on the shelf here! Now, do I lose quiz points for not knowing the answer, or do I get cool points for still having the book? :) *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) There appear to be several interr...
[01:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:35] <exec> 08└─#4 *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Uh, I *think* it's 21h / 00h, but it's been a long time...
[01:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:37] <exec> 08└─NLQ, microprint *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) NLQ: Near Letter Quality Microprint: 160 characters per line, 132 lines per standard 8-1/2X11 sheet
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[02:24:30] <exec> 08└─What is the visual administration tool in AIX called? *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Runner? I remember the logo/progress bar was a dude running though...
[02:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:32] <exec> 08└─My answer to question #5 is: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Infocom's Leather Goddesses of Phobos. I still have a copy of the C64 version.
[02:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:34] <exec> 08└─and traveled to the moon!
[02:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:36] <exec> 08└─Off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure that these eight are correct: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) 1. Better alignment at the expense of speed 2. Station tap spacing... 2.5 metres 4. 00h terminates, 4Ch with an errorlevel code, 31h for a TSR 5. LSL 6. Because olde timey memory...
[02:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:38] <exec> 08└─You prematurely ejaculated as I did. You read only the questions and not anything below them before jumping to blurt out your answers, then had that "oh shit" moment. Modded informative for providing answers tho, nigga.
[02:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:40] <exec> 08└─Using a paper copy of the famous Ralph Brown Interrupt List does not count as googling, so it's fine :-)
[02:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:42] <exec> 08└─Shit, I should have done them separately: 1. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Better alignment at the expense of speed
[02:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:44] <exec> 08└─You only get 50% for your answer to #17 *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) I still have my box with "OS/2 2.11 for Symmetrical Multiprocessing" and the CD-ROM and 3½" floppies.
[02:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, and I forgot to be specific on #4: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Didn't specify the int #... all INT 21h; functions 00h, 4Ch and 31h.
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[02:24:48] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Unidirectional printers were cheaper (not as much memory or processing needed), had higher quality output, many didn't smudge as badly, and they could double strike bold and do other text effects because they handled the \r and \n seperately.
[02:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I was thinking it might have been, but I *knew* about the later version. Thanks for correcting me.
[02:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:52] <exec> 08└─And I should have said *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Lawrence, not Leonard
[02:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:54] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Subdirectories!
[02:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:57] <exec> 08└─Like me. #1 *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) It allows the head to cool down, constant bi-directional printing makes the head run much hotter and therefore wear out much faster. In a worn out print head all the little impact wires bunching up in a ball instead of staying in a line...
[02:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:59] <exec> 08└─Go stick your head in a pig!
[02:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:01] <exec> 08└─#1 *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Yes, time saved in bi-directional, but the question asks advantages of uni-directional. When I did a lot of bi-directional printing, I would burn through (expensive) print heads faster than ribbons - this was at work. Ask the boss-man: "you want...
[02:25:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:43] <exec> 08└─Thank you, very helpful. Small correction: the link should omit the "checkhost" bit: https://checkhost.unboundtest.com [unboundtest.com]
[02:25:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:52] <exec> 08└─Security is binary. Any value less than 1 is 0.
[02:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:32] <exec> 08└─- HUSBAND - wat - HEY SHOW SOME RESPECT FOR GOD - *kneels* wat - THAT'S BETTER. YOUR WIFE WANTS YOU TO DIE - good, me too is fed up living in hell on earth, i take a shot at the afterlife, so could you - NO WE HAVE A PROBLEM - i know, respect for life at all costs - LOL NO, I USUALLY GRANT THOSE REQ...
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[02:26:33] <exec> 08└─Good thinking, males are quite a bit more expendables.
[02:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:35] <exec> 08└─Two compelling lines of evidence rule out lifestyle factors. One is that if you compare monks and nuns the nuns live longer. The other is that infant mortality rates are higher for male babies.
[02:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:37] <exec> 08└─Men argue, fight, and move on. Women remember, forever, and never really forgive.
[02:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ring Logs Every Doorbell Press and App Action - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:26] <exec> 08└─As far as function goes the product is DONE.
[02:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Hackers Targeted China in Decade-Long Campaign: Chinese Security Firm - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:41] <exec> 08└─Wow that's a mighty big leap from expecting spies on both sides to be spies - not sure who's crazier here.
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[03:24:54] <exec> 08└─I think my C compilers handled that exit trivia bit for me, though I did have to rough it for RS-232 Rx and Tx interrupt handlers, especially rough on the Tx side - I later heard that there was a silicon bug in the 8259 chips which is why they were such a bitch to do interrupt driven Tx with.
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[03:24:55] <exec> 08└─Fidonet was the first inkling of the power of the internet for 'free' long distance communication. Before that there were actually BBS systems that would shuttle messages across the country on 'free local' hops, not many, but a few.
[03:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:58] <exec> 08└─My answer to question #1 is: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Hysteresis problems would be eliminated if printing was unidirectional.
[03:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:00] <exec> 08└─KEITH HERNANDEZ!? I despise him. I'll tell you why... June 14, 1987.... Mets Phillies. We're enjoying a beautiful afternoon in the right field stands when a crucial Hernandez error to a five run Phillies ninth. Cost the Mets the game.
[03:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 1996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:02] <exec> 08└─#5 that was my assumption too but i really don't recall. yep to #6, and me too. #8 me too. Your coco sticks were not spring loaded. I remember hating them. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) 1. What is the advantage of unidirectional printing on a dot-matrix printer? i remember bidi...
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[03:25:04] <exec> 08└─I'm old enough to understand all of these questions and to know the desired answer to several of them, but the correct answer to ALL of them is, "Who cares?" Nobody needs to remember any of this information. It's not useful anymore. As Sherlock said, it's just mental clutter. Triumph said it best be...
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[03:25:06] <exec> 08└─Doesn't everybody? I worked on the MC/OS kernel. We were crazy enough to build the software in two versions, one of which would set the LE and ILE bits in the MSR register of an MPC7410 CPU. That should horrify you. It puts the CPU into little-endian mode, with the nasty side effect of swapping all...
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[03:25:08] <exec> 08└─No googling, but I think it is : *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Leather Goddess of Phobos
[03:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:10] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Amiga (1985) I think Norton came out a few years later and the Laser Jet was pretty shiny new in 1990
[03:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:12] <exec> 08└─I used Wordperfect. And I forget how i did it there too, but I still miss editing formatting directly.
[03:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, for serial, I usually ended up just saying "screw it" and instead used a FOSSIL driver to do the heavy lifting.
[03:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:16] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one who got #5 right? What dude as a teenager could forgetConnection reset by pier
[03:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:18] <exec> 08└─Ditto. When I read old fart I though I might qualify, but for these I am not fossil enough. I would score just _one_ for :) COBOL :) ... I also know it!
[03:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:20] <exec> 08└─11: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) C64 Joysticks were plug compatible with Atari 2600 ones. Otherwise your post was spot on.
[03:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WFIRST Approved for Development by NASA Despite Possible Cancellation - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:31] <exec> 08└─You can't delay the things that really matter on "what if something goes wrong in the future." Politicians come and go, even if WFIRST gets cancelled, there's a pretty good chance it would get re-funded in 2021.
[03:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WFIRST Approved for Development by NASA Despite Possible Cancellation - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:32] <exec> 08└─Refunded.. Is that before or after the engineers have been reassigned?
[03:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WFIRST Approved for Development by NASA Despite Possible Cancellation - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:34] <exec> 08└─To be fair, Congress has already rebuffed most of the administration's NASA/space priorities. Previous attempts to defund things were slapped down, and the Artemis program [wikipedia.org] hasn't gotten funded yet.
[03:26:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:12] <exec> 08└─My apologies. I responded too quickly. Security is binary. Any value less than 1 is 0.
[03:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:25] <exec> 08└─That's not an argument as to how encrypting is worse than not encrypting web traffic. In fact, on the whole, it's an argument in the other direction. Just being contrarian or are you brain-addled? Inquiring minds aren't interested.
[03:26:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:40] <exec> 08└─My boss liked to use this joke: Why do men die before their wives? Their prayers have been answered. He stopped using it when his wife retorted: Whose prayers?
[03:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:00] <exec> 08└─Thousands of years of evolution is not undone by a few people living cloistered lives. Men are only necessary up to procreation. Also, I suspect the monks do more maintenance tasks (and then fall off ladders, etc.) than the nuns.
[03:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:01] <exec> 08└─Someone has some unresolved angst...
[03:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:03] <exec> 08└─The sad thing is, out of the 70+ genders you claim there are, no member of any of them will ever, ever love you. Your schtick is old, tiresome, and sophomoric. Thirding the "fuck offs."
[03:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:05] <exec> 08└─NPC-$BIGNUM is a troll account, and a rather hamfisted one at that. Mod down and move on.
[03:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:07] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the insights into how to have a better marriage.
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[04:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSMC's Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) Connects Multiple Interposers - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:13] <exec> 08└─damn thats a big 'micro'chip.
[04:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:12] <exec> 08└─Bidirectional printers could do bold just fine since the return stroke wasn't exactly over the left-to-right.
[04:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:14] <exec> 08└─Wordstar was ctl-k b for the beginning of the block, ctl-k k for the end of the block. Also used in quick edit and Borland dos turbo c and bc++.
[04:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:16] <exec> 08└─My answer to question 3 - SuperMAX DDE is: *SPOILER* (click to hide) The what?
[04:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:18] <exec> 08└─My answer to question #18 is: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) I was in Zone 1 (USA), Net 387 at the time. I ran a multinode BBS (Desqview, and later OS/2) and hung off the Southern Star for hubbing out Echo and File distributions. Pulled in newsgroups as well. (Also a member of...
[04:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:20] <exec> 08└─My LaserJet 2P was a great piece to use with the Amiga. I had the PacificPage PostScript cartridge and 4 MB (yes "M", children). The Amiga "spoke" PostScript, so I could let the printer do all the compositing. I built my own "SideCar" to hold a 2 MB memory card and serial card, so I had more memory...
[04:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:22] <exec> 08└─not exactly: Near Letter Quality If you had a Daisy Wheel or Selectric printer, then you had actual letter quality. I had the Daisy Wheel, which was much quieter than the Selectric-as-printer.
[04:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:24] <exec> 08└─I guess I never printed enough to wear out a printhead, but I do recall unidirectional printing seemed to print darker because the ribbon advanced continuously, but not as fast as the printhead, so the same section of ribbon printed twice as many characters going bidirectional. There was also a sigh...
[04:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:26] <exec> 08└─I don't think you're quite right on that one. We got our first LaserJet III in 1990 (currently has over 800,000 pages on the Canon LBP-SX engine!!) The original CX-engined LaserJet came out in 84, as did the original LaserWriter (also a CX), I assume. My dad's business partner bought one for $4000 t...
[04:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:28] <exec> 08└─To everybody who keeps guessing Leisure Suit Larry, that is incorrect. As an old fart who played the game back in the day, it's *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Infocom's Leather Goddesses of Phobos
[04:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:30] <exec> 08└─I remember arguing at a Fidocon with Tom Jennings about whether USR looking up BBS's in the nodelist to qualify them for the sysop program was a commercial use of the nodelist. Good times :-) (I've still got a USR Sysop Program modem with the brass "Not for Resale" plate on it downstairs.)
[04:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know I was wrong on that one. I realized I had erred as soon as I saw a couple people had post the correct answer up there earlier. :)
[04:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:35] <exec> 08└─We had a Diablo 1620. It was most certainly NOT quiet. :)
[04:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:19] <exec> 08└─It was expected, though not quite so soon. She had a bad heart condition since birth. But she was one of the best people I've ever known....and I find it really odd that her first husband didn't think so. OTOH, when I was 30, I wasn't ready for that kind of a relationship, and, perhaps, neither was...
[04:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:20] <exec> 08└─And, someone tries to find meaning in every fart and belch. See the moderations on my comment - as of now, +3 funny. Some people got a chuckle due to the well-known fact that women hate to allow a sleeping dog lie. Kinda like you, who imagines that she has some kind of insight and leverage on some r...
[04:27:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06'Surfing Attack' Hacks Siri, Google With Ultrasonic Waves - 316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:30] <exec> 08└─https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=3968 [phonescoop.com] That could happen within the next 2-3 years [comsoc.org]. There are still flip phones you can get: https://www.phonescoop.com [phonescoop.com] If you get an Android flip phone, you could connect a Bluetooth m...
[04:27:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Ring Logs Every Doorbell Press and App Action - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:49] <exec> 08└─Amazon says it uses the information to evaluate, manage and improve its products and services.
[04:27:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Ring Logs Every Doorbell Press and App Action - 227 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:53] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the target audience is anybody who is still in the "Yay, new technology for everything!" way of thinking. I don't know who these idiots are, but as a wise man once said, there's another sucker born every minute.
[04:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spring is Arriving Earlier Across the US, and That's Not Good News - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:37] <exec> 08└─Murder our monoculture post-glacial boreal forests? Not the best idea ever, but it's not a lot of biodiversity at risk.
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[05:25:31] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) 1. If the mechanism is a bit wobbly, all the lines will still line up properly. 5. Leather goddesses of phobos 6. Because memory used to be made of magnetic cores.' 8. DOS 2 has a directory hierarchy. 13. Somewhere else in the galaxy. 15. Don't kno...
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[05:25:33] <exec> 08└─they handled the \r and \n seperately
[05:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WFIRST Approved for Development by NASA Despite Possible Cancellation - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:47] <exec> 08└─Politicians come and go, even if WFIRST gets cancelled, there's a pretty good chance it would get re-funded in 2021.
[05:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WFIRST Approved for Development by NASA Despite Possible Cancellation - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:49] <exec> 08└─Kinda nostalgic [youtube.com], don't you think?
[05:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:42] <exec> 08└─I am not arguing either way but your argument is not half as smart as you think and makes it stupider than it probably is. Security is not provided by the bolt on your door. Security is provided by the idea that police will consider it a grave criminal act to break that bolt and won't take you serio...
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[06:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Interesting) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 2127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:09] <exec> 08└─I used to be very much against the notion of intelligence. I thought people were all, roughly, about the same (excepting obvious cases of mental retardation). My hypothesis for differences largely came down to motivation. But having grown up, had an opportunity to teach, as well as see what other pe...
[06:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:11] <exec> 08└─Does that make me a bad programmer?
[06:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:13] <exec> 08└─No surprise that self-absorbed geeks obsess about irrelevant minutia. Grow up.
[06:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:15] <exec> 08└─Oh, my goodness! It's like a basketball fight!
[06:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:17] <exec> 08└─Spoken truly like a man who has had little to no experience with developers. Not, not all coders think they are good. In my experience most think they're quite bad. That, somewhat paradoxically, includes a number of Googlers I've worked with. But there's a reason for that. There's no simple way to q...
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[06:24:19] <exec> 08└─Math is a language.
[06:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 1688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:21] <exec> 08└─Math is Language, Language is Math Music is Language, Language is Music Math is Music, Music is Math In Math there is Logic In Langauge there is Logic In Music there is Logic Also add the same patterns for Dance, Acting, Story Telling, Physic, Chemistry, Even the Bible or Koran or ... Their are all...
[06:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:48] <exec> 08└─Nope, number five features (depending on which sex you play as) Trent or Tiffany.
[06:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:50] <exec> 08└─With the mechanical tolerances, it wasn't uncommon to get ghosting rather than the nice looking overstrike when printing BiDi.
[06:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:52] <exec> 08└─Back in the day I can remember turning on NLQ mode (major misnomer) when my worn out printhead resembled nine overlapping wires and the results still looked like shit. I had a professor that wouldn't accept dot matrix papers from students for that reason. Luckily, I had access to a daisywheel at wor...
[06:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:54] <exec> 08└─IBM Quietwriter was the bomb back then. It was very wispy quiet and the print was phenomenal for the time. The only issue was the single pass ribbons.
[06:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:56] <exec> 08└─I got a Pacific Page cartridge second hand. We had an original HP Laserjet in the office. When the fuser heated up the room lights would literally flicker. After a print, the whole room smelled of ozone. And the damn thing must have weighed 100 lbs.
[06:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:58] <exec> 08└─It was also called "lol memory". Little old ladies made it.
[06:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:47] <exec> 08└─Women are only necessary up to procreation, which generally stops around age 40. Males can keep going until they die. The sex with the reduced sex chromosome might die earlier, BUT WHY DID IT DIE??? They need to demonstrate the earlier deaths are due to chromosome damage else they didn't prove anyth...
[06:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0615 Years, and We're Still Reporting Homograph Attacks - Web Domains Using Non-Latin Characters - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:31] <exec> 08└─in the summary and in your reply I see different ell-s as well. but in the variants, I see only the regular ell. Maybe it's the spoiler tag, no idea.
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[07:24:23] <exec> 08└─All programming requires logical thought, but I can believe that doesn't necessarily translate into always being good at math. But they're related. But then, most intelligence is related in some way or another. Some programming skills probably relate more closely to (human) language skills. Programm...
[07:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:25] <exec> 08└─Obviously mileage may vary from job role to job role. Your average web front end developer probably isn't going to be using anything close to what a video game engine developer is doing. Although I'm not a programmer, I have scripts I've written integrated into some automation tools at my last workp...
[07:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:27] <exec> 08└─You choose names more often than you design numerically complex algorithms. The names (both nouns and verbs) are ultimately what transmit understanding to the reader. In addition, the ability to string together words in a coherent and meaningful manner is a pretty good indication of an ability to st...
[07:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:00] <exec> 08└─Good God, I can still hear the rapid fire banging of the daisy wheel in our office. When I close my eyes during action movies when an actor is using a machine gun, I often see it in my head.
[07:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:01] <exec> 08└─Apparently so. In fact, I'd never even heard of the correct answer until it appeared in the comments here. That's not surprising for a couple of reasons. In 1986, I was either working to pay rent or living on the street and didn't have regular access to a computer. Also, I likely wouldn't have bothe...
[07:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:03] <exec> 08└─I do not remember daisy wheels being quiet. They were, perhaps the loudest machines I have regularly been exposed to in my life. OSHA literally required hearing protection in our batch printing room.
[07:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:05] <exec> 08└─#9 In graphical mode, describe what *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) the "man" does in smit
[07:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:07] <exec> 08└─Never before have so many commentors spoilage hid their comments on the Soylent News. And never before, except that one time, did we realize how many old farts are Soylentils. I really, really, hope the corona virus does not infect this forum, since it seems to mostly kill old farts with underlying...
[07:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:09] <exec> 08└─Without bothering to reach for spoiler tags, I reckon I should be able to answer questions 1 6 8 11 13, and take a punt at 17.
[07:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:11] <exec> 08└─KEITH HERNANDEZ!? I despise him. I'll tell you why... June 14, 1987.... Mets Phillies. We're enjoying a beautiful afternoon in the right field stands when a crucial Hernandez error to a five run Phillies ninth. Cost the Mets the game.
[07:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:14] <exec> 08└─What is the visual administration tool in AIX called?
[07:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 2463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:23] <exec> 08└─I'll ignore your obnoxious and insulting tone for the moment, as I smack your ridiculous "argument" down. GP stated that "security is binary." His point was that either something is secure, or it isn't and there are no gradations in security. To wit, if something isn't *completely* secure, it is com...
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[08:24:20] <exec> 08└─I accept that not every story is of interest to everyone in our community - but why bother with a comment such as yours? If you have nothing intelligent to contribute - just shut up. The adults can then have a sensible discussion.
[08:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:01] <exec> 08└─Having read through others' answers, I see that I misunderstood question 1: I was thinking of unidirectional and bidirectional printer ports. But to even it out, looking up DOS interrupts in old manuals is apparently fine, so I'd have won one back for that. Do I get bonus points for having some actu...
[08:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:11] <exec> 08└─Security is binary. Any value less than 1 is 0.
[08:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:54] <exec> 08└─There's also the asymmetric fertility thing. One man can impregnate countless thousands of females. One woman who was pregnant from puberty to menopause produce maybe ~30 kids. In practice it's really more like 15. So having a greater genetic stability in women and higher variability in men would al...
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[09:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:28] <exec> 08└─To some extent, at least, you learn language that you use. First year introductory thing to French, the teacher told me how smart, and how good I was. Later, first year of Spanish, I embarrassed everyone associated with me. I felt stupid, because I just don't link unfamiliar words and stuff to my ow...
[09:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:30] <exec> 08└─Those of you who know nothing, find it easy to assume that someone who knows something feels superior. But, it's just your own inferiority complex jerking your chain.
[09:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, It Is domain dependent. And one needs to consider organization and modularization of code, which is neither math nor language. Plus are we talking about analysts or coders? A coder that knows the compiler inside out and has no idea what a cosine is, is probably best suited for most tasks than a...
[09:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:34] <exec> 08└─no text, see subject.
[09:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:36] <exec> 08└─if you think about it, most movies and comic books are just random collections of clichees. but some things stick with you. like when Michael Caine said "some people just want to watch the world burn".
[09:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:38] <exec> 08└─so my mother says this morning "go buy two loafs of bread. oh, and if they have eggs, get half a dozen". now she's screaming at me that we have no use for six loafs of bread. I'd just like her to make her mind up already...
[09:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:19] <exec> 08└─Only if you weaved it by hand.
[09:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:21] <exec> 08└─The 2P (as in "Personal", I s'pose) was much smaller and a bit slower. Bought mine when the base price went under USD$1000, then put in/on enough accessories to put it over $1500. Thing lasted until 2011 with few, and relatively inexpensive, repairs (like rollers); finally couldn't get any parts. Th...
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[10:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:33] <exec> 08└─It is neither math itself nor language skills itself that takes you far. It is the ability to split up a big problem into smaller problems and solving them. This skill is needed both in math and in communication. For example, if you write a thesis you know what conclusion you want to arrive at but y...
[10:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 2263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:34] <exec> 08└─Being good at language is prerequisite both for being good at math, and for being good at programming. Not that being good at language does not mean being good at writing poesy (although), or even being good at writing prose. But it does mean being good at writing sentences that actually mean what y...
[10:26:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06U.S. Department of Energy's "El Capitan" Supercomputer Will Reach 2 Exaflops Using AMD CPUs and GPUs - 294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:45] <exec> 08└─You'd also think the departman of defense wouldn't be involved in invading other countries, the department of education wouldn't be responsible mostly for shutting down schools, the department of justice wasn't responsible for major injustices. Newspeak is quite normal for american governance.
[10:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 0615 Years, and We're Still Reporting Homograph Attacks - Web Domains Using Non-Latin Characters - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's because in the spoiler tags there are only normal "l" letters. I just checked by copy-pasting it into a hex converter, and indeed every "l" is represented by the byte 6c, that is, the character “U+006C LATIN SMALL LETTER L”.
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[11:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:40] <exec> 08└─Good how? If the metric is coming up with novel and significant algorithms, then good programmers are most certainly better at math. However, almost no programmers/developers/software engineers have to make groundbreaking advances in algorithms as part of their work. Usually, what matters is writing...
[11:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:26] <exec> 08└─1. What is the advantage of unidirectional printing on a dot-matrix printer?
[11:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:27] <exec> 08└─Oops, I forgot to close one spoiler tag. There's more content than just an answer hiding in the last spoiler. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Reminder to self: don't forget to preview!
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[12:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:43] <exec> 08└─If you have nothing intelligent to contribute - just shut up.
[12:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:45] <exec> 08└─Agreed but you missed an important bit. It's also the ability to understand the big problems at all. I'd tell parents that if they want to raise a programmer, or a logical thinker at all, teach them to build things. Blocks, Legos, Erector sets, Transformers, Basic electronics, plumbing, carpentry, o...
[12:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:47] <exec> 08└─Newp. Algorithm = the steps for doing something. There's no requirement that it be doing something with abstract concepts like language or numbers, though being good at those as well is a help.
[12:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:49] <exec> 08└─I'm terrible at math. I can't even do basic algebra anymore. I had one of those IQ tests in 2016, total was 121, which it reaches sometimes here in Arizona, but everything came out around normal, math slightly below average, but the guy who tested me called the language abilities "rare". I'll never...
[12:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:35] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Unidirectional produced less wavy vertical lines. In graphics printing, unidirectional allowed to cool down head, but it was important mostly in a really messy 24-pin printers.
[12:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:37] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) I like spoilers because it's quite easy to troll people with them. DOS 3.3 FTW, PC N00bs
[12:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:47] <exec> 08└─Why did you bother repeating the same thing that you said before? The single thing that they're *supposed* to do, they *don't* do. That's not security, that's theatre. But I said that already.
[12:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:49] <exec> 08└─Stop conflating the physical world with the digital world. Digital security, at least the PKI part, is supported by mathematical proofs, bits of iron aren't, in fact they come with known breaking points. Totally different realms.
[12:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:51] <exec> 08└─This is digital security - you can parameterise it to be as strong as you want. And typically everyone choses "so strong that every CPU or ASIC in the world won't be able to break this for decades, even assuming moore's law continues unabated, except through an unimaginable fluke that wouldn't be ex...
[12:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:53] <exec> 08└─But we're not talking credit cards, we're talking PKI.
[12:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:55] <exec> 08└─And a thousand people already have my credit card numbers and my billing address, I hand them out all the fucking time. Noone has my private keys. Notice the difference?
[12:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:57] <exec> 08└─In the past, not knowing what we know now, could LetsEncrypt certificates be trusted? Now, knowing what we now know, should those LetsEncrypt certificates be trusted? In the past, knowing what we know now, should LetsEncrypt certificates have been trusted? Not all 8 combinations of answers make sens...
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[13:24:12] <exec> 08└─nah nah nah nah nah nah you need some paperwork with that paperwork?
[13:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:13] <exec> 08└─can't you deduct your state taxes from federal return?
[13:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:15] <exec> 08└─fuer ne weile wahren eure nachrichten immer ein paar tage der zeit hinterher. das funktionert aber langsam, aber die grotesken ungebildeten unwuerdigen kommentare die hier die mehrzahl der user-beitraege darzustellen scheinen gehen mir so auf den keks dass ich langsam schon gar keinen bock mehr habe...
[13:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 0680-Core Arm CPU To Bring Lower Power, Higher Density To A Rack Near You - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:28] <exec> 08└─OK, maybe just in a desktop with plenty of RAM and some giant harddisks. Should make my photo and video editing more easy … I hope.
[13:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:05] <exec> 08└─A truly intelligent entity is the one capable to learn anything. Anything. That's my axiom of intelligence. In this context, both programming and mathematics are just some special cases of knowledge. Nothing unusual, just specific problem domain languages. Best programs often come from mastering bot...
[13:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:07] <exec> 08└─it has to "click". i remember that. being around legos and stuff does not guarantee a "click" but i assume chances are higher that it will. also, it will always "click". if it doesn't you remain retarded. we all start off this way. the "trick" is to have it "click" early. just a few weeks earlier wi...
[13:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:56] <exec> 08└─NLQ only applied to dot matrix printers. I had both a daisy wheel and a dot matrix. The daisy wheel only had one mode - letter quality.
[13:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:56] <exec> 08└─i suppose only men who had to fight hard to "land the fish" are going to deny this theory. afterall the "fight" to proof oneself worthy (still a alpha even after marriage) is ongoing. everybody else has logically excepted that logic is not a alpha trait and that two copies of the "same blueprint" (x...
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[14:24:08] <exec> 08└─This is a decades old form from slashdot. We've probably all seen it. I don't have the wit to adapt it to the current crisis, but it still works to express conclusion: Your post advocates a ( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to moderation. Your idea will not work....
[14:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:09] <exec> 08└─It's surprising that it's hard, it really seems like something that should be a data change only. But, is it really that much better than -1 Troll or Flamebait? And is a specific opposite really necessary? Is there -1 Boring to go with +1 Interesting? :) Although the idea of moderation where every -...
[14:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:11] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna go as far as to say it's fucking stupid idea. There's legitimate reasons to call a fucking idiot a fucking idiot when they're being a fucking idiot.
[14:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:13] <exec> 08└─well you would know. testing testing "-1 Ad Hominem"
[14:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:15] <exec> 08└─The fact that you think describing a scenario where it's warranted and calling an idea stupid is an ad hominem is precisely why it's a bad idea as a mod.
[14:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 0680-Core Arm CPU To Bring Lower Power, Higher Density To A Rack Near You - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:29] <exec> 08└─Don't believe anything until you see real benchmarks.
[14:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 0680-Core Arm CPU To Bring Lower Power, Higher Density To A Rack Near You - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:30] <exec> 08└─I recall seeing another article that pitched the single-threaded nature of this chip as a security advantage. Probably true given the likely use cases. Don't expect to see it in AWS though. [soylentnews.org]
[14:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:10] <exec> 08└─Can you learn yourself to become a sovereign entity?
[14:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:11] <exec> 08└─Math is x for all values of "x"... given suitable values of "math" and "is". Otherwise, writing a computer program is no more or less like solving a differential equation than it is like composing a poem about daffodils. The fact that an activity can be described in terms of math does not mean that...
[14:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:14] <exec> 08└─You choose names more often than you design numerically complex algorithms.
[14:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:03] <exec> 08└─>Do I get bonus points for having some actual core memory on my desk? FFS that's Grandpa!
[14:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:04] <exec> 08└─If you don't have issues with systemd do check your pulse because you're already dead.
[14:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:06] <exec> 08└─I have the right question for you: what's the acronym for the Norwegian Film Institute?
[14:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:05] <exec> 08└─Just as a counterpoint - Male bonobos (arguably the most human-like of apes) typically live longer than female ones. In fact, I remember a study across primate species that found that gender differences in life expectancy correlated very well with gender differences in child care - with bonobos bein...
[14:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Hackers Targeted China in Decade-Long Campaign: Chinese Security Firm - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:14] <exec> 08└─Water is Wet isn't news. Neither is Spies Spied.
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[15:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50708544 [bbc.com]
[15:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:09] <exec> 08└─If methane goes the fuck away by itself, doesn't that make it a rather shitty target compared to stuff that's going to stick around being a problem for longer than you are?
[15:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:12] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately while it is short stay, it is also awfully effective while it is around - about 80 times better at trapping heat than CO2. It also ought to be pretty trivial to turn it into CO2 (and water) rather than release into the atmosphere - just burn it rather than release it raw. The likely pr...
[15:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:14] <exec> 08└─This post is for the drunk fool to bitch about them mexicans.
[15:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:16] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart_lighting [wikipedia.org]
[15:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:18] <exec> 08└─No, it is obviously for OldFart
[15:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:20] <exec> 08└─But enough about your mom
[15:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:35] <exec> 08└─We should pay for an expert to help us - oh, we do, that's one of the things that is included in the running costs of this site.
[15:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:36] <exec> 08└─a fucking idiot
[15:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:38] <exec> 08└─I tend to agree. I very much prefer the "comment rather than moderate" approach to things. The former creates discussion while the other inhibits it.
[15:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:40] <exec> 08└─It's surprising that it's hard, it really seems like something that should be a data change only.
[15:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:42] <exec> 08└─"being a fucking idiot" is a verb clause though, so it's really attacking the action and not ad hom.
[15:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:44] <exec> 08└─And here, dear class, we have an example of a mind that is incapable of abstract reasoning. It's an interesting case, because while they can recognize words and their literal meaning, they're utterly incapable of using the sentence's structure to determine that the application was hypothetical in na...
[15:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:46] <exec> 08└─Yup. Remove an entry from the modreasons table that's been used and the script would error out any time you tried to load a page it'd been used on. Leave it in and add a disabled flag to the table so it doesn't show up in the dropdown boxes and you still have to programmatically check that the reaso...
[15:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─(+6, Extra large penis) I feel this is a necessary change for me to continue on this site.
[15:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:50] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure I've seen this first on Usenet (although IIRC it used square brackets, as after all you can typically select more than one option)
[15:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:53] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it suffice to remove the value from the dropdown menu? That way the moderation would stay valid but it would be impossible to actually submit it.
[15:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:55] <exec> 08└─Das hättest Du auch auf englisch schreiben können, das "währe" deiner Mühe wert gewesen. He's saying that why don't we try to halve the costs, which sounds like good advice. Why are we paying $456 to be a Delaware corporation resident in Taxachusetts, and with the amount of supposed competition...
[15:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 0680-Core Arm CPU To Bring Lower Power, Higher Density To A Rack Near You - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:10] <exec> 08└─Then you can run Bochs on it so it will emulate an instruction set your software cab access.
[15:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:53] <exec> 08└─also, note to parents: intelligence is not a guarantee for happyness
[15:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:55] <exec> 08└─The names (both nouns and verbs) are ultimately what transmit understanding to the reader.
[15:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:57] <exec> 08└─Can't code without breathing!
[15:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:59] <exec> 08└─+A million for the first bit. For the second bit, I'd rather just feed the fish.
[15:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:51] <exec> 08└─Yes. The old HPs up through the HP 4 were tanks. Replace the pickup rollers and the separation pads every now and then and they ran forever. The new ones, not so much. The 2P and its brother the 3P were rugged, but damn they were slow. What was it? Four pages per minute or something like that? Great...
[15:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:53] <exec> 08└─I think we went with a library called Greenleaf around 1996 and never looked back, but from 1990-1994 there wasn't much good choice on the market if you wanted to run a saturated 9600kbps line.
[15:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:55] <exec> 08└─19, Word Perfect, Reveal Codes (F5?). Loved that.
[15:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WFIRST Approved for Development by NASA Despite Possible Cancellation - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:11] <exec> 08└─Things move pretty slowly in Houston, if the program goes cold for a couple of years then it is screwed, but the better managers can find a way to hang on to their good engineers for a while (i.e. pay them from somewhere else...)
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[16:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Students Get an Unexpected Glimpse of a Black Hole 30,000 Light-Years Away - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:11] <exec> 08└─I'm glad the students experienced this unexpected event, it had to be an amazing occurrence for many of them. Hopefully some will go on to make even more 'firsts' in their scientific endeavors. Sometimes all it takes to light the flame, is a little spark.
[16:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Students Get an Unexpected Glimpse of a Black Hole 30,000 Light-Years Away - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:12] <exec> 08└─Used to be called goatse back in the days. kids these days...
[16:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:26] <exec> 08└─"The likely problem is going to be identifying where exactly it's coming from, it ain't cows (the usual scapegoat) because there were plenty of them back before the industrial revolution and postulating evolution of a completely new way of bovine farting inside two hundred years would be a bit of a...
[16:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:28] <exec> 08└─When I read "methane emitted by humans" I was expecting more "pull my finger" and other fart jokes. And how a healthy diet high in plant matter like beans and fake meat was contributing to global warming.
[16:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:30] <exec> 08└─Erm... Buffalo used to roam the great plains in herds numbering in the millions. It's quite possible your assumption is wrong.
[16:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was disappointed too.
[16:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, I assure you, meat eaters have plenty of gaseous discharge.
[16:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:36] <exec> 08└─The article linked by Bot talks about a possible cause of the methane increases, it's interesting.
[16:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:38] <exec> 08└─Also, if you're going to eat meat. Make sure it's the good stuff. While the company does list its ingredients on its website — and indicates whether they are allergens — registered dietitian and Fox News contributor Tanya Zuckerbrot said the fillers could be a danger for some consumers. “Wheat...
[16:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:40] <exec> 08└─From pigshit, er, human shit cometh methane.... ok. embargo lifted...
[16:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:42] <exec> 08└─Why? Maybe no fart jokes, but still a lot of gassing.
[16:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, you hired experts, but if management is asleep at the wheel they will just work with that.
[16:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:10] <exec> 08└─There's legitimate reasons to call a fucking idiot a fucking idiot when they're being a fucking idiot.
[16:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:12] <exec> 08└─-1 Flamebait is the obvious moderation to use in place of -1 Ad Hoominem.
[16:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:14] <exec> 08└─If you subsequently roll-back the code having decided that ad-hom moderations are not a good idea, how would the code know what moderation names should be applied to historic moderations? How would it know that the AdHom moderation should not be allowed for future moderations? We roll back the code...
[16:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:16] <exec> 08└─Putting the moderation change stuff in this article seems like a blatant attempt to dilute attention from the apparently disastrous governance of this site.
[16:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:18] <exec> 08└─You must also remember that the code is stored on GitHub. Anyone is free to inspect the code and it is impossible to hide how the code hangs together. People WILL try to abuse the system - they already have and they probably always will.
[16:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:20] <exec> 08└─The "-1 Ad Hominem" mod is a democrat thing. Please don't do it. They are only looking for a way to mete out greater punishment, like in that experiment where they press a button, believing they are electroshocking their antagonist. They use moderation as a weapon. Other than that the system works g...
[16:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:22] <exec> 08└─There really cannot be a more classic example of ad hominem than "being a fucking idiot".
[16:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:24] <exec> 08└─See all the other posts that explain exactly why that thought is incredibly stupid.
[16:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:27] <exec> 08└─You limit yourself (and, probably more dangerously, others) by pure dogmatism, a chronic illness of conservatists and believers. As there already exist usable tools for breathing in vacuum, there also exist tools for breaking free from controlling power. Destruction of such tools, which we witness t...
[16:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:28] <exec> 08└─I think this quote explains it all. I treat coding like writing a story, itself a variation of the scientific method: 1) first draft, 2 revise, 3 go to 2 until the screen's output matches what's in my head as closely as possible.
[16:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:25] <exec> 08└─1. What is the advantage of unidirectional printing on a dot-matrix printer? *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) It allows time for the carriage return to advance the feed as the head is doing the return travel, thus "greater efficiency". And it allows for simpker engineering in adva...
[16:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:26] <exec> 08└─Screw you..... TRSDOS Forever!! (And I originally had 30 exclam points and hit the lameness filter for repetition. Does that mean liking TRSDOS that much was lame? Yeah, I agree. Should have been NEWDOS.)
[16:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:29] <exec> 08└─Couldn't remember it at all. Smiled big time when I saw the screen in The Martian (it was in The Martian, wasn't it?)
[16:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:31] <exec> 08└─Why? Did a moose bite your sister? Oh, wait, that's svedish isn't it?
[16:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:33] <exec> 08└─No, to answer #13 you really have to know where your towel is and be a hoopy frood.
[16:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:51] <exec> 08└─Troll? Why do people get so defensive when somebody tells them they bought snake oil? They pushed out a system that's not ready for prime time, and it might not ever be.
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[17:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Students Get an Unexpected Glimpse of a Black Hole 30,000 Light-Years Away - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:15] <exec> 08└─They could have experienced an even more unexpected event. Just think if they had been sucked into it!! They may well have discovered what lies at the bottom of the abyss.
[17:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Students Get an Unexpected Glimpse of a Black Hole 30,000 Light-Years Away - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:16] <exec> 08└─If you can dig up this info with something the size of a shoebox, and almost certainly much less expensive to produce, why not spread a bunch of them around and keep the huge, horribly expensive hardware on tasks only it can do?
[17:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:40] <exec> 08└─she says her 'emissions' smell like roses. I'd say 'dead roses', maybe! ;)
[17:25:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 1066 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:00] <exec> 08└─And here, dear class, we have an example of a mind that is incapable of abstract reasoning. It's an interesting case, because while they can recognize words and their literal meaning, they're utterly incapable of using the sentence's structure to determine that the application was hypothetical in na...
[17:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:16] <exec> 08└─This is a stupid comment by a stupid person. This FACT is evident from the use of "democrat" with derogatory intent. It is also evident in that the Anonymous Coward cannot be bothered to actually remember the name of the Milgram Experiment. Further, the AC is a paranoid nutcase, as it believes that...
[17:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:17] <exec> 08└─Oh we could absolutely run this site on significantly less. We could run it on my desktop if absolutely necessary. We're kind of fond of having two load balancers so we can down one for updates while the other picks up the load, two web frontends so we don't have to put all the page rendering load o...
[17:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:19] <exec> 08└─It read as largely tongue-in-cheek to me, so you really just proved him right on some semi-serious ribbing by getting cranky about it.
[17:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:21] <exec> 08└─Welp, if you were the one who down modded that, you have just made my case. This is so far the only problem with the system
[17:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─You forgot Informative. They may not think they're an idiot while actually being one and in need of that information. Go ahead, I know you want to. I'll probably even laugh.
[17:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:25] <exec> 08└─Nah, we'd run into all kinds of issues like how do you categorize trans folks or those who otherwise buy aftermarket penises in their myriad varieties. It'd be entirely too much bother.
[17:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:28] <exec> 08└─One way to attract and keep good volunteers is to make sure they aren't frustrated by lack of resources. I'm about to ante-up again!
[17:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:30] <exec> 08└─Nope. If it remained in the db, the code would see it as a valid moderation and allow it to be applied if you were to hand roll a POST request using the removed moderation. Also, the API doesn't know squat about a dropdown box, just what reasons are in the modreasons table.
[17:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:32] <exec> 08└─How about a write-in mod? +1 and -1 versions. Log them, it might be fun/funny to look through the list.
[17:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:34] <exec> 08└─Oh it's relatively trivial but not purely cosmetic. The latter I'm okay with hot patching into the live code, the former I want run past martyb's perfectly good code breaking eyes for a bit.
[17:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:36] <exec> 08└─Hrm... Not terribly difficult and could be hilarious. If I had the time, it would so be our 4/1 goof this year. Not sure how good an idea it'd be for day to day use though.
[17:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you should probably join staff and show us how it's done.
[17:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:40] <exec> 08└─On second glance, that may have been some some quality shitposting rather than a serious response. This is where not being AC would help to tell the difference.
[17:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:42] <exec> 08└─...and done -- $20 added.
[17:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:44] <exec> 08└─Cheers, yo. I wasn't worried. You guys always cover whatever we say we need and then some. It's our own fault for not having our math right.
[17:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:46] <exec> 08└─OK, for 4/1/2021 then. I can wait, unless this damn virusoverreaction shuts us all down.
[17:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:48] <exec> 08└─One dropdown with +1, 0, -1, another with the mod reason.
[17:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:50] <exec> 08└─Where's the "-1 feeding the troll" mod?
[17:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:53] <exec> 08└─If you play your cards right, you could siphon SoylentNews funds to pay for your Starlink 1 Gbps Internet connection.
[17:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:55] <exec> 08└─Not very subtle for a Master Troll, are you, TMB? But I, for one, vote against any moderation based on logical fallacies, whether formal or informal, simply because so many soylentils have such a week grasp of them. Not understanding what an argumentum ad hominem is, is a case in point. If we adde...
[17:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:57] <exec> 08└─Sorry, it is because of these arbitrary down modders that I post AC. I'm not sticking my karma out for them. Knowing the identity of a poster can be helpful in some instances. This isn't one of them. And after all, moderation is done anonymously. Why don't we ID them too? Don't we have the right to...
[17:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:59] <exec> 08└─Not just incredibly stupid, but whoever wrote it is a fucking idiot!! Which is NOT an ad hominem.
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─Leave it to a Democrat to assume that their own name is a derogatory insult. Stop hitting yourself
[17:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:05] <exec> 08└─I'm a programmer and have been writing as a hobby for years. In college, I had to retake all my advanced math courses twice :P Once I was taking a networking course the same semester as...some math course, I don't remember which, and we kept covering mathematical concepts that correlated to what we...
[17:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:07] <exec> 08└─X2: I am way too young to just know what it was for, but it tickled my memory. It wasn't what I thought it was, but I do remember hearing about it. I was a kid when my parents got their first computer. It was a shiny new Orange Monochrome IBM with a 3.5" Floppy Drive, a 5.25" Floppy Drive and no HDD...
[17:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:09] <exec> 08└─That figures, it's been a long time since I read that one, though.
[17:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Energy's "El Capitan" Supercomputer Will Reach 2 Exaflops Using AMD CPUs and GPUs - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:46] <exec> 08└─Wait, such as TNT? Muzzle load rifles? What are you getting at? How about Gatling Guns? Grapeshot / Chain shot? Cannons in general? Arsenic? Bio Warfare? Mustard Gas? I'm confused as to what you're trying to get at? Are you implying that there were never or that there were some instances of mutual e...
[17:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Energy's "El Capitan" Supercomputer Will Reach 2 Exaflops Using AMD CPUs and GPUs - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:47] <exec> 08└─That we were using those horrible weapons for necessary survival against hostile powers, instead of getting some dumb rich fucks a little richer or feeling threatened by Asian peasants overthrowing their dictatorship.
[17:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldeschool [4414] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Men (and Other Male Animals) Die Younger: It's All in the Y Chromosome - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:17] <exec> 08└─as the old joke goes, why do men die before women? we want to
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[18:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:07] <exec> 08└─But your ISP might not. You better hope they don't engage in deep packet inspection, because they will block anything that is not in their whitelist of approved protocols.
[18:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─But your ISP might not But your VPN might.
[18:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:42] <exec> 08└─Buffalo weren't fed grains and corn to fatten them up and may have a different process for digesting grass.
[18:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:43] <exec> 08└─Just more example of how fear-mongering based on bad climate models is wrong still!
[18:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruminant [wikipedia.org] It once was that the flock was forbidden to read the Bible; their duty was to listen to what priest says, and Have Faith. Seems the nice medieval idea enjoys a glorious comeback.
[18:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:47] <exec> 08└─I've found that, with me at least, a healthy diet with lots of fruits and vegetables (especially vegetables) increases methane emissions by a huge amount.
[18:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:47] <exec> 08└─I recently bought a gift subscription for another user for $20. I bought it as an AC. It was a one time subscription paid from my CC via Stripe. I entered my email address. It appears my CC was billed but I never got any sort of email confirmation or receipt. That seems quite odd and made me wonder...
[18:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:48] <exec> 08└─You might want to shop for a cheaper host. Some of them are crazily high priced. I've been using R4L for two decades, haven't found anybody better or cheaper. If you do, please let me know.
[18:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:50] <exec> 08└─Sorry to reply to myself, but I just re-read the article and WOW! I'm paying $50 per YEAR for 10 gigabytes. Not sute how much space s/n needs. Their paid hosting has a plethora of tools, none of which I use since my sites are vanilla HTML with no programming, but I'm pretty sure s/n would use the he...
[18:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:52] <exec> 08└─This FACT is evident from the use of "democrat" with derogatory intent.
[18:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:54] <exec> 08└─Geekizoid was a parody-ish site run by Slashdot trolls. I don't remember all of the moderation choices. I believe four of the upmod options were Worthwhile, Intriguing, Troll, and Totally Gay. And I remember that two of the downmod options were Inciteful and Not Gay Enough. I distinctly remember get...
[18:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0680-Core Arm CPU To Bring Lower Power, Higher Density To A Rack Near You - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:10] <exec> 08└─Instead of https://en.wikipedia.org's_first_law [wikipedia.org] "One user, one CPU." Now we can look forward to, "One process, one CPU".
[18:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 0680-Core Arm CPU To Bring Lower Power, Higher Density To A Rack Near You - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:12] <exec> 08└─Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these. What I really look for is for mainstream computing to start gradually getting more and more general purpose cores in common hardware. And I want a pony too.
[18:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 0680-Core Arm CPU To Bring Lower Power, Higher Density To A Rack Near You - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:14] <exec> 08└─Don't believe anything until you see real benchmarks.
[18:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 0680-Core Arm CPU To Bring Lower Power, Higher Density To A Rack Near You - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:16] <exec> 08└─I have not tried Bochs in many years as I never had the hardware for it, really. I wonder if you could make a decent x86 processor with a distributed version of Bochs and a cluster of RPis. The reason is that my RPis seem to breed — or maybe I just cannot resist buying more for no good rea… Hey...
[18:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:05] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_Knob_A_in_Hole_B [wikipedia.org]
[18:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:07] <exec> 08└─Sometimes people think Math means you're good at arithmetic. Or rote memorization of math tables or facts. Or recognizing patterns and knowing which simplification or rule to apply. Maybe the underlying talent is being able to think logically about concepts, see how the puzzle pieces fit together an...
[18:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:09] <exec> 08└─When you write code, remember that your audience is not the compiler. Impossible to read code can compile and even run. Your audience is another human who will be reading your code at some future time.
[18:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:11] <exec> 08└─I know someone who tried. He sat so still at his computer that the lights (on motion sensors) would shut off in his office. Fwiw, he wrote bullet-proof code, including his own test code, wizard level.
[18:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:13] <exec> 08└─Natural languages should have curly braces to eliminate such ambiguity.
[18:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:15] <exec> 08└─I see your problem: s/mother/wife
[18:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:17] <exec> 08└─Does being able to write horribly abysmal puns help?
[18:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:19] <exec> 08└─A truly intelligent entity is the one capable to learn anything. Anything.
[18:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthony Levandowski Ordered to Pay $179 Million to Google - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:28] <exec> 08└─Is this the guy who downloaded all of the important documents and information right before he left Google to go form a competitor? What did he think would happen?
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[19:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:09] <exec> 08└─Heaven forbid they claim to be from a more forward looking country, like Saudi Arabia.
[19:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:11] <exec> 08└─Blocking unauthorized VPN is already trivial. If it isn't in their whitelist, it will not go anywhere except to your local police station and intelligence agency. The search is for a medium that cannot be controlled by any authority or obstructed in any fashion. Then we can securely and reliably rou...
[19:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:13] <exec> 08└─just use IP over avian carriers.
[19:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:15] <exec> 08└─I take it that 35% of them have no intenet access?
[19:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:17] <exec> 08└─The Liberal party seems to be on a 10 year lead time to the awful thing that's going to happen in the US. They got infinite uncritical support from a huge NewsCorp panoply in 1992, we got it in in 2000. They got started with concentration camps for immigrants around 2005, and we got started in 2015....
[19:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:55] <exec> 08└─From your link, Ruminating mammals include cattle, all domesticated and wild bovines, goats, sheep, giraffes, deer, gazelles, and antelopes.
[19:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:57] <exec> 08└─Vegans emit far more methane than meat-eaters. It's the roughage, you see. Maybe we can keep them in pens and affix balloons to them that inflate as they break wind. The captured methane can be used for cooking, heating, or generating electricity. You gotta think full circle if we're gonna save the...
[19:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:59] <exec> 08└─The Blacks have prior art on your Jenkem idea, son.
[19:25:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:18] <exec> 08└─It's surprising that it's hard, it really seems like something that should be a data change only.
[19:25:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:28] <exec> 08└─-1 Flamebait is the obvious moderation to use in place of -1 Ad Hoominem.
[19:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:03] <exec> 08└─Derogatory intent is not required for an ad hominem A. You're a well paid, well respected lawyer B. You're arguing that poor people are suffering C. You couldn't possibly know that because of A That's an ad hominem argument. It's fallacious because it circumvents the content of the argument to focus...
[19:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:05] <exec> 08└─And your suggestions for resolving any issues are where? Your comment seems to have been cut short and only contains a single sentence. OK, you would do it much better - so come on and join us and give us the benefit of your as yet unproven expertise. As an aside, how much have you contributed finan...
[19:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:07] <exec> 08└─Boy, maybe we need some kind of moderation option for crap like that!
[19:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:09] <exec> 08└─Ehrlich, was noch aergerlicher als dumme kommentare ist, ist schimpfen um dumme kommentare statt etwas intelligentes zu schreiben. Mann soll immer aufbauen and verbessern statt abbauen und beklagen.
[19:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:11] <exec> 08└─I was about to say the same thing, but you beat me to it. My take on moderation is conservative in the sense that I only do it rarely if somebody has really succinctly stated something, contributed useful additional information or insight, or has come out with a bon mot that could brighten everyone'...
[19:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:13] <exec> 08└─We're all selectively idiots. I've seen everybody on here say dumb things sometimes, on certain topics. We each know what we know, and paper over the rest with supposition and personal perspective/prejudice. If moderation is doing its job it places those in proper relief, right?
[19:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:15] <exec> 08└─I want Soylent swag that says things like, "Ethanol-fueled is my co-pilot," or, "Dammit, Aristarchus, tech articles! TECH articles!" or, "Smile! Khallow loathes you..."
[19:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:32] <exec> 08└─Your heart pumps more than you breath, so heart pumping must be more important of a skill.
[19:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:33] <exec> 08└─I have a feeling their choice of Python, one of the more human readable languages, may have impacted the results a bit. I bet if they tried again with C++ or something the results may come out different. As for the taboo, It's not really the existence of intelligence that's under question. It's more...
[19:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Department of Energy's "El Capitan" Supercomputer Will Reach 2 Exaflops Using AMD CPUs and GPUs - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no we've always done that. The USA has just been slightly less worse than those before it. Then again, maybe more of a different story same tune. Due to the ease of access to information is why you're hearing about all the troubles and all the little nuances about Kim Kardashian's latest outfi...
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[20:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:08] <exec> 08└─While the cognitive benefits of caffeine -- increased alertness, improved vigilance, enhanced focus and improved motor performance -- are well established, she said, the stimulant's affect on creativity is less known.
[20:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:09] <exec> 08└─You have to add absinthe to your espresso if you want creativity. Everyone knows that.
[20:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:11] <exec> 08└─" from writers and their coffee to programmers and their energy drinks "
[20:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, I don't know. Code for two or three days straight, sipping coffee constantly, without sleeping at all, close your eyes for a minute or two and the things you see will likely be very, umm, creative. :)
[20:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:16] <exec> 08└─So... I think every reasonable person would agree that creativity, whether called "divergent thinking" or "creativity", is a hard thing to objectively measure. And if you did, it might be something pretty specific In the paper they refer to using the Abreviated Torrance Test for Adults as their metr...
[20:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 1566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:29] <exec> 08└─Concentration camps for immigrants come and go throughout the centuries, nothing new... hopefully they are getting better (meaning less frequent) overall, but so far they're still with us. The Japanese in the US during WWII is a recent example, but all kinds of immigrant discrimination has been goin...
[20:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:30] <exec> 08└─The real travesty is that we're putting our illegal immigrants in concentration camps rather than shooting them on sight. When people would rather live in a concentration camp than in their home country, it speaks to what kind of people they are and why they should not be allowed to live here.
[20:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:32] <exec> 08└─Despite my over-the-top comment below, calling immigrant detention areas "concentration camps" is exactly the kind of ADL/SPLC "Oy Vey, dis iz anuddah shoah!" hysteria that turns political moderates anti-Semitic.
[20:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:34] <exec> 08└─Isn't being opposed to online pr0n problematic and antisemitic? Seems strange coming from a national government.
[20:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:36] <exec> 08└─Sounds expensive. At least here in the States, ISPs only tend to fuck their customers when it saves or makes them a dime. If they can somehow leverage DPI to make money then maybe. Otherwise, I bet most would pretend to do the bare minimum legally required, just like with copyright enforcement.
[20:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:18] <exec> 08└─Christ, how do you even know about such things?
[20:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:19] <exec> 08└─I am literally seeing baby-boomers with Q stickers on their cars, I've seen probably three spanning a distance of 60 miles throughout the metropolitan area. Where did they learn about such things?
[20:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:21] <exec> 08└─I have to admit I at least half expected a horror story about taco Tuesday from a cube dweller.
[20:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:23] <exec> 08└─Q stickers are explainable--people who are interested in conspiracies know what that is. Jenka, though, I cannot imagine where a person would learn about something so vile. Do you read threads like, "Hey, what's the grossest thing you've ever heard of?"
[20:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:26] <exec> 08└─I learned about Jenkem by watching Pinnochio, there was a black cricket named Jiminy Jenkem who was leading Pinocchio into all kinds of trouble and introducing him to blunts and shit. It finally took Jesus Christ to strike Pinocchio dead by drowning to eliminate Jiminy Jenkem's bad influence. Typica...
[20:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:36] <exec> 08└─Nah, you don't need my humble self to come on board and say that there are pretty serious problems in an organization that doesn't update its finance and board meetings / governance pages for years and then comes out "Oh My! We only have six months of funding left."
[20:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:38] <exec> 08└─As an aside, how much have you contributed financially to the running of this site? Only asking, of course, so that we can refund your contributions.
[20:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:40] <exec> 08└─For reference, before somebody touches the pages: https://wiki.soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] last modified on 21 October 2015 https://wiki.soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] before today's edit blitz Revision as of 00:48, 13 March 2017 https://wiki.soylentnews....
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[20:26:42] <exec> 08└─Looking at the loss statement, I calculate a non-program spend rate of 1-(website/total) of 45%. That seems awfully high. A 5% take from Stripe isn't nice, but it is pretty good from what I hear it costs to accept credit cards. $1076 in government friction (18% of expenses), just because the loss in...
[20:27:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:48] <exec> 08└─I think this quote explains it all. I treat coding like writing a story, itself a variation of the scientific method: 1) first draft, 2 revise, 3 go to 2 until the screen's output matches what's in my head as closely as possible.
[20:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:00] <exec> 08└─I have always done beneath the level of verbal or mathematical thought. Csiksentmihalyi's concept of flow [positivepsychology.com] describes the experience pretty well. It feels more like visual/spatial reasoning that produces a construct so real, so defined, that the math and language of it are wri...
[20:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:01] <exec> 08└─This was largely because I stumbled through my basic Spanish requirements in school and still don't remember much more than you could get from a Taco Bell commercial. As an adult however, I chose to try to learn Russian because I *wanted* to. And have surprisingly little difficulty picking it up wel...
[20:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:03] <exec> 08└─Curly braces? German has something similar in the form of verbs that break apart in subordinate clauses. The chip off the verb migrates to the end of the clause, acting as the right curly brace. This is why German philosophers can nest their clauses so deeply that they become untranslatable. -- hend...
[20:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:05] <exec> 08└─I had a friend whose head resided in the cosmic pun stream. He was an organic chemist.
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[21:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:14] <exec> 08└─Didn't know that being fat, unemployed, and drunk was a "biz".
[21:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:16] <exec> 08└─Energy drinks of the red bull type contain taurine which is a caffeine sensitiser. You can get some pretty horrific results if you drink a taurine base energy drink(which will has some caffeine) and then have lots of coffee after.
[21:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:18] <exec> 08└─I am on furlough because my employer, Boston Dynamics, is in life-support mode now. But don't you worry about me, this fatass can run in 6-mile spurts.
[21:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, ISPs will do what is legally required. They are the enforcers. Essentially a potential blockade. A mesh can only do so much to get around them. It will have to be a monstrous swarm of millions
[21:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:38] <exec> 08└─if it's greenish it's a porn movie, 1950s-80s. if it's got shitty colors distortion and some noise in the bottom it is a videotape, 80s-95s if it's sized as a stamp it's an early movie/videocd, 90s-95s IIRC if it's 640x480 and decent colors it's an NTSC dvd 95s-10s if it's 720x576 and even better co...
[21:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:40] <exec> 08└─To be fair, it seems a bit more applicable to Australia's Manus Island than to anything the US has done recently.
[21:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:42] <exec> 08└─Problematic sure if you mean unpopular. Antisemitic? is that a typo? you mean antisemen surly.
[21:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:29] <exec> 08└─Since nobody else has said it yet , I will: if you can smell your fart an hour later, it wasn't just a fart.
[21:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:30] <exec> 08└─nobu_the_bard as interface shim between bot and SN. who'd a thunk it? Perhaps we could generalize that like NDIS [wikipedia.org] or packet drivers [wikipedia.org]?
[21:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:46] <exec> 08└─If it's useful in the event you're planning to check on it, the subscription was purchased for Knowledge Troll shortly before he announced he was retiring the account. An AC suggested purchasing a subscription for a user who I thought had made good contributions. I thought Knowledge Troll had made c...
[21:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:48] <exec> 08└─It's the "some fallacies are superficial, so stop picking on me, 'k?" fallacy.
[21:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:50] <exec> 08└─For a project that has exploded to $7000 year. Do that only a million more times and we could wouldn't need Mexico to buy us a wall! I shed a single perfect tear at the colossal waste this absolutely enormous number represents.
[21:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:52] <exec> 08└─... and your little dog too!
[21:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 2619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:54] <exec> 08└─I've been pretty critical of SN in the past and actually got into some arguments with Buzzard over it. That matters because I have no particular incentive to defend SN. When you're donating to a charity or other non-profits, it's reasonable to expect they disclose their finances. Donors have good re...
[21:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:56] <exec> 08└─Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. We have been over the ad hominem thing before. Behold! https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[21:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:58] <exec> 08└─You forgot Informative. They may not think they're an idiot while actually being one and in need of that information. Go ahead, I know you want to. I'll probably even laugh.
[21:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:22] <exec> 08└─Can a truly intelligent entity necessarily be able to learn to skate? Or does it need skates as well?
[21:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:24] <exec> 08└─This is not the scientific method, in that it compares what you've made with your intention instead of with an outside reality. And that's what you want when you're creating something. But it is analogous. Perhaps a dual is a better word. -- hendrik
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[22:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:07] <exec> 08└─The EARN IT Act is sponsored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). I don't know whose pocket everyone else is in, but Feinstein never met a surve...
[22:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:08] <exec> 08└─Senator Blumenthal Happy That SESTA Will Kill Small Internet Companies [techdirt.com] It's Spreading: Lindsey Graham Now Insisting 'Fairness Doctrine' Applies To The Internet [techdirt.com] Senator Lindsey Graham To Host Special 'But Think Of The Children Online!' Moral Panic Hearing [techdirt.com]...
[22:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:23] <exec> 08└─They're being creative about what they're measuring and using divergent thinking to label it creatively. When looking for research grants in the social sciences, creativity (aka bullshit) is rewarded.
[22:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:46] <exec> 08└─That might be the most profound EF contribution ever. Deep sarcasm and a deep caring for humanity all in one post. I wonder if he meant it?
[22:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:48] <exec> 08└─I don't have kids that old but what 8 yr olds are browsing the internet unsupervised? At least use ad blockers.
[22:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:50] <exec> 08└─Well, when I was 12, the internet was still just ARPANET. The Apple II was a year away. Phones were stationary and actually had dials. But a certain kid at school was the guy to see if you cared to exchange 50 cents for a Playboy magazine page of a naked lady. He made a lot of money. Quite a bit of...
[22:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:52] <exec> 08└─Most 8 year olds on the internet unsupervised are actually police officers trolling for pedos. Not that I don't wish them good hunting.
[22:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:01] <exec> 08└─There are many logical fallacies, one of which is the ad hominem fallacy. The worst cases can be dealt with through troll and flamebait mods. And a "not ad hominem" mod doesn't make a lot of sense. Not committing a particular fallacy doesn't seem to justify modding someone up. How about a +1 logical...
[22:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:03] <exec> 08└─May I suggest quick and dirty solution if you are just trying things out? Make the new mods with ids 100+ or something. The rollback code change would be "WHERE id 100". Easier than adding a flag.
[22:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:05] <exec> 08└─The < sign disappeared. It was "WHERE id < 100". I used < now to write <.
[22:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:07] <exec> 08└─People can pick on me all they like, I just don't like bad ideas that enable stupid reasoning.
[22:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:09] <exec> 08└─The primary difference between a public benefit corporation and other corporations is that a public benefit corporation is not obliged to maximize profits for shareholders.
[22:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 0680-Core Arm CPU To Bring Lower Power, Higher Density To A Rack Near You - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:30] <exec> 08└─Clusters of Pis are almost never a good idea outside of showing off. Performance per dollar is lacking. https://www.servethehome.com [servethehome.com] But if you want to do it, this just came up: https://linuxgizmos.com
[22:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthony Levandowski Ordered to Pay $179 Million to Google - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:43] <exec> 08└─Back to working at McDonalds for you, contract breacher.
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[23:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:12] <exec> 08└─Dianne Feinstein reminds me: *Secret Laws *Secret Interpretations of Laws *Secret Courts *Secret Warrants *Secret Court Orders *Secret Arrests (in the middle of the night) *Secret Trials *Secret Evidence (not made available to the defense) *Secret Convictions *Secret Prisons *Secret "enhanced interr...
[23:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:14] <exec> 08└─Since both factions aren't worth a damn, when can we start conscripting people to a single term like for jury duty? It couldn't be any worse than this nonsense.
[23:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:16] <exec> 08└─They will have to demand the hardware be locked down. Apple is part way there. Ah well, the implants can't be too far off. Not seeing a hell of a lot of resistance. It will be easy to sell with all these "illegals" running around.
[23:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:18] <exec> 08└─If you're not dealing in child pornography, you should have no problem with the authorities looking for child pornography.
[23:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:20] <exec> 08└─Not a problem if you're not a junkie, yes?
[23:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:35] <exec> 08└─It can't be that horrible if this [caffeineinformer.com] exists.
[23:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:03] <exec> 08└─But you read it anyway. Gee... Age verification works really well. Doesn't it?
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[23:25:05] <exec> 08└─Well, you could say that life on the inside of the imperial death star is much better than outside. I'm always fascinated by the first batch of immigrants ragging on the following batch, and so on...
[23:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:53] <exec> 08└─If that effectively deals with the human-methane problem, then it should be mandated into law.
[23:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:54] <exec> 08└─That is not nesecelery true [milk.com] as this example illustrates. Terrible diet and room with no ventilation are being blamed for the death of a men who was killed by his own gas. There was no mark on his body but autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas in his system. His diet had consisted of...
[23:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:22] <exec> 08└─but you keep coming back to SN ;)?
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[23:27:23] <exec> 08└─Investigated, subscription payment located, and... payment confirmation e-mail sent! Thank you VERY much for our subscription! NB: If anyone else reading this failed to receive a confirmation email for a SoylentNews subscription, please send me an email with as much information as you can provide (d...
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