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[00:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:45] <exec> 08└─Nothing to be sorry about - neither did Apple develop nor own the Linux stack that OS-X was based on.
[00:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:46] <exec> 08└─I'm so glad Delphi isn't on that list! I hone my leet coding skills in it every day. Yeah, yeah, I know that train left the station a long time ago, lol.
[00:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:48] <exec> 08└─I'd put VB, COBOL and Perl in the category of "study these if you're at a company with a large installed base legacy code written in them, or intend to seek employment at such companies". You may not *like* it, but money is money. Maybe they're dying, but nowhere near dead. I wouldn't say "don't stu...
[00:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 1709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:50] <exec> 08└─There is no one language "to rule them all". They all have pros and con's, which is why I tend to try to use whichever one I have in my toolbox that best fits the use case. I would write image manipulation in C for performance, even if the rest of the program is Python (it is nice you can drop into...
[00:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 1501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:52] <exec> 08└─Well I'm not currently a programmer so take it with a grain of salt, but I'll give it a go. Visual Basic - brain damage on floppies. Made GWBasic look good. Not sure why anyone ever used it. Objective C - gets a bad rap because the most prominent user is Apple and they've been going steeply downhill...
[00:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:54] <exec> 08└─and at that time, COBOL will still be going in many banks ...
[00:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:56] <exec> 08└─Without Perl there would be no Soylentnews !
[00:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:16] <exec> 08└─Nah, it was the Woz: https://www.clickorlando.com [clickorlando.com]
[00:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 3875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:17] <exec> 08└─Reasonable question. The travel ban on areas from China was more than any other President would have done, and every other President would have also been hamstrung by the same lack of progress made since SARS in preparing for this kind of event. The only way this could have been different is if Trum...
[00:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/world/asia/chinese-doctor-Li-Wenliang-coronavirus.html [nytimes.com] https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Question: On Dec. 31, when you told people in the WeChat group about the SARS-like virus, did you do...
[00:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Severity Flaws Plague Intel Graphics Drivers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:26] <exec> 08└─Intel develops graphics drivers for Windows OS to communicate with specific Intel graphics devices,
[00:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:42] <exec> 08└─I found my password. You sexy [soylentnews.org] little strawmen [soylentnews.org].
[00:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:43] <exec> 08└─Your posts are seen. Some of us read the AC, negative scored posts, etc... Sometimes you gotta do that to make sure that you don't miss a gem buried where it can't shine.
[00:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:45] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't recognize communism if your co-workers built it right in front of you.
[00:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:47] <exec> 08└─Death is a preferable alternative to communism.
[00:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:49] <exec> 08└─Pay someone to make your life easier. In this case that'd mean something like a highschool girl helping out
[00:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:51] <exec> 08└─By talk, I really mean 'talk': he has a couple real words, some words only we understand and then noises. He can type on his laptop, but that's not handy for conversation, just homework. We chat 'to' him and he mostly nods or shakes his head. " Wherever you are at, it could always be better - or wor...
[00:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks: we deal... there's no other choice.
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[01:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIP jazz pianist McCoy Tyner - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:27] <exec> 08└─Met him at a Detroit club - the Stratos - in the 70s where I did tech. Best. Pianist. Ever. So strong, he'd break the strings on the Yamaha piano he favored. Favorite piece: Message from the Nile off his "Extensions" album. Greast stu
[01:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIP jazz pianist McCoy Tyner - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:28] <exec> 08└─China virus any chance?
[01:24:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 788 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:38] <exec> 08└─When I find my code in tons of trouble, Friends and colleagues come to me, Speaking words of wisdom: "Write in C." As the deadline fast approaches, And bugs are all that I can see, Somewhere, someone whispers: "Write in C." Write in C, Write in C, Write in C, oh, Write in C. LOGO's dead and buried,...
[01:24:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 1582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:49] <exec> 08└─I don't know. I used Perl(5) on and off historically, mostly to deal with existing legacy stuff others had written, so I knew it on a basic level, but never put the effort in to understand it. Spent most of my time in Python (and C occasionally). Funny thing is, after Python3 was released, and I fou...
[01:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Cosmic Debris [2086] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:10] <exec> 08└─What, no APL?
[01:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:12] <exec> 08└─Perl is dead; long live Raku [raku.org]
[01:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:14] <exec> 08└─ML dialects live on as F# and Reason.
[01:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:16] <exec> 08└─Not that I read TFA, mind you. Here's a list that should open some eyes... http://www.catb.org [catb.org]
[01:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:18] <exec> 08└─For PL/1 [wikipedia.org]? More details [ambians.com]: Speaking as someone who has delved into the intricacies of PL/I, I am sure that only Real Men could have written such a machine-hogging, cycle-grabbing, all-encompassing monster. Allocate an array and free the middle third? Sure! Why not? Multipl...
[01:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:20] <exec> 08└─No, Ruby is a whole new level of fragility.
[01:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:22] <exec> 08└─Much easier to get along wit than EXEC 2, both long dead, I uess.
[01:25:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:57] <exec> 08└─14 is fine. It's 28 days later that I worry about!
[01:26:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:07] <exec> 08└─Trump was eventually going to fail miserably at some disaster. A tanking economy would be the least terrible one he could make worse. But don't you worry. I make enough money to profit off the recovery. The Trump voters on the other hand, not so much...
[01:26:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 386 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:30] <exec> 08└─enough trump bullshit. motherfucker is literally dangerous to our country. he's programmed his minions to ignore science and call this a democratic hoax. he should be removed from office immediately. that won't happen, so please remove him come november. they'll try lots of dirty tricks between now...
[01:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:44] <exec> 08└─Actually students have a lower fatality rate and is this the message we want to send our students? No, we should tough things out in the face of adversity. Work even when we don’t feel like it, Go the extra mile to get’r done!
[01:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 1486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:45] <exec> 08└─This isn't a bookkeeping issue. Even having a more complete count of who is infected probably doesn't quite explain the low death rate. South Korea's approach is effective and is much better than what we've seen in China and Italy, let alone the United States. The economic impact is also far less be...
[01:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:47] <exec> 08└─Afaik, our local Western NY test hasn't had enough business yet to produce any kinds of stats or error rate. The Roswell Park research lab includes a specialty in x-ray crystallography to image proteins and, I believe viruses (generating at least one Nobel prize winner), so I give them good odds of...
[01:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:49] <exec> 08└─A lot of other universities are taking similar measures. Some of the justification for closing universities is extreme caution, such as the University of Missouri moving classes online for two weeks because MU faculty and staff attended a conference where someone tested positive [kshb.com]. One by o...
[01:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:51] <exec> 08└─Rot in hell, you ghoulish little troll.
[01:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:54] <exec> 08└─While far fewer young people die from the coronavirus, they are still getting infected and can infect others. Illnesses spread very readily at colleges, where students live in close quarters and are in close proximity to each other in classes. College campuses are not isolated from the communities t...
[01:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 1595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:56] <exec> 08└─As for lab classes, there are a couple of options here: 1) Complete any labs or field work prior to the university closing. Faculty at Nebraska have received this advice. 2) The lab or field work component of a class could end when the university closes, with students being graded on that component...
[01:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:58] <exec> 08└─All non-essential public servants? What other kind is there?
[01:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Windows has a New Wormable Vulnerability -- No Patch in Sight - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:36] <exec> 08└─The fine editors are posting the Microsoft articles just for you. They know they increase your level of irritation. The plan is to increase your irritation slowly, up to the level of rage, and perhaps a murderous rage. You see, this site is made only for you. You are the test subject. Your emotional...
[01:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows has a New Wormable Vulnerability -- No Patch in Sight - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:37] <exec> 08└─Get the right Linux (that is, a non-systemd distro). I just tried Devuan Beowulf, via Ascii netinstaller and some tinkering with sources.list, in a VM last week and was pleasantly surprised. Personally I still prefer Gentoo, Artix, or Void, but if you like .deb distros it's probably the best non-sys...
[01:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:29] <exec> 08└─I just don't see a way to make it work without: A) printing more money (inflation, essentially the same as a tax), raising income tax (which wouldn't be all that ethical IMO), or raising capital gains tax (which is unworkable as it would crash the economy).
[01:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:30] <exec> 08└─You have that wrong: I've been supporting Sanders for a few years now (or Warren). Biden will be same-same and nothing will change. With my son being in the neo-natal unit for 2.5 months and almost dying and now my wife with a hysterectomy and leukemia...I'd be very bankrupt. Maybe divorced. Could b...
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[02:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Rockets are Made (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:18] <exec> 08└─SpaceX and United Launch Alliance have made the construction and launch of space-faring rockets seem almost commonplace. Dear SLA PR folks: What's this .and. stuff? X yes, SLA seems like more the reverse.
[02:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIP jazz pianist McCoy Tyner - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:27] <exec> 08└─Obit doesn't specify, but he was in N. New Jersey, don't think that is a hotbed of the virus (yet). He was 81 and lived on the road a lot, could be he just wore out...? Poking around, I found one of his touring bands and have really enjoyed listening, here's part one (p2 is equally good or maybe eve...
[02:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIP jazz pianist McCoy Tyner - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:29] <exec> 08└─Back inna day, smack wuz clean,,,now issalll fenty...
[02:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:17] <exec> 08└─[quote]As the deadline fast approaches, And bugs are all that I can see, Somewhere, someone whispers: "Write in C."[/quote] Um, I'd say, Write in Ada. Debugging time is far less than C.
[02:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:19] <exec> 08└─Last time I saw an APL keyboard was on an old Tektronix terminal.
[02:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:21] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, that was generally a good post but; "There is no one language "to rule them all"." Yes. Yes there is. It's binary*. Anything else you do has to be machine-translated, in one way or another, into binary. Therefore that is the veritable one language to rule them all. *It's generally easier...
[02:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:23] <exec> 08└─You can write Javascript now instead of VBA for Excel, but yea not as pervasive yet, but I imagine the next gen that grows up with the internet and more familiar with JS will likely make it happen. Excel aint going anywhere unfortunately.
[02:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:25] <exec> 08└─Potato potahto, tomato tomahto...
[02:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:27] <exec> 08└─Nah, Ruby is already dead and buried.
[02:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:29] <exec> 08└─And all EFT systems. The format there is still punch cards too. Thought they talk about batch file :)
[02:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:31] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, obscure knowledge will absolutely make you a rock star to those who have a use for it. Knowing what everyone else knows will have you punching a clock.
[02:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:33] <exec> 08└─LISP's last hurrah was the 1980s. Aside from a brief spurt of LISP interest due to the Java implementation known as Clojure, it has been basically dead ever since.
[02:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:35] <exec> 08└─Tell them to stop trying to find people who already know it and train some who don't. You can have them producing useful work inside a week if they know any language that's somewhat similar. And you can pay them less than someone who already has some expertise.
[02:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:37] <exec> 08└─Or regexes that make you look like a ninja wizard when you can glance at one and tell noobs that it does something in 50 characters that took them 750 to write out as proper code.
[02:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:40] <exec> 08└─Tell that to all the folks still using emacs.
[02:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03vu2lid [7054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:42] <exec> 08└─Perl is unmatched in it's intended original purpose - a general purpose scripting language that can be used as a glue. When used like this it is elegant, understandable and highly productive. Extremely complex tasks for interconnecting systems (which were never originally meant to be compatible) can...
[02:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:44] <exec> 08└─According to my friend who gets the mid six figures coding COBOL in the financial industry, their LoCs are going up.
[02:26:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 492 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:12] <exec> 08└─A Danish friend (living in Sweden, incidentally) just told me that nurseries/kindergartens, schools, colleges and universities in Denmark will close from Friday. All non-essential public servants (i.e. everyone apart from people in the health sector, police and carers) are sent home for 14 days with...
[02:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:13] <exec> 08└─Fake News...Cough...Cough
[02:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:15] <exec> 08└─Wow, the Schdenfreude when Trumpers have no one else they can possibly blame but the prez. Lul, your dude is a shitty scam artist who knows jack shit about anything but running scams. Sorry bub, we liberals do not wish to harm ourselves just to keep "winning." That'd be you trumpettes.
[02:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:17] <exec> 08└─It is sad that the bar has fallen to "president will at least listen to experts," like that is a trait worthy of being placed on their C.V. The prez says there is nothing to worry about, let me know when his promise comes true. Y'know, the "you'll get tired of winning so much" one. I imagine it will...
[02:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:19] <exec> 08└─Ebay has listings for alternatives [ebay.com.au]
[02:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows has a New Wormable Vulnerability -- No Patch in Sight - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:59] <exec> 08└─Are there any past "test subjects" still participating with posting comments?
[02:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows has a New Wormable Vulnerability -- No Patch in Sight - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:00] <exec> 08└─You see, this site is made only for you. You are the test subject.
[02:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:55] <exec> 08└─Okay, I can see that working for a little while, but in the long run? I still expect the inflationary pressures to return the situation to the current status quo.
[02:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:56] <exec> 08└─Things I am grateful for: Lack of seizures in our home. Good sight, hearing, and a fair degree of understanding of speech - even if they're not conversationalists. Some degree of self-care skills, one even takes dishes to the kitchen after dinner. No problems walking / running / balance / etc. Altho...
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[03:24:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 417 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:39] <exec> 08└─Just because something has fallen out of favor, does not mean it is not worth studying. It just means you probably won't be a rock star programmer with it, but rather a balding long-termer who keeps the shit running while the damn kids keep spinning their wheels trying to re-write the entire codebas...
[03:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:30] <exec> 08└─VB is here to stay in industry because of all the legacy code and unwillingness of middle managers to waste pennies from their bonuses. And that's not even counting the insane number of VBA macros in important documents. Even new and expensive toys like rate tables with 4 decimal points of a degree...
[03:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 1561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:31] <exec> 08└─You can't go a week without somebody predicting perls doom. But there is no other language that will let you do the crazy shit perl will let you do. Not that you should do it. But you can. The story behind perl hate is almost unversally this: Boss ask tech to fix. Tech get tired of fixing, he slap a...
[03:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:33] <exec> 08└─There is a high demand for Python. Mostly because people who don't understand programming, think they understand Python.
[03:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:35] <exec> 08└─While I totally agree with you, this attitude is long gone from the minds of the managers. Besides, it's too complicated for the brave new world. The motto of Perl is TRMTOWTDI (There Is More Than One Way To Do It). That's what Larry wrote on my copy of The Book. Goggle switched to Python which is T...
[03:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:37] <exec> 08└─Yep, that's what's being pushed because supposedly it's what the new generation likes. I doubt it though.
[03:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:39] <exec> 08└─Lisp is way too broad, that's like saying, procedural languages using curly braces are dying. Hell, Lisps don't even have the same paradigms, with Scheme and Clojure being far more functional than Common Lisp. With that said, Emacs Lisp is by far the most amazing language that is in continued active...
[03:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:41] <exec> 08└─Why would you go anonymous on that gem? Been programming for 40+ years, that is not only the first time I've seen that but it's one of the best parodies I've ever seen.
[03:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:44] <exec> 08└─The issue with Objective C was not about the language or who created it, but rather the rise of Swift in replacing it in Apple products. Thus the majority of Objective C use may disappear. Or not. Who knows.
[03:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:46] <exec> 08└─I use a widely used language (Java) in business. It's widely known and widely used. I'm good at it. I don't punch a clock. But there is that reality that you are more replaceable with a commodity skill. Fortunately I know a lot more than just Java, including some of the much older tech that was used...
[03:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:48] <exec> 08└─I have a love for Lisps in general and Clojure in particular. I've never commercially used one however. I know that one of the things that helps Clojure is that it runs on the JVM and thus Clojure advocates can sell it to their bosses because it's compatible with Java. And it is.
[03:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:50] <exec> 08└─About the year 9997, when the Y10K problem is right around the corner and everything must be updated to five digit years, there will be a big spike in demand for COBOL developers. Alas not Java most likely. The date/time objects we use will be updated but not our application code will need any updat...
[03:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:52] <exec> 08└─TFA is about dying languages, not already dead ones. Otherwise, the list should be a lot, lot longer: Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, Modula-3, PL/1, almost every domain specific 4th generation language from the 1980s such as Informix 4GL, BASIC (the real BASIC with line numbers, not that VB stuff that wa...
[03:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:54] <exec> 08└─When you're hiring people, there is something to be said for being able to seek out skills for which there are plenty of candidates for. On the flip side of that, you have to stand out to get hired. So, for just one example, I know Visual FoxPro and was very good at it. A language lawyer. I mean I k...
[03:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:56] <exec> 08└─You can love RegExs and use them frequently, without using Perl. I personally know.
[03:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:58] <exec> 08└─Isn't Delphi really Pascal with objects, and nice development tools and GUI frameworks?
[03:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:00] <exec> 08└─Sad but true. While Emacs users may use lisp, that is mostly to scratch their own itch. Not for commercially distributed software. I have great fondness for Lisps.
[03:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:02] <exec> 08└─But I have to admit, it belongs there. I've become a perl expert what, um, mumble mumble, 4, maybe 5 times? In the last 25-30 years? That's not counting the passing acquaintance I've had with it since it was first released. Each time there was a team of us, and a few weeks in none of us could read a...
[03:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:04] <exec> 08└─Lists and discussions of this sort are somewhat a giant red herring. One of the things that made Perl was the intrinsic regular expression capabilities. Once Perl showed the world how useful that could be, it wasn't long before other languages incorporated it. C/C++ has the PCRE library. I'm guessin...
[03:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:38] <exec> 08└─Have you ever been in a house with a small child stuck indoors, even just on a rainy day? There is a chance co-habiting people without children may..get it on.. but no one with small children will have time, energy, nor desire to make more of the noisy balls of energy and destruction.
[03:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:40] <exec> 08└─imagine this being a big thing not because of mortality rate but rather because it's a virus that the human immune system has trouble getting immune to. this might be the big news: getting it, being sick, getting over it, walking out the door and being right on straight up reinfected with no immunit...
[03:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:42] <exec> 08└─Bloomberg, Trump and Tom Steyer? Democracy, ftw.
[03:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:44] <exec> 08└─It is a testament to the medical profession that no doctor has strangled $45 in a meeting.
[03:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:46] <exec> 08└─this might be the big news: getting it, being sick, getting over it, walking out the door and being right on straight up reinfected with no immunity to show for. back to bed for you, again.
[03:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:48] <exec> 08└─It will be poetic justice if he's killed by Covid-19 (a very real possibility - he's been exposed, and he's in the demographic that gets killed by it) because he refused to face reality. Unfortunately, he'll take a lot of other people with him.
[03:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:50] <exec> 08└─Um, me? You know, the ones who come to save you, if you have a medical emergency, Firefighters and Fire Dept. Medics? We are making a note that you do NOT require assistance. Good luck.
[03:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:52] <exec> 08└─There's a big difference between getting through adversity and taking foolish risks.
[03:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:54] <exec> 08└─he's programmed his minions to ignore science and call this a democratic hoax. Sorry, but Trump doesn't deserve credit for this. His voting base has been ignoring science for a long, long time before he was elected. he should be removed from office immediately. You think Pence will be any better? I...
[03:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA OIG: Tell Congress that Moon Rocket is Over Budget and Behind Schedule - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:17] <exec> 08└─SLS seems to be having some of the same QA problems as the Boeing USAF aerial tanker contract.
[03:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA OIG: Tell Congress that Moon Rocket is Over Budget and Behind Schedule - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:18] <exec> 08└─HO HO HO very funny.
[03:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows has a New Wormable Vulnerability -- No Patch in Sight - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:39] <exec> 08└─You know the routine. Just run a Linux VM on the win10 host.
[03:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows has a New Wormable Vulnerability -- No Patch in Sight - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:40] <exec> 08└─I don't like .deb distros... but I do like PCLinuxOS. Non-systemd, for those who care. Stable, and good performance on low-end hardware.
[03:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:37] <exec> 08└─Nope, only one person has ever sockpuppeted on SN. I wonder who that was...
[03:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:39] <exec> 08└─Can't be done.
[03:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:40] <exec> 08└─Yup. Or write a script to insert bogus moderations from inactive users into the db to nuke any comment I don't like down to -1 by cid. Where's the fun in that though? I prefer to crush my enemies where everyone can see it. I mean, how am I supposed to enjoy listening to the lamentations of their wom...
[03:32:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Open Source Initiative Bans Co-Founder, Eric S. Raymond, from its Mailing Lists - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:53] <exec> 08└─I don't do link requests any more for lazy people
[03:32:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Open Source Initiative Bans Co-Founder, Eric S. Raymond, from its Mailing Lists - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:54] <exec> 08└─Not my problem. I'm done doing other people's research
[03:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Bill Aims to Protect Researchers Who Disclose Government Back Doors - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:05] <exec> 08└─Are you disparaging the serene beauty of my cornhole? I demand satisfaction! Regexes at twenty paces sound good? Not at dawn though, I haven't finished my coffee by then. Any time after my post-lunch nap will be fine.
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[04:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pir [9719] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:53] <exec> 08└─There will be perl code running somewhere long after all of us reading this are dead and gone. Probably not *my* perl code, but ya never know. Probably COBOL too. Scala is interesting, and will likely live on. Objective-C, will probably fade into obscurity, unless someone outside Apple keeps it aliv...
[04:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:54] <exec> 08└─If a language forces you to learn a new way of thinking (e.g. Prolog) then it is worth studying.
[04:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:56] <exec> 08└─CoffeeScript has to do with Javascript. I remember it existing over 10 years ago, well before Javascript really exploded and it started evolving in a more standardized manner. These days, just use Ecmascript 2018 or whatever the latest version is, or TypeScript if you don't hate yourself. Scala is w...
[04:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:58] <exec> 08└─With that being a rare commodity, bitchfest from those afflicted by sour grapes never ceases and never will.
[04:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:41] <exec> 08└─I couldn't find any toilet paper or paper towels at Costco today. Lots of bottled water, however. Why anyone is buying bottled water for a pandemic is beyond me. In any case people are starting to panic unnecessarily. So what if this disease is going to kill a few million people in this country. I'm...
[04:30:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the problem is it doesn't work. See, money isn't worth a fixed value. It's valued by the amount of work done in your nation. If over a quarter of the workforce decide they'd just really rather not work if it's all the same to you, your money just decreased in value by over a quarter. Which mea...
[04:31:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jay [8679] 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 2400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:10] <exec> 08└─It's quite likely to revitalize small towns. A large percent of them are slowly dying out, all across america. The one I grew up in is on it's last generation or two before it's gone for good. The problem is that as we've consolidated manufacturing (largely overseas) and started to have giant mega-m...
[04:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:27] <exec> 08└─If there's a nursing school in the area -- sometimes student nurses can get extra credit for being home volunteers/paid help. That's an incentive for them to be reliable, and turnover doesn't matter so long as the school maintains the program.
[04:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:28] <exec> 08└─Man, don't go getting butthurt with a load of assumptions on his behalf. I said evaluate his priorities and do what gains him the most relief from misery; and offered a suggestion. There is no possible way in which anyone can take that to be anything but helpful, so just stop.
[04:31:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because hiring some kid to do the dishes, stir dinner, and do a load or two of laundry so you don't have to every evening would be unthinkable, insanely expensive, and wrong. Don't be any more of a jackass than you have to be, man.
[04:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:32] <exec> 08└─The positive side of UBI would happen IF it replaced the entire gov't-welfare industry/bureaucracy. Of course, then you'd have a couple million useless people out of work, but, tradeoffs...
[04:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:34] <exec> 08└─Yup: 'Normal' people have ZERO idea. One time my son was dead set on going to Toys R Us and tried running across traffic (look both ways? WTF does that mean?). She caught him, luckily, before he got very far. He went limp and laid down half on the sidewalk, half on the street. She muscled/dragged hi...
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[05:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Rockets are Made (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:25] <exec> 08└─A couple of engineer friends work at the big SpaceX Hawthorne plant and I had a tour about 5 years ago. While I only walked down the center aisle of the big plant, we saw rocket motor production, booster tanks just after welding and the paint line. Rocket motors made the biggest impression on me, ea...
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[05:24:26] <exec> 08└─This is a rather optimistic take on things, which I suppose is nice for a change! But the reality is that the reason the moon rocks are still being examined is because we haven't left low earth orbit since 1972, we're just about to come up on the half a century mark unless SpaceX can nail their goal...
[05:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:01] <exec> 08└─Pretty much by definition, as you basically build up the language to solve any task. Also, two stacks do clash with present programming model which constantly uses callbacks from C/C++ based libraries (naturally using one stack).
[05:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:03] <exec> 08└─and end up writing Perl. It is how it happened to me.
[05:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:05] <exec> 08└─That's all fine and good but we were talking origin stories and the P in PCRE don't stand for Python.
[05:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:07] <exec> 08└─No syntax can make clear what a muddled brain produced.
[05:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:09] <exec> 08└─http://www.oolite.org/ [oolite.org] - an open-source successor to Elite
[05:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:11] <exec> 08└─The fun bit is, write some text wrangling in Perl what's regex-heavy then try doing the same in Python. It's quite painful, even laying aside all the other parts of Python that someone deserves throat punched for. Folks who know what they're talking about may not want to prefer Perl for text wrangli...
[05:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:13] <exec> 08└─That's why they're middle management and will never be anything better. You do not get the brass ring if you don't take the risk and reach for it. Caution's fine but fear causes mediocrity.
[05:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:15] <exec> 08└─Units problem? > rate tables with 4 decimal points of a degree accuracy Wouldn't that be: rate tables with 4 decimal points of a degree/second accuracy Years ago I wanted to run a check cal (not precision) on a small rate gyro, used a high quality turntable, 33 rpm (198 deg/sec) was right in the...
[05:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:17] <exec> 08└─Eh, IMO salaried is even worse than punching a clock if you have any kind of a work ethic*. Independent contractor all the way, yo. There's a lot less folks contracting them but there's a lot less me too. * My work ethic goes like: When you're working, burn the candle at both ends. When you're not,...
[05:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:20] <exec> 08└─Wrong! Specs are no less important than machine code implementing them, and their native tongue is not binary.
[05:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:22] <exec> 08└─Yes yes and yes. For business applications it ran circles around most of the contenders. You could even code inline assembly if you wanted, for speed sensitive things. The two things I liked the most, however, were that you could compile to an exe and move just that into your working directory once...
[05:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:05] <exec> 08└─At least Bloomberg and Steyer can put together a coherent sentence.
[05:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:06] <exec> 08└─Admit it, the shower will clean your ass better than that elusive poo paper. If you want to be a big boy, get an electronic bidet.
[05:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:08] <exec> 08└─Who actually hangs around the current Troll in Chief in the White House? His lackeys and his kin, so all those he takes with him might actually be good for the country.
[05:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:11] <exec> 08└─Lemme just leave this here for you, the official italian numbers: http://www.salute.gov.it [salute.gov.it]
[05:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Working from Home: Lessons Learned Over 20 Years - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:48] <exec> 08└─...Brother brand B+W lasers are simply superior.
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[06:26:07] <exec> 08└─Ruby is big in Japan. Everywhere else, not so much.
[06:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:08] <exec> 08└─If you wanna spin slow then none of your shit matters.
[06:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Starship Prototype Explodes, but SpaceX Isn't Stopping - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should smoke some more weed...
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[07:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Where it Rains Iron Discovered - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:11] <exec> 08└─I have never been fond of being out in the rain on Earth, but I may dislike being out in the rain on this planet even more.
[07:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Where it Rains Iron Discovered - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:12] <exec> 08└─Think of it more as a sauna.
[07:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Rockets are Made (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:23] <exec> 08└─How the pork sausage is made ;)
[07:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIP jazz pianist McCoy Tyner - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:33] <exec> 08└─The word is died.
[07:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:12] <exec> 08└─COBOL is Undead! If there was any more of it, it would be a Zombie apocalypse.
[07:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:14] <exec> 08└─As someone who has used it professionally, I am able to do things in Scala in a month that occupy entire departments in some companies, and which could literally not be done in any other language. The only other language with enough power is LISP, but it doesn't have access to the necessary librarie...
[07:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 1542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:16] <exec> 08└─I did a bit of Googling around to find who originally wrote the Write in C parody lyrics turned up several possibilities: * Google Look Inside has it on page 146 from MIT Press's 1995 book titled _Humor the Computer_, edited by Andrew Davidson, which page shows authorship as "Anonymous." * A 2002 on...
[07:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:18] <exec> 08└─You tell him.
[07:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:20] <exec> 08└─Somehow you touche'd yourself. Do you like toucheing yourself?
[07:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:53] <exec> 08└─Inflation is due to increase in the money supply. Simplistically, money is backed by the assets of the state. Print more and you are dividing a set wealth by a larger number of dollars. The wealth doesn't change, the dollar gets smaller. There are many economists who think that a small steady inflat...
[07:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:55] <exec> 08└─They could take the jobs of everyone who drops out of the workforce to live on the UBI. I think bureacrats are currently paid more than a UBI, so that is a net win.
[07:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:57] <exec> 08└─It takes some fiddling with the bonuses, but the only posts I don't see are those modded spam. (Plus 1 to everything, browse at 0.) I think it occasionally catches someone with karma so negative they post at -1 unmodded, but it's pretty rare and no great loss anyway.
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[08:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Crafty Web Skimming Domain Spoofs "https" - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:15] <exec> 08└─Perhaps Chrome devs will keep hacking the urlbar against these attacks. OR Should the full URL. Like it is in the technical specification.
[08:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Where it Rains Iron Discovered - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:25] <exec> 08└─Just bring an umbrella.
[08:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Where it Rains Iron Discovered - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:27] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if that planet periodically flips (is topple a better word?). Because the night side keeps getting heavier while the day side gets lighter. It is tidally locked, but the system will become unstable over time and will try to correct that.
[08:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Where it Rains Iron Discovered - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:29] <exec> 08└─Buckskin Bill, of down the River of No-Return, used to say that it was good to have something like a Siberian Tiger about, as it kept the hunter awake on the trail. How much moreso the change of Iron Rain?
[08:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Where it Rains Iron Discovered - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:31] <exec> 08└─What exactly are the morning and evening borders on a planet tidally locked to its sun?
[08:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:34] <exec> 08└─I'm so old, I remember why most of the RFCs specify data transfer in octets instead of bytes or another unit because they were different sizes on different machines. And "nybble" has a "y" in it, heretics!
[08:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:36] <exec> 08└─Why isn't MUMPS on that list? MUMPS should actually have been added the minute it was released.
[08:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:38] <exec> 08└─You believe, and I know. I used to administrate these systems. SAP / ABAP / Java tried to take over but failed. There is no true successor for COBOL. Feel free to invent one.
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[09:26:33] <exec> 08└─omfg lul what?
[09:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:35] <exec> 08└─Binary is not a language. Maybe you are thinking of machine language? But then, there is not one machine language; the x86 machine language is different from the ARM machine language, for example. So still no language to rule them all, just a family of languages.
[09:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:37] <exec> 08└─Yep, I looked it up before posting - that's what made me think I'd probably confused it up with Apple's Cocoa - bit of a "duh!" moment; Java is a kind of coffee and after that the "Script" part should have been obvious really. I suspect I probably had a better idea what CoffeeScript was 10 years ago...
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[09:28:24] <exec> 08└─The virus itself is slipping into the background as the hysteria, piblic, private and personal, goes fully exponential. The bullshit and misinformation coming out of all sources is making a mockery of any concept of measured, reasonable or appropriate response. The WHO didn't tell anyone to hoard up...
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[10:27:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LaminatorX [14] 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 1068 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:00] <exec> 08└─Compared to our regular dance with Influenza, this is more contagious in the early symptomatic phase - such that people who don't feel super-sick yet are shedding more live viruses as they go about their business hoping to "shake off this cold," significantly more deadly to the elderly, and less dea...
[10:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Check Point Chap: Small Firms Don't Invest in Infosec Then Hope They Won't Get Hacked - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:14] <exec> 08└─Your gut feeling is wrong. Amazon fulfillment backend down? Zero $. Magento Store is down? Zero income in that stream. PBX taken down too? Zero $ from sales teams and incoming customer calls. Accounting computers ransomwared? Might be late with critical patent filings or taxes or so on, or in the be...
[10:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Starship Prototype Explodes, but SpaceX Isn't Stopping - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:37] <exec> 08└─It's not a case of a particular product - it's the culture. They reported a safety concern to an engineer. It was ignored. It made things fail catastrophically. Hence, the system in place from day one has been inadequate. That's a *real* hard thing to change, especially if either of those people got...
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[11:24:32] <exec> 08└─Interesting question. My first reaction was "no way, planets are just too damn big to be affected by a little weather", and this is a giant planet so that's probably the case, but it get me thinking. Imagine the same scenario on a small, rocky planet like Mercury. All that material is being peeled o...
[11:25:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 1709 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:30] <exec> 08└─There is no one language "to rule them all". They all have pros and con's, which is why I tend to try to use whichever one I have in my toolbox that best fits the use case. I would write image manipulation in C for performance, even if the rest of the program is Python (it is nice you can drop into...
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[12:24:21] <exec> 08└─Why bother converting it? It's sterile, and I like the taste.
[12:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:23] <exec> 08└─That did make me think of the technical difficulties of distilling a liquid in 0G. How do you separate the steam from the liquid when they can both float?
[12:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Pinpoint Rare Binary Brown Dwarf - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:31] <exec> 08└─I was wondering why a binary brown dwarf would be so rare... Then I read that it was a rare ECLIPSING brown dwarf binary system. That seemed a lot more reasonable, as the orientation of the system would have to be within about a degree of perfect for us to see it as eclipsing at interstellar distanc...
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[12:24:51] <exec> 08└─Rethinking this, I come to the conclusion that it must also depend on distribution of matter. If the planet is all iron, it won't tilt because the center of gravity will just shift. But if matter and/or density differ, then you could get a wobbling planet over time. A tidally locked planet might sud...
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[13:24:26] <exec> 08└─Yup, there should be plenty of them given that this was discovered so recently: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Astronomers predict that these ultra-cool dwarfs should host large populations of close-by, potentially habitable rocky planets, offering a wealth of opportunity to...
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[13:24:43] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if that planet periodically flips (is topple a better word?). Because the night side keeps getting heavier while the day side gets lighter. It is tidally locked, but the system will become unstable over time and will try to correct that.
[13:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Where it Rains Iron Discovered - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:49] <exec> 08└─Morning is when you stand on the terminator facing north and the star is on the eastern horizon. Evening is the other terminator. Snarkiness aside, if you had the technology this would be a fantastic place for mining metals. All stratified out by density/boiling point.
[13:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Where it Rains Iron Discovered - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:51] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking: Bowler hat, with the rain depositing around the day-night rim. Maybe after billions of years the bowler hat shape might become unstable enough to flip.
[13:29:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Microsoft Takes Down Global Zombie Bot Network - 1634 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:42] <exec> 08└─In Windows 95 Microsoft added, for the first time, an optional (laughable) login screen. IIS runs (or once did run) effectively in kernel -- in an attempt to have the efficiency of Apache, without regard for security implications. Self executing email viruses were a fun joke in the Usenet days. Micr...
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[13:32:40] <exec> 08└─Long story, but, our oldest liked to go for walks, like 4 hour walks, when he was ~8 years old. There was a small neighborhood a little too far to walk from home called "Apple Tree" that he would call out every, single, time, we drove past - repeat it like 4 times "Apple Tree! Apple Tree! Apple Tree...
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[14:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:16] <exec> 08└─But also less mass means less energy to cause a particular change in velocity.
[14:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:17] <exec> 08└─for multiple reasons.
[14:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:19] <exec> 08└─Full bottle => more mass, average center of gravity, needs big mv to get knocked off. Half full bottle => less mass, low center of gravity, easily recovers from knocks. Empty bottle => less mass, high center of gravity (probably higher than the full bottle because of the cap), needs little mv and do...
[14:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:22] <exec> 08└─Well, I mean this is in an education journal, not a physics journal per se.
[14:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:24] <exec> 08└─This is needed to make killer robots slightly more efficient (milliseconds count) at killing humans when they are in the shower.
[14:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:26] <exec> 08└─Oh, you mean when we are washing our hair, we are easier to knock over? Yes, I see it's all about the raised mass of hands/arms/shampoo-on-head...or were you thinking of eyes-closed, and defenseless?
[14:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:35] <exec> 08└─If the body expels it, a reason of two may subsist.
[14:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:37] <exec> 08└─Centripetal force, I guess. Or electrostatic. Or maybe you cool down the stuff and wait for a mass of water to form by mutual gravitational attraction of the molecules. That's not the problem. The problem is that you gotta drink your own pee.
[14:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 1714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:39] <exec> 08└─Sterility is an urban legend. Firstly, it clearly false in the case of a UTI, as the microbes living in the lower urinary tract haven't passed through the usual disinfecting path. And even then, in the absense of a UTI, it's still not true: Abstract Title: Urine is Not Sterile: The Urinary Microbi...
[14:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:42] <exec> 08└─Centrfifugal force can simulate gravity, so basically you need to do your piss whilst doing a helicopter. You always heard that astronauts were highly trained - now you know just how skillful they are. And let's not even start on the topic of female astronauts!
[14:26:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:07] <exec> 08└─Nothing to be sorry about - neither did Apple develop nor own the Linux stack that OS-X was based on.
[14:28:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aegis [6714] 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:35] <exec> 08└─Say we had the China data. At what point would the Trump administration have listened to the warnings of scientists? Pretty sure it would have been when the stock market crashed and we were already infected....
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[15:24:13] <exec> 08└─Disaster relief, not so much. Still can't get tested?
[15:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. House Passes Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Bill - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:14] <exec> 08└─Example of how they really feel [americanindependent.com] And before you go shooting off about how much better the dems are, don't forget the disappointments and bullshit that led to those huge republican victories ten years ago.
[15:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:27] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the article about toast usually landing butter side down when dropped. The buttered side is the top-heavy side, but there are a few other factors at work.
[15:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:29] <exec> 08└─If we throw a shampoo bottle at the robot, and the robot can use its sensors to measure the contents, it can calculate the best way to swat the bottle and have it bounce off the wall, hit us in the forehead, so that we slip and die. Or it could just shoot randomly into the shower idk.
[15:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:31] <exec> 08└─A business card will always land print side up if you curve the card ever so slightly.
[15:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:43] <exec> 08└─Is it really that much worse than drinking everyone else's pee like we do on Earth? After all, if there's any cities upstream from you, you're drinking their treated sewage. Even if you stick to bottled beverages, you're just drinking ex-urine imported from somewhere else. Heck, even if you're drink...
[15:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crafty Web Skimming Domain Spoofs "https" - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:00] <exec> 08└─Is it actually this: "http[.]ps" (brackets removed)? Because it seems like this: "http[.]s" would be a better visual spoof.
[15:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crafty Web Skimming Domain Spoofs "https" - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:01] <exec> 08└─So this web site has been hacked and malicious code has been inserted via persistent XSS injection of some sort. The URI //http.ps//grandwesternsteaks.com doesn't look anything like a typical URI used in script tags, and it seems unlikely the http.ps domain could be confused for the scheme, so I'm n...
[15:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03throckmorten [3380] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crafty Web Skimming Domain Spoofs "https" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:03] <exec> 08└─.S isn't a valid CCTLD, .PS is
[15:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Rockets are Made (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:29] <exec> 08└─Let me guess: How rockets WERE made b4 SpaceX
[15:26:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NickM [2867] 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:21] <exec> 08└─Without Perl there would be no Soylentnews !
[15:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Check Point Chap: Small Firms Don't Invest in Infosec Then Hope They Won't Get Hacked - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:04] <exec> 08└─This doesn't demonstrate my gut feeling is wrong because there are no actual numbers attached to any of these possible consequences you list. Obviously some small businesses will be more affected by computer problems than others. Those might want to consider investing to mitigating possible issues a...
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[16:24:21] <exec> 08└─Bipartisan laws are the worst. The two latest one here were, adoption of the euro and job destabilization. The latter is most interesting because it is called legge Biagi in memory of a lower ranking politician that got murdered by terrorists. So, the emotional response was to put into law what he w...
[16:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Passes Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Bill - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:22] <exec> 08└─But hey now, thanks to the head Cheetos, it is now legal for an american to hire a foreign intelligence agency to spy on fellow americans.
[16:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:39] <exec> 08└─Nothing to see here but idiot students who just figured out simple physics. Caps are heavy, bottoms usually small: bottle is top heavy and will fall over. Oooh, gimme a peese prize! Shit: for a LOT of bottles on the shelf FULL, they are easy to knock over BECAUSE of the small bottoms. Duh.
[16:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:40] <exec> 08└─No peese in the shower.
[16:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:42] <exec> 08└─As noted, most of the value is educational. In the video, there's two important parts. First, discussing the problem and building the model. The speaker goes over what the problem is and discusses a model based on center of gravity for analyzing stability and characteristics of the model, like it's...
[16:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:44] <exec> 08└─Very Psycho of you.
[16:24:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 1714 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:55] <exec> 08└─Sterility is an urban legend. Firstly, it clearly false in the case of a UTI, as the microbes living in the lower urinary tract haven't passed through the usual disinfecting path. And even then, in the absense of a UTI, it's still not true: Abstract Title: Urine is Not Sterile: The Urinary Microbi...
[16:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:58] <exec> 08└─Do you drink Budweiser?
[16:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crafty Web Skimming Domain Spoofs "https" - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:16] <exec> 08└─But htt[.]ps would also be closer than http[.]ps, while still being a valid domain name.
[16:26:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:49] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, obscure knowledge will absolutely make you a rock star to those who have a use for it. Knowing what everyone else knows will have you punching a clock.
[16:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA OIG: Tell Congress that Moon Rocket is Over Budget and Behind Schedule - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:57] <exec> 08└─You're saying that, I'm saying that the older you are and the more compromised your immune system, the higher the death rate. You're politicizing / rationalizing the virus.
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[17:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. House Passes Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Bill - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:32] <exec> 08└─The FISA warrants allow wiretaps that are 2 steps away from the target. If the warrant is for X, you can spy on Z if there exists a Y who communicates with both. Think about it. Would there be a person Y who communicates with both the supposed target and with Donald Trump? Why yes, that would obviou...
[17:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. House Passes Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Bill - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:34] <exec> 08└─Usually it's a telltale sign if they give it some dumb acronym like B.A.B.Y.S.M.I.L.E.S. or something, too.
[17:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Passes Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Bill - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:36] <exec> 08└─And we will be back with pretty much the same story next time it needs reauthing. No vote will ever change this.
[17:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:55] <exec> 08└─Yep, the irregularities on the unbuttered side increase the parallel to surface vector of resistence to air. Plus Murphy's law factor.
[17:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:56] <exec> 08└─> shoot randomly ... Are there 2nd amendment rights for robots? How about for robots that are allowed to shoot randomly? Discuss!
[17:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:59] <exec> 08└─Are there 2nd amendment rights for robots? How about for robots that are allowed to shoot randomly? Discuss!
[17:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:14] <exec> 08└─If you talk about this you pretty much have to post this video with it.... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:15] <exec> 08└─C'mon, FatPhil. It's [youtube.com] a joke, son [youtube-nocookie.com].
[17:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:17] <exec> 08└─Wow I didn't think of that. From now on I am only drinking 0w30
[17:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Pinpoint Rare Binary Brown Dwarf - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:27] <exec> 08└─Headlines indicate people these days only care about non-binary brown dwarves.
[17:27:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) 02 - 06Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:35] <exec> 08└─If a language forces you to learn a new way of thinking (e.g. Prolog) then it is worth studying.
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[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─The problem is that every law that's supposed to expire never actually expires.
[18:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Passes Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Bill - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:31] <exec> 08└─yeah, like the income tax. dumb slaves pay it like it's perfectly reasonable. fucking cowardly whores!
[18:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House Passes Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Bill - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:33] <exec> 08└─once again there are only two congressmen with the real american position. hang the rest!
[18:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:56] <exec> 08└─But of course, you were born with infused universal knowledge of everything... You're the perfect example of the maladapted, socially inept, autistic assholes that infect the internet like a plague.
[18:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:57] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the article about your mama usually landing butter side down when dropped. The buttered side is the top-heavy side, but there are a few other factors at work.
[18:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:59] <exec> 08└─Or, maybe like me, he built towers out of blocks as a kid. This develops a somewhat intuitive sense of where the center of gravity is located (due to offset blocks) and the consequences thereof. No snark necessary, just good play.
[18:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crafty Web Skimming Domain Spoofs "https" - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:38] <exec> 08└─I guess they make it look similar to https but change it slightly so most people think it says https? Browsers are supposed to have that little locked symbol showing if the certificates are all authenticated correctly. I imagine that the little lock wouldn't show up if it wasn't so, unless the brows...
[18:28:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06World Health Organization Declares the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak a Global Pandemic - 302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:34] <exec> 08└─A raise I was supposed to get in April has been postponed until further notice. At my wife's work, a charter contract that was going to earn them $100k just got cancelled. This is definitely going to kick us square in the economy. Which was only hanging on because of massive deficit spending anyway....
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[19:24:23] <exec> 08└─we applied a lot of power to the antenna, and we blew it up!
[19:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Crack 58-year-old Puzzle on Way to Quantum Breakthrough - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:25] <exec> 08└─Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe what is currently called MRI - magnetic resonance imaging, is basically the same as the earlier NMR - nuclear magnetic resonance. The change was made because the public equates "nuclear" with bombs, Chernobyl, etc. So, any guesses on the next name for NER - nuc...
[19:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engineers Crack 58-year-old Puzzle on Way to Quantum Breakthrough - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:27] <exec> 08└─According to TFA, what had puzzled physicists was that control of a single atom using an electric field had been predicted, but no one had been able to do so prior to this experiment. It is expected that electric field control of single atoms will be useful in building quantum computers, which will...
[19:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:13] <exec> 08└─I actually use Physics Teacher. Its mission, according to the about section inside of it: TPT publishes peer-reviewed papers on the teaching of introductory physics and on topics such as contemporary physics, applied physics, and the history of physics. Dedicated to strengthening the teaching of int...
[19:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows has a New Wormable Vulnerability -- No Patch in Sight - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:55] <exec> 08└─If you don't have the intimate knowledge of the situation necessary to write an informative article about events that may be occurring in the next 24 hours maybe you should stick to writing clickbait articles... Oh, wait... nevermind! www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-patches-smbv3-wormable-bug-that-l...
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[20:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Crack 58-year-old Puzzle on Way to Quantum Breakthrough - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:19] <exec> 08└─Dangerous NMR was renamed to nice safe MRI because of how dangerous that letter N was considered to be. Removing the dangerous N from NER would leave simply ER. Which still might be considered dangerous. Idea: Electric Resonance Antenna or ERA. Doh! That doesn't work. Idea: Electric Resonance Field...
[20:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Crack 58-year-old Puzzle on Way to Quantum Breakthrough - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:20] <exec> 08└─Also how does IBM create an IBM logo made of single atoms. [wikipedia.org] Or the movie A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie. [youtube.com]
[20:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Passes Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Bill - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:43] <exec> 08└─Perfect is the enemy of good. If this bill is a step in the right direction it should be approved. That doesn't mean the job is done. Paul and Wyden know damned well they aren't going to stop this bill out right, it clearly has sufficient bi-partisan support -- so they should be doing as much as the...
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[20:24:44] <exec> 08└─It is said that there are two parties in Washington, the evil party and the stupid party. And occasionally the parties get together and do something both evil and stupid. This is known as "bipartisanship."
[20:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:12] <exec> 08└─I ran out of my manly shampoo so grabbed one of the 27 different bottles of shampoo/conditioner lining the bathtub. It said invigorating shampoo. 30 seconds into massaging it into my scalp I hear snaps and crackles, then my scalp started tingling. That shit had pop rocks in the shampoo and smelled l...
[20:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:13] <exec> 08└─Nothing to see here but idiot students who just figured out simple physics.
[20:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:31] <exec> 08└─Thanks for both of those!
[20:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:32] <exec> 08└─No. But are you suggesting it is better than urine?
[20:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Pinpoint Rare Binary Brown Dwarf - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:43] <exec> 08└─We call them munchkins these days.
[20:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Takes Down Global Zombie Bot Network - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:18] <exec> 08└─I still find it strange that criminals and their bots can freely register thousands of fake domains. Meanwhile I get stonewalled trying to update my one, legit domain. The whole ICANN registry thing needs to be rethought and reimplemented.
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[21:24:19] <exec> 08└─Leeds pupil sent home for selling hand sanitiser [bbc.com] A teenager was sent home from school after being caught selling shots of hand sanitiser to his fellow pupils at 50p a go. His mother, Jenny Tompkins, from Leeds, posted a picture of him arriving home earlier after his entrepreneurial exploit...
[21:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:20] <exec> 08└─It took Chinese 6 weeks to stop the bug. Let' show what we can do.
[21:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:23] <exec> 08└─I believe the Chinese self-reports of virus control just about as much as I trust anything that comes out of Pence/Trump's mouths.
[21:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:25] <exec> 08└─Do you own a welding set? [worldofbuzz.com]
[21:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:27] <exec> 08└─Let' show what we can do. We are... [businessinsider.com]
[21:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but how much did he make? Inquiring minds would like to know. So, they suspended him for selling £9
[21:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:31] <exec> 08└─True legends sell homemade sanitizer [nypost.com] Make your own and save money [youtube.com]
[21:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:33] <exec> 08└─Looks like some of the airline stocks fell around 25%. I think you can look forward to a number of bailouts this year.
[21:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:35] <exec> 08└─I agree. Beijing is worried most about public disorder, not losing a few million people.
[21:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Crack 58-year-old Puzzle on Way to Quantum Breakthrough - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:47] <exec> 08└─Bravo! That's how real engineers work. When something blows up and they notice something interesting they do not replace the antenna. They investigate. God forgive they don't fix it using software or reboot.
[21:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Passes Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Bill - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:13] <exec> 08└─Don't pay income tax A/C. You're a sovereign citizen so those laws don't apply to you.
[21:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:43] <exec> 08└─I think they're just going for the JIR's top paper award.
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[22:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:26] <exec> 08└─Personally, I would rather not. Regular Americans should get bailouts this time.
[22:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:28] <exec> 08└─...by Republicans and the most virulent Tea Party types that are in power now... in an election year? Spin it for me.
[22:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:30] <exec> 08└─Two senators, both Trump allies, have announced self-quarantine measures after being at Mar-a-Lago with the president and his Brazilian visitors last weekend. Lindsey Graham and Donald Trump in Charlotte, North Carolina earlier this month. Rick Scott of Florida was first and now Lindsey Graham of So...
[22:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:32] <exec> 08└─Already happening, 1.5 trillion went to Wall Street casinos [reuters.com]... They are sabotaging the economy
[22:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:34] <exec> 08└─Thanks editors for pulling together this summary. SN for the win! One comment--it is kind of long to scroll down through, to get to the comments. Perhaps next time some of the longer stories could be put inside the spoiler tag?
[22:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:36] <exec> 08└─airline stocks fell around 25%. I think you can look forward to a number of bailouts this year.
[22:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:38] <exec> 08└─If this bailout doesn't help the economy (which it won't really) you can look forward to a war before November, because wartime presidents don't lose elections.
[22:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/coronavirus-vs-influenza-flu-ken-standfield [linkedin.com] https://www.moonofalabama.org [moonofalabama.org]
[22:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:42] <exec> 08└─Map with number of cases, deaths, recoveries per country/region: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com [arcgis.com] Another map, this with graphs of daily dynamic (!) of confirmed cases per country: https://experience.arcgis.com
[22:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Crack 58-year-old Puzzle on Way to Quantum Breakthrough - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:55] <exec> 08└─Idea: stop labeling... "stuff".... as an idea
[22:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Crack 58-year-old Puzzle on Way to Quantum Breakthrough - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:56] <exec> 08└─The summary makes my tummy feel funny. How is it these electric fields drop off so fast as 1/r while the nasty long-distance magnetic fields drop off so slowly as... 1/r. Aren't magnetic and electric fields the same thing from a different reference frame? (Yes they are).
[22:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Crack 58-year-old Puzzle on Way to Quantum Breakthrough - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe atomic electric resonance will fly - AER? After all atoms are mostly the nucleus (by weight).
[22:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Crack 58-year-old Puzzle on Way to Quantum Breakthrough - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:00] <exec> 08└─> The summary makes my tummy feel funny. Willy Nilly likes you! Willy Nilly doesn't like your friend with an upset stomach. It's a kid puzzle, good for physicists! Oh, and Willy Nilly doesn't like physicists either, but he does like puzzles.
[22:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engineers Crack 58-year-old Puzzle on Way to Quantum Breakthrough - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:02] <exec> 08└─"Aren't magnetic and electric fields the same thing from a different reference frame? (Yes they are)." Ever see a single magnetic pole?
[22:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah maybe you could be a stock market pundit or "a business guy" and see all your predictions come false every other day and still get paid for it.
[22:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:59] <exec> 08└─Those crazy kids - and I bet they STILL don't get why you kept all those toy cars from your childhood unopened and unplayed with in their original boxes. Fools!
[22:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:19] <exec> 08└─Sure it's better than some but not all. Kind of a middling urine taste.
[22:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:20] <exec> 08└─Dude that's dinosaur turds! Stick to synthetics.
[22:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Upgrading ISS System That Turns Astronaut Pee Into Drinking Water - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:22] <exec> 08└─Asparagus removed from astronaut menus.
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[23:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T CEO Pay Rose to $32 Million in 2019 after Cutting 20,000 Jobs - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:18] <exec> 08└─I think someone on here said it best, something like stuff like this is just a glitch in captialism. And he was right. We need serious reforms in how business is conducted. These are primal beasts that we are using to advance our burden, and the way the system has evelved has been outstripped by the...
[23:24:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:28] <exec> 08└─I believe the Chinese self-reports of virus control just about as much as I trust anything that comes out of Pence/Trump's mouths.
[23:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:44] <exec> 08└─Here in Oz, kids sell sections of TPs - it is the new currency. Even drug peddlers take TPs for the vice of your choice. Ubereats, deliveroo and menulog will soon have to add TPs to their delivery menu. TPs have done what Bitcoin couldn't. /s
[23:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:46] <exec> 08└─Does anybody here remember enough about past pandemics to compare the world reaction of Covid-19 with them? (Note: I'm talking about the public reaction, not the actual statistics or pathology or anything.) I feel like there is substantially more reaction to this one than past ones. For example, I d...
[23:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:48] <exec> 08└─Or they can create a to be continued or a continuation tag. Wouldn't be a bad idea in general even for the comments.
[23:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:50] <exec> 08└─And Washington by all appearances is worried about the Dow Jones Industrial Average, not the potential of losing a few million people.
[23:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:52] <exec> 08└─You would have to be superman to open the doors in flight.
[23:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:54] <exec> 08└─All of a sudden, finger print scanners as a security measure at entrances is not looking like such a hot idea for your security theater. Bet you wish you only had to use a swipe card now. Its going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Basically this virus is in the wild in the US now. Combin...
[23:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:56] <exec> 08└─I just did it. Should show up in a few minutes.
[23:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:58] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's a great system. It's a system our drunk forefathers would have been proud of. If anyone needs me, I'll be driving over your dead bones in my RV, sitting in my pool of liquor, or blowing things up. Not necessarily in that order. -- Philip Tandy Miller
[23:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:00] <exec> 08└─Bailouts are good now. The End
[23:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:02] <exec> 08└─Anyone else trying to return to the US from Europe? What has been your experience?
[23:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:04] <exec> 08└─Random fact: a GIS guy I used to work with and saw recently helped build those first two maps. He also did some of the wildfire ones.
[23:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:07] <exec> 08└─Depends on the pandemic. HIV/AIDS is a pandemic and it got a pretty big response.
[23:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:09] <exec> 08└─In other pandemics, officials absolutely took those kinds of actions in places where the virus wasn't contained. You didn't remember when that happened with Ebola because you don't live in West Africa, for instance, and the tiny number of cases in the US were well-contained to the point where such m...
[23:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:11] <exec> 08└─Most of the text in the summary above are references or summaries of Chinese sources. Just saying.
[23:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:13] <exec> 08└─No, but none of those were as contagious or (except H1N1) widespread as this one. SARS infected 8000, MERS was 2000 at its peak. H1N1 was around 1,000,000,000 give or take. For H1N1 there was a lot going on. I recall masks and hand sanitizer going out of stock during that one too. There were also qu...
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[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─Any attempt to open an aircraft in fright would cause explosive decompression.
[23:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:17] <exec> 08└─This is more infectious, every day we see 1.2-1.5x new cases with the inflection point some way off. Are you ready for 1 billion recorded cases and 30 million deaths by the end of May? This is why epidemiologists and now governments are panicked. The UK (and possibly Germany [bbc.co.uk]) appears to...
[23:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:19] <exec> 08└─The last one was flu of 1918. While I obviously don't "remember" it, I have read a lot about it. The bug gave communists the win. The whole world history would be different without it.
[23:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:21] <exec> 08└─HIV/AIDS is a pandemic and it got a pretty big response.
[23:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:23] <exec> 08└─Do you think there's anyone within 3 layers of Trump who has the balls to stand up and point out what 7 million additional deaths in the space of 3 months will do to the Dow Jones? Even if such a person exists, will their information have a snowball's chance in hell of affecting policy?
[23:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:25] <exec> 08└─Does Boeing make parachutes?
[23:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engineers Crack 58-year-old Puzzle on Way to Quantum Breakthrough - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:43] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia? Sheesh, I was hoping someone would help me cheat on my dissertation.
[23:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Crack 58-year-old Puzzle on Way to Quantum Breakthrough - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:45] <exec> 08└─"This was purely a curiosity-driven project, with no application in mind." I love this since here in Ontario our current provincial Conservative government is pushing for "results based funding" - You've got to show it's going to "pay off" before they dole out research funds. They hate science and f...
[23:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. House Passes Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Bill - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:12] <exec> 08└─Oh shit, he's on to the DNC plot to use it's time machine to go back to 2001 and convince Republicans to sponsor the PATRIOT Act so they could enact it and then renew it, with a few minor privacy protections added, in 2020!
[23:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:45] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, this was not supported by any grants or outside funding. This doesn't surprise me given that it is a small paper in The Physics Teacher. You prefer the lecture-textbook-only model of teaching? I would wager that the first-year undergraduate student learned a great deal on this...
[23:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:46] <exec> 08└─So how did you get your Weebles to fall over? Mine never did. That is at least a little bit relevant here beyond your wooden block model.
[23:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:48] <exec> 08└─This "discovery" is obvious. But it does raise a question of how we should handle this kind of thing. Old people die and new people are born all the time. How should we handle things which are interesting but have been known since forever (e.g. why is the sky blue, how do we know the world is round,...
[23:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:50] <exec> 08└─And here I thought it is just a simple matter of because when it is empty it is top heavy with the cap and all. But apparently its so complicated it requires a research pub. on it.
[23:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:52] <exec> 08└─You answered it. You put it all on Wikipedia and you let kids explore random articles for hours.
[23:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is an Empty Shampoo Bottle So Easy to Knock Over? - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:54] <exec> 08└─> But also less mass means less energy to cause a particular change in velocity. Whilst your correlations are correct, you're mixing unit dimensionality terribly. English may not be your first language, if so don't take that as a criticism, you're doing damn well if you're not a native speaker. Less...
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