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[00:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:07] <exec> 08└─Global warming, global cooling... just pick one thing to panic about and stick with it.
[00:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:08] <exec> 08└─Another significant climate event that all the models didn't account for but you have to believe them anyways. We'll just adjust the past downward even more to make the present look worse.
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[00:54:10] <exec> 08└─Temperatures might go up, temperatures might go down, depends where you live... Eh, I guess it's something to talk about while we're locked up. It's fun to watch the shadows at sunset, don't you think? All your congress people are wearing 'Billy the Kid' masks. That bank heist was a beaut! Best scor...
[00:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:13] <exec> 08└─I was waiting for some idiot to say this. First post? No surprise there. Let me break this down for you: *global warming and localized cooling can co-exist.* This is not difficult. Why is this so? Because the increased heat need not be spread uniformly. The overall energy balance--and therefore temp...
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[00:54:15] <exec> 08└─The idea of a shutdown or a slowing of the thermohaline circulation [wikipedia.org] due to global warming isn't a new idea at all. In the atmosphere, circulations are driven primarily by temperature gradients, which lead to pressure gradients, which are responsible for driving the wind. Although the...
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[00:54:17] <exec> 08└─Temperature records from a few centuries ago are incomplete and less accurate just because of very limited coverage in observations and instrumentation. A lot of the estimates of temperature over the past few thousand years are actually based on climate proxies [wikipedia.org]. As for your comment a...
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[00:54:19] <exec> 08└─Global average temperatures are increasing. The observations show this very clearly. We know that the rate of temperature changes aren't the same everywhere. Observations clearly demonstrate that polar regions, especially the Arctic, are warming much faster than the rest of the planet. The observati...
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[00:54:21] <exec> 08└─That sounds catastrophic... better start working on a massive thermohaline stimulus package.
[00:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Touché) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:24] <exec> 08└─Yikes! Better get Chief Gordon to flash the Grump Signal so we can get St Greta working on this ASAP.
[00:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:26] <exec> 08└─You aren't fit to breathe the same air as that girl.
[00:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:28] <exec> 08└─You're right - but we allow her to breathe it anyway, just because we are nice, tolerant people.
[00:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:30] <exec> 08└─This has happened before, many times. The earth heats up, the earth cools down, the earth redistributes it's heat based on rules that mankind poorly understands. Over and over, it happens again and again. But, this time is totally different because - we don't like it? It's like - some of you think t...
[00:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:42] <exec> 08└─If you discover plasmoids in uranus, stop and call the police.
[00:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:44] <exec> 08└─Unlimited. How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? We can only probe deeply to discover the depths of Uranus, but beware the hydrogen sulfides. BTW, what probe lubricants work in the cold/hot vacuum of deep space?
[00:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:06] <exec> 08└─this was almost 25 years ago.. many of the staff still used mainframes to send letters and process payments, so PCs and email were very new. Once people discovered they could make themselves 'pretty' signature blocks, the size of individual emails ballooned.
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[00:55:08] <exec> 08└─Haha, you wish. The entire 52000 Microsoft workplace run a Linux desktop and are thus immune to Windows virii. Which is why there are so many security holes in Win10 because they dont dogfood. It's no secret they're developing WSL only so when forced to work at a customer's they can whip out a Bash...
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[00:55:36] <exec> 08└─C compilers, specifically cross-compilers do come very early. They are considered one of the first steps to commercial support because getting one allows everything that relies on C or the standard library of C to run on it. I'm talking about before that. They often use Lisp because it is fairly eas...
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[00:55:38] <exec> 08└─hey, cold, with lime or lemon, it is drinkable (yes, so is Fosters [wikipedia.org] and XXXX [wikipedia.org], so YMMV..
[00:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:28] <exec> 08└─Blame TFA. OTOH, it would be nice if SN "cleaned" such titles and made them old and boring: "Microsoft launches a reduced version of Defender antivirus for Linux" or something like when naming posts in SN site. Leave the stupid style for TFA page.
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[00:58:37] <exec> 08└─...and 64,000 is enough for anyone. (yes, I know it was originally 640,000)
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[01:54:15] <exec> 08└─Some things are unchanging. The sun always sets in the west. Democrats always want to raise taxes.
[01:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:17] <exec> 08└─But, we need to raise taxes so that we can do something about the sun setting in the west!
[01:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:32] <exec> 08└─But when it comes to Uranus, I blame the Klingons.
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[01:54:57] <exec> 08└─as the weather warms here in north America, the ticks will become active again. but you'll be able to get some Lyme to go with your Corona! I'll be home all week, folks...
[01:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:28] <exec> 08└─FORTRAN is alive and well for numerical simulations. It will probably be here a very long time. Part of it is that it is extremely difficult to validate a numerical model to any degree of certainty, so when you have code that works, you try to disturb it as little as possible. That's why even in sof...
[01:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:10] <exec> 08└─What we need is about 8 weeks of people fucking cooperating
[01:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:40] <exec> 08└─Freezing kills the spice in a curry.
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[02:54:43] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to see if temperatures are cooler now that there is less emissions due to COVID19
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[02:54:45] <exec> 08└─Thank you for posting a non-troll comment. As a meteorologist, I'll take a swing at this. My guess is that the short term effect from lower emissions due to COVID-19 is actually an increase in temperature. If we kept up this reduction in travel for a quite awhile, I think we'd see a cooling effect,...
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[02:55:26] <exec> 08└─About 10 years ago I worked IT for a university MBA program. The MBA students did this about 5 times a day. Except while their enormous print job was buffering, they would say “why isn’t it printing?” And hit the print button 5 more times before giving up and heading off to class. The other te...
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[02:55:58] <exec> 08└─Agree is a far better lemonade sub.
[02:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:41] <exec> 08└─Why don't you run the numbers yourself? It's an exercise for a ten years old anyway.
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[03:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Says It Unintentionally Hid Some Competitors’ Faster Delivery Options - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:09] <exec> 08└─> ...a company spokesperson said the hidden listings are unintentional... Unintentional my ass. If you believe that I've got a nice bridge for you. Amazon got caught red handed doing the same unethical (borderline illegal) shit they've always done to pump their own profits.
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[03:54:19] <exec> 08└─I was waiting for some idiot to say this. First post? No surprise there. Let me break this down for you: *global warming and localized cooling can co-exist.* This is not difficult. Why is this so? Because the increased heat need not be spread uniformly. The overall energy balance--and therefore temp...
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[03:54:33] <exec> 08└─Actually several models have predicted this, despite the summary. In fact that was one element that Hollywood picked up on for "Day After Tomorrow". They grossly over-hyped it, of course, but they picked it up because it's a standard element of the models. There's a lot of uncertainty about it, thou...
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[03:54:34] <exec> 08└─Your comment is generally correct, but I think the effect on hurricanes is probably a bit more complicated. All other things equal, increasing sea surface temperatures will result in stronger hurricanes. This is not in dispute. But there are other factors like vertical wind shear that affect hurrica...
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[03:55:15] <exec> 08└─This would be not at all surprising. After-all, SMTP would invoke MickeySloth's NIH syndrome.
[03:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:16] <exec> 08└─One good outcome from this. I learned about Outlook's right-click Ignore function. That lets me deep six a thread and all replies in two clicks. 10/10, will use again.
[03:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:31] <exec> 08└─If you're ever in ICU again, know this: morphine suppresses respiration. It became important for my wife because they gave her the morphine button and told her to press it whenever she was in pain, well - she was in pain all the time and tried to comply, so she got enough morphine that her breathing...
[03:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that was probably the reason cause I was below 90 on oxygen even under mask.
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[04:54:19] <exec> 08└─The idea of a shutdown or a slowing of the thermohaline circulation [wikipedia.org] due to global warming isn't a new idea at all. In the atmosphere, circulations are driven primarily by temperature gradients, which lead to pressure gradients, which are responsible for driving the wind. Although the...
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[04:54:33] <exec> 08└─You seem to spend a lot of time in the company of idiots. Birds of a feather flock together, right?
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[04:57:01] <exec> 08└─I don't think they sell 2 gallon size of milk anymore. No dried beans either. ;(
[04:58:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:14] <exec> 08└─Let's enter debug mode of the lefty brain: BAD TRUMP BAD TRUMP BAD TRUMP HEY DON'T TOUCH GRETA YOU OBSESSED PSYCHOPATH BAD TRUMP BAD TRUMP BAD TRUMP wew
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[05:54:04] <exec> 08└─Just stop, Runaway!
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[05:54:52] <exec> 08└─Especially the ones that fling atmosphere from uranus into space!
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[06:55:53] <exec> 08└─Born in academia, it still serves academia.
[06:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:40] <exec> 08└─People get sick and need hospitalization over a longer time span rather then overwhelming the medical system like Italy. If we're lucky, it mutates to a less serious variety or we get a vaccine.
[06:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:41] <exec> 08└─The Italian numbers are suspect as they're only counting deaths in hospitals and it sounds like the many are dying at home. Shit, at my age and if the hospitals were doing triage like in Italy, I'd stay home to die.
[06:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:43] <exec> 08└─Yes let's study it for the next 18 months to make sure it really is deadly. /sarc fucking idiot.
[06:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:05] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the high praises. I don't know if he did pay me for that, but he gave me a couple of things worth $, including an awesome cable tester called a "Swizz Army" https://www.ebay.com [ebay.com] if a...
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[06:59:07] <exec> 08└─That is funny, but the ACs are missing the point. RTFS: "After the SSD failure occurs, neither the SSD nor the data can be recovered." With my idea, your data has a high likelihood of recovery. That is the point I was trying to make. Who cares about the cost of stupid hardware, whether the drive is...
[06:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:09] <exec> 08└─Because the EPA eventually figured out that there was some funny business going on with Volkswagons.
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[06:59:11] <exec> 08└─I'll make the argument that bugs happen due to greed- pushing things out to customers before they're ready to be sold.
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[07:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:05] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that he also invented me!
[07:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:13] <exec> 08└─my Zoom video ID is ....
[07:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:47] <exec> 08└─One way we calculate vertical wind shear is to pick two different levels in the atmosphere. We start at the origin of a graph and draw two vectors outward, one for the winds at each of the levels. Then we draw a third vector connecting the heads of the first two vectors. That third vector is the she...
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[07:54:48] <exec> 08└─I'd predict that if there's a power outage, inside temperatures may go up (because air condition fails) or down (because heating fails) depending on where you live, and even depending on the time of year. Does that imply that I have no idea about how availability of electricity affects the inside te...
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[07:56:53] <exec> 08└─Please, edIII, calm down. There are facts. There are the numbers above that would it make it 30x worse. Another point of view: how many times a normal flu has collapsed the ICUs of a country? If the reply is never, or at least not as fast as this one, you have that strong fact that this one is not t...
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[07:57:26] <exec> 08└─Having a lot of food stored isn't the problem. It's the sudden transition that people have made from just-in-time to stocking up that's causing the problems. That's a transient effect. If people get in the habit of having large supplies on hand, that won't alter the demand for food in the long run--...
[07:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:27] <exec> 08└─What they sort of avoid mentioning directly is that frozen onions tend to turn to paste on thawing. They only hint at it indirectly by telling you to use the thawed ones in cooked meals.
[07:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:29] <exec> 08└─An example of something that may not work out well is baked products like bread, which can get freezer burn if left for too long. You can still eat it, but it's not particularly nice.
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[07:57:31] <exec> 08└─Pantry moths are another thing that you may need to refridgerate dry goods for, they'll chew their way through thick plastic packaging and get into what should be sealed airtight containers.
[07:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:33] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, you could spray it with WD40 and then fry it. It won't stick to the pan, and it gives it an interesting taste.
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[08:54:03] <exec> 08└─I want my free energy check, you demon!
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[08:54:47] <exec> 08└─Captival is obviously trolling, but he has a point about past records. The correct method is to report the actual readings and detail any adjustments and the reasons and methodology of those adjustments. The original data is sacrosanct. Every time some climate researcher adjusts past readings and th...
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[09:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Encounters Problem Just Before Crew Dragon Parachute Test - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:07] <exec> 08└─This is not really a problem with the parachute... but the recent failure of a fifth-flown Falcon 9 booster could cause greater delays. SpaceX's in-flight rocket engine failure threatens NASA astronaut launch debut [teslarati.com] It’s likely that B1048’s engine failure was primarily related to...
[09:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:23] <exec> 08└─I laughed really loudly upon reading TFS, probably bothered the neighbors. This shouldn't be so funny to me, but I'm just picturing a dirty, morbidly obese sack of shit whacking his gack, reclined in a chair, while children scream in a cacophony on the voice chat.
[09:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:15] <exec> 08└─Soylentils can no longer see the filters
[09:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:16] <exec> 08└─Soylentils never disappoint. But they do remind us of why Uranus will be renamed in 2620. https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
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[09:57:41] <exec> 08└─Chopped or puree. I have frozen whole cloves too, but you are right it doesn't turn out great.
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[10:54:19] <exec> 08└─or send a copy of his dick to the police
[10:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:57] <exec> 08└─Nitrogen has dropped over Italy [phys.org], but what that will mean for the climate is not clear.
[10:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:15] <exec> 08└─FORTRAN is still going as a business language as well. Well, the DEC/VAX variant. I know of one major business that is using it, together with the DEC/VAX character-based screen-forms libraries to run applications. It works, the engineers like it, and the is no justification for spending money to re...
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[10:56:17] <exec> 08└─Latin isn't dead. It is still, for example, the official language of the Holy See. There are also plenty of books of historical interest written in Latin, for which a working fluency is necessary. There are plenty of natural languages that are dead. No written records, last speakers dead.
[10:57:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 387 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:55] <exec> 08└─There are no technical reasons to infect one's linux box with this. There are however retarded compliance reasons, that might see this abomination unto one true G-d installed on several enterprise servers. Imo, this is a slick way to exfiltrate other peoples data for uncle Sam without invoking LI (l...
[10:58:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:14] <exec> 08└─But I trust Microsoft only to work in their best interests (making money), not mine.
[10:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:37] <exec> 08└─Since my previous post granting the benefit of a doubt to HPE, I've been bothered by the question of how a bug could conceivably cause a SSD to fail after a precise number of hours. It would have to be one that not only disables further operation, but goes the additional step of thoroughly wiping th...
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[11:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:24] <exec> 08└─If so, was it graded? Anyway, to me the funniest story I've seen in a long time. I'll betcha that incident will be remembered by the children for the rest of their lives... And the guy probably had nothing significant to offer.
[11:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Says It Unintentionally Hid Some Competitors’ Faster Delivery Options - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:34] <exec> 08└─Amazon really didn't intend the listings to be there. That's why they hid them.
[11:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:03] <exec> 08└─The physical reality is more discerning.
[11:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:05] <exec> 08└─No, nitrogen still makes up about 80% of the atmosphere in Italy. The article you linked talks about nitrogen dioxide, a very different substance that actually contains more oxygen than nitrogen.
[11:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:24] <exec> 08└─Why is the starship Enterprise like toilet paper? *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Because they both circle around Uranus and fight the Klingons.
[11:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:26] <exec> 08└─At the end of the day, gas giants aren't that interesting (especially "Hot Jupiter" exoplanets). It's the moons orbiting them that are interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org
[11:55:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:44] <exec> 08└─staff are now hitting Reply All for the sheer fun of it
[11:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:51] <exec> 08└─I did some more research. SanDisk (Western Digital) is getting fingered. Seems like they provided bugged code that was used by both HPE and Dell: HPE Warns of New Bug That Kills SSD Drives After 40,000 Hours [bleepingcomputer.com] The company says that this is a comprehensive list of impacted SSDs i...
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[12:54:13] <exec> 08└─Very well explained. Thank you for sharing!
[12:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:15] <exec> 08└─Back in those innocent days, you didn't have to be uber-uber specialists.
[12:54:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link - 19 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:22] <exec> 08└─Just stop, Runaway!
[12:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Says It Unintentionally Hid Some Competitors’ Faster Delivery Options - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:34] <exec> 08└─Amazon probably didn't want some professionally umbraged Twitter personality raking them over the coals because a seller delivered a dildo the next day during our National Panic, after Amazon itself had been publicly virtue signaling.
[12:54:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 1144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:46] <exec> 08└─Temperature records from a few centuries ago are incomplete and less accurate just because of very limited coverage in observations and instrumentation. A lot of the estimates of temperature over the past few thousand years are actually based on climate proxies [wikipedia.org]. As for your comment a...
[12:54:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 1031 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:47] <exec> 08└─Global average temperatures are increasing. The observations show this very clearly. We know that the rate of temperature changes aren't the same everywhere. Observations clearly demonstrate that polar regions, especially the Arctic, are warming much faster than the rest of the planet. The observati...
[12:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 2485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:54] <exec> 08└─It surely is nice to hear about something besides the youknowwhat and 20 other reasons doom is inevitable. If that early "reply-all" was intentional, is that now terrorism? Or sabotage? Or thought crime, as it gives people ideas for what they could do in other contexts? How many people would it take...
[12:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:31] <exec> 08└─Actually there are also dead languages with written records, but nobody being able to read those.
[12:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:21] <exec> 08└─Take a look at this shrieking terrified idiot. This is what mainstream media and their democrat allies created. This November, eradicate them from their positions where you can.
[12:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:22] <exec> 08└─These are experts in the field with many years of experience. Your feelz are irrelevant.
[12:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:41] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is the company that allowed all the backdoors on windows... Why would I trust them to create a piece of security software when they can not even secure their own programs?
[12:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:42] <exec> 08└─"Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux" should read: Microsoft Defender APT for Linux
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[13:54:10] <exec> 08└─the world has too many people
[13:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:12] <exec> 08└─People in developed countries are not replacing themselves (white people, Koreans, Japanese, Chinese etc.). It absolutely has no effect on the world population if they take fertility treatments. Black Africa and India are another matter, as well as much of the Muslim world. Basically, the poor and u...
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[13:54:14] <exec> 08└─China is not a developed country. Their fertility rate is only low because it was legally forced to be low. See https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:16] <exec> 08└─I've not met a man yet who ever successfully got pregnant. Women do it - mostly with ease. Women are quite fertile. Guys? Not so much. I think what they're concerned about here, is male impotence. Some guys shoot blanks, some guys shoot duds, some guys shoot the real thing. Now that we've establishe...
[13:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:18] <exec> 08└─You are right that that policy started the fertility drop, but you are wrong that that is the reason in modern times for it to continue. I'm afraid joining the modern industrialized economy has made China like the rest of us: https://www.google.com
[13:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:35] <exec> 08└─I didn't watch the video because of time constraints, but if it wasn't mentioned there, I will mention it here: the form of Maxwell's Equations which are quite compact and simple (using vectors) that we all use is due to Oliver Heavyside. He is someone who doesn't get nearly the recognition he deser...
[13:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 1896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:28] <exec> 08└─Clickbait article-not because it is incorrect, but rather this is just another retelling of what has been known for decades. It's like an a new article published that says "Geologists confirm the theory of plate tectonics" (known since the 60's) or "Physicists confirms Newton's laws of motion" (know...
[13:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:17] <exec> 08└─... or they are really stupid people,
[13:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:54] <exec> 08└─Sigh. I work in a shop mostly written in PL/I. The core systems are running on IBM Mainframes. Some newer parts are written in Java 11, but we also 8, 7 and 6. It's a heck of a job to modernize.
[13:57:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:47] <exec> 08└─"The numbers" are fuzzy at best. Even now, a crazy small percentage of the population is tested. Those who are tested are from a self-selecting group who are eligible and present for testing. Panic causes a different subset to present for testing. IMO, a large proportion (more than 50%) of the infec...
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[14:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:02] <exec> 08└─The station should be in an earth-moon orbit.
[14:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:03] <exec> 08└─https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/03/dragon-xl-nasa-spacex-lunar-gateway-supply-contract/ [nasaspaceflight.com] Named the Dragon XL, this large cargo vehicle – which looks more like a large Cygnus XL vehicle than a traditional Dragon design – will be launched by SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket...
[14:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:05] <exec> 08└─If the station were in earth-moon orbit, all the boosters could be returned to earth for reuse, along with a bunch of moon rocks, and the station itself can be expanded piecemeal while in service. Doesn't seem like that's ever going to happen though.
[14:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:16] <exec> 08└─Impotence = Not able to gear up in order to shoot. May well still be fertile. Infertility = Shoot as many duds as you want, it's not gonna achieve anything that lasts. Ask any half-educated non-virgin woman about the difference... :-)
[14:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:18] <exec> 08└─https://web.archive.org/web/20200326133024/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/business/china-birth-rate-2019.html [archive.org] http://archive.is [archive.is]
[14:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:20] <exec> 08└─It absolutely has no effect on the world population if they take fertility treatments.
[14:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:22] <exec> 08└─then the world population quite obviously just went up by three
[14:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:40] <exec> 08└─pshaw! a fancy symbol nobody understands (curl) and two constants and voila! lightspeed is a constant too. then again, duh, the pointer to go faster is right there in them equations: the two "other" constants and how we define/measure them. anyways, the whole fun (AND USEFULLNESS) probably would sta...
[14:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:41] <exec> 08└─quite, Heaviside (Step Function) and LaPlace (Transform) are common tools in engineering space... I have visited the grave of the latter (LaPlace) in Paris...
[14:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:34] <exec> 08└─>Science denial is science denial, and it's dangerous Science denial cannot happen. Case in point, study says circulation may affect cooling. Armed with this hypothesis scientists will formulate a prediction, true if hypothesis true and false otherwise. This will validate the theory. We have time to...
[14:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:35] <exec> 08└─Dusts haven't, but the agency did not release dust particle data fearing it might be misinterpreted. https://www.qualenergia.it [qualenergia.it] Not very sciencey of them...
[14:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:37] <exec> 08└─They decided to panic about COVID-19.
[14:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:40] <exec> 08└─Up, down, up, down. Everything in nature has a heartbeat. It's happened before and will happen again. Now the question they are trying to answer, and thus causing alarm, is how much do people (and cows) contribute to accelerating the heartbeat.
[14:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:29] <exec> 08└─This happened inside Amazon many years ago. Ask any old timer about the "Wallet service" email reply-all storm. For all those Microsoft employees replying all for fun, know that there is an audit history. Amazon identified some embarrassed VP's who participated in the reply all storm. Fun times.
[14:56:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:54] <exec> 08└─You are right, but... the best tool is usually the one you know inside-out. The ramp-up time and potential unknown traps of a language that is new to you usually outweigh any theoretical benefit of adopting a new language along with its supporting ecosystem. I am assuming the language you already kn...
[14:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:58] <exec> 08└─These deaths are just some of the hidden cost of extra fatalities due to the media and government ordered panic.
[14:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:00] <exec> 08└─They also count deaths with, not of. Cold viruses doing what they do, they spread to everyone. And hospitals are a prime breeding ground for disease. Northern Italy has had a long running problem of miserable outcomes for respiratory diseases. Apparently the air quality is reported to be really bad,...
[14:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:37] <exec> 08└─Says who? Which chemicals in the spices do you think break down into what, and by what mechanism? Here's my counter argument, said with exactly as much evidence as your absurd statement: Freezing preserves the spicing in curries excellently. And here's my evidence: my curries never degrade with free...
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[15:54:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah I'm sure all those engineers are all dumber than some random basement dweller on the internet...
[15:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:12] <exec> 08└─Eh, be as stupid as you want, it would be a 'figure 8' orbit between earth and moon, the way the Apollo flights went up. If they didn't fire the retro rocket when at the moon, the craft would loop around and return on its own, and so on.
[15:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:14] <exec> 08└─Would all those engineers think it was a good idea, if the money wasn't there? Don't underestimate the power of conflict of interest to make people stupid. Here, there's several warning signs for Lunar Gateway: 1) has a strong dependency on SLS, 2) doesn't serve a useful role - nobody has a real pl...
[15:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:16] <exec> 08└─5 metric tons to TLI/lunar orbit seems low
[15:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:19] <exec> 08└─I don't think SpaceX will even attempt to do that. Any in-orbit refueling efforts will be focused on Starship, which is intended to make Falcon 9 and Heavy completely obsolete once customers can trust in it.
[15:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:21] <exec> 08└─The manned space program is always going to suck until NASA starts paying for hundreds of fully reusable rocket launches. Until then, it's just goofing around.
[15:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:23] <exec> 08└─Like the shuttle, it's all designed for 'cost-saving' pork. A lunar orbit does not make sense. It will take a lot less fuel to simply 'coast' from earth to moon back and forth. Pick up and drop off would be very little like the old days [wikimedia.org]
[15:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:39] <exec> 08└─Alright - and how do virility and motility figure into your lexicon? Again - women are readily fertile, the term is misapplied to men.
[15:54:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:52] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that he also invented me!
[15:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:59] <exec> 08└─The symbol is "Del" not curl, or, typographically, a nabla. However, it's syntactic sugar, as "deldot" and "delcross" are in reality two completely different operators, viz. the divergence and the curl you mention.
[15:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:02] <exec> 08└─You might also like https://www.youtube.com and https://www.youtube.com from Fermilab
[15:55:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:10] <exec> 08└─my Zoom video ID is ....
[15:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:49] <exec> 08└─You'd figure that with all that money sloshing around there that your managers could afford a proper e-mail system rather than playing around with Exchange.
[15:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:50] <exec> 08└─This happens rarely because that permission exists. It was just somehow mis-configured for this specific mailing list.
[15:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:22] <exec> 08└─The situation is becoming so grave that health authorities are not just banning contact, but even risky activities, because the system can not cope with all the Covid-19 cases even is there is no work and sport related accidents. Or other infections, lockdown is also cutting those down, yet the syst...
[15:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, having to eat, it is getting weird going out and a note from my usual grocery store says that ordering food now takes 4 days for the order instead of the previous couple of hours and they're discouraging the healthy from doing it. Have to go shopping today. The only good thing is the curve does...
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[16:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:23] <exec> 08└─SpaceX doesn't have to. Other parties have the capabilities to do so.
[16:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, propulsion is still ancient bottle rockets. We need big changes there. I'm not convinced a manned space program is the way to go. We should polish up on the automation (robotics) first to mitigate the effort needed to survive and thrive. Space is a great place to visit to see the sights, but I...
[16:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:27] <exec> 08└─You can contract with a commercial company to get 5T to lunar orbit. In the 60's that took a national priority effort. Quite a gap between those two. Interesting to think about where classic space companies fit into that gap today. But quite encouraging if you are interested in actually doing things...
[16:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:29] <exec> 08└─The U.S. has spent hundreds of billions on manned space programs over the decades, the big one being the Space Shuttle. It seems like that kind of money will still be around, especially if we can suddenly get 10x bang for the buck. The usual suspects will make sure that manned spaceflight continues,...
[16:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:31] <exec> 08└─Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. [youtube.com]
[16:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:48] <exec> 08└─And if an infertile westerner undergoes a fertility treatment and is then able to have ten billion children, then that would be bad (that they otherwise wouldn't). Fortunately, it's not infertility that's holding back the teeming Western hordes.
[16:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:49] <exec> 08└─I think even if each one of their descendants has three children, that would still create over ten billion people after 56 generations. Each generation of their family would be 3/2 times the size of the one that preceded it. (3/2)56 = 7,262,907,400.88 7,262,907,400.88 x 2 = 14,525,814,801.76 Did I g...
[16:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:13] <exec> 08└─Did they have the vector calculus notations during Maxwell's time? I know it's not just the notation convention.
[16:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:55] <exec> 08└─"They squandered a lot of good will with their Windows 10 rollout. I will let others ride the bleeding edge and then come to a decision." disgustingly sycophantic. also, you can shove your MS link-filled stories up your Microshaft receptacle.
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[17:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:06] <exec> 08└─I might test this tomorrow as a possible replacement for LibreELEC on Pi4. Hopefully the 2 GB version is enough. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Privacy-focused (i.e., locally-processed) voice control
[17:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what benefit an Earth-Moon orbit would provide. It doesn't save any fuel. It's not as though you can "hop on" as it passes; you first have to match orbits, which means you'll go to the Moon whether the station was there or not. It might make sense for a long-duration mission (i.e. a liv...
[17:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:30] <exec> 08└─I think it's main purpose is to show progress while real missions are not quite possible yet.
[17:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:49] <exec> 08└─I think even if each one of their descendants has three children
[17:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:50] <exec> 08└─...to have ten billion children... It makes me cringe to think how sore that poor fellow would be. Ouch.
[17:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:53] <exec> 08└─> maintaining this chromosomal pairing So we name it “skip one”? WTF
[17:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:17] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that Heaviside simplified Maxwell's equations. This made them usable to less capable mathematicians, but something might have been lost: "Heaviside worked to eliminate the potentials (electric potential and magnetic potential) that Maxwell had used as the central concepts in his...
[17:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:29] <exec> 08└─Dick Tracy will find him!
[17:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:15] <exec> 08└─The big problem is more reasonable people think the idiots are trolling when they are not. He actually believes scientists manipulate the data in order to make their doom & gloom predictions true. Kinda like pewdiepie's fans who think his racism is all a big joke to "pwn the libs" or whatever.
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[18:54:10] <exec> 08└─not too keen on funding broadcom.
[18:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:11] <exec> 08└─Wow! 17 bucks... Does it last more than a week? Man, what is subsidizing this stuff?
[18:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:13] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for new TVs/monitors to come with slots for SODIMM compute modules and maybe extra PCI for GPU. Until then, I'm sticking with my 1080p dumb TV.
[18:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:37] <exec> 08└─That's ok. You attach the rocket(s) outside the station, and even use them for course corrections, and bring everything back to earth for reuse. And four stations will give you daily service. You can put a bunch of payloads into a parking orbit until the station comes around, then they accelerate an...
[18:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:38] <exec> 08└─Cold as fuck!
[18:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:40] <exec> 08└─Robotic exploration and telescopes will just greatly benefit from fully reusable launches. I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm only asking if you think it would be cheaper and more practical, logical to have the orbiting station on a regular orbit between the moon and earth instead just hanging aroun...
[18:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:43] <exec> 08└─You attach the rocket(s) outside the station, and even use them for course corrections, and bring everything back to earth for reuse.
[18:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 1595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:45] <exec> 08└─Problem is that was a transpotation trajectory, no such stable orbit exists. Which means the space station would have to constantly do serious station-keeping maneuvers to maintain it's orbit. I'm not even sure it's possible to find a trajectory that will travel to the moon a second time without sub...
[18:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:06] <exec> 08└─It's your turn to take them to the park.
[18:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:31] <exec> 08└─You can have one of these, http://massmind.org [massmind.org] ... After a serious analysis of the consequences of his law, Maxwell permitted himself a touch of humor. He suggested that there was a statistical probability that; at some time in...
[18:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 1450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:33] <exec> 08└─and the rest of the pull quote, Maxwell's demon would circumvent the law of thermodynamics which says in essence: "You can't get something for nothing." That is to say, one cannot separate cold water from hot without doing work. Thus when physicists heard that the Germans had developed a device whi...
[18:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:46] <exec> 08└─these schools/teachers are negligent fucks. if you have minors in your charge you are supposed to provide some basic protection. using meeting software that has complete shit for access control is gross negligence. and they are the teachers of another generation?
[18:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:34] <exec> 08└─Pewdiepie is clearly not racist. That's a terrible analogy that exposes your warped mind. Gee, maybe you're wrong about everything else you believe.
[18:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unstable Deep Ocean Circulation; Altered Circulation Might Have Cooled Northern NA and Europe - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:36] <exec> 08└─>He actually believes scientists manipulate the data in order to make their doom & gloom predictions true. I [reason.com] believe [theguardian.com] that [telegraph.co.uk] because [washingtontimes.com] that's [washingtonpost.com] true [cfact.org]
[19:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:23] <exec> 08└─i didn't mean it all that viciously, rather somewhat tongue in cheek, but i still find the original statement to be a sycophantic whitewashing. Regarding your tax software statement. Only cowards, idiots, whores or a combination thereof, fund the IRS and this is the same type of thinking that i find...
[19:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:25] <exec> 08└─i like systemd. i use systemd-networkd and it is much less trouble than other options i have tried. i like being able to run systemctl and quickly see if anything has failed. I use systemd timers and am now using systemd-nspawn. Thanks Lennart Poettering
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[19:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:02] <exec> 08└─There is dump of garbage whereby you can collect your ordered online goods delivery. Collect please.
[19:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:04] <exec> 08└─And how to keep away those advocating it going deeper into the... hierarchy?
[19:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:06] <exec> 08└─X + 0) Backlog of bugs hits ten thousand. X + 1) Number of "Won't fix" bugs hits one thousand. X + 2) A number of years pass and, though the software is still full of the unsolved bugs, fads and novelty features creep and abound. X + 3) Project stalls horribly due to fights and loss of interest / re...
[19:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:08] <exec> 08└─5. Bully cishet white male developers until they are forced out of the project. 6. Take over the project. 7. Destroy the project. 8. Move on to the next project.
[19:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:10] <exec> 08└─Closing because CAN'T REPLICATE: PEBKAC.
[19:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:12] <exec> 08└─Too bad Poettering isn't a cishet white male developer.
[19:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:23] <exec> 08└─I think you still might have to sign up for an account on the Mycroft website.
[19:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:25] <exec> 08└─Why do you want to replace LibreELEC?
[19:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:54] <exec> 08└─I think its main purpose is circular, to justify the SLS spending. "We need the SLS because we created a project that needs the SLS." They could scale back the performance requirements (and do some combination of basic in orbit assembly and fueling) so that existing launch vehicles could launch the...
[19:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if I picture it right, the station would have to pass a little too close to the planet's core to perform that slingshot at escape velocity.
[19:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:58] <exec> 08└─I'm only asking if you think it would be cheaper and more practical, logical to have the orbiting station on a regular orbit between the moon and earth instead just hanging around the moon all day.
[19:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:00] <exec> 08└─Let me rephrase that. SpaceX doesn't have to. Its paying customers, like NASA, would be the ones doing it.
[19:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:02] <exec> 08└─It's likely that expendable Falcon Heavy with Dragon XL can launch any component of the Gateway. Dragon XL, which I assume has a larger volume than the standard payload fairing or Cargo Dragon, is being created primarily for this purpose. So SLS is no longer needed, which is important if you want to...
[19:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:05] <exec> 08└─I am fine with putting stations in low Earth orbit or up to geosynchronous, and putting boots directly on the ground anywhere else, such as the Moon and Mars. No stations in lunar or semi-lunar orbit required, at least this century. Maybe you can use this [wikipedia.org] but I'm not sure it's necess...
[19:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:28] <exec> 08└─Virility, as per Wikipedia, "refers to any of a wide range of masculine characteristics viewed positively". Hence, it has no business being in this discussion. Motility in this context = Can they or can't they swim properly. As such it definitely is linked to male (in)fertility, but not to impotence...
[19:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:30] <exec> 08└─Are you sure it isn't soil that's fertile, and and the term was misapplied to animals? In all seriousness, fertility = the natural capability to produce offspring. That applies equally well to men and women. We may not help gestate the offspring, but we still have a vital role to play in producing...
[19:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Perspectives On James Clerk Maxwell And His Equations - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:57] <exec> 08└─I had a colleague in grad school doing research in Hilsch tubes. They are loud as hell as you have high pressure gas blowing through a tube.
[19:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:11] <exec> 08└─やめてください、暴走！
[20:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:07] <exec> 08└─Thanks for digging out this additional information, Takyon. At this point it does appear that HPE is one of the injured parties, and that they have done what they could to mitigate the problem. The one technical detail they gave out concerning a buffer index value doesn't say much to me, but they're...
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[20:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:11] <exec> 08└─while being totally incapable to handle it. They cannot even keep the code they inherited working, yet pile up mountains of bells, whistles, and kitchen sinks in everything they touch. Slow-motion trainwreck, C++ edition.
[20:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:12] <exec> 08└─You sound whiny and butthurt.
[20:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:14] <exec> 08└─till you are trained to like it
[20:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:17] <exec> 08└─Your whining is music to my ears.
[20:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:29] <exec> 08└─Parts of the UI suck, the YouTube addon within Kodi is now requiring an API key, and streaming on Pluto.TV has been wonky lately. I have a stack of unused 32 GB microSD cards, so it's no trouble for me to test Plasma Bigscreen and see if any of this improves. I should be able to copy Kodi addons and...
[20:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:31] <exec> 08└─I always rolled my own "smart" tv with a mini PC running Linux. Everything runs fine in the browser and its much more responsive than those cheap Android based boxes. Buy one of those really tiny Lenovos with an i3 and wifi. Add a $20 SSD and it flies.
[20:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:33] <exec> 08└─What is so unusual about that price? Fire Stick + remote barely costs more than that when on sale. The Raspberry Pi 4 itself costs $35.
[20:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:35] <exec> 08└─The only chip company you shouldn't fund is Intel.
[20:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:37] <exec> 08└─Or you could stick a RasPi on the back with a VESA mount case. Plug in a desktop PC if you need gaming performance.
[20:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:13] <exec> 08└─It's actually a rather complicated figure eight orbit with as I understand it a relatively high propellant cost just to maintain orbit. Yeah, it won't fly...
[20:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:38] <exec> 08└─That's one big park. I suppose you could fit more in if they arrange themselves into a human pyramid.
[20:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:33] <exec> 08└─One has to ask: if the hospitals are usually 103.5% full, how much of that filling is elective and how much is necessary healthcare? If necessary healthcare is being kicked from the hospitals, how much negative impact is that having - both in the short and long term. I'm overdue for a colonoscopy, b...
[21:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:12] <exec> 08└─apples ... will turn mushy when defrosted
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[21:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:18] <exec> 08└─This is all well and good, but it's missing the point. All you need is 2, a FOSS license. After that, the project will be maintained with the right level of "openness" for the project. If a project needs more or less "openness", it can be forked by better caretakers. You can die at any point, anyone...
[21:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:36] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I recently got a smart TV, but I haven't put it on the internet, just OTA for now. I want some solution like this, but I haven't looked too closely into it yet, largely because of the scattered solutions out there that I really don't know the pros/cons and capabilities available. I want t...
[21:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:38] <exec> 08└─What software do you use for the TV/media?
[21:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:40] <exec> 08└─Little about this project would prevent you from running it your Lenovo nettop connected to a TV. KDE Neon is just a rolling distro on top of Ubuntu LTS.
[21:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Picks SpaceX for Lunar Missions - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:17] <exec> 08└─Obligatory Mars spring 2020: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[21:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:44] <exec> 08└─OK, I totally suck at math. A family can't have 0.76 children. It's 21 generations for a single couple to produce a generation of more than 10 billion children. Just 321 = 10,460,353,203
[21:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Says It Unintentionally Hid Some Competitors’ Faster Delivery Options - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:36] <exec> 08└─Clearly you have no software development experience. I can believe it. All it takes is an innocent refactor by a well meaning junior dev in the product sale matching code to accidentally change the resultant logic here, and what were the chances that there were unit tests for this logic? Quite low,...
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[22:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyber Insurer Chubb Had Data Stolen in Maze Ransomware Attack - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:56] <exec> 08└─Robert K. Bowfinger: And why is this going to work? Because Afrim here is a damn fine screenwriter, as well as accountant and part time receptionist. I said to Afrim "If you can write half as well as you can add-" Well I didn't even have to finish my sentence. Twelve days later he hands me this, thi...
[22:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:15] <exec> 08└─Surprised to hear issues with Writer. It's a little bit jank, but it's worked fine in my experience. No horrible crashing, no file mangling, none of that. I did all my shit when I was at uni in it, worked just fine. My personal least favorite fucking thing is Impress. It's so slow. Trying to get thi...
[22:54:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:26] <exec> 08└─I think you still might have to sign up for an account on the Mycroft website.
[22:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:37] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, apart from the "wakeup words", none of the speech recognition is done locally as Mycroft AI currently uses Google STT. Seems a little bit misleading to label this "Privacy-focused" when it's another feed into Google.
[22:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Critical Enzyme For Sperm Formation Could Be A Target For Treating Male Infertility - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:40] <exec> 08└─It's nice that they're trying to treat infertility, but they could make a lot more money creating a male contraceptive.
[22:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man ‘Guessed’ the Meeting Link - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:21] <exec> 08└─the pervert had been a drag queen, then it would have been officially Heroic & Brave (TM) instead of a felony sex crime.
[22:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:39] <exec> 08└─Because I don't have a biology laboratory complete with the samples and subjects needed for testing and trials and such, nor the knowledge to use them properly. Which means I lack any of the tools needed to verify whether this idea has any merit whatsoever. The numbers alone (assuming they are colle...
[22:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:40] <exec> 08└─Ok... so 8 weeks of total lockdown for the entire world... and then what?
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[23:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:11] <exec> 08└─I don't use your product because I don't work from home. If you've got so much work that you need to bring it home, you should find another job with better work- life balance.
[23:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:12] <exec> 08└─> If you've got so much work that you need to bring it home Hello, time traveler or alien visitor! Our race is currently experiencing a pandemic, so most of us are quarantined and thus must work from home.
[23:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyber Insurer Chubb Had Data Stolen in Maze Ransomware Attack - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:21] <exec> 08└─They'll pay $2 million ransom to the unidentified third party, then payvthemselves $250 million to cover their pain and suffering, then raise everyone's rates by 24%.
[23:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:41] <exec> 08└─>Open decision making This is either insane or propaganda for convincing gullible project owners to get pwned. Open decision making with code is done through forking. That's already a threat, see the ffmpeg forked to libav and then libav decides to not do anything. See sidux splitting in aptosid and...
[23:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Bigscreen is a New Smart TV Experience Powered by Raspberry Pi 4 and KDE - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:04] <exec> 08└─Just Firefox and VLC.