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[00:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:56] <exec> 08└─They were trash but not because they were bad processors. The main reason why is they blue screened in windows often since windows didn't have any optimization for the processor. It was already a intel world as far as microsoft was concerned.
[00:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:57] <exec> 08└─You apparently saw the story as being [less than] half-empty. I saw it (in conjunction with the comments here) as being half-full. Please feel free to submit a better story and I will be more than happy to push it out to the site.
[00:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 1917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:59] <exec> 08└─I had one of those. It was rated a 200+, so supposedly equivalent if not faster than the (somewhat rare) Pentium 200. It actually ran at 150 MHz. For general desktop type stuff, it was fine. It was also okay with the internet as it was back in this CPU's day. However, the FPU was terrible. It could...
[00:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Huawei Caught Passing Off DSLR Photos as Being Taken With Smartphones - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:20] <exec> 08└─Huawei, it could be banned in your country anyway.
[00:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxin-Producing Bacteria Can Make This Newt Deadly - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:33] <exec> 08└─...eat beef and chicken, like God intended.
[00:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxin-Producing Bacteria Can Make This Newt Deadly - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:35] <exec> 08└─So much for NewtriSystems.
[00:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dancing Peacock Spiders Turned an Arachnophobe Into an Arachnologist - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:01] <exec> 08└─5-centimeter-long wolf spider
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[00:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Turns 15 Thursday -- Watch the First Video it Posted - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:03] <exec> 08└─From "Broadcast Yourself" to "Thought Police" in less than 15 years.
[00:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 1847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:21] <exec> 08└─The gig economy only exists because companies are allowed to use it as an end run around normal laws and regulations that are in place to protect workers. The fact that amoral crackpots like yourself choose not to understand that is largely irrelevant. One of the big issues with this is that it's im...
[00:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:23] <exec> 08└─TBH, this is Wholefoods, so really, who cares about the wealthy people screwing each other out of appointment times, this isn't like normal grocery stores where normal people buy normal groceries. If they were doing that with normal stores where the people shopping there are doing so because it's li...
[00:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:25] <exec> 08└─The gig economy only exists because companies are allowed to use it as an end run around normal laws and regulations that are in place to protect workers.
[00:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 2178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:27] <exec> 08└─Honestly, this is the 21st century, ordering food online isn't very hard, for the most part, the sites work just like any other ecomerce site, right now you have to schedule the delivery/pickup no matter where you go and what service you use as there's just not enough workers to get that all done as...
[00:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:29] <exec> 08└─The employees needed to serve the need would be relatively large, ...
[00:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:31] <exec> 08└─My personal suspicion, as somebody working in the industry, is that any gig type laborers are probably going to get pushed out of the portion of the service where they're actually filling orders. Right now, they're able to undercut the cost of a business doing it, but probably not for much longer. I...
[00:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:34] <exec> 08└─And as we've seen, the value of grocery's more skilled and connected workers in fulfilling orders only counts, if you can get a slot.
[00:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:47] <exec> 08└─Using modern hardware to replace the storage of older game consoles is not new. Optical drive emulators are not new. I believe allowing the use of an SSD for an optical drive emulator is new. Previous alternatives tended to use SD cards, having notoriously variable latency and bandwidth. Perhaps les...
[00:59:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:44] <exec> 08└─Given an option, I would rather know what you are trying to accomplish than what you did. If I want to know what you did, I can read the code, but if you tell my what you are trying to do, I can fix its bugs as well.
[01:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can see how that could be a problem. I suspected as much when I wrote my comment, but in the off chance it might be helpful, I wanted to put it out there just in case. Who knows, maybe somebody else reading along might see something there they will find useful. Anyway, I appreciate the reply...
[01:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:16] <exec> 08└─There was even a 486SX2, which was exactly what it sounded like - a 486DX2 with the FPU removed. I'm not sure if they were actually 486DX2's with a bad/disabled FPU, or they never had a FPU from the start. They were pretty rare, and I only remember seeing them in low end OEM systems like Packard Bel...
[01:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 2944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:17] <exec> 08└─A virtual machine is in almost all circumstances worse than having actual hardware. Weird inconsistencies pop up, performance is uncertain, additional software invites additional crashing and security gaps, and altogether, it's a far less reliable experience. This is something that can be dealt with...
[01:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:19] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised the original Socket 4 Pentium didn't make the list. Not only because of the FDIV issue which affected a lot of these early chips, but also because they ran hot. They were 5V chips throughout, and the current consumption was high. This lead to a quick redesign, and in less than a year S...
[01:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:22] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agree. After posting, I did some more reading, looked at some pinouts, saw the 3 (???) clock phase inputs, and remember how horribly slow memory access was in those days. To be fair, it's still many clock cycles, but we have DDR4, "quad pumped" bus, etc. I wonder if the TI engineers were...
[01:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:24] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised the original Celeron didn't make the list. Basically a Pentium 2 with no L2 cache, this was one of the slowest CPU's available when it was new. The previous generation Pentium MMX was quite often faster. Not to be confused with the second generation Celeron, where the Celeron 300A is p...
[01:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:26] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the correction and info. Sorry, I guess I mixed the Cyrix memories into 1. I was remembering the most recent Cyrix III / Via C3s that were socket 370 and I had a couple of them, and remember buying special socket 370 MBs to run them. Ran very well, quite cool. Probably didn't need a fan....
[01:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxin-Producing Bacteria Can Make This Newt Deadly - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:01] <exec> 08└─...but I got better. Pro tip: Remove skin before licking amphibians.(it doesn't matter if it's your skin, or the amphibian's skin, the desire will disappear with either skin)
[01:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dancing Peacock Spiders Turned an Arachnophobe Into an Arachnologist - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:28] <exec> 08└─Nothing of value would have been lost. Would have been good riddance.
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[01:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:03] <exec> 08└─No friggin way
[01:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:04] <exec> 08└─This reminds of the one-line BASIC code contest.
[01:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Turns 15 Thursday -- Watch the First Video it Posted - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:15] <exec> 08└─While this popular 90s song only has 15million https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] What’s number 1? Despacito Followed by WTF Baby shark dance https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Turns 15 Thursday -- Watch the First Video it Posted - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:17] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3GrSMYbkBE [youtube.com]
[01:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Turns 15 Thursday -- Watch the First Video it Posted - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:19] <exec> 08└─I had forgotten how dreadful Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson really are.
[01:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:43] <exec> 08└─There are probably some that do, but most of those are businesses where they're getting their customers primarily walking in or calling in the order for pick up. They are most certainly not counting on a 3rd party that's not under contract for their business to remain viable. For every one of those,...
[01:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 1536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, and that's why chains that offer the service have been scaling their capacity to try and help meet demand. I can't be too specific as it's a trade secret, but any chain that's offering pickup or delivery service right now is doing what they can to scale it up. Whether that means adding addition...
[01:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:47] <exec> 08└─Nope, I meant that. You need the largest employees you can get for if we have to resort to cannibalism when the food supply runs out.
[01:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, and that's why chains that offer the service have been scaling their capacity to try and help meet demand.
[01:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 1934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:51] <exec> 08└─There's no word salad there. Scaling these things is not as easy as flipping on a switch. It takes time to locate enough people to allow for the systems to scale. 3rd party shoppers is just not something that scales very well. The way those businesses have been run, counts on having people that are...
[01:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:05] <exec> 08└─I would die to get my hands on some old NEO-GEO hardware precisely to run some of those old games.
[02:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 1878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:23] <exec> 08└─To me the private and public declarations are important. When *I* use the code later, I want to be reminded about how I intended that variable to be used. I've never worked on a project where other people did part of the coding or design. And *I* consider public, private, and protected to be useful...
[02:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:41] <exec> 08└─Kept the room nice and warm too.
[02:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:42] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the BCD stuff was also for very simple systems that had 7-segment displays. Maybe? No?
[02:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:45] <exec> 08└─I'd forgotten about them, t he Celerons were one of the dumbest ideas ever and only existed so that Intel could extract as much money as possible from their overpriced chips. Truly, horrible.
[02:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:47] <exec> 08└─This is one of those lists written down to invite disagreement and gather clicks without offering any value.
[02:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 1561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:49] <exec> 08└─Marty, I really appreciated you running this story. Like you, I learned a lot about other people's live experience with things I had read of but had never been there or done that. During the heyday, I designed a 68000 based CPU board to replace a TI9900 design that was having parts availability issu...
[02:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:51] <exec> 08└─Hmm, you sound like a buyer for my Kim-1. :)
[02:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:53] <exec> 08└─Actually I was mistaken. It was missing entries in the lookup table. https://web.archive.org [archive.org]
[02:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:55] <exec> 08└─The FPU wasn't even that bad in the benchmarks. https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com [livejournal.com] Quake used very cleverly optimised x86 code that interleaved FPU and integer instructions, as John Carmack had worked out that apart from instruction loading, which used the same regist...
[02:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink-6 Launched Wed 2020-04-22 15:30 EDT (19:30 UTC): Successful! [Updated] - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:40] <exec> 08└─Like God and Heinlein intended. [soylentnews.org]
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[02:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:04] <exec> 08└─A Mind Is Born (256 bytes) [youtube.com] Puls - Rrrola | 256b [youtube.com] H - Immersion - Ctrl-Alt-Test | Revision 2017 | 64k [youtube.com] Future Crew - Second Reality (1993) [60fps] [youtube.com]
[02:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:05] <exec> 08└─Or in the words (repeated about 70 times) of the announcer in the livestream, “WHAT THE HELL??!!” That is perhaps the most amazing virtuosic thing I’ve seen on the internet in the past year. Holy shit. And it just keeps going...
[02:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06YouTube Turns 15 Thursday -- Watch the First Video it Posted - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:18] <exec> 08└─It's the psy horse dance music video. Ok, maybe not THE first, But dang, the fat mofo has got some hot dancer chick troops.
[02:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Turns 15 Thursday -- Watch the First Video it Posted - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:20] <exec> 08└─Sad that they didn't take the opportunity to Rick-Roll everyone ...
[02:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:50] <exec> 08└─The Unfair Advantage is an excellent book, if you like racing car drivers, https://www.goodreads.com [goodreads.com]
[02:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:05] <exec> 08└─Likewise, there were plenty of games like Virtua Figher (IIRC) where chaining combo moves past 100 required some very precise timing with the joystick that is probably a lot more difficult to pull of with a controller. As much as I dislike lag, I think anyone who claims this specific thing is a prob...
[02:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:07] <exec> 08└─Fucking sneezed and posted early, forgive me :) Likewise, there were plenty of games like Virtua Figher (IIRC) where chaining combo moves past 100 required some very precise timing with the joystick that is probably a lot more difficult to pull of with a controller.
[03:00:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 561 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:04] <exec> 08└─As the years roll on, I use private and protected less and less. I'm not writing APIs for other boneheaded programmers to use, I'm writing code that will be shared among a small team of professionals. When I say: "use the getters and setters, unless you know EXACTLY what you are doing" I mean that,...
[03:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:27] <exec> 08└─Any place there's a division "/" is where it will eventually divide by zero. Explain that.
[03:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:28] <exec> 08└─// set tmp to 0 tmp = 0; // return to caller return; // should never get here printf("should never get here\n");
[03:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:30] <exec> 08└─I think it's only fair to write something like: // TRICKY! when you're doing something a bit snazzy. In Matlab there used to be a massive overhead when doing A'*b so I would do (b'*A)' instead. When I go back to my old code it's a nightmare - shit like ((b'*A)' * A * (b'*A))' * A everywhere - but wh...
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[03:00:32] <exec> 08└─is your friend :)
[03:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:34] <exec> 08└─const_cast is your friend :)
[03:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:37] <exec> 08└─unless its a pointer to a char array in which case pci is better
[03:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:39] <exec> 08└─I've tried to like Python a couple of times. I pick up a project and say "I'll do this one in Python, it'll be fine..." I get through a bunch of it and it's fine, performance is running around 95% of C++ performance. Then I hit something that needs to iterate a lot of tight loops and Python basicall...
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[03:00:41] <exec> 08└─Stupid ass. You're always starting from some disastrous code-base. Always. They have to pay you to work on it - think about that. It's so bad they need to pay you to do it. The option of sending a book to the head of GE (or whoever) explaining good coding practice is... not available. That comment i...
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[03:00:43] <exec> 08└─Wasting cycles is what we do here.
[03:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:09] <exec> 08└─Are you high or something? Celerons were cheap and could be overclocked easily without even tweaking voltages. I had an Abit motherboard that allowed dual Celerons when Intel claimed you couldn't do that. They were rated for 333mhz but you bumped up the FSB to 100mhz and they ran solid at 500mhz. I...
[03:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:10] <exec> 08└─I always wanted an Itanium box but they are still expensive on eBay. The cheapest would be the HP rx2660 or similar. Run the latest version of OpenVMS!
[03:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Blasted for “Shameful” Ruling Against Cities and Fire Department - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:16] <exec> 08└─He's a lightning rod that got wired into the house mains...
[03:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink-6 Launched Wed 2020-04-22 15:30 EDT (19:30 UTC): Successful! [Updated] - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:00] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=40596 [soylentnews.org]
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[03:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:08] <exec> 08└─This looks like the kind of thing an AI could do. Let it loose and try to figure out WTF it's done later. See this [damninteresting.com] to have your mind blown.
[03:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:10] <exec> 08└─Reminded me of the immortal MIT AI Lab HAKMEM memorandum.
[03:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:12] <exec> 08└─It shows how you can get complex and interesting outcomes from very simple rules. And by putting some math and intention behind it, you make the outcome worthwhile: http://www.sizecoding.org [sizecoding.org] 2^512 = 1.34 * 10^154 But yes, AI + procedural generation will create...
[03:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:14] <exec> 08└─256 is 16x16, these demos have been developed over 30+ years and a lot of them have been optimized down below 32 bytes each, some below 16, and when you combine them there are additional memory savings. Impressive as hell? Yes. But, this is hand coded assembly, refined for 30 years with no other pur...
[03:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06YouTube Turns 15 Thursday -- Watch the First Video it Posted - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:28] <exec> 08└─YouTube has finally allowed me to explore a lot of music, shows, old memes, and other memorable things, at my leisure. It's great. Much better than MTV, which we didn't have anyway because we refused to pay for cable TV. So I simply didn't see music videos, Kids in the Hall, Beavis and Butthead, and...
[03:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:15] <exec> 08└─Most PS2s with "bad" optical drives either merely need to have the internal laser lens cleaned (carefully remove the outer laser housing, stick a cotton swab moistened with rubbing alcohol to move over the lens, reassemble) or, if you're lucky, just need to have the mechanisms that move the laser lu...
[03:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We May Have Seen Two Asteroids Annihilate Each Other in Another Solar System - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:28] <exec> 08└─Ah, I block all that crap at the router so never even saw it was flash-based. In that case Google for other online Asteroid emulators...
[04:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:44] <exec> 08└─As someone who's day job involves keeping shitty code (or the wrong code) from production, I would like developers to at least put a one line comment at the beginning. Something like "-- 4/20/20 El Oscuro: Implemented change# xxxxx" At least I can verify I have the right code.
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[04:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Critical iPhone and IPad Bug That Lurked for Eight Years May be Under Active Attack - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:00] <exec> 08└─To get the contact tracing functionality installed.
[04:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Turns 15 Thursday -- Watch the First Video it Posted - 1712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:30] <exec> 08└─Even if you discard 99% to 99.99% of YouTube videos using whatever criteria you come up with, you could be left with a petabyte-scale or even exabyte-scale storage problem. The size of YouTube is increasing faster and faster, although the rate could level off as user growth slows down, and if we don...
[04:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:18] <exec> 08└─The submission mentions Panzer Dragoon Saga, but links to a remake of Panzer Dragoon. They're very different games. Panzer Dragoon is a rail shooter. Panzer Dragoon Saga is an RPG. And is probably the best game I've ever played. Sega lost the source to Panzer Dragoon Saga though, so it'll probably n...
[04:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:20] <exec> 08└─Makes me wonder. I know they have stripped down distros where the emulator is basically the only software running. You can get wired hardware and polling I/O already as well. With that in mind, how would an emulator perform on some form of RTOS running on the computer. By having those input and outp...
[04:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:22] <exec> 08└─As someone who has played on emulators via PC for a couple decades, I was never able to sense enough latency for it to really matter until I tried playing games via emulator on the Wii I was given last Christmas. The emulators themselves were probably just fine, but using the wireless Wii controlle...
[04:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:24] <exec> 08└─Most of the optical drives from that generation just suffer from misaligned/dirty mechanisms, outer/inner lenses that need to be cleaned, or occasionally need to have their potentiometers tuned/replaced. Anyone who has the time & ability to use a kit to hack in a SSD to take their place would be cap...
[04:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:26] <exec> 08└─I wonder how it interacts with SSDs in the first place. Some games were programmed to expect data at a certain speed. If you get the stuff to them too fast they don't behave correctly. For example, there are databases as to what PS1 games don't like fast loading on PS2s.
[04:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:28] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/199-analogue-pocket-promises-fpga-accuracy-for-portable-retro-gaming/ [arstechnica.com] Maybe FPGAs are the solution. But I don't think most people are that sensitive to latency and emulation accuracy issues, and emulator developers do try to reduce them.
[04:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:30] <exec> 08└─I have a heavily hacked Dreamcast. Replacing the GD-ROM with an SD card isn't hard. Nor is it that expensive, $100-ish for a board on Amazon. But mine is also hacked to have HDMI support, pulled digital from the GPU, no digital-analog-digital conversion. And it has an original Dreamcast controller m...
[05:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:00] <exec> 08└─FFS "-- 2020/04/20 El Oscuro: Implemented change# xxxxx"
[05:01:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 2657 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:51] <exec> 08└─An appendix in an old computer architecture textbook I studied rips the x86 for being a horrible architecture. The x86 part is a fairly sane and common load and execute, execute and store design. Still too many instructions though. Not enough registers, and too much overly specific register function...
[05:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:29] <exec> 08└─I spoke to the article, stating information *I* would want before clicking the link, and apparently I'm not alone. But your reply made me go, "hmm, this couldn't possibly be the poster of the link displaying his fragile ego, could it?" 'Til I looked at the username, then, with an "oh no" scrolled fa...
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[05:58:29] <exec> 08└─Together, yes; but Justin's not a completely awful actor [imdb.com]
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[06:59:05] <exec> 08└─Large Australian supermarkets offer online shopping, with pick up or delivery. Delivery is picked at the warehouse, not the local store, so there (in non-Covid-19 times), is more likelihood that the requested item will be available. Both Woolworths [woolworths.com.au] and Coles [coles.com.au] allow...
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[07:01:00] <exec> 08└─foreach(keys(%$user)) { $user->{$_} = $user->{$_}; }
[07:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:29] <exec> 08└─Speaking of CPUs that are bad... not just underpowered or overhyped or badly marketed, but bad. The Atari Jaguar CPUs deserve a mention. The Jag designers tried to roll their own CPU. Aaand I'm sorry but they failed. It's comparable to other RISC CPUs of the time except that it's badly broken. A lot...
[07:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:31] <exec> 08└─In the 8080, that may well be. In the 8086, the question wouldn't arise, since the compatibility restraints meant the support would have to be there anyway. If Intel expected the 8086 (or the 8088) to be used in such systems, I have no idea. I would have expected embedded systems of that time to sti...
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[08:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:21] <exec> 08└─Zilog Z-80, IIRC. I learned how to program on one of those dinosaurs. Good times.
[08:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:23] <exec> 08└─The PIC series SOCs are actual RISC processors as RISC was originally intended. I always thought they were fun to work with for small projects. In fairness, that was all done in assembler. Coding for them in C would be a pain due to the ultra-minimalist design.
[08:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:25] <exec> 08└─More likely that their fab couldn't get the required transistor density to fit everything, so something had to give. CPUs that fit on a single chip were still a pretty new thing in those days.
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[08:02:27] <exec> 08└─IIRC, it was worse than that. Around that time if Windows detected a Cyrix chip it would turn off the cache to slow the machine to a crawl and then randomly throw fake blue-screens. That was one of the many charges brought against Microsoft during the big antitrust suit against them. They pulled a s...
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[08:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:01] <exec> 08└─This is the fourth processor ecosystem transition they have done. The 68000 to PowerPC, the PowerPC to x86, the x86 to x86-64, and now x68-64 to ARM. Each one worked with relative ease, as old software would still run on the new machines and new software ran on the old ones. Sure different mechanism...
[08:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:30] <exec> 08└─Welcome to code golf. I've dabbled in it. I implemented the classic arcade game Pong in 62 bytes of code (x86), and didn't win the contest. The winner did it in 50 bytes.
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[09:57:51] <exec> 08└─While I modded you up, I still consider transition of Macs to ARM a significant regression. That makes me to consider future Apple devices as just unimpressive multimedia toys, not universal computers. I may continue to buy some, as I usually pick a dedicated device for a specific task only, free of...
[10:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:01] <exec> 08└─Stupid brave AC who completely misses the point.
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[11:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Rare Snail Living on Driftwood is Discovered in the Arctic Ocean - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:59] <exec> 08└─"that live near black smokers at the bottom" Now, bring in Ethanol. I'll grab the popcorn.
[11:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:08] <exec> 08└─That makes me to consider future Apple devices as just unimpressive multimedia toys, not universal computers.
[11:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:10] <exec> 08└─As a consumer I approve -- the more the active CPU platforms the wider the options I have. And serves their agenda too: now everything hardware/software will be incompatible with the "legacy products" and people are expected to pay (again). My feeling is the engineering was unhappy with Spectre and...
[11:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:24] <exec> 08└─So what happens when they do all this scaling, and people revert to the usual mode of shopping once covid is safely in the past? Gig economy stuff can descale quite easily too.
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[12:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Programmers Take an Extended Lunch Break as GitHub Goes TITSUP* Again - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:54] <exec> 08└─It's git, so you don't /need/ a central repository to exchange commits; you can just sync between everyone else ("origin" is just another remote). Take your code, push it somewhere else, and keep partying... Stupid 20-second-attention coder kids, learn to use your tools
[12:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:13] <exec> 08└─What makes you think ARM is less useful than x64?
[12:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:14] <exec> 08└─Some SBCs use big.LITTLE (Raspberry Pi is a notable holdout). Many mobile devices and some laptops (or iPad Pro) use it. Even Intel seems to be getting in on the act with the 5-core Lakefield as well as rumored 8+8 core CPUs: Rumor | Alder Lake-S with 16 cores could see Intel bringing big.LITTLE to...
[12:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:16] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. The weakest point of all the ARM franchise is inferior memory bandwidth. Always was. It is not so obvious in toys but it will be clearly distinctive in work devices. Apple already slipped into the cult of low power at all cost and that's what cripples drives their designs. Every ne...
[12:58:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 597 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:43] <exec> 08└─256 is 16x16, these demos have been developed over 30+ years and a lot of them have been optimized down below 32 bytes each, some below 16, and when you combine them there are additional memory savings. Impressive as hell? Yes. But, this is hand coded assembly, refined for 30 years with no other pur...
[13:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:02] <exec> 08└─Remember the rather lame Jazelle-enabled [wikipedia.org] processors? They tried to run Java bytecode directly on the hardware.
[13:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Blasted for “Shameful” Ruling Against Cities and Fire Department - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:09] <exec> 08└─When it was made clear to the fire protection district that it was capped, they upgraded to what they were told was a truly unlimited plan. No cap, no throttle. And then they still got throttled after a certain level of data usage. Yes, after assurances they were to never experience data plan restri...
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[13:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Programmers Take an Extended Lunch Break as GitHub Goes TITSUP* Again - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:07] <exec> 08└─If I'm even remotely interested in work project or open source project, I clone it and then add it to my overnight cron job that does a git fetch on all of my repositories. If Github, a Gitlab or Gitea instance, or the company Bitbucket server are down I am operating at most 24 hours behind the late...
[13:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Programmers Take an Extended Lunch Break as GitHub Goes TITSUP* Again - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:08] <exec> 08└─Management wants a central repo that they can look at to make irrational decisions.
[13:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:30] <exec> 08└─Do you have a source for that? What about the ARM servers we're starting to see in AWS? In certain benchmarks, the iPad Pro is pretty close to the Macbooks. Isn't that all the evidence needed?
[13:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:32] <exec> 08└─Each one worked with relative ease
[13:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:34] <exec> 08└─Eventually the companies will understand the only way to ensure peroper quality in huge systems is transparency, i.e. open source.
[13:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:04] <exec> 08└─Aww, I made the world's smallest violin for you (62 mm).
[13:59:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06YouTube Turns 15 Thursday -- Watch the First Video it Posted - 1146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:18] <exec> 08└─YouTube has finally allowed me to explore a lot of music, shows, old memes, and other memorable things, at my leisure. It's great. Much better than MTV, which we didn't have anyway because we refused to pay for cable TV. So I simply didn't see music videos, Kids in the Hall, Beavis and Butthead, and...
[13:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:53] <exec> 08└─They are most certainly not counting on a 3rd party that's not under contract for their business to remain viable.
[14:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:19] <exec> 08└─If there is any bragging, it was match games where I was incredibly fast. Like Tetris.
[14:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:20] <exec> 08└─Sega lost the source to [the Saturn RPG] Panzer Dragoon Saga though, so it'll probably never be remade. Which is a shame.
[14:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:54] <exec> 08└─No I got your point - you're better than everyone else.
[14:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:55] <exec> 08└─If code doesn't work, it can't have been "fixed." It's an oxymoron.
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[14:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:55] <exec> 08└─I'm just brainstorming here, but if 5G towers cause it and sunlight cures it... put the 5G towers outside. Very interesting idea don't you think? OK back to work everyone.
[14:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:56] <exec> 08└─If 5G causes it then it can uncause it, we just have to turn the process around. Do you know what a real doctor would do? "Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" [fandom.com]
[14:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:58] <exec> 08└─- any scientist who did not perfect time travel is unable to claim xG is safe. - "it hasn't been proved that", when you hear that you should reach for your revolver. - attacks on masts can be a psyop to victimize the poor telecom companies - if 5G enables passive transmitters it means a lot of radia...
[14:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:00] <exec> 08└─Just because the mainstream media hates you and wants you to die in servitude doesn't mean that non-ionizing radiation is dangerous.
[14:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06European Programmers Take an Extended Lunch Break as GitHub Goes TITSUP* Again - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:11] <exec> 08└─> Stupid 20-second-attention coder kids, learn to use your tools Most folks have a commit/code sharing/release procedure. It's a shame, if I am going to do a release and then find the release branch is unavailable because it is hosted on some server that is broke. Nb: Sure, it's possible to ignore t...
[14:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Programmers Take an Extended Lunch Break as GitHub Goes TITSUP* Again - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:13] <exec> 08└─Dude in Europe lunch break lasts a couple of days. Don't sweat, they'll be back next Tuesday.
[14:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Programmers Take an Extended Lunch Break as GitHub Goes TITSUP* Again - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:15] <exec> 08└─if I am going to do a release and then find the release branch is unavailable because it is hosted on some server that is broke.
[14:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Programmers Take an Extended Lunch Break as GitHub Goes TITSUP* Again - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:17] <exec> 08└─The "dodgy home brew server", as you call it, is probably a lot more available than github is. And AFAIK this is the way Linux is developed, the reason for git's existence.
[14:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Rare Snail Living on Driftwood is Discovered in the Arctic Ocean - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:26] <exec> 08└─One time when I was a student I found a rare snail living in my underwear. It stayed there for about 2 weeks then disappeared somewhere.
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[15:58:08] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:09] <exec> 08└─... he is trying to sort out the 5G conspiracists by getting them to inject bleach. Very smart. Darwin in action!
[15:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:10] <exec> 08└─and yet the WHO says not to hold your handset next to your head.
[15:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:12] <exec> 08└─and this reply is how it happens. Any questions about 5G after this and you'll be branded with "5G conspiracists" it will not matter that you don't link it to coronavirus because you will so obviously be insane for even submitting non-conformant data.
[15:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:15] <exec> 08└─It just makes the stupid people stand out.
[15:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:17] <exec> 08└─*reaching for the revolver*
[15:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:19] <exec> 08└─Gates is unironically called a benefactor/philantropist.
[15:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:21] <exec> 08└─More to the point, the idea that EM waves of any sort cause a virus is... well so staggeringly wrong that the people who think it should probably drink Lysol to keep themselves safe.
[15:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Rare Snail Living on Driftwood is Discovered in the Arctic Ocean - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:42] <exec> 08└─Do you have any to spare? My local stores have been sold out since Trump started his nightly rallies....err....briefings.
[15:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:59] <exec> 08└─You're so full of shit your eyes are brown. The cheapest iPhone now has a faster processor than the most expensive Android.
[15:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Smart Second Skin Gets All the Power it Needs from Sweat - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:06] <exec> 08└─I've always wanted what could be described as a 'functional watch tattoo' on my wrist. Maybe this could be utilized for that, or something comparable.
[15:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:31] <exec> 08└─I tried it on Windows 10. It locked up with a buffer overflow, my dog died, my cat is walking on the ceiling, and my wife looks like she needs an exorcist.
[16:01:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 431 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:36] <exec> 08└─"The dislike for documenting ones code seems universal among programmers of any field or language" This is true until you get around to needing to maintain something you wrote 5 years ago, and haven't touched since. Coding style evolves over time. There is some old stuff I wrote that I am appalled a...
[16:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:20] <exec> 08└─It definitely depends on what you're doing. I don't usually use lots of tightly nested loops these days. (I sure did back when I was doing transportation modeling, though.) What I really wish was that they'd get the bugs out of Vala, and remove its dependencies on gnome (which I feel has gone off th...
[16:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:22] <exec> 08└─Even something as simple as a loop index needs to have a meaningful name.
[16:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:24] <exec> 08└─so it essentially did absolutely nothing except waste cycles
[16:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:26] <exec> 08└─Reference documentation is useful if you want to look at the overall structure of a lot of modules, packages, and classes without the detail of the source code. When this generated documentation contains lots of useful human written information then it can be fantastic. Everything is hyperlinked so...
[16:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:03] <exec> 08└─Great point. And, especially in those days, chip yields (usable ICs) were low, and the bigger the die, statistically the fewer good ones you'll get. And they didn't have the PGA and 4-sided PLCC and BGA packages that they developed for the LSI in the 80s. So making bigger chips would have cost much...
[16:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:05] <exec> 08└─I had a 6x86 and was very happy with it. The P-rating thing was really bad expectation management though. The P166+ that I had ran at 133MHz and outperformed a P133 at pretty much any workload I tried. It was cheaper than a P133. If Cyrix had sold it as a 133MHz part, it would have been great. I act...
[16:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, I have to agree, and the 8085 filled that market nicely. You probably know on the 86/88, the address and data were multiplexed pins, so you needed several glue logic chips just to do anything with the micro. Maybe that was common then? Too lazy to look up other chip pinouts... Look how good we...
[16:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:09] <exec> 08└─I had a K6-2 and it crashed a lot. It turned out, there was a hairline crack on the motherboard. When I replaced the mother board it was very stable. These chips also didn't do any thermal throttling and a lot of them had poorly fitted heat sinks (especially bad thermal paste), which caused them t...
[16:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:11] <exec> 08└─They were lobotimized versions of the 386DX and 486DX, for purposes of filling a perceived low end market niche.
[16:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:14] <exec> 08└─Obviously all great points. Please remember, Intel had to sell these new chips to the microprocessor market. A CPU has to satisfy a lot of needs, including programmers. The programmers of the day did a lot of annoying BCD stuff, so having the instructions built in was super attractive. Same with str...
[16:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:16] <exec> 08└─Yeh I know one motherboard who went to bed with a Bi curious. Horrible experience.
[16:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:18] <exec> 08└─The PII Celerons were pretty good. They had smaller L2 caches than the PIIs, but the caches ran at the same speed as CPU, whereas the PII caches were half the speed. For some things, this was actually faster. For extra fun, the 300MHz PII Celerons ran with a 66MHz FSB and a fixed clock multiplier....
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[16:58:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:02] <exec> 08└─I'm just brainstorming here, but if 5G towers cause it and sunlight cures it... put the 5G towers outside. Very interesting idea don't you think? OK back to work everyone.
[16:58:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:09] <exec> 08└─It just makes the stupid people stand out.
[16:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:14] <exec> 08└─What a bunch of ignorant fools. It's the speeding cameras and police speed radars that cause Corona and epilepsy and flu and hemeroids.
[16:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:16] <exec> 08└─Not one of us? You must be one of them!
[16:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:18] <exec> 08└─Only the stupid ones. Science based questions about things like spectrum intererence [aip.org] can still be asked. (Although they will be ignored by Trumps anti-science administration)
[16:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:21] <exec> 08└─In the 1970's the wisdom was that Television made people dumber. While I agree that stupid people can stand out on a powerful platform (including television, radio, and social media), the fact remains that there is a large number of impressionable people listening to the idiocy. Therefore, I think s...
[16:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:23] <exec> 08└─It seems like people get more and more gullible. Willing to believe anything. Teach the controversy. Create FUD. Be bold in defending attacks upon stupidity. Let me point out from 1995: SoftRAM - The Story of the Incredible RAM Doubling Scam [youtube.com] Why did it take so long for such an obvious...
[16:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:25] <exec> 08└─Naturally yes, but I was responding to the OP's particular insanity, not the general insanity of COVID-19 nutters. Because there's a lot of those. And nothing gets people's political motors quite like blaming the natural processes of disease spread on moral turpitude.
[16:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:27] <exec> 08└─No, that's not among the WHO's published health guidance. What your insane internet sources twisted that claim from: they produced a metaanalysis which found some extremely weak correlations in some studies between cell phone use and some kinds of brain cancer, but the overall trend of all data was...
[16:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:29] <exec> 08└─I see what you are doing :)
[16:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Programmers Take an Extended Lunch Break as GitHub Goes TITSUP* Again - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:43] <exec> 08└─> You do your releases and then upload the tags when it's back up I'm obviously being thick. How do you share code with someone else without access to a common server? Do all of your developers share ssh keys for each other's development machine?
[16:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 1999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:10] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: somewhat of an android fanboy here While I do not dispute that Apple may have faster processors than the most expensive android . . . According to the last state of this animated chart [youtube.com], android has about 8.5 x the market share of Apple. (btw, watching how mobile operating s...
[16:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:11] <exec> 08└─Is there some fundamental reason that the ARM architecture cannot be fabricated with faster switches, higher voltages, generate more heat, have more parallelism, or certainly more cores per chip, have higher memory bandwidth, etc? I hear about ARM designs in powerful servers.
[16:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:13] <exec> 08└─Also, you get a +1 Informative
[16:59:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:34] <exec> 08└─A Mind Is Born (256 bytes) [youtube.com] Puls - Rrrola | 256b [youtube.com] H - Immersion - Ctrl-Alt-Test | Revision 2017 | 64k [youtube.com] Future Crew - Second Reality (1993) [60fps] [youtube.com]
[16:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:44] <exec> 08└─These guys [cornell.edu] could make one way smaller if they wanted to.
[16:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:46] <exec> 08└─Besides the OS issues, how was the demo?
[17:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Turns 15 Thursday -- Watch the First Video it Posted - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:03] <exec> 08└─WTF are you talking about? The clip is just 18 seconds long, but 15 years ago, it kicked off an online video revolution. Thursday marks the 15th anniversary of the first-ever YouTube video, which shows company co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo. [V...
[17:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:37] <exec> 08└─This whole fiasco is caused by the delivery sites building their sites incorrectly. Compare a grocery delivery to a regular Amazon order. Grocery delivery: I pick my items, then I have to pick a specific day and time of day for the delivery to happen. Amazon: I pick my items, and buy them. Amazon...
[17:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:43] <exec> 08└─I can't tell if that's wry humor or a literal truth. Good ole Java.
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[17:58:06] <exec> 08└─This summary makes about as much sense as an APK posting.
[17:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 3139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:34] <exec> 08└─The willingness of people to attack 5G rollout over stupid conspiracy theories proves something pretty meaningful, I think. People don't give 2 shits about 5G. Think about it. Humans are remarkably capable of ignoring their better judgement when it comes to things they like. If these people were rea...
[17:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:35] <exec> 08└─Put the 5G towers outside, and spray them with disinfectant. Presto: no more coronavirus!
[17:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:37] <exec> 08└─tl;dr wealth redistribution.
[17:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:39] <exec> 08└─Absolutely! Someone needs to spread the word to the conspiracy theorists. Red-light and speeding cameras are causing coronavirus!!! Especially the ones in Maryland.
[17:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:42] <exec> 08└─You're a moron. I can't understand why anyone needs paved roads. Those horses have no problems on cobblestones. Why does anyone need faster than dialup? It's all text based anyhow. I don't understand why we need color film, black and white is fine,
[17:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:44] <exec> 08└─>> the overall trend of all data was a non-significant negative correlation between cell phone use and brain cancer. You're saying cell phones cure brain cancer some of the time? Why doesn't the WHO advocate strapping them to your head to wipe out brain cancer? Or are they just waiting for China to...
[17:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:46] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile I am sitting here with my big, manly POTS phone, keeping me the perfect picture of health. No viruses here, I wonder why? Should I even mention the increased brain activity? Keep yourself safe, and throw away those filthy smart phones! Oh, and blue LEDs spread ebola.
[17:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:48] <exec> 08└─>> I don't understand why we need color film, black and white is fine, Pornography with Asian chicks.
[17:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:50] <exec> 08└─Just inject them with disinfectant.
[17:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:52] <exec> 08└─The willingness of people to attack 5G rollout over stupid conspiracy theories proves something pretty meaningful, I think. People don't give 2 shits about 5G.
[17:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:55] <exec> 08└─No, it's always been that way. Look at all the moon-landing deniers; that was going on all the way back in the late 60s/early 70s. What's different is that the Internet has made it really easy for all these idiots to find each other and spread their insanity. Back in the "old days", if you had some...
[17:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:57] <exec> 08└─I think it is exactly what is happening. People fight technosphere and use whatever means available.
[17:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 3315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:41] <exec> 08└─I remember about 2005 thinking there was coming a day when Microsoft's best days would be behind it. In 2007 Ballmer laughed at the iPhone. 12 years earlier Microsoft had almost missed the internet revolution. Blinded by the "desktop monopoly" googles so that they almost didn't see the potential of...
[17:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 2064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:42] <exec> 08└─Practically speaking, I can't see how this move makes Macs more closed than they were before. Hardware upgrades are non-existent outside of the most high-end product, the Mac Pro. Macs have always had "blessed hardware", and the current Mac Pro is no different. It's even more closed off than ever be...
[18:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:11] <exec> 08└─Probably a bit of both. While I like the Java ecosystem, its tools, languages, etc, and mostly like the language of the same name, I freely recognize, that like almost everything in tech, it has its warts. It's not perfect. But then I consider what Stroustrup said about two kinds of languages. While...
[18:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:12] <exec> 08└─My latest frustration is "machine learning" which everybody swears Python is ideal for, but if you want to make synthetic (or partly synthetic) data to train your models on, as far as I can see Python is useless... but it may be easier (in the end) to run a hybrid Python / C++ with C++ doing the dat...
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[18:58:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'd like to take a strong stance. Since correlation is not causation, we must take the lack of statistically significant correlation as irrefutable evidence of causation.
[18:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:37] <exec> 08└─COVID-19 came from China + China leads 5G + The Earth is flat.
[18:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:39] <exec> 08└─What is "color film" grampa?
[18:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:41] <exec> 08└─Or his money could be distributed back to where it came from - the MS customers, voluntary or forced, whom he ripped off by overcharging enabled by his illegal monopoly practices. I'd let him keep a reasonable amount, say $10 million. What Gates does hold is just insane for a single individual.
[18:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:44] <exec> 08└─What questions do you have about 5G? Like will it make your ceiling fan wobble and cause nervous behavior in goldfish?
[19:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An SSD Can Resurrect Your Old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Consoles - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:18] <exec> 08└─I think the ODROID-GO uses FreeRTOS with emulators.
[19:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself - 3706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:00] <exec> 08└─I think Java (and Java/OO dogma) is the root of a lot of code comment hatred these days. Even worse, I think that hatred has made it significantly harder to maintain documentation in any system. So many people used to say that code comments are good. That documentation comments are better. That ever...
[19:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:45] <exec> 08└─And the actual Cyrix stuff got sold to someone else, because the AMRISC/RDC 3286 (There were a couple different names for it depending on the mode) was a Cyrix 486SLC-133 which may or may not have been related to the 6x86 cores, which I will note were Speculative execution 2+ years before Intel put...
[19:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:47] <exec> 08└─A masking error on the machine learning instruction scheduler. It was functionally flawed. The solution for motherboards that supported it was to disable that part, which netted a 10-20 percent performance loss, but many motherboards didn't include the option, or send your cpu back to AMD who would...
[19:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Worst CPUs Ever Made - 2051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:49] <exec> 08└─The entire point of the 386SX, unlike the later 486SX was that it was bus compatible with the 286, allowing the clone box manufacturers to reuse existing 286 chipset designs with the 386 processor. I know this because I have a 1989 Gateway 2000 386SX/16 sitting above me in storage. The motherboard g...
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[19:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mon-735: A New Low-Mass Pre-Main Sequence Eclipsing Binary in NGC 2264 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:12] <exec> 08└─It's a secretly encoded message, only readable by astronomers and astro physicists. Too bad for you.
[19:58:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 868 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:49] <exec> 08└─No, it's always been that way. Look at all the moon-landing deniers; that was going on all the way back in the late 60s/early 70s. What's different is that the Internet has made it really easy for all these idiots to find each other and spread their insanity. Back in the "old days", if you had some...
[19:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:56] <exec> 08└─Truthception!
[19:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is. A fundamental reason. On ARM, no AMD HyperTransport, namely its superset Infinity Fabric architecture. A true breakthrough, a new techlevel. This one cannot be imitated correctly even by Intel with all their money pile, not mentioning poor ARM.
[19:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:43] <exec> 08└─That is interesting information about AMD. Thank you. So what about comparing ARM / RISC-V with Intel. What would prevent building high performance, power hungry, room heating processors?
[19:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:45] <exec> 08└─That depends on the slant of your fanboi fedora.
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[20:57:55] <exec> 08└─I tried it and it works well... [anoncoward~/home]# gcc google.com.c -static Using built-in static analysis feature. WARNING... security vulnerability identified! [anoncoward~/home]# gcc facebook.com.c -static Using built-in static analysis feature. WARNING... security vulnerability identified! [ano...
[20:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mon-735: A New Low-Mass Pre-Main Sequence Eclipsing Binary in NGC 2264 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:05] <exec> 08└─I think the submitter has been reading too much Burroughs lately.
[20:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mon-735: A New Low-Mass Pre-Main Sequence Eclipsing Binary in NGC 2264 - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:07] <exec> 08└─As a layman, this is what I got out of it: PMS means pre-main sequence, so these stars are still in the process of contracting into 'real' stars. Dwarfs means they're small enough for that process to take some time. Detached means that they've formed separate objects out of their proto planetary dis...
[20:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:51] <exec> 08└─Nope, sorry, no can do. Exchange theory of value and private accumulation. What are you, some kind of socialist?
[20:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:52] <exec> 08└─Einstein was sure that human stupidity is infinite. Fear makes idiots of otherwise average people. That lizard brain takes over, and then we get panicky behaviors that can be at best useless, and at worst homicidal and suicidal. There's the deer-in-the-headlights freeze, the sticking-your-head-in-th...
[20:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:55] <exec> 08└─5G makes my cat run around like crazy at three in the morning. It must be very powerful as I don't have any 5G towers anywhere near me!!!
[20:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:57] <exec> 08└─Not entirely true. I can make a comforting panic fort from all of the jumbo packs of toilet paper I hoarded.
[20:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:59] <exec> 08└─concerns about 5G have been raised prior to the coronavirus
[20:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06European Programmers Take an Extended Lunch Break as GitHub Goes TITSUP* Again - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:14] <exec> 08└─You can email git commits to each other: https://git-scm.com [git-scm.com]
[20:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Programmers Take an Extended Lunch Break as GitHub Goes TITSUP* Again - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:15] <exec> 08└─The real request pull pull request.
[20:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:51] <exec> 08└─In all seriousness, they should have called their ARM OS "Doors." The commercials are easy, people wouldn't have the inherent sense of backward compatibility, they'd have been more used to the idea of a walled garden, and their enterprise sector could have vacuumed up schools like Chromebooks are no...
[21:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:25] <exec> 08└─Who many bytes of JS would that require to duplicate?
[21:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:16] <exec> 08└─After all, CAPTCHAs are evil and stuff. Can't have stuff like that. Better to just bow to this kind of thing.
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[21:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:03] <exec> 08└─I want the benefits of living out in the middle of nowhere while still having decent internet access. Starlink is exactly what I want. It'll be cheaper than using a trenchsaw to run a fibre optic cable back to civilization.
[21:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:04] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see someone take it all the way. All food bought in bulk, grown on site, and/or hunted, local water source used (well, rain barrels, condenser, etc.), solar power and batteries. Then get a Starlink 1 Gbps connection and start a YouTube channel about it.
[21:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:06] <exec> 08└─There is only so much bandwidth per satellite, so your pizza-box-sized transceiver would experience more congestion and lower throughput in an urban area than it would in a rural setting.
[21:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:09] <exec> 08└─I want the benefits of living out in the middle of nowhere while still having decent internet access. Starlink is exactly what I want. It'll be cheaper than using a trenchsaw to run a fibre optic cable back to civilization.
[21:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:11] <exec> 08└─There are a bunch of wilderness youtubers that will probably grab the upgrade. You can put out more content if you don't need to drive to the nearby town a half hour away to use some restaurant's WIFI.
[21:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:14] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I'm going to do. The moment I can get reliable Internet access so I can continue to work, I can move that far out. I've already got family living like that, just without Internet. For years, there was zero comm service of any kind. Had to travel 2 hours before you could get to a phone t...
[21:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:16] <exec> 08└─There's a limit to how many people in an area can use Starlink without degrading each other's service. The limit is based on the average number of satellites that are in range, and the bandwidth per satellite (reportedly 20 Gbps). The denser urban areas are exactly where you would want fiber. If you...
[21:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:18] <exec> 08└─I know it was covered before but I missed it that time. To me, it's not worth ruining the night sky for amateur astronomers (attempting a long exposure, I think it will be ruined with these things streaking across the image), just to get lower-latency satellite broadband. Hey for a techie I seem to...
[21:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GCC 10 Gets Security Bug Trap. And Look What Just Fell Into it: OpenSSL and a Prod-Of-Death Flaw - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:27] <exec> 08└─[anoncoward~/home]# gcc systemd.c -static Using built-in static analysis WARNING... argh... it hurts!
[21:58:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:45] <exec> 08└─If 5G causes it then it can uncause it, we just have to turn the process around. Do you know what a real doctor would do? "Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" [fandom.com]
[21:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:27] <exec> 08└─Do you mean picnic fort?
[21:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:28] <exec> 08└─When you burn down the cell towers to prevent transmission of covid-19, then how will your POTS phone get a signal?
[21:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:30] <exec> 08└─> Anybody shouting about Wi-Fi? Anyone? Nope. Well er quite a lot of people actually, here's one from a "science" site: https://www.sciencedirect.com [sciencedirect.com] More topically, my wife just told me her friend has set her SSID as (something like, my memo...
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[21:59:32] <exec> 08└─Meh, those concerns were also raised by the US military, and every weather scientist in the US. I still don't think it's entirely settled as if the opponents were ignorant Luddites. I sure as fuck don't trust Ajit Pai either. That chickenhead can't goobble down corporate cock fast enough. All of tha...
[21:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:35] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I come here to stand out.
[21:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:37] <exec> 08└─What questions do you have about 5G?
[21:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Programmers Take an Extended Lunch Break as GitHub Goes TITSUP* Again - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:54] <exec> 08└─MS, like several other tech behemoths) have loads of cash. There is a saying among photographers: skill is acquired by practice, not purchase. So MS may have purchased Github and several other companies they may desire, but have they got the chops to keep the lights on? The evidence speaks for itsel...
[22:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:31] <exec> 08└─A high-speed interconnect doesn't cure everything, it will be imitated, and Apple is not replacing AMD CPUs, they are replacing Intel CPUs. Apple also has a much bigger money pile than ARM (SoftBank).
[22:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:07] <exec> 08└─Not only are more effects put into 28 bytes than we thought possible
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[22:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:03] <exec> 08└─I wonder how long until a backdoor is found to the sat. I'm sure it's no more difficult than how long it took to hack a Tesla.
[22:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:04] <exec> 08└─》If you can't get that at a reasonable price, something has gone terribly wrong. I believe the term you're looking for is "The FCC".
[22:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:06] <exec> 08└─Latency
[22:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:08] <exec> 08└─And the FTC, Congress, state legislatures, and the ISPs themselves.
[22:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:11] <exec> 08└─~20-40 ms https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Internet traffic via a geostationary satellite has a minimum theoretical round-trip latency of at least 477 ms (between user and ground gateway), but in practice, current satellites have latencies of 600 ms or more....
[22:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:13] <exec> 08└─Since I'm already in the boonies, I'm interested in participating in a beta... HughesNot is, well, NOT a good solution. The only utility at my location is an Electric Co-op. No phone, cell service, natgas, cable. Just crappy, low speed, high latency, rain fading, low data cap, expensive satellite.
[22:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:15] <exec> 08└─You expect the total trip latency to be less than or or equal to the earth-to-sat latency? (20-40 vs 25-35) I'm pretty sure you need to account for the return leg to reach the server/service you're measuring latency too. Isn't it like saying my home internet is awesome since I can ping my router in...
[22:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:17] <exec> 08└─Thinking about it, not liking our night skies becoming filled with these doesn't make me a Luddite per se. Having a real passion for tech means being selective about how tech shapes our world. These things are supposed to de-orbit if left alone for about five years I think, but once there's thousand...
[22:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GCC 10 Gets Security Bug Trap. And Look What Just Fell Into it: OpenSSL and a Prod-Of-Death Flaw - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:27] <exec> 08└─You fool, your gcc is now infected with dvirus now.
[22:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:31] <exec> 08└─It has always been this way. But some of the things in your list of "stupid" things are not like the others. Coronavirus's nature is still not firmly established, because they are not able to test everyone to see if they've already had it and experienced no symptoms; we don't have enough data yet. C...
[22:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:33] <exec> 08└─True. My best friend is a professional clown. He invited me to watch them bring the elephants through the Midtown Tunnel on the way to the Barnum and Bailey Circus in Madison Square Garden. There were people protesting the use of animals in the circus.
[22:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:35] <exec> 08└─It's the film on your teeth sonnyboy.
[22:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:37] <exec> 08└─I wrote that. It only means some people were concerned about it before the coronavirus came along.
[22:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 3949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:40] <exec> 08└─Then how about you tell me one thing, just one thing that needs 5G. One thing that wouldn't work or be practical on 4G/LTE or WiFi connected to DSL/cable/fibre, but will finally be practical with 5G. It doesn't have to be waiting in the wings for as soon as the network is ready. It can be a glimmer...
[22:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:42] <exec> 08└─"Some of the cell towers damaged in Birmingham were next to a hospital, how would you feel if you couldn't say goodbye to a loved one because some prick burnt out the cell tower." More importantly, how would you feel if the medical team treating you or a loved one were hampered by the fact that they...
[23:00:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year - 872 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:14] <exec> 08└─This is the fourth processor ecosystem transition they have done. The 68000 to PowerPC, the PowerPC to x86, the x86 to x86-64, and now x68-64 to ARM. Each one worked with relative ease, as old software would still run on the new machines and new software ran on the old ones. Sure different mechanism...
[23:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Smart Second Skin Gets All the Power it Needs from Sweat - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:42] <exec> 08└─Any kind of display, really. I would much rather have something self-powered that I don't have to fiddle with.
[23:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:11] <exec> 08└─Most of them.
[23:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:13] <exec> 08└─fixed
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[23:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Pushes Back Against Zero-Day Exploit Claims - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:04] <exec> 08└─The truth... you're not holding it right.
[23:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Pushes Back Against Zero-Day Exploit Claims - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:05] <exec> 08└─"You're holding it right." - Hacker
[23:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:29] <exec> 08└─A lot of numbers have been thrown around, including lower than 20. We'll just have to see what the beta testers say about it. The main point is that it's nothing like a geostationary sat. It will be comparable to a normal ISP. On one of the previous stories, someone still thought that the latency wa...
[23:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:30] <exec> 08└─I'm not thrilled at the idea of having the Earth surrounded by a much-denser-than-now cloud of satellites myself, but when weighing the damage done to the the hobby of amateur astronomers against the dramatic economic, educational, and communicational benefit to hundreds of millions of people living...
[23:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:33] <exec> 08└─I'd say it specifically hurts astrophotographers more than amateur astronomers. The sats may not be visible to the naked eye after mitigations and final orbits, and you can still point binoculars or a telescope at a target and not notice anything. Starlink looks like it will cause trouble for specif...
[23:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:35] <exec> 08└─I'd be willing to bet that the Tesla hackers had physical access. "God Mode" is a huge help in finding weaknesses that can be exploited without it, and you're not going to get that with something a thousand miles away.
[23:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starlink Satellite Broadband Beta Testing Starts in a Few Months - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:37] <exec> 08└─i hope those beta testers do a good job ...
[23:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06GCC 10 Gets Security Bug Trap. And Look What Just Fell Into it: OpenSSL and a Prod-Of-Death Flaw - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:48] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't have this problem if we used Ada.
[23:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GCC 10 Gets Security Bug Trap. And Look What Just Fell Into it: OpenSSL and a Prod-Of-Death Flaw - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:50] <exec> 08└─OpenSSL has been known for a long time to have severe code quality problems. This doesn't fix anything in the long run. I would encourage anyone using libssl (the library version of OpenSSL) to switch to one of: * GnuTLS [wikipedia.org] -- LGPL, very high code quality, production ready. Good for mos...
[23:59:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Coronavirus: 'Murder Threats' to Telecoms Engineers Over 5G - 1439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:53] <exec> 08└─Meh, those concerns were also raised by the US military, and every weather scientist in the US. I still don't think it's entirely settled as if the opponents were ignorant Luddites. I sure as fuck don't trust Ajit Pai either. That chickenhead can't goobble down corporate cock fast enough. All of tha...