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[00:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─We were launching nuclear missiles (only pretending) with a 15 mile range. They didn't need to be *that* accurate. A complete measurement took about 15 minutes, first determine magnetic north, based on that use the gyroscope to determine Earth axis. Next do another measurement based on the first gyr...
[00:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:30] <exec> 08└─Actually, he communicated very effectively. The submitter knows it is certainly not accepted, exactly why it is not accepted (so no wasting time addressing the wrong issue) and that kinder, gentler implementations of the same approach will not cut it.
[00:25:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:48] <exec> 08└─These times would try even the best and bravest and smartest and most humane politicians.
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[00:28:31] <exec> 08└─I'd say it was even more complicated than that. I'd argue that while skin color definitely plays a role, socioeconomic status plays an even bigger role. As to the original premise, it would be really interesting to see some research on ratios of different skin color (I won't use the term "race," as...
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[01:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into the Early Peopling of the Caribbean - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:48] <exec> 08└─I know that the Rastafarians were the third dispersal, but were the pirates the first or the second?
[01:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into the Early Peopling of the Caribbean - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:50] <exec> 08└─Extracting ancient DNA fragments is notoriously unreliable business. Two from the north, and then another from the south, sounds suspiciously similar to European "discovery" of America. Last but not least, this is another pheonix submission from phys.org. Make of it what you will.
[01:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:01] <exec> 08└─The "tell-me three times" redundancy " seems a bit weird. If they all need to agree, and one of the systems faults bad enough, you will not be able to make a decision again. Not until you disable the faulty system. If it was like >=(x-1)/x, then you could have like a fault count and discard the faul...
[01:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 3081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:03] <exec> 08└─Back in '00 or so I was working with 2 companies for embedded Linux, Monte Vista is the one I remember. I remember working with a guy working for a company in Los Angeles trying to get Linux running on an SH-4, we were both using Monte Vista code and working with them on the port. There was a chunk...
[01:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:05] <exec> 08└─How did they convince them to ride in a rocket controlled by x86_64 processors? No radiation hardening, running Linux?
[01:22:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 261 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:16] <exec> 08└─Most of my friends and colleagues (mostly engineers) are more busy than ever. I would be willing to take a pay cut to guarantee working 30 hours a week, but I would expect the typical salaried position mantra of "pay for 40hours/week, expect 60" to still apply.
[01:22:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 354 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:22] <exec> 08└─You just outlined perfectly the reason that I went independent contractor years ago and never looked back. Yes, my total income is much lower, especially after taxes, but I don't have a morning commute, spend far less time on it, work when and how I want to most of the time, and am generally treated...
[01:22:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:26] <exec> 08└─It was research of that sort that finally convinced employers to adopt a 40 hour work week standard in the first place, a century ago.
[01:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:34] <exec> 08└─Actually I do know somewhat of these things, enough to know that history class did gloss over things a bit. It's not that the research really convinced them. A slave driver is nigh impossible to convince that more man hours no matter how they're gotten, does not mean more production, and production...
[01:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03laserfusion [1450] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:36] <exec> 08└─Let them employ robots and we can all relax.
[01:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:38] <exec> 08└─Given the hyper-litigious business environment, and how politics and law make weakness a fatal error, it's not surprising they never admit anything.
[01:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:41] <exec> 08└─You haven't worked in the MIC industry.
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[01:24:47] <exec> 08└─mewmewing about equality while fucking the middle class
[01:26:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aegis [6714] 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:04] <exec> 08└─The gassing and burning happened started in Hitler's second term....
[01:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:51] <exec> 08└─Mostly agree. I don't like the simplistic extrapolation on populations to explain complex social issues that are more adequately explained with additional factors.
[01:29:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 670 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:02] <exec> 08└─>Can an Italian human... No, but the block is at DNS level. By adding 152.19.134.47 gutenberg.org www.gutenberg.org to /etc/hosts I could access the main page, some more manual lookups may be needed for content if hosted on other domains. Italian government, which I remind you is leftist with a Sovi...
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[01:31:22] <exec> 08└─So the alternative is take a total loss on their existing investment?
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[02:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:47] <exec> 08└─This has to succeed just for the name.
[02:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:49] <exec> 08└─Remote piloted drones still have someone in control. When used to kill people, that pilot is removed from direct interaction with the aircraft, the munitions, the reality of delivering that deadly blow. There's already plenty of reasons using drones would make people more willing to kill. Now even t...
[02:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:41] <exec> 08└─Middle management should be the most watched entity. Those people can destroy a company with a stroke of their pen by destroying and demotivating the workforce. It may take years to groom a prospective workman, but only seconds in front of a "leadership" type to undo it all. "My contribution is desp...
[02:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:43] <exec> 08└─You just described every workplace I've ever been in.
[02:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:45] <exec> 08└─I went independendent for the same reason. It had become painfully obvious to me that corporate hiring departments had no way of dealing with people who know what they are good at, and what they suck at. They excel in finding those who will say anything to get a check. Those of us who know what we...
[02:26:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:21] <exec> 08└─Just 'cause he's Tweeting racist garbage and inciting more violence on Twitter does not mean he is being honest or transparent. How many NDAs does he have? Where are those Tax Returns?
[02:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:54] <exec> 08└─If only you had mobilized that bit in 2008. That ship has sailed. Any reefs it may have encountered since are laid at your feet, which must be pretty big.
[02:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Atlantic’s Third Storm Has Formed in Record Time, and It’s a Threat - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:27] <exec> 08└─Sophistry and weasel words, and I suspect you know it. Reality is that inaction on CO2 pollution is the problem.
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[03:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:49] <exec> 08└─"Maybe I shouldn't be thinking about a 65ft-wingspan, maybe it is a small autonomous swarming capability," he explained.
[03:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:50] <exec> 08└─We already have "drone weapons" in the form of radar and heat seeking missiles. One (of several hundred) interesting variation would be a C-130 filled with killer bees - anybody gets within 10 seconds of missile range and they've got a swarm of angry bees on them.
[03:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:53] <exec> 08└─Stealth [imdb.com] War's terrible. It's meant to be terrible, and if it stops being terrible, what's going to stop us? Lt. Ben Gannon
[03:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into the Early Peopling of the Caribbean - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:02] <exec> 08└─I'm no anthropologist but I find it hard to believe that's the proper term.
[03:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into the Early Peopling of the Caribbean - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:04] <exec> 08└─peopling pronounced (people ing): the ability to tolerate people and their stupidity, as well as your own stupidity in a public setting. To people or engage in the act of peopling is to be able to remain tactful despite a person's obvious stupidity, and/or, lack of social skills.
[03:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into the Early Peopling of the Caribbean - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:06] <exec> 08└─The Mayan cities were abandoned between 1000 and 1200 C.E. and the Spaniards arrived until about 1502, however the Maya were still trading by boat with places as far away as present-day Colombia. In fact the first sight of Mayan people by the Spaniards happened at sea [wikipedia.org], off the coast...
[03:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:20] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that's one of the parts they removed when they stripped it down.
[03:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:22] <exec> 08└─They probably used an older version: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:58] <exec> 08└─No, but stripping away all the bureaucracy that's in place purely to create barriers to entry will make it competitive with the existing system, and the additional economic benefits of a healthier populace should smoothly negate any extra costs.
[03:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:59] <exec> 08└─At the risk of a redundant mod, that has been my experience as well. If you know how to do stuff, go independent. If you don't, suck up until you do.
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[03:23:01] <exec> 08└─It isn't very nice to take out your existential crisis on the poor sod trying to deliver pizzas. They really don't wanna see you in lingerie with your dick tucked between your legs. Let alone having to lotion up their skin.
[03:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:03] <exec> 08└─Shorter shifts and more workers, no biggie. As usual people can sign up for more hours, they just get paid extra.
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[04:21:55] <exec> 08└─No, this is the other one with cgi Ryan Reynolds.
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[04:21:56] <exec> 08└─War's glorious. It's meant to be glorious, and if it stops being glorious, what's going to get me a hard on?[/quote] FTFY
[04:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:58] <exec> 08└─First we abolish the police. Then we abolish the military. I see absolutely no downside, do you? #BlackLivesMatter.
[04:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:00] <exec> 08└─Heh. It was OBAMA who pioneered drone executions. Give credit to the man!
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[04:22:02] <exec> 08└─Don't forget cruise missiles. x x x
[04:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:05] <exec> 08└─War isn't meant to be terrible, unless you mean for the other side. It's meant to break *their* ability and will to fight.
[04:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into the Early Peopling of the Caribbean - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:16] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but the real article is hidden behind a paywall even though the research was paid for by the Danish public.
[04:22:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 3081 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:28] <exec> 08└─Back in '00 or so I was working with 2 companies for embedded Linux, Monte Vista is the one I remember. I remember working with a guy working for a company in Los Angeles trying to get Linux running on an SH-4, we were both using Monte Vista code and working with them on the port. There was a chunk...
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[04:23:11] <exec> 08└─And socialists are opposed to Capitalism, but they never leave the capitalist countries they complain about, nor do they forgo anything produced by capitalism such as smartphones, Apps, laptops, tablets, 4K TV's, The cloud, media streaming, social media, state of the art medical treatment & dental t...
[04:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:12] <exec> 08└─And yet everyone knows both sides of the equation. When someone blows smoke up your ass and cheaps out on what they promised you, how do you behave? Like a motivated employee? Please. So why do they still do it? They must truly believe they're convincing you that shit sandwich is a Trump steak.
[04:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldeschool [4414] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:14] <exec> 08└─We went to a 4 day week at the first of the year, still 40 hours though, 4x10
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[04:25:22] <exec> 08└─OMG don't scare them!
[04:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:26] <exec> 08└─How many idiots does it take to screw in a light bulb? None, because you plus and all the rest still can't get it done.
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[04:29:27] <exec> 08└─P666 has left the reservation and joined the imperialist murderers. I'm not sure what to make of these assholes, they are either completely clueless boomers who believe every lie the conservative media peddles or they are agent provocateurs who have been building personas in order to push "grassroot...
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[05:21:52] <exec> 08└─but the bigger problem is dumping garbage in the ocean.
[05:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:19] <exec> 08└─[quote]There is no I in "team".[/quote] But there are three U's in "Shut The Fuck Up".
[05:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:20] <exec> 08└─I was imagining telecommuting after having a beer.
[05:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:22] <exec> 08└─And they also want to pay you little while not paying overtime rates if you work overtime.
[05:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mothers Ensure Their Offspring's Success Through Epigenetics - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:17] <exec> 08└─Mothers would say no one will do as much for their offspring as they did. And most mothers do not teach survival skills to anyone. They are too occupied with telling their offspring how lucky they are to have such a great parent. It is like the mothers were never born and have been around since the...
[05:27:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:27] <exec> 08└─I've never seen nor heard of the horrific name-calling, insults, personal attack, lies, and coverups that have been done by the liberals.
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[05:27:57] <exec> 08└─mayan descendant here, if you ever visit guatemala ask for chicha on a farmer's market or you know, just look it up how to make it. it's easy as hell
[05:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:28] <exec> 08└─It helps that "left" and "right" are really the same thing. Both are authoritarian constructs who demand complete obedience to authority.
[05:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:29] <exec> 08└─For now. Part of the new trade deal is Canada moving to life+70 years copyright.
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[06:22:13] <exec> 08└─Are you claiming Trump is somehow different from Obama?
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[06:22:15] <exec> 08└─It's all fun and games until the Red Army starts liberating your concentration camps.
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[06:22:17] <exec> 08└─In many, many ways. In some, not. What a silly post.
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[06:22:19] <exec> 08└─Should be fine as long you remember to also abolish private accumulation in your config. It's tricky to leave one of those enabled without the others.
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[06:22:21] <exec> 08└─The Red Army almost broke the ability and will of its own soldiers to fight. That's why the commanders led their grunts from the rear with rifles aimed at their backs. For encouragement.
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[06:22:24] <exec> 08└─I think we need a new tag for posts such as my parent post. It's not just sarcasm, it's meant to elicit radically different interpretations based on the temperament of the reader. How about /rorschach ?
[06:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:26] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with Nazis that makes war so appealing to them?
[06:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:28] <exec> 08└─Good point. Obama didn't need to scotch tape his ties.
[06:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:30] <exec> 08└─I’m betting on the drone, of course, it has to be two out of three matches, otherwise the movie is too short. In the first two matches the drone really gets it but in the third round with only one wing and half a propeller the drone gets the pilot right between the eyes! You heard here first.
[06:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:58] <exec> 08└─Mathematically speaking, you need 3N+1 independent processors to ensure fault tolerance of N simultaneous faults. The Shuttle had five independent systems, so that one could fail, and then they could stop the failed processor and still have a safe system. This didn't allow for two simultaneous failu...
[06:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:45] <exec> 08└─Looks like I'll be going on a 4x10 schedule this summer as well. I must admit to liking that better than 5x8.
[06:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:27] <exec> 08└─Simcopter was cool too. You could fly armed choppers around cities and pick off protesters.
[06:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:52] <exec> 08└─"left/right"... so tribal! Not very "Bot" like.. So tell me, how you distinguish a "left" wing dictatorship from a "right" wing dictatorship?
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[07:23:35] <exec> 08└─TEAM, there is definitely an 'i' in it. Its in the a-hole. Although, that joke works better on a more monospaced and horizontally-compressed font, like fixedsys or terminus.
[07:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:17] <exec> 08└─I still think it beats hiding behind a sixteen year old autistic girl.
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[08:22:21] <exec> 08└─For some real fun, look up the U.S. "bat bombs" from WW2.
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[09:22:00] <exec> 08└─the bigger problem is dumping garbage in the ocean.
[09:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:57] <exec> 08└─The point is embedded Linux has not only been a thing, but a rock solid thing, for a good 15-20 years now.
[09:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mothers Ensure Their Offspring's Success Through Epigenetics - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:43] <exec> 08└─This entire encoding system is just another way of "the apple doesn't fall far from a tree". It's encoding how the mother is surviving as the best starting point on how to survive. After all, they successfully made another generation? No? It's not smart or anything. It's just a record and replay sys...
[09:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:04] <exec> 08└─and to correctly extrapolate
[09:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:06] <exec> 08└─then services like Twitter would become heavily regulated and/or state controlled - not good for profits or fun to work for.
[09:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:08] <exec> 08└─So if Minitrue decides to hand you over to Room 101 because it deems your speech "misinformation", you'll be ok with that, right? True freedom of speech doesn't make those judgment calls.
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[10:22:25] <exec> 08└─But in a fair fight, the drone should easily beat the human pilot. Even more so if you built fighters from the ground up to be unmanned, with higher maximum G, high negative G capability, no need for pilot life support, armor, ejection, controls, or vision. The value of human pilots at this point is...
[10:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:27] <exec> 08└─Perception. They thought it was going to be easy and bit off way more than they could chew.
[10:22:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:49] <exec> 08└─If you had told me 20 years ago that there was going to be mission-critical JavaScript, I'd not have believed you; but here we are. OK, so the UI is backed up by physical buttons; but still--a screwed up UI on the screen could definitely be a big distraction to the astronauts, so in my book that's m...
[10:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:44] <exec> 08└─Is it even possible to work in the MIC industry?
[10:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:01] <exec> 08└─Amateurs. I calculated the Earth's rotation at one revolution per day years ago! Still waiting on that Nobel Prize though.
[10:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:08] <exec> 08└─The point was that fascist has lost any meaning it once had. It is now just a political insult. You can call any politician you don't like a fascist. It means about as much as calling them an asshole.
[10:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:10] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for you to explain away Kathy Griffin holding Trump's bloody head as somehow not inciting violence. But it must be hard for you to get enough oxygen to the brain with Joe Biden's cock so firmly down your throat. I mean, hey, if a crass metaphor is the level you want to converse at,...
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[11:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anesthesia's Effect on Consciousness Solved, Settling Century-old Scientific Debate - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:47] <exec> 08└─Now that a mechanism is known, the real work begins. Seems more like a foot in the door, hardly "solved". But this could be good news long term, perhaps this will lead to better anesthesia. Many of the heart surgery patients I've talked with say that they didn't feel right after that long time bein...
[11:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:31] <exec> 08└─it's obviously a troll, meant to associate the expression "blacklivesmatter" with the ridiculous, so that it loses its current meaning. why do you say it can be interpreted in any other way?
[11:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:32] <exec> 08└─The value of human pilots at this point is simply that humans can't be hacked.
[11:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:35] <exec> 08└─Movement to defund police gains 'unprecedented' support across US [theguardian.com] Police abolition ‘looks like Palo Alto,’ says professor Hakeem Jefferson at race, criminal justice panel [stanforddaily.com] Let's Abolish the Police Force [lifehacker.com] Why 'defund the police' has become the...
[11:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:05] <exec> 08└─> How did they convince anyone to fly in something controlled by Poettering's abomination? Linux != PotteringOS (at least not yet, despite their best efforts). There are loads of Linux distributions that are SystemD free (I use Devuan at home and on production machines with no problem for years now)...
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[11:23:54] <exec> 08└─Amazon?
[11:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:56] <exec> 08└─If you have 1 employer who wants to pay you as a 1099 contractor, especially if that employer is putting all the same demands on you that they would an employee like setting your hours and controlling exactly how you do your job, then odds are pretty good you are being misclassified [dol.gov], which...
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[11:31:13] <exec> 08└─> Actually both left and right have non-authoritarian groups, it is just that the authoritarians usually win. Yes, which makes the modern left/right definitions not really useful. The "left"/"right" paradigm came from the time of the French revolution, where those who sided for individual liberty sa...
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[12:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:51] <exec> 08└─We conquered COVID-19 with face masks and hydroxyquinone in less than three months, so it shouldn't take more than a couple of weeks to cure Ebola when it gets here. I hear it's no worse than the common cold.
[12:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anesthesia's Effect on Consciousness Solved, Settling Century-old Scientific Debate - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:59] <exec> 08└─That may be true for Democrats, but I don't view consciousness as a disorder.
[12:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Virus Face Masks Plague Hong Kong's Beaches - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:15] <exec> 08└─There's a bigger problem plaguing Hong Kong right now. https://www.reuters.com [reuters.com] https://www.bloomberg.com
[12:25:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:39] <exec> 08└─Amazon are shits and scammers - from experience, I don't trust anything from them. Let them into the kernel and I expect that they would in time turn your PC into an Amazon shopping appliance.
[12:25:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 1048 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:59] <exec> 08└─Amazon is a huge company, and this patch isn't some kind of nefarious action. What it does show is myopia: the patch is something that's good for their very limited use-case with cloud servers, but which would be terrible or dangerous in many other scenarios (like desktop, mobile, etc.). Luckily, th...
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[12:26:05] <exec> 08└─No, Itanium was an IP power grab on Intel's part. The licencing was such that Intel would own the IP of all compilers and their code for Itanium systems. Jumping architectures was a roadblock, but it was really the IP issues that spelled Itanium's doom when AMD offered an alternative with the x86-AM...
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[12:30:34] <exec> 08└─As for the over-the top stuff like your link - did anything in my post make you think I was only talking about Trump and his cronies as politicians not worthy of respect?
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[13:21:56] <exec> 08└─Forever!! (Unless you are protesting in which case you are immune)
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[13:21:57] <exec> 08└─Democratic Republic of the Congo, in case anyone else was wondering.
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[13:21:59] <exec> 08└─I heartily endorse this plan. Especially for those who used to fish in my favorite spots or wouldn't give me permission to fish on their property.
[13:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anesthesia's Effect on Consciousness Solved, Settling Century-old Scientific Debate - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:09] <exec> 08└─Sleep, consciousness, all those related disorders
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[13:22:17] <exec> 08└─I don't believe it.
[13:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking the Mold: an Unusual Choice of Material Yields Incredibly Long-lasting Batteries - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:19] <exec> 08└─Next you'll be telling us you don't believe the previous 500 battery breakthrough stories.
[13:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking the Mold: an Unusual Choice of Material Yields Incredibly Long-lasting Batteries - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:21] <exec> 08└─What kind of performance can we expect? Energy density, etc. Oh wait. It’s phys.org. Nevermind.
[13:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking the Mold: an Unusual Choice of Material Yields Incredibly Long-lasting Batteries - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:23] <exec> 08└─99% of Phys.org is reprints of university research press releases, which can be good or bad. Take it up with Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology.
[13:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Breaking the Mold: an Unusual Choice of Material Yields Incredibly Long-lasting Batteries - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:25] <exec> 08└─and my batteries now last double infinity.
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[13:22:36] <exec> 08└─Very few people around here are wearing facemasks, but they're already a part of the usual litter - along with drink cans and cups, food wrappers, etc. Seems like with all the newly unemployed, instead of paying people to sit on their asses and watch Netflix, we might pay a few to "socially distantl...
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Virus Face Masks Plague Hong Kong's Beaches - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:38] <exec> 08└─I was hoping for a phys.org sidebar discussing the efficacy of surgical masks soaked with seawater.
[13:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:11] <exec> 08└─You are exactly right. Higher G force tolerance allows higher turning rates, and with the right camera placement, the field of view can be completely unobstructed.
[13:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:33] <exec> 08└─Your !Kung link shows that hunters and gatherers don't have it so bad compared to us, except for periods of famine, possibly resulting in death. They don't have it so bad as us except for famine and death? I would say one of the MAIN drivers for adopting agriculture is because it RELIABLY supports a...
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[13:24:34] <exec> 08└─You’re right, there is far to much of that, especially in tech when you stick an MBA type in a leadership position. On the other hand, there are managers who actually are technically competent, but have to spend a lot of effort getting some individual contributors to stop chasing squirrels, and st...
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[13:26:00] <exec> 08└─- we idone testing, all OK. that thing can instakill two equipped infantry guys with one strike - we cannot advertise that, robocalypse, our plans, remember? - how about smashing through a car engine - no, many car lovers around .... etc .... etc
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[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─the 3rd arm might lull someone into working solo when there really should be backup.
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[13:26:03] <exec> 08└─It will need to be dressed in something a lot more attractive before that idea takes off.
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[14:21:57] <exec> 08└─See Kahneman and Tversky.
[14:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:59] <exec> 08└─I'll look them up tomorrow.
[14:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:09] <exec> 08└─Then should be impossible to transfer Ebola. 3rd world countries just lack the resources to get protective equipment.
[14:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:11] <exec> 08└─11th largest country in world and ex-belgian colony. As opposed to much smaller but confusingly named Republic of the Congo an ex-french colony.
[14:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:13] <exec> 08└─Deadly DRC protests target UN as Ebola workers pulled out [aljazeera.com] Ebola responders in Beni DRC are on lockdown amidst gunfire, riots & civil strife, but still trying to protect people at risk of contracting the virus. Teams are arranging contact follow-up by phone and remotely guiding commun...
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[14:22:15] <exec> 08└─Would you mind taking some bat guano samples while you're in there?
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[14:22:36] <exec> 08└─Increased energy capacity = killer robots = tyranny Infinite capacity = Hell Double infinite capacity = Super Hell
[14:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking the Mold: an Unusual Choice of Material Yields Incredibly Long-lasting Batteries - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:38] <exec> 08└─Well, sorry, but I expect more from a site that calls itself phys.org. I mean, they are the ones deciding which press releases to report on on their site, and presumably also writing the copy that passes for science journalism. They have put themselves in the position of PR mouthpiece for science, a...
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Virus Face Masks Plague Hong Kong's Beaches - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:50] <exec> 08└─I was expecting fleas in the masks to be spreading Bubonic plague, something about the beach environment making the masks conducive to hosting fleas.
[14:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:55] <exec> 08└─This is nothing new and used on commercial airliners for many many years.
[14:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:56] <exec> 08└─What puzzled me is that they have all these redundant x86's, but there's no mention of the power chips being redundant. So the judge is a failure point. What the space shuttle did was vote by force. Each analog system had three motors driving it, and three sensors for feedback, one set connected to...
[14:24:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03slap [5764] 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:39] <exec> 08└─[quote]There is no I in "team".[/quote] But there are three U's in "Shut The Fuck Up".
[14:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:51] <exec> 08└─No, that's the historically accurate reasoning. He's not advocating for killing the remaining hunter-gatherers and taking their land,.
[14:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:52] <exec> 08└─No. Not enough disasters. The Linux desktop will be running on top of Windows 10.
[14:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:35] <exec> 08└─Alcohol and fermentation are some of those things that are found across all cultures because they happen by accident quite easily. All of the yeasts required to make alcohol generally live on the fruit/grain already, so if you forget about a container full of something, a couple months later you've...
[14:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:17] <exec> 08└─Marxist/Communist philosphy is fundamentally flawed and will always devolve into authoritarianism if followed strictly, but many of the concepts have value. The "real communism" that people think of when they say X communist country isn't /real/ communism, is actually anarchy.
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[15:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:49] <exec> 08└─Hard work and determination pay off over time. Procrastination pays off RIGHT NOW.
[15:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:50] <exec> 08└─Procrastination pays off RIGHT NOW.
[15:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:52] <exec> 08└─Ah my old friend procrastination. "procrastination is the thief of time" is as true today as when it was written to paper. Once you realize you are out of time it is too late. "get it over with" is the wrong attitude. The attitude you want is 'just a little to start a lot'. Eventually you have built...
[15:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:55] <exec> 08└─I'm too lazy to procrastinate rn.
[15:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:09] <exec> 08└─We should open up a wet market in there while we're at it.
[15:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:16] <exec> 08└─They could name them after Trump. Imagine being attacked by a "Donald" duck.
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[16:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:48] <exec> 08└─Poettering reads this article and decides to implement printf() in SystemD.
[16:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:49] <exec> 08└─These guys would have a field day with APL. Back then, there used to be all sorts of one-line code porn, like this one line of APL code that could draw an elephant.
[16:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:03] <exec> 08└─Sometimes procrastination pays off much later too. Years (decades) ago there was a software co where the owner would bring change requests /bug fixes printed on paper for the old products, that were legacy even then, they would be handed to the relevant devs to action. One guy would assess them and...
[16:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:20] <exec> 08└─They also have customs - like sticking their fingers in dead people's rectums - that help spread Ebola. I kid you not.
[16:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anesthesia's Effect on Consciousness Solved, Settling Century-old Scientific Debate - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:30] <exec> 08└─Hopefully waking up from coma is one of the outcomes of this research. Pity they snuffed out some candidates already. Because somehow a flatlining brain activity means suffering...
[16:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:03] <exec> 08└─Well, its most likely using a quorum model, which is how (from what I remember) the Airbus systems work. The three machines will loop, running the same command, in order to reach the same result (a quorum of 3). Each time they cannot agree on the result, the machine that loses the vote is logged. If...
[16:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:59] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand the original post and my reply.
[16:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:25] <exec> 08└─One of the problems is that the left/right scale is too simplistic. The political compass for example adds the non-authoritarian/authoritarian scale to the mix. Last US election for example, https://www.politicalcompass.org [politicalcompass.org] shows Hillary slightly to the right of...
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[17:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:53] <exec> 08└─With properly initialized variables, I can reduce the contents of my entire hard drive or even the whole internet to the same line of code. This is going to be a huge breakthrough for data compression.
[17:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:55] <exec> 08└─So, not really.
[17:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:57] <exec> 08└─As much as I like this, and I always enjoy this kind of things, I can't help but at the same time think -- so what? It's not in a single Printf, it's in a single call of printf to activate it all. There is a fair amount of defines and setup that just gets called once then to get the ball rolling. I...
[17:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:59] <exec> 08└─In konsole, in bash. The game works. Scrolling up when done, there were screens-full of garbage.
[17:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:12] <exec> 08└─1+1 = 2 0+0 = 0 Two small things make a bigger thing. Lots of 0 things make nothing.
[17:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:14] <exec> 08└─I knew someone would post this, so i didnt bother.
[17:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:32] <exec> 08└─I knew there was a reason Dean Martin wouldn't drink from the same glass as Sammy Davis Jr.
[17:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:33] <exec> 08└─Now that I'm not eating lunch today, I'll have some extra free time. Thanks.
[17:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into the Early Peopling of the Caribbean - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─You people peopling places people previously peopled are a pain in the poophole.
[17:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:19] <exec> 08└─thanks for the info. very interesting.
[17:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:16] <exec> 08└─Racist! Black collars matter too!
[17:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:18] <exec> 08└─Going back to an 8hr slog. Its all good though. I was working from home pulling 10+ hour days daily.
[17:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:20] <exec> 08└─I know but I am not going to go through all the trouble of suing them. Easier to just find another job.
[17:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─That is so racist. Clockmed probably has built his first nuclear reactor by now and most likely has jobs lined up across the board from companies begging to hire him. That lawsuit brought by his family has nothing to do with money. Anyone who thinks otherwise is antiislamic nonhalal double plus ungo...
[17:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─After rounds of race training cops will now shoot anyone regardless of skin color
[17:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─Depends on what she weighs really
[17:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 2709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:42] <exec> 08└─Under the table dealing? I'm not sure what you're talking about; Itanic was a joint venture between HP and Intel. At the time, HP had acquired the Alpha through their acquisition of DEC (or what was left of it), and of course they already had their own 64-bit RISC stuff (PA-RISC). I don't see why th...
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[18:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:59] <exec> 08└─From the source [github.com]: char d[538] = {1,0,10,0,10}; int main() { while(*d) printf(fmt, arg); }
[18:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:00] <exec> 08└─He doesn't explain move-evaluation as far as I can tell.
[18:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:02] <exec> 08└─Yes. I did read that to. But considering that he explained a lot of other things he did one could perhaps expect or wonder how he evaluated moves in the game. Considering that is a fairly important aspect of tic-tac-toe.
[18:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03laserfusion [1450] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:17] <exec> 08└─I agree, and have also noticed that when developing software, the number of features can be doubled just by going from 100% to 110% of the work. Also progress can often be invisible until the work is 98% complete.
[18:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:37] <exec> 08└─Indeed, now that we made panic over nothing, we can ignore some serious pathogens and all boys will keep crying wolf. Or Ebola symptoms will be added to possible COVID19 symptoms and there will be no Ebola outbreak. Remember to scream fire in theatres while we're at it.
[18:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:38] <exec> 08└─They just need more facemasksTESTING!
[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking the Mold: an Unusual Choice of Material Yields Incredibly Long-lasting Batteries - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:03] <exec> 08└─When are we going to have batteries with enough energy density to power a handheld phaser? I wonder if anyone's ever done a rough analysis to try to estimate the energy capacity of a phaser battery, given the observed effects of a phaser set on overload.
[18:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:51] <exec> 08└─more like #notabug, #wontfix
[18:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:53] <exec> 08└─This is the International Jew version of events. You know, the people who wrote/approved your school books and decide what you see on TV? Remember kids, Kevin James and the Jews who control hollywood say you're a literal "Nazi" (Jew slur for NSDAP meaning "bumkin, yokel, hillbilly etc. https://www.w...
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─i wonder what their perspective on Rust is, at the very least for their software, if not the OS/kernel. it would be nice if a company like spaceX got big on rust and contributed Crates.
[18:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:29] <exec> 08└─You know that song 9to5? It's called that because your lunch break used to count towards the 8 hour day.
[18:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:31] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough I've actually found alcohol makes me a lot more productive at some intellectual tasks. First discovered it near the end of my college career, when I realized I could do high-level math homework far faster and more accurately after a drink or two (sure wish I had made that discovery year...
[18:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:33] <exec> 08└─I've found that some of my most productive days are when I am very tired. I think it numbs me to peripheral distractions so I can completely focus on the task at hand.
[18:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:35] <exec> 08└─I know but I am not going to go through all the trouble of suing them.
[18:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:06] <exec> 08└─If you punch through the door you don't need to open it anymore.
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[19:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:51] <exec> 08└─Surely you don't mind cancelling Netflix or Prime or whatever and switching to HBO Max.
[19:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:53] <exec> 08└─This is why the producers of a product shouldn't own the means of delivery. This is yet another great example of why municipal ISPs should be the norm instead of outlawed. Long ago I used to think internet connections were not essential and certainly not in the same class as water or power as a util...
[19:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:09] <exec> 08└─I only see 1 printf. If while executes printf more than once, then while was passed bad parameters, the error likely due to a spectre or meltown vulnerability. :)
[19:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:11] <exec> 08└─Poettering reads this article and decides to implement printf() in SystemD. decries "Hey, someone pirated my systemd code!"
[19:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:13] <exec> 08└─What do you mean? *d is initially 1, so the while loop would be infinite unless there is an assignment of 0 to d[0] at some point, which is probably this obfuscated vm's version of exit().
[19:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:41] <exec> 08└─You are definitely not alone [observer.com].
[19:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:03] <exec> 08└─Hanlon's razor has a tendency to come down to a judgement call, but to me it looks an awful lot like chinese walls to obscure a simple pay the competition to leave the market play, which would surely have triggered anti-trust investigations without the indirection. Of course, when Itanic sank, any s...
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[20:21:55] <exec> 08└─Who watches movies on their cellphone? Cellphones have one purpose: recording police beating up African-Americans.
[20:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:57] <exec> 08└─I'd rather cancel AT&T... oh wait...then I won't have internet. Now what? Where is the demand for an open market?
[20:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:59] <exec> 08└─Don't you read the news? Racism got cured last week by protests, shortly after the protesters found the cure for COVID-19.
[20:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:01] <exec> 08└─Haven't you noticed? People absolutely love monopolies. AT&T did its best work when AT&T was the monopoly phone company, and you and I and SoylentNews are all using Unix-likes right now. We all benefited greatly from the AT&T monopoly. And just look at what happened after Ma Bell was outlawed. The r...
[20:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:03] <exec> 08└─I watch movies by tethering a 49 inch TV to a cell phone.
[20:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:06] <exec> 08└─Good news, comrade. SoylentNews is starting SoylentGulch, a Libertarian commune for all your open market needs.
[20:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:08] <exec> 08└─The government is too busy going after the good guys (Amazon and Google). What the bad guys are doing (ISPs and cable companies) is exactly the intended effect. They want to turn search and online product purchasing into the same dystopia that they turned cable and medicine/pharmaceutics, IP, casino...
[20:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:10] <exec> 08└─Facebook and Twitter are not the bad guys here. There is plenty of competition and potential for more competition. The bad guys here are the ISPs, the cable providers, the sports leagues, and companies that keep lobbying to expand and extend IP laws. Lets not distract ourselves from the true bad guy...
[20:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:12] <exec> 08└─I built a wall of cellphones. I call it the 4k glory-wall!
[20:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:14] <exec> 08└─I don't mind cancelling all 3 of them, but stop calling me Shirley!
[20:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:17] <exec> 08└─You forget the United States government has a monopoly on what should be your money. Why do you accept payment in US dollars when you should be using Galt dollars instead? Why do accept taxation when you should be persuaded voluntarily to donate as much of as little of your Galt dollars as you want...
[20:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:19] <exec> 08└─the good guys (Amazon and Google)
[20:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:21] <exec> 08└─ISPs have competition too. Pull your head out of your ass. Oh no! you exclaim. ONLY FIBER INTERNET IS TRUE INTERNET. Well I say fuck you. I'm using LTE right now and it gets me on the fucking internet so I can say Fuck You Asshole and that's good enough for me. I'm sick and tired of you fiber intern...
[20:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:23] <exec> 08└─Looters found the cure for brick and mortar stores: smash and grab. Looters win!
[20:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:25] <exec> 08└─So you're what happens when a nigger goes and gets a few dozen obamaphones and puts them all on the wall of his baby mommas house.
[20:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:44] <exec> 08└─A fair point. I focused on the "obfuscated" part. :)
[20:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─How the hell did I ever get round to writing this response?
[20:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:03] <exec> 08└─The start small with something ridiculously easy sounds a lot like Kaizen.
[20:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:36] <exec> 08└─This is the International Jew version of events.
[20:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:40] <exec> 08└─I mean it, I'm not even drunk.
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[21:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:51] <exec> 08└─I want PhotoRoom edit all my photos to unperson my former friends when they fall out of favor with me.
[21:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:52] <exec> 08└─Of course you do Mr Stalin.
[21:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:54] <exec> 08└─BLM activists will remove background items for free.
[21:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:57] <exec> 08└─Bitch Lives Matter. My frenemy took a selfie in front of her shoe closet and I'm envious of all her shoes in the background and I want her shoes.
[21:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:21] <exec> 08└─OK Surly.
[21:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Disagree) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, the stupid prize. Lori Lightfoot is pleading with companies not to leave Chicago while refusing to enforce the rule of law and condemning vigilantes. Companies will be shuttering because it will not be possible to get insurance and that's what the looters and idiot politicians have won for them...
[21:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:24] <exec> 08└─I thought all the 'cool' projects migrated to gitlab as soon as M$ bought the 'hub.
[21:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─Neighborhood stores are open and doing business just fine. Small franchise stores are open and doing business just fine. Ethnic supermarkets are busier than ever, fully stocked, and untouched by looters. Chicagoan here. We don't need your corporate chain stores and we don't need your billionaire own...
[21:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:29] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews is still on Microsoft GitHub because it isn't hip enough, and no surprise since Soylentils are all Boomers who have fond memories of Mr Gates open letter to hobbyists.
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:48] <exec> 08└─I was joking. Can you see the :) smiley? Maybe you're not aware of smileys?
[21:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:42] <exec> 08└─Jew slur for NSDAP meaning "bumkin, yokel, hillbilly etc.
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[22:22:00] <exec> 08└─Why would I want to pay you $46.99 to remove my backgrounds? The backgrounds show where I've been, the stores I've looted and the cops who tasered me. If I didn't want backgrounds in my photos, I would just ask for a copy of my mug shots.
[22:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:29] <exec> 08└─Why you complaining about Microsoft? They make Linux.
[22:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:51] <exec> 08└─Though, I admit to it being a bit cheap :D. And, it's definitely more conveniently done with fputs, so you don't have to redirect stdout. Just puts() the source code of whatever tic-tac-toe program you like to an appropriately named file, use an exec call to run cc to compile it, then another exec c...
[22:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:10] <exec> 08└─So quit working and sink all your cash into lottery tickets. Just think of the reward.
[22:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:11] <exec> 08└─"Hard work and determination may pay off over time." TFTFY
[22:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:13] <exec> 08└─This isn't new science, but the evolutionary benefit of procrastination is the possibility that a new opportunity comes up or you obtain new information that allows you to take a superior path. Simple example, you want to buy a foo, but you don't need it right this moment. It is usually better to de...
[22:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:34] <exec> 08└─When did Jenny McCarthy move there?
[22:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:48] <exec> 08└─Will that get a "we'll fix it next time," or a "bad luck...surely it won't happen again?"
[22:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:29] <exec> 08└─Cool! Thanks for the info.
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[23:21:55] <exec> 08└─Boomers forced everyone to stay home at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space. Boomers forced every business to close at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space. Boomers forced everyone to wear face masks at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space. Boomers caused the worst economic depression in history...
[23:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:06] <exec> 08└─Now you don't even have to be somewhere interesting to produce one of those awful selfies: just shoot a photo of your mush in the john, then replace the background with a photo of some Carribean island beach to impress your friends...
[23:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:08] <exec> 08└─Death to anyone who uses shit words like that.
[23:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:10] <exec> 08└─Boomers forced everyone to stay home at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space. Boomers forced every business to close at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space. Boomers forced everyone to wear face masks at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space. Boomers caused the worst economic depression in history...
[23:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:12] <exec> 08└─Not to mention charges a subscription for that automagic. It's worrisome how many people accept the notion of having to continually pay whether or not they want the new features. Sometimes the old version works just fine and doesn't need to be updated with things that big down the software or break...
[23:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:14] <exec> 08└─Millennials are accustomed to never owning anything, getting shit pay for gig work, earning less than their Boomer parents, never getting a pension, and never having a chance to retire. So you see, as always, the problem is Boomers.
[23:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:44] <exec> 08└─Neighborhood stores are open and doing business just fine.
[23:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:06] <exec> 08└─printfctl --turn=x --tictactoe=TOP-LEFT | systemctl reload tictactoed | journalctl -u tictactoed.service && systemctl --minesweeper=fair restart networking
[23:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:29] <exec> 08└─That can work against you as well. You may *need* foo. But are so willing to wait for deal you miss opportunities. Trust me procrastination is my friend I know his lies well.
[23:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:30] <exec> 08└─Procrastination is about control. The only absolute certain action you can always take is none. There can be horrific consequences, but nobody can force you to do anything of you won't cooperate. The better you are at managing stress, the less procrastination.
[23:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tedd [1691] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anesthesia's Effect on Consciousness Solved, Settling Century-old Scientific Debate - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:03] <exec> 08└─You and everyone like you, wherever they fall on the so-called political spectrum are the reason why the US is burning.
[23:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking the Mold: an Unusual Choice of Material Yields Incredibly Long-lasting Batteries - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:19] <exec> 08└─A handheld pulsed phaser?
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