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[00:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:19] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't acronyms. It's deciding that you don't need to explain your acronyms. Most of the problem would go away, if they just explained the acronym, or even put in a glossary. Acronyms are a standard and well understood way to enhance language. In particular, there's no way that thousands...
[00:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:20] <exec> 08└─Do scientific journals still have a 10 page limit?
[00:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:22] <exec> 08└─The problem is especially bad if the words are constructed to follow some naming pattern that is unambiguous and supposedly self describing, as is common in chemistry.
[00:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:24] <exec> 08└─Are scientific papers meant to communicate to a lay audience, or to other scientists?
[00:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:27] <exec> 08└─We all need to join the AAAAA: Anatolian Association Against the Abuse of Acronyms. [BTW, "WTF" = "Winning Theories Forward"? ]
[00:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:29] <exec> 08└─True. One problem might be tho that the acronym just gets explained the first time it's used and if the paper is really long you might have missed it if you just skim it.
[00:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:31] <exec> 08└─If only the science publishing would adopt a coding standard and the scientists use an IDE with comprehensive autocompletion/variable renaming features. (grin)
[00:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:33] <exec> 08└─why should medicine or any other field of science?
[00:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:35] <exec> 08└─Bureau of Land Management (since 1946)
[00:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:37] <exec> 08└─Most of the problem would go away, if they just explained the acronym, or even put in a glossary.
[00:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:40] <exec> 08└─The Boston Lunatic Museum begs to differ.
[00:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:42] <exec> 08└─Teaching at a college level, introducing some TLA's, and put out the clue that TLA is itself a TLA. Military personnel in the class immediately responded that TLA stood for "Travel Lodging Allowance". Hmm, well, maybe. In the context, however, TLA is a Three Letter Acronym.
[00:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:44] <exec> 08└─Simple: if you really want to understand the paper, you go back and search for it. If you don't want to understand it, why are you wasting your time reading a "really long" FA in the first place, you could stop at the abstract.
[00:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung "X-Cube" Stacks SRAM Dies on Top of Logic Die - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:54] <exec> 08└─It's difficult to say. We should know more about how it works after their Hot Chips presentation next week. This isn't the only way SRAM could be stacked. Instead of smothering the whole CPU with it, maybe the SRAM portion of the die could be layered up, and the base of it would still be adjacent to...
[00:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:34] <exec> 08└─the Oregon coast isn't exactly a gentle place, especially in the winter. So to dig an angled bore out to where it emerges a couple hundred feet below mean sea level seems reasonable. if the existing, failed bore isn't leaking, then they should just cap it. When the big Cascadia subduction zone quake...
[00:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:36] <exec> 08└─Well if they're going to convince anyone, they need to design a better web-site.
[00:25:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:10] <exec> 08└─No company or corporation has the right to silence dissenting voices.
[00:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/user/CNN [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com
[00:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:48] <exec> 08└─The problem is how do you prove someone is "paid by a foreign national /government"?
[00:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:50] <exec> 08└─You don't have the right to use somebody else's PA system to give your speech without their permission.
[00:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:52] <exec> 08└─You make it sound so easy to take your views someplace else.
[00:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:54] <exec> 08└─The same day this happened, you could not find any videos published by Tulsi Gabbard on YouTube, unless you searched from a non-USA IP address. This is shadow banning and election meddling, and I don't believe for one minute that the multiple times they suspended her adwords account for suspicious s...
[00:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:26] <exec> 08└─Except, according to Epic's lawsuit against Google, when Epic attempted to make deals with OEMs to make the game more widely available to end-users without using the Play store, Google actively put pressure on OEMs to prevent it. This is similar to Intel's actions against other CPU makers that also...
[00:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:34] <exec> 08└─"They" have been consistent? Fucking millenial transvestites... you don't realize that misusing pronouns only makes y'all sound more ridiculous than you look with your pink hair.
[00:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:36] <exec> 08└─I thought excess estrogen gets converted into testosterone? (and excess testosterone gets converted into estrogen?)
[00:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:38] <exec> 08└─You can cut the tubes instead of removing the organs. It's just as effective as neutering/spaying and doesn't have hormonal side effects.
[00:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:54] <exec> 08└─It's basically noise cancellation. Similar to noise cancellation headphones. You just insert 'counter-noise' that equally cancels out the original noise with destructive interference.
[00:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:13] <exec> 08└─Steelydan https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:32] <exec> 08└─I love how everybody pretends that Soylent News isn't social media...
[00:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:55] <exec> 08└─Has become the British Legal System that tens of thousands of colonists fought to overthrow and replace? America is more and more looking like exactly the country/countries we threw out almost 250 years ago. One might consider asking if it is time the collective plebs do the same, without this time...
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[01:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:55] <exec> 08└─I say we report them to the AAAAA. American Association Against Acronym Abuse.
[01:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:57] <exec> 08└─That might not actually be a bad idea.
[01:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:59] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck modded this "flamebait" ? Some autistic nerd who's never leaved his mother's basement and who doesn't know what BLM lands are ? To the downmodder: You want to mod a post flamebait, fucktard ? Mod this one. At least it fits the criteria of "flamebait".
[01:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:01] <exec> 08└─Yes. Kontext is King. I remember a classmate asking in an upper year physics course whether the "e" in the professor's blackboard equation was the charge on an electron or the mathematical constant. The professors went ballistic, and rightfully so.
[01:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:04] <exec> 08└─IDE once stood for a disk drive technology, now known by the retronym PATA.
[01:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:06] <exec> 08└─It's like scientists give something a clumsy & bulky name just to create some unique acronym. And sometimes I wonder what comes first, the acronym or the name. The dumbest name given to a spacecraft has got to be the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explor...
[01:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:10] <exec> 08└─Youtube opened its gates wide in the early days to gain usershare. 2006 "Come, come to YouTube. We welcome all. Copyrights and standards are for old people. No, pay no attention to our competitors. Come, come to YouTube" 2013 "Ok guys, we're implementing automated DMCA requests now. I'm sure you und...
[01:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:45] <exec> 08└─At what point will Apple and Google be considered a duopoly that is abusing their position in the marketplace?
[01:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:14] <exec> 08└─WTF are you even going on about? The Supreme Court upheld a decision that California must reduce it's prison population. Harris displayed her contempt of court, along with the governor, resisting every order from the courts, for years. She wasn't freeing no niggers, not while there was still money t...
[01:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:04] <exec> 08└─We makes decisions based on emotion. We'll never be pure logic Vulcans. If you look at people who have had their emotional centers damaged in brain accidents, they can't come to decisions. They'll stand at the dentist and spend the entire day trying to calculate the best time to make the next appoin...
[01:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 5341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:05] <exec> 08└─Thanks for reading, conversations are so much more rewarding when people read the opposing argument! I honestly wasn't expecting you too, I just wanted to make clear that there are arguments for "humans are special". To complete the explanation as quickly as I can, Turing-completeness is a feature o...
[01:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:07] <exec> 08└─You get them in Lisp, but that introduces a bunch of other problems.
[01:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:00] <exec> 08└─That wasn't one of the studies I was referring to. You are also completely forgetting about things like EDNs, DVT, pregnancy, anaphylaxis, endometriosis, advanced hypothyroidism, certain thrombophilias, certain hepatic diseases, and more.
[01:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:01] <exec> 08└─Not at very high levels of estrogen. I have no detectable testosterone and estrogen levels at least twice the peak of a 20-25 year old woman. Anything less and I end up with serious back and neck pain (fractures of the c5 and t6 vertebrae that were missed on x-rays until last year, causing lots of p...
[01:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:37] <exec> 08└─their daily bread
[01:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:57] <exec> 08└─Not using Facebook does ot solve the problem.
[01:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:58] <exec> 08└─LOL, went to see what that was about and they claim to "evaluate your browser's compatibility with the WebChoices tool and verifying its opt-out status." Your browser appears to be blocking third-party cookies. Some of your choices may be blocked by this setting. Please either adjust your browser's...
[01:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:00] <exec> 08└─The closest thing to social media on SoylentNews is the journal. It's a minor part of the site, and it's not really a feed that notifies you of friends' posts. SoylentNews also doesn't support uploading your photos, videos, or podcasts. SoylentNews is also not exactly a free-for-all either. It is cl...
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[02:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:51] <exec> 08└─Humans don't like to lie down with rocks sticking in their back, even 200 ka ago.
[02:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─Note they also discovered that ashes deter insects. Use them in making your bed tonight.
[02:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─Many animals, including our Great Ape cousins, prefer to sleep with bedding material under and around them. Even our feathered friends spend huge amounts of energy to prepare nests for their young. I often see the evidence of deer preparing cozy bedding spots in my yard. They prefer nice, tall grass...
[02:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:55] <exec> 08└─have found evidence that people have been using grass bedding to create comfortable areas for sleeping and working on at least 200,000 years ago.
[02:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:57] <exec> 08└─They must have invented the couch, and the downstairs, about the same time, right?
[02:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:59] <exec> 08└─Some of those nasty little Economy Motels were probably built right around that time. Super8 are only slightly newer, I think.
[02:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:29] <exec> 08└─Cut them some slack, will ya? They've been trying hard to quit. They show up to regular AAA meetings. That's Acronym Abusers Anonymous.
[02:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:30] <exec> 08└─or we ppl just learned to Google or Wikipedia shit we don't know? the "explain it" idiom only works for lazy/self-important readers nowadays. odds are, what is being read with the Bigly Words is on a device that also has access to so much knowledge and information by only opening a browser thing and...
[02:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:32] <exec> 08└─google "osires-rex"? *face palm*
[02:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:34] <exec> 08└─Nah. After seeing OSIRIS-REx a couple of times, you remember that it's about an asteroid forever.
[02:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:36] <exec> 08└─The Anatolian Association, referenced above, is prior art. The Australian Association Against the Abuse of Anything, is posterior art, as most things Australian. Earliest, however, was the Alexandrian School's "Alexandrian Anti-Acronym Abuse Affiliation" headed by Eratosthenes and Euclid.
[02:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:39] <exec> 08└─Urinalysis Upon Arrival Upper Airway Upper Arm Uric Acid Umbilical Artery Uterine Artery Uterine Activity Universal Anesthesia Unicystic Ameloblastoma Ultrasonic Arteriography Unstable Angina Those are the ones I can think of when put on the spot. There are probably more that I will think of the ins...
[02:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:41] <exec> 08└─United Artists (a movie studio) Universal Adapter man this acronym just keeps going and going
[02:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:43] <exec> 08└─The short, common words are already taken
[02:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:45] <exec> 08└─"My goodness," thought Milo, "everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best."
[02:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:47] <exec> 08└─I remember talking to someone who works at a bird observatory associated with a wetlands area and brought up how the ESA was critical to their work. I asked her what ties her local nonprofit had to Europe, she had no idea what I was talking about, and I asked why the ESA would be concerned about wha...
[02:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:40] <exec> 08└─The primary component of most drilling mud is bentonite clay, the same clay used to make cheap kitty litter.
[02:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:41] <exec> 08└─The most toxic part of kitty litter, are the kitties themselves, with their sharp little teeth and even sharper claws.
[02:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:59] <exec> 08└─At one time, wasn't their tagline "Broadcast yourself"? I don't think they would follow State Department guidelines in 2020. That is a Trump administration division. If Biden wins, then maybe. Currently, they will follow guidelines provided by ownership, within the limits of what influencers on Twit...
[02:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:00] <exec> 08└─Private property open to the public. Like a shopping mall, a restaurant, etc... It's private property. It's open to the public.
[02:26:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:10] <exec> 08└─Apple didn't remove Epic because of their monetization strategy of pushing gambling to children... they removed it because Apple wasn't getting a big enough cut.
[02:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:52] <exec> 08└─Nope. Lower risk for many, zero risk for some. No progesterone, which seems to be the culprit for some HRT regimes, regularly tested blood and urine work, my endocrinologist says it's all fine, liver is doing great, 64-year-old trans women don't need to worry about pregnancy, endometriosis, etc. An...
[02:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:54] <exec> 08└─I could swear "they" as singular was acceptable even hundreds of years ago, something about people wanting to ape Shakespeare that lead to people starting to disapprove? It sounds awkward and I still prefer to use he and she, but eh...maybe it's time? Plenty of languages get along fine with a neuter...
[02:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:56] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, there are 7.5 billion and a bit genders, and most people just cluster really, really strongly onto one end or another of an extremely sharp bimodal distribution. I don't get the whole trans* thing but I don't understand why people have a problem, either. Nature may have "intend...
[02:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:58] <exec> 08└─"They" has been used for 2 centuries to refer to a single individual, not just a plural form. Probably because English lacks gendered plural forms. In English you only have he and she, in French you have single male and single female (il and elle) and plural (ils and elles). And the plural forms can...
[02:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:00] <exec> 08└─Shakespeare was a shit writer. Couldn't even spell his own name consistently, and really needed to tighten up the pace. Same as The Lord of the Rings books are so boring I threw them out after reading half the first book. "They" has always referred to "one or more." We're just not so used to it any...
[02:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:03] <exec> 08└─It's probably not the estrogen as such, but rather the thyroid-estrogen feedback loop encouraging better thyroid function than you could otherwise expect at that age. Increasing one leads to an increase in the other, and good thyroid level prevents both early aging and a host of age-related health i...
[02:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:05] <exec> 08└─And the males can still lick their balls - you don't have to pay big bucks to get them "neuticles - fake balls. And yes, some people do get their neutered male dogs implants.
[02:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:07] <exec> 08└─Your question was "Why would any woman on her (cis or trans) ever stop HRT?" And I answered that by providing some of the contraindications, many of which can be made much worse due to supplemental hormones. I'm glad you don't have to worry about things like pregnancy, endometriosis, and anaphylaxis...
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[02:32:11] <exec> 08└─I don't even have anything to hide, unless incredibly boring half-stream-of-consciousness notes on theology, counter-apologetics, and comparative religion suddenly become wrongthink. That's the irony of it all. People who do have something to hide would probably benefit a lot from my sort of setup b...
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[03:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:22] <exec> 08└─I was trying to limit myself to the medical field, but the acronym is definitely overloaded either way. I would think most two letter combinations are.
[03:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:23] <exec> 08└─Haven't you seen scientific texts? They use the Greek alphabet mixed in along with the Latin one. All that's missing is to add emojis.
[03:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:25] <exec> 08└─The main goal is to separates "us" - scientists in this example - from unwashed masses. Even English itself is guilty. Spelling became so complex because educated wanted to make it harder to join their ranks. Revolutionaries typically get this point clearly. One of the first things Lenin have done w...
[03:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:27] <exec> 08└─And while I sometimes run into papers that don't explain certain acronyms, I find out they're ones an undergrad in the field should understand from early coursework, and not knowing the relevance of that particular acronym is tantamount to not understanding the paper regardless.
[03:23:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:44] <exec> 08└─Edge doesn't sound qualified to be making environmental impact judgements. Here's a clue: if there's a regulation requiring you to account for and recover drilling fluid: it's not harmless.
[03:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 2401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:34] <exec> 08└─As a canine professional with five decades experience... I agree. There's a very simple birth control method that works with all dogs: it's called a leash. The Pollination Fairy does not flit from yard to yard leaving puppies in its wake. Neutering is actually forbidden in some countries (being cons...
[03:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 1804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:35] <exec> 08└─I'll take it. Why so many doctors still believe the discredited WHI study 20 years later is beyond me. Then again , they also believed OxyContin wasn't addictive. And that duodenal ulcers were caused by stress. And that depression was caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, instead of social an...
[03:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:38] <exec> 08└─Actually, no. Nothing to do with load. Has to do with the fact that the long bones' growth plates depend on testosterone to tell them when to close. Without enough testosterone, the long bones just keep on growing for some time after they were intended to stop. The result is that everything is pulle...
[03:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:40] <exec> 08└─You know the s brick. "Trans-for-mers! More than meets they eye!" (Old tv cartoons). Kind of works, when you think about it. Transformers (people who change sex) and Decepticons (drag queens, etc). Never watched the cartoons when I was a kid, but I remember the jingle from the commercials. And than...
[03:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:43] <exec> 08└─Schtick. Stupid autocorrect! Schtick schtick schtick! It's 2020 and we're still smarter than computers. There's hope!
[03:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:45] <exec> 08└─Actually, joint disorders are just as or even more common in smaller dogs, but are less evident because they don't have as much weight on the affected joints. (Frex, Pugs have historically exceeded 70% hip dysplasia, and Beagles around 30%. Meanwhile, Irish Wolfhounds run under 5% dysplastic.) Size...
[03:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:47] <exec> 08└─There's situational depression (such as from losing your job), and there's biochemical depression (usually due to endocrine dysfunction). One is cured by getting another job; the other is cured by fixing your busted hormones. Naturally it is possible for the two to overlap.
[03:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:49] <exec> 08└─A bigger problem is early cancer, along with a bunch of other health and behavioral issues that we seldom see in intact dogs.
[03:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:51] <exec> 08└─Most cis women are better off eliminating menopause unless there's a family history of problems that are aggravated by estrogen , like certain cancers. Menopause can cause serious mental problems as well as physical and mental decline. These are pretty much certainties. Suicidal depression is fatal...
[03:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:54] <exec> 08└─Depends on the dog, the bloodline, and the training. Some large dogs are much easier to deal with than the average small dog. Large dogs are also generally smarter, and have more purposeful breeding behind them toward some useful function, which tends to go along with desire to please and to work fo...
[03:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:09] <exec> 08└─No, it sounds more like T1rho. You know - overcoming the slow(ish) decoherence between the up/down spins using a holding RF field orthogonal to the axis of orientation. Don't you think?
[03:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:11] <exec> 08└─USB USB!
[03:30:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aegis [6714] 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:44] <exec> 08└─I love how everybody pretends that Soylent News isn't social media...
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[04:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:51] <exec> 08└─compoundedInterestRateAdjustedForInflationButNotIncludingRegulatoryDisbursementsOrTaxReliefAdjustment, I'm looking at you.
[04:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung "X-Cube" Stacks SRAM Dies on Top of Logic Die - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:02] <exec> 08└─Did they run this past legal first or did they imagine that cubes and boxes are dissimilar enough to keep Microsoft from sueing them for trademark infringement?
[04:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:45] <exec> 08└─Hansen's department has notified Edge it is violating permits by continuing to "store" its equipment onsite
[04:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:03] <exec> 08└─Do provide examples how SN is exercising editorial control here in the comment section.
[04:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:05] <exec> 08└─Stop trying to redefine anything you don't like as "interfering in an election." That's 100% BS. Now the real question... Is Youtube EXPECTING damaging information to come out for some reason?? (And what kind of mental gymnastics would be on display if it went against the other team instead of their...
[04:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:07] <exec> 08└─I thought they were where you emptied your dog's pooper-scooper. Guess now I'll just have to put it in the red ones.
[04:27:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:04] <exec> 08└─At least you didn't # kill -9 cat
[04:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:02] <exec> 08└─I guess mostly the latter. Lisp is not everybody's cup of tea. Even if you love it, you'll have to find others who do and it's just not that big a community. The biggest problem I have with it is not the parenthesis that everybody complains about. It's prefix. Prefix is great for understanding the c...
[04:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:15] <exec> 08└─Joint problems can be severe enough to require the dog to be euthanized. Why don't we do the same with you?
[04:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:17] <exec> 08└─the solution is very simple: don't own large dogs. There's no good reason for it.
[04:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:19] <exec> 08└─As a canine professional with five decades experience... I agree. There's a very simple birth control method that works with all dogs: it's called a leash
[04:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:21] <exec> 08└─Most isn't all. You asked why a woman would decide against hormones and that is what was provided. The fact that there are pros to HRT doesn't mean that it is impossible for the cons outweigh them in certain circumstances.
[04:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 1862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:23] <exec> 08└─I doubtless deal with far more pet owners than you do. In fact nearly all of them are perfectly responsible with their pets. The idea that most are not is anti-breeder propaganda, not reality. Shelters overflowing? Los Angeles has only about 500 impound kennels for a population of 8 million (and a l...
[04:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:22] <exec> 08└─You're fat and sweaty and gonna die of COVID this year. Enjoy your mask-free time.
[04:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Critical Intel Flaw Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:55] <exec> 08└─Title: ...Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules
[04:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Intel Flaw Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:56] <exec> 08└─So you're saying it affects motherboards, server systems and compute modules? Or have I misread something somewhere?
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[05:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Telescope Uncovers the Cause of Betelgeuse's Mysterious Dimming - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:51] <exec> 08└─We shouldn't be investing in real estate in this neighborhood, I take it.
[05:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:04] <exec> 08└─Even my cat likes to sleep in bed. I know these dudes hadn't found Jesus at that point, but by god who doesn't like a bed?
[05:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:05] <exec> 08└─My rock is wide enough for one, but tall enough for two
[05:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:07] <exec> 08└─Depends. If it's too soft I'd rather take floor tbh.
[05:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:50] <exec> 08└─If only the science publishing would adopt a coding standard and the scientists use an IDE
[05:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:52] <exec> 08└─There's a few authors and many readers. Making work for the reader instead of the author is wasting time.
[05:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:54] <exec> 08└─or we ppl just learned to Google or Wikipedia shit we don't know?
[05:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Critical Intel Flaw Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:54] <exec> 08└─saying it affects motherboards, server systems and compute modules
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[06:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:45] <exec> 08└─Oh, good! Is this like that Jango thing that Zirconia Zinnium mentioned? Or is it more like the other Soylentvertisements that alert us to things that no one is interested in or wants to know about? Like, another Windows vulnerability? Please.
[06:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Telescope Uncovers the Cause of Betelgeuse's Mysterious Dimming - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:54] <exec> 08└─>and ejecting bright material Basically, the end of Betelgeuse is COMING (literally) *ducks* (literally)
[06:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06NASA Telescope Uncovers the Cause of Betelgeuse's Mysterious Dimming - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:56] <exec> 08└─Star-lord? Star-Massive Coronal Ejection? Star-fart. We all know what we will vote for. We will name it, "The Massive Trump Beteguese Star Fart of 2019". Trump needs his name on something that is not a subpoena.
[06:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06NASA Telescope Uncovers the Cause of Betelgeuse's Mysterious Dimming - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:58] <exec> 08└─Kamala Harris is a native born American. We are not so sure about Runaway, who seems to have been born in Russia, or at least paid by them. And, interesting fact: Trump and Kamala's father were both born in Jamaica. Strewth! Look it up! Trump is not a legitimate president. Trump was born in Jamaica,...
[06:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:14] <exec> 08└─If I get rich, on the list of things I will actually do is get the comfiest, cushiest, most luxurious coffin I can find, and sleep in it. Probably poke a few air holes in the lid, of course. And then if I die in my sleep, you can just scoot the whole bed into a ditch!
[06:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:15] <exec> 08└─Of course after they found Religion, they realized the universe was only 6K years old - give or take - so any reports of beds that were older than that were undoubtedly lies from Satan. And while the only furniture typically associated with God is a throne, it is mentioned that He rested for a day,...
[06:23:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:27] <exec> 08└─The problem is especially bad if the words are constructed to follow some naming pattern that is unambiguous and supposedly self describing, as is common in chemistry.
[06:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:34] <exec> 08└─...or maybe I'll just get the damn dog neutered and risk the possible 10-12% of future joint problems.
[06:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:35] <exec> 08└─I doubtless deal with far more pet owners than you do. In fact nearly all of them are perfectly responsible with their pets.
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[07:22:41] <exec> 08└─I'm going to exploit the hell out of this planet just to rescue one ship, the Enterprise, (NCC-1701-FU).
[07:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:43] <exec> 08└─Probably the most addictive thing for me is that often you need to do multiple things, and must prioritize
[07:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:45] <exec> 08└─You can play the game on peaceful mode, or use solar power to not aggravate the locals. Still requires extracting some resources for your ship, but on a planetary scale not too much.
[07:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:47] <exec> 08└─Found the sex addict...
[07:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:49] <exec> 08└─I wanna be the millionaire
[07:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:51] <exec> 08└─And SN devolves into one of two alternatives: a Tech site (video games), or a pron site (slightly different video games). Well, after the Buck-feta, I had such high hopes, but they seem to be beaten into a pulp.
[07:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:18] <exec> 08└─I hear a manger is acceptable.
[07:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:20] <exec> 08└─Probably poke a few air holes in the lid, of course.
[07:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:00] <exec> 08└─The state of OR will settle the case for 1000 user cancellations because real world toxic waste is much less of a public health issue than the existence of people who aren't sufficiently woke.
[07:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:01] <exec> 08└─Let's recall that it was the Obama administration that relived that company of the usual regulatory requirement to have a safety plan. https://www.wsws.org [wsws.org]
[07:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:23] <exec> 08└─So the Capitalists are suddenly all about Communism because they feel discriminated against. It is the most hypocritical thing in the world, since basically the dawn of recorded history conservatives have been prejudiced against anyone "different" and used to murder various groups for religious affi...
[07:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:41] <exec> 08└─Dude she doesn't care. She is not an honest actor. She is just getting her jollies acting like she is an expert in things she is not. You proved her wrong and she can't accept that so she is trying to pivot from the original point you were making to try and save face. If you reread with that in mind...
[07:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:42] <exec> 08└─> After all, the vast majority of mammals never experience menopause so it's definitely a flaw. The logical fallacy in that sentence is bigger than the sentence itself! Compare: After all, the vast majority of mammals never live in houses so it's definitely a flaw. Google "spandrel".
[07:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:21] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not. I'm arguing that castigating people who work for profit rather than ideals is unrealistic and stupid. I'm down for the communist revolution, but until the rest of you get with it, we have to live in a capitalist reality. Arguing that the lab worker must be 100% devoted to helping humani...
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[08:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:54] <exec> 08└─I keep suggesting that perhaps Windows flaws and vulnerabilities, and video games, are not the most interesting fodder for the over 60 SoylentNews crowd? Perhaps some more pertinent articles, perhaps submitted by soylentils instead of bots? I have said this many times, and I repeat it now. Eds, stra...
[08:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:55] <exec> 08└─And what's wrong with finding one of the more attractive aliens to shack up with and raise a family instead. - If you are trapped at the bottom of a gravity well, the odds of escaping it are pretty slim, historically speaking.
[08:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:57] <exec> 08└─Start submitting some subjectively better stories then, citizen! :) I'll agree though, SN isn't where I (want to) go for my gaming news. I do like seeing the latest Intel security fuster cluck though.
[08:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:59] <exec> 08└─No, that's Rimworld.
[08:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:02] <exec> 08└─Last I checked, I was not a bot. I think therefore I am. As for the appropriateness here... Many people use there PCs for games when they are not working... you may not be one of those, but for you to assume that no one here would care about a game is quite a bit harder to justify than me thinking t...
[08:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:32] <exec> 08└─Well, not necessarily the Motel8s, but certainly the furniture in them.
[08:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:18] <exec> 08└─The simplification of grammar and spelling in such totalitarian regimes also has another, more nefarious purpose: to attempt to purge words and language itself of subversive meaning. This was the whole point of the Newspeak language that Ingsoc had created in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ex...
[08:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:20] <exec> 08└─Don't you worry, those interested can cope with acronyms pretty well - in comparison with the effort of understanding the paper itself, the use of the acronym is "small change". Once the convention "poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) = PEDOT" for the purpose of TFA, I find using PEDOT more convenient...
[08:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:22] <exec> 08└─Letting aside the (grin)-ing, the context was: "We run into the same problem as programmers."
[08:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:24] <exec> 08└─I sometimes get worried when I see basic 101 acronyms and initialisms expanded or explained. It is almost always a sign that someone had what they thought was a brilliant stroke of genius but is unfamiliar with literature in the field and isn't as groundbreaking as they thought. As an analogy think...
[08:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:58] <exec> 08└─Depends on how you define flaw too. Apparently, evolution believes the benefits exceed the drawbacks and it results in increased survival rates or is neutral. Otherwise, it wouldn't be so widespread today.
[08:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:00] <exec> 08└─I think you'll find that *nothing* on SN is hidden information!
[08:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the amount of inbreeding used to get purebreds has seriously screwed some of them up. Breeders of today wouldn't recognize the same breeds from hundreds of years ago and vice versa. Dog brains of certain breeds literally don't fit in their skulls anymore! It is sad how much of the fallout from...
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[09:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Alexa Security Bug Allowed Access to Voice History - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:39] <exec> 08└─The hack "required just one click [by the attackee] on an Amazon link"
[09:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 3012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:00] <exec> 08└─I have spent quite a few hours playing Oxygen Not Included. (I admit that I was a fan up until the last minute changes that Klei made right before release.) ONI was actually announced, developed, and released all in less time than Factorio spent just in early access. They both appeal to a similar se...
[09:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:02] <exec> 08└─I have already discovered porn... I am only responding to you now because I need a little time to recuperate.
[09:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:33] <exec> 08└─Dont you mean god hadnt fount them yet considering it is 14k years before beginning of existence.
[09:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 1495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:24] <exec> 08└─This. I work across various engineering sectors and there are four basic rules we use for this: *ALWAYS* include a table of abbreviations (NOT the same thing as a Glossary!). ALL abbreviations should be includedFirst usage is *ALWAYS* expanded ("... deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is ..."), unless it wo...
[09:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:26] <exec> 08└─You used an example of the symbol N as being unambiguous in a math context. Sorry, it's not. The definition of natural number must always be stated upfront: is it all integers >= 1 or >= 0 ? To avoid the ambiguity, one can append a 1 or 0 subscript to the N. https://en.m.wikipedia.org
[09:25:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 1304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:48] <exec> 08└─We've been over this many times: You have the right to speak. You don't have the right to use somebody else's PA system to give your speech without their permission. You have the right to put a sign on your lawn. You don't have the right to put a sign on somebody else's lawn without their permission...
[09:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, but Barbara was pointing out that doctors tend to treat everything with a pill and ignore the obvious cause. There's a lot of truth to what she says. I haven't had that exact conversation with my various doctors, but very similar ones. I cannot tell you how often my doctor recommended a cure wo...
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[09:30:03] <exec> 08└─I don't think humans have been reliably living long enough to experience menopause for enough time that there would be an evolutionary bias in any direction. Considering that there's good evidence for other group-oriented traits being genetic/epigenetic, I'd bet you're right though.
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[10:23:42] <exec> 08└─Regardless, how are you going to launder the side walls bedding?
[10:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:15] <exec> 08└─Booga1 wrote: the most obnoxious one I came across was one that gave you three buttons: Accept, Decline, and Options
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[11:22:39] <exec> 08└─Alexa! Give all my data to Google. Thanks.
[11:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Telescope Uncovers the Cause of Betelgeuse's Mysterious Dimming - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:13] <exec> 08└─> replying about the mod you have received spotted the aristarchus
[11:23:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:23] <exec> 08└─have found evidence that people have been using grass bedding to create comfortable areas for sleeping and working on at least 200,000 years ago.
[11:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:36] <exec> 08└─See now the wall bedding are glued/nailed to the coffin's walls in the same way you'd furnish seats...
[11:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:38] <exec> 08└─Finally, someone with common sense.
[11:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:31] <exec> 08└─Having to google "osires-rex" validates OP's point.
[11:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:16] <exec> 08└─Yep, collect a bunch of locusts, add a bit of pheromone into some fields in enemy territory, PROFIT!!! I guess the drill is keeping on with ecological economical and canonical petty wars/terrorism until they convince the survivors that a new world order is the solution. It is. The literal Endlösung...
[11:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:17] <exec> 08└─This is a neat idea, because the next move by nature is to select locusts that don't behave that way, so they will be naturally less harmful.
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[12:23:02] <exec> 08└─Last I checked, I was not a bot. I think therefore I am. As for the appropriateness here... Many people use there PCs for games when they are not working... you may not be one of those, but for you to assume that no one here would care about a game is quite a bit harder to justify than me thinking t...
[12:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:05] <exec> 08└─I'm in the 60+ crowd, and I disagree. - Windows flaws affect everyone, because Windows is so widespread. If not you personally, then your colleagues, friends or family. - I am also a gamer. I play less than I used to, but I certainly do play. Specifically, in reference to TFA: I have played Factorio...
[12:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:07] <exec> 08└─ONI is deceptively complex after a while. Getting rid of the gases and the heat turns into a massive problem. In some way you are your own worst problem -- as you want to build more, since it's in essence a builder game, but building more creates more problems that have to be dealt with which in tur...
[12:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:44] <exec> 08└─I could cut a mount for a couple PC case fans into the side for airflow. If it's good enough for a motherboard, it's good enough for me.
[12:23:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 394 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:55] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't acronyms. It's deciding that you don't need to explain your acronyms. Most of the problem would go away, if they just explained the acronym, or even put in a glossary. Acronyms are a standard and well understood way to enhance language. In particular, there's no way that thousands...
[12:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:39] <exec> 08└─Old Man Yells At Cloud
[12:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:41] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck modded this "flamebait" ? Some autistic nerd who's never leaved his mother's basement and who doesn't know what BLM lands are ?
[12:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:43] <exec> 08└─That's popularly pronounced, "Ahhhhhhhh," which Fluffy teaches us is the Mexican sound of derision.
[12:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:45] <exec> 08└─I always wanted to coin an acronym in a professional context that read "BLURP."
[12:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:47] <exec> 08└─Fast forward to now, the majority of the world's population communicates using pidgin English. Americans should adapt, IMHO.
[12:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:49] <exec> 08└─OMYAC? I like it. So let it be written, so shall it be done.
[12:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:51] <exec> 08└─By regular folks, yes. I was talking about scientists and other supposedly higher educated people. On a related note, employers have no right to discriminate based on so called English proficiency. Whatever spelling and grammar one uses is the right of the employee. English grammar is currently a to...
[12:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:54] <exec> 08└─Should I spell all the nice words weeded out by liberals?
[12:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:56] <exec> 08└─I actually have another one for our bests to work on - BL. Such as A couple of bl's raped a sugar this night.
[12:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:47] <exec> 08└─To add to the other AC reply, in the Google case it is like Walmart went around and leaned on Home Depot and Best Buy to not sell your product either.
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[13:22:33] <exec> 08└─I just got my first pi a couple of weeks ago. Now I've got 3, they're like rabbits it seems. I'm wondering if folding would use the available memory in an 8gb pi4. Think I might give this a go...
[13:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Folding@Home ARM64 Linux Beta Release for COVID-19 Vaccine Research - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:35] <exec> 08└─I only have the 4 GiB, so I would be interested in knowing that. From my quick look, doesn't look like RAM is a big issue.
[13:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Alexa Security Bug Allowed Access to Voice History - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:44] <exec> 08└─I already did that...
[13:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:46] <exec> 08└─Another way this works is to subvert a word by using it as a backronym for a phrase which means the opposite - PATRIOT Act, CARES Bill, etc.
[13:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:48] <exec> 08└─Normally, or sadly, that isn't usually the way scientific papers are read. Perhaps once in a while you read it from beginning to end, mostly you just skim a lot of it and then you just read the specific parts of it such as the results and interpretations of it.
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[13:24:50] <exec> 08└─+1 Great point!
[13:25:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:32] <exec> 08└─Trump stuffed every government agency with someone who would do exactly the OPPOSITE of what the mission of that agency is. EPA, check. FCC, check. Dept. of Education, check. Etc.
[13:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:42] <exec> 08└─But Epics tactics only worked because Google and Apple are a duopoly, acting as expected abusing their position. Epic has just delivered a big blow on an ongoing campaign against the "Store" monopolies. This thing has been going on for months, I think it started with some social media app thing (I d...
[13:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:33] <exec> 08└─Oh, get me started on how doctors treat the test results rather than treating the patient...
[13:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:35] <exec> 08└─Breeds are probably the number one reason for health problems. Better genetic diversity would help with a lot of health issue.
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[14:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:47] <exec> 08└─If we write a story about every false positive in an AV tool, it should be trivial to populate the frontpage with new material every single hour.
[14:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:48] <exec> 08└─Or, just sum it up in one story... Windows Sucks Donkey Wang
[14:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:50] <exec> 08└─"WTF is this Citrix thing in the tool bar? Looks like some kinda crap to me, get rid of it!"
[14:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Folding@Home ARM64 Linux Beta Release for COVID-19 Vaccine Research - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:00] <exec> 08└─I don't think memory will be much of an issue. I just looked at TOP. a7 core is using 1.1% of 32 gig of memory, a22 core is using 1.7%, FAHClient uses 0.7% The a7 core is the one running on CPU, a22 runs on GPU. If you are running short on memory in other applications, FAH could become an issue of...
[14:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:33] <exec> 08└─I considered buying it, but don't want to buy any more games that require a network connection. The site didn't obviously say whether that was necessary or not.
[14:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:11] <exec> 08└─I was just thinking: haven't birds been making nests since there have been birds? Now, a 200,000 year old Sealy Posturpedic branded mattress, that would be NEWS (of the time-travel evidence sort...)
[14:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:12] <exec> 08└─We have a "soft" hyperbaric chamber, you can sleep in it and all air comes in from the pump - kind of a "soothing" white noise after you get used to it. On the other hand, we bought the chamber 10 years ago to use with my then 8 year old son - as he grew, our combined air usage / humidity generation...
[14:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:18] <exec> 08└─Don't you worry, those interested can cope with acronyms pretty well - in comparison with the effort of understanding the paper itself, the use of the acronym is "small change".
[14:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:20] <exec> 08└─You do realize that scientific English is usually simpler than normal English? It's a common practice to use little to no use of slang or colloquialisms, attempt no fancy words unless it's relevant to a concept in the paper, and so on. And that's because English is very often a second language for t...
[14:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:17] <exec> 08└─Obama was no saint, but he at least put on a good face and maybe did a little more good than harm. I know that's a low bar, but since Carter it seems we just keep digging for lower standards as the decades roll on.
[14:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:39] <exec> 08└─Uhhhhh - capitalism is a fairly recent development, measured in hundreds of years. If you were paying attention in school, you would know that our recorded history extends back thousands of years. Can you spell "Babylon"? Or "Greece"? How about "Egypt"? "China" and "Laos" would be good. Try "Indus"....
[14:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:16] <exec> 08└─Again, try actually reading my first post.
[14:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:18] <exec> 08└─This is definitely one of those cases where the ideal outcome would be both sides losing...
[14:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:10] <exec> 08└─Found out after posting this that one of my sisters had to put down a dog riddled with cancer. She had gotten it from a woman who was dying of cancer and couldn't keep it. Sad, but at least the dog outlived it's owner, And had a good life. But yes, a fancy poodle. Inbred. She's insisting that her c...
[14:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 1497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:12] <exec> 08└─Some dogs are just totally into it... others couldn't care less. I have both extremes in my kennel -- a pair of males who've lived together their whole lives, and spend every waking moment exchanging humps (they have masturbation down to a fine art) ... and a younger male who lives with the girls, b...
[14:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 5222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:14] <exec> 08└─In that case, start with banning rescues. NONE of those dogs were for sale by breeders. ALL of those dogs being smuggled in are for resale by 'rescue' which is the biggest financial scam going: get innocent good-hearted people to cover all your costs and do all the work, while you pocket the tax-fre...
[14:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:20] <exec> 08└─You're not doing anything wrong, your employer is. Report them to OSHA if you're in a blue state, get a better job otherwise.
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[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─Last update my ps2 mouse bit the dust. It was about 15 years old, so may be coincidental, but at the exact moment of the update?
[15:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Folding@Home ARM64 Linux Beta Release for COVID-19 Vaccine Research - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:47] <exec> 08└─I could've compiled it for ARM64 myself if you had released the source code. As it is, you have not released the source code, so I will not be using your software.
[15:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:23] <exec> 08└─No, it doesn't. Unless you want to play multiplayer, which is not essential. Also, if that's important to you, don't buy it through Steam, because Steam does need a network connection. Get it from the Factorio home page.
[15:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:25] <exec> 08└─The article is relevant to me, as I have over 2000 hours in Factorio. Ironically, I thought about submitting it yesterday, but thought it wouldn't have been relevant.
[15:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:27] <exec> 08└─During my undergrad days, I took a class on computer graphics. First day of class, I waxed enthusiastic about all the cool graphics in video games. Little did I know that was a big mistake. The professor was one of those Very Serious Persons who thought games a waste of time. I couldn't believe it....
[15:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Telescope Uncovers the Cause of Betelgeuse's Mysterious Dimming - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─The key questions are what a hrung is, and why it would choose to collapse on Betelguese in particular.
[15:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Telescope Uncovers the Cause of Betelgeuse's Mysterious Dimming - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:40] <exec> 08└─Due to Betelgeuse residing 650 light years away, this actually happened 650 years ago, and we just got the memo... In fact, if it blew up today, we would have to wait another 30ish generations to even see the first glimmer of light proving that it happened..
[15:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:16] <exec> 08└─[BTW, "WTF" = "Winning Theories Forward"? ]
[15:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:17] <exec> 08└─I always wanted to coin an acronym in a professional context that read "BLURP."
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[15:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:16] <exec> 08└─Seriously Facebook, pull your head out of your corporate a$$. It's your responsibility to clean up after yourself. It's the same when a person goes hiking in the woods, the expectation is that you do your very best to leave nothing behind, and to treat the environment properly so that no one even kn...
[15:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:17] <exec> 08└─Here's a clue: if there's a regulation requiring you to account for and recover drilling fluid: it's not harmless.
[15:26:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 879 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:47] <exec> 08└─There are reliable sources of information: Collections of peer reviewed studies, legal documents, widely acknowledged experts in the field, etc. What there aren't are reliable summaries for people who don't have the background needed to understand who is completely full of crap. And that's very inte...
[15:28:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:14] <exec> 08└─At what point will Apple and Google be considered a duopoly that is abusing their position in the marketplace?
[15:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:13] <exec> 08└─See my long rant, er, response above, You do not know what you're talking about. In fact the more extreme breeds (and there are a few) are generally LESS inbred; the problem is lack of selection for functionality, and dogs are so genetically variable that you can produce an extreme example in just a...
[15:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 1689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:32] <exec> 08└─uhm ... never heard of the term but it looks like the word resonance is a bit misleading here? In reading the description it looks like the following is happening. You have a sensor that detects noise. You have (target) noise that you would like to detect. The sensor can't detect the noise because i...
[15:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:33] <exec> 08└─(this post was in response to the stochastic resonance reference)
[15:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:22] <exec> 08└─As somebody who has already painfully had this stupid virus, FUCK YOU! When you get it, you will probably be gunking all over the break room appliances giving it to everyone else, while believing your mask made you invulnerable. At this point, I only wish it had killed me.
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[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─We bring you defective products faster than any competitor!
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:44] <exec> 08└─Take responsibility for what you sell. This just might make them think twice about carrying crap products from fly by night Chinese vendors. Nothing else has forced them to yet.
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adam [2168] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy to see it happen to Amazon and every other retailer that has padded their offerings with third party garbage, but I don't expect this to shake out that way. It'll be like trying to make Uber drivers employees - the company will superficially tweak their system just enough to get back in...
[16:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─Say goodbye to ebay and Craigslist if this holds up. I'm sure this has at least two more levels of appeals to go through, though. Amazon is 100% clear about which products are sold by them, and which products are sold by someone else. No reasonable person can be confused about who the seller is. The...
[16:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:51] <exec> 08└─Amazon search results are absolutely carpet bombed with Chinese shit. Choosing Amazon or Amazon Warehouse cuts down most of the crap, except for the 3rd party using Amazon warehouses for storage. Anyone know a filter that cuts out "made in china"?
[16:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:53] <exec> 08└─Amazon is not comparable to either Ebay or Craigslist. Amazon warehouses the products, Amazon employees pack and ship those products in Amazon boxes. Ebay warehouses nothing - in effect, they are little more than a fancy classified advertiser. Craiglist is less "connected" to advertised products tha...
[16:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:03] <exec> 08└─Don Key Wang? Is that the guy they bought TikTok from?
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:05] <exec> 08└─Defender ain't done until citrix doesn't run.
[16:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:54] <exec> 08└─I believe not, however I own the Steam version. It allows me to play when offline. You probably are interested in purchasing directly from the vendor which provides a download link: https://factorio.com [factorio.com]
[16:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─Actually, even the steam version does not require a network connection. After downloading and installing from steam, you can play as much as you want in offline mode. Or, after installation, you can play using the proper executable without steam. And If you buy on steam, you can create a factorio.co...
[16:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:39] <exec> 08└─maybe they just had sex there
[16:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:50] <exec> 08└─They are thinking [bmj.com] about [biomedcentral.com] it [bigthink.com].
[16:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:52] <exec> 08└─In the stone ages, before IDE, you had a separate controller eating up an expansion slot in the system that directly controlled the activities of the drive. A controller (reading terms: MFM, RLL, ST-506) would have drives it supported and those it didn't. Some you could input the specs on the drive...
[16:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:52] <exec> 08└─It's the same when a person goes hiking in the woods, the expectation is that you do your very best to leave nothing behind, and to treat the environment properly so that no one even knows you were there.
[16:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:53] <exec> 08└─I'm not tired, or proud. But that made me feel old.
[16:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:55] <exec> 08└─Trump stuffed every government agency with someone who would do exactly the OPPOSITE of what the mission of that agency is.
[16:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:58] <exec> 08└─You're not alone in a cabin somewhere, are you? If you're having a stroke, you should seek help immediately - and if you're alone, you may not even recognize that you're having a stroke.
[16:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:00] <exec> 08└─> leans Democratic. Thus they might actually believe in regulations. LOL a pity for your theorem that Facebook is very dem itself.
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[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─Shipping the package is no more significant to the transaction than hosting the website. Any transaction has a million participants. Someone has the warehouse, someone collects the payment, someone manufacturers the product, someone calculates the tax, someone delivers it. But the party with ultimat...
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─That's either lawyer talk or opportunity seeking pond scum looking at the bigger pockets.
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─They'll just alter their T&C's to require sellers indemnify them.
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─except the "aspera" part is taken by a third party, eh?
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─Yep, Amazon sucks. They don't take Paypal
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─Legal responsibility determined not by facts or law but by brand recognition. Or by market domination, perfectly acceptable, Amazon can deal with it
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:04] <exec> 08└─No, that's what we call Hostess Ding Dongs.
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─Anybody watching the president? Maybe he made the submission to Microsoft But, who knows? They might be right
[17:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:49] <exec> 08└─I’ll 2nd this Some even become words again like Snafu https://www.chicagotribune.com [chicagotribune.com]
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung "X-Cube" Stacks SRAM Dies on Top of Logic Die - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─I guess they could once again split the two so that CPU is CPU and Memory is something outside and not integrated into it.
[17:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:56] <exec> 08└─No saint? Due process free execution by secret tribunals using secret law. No saint indeed. Fucking satan.
[17:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:59] <exec> 08└─A "documented backdoor"? I just ran into this crap on my mother's PC, and it was really easy to disable it when I wanted to install Firefox. Of course, it nagged me with some stupid popup about how wonderful and safe S Mode was, but it was easy enough to click on the button to disable it and turn it...
[17:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:00] <exec> 08└─There isn't enough of this IMO. I'd love to see both Apple and Epic get judgments against them (in this same case) for billions, because they both suck. Then again, I'm also the person who would love it if professional sports games could have outcomes where both sides lose, and all the fans have to...
[17:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:03] <exec> 08└─If there were only two retailers in the world, with Walmart being one of them, you'd have a good analogy here. However, this simply isn't the case.
[17:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:26] <exec> 08└─My AI has found a wonderful proof of the Riemann conjecture which this screen is too narrow to contain.
[17:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:28] <exec> 08└─> A system needs to efficiently send lunar ore to Earth, and decides that using the rail gun is the most efficient means of doing so. and...?
[17:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 4470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:02] <exec> 08└─Nope. The whole "depression is caused by a chemical imbalance of the brain was started as marketing, and there has never been a single biochemical test of the brain to back it up. In fact, in one study where they injected chemicals directly into cerebrospinal fluid, no change of mood was detected....
[17:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:04] <exec> 08└─It's not fun when the old girl keeps falling down in the kitchen like bambi on ice. Our old girl has been withering away for the last year. I know stairs are hard on the elderly, but I never thought of it with a dog.
[17:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:06] <exec> 08└─What do you need "purposeful breeding" for? Sure, if you need a dog to herd sheep on a farm, that makes sense, but the vast majority of dog owners don't have sheep or farms, they live in apartments or subdivision houses. All these things that dogs used to be useful for are no longer factors for the...
[17:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 3249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:08] <exec> 08└─It's not just psychiatry. Most doctors are totally unaware of the psychiatric side effects of common drugs prescribed for physical problems. Hypertension - a Japanese study of more than 3,000 patients uncovered a connection between blood pressure medication and suicidal ideation in diabetics. I foun...
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[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:03] <exec> 08└─players should be in "winning" shape with latency or ping of 59ms or less, and "in the game" with latency or ping of up to 129ms
[18:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─Most people don't play competitively. It's just that simple. In my gaming days, I made sure I had pings on single-digit ms. Nowadays I game over 4G. It's not critical that I win, it's a bit of fun and I don't get trounced JUST because I have a slightly higher ping. That said my pings are in the 30-5...
[18:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─31, 31, 33, 42, 42, 53, 75, 94 ms in the screenshot. Outliers could be explained by pinging an Ookla node in California from Washington. And it's a beta test of an incomplete satellite network, so take everything with a grain of salt. Update at 11:18pm ET: A new Reddit post listing more speed tests...
[18:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:26] <exec> 08└─the party with ultimate responsibility
[18:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 3100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:28] <exec> 08└─But they are NOT just "shipping the package" and "hosting the website." There's a fundamental confusion I find among consumers about what "comes from Amazon" that's very different from stuff that comes from eBay or Craigslist. This is because Amazon itself sells a lot of stuff. And for the longest t...
[18:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:30] <exec> 08└─Also keep in mind that Amazon often times mixes items from different sellers in the same bins and as a result there's often no way of figuring out which seller would be liable for damages from defective merchandise. It was a massive problem a few years back during the eclipse because there were prop...
[18:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:32] <exec> 08└─Anyone know a filter that cuts out "made in china"
[18:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:47] <exec> 08└─Most shops running this are going to be professional shops. So it probably won't affect users directly, it just adds to the ballaches that the poor admins in a Micro$oft shop have to deal with.
[18:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:49] <exec> 08└─Kamala is from Kenya (is it 'Kenya' or 'Keenya'?)
[18:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:51] <exec> 08└─Define "professional" please. We have Citrix, but it strains reality to describe our IT people as "professional". Easier to describe a bunch of kids trying to hack into the school's computers as "professional". Especially if they actually succeed.
[18:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:53] <exec> 08└─People that get paid to maintain that shit, so that the end users don't have to.
[18:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:55] <exec> 08└─Alright - our IT people do get paid. I don't think they actually maintain anything though. In ~15 years, I've seen three different "security" products rolled out on the company's machines. Each of them brought the computers to their knees, so that everyone sits there waiting - waiting - waiting. Aft...
[18:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:57] <exec> 08└─And a scanner driver. "Sorry there is no driver available for this device" and "This driver is not signed (or compatible) with this version of Winfuckmerunningthispileofdonkeyshitdows" Scanner went in trash, found linux a few years later and that it would've worked.
[18:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Folding@Home ARM64 Linux Beta Release for COVID-19 Vaccine Research - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─Do you want your grandmother to die?
[18:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Alexa Security Bug Allowed Access to Voice History - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─Well, the first premise is that it's obviously not a "bug", not from Amazon's point of view. On the other hand it kinda was, because it was detected. That's the "bug" part. On stupidity, I'll have to assume you're talking about the customers :-)
[18:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:53] <exec> 08└─Or Rimmerworld.
[18:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:49] <exec> 08└─But the first IDE drives would have plugged into an IDE expansion card instead.
[18:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:50] <exec> 08└─And others turn orange.
[18:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:53] <exec> 08└─now this guy and his wife can vote democrat.
[18:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:58] <exec> 08└─No saint? Due process free execution by secret tribunals using secret law. No saint indeed. Fucking satan.
[18:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:05] <exec> 08└─So, you are suggesting that there are only two game platforms in the world?
[18:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:10] <exec> 08└─many mammals live in dwellings. We call them "dens", same as the man-cave. Ditto birds - we call them nests when it's for raising young, but many birds shelter in inclement weather. Same as among primates, only humans have a problem with cholesterol clogging the cardiovascular system. And not all h...
[18:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 1467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:11] <exec> 08└─It took 4,000 years for a single random recessive mutation in one person to spread blue ayes over a significant part of the human population. We don't need hundreds of thousands of years for mutations to spread. The average person has something like 60-200 random mutations. We're a real-time experim...
[18:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:13] <exec> 08└─Yep. When you have to poop a towel around their waist to help them up and down the stairs, it definitely brings a lump to the throat. And they quickly get to the point that they want to go on their usual walk, but you have to either head back early or have to get help transporting them back, because...
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[19:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:40] <exec> 08└─Sometimes you need to skap the tadpole to see which way the legs grow, thats all this is.
[19:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:05] <exec> 08└─Ebay does store and handle goods. When you use the Ebay global shipping service, you mail the package to an Ebay facility.
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:07] <exec> 08└─I did not know that. What is the supposed advantage of this? I hope not to protect scam artists!
[19:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:09] <exec> 08└─They want their walled garden? Hold them responsible for policing it. Microsoft Store too. Any malware leaks through, sue! That is right, isn't it?
[19:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Folding@Home ARM64 Linux Beta Release for COVID-19 Vaccine Research - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:40] <exec> 08└─No, just yours. What's Marty McFly's phone number?
[19:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:22] <exec> 08└─Rather than try to rid acronyms, focus on standardizing the placement and formatting of glossaries.
[19:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:29] <exec> 08└─Trivia question for you. What's the two principle ingredients of drilling fluid - also known as drilling mud.
[19:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:31] <exec> 08└─Take progress where you can get it, preferably demand progress at each election.
[19:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:54] <exec> 08└─they decided that money = speech. no money, no speech.
[19:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:43] <exec> 08└─Being a little old lady's companion and lap warmer is a perfectly valid job, and there's a whole class of small dogs that were developed for exactly this purpose. But more than that -- the reason the Labrador Retriever is so popular as a pet, even among people who have no clue about bird hunting, is...
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[20:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:01] <exec> 08└─A fairly major potential target market would be fine with a fraction of 25Mbps and latencies much higher than these early tests are providing (I expect they'll both get a lot better as the system matures). There's an *awful* lot of remote telemetry installations out there that currently rely on cell...
[20:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─Anyone want to disagree with me, and tell us how you've won major combat challenges with ping times over 100? That would be really interesting to hear, if factual.
[20:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:04] <exec> 08└─Ping time of greater than 100ms results in you clicking to attack an opponent, then watching the buffer show you how he attacked you ten times before your command reached the server.
[20:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:06] <exec> 08└─130ms of ping is definitely not getting it done for gaming. 30ms is viable, depending on exactly where you are. It takes two to ping, so you can't describe a city as having a ping time (unless you meant within the city, which nobody would). From where I am in Denver, I have 10ms ping to 8.8.8.8 (the...
[20:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:08] <exec> 08└─My ping time to slither.io is 74ms. I don't know if the problem is just my ping, or if the servers suck now. I used to get on leader board quite often, and I'd quit when I got bored. Now the lag is so bad that it has taken most of my best moves off the table. I take my finger off the mouse button, a...
[20:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:11] <exec> 08└─The only hope for widely available, decently-priced broadband is satellite. Municipal broadband should be cheaper and faster, but Muricans being Murcans, that, too, will remain pie-in-the-sky fantasy. Let's get some genuine good thinking and r&d going on this front.
[20:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:13] <exec> 08└─Actual humans play slither.io? I figured that I was winning cuz I figured out the moves the various bots were making. Go figure....
[20:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:15] <exec> 08└─The target market for Starlink isn't municipal.
[20:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:17] <exec> 08└─If it proves successful and grows in scale, the cost will come down. Air travel didn't start out for the lowly plebes, either.
[20:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:44] <exec> 08└─Yep, Amazon provided a bunch of services. They provided marketing, shipping, payment processing, and communication services, any or all of which could have been provided by any number of companies, and none of which make Amazon liable for the product. Is FedEx liable for a faulty product just becaus...
[20:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─Ebay and the seller split the profits from higher (totally needless) "shipping" fees.
[20:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:47] <exec> 08└─Amazon is deliberately subverting the distinctions and creating confusion
[20:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Telescope Uncovers the Cause of Betelgeuse's Mysterious Dimming - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:18] <exec> 08└─According to the Bible book of Revelation, there will be Seven Trumps. This is only the first. Enjoy.
[20:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:38] <exec> 08└─I think it's dangerous territory to pretend like something new is going on when private businesses have been catering to the wishes of their customers for centuries. I was going to joke that soon you lot will suddenly scream about censorship when your neighbors put out campaign signs in their lawns...
[20:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:23] <exec> 08└─They have set up a fascist system that has operated for more than a decade which oppresses ALL developers that want to interact with Apple products in a monopolistic fashion, exploiting them and their labor to add to their already insane profits.
[20:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:48] <exec> 08└─None of them have the "Quantum Computing" plug-in card that lets them do things that no Turing-complete machine could ever do on its own.
[20:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:30] <exec> 08└─Are there any notable breeds other than Labs that you would recommend for urban living, and can you suggest any good techniques to assess the temper of a dog?
[20:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:31] <exec> 08└─There are dog breeds whose skulls are literally too small for their brains, yes or no? Purebred dogs that mate outside their breed are no longer purebred, yes or no? Closed stud books are common in dog breeding, yes or no? Your own example is an "arrow pedigree" with an inbreeding coefficent of over...
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[21:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─I moved out of my parent's house the day they couldn't call the cops on me, and didn't have a tv for a couple years. The infamous Star Wars Christmas Special aired during this period. I've looked for it a couple times since then with no joy. Even with my, cough cough, torrent expertize, cough cough...
[21:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:40] <exec> 08└─Anybody still paying for cable TV? About the only reason for the monopoly extortion was live sports events, but thanks to 'rona, there is hardly any live sport events, and even the ones that resumed feel like jerk-off compared to sex.
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'll just watch Heavy Metal, The Movie again. At least that movie was truly innovative, at the time of it's production. Lego characters? How much CGI is involved? Or, are they on strings or something? Do any Lego characters have big hooters? Heavy Metal likes hooters!!
[21:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:45] <exec> 08└─You can't have looked very hard. There are even copies of it on Youtube if you just search for the title. The quality is awful and the acting and singing is even worse ...
[21:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:47] <exec> 08└─I just put it into a search through Qbittorrent. I got well over 100 hits, although most of them appear to be dead. The top four hits all have 5000+ seeders, all of them listed through torrentfunk2.com You will notice that I'm not vouching for any of these - maybe I'll download them, and see if they...
[21:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinnia Zirconium [11163] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:07] <exec> 08└─Is the receiver portable? Is it battery powered? Is it small enough to fit in my handbag? Oh wait. I don't go outside anymore because of chroma virus. Never mind? Portability will be important eventually.
[21:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:08] <exec> 08└─It's something you could put on a boat or RV, not phone sized. But satellite-to-phone is supposedly being pursued by another company: Megaconstellation startup raises $110 million to connect smartphones via satellite [spacenews.com]
[21:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:38] <exec> 08└─Used to be (well, about a decade ago), you get legit goods from Amazon, you get Chinese knock-off goods from eBay. Now, you are better off buying stuff off eBay sellers, cuz if the merchandise is garbage, eBay force the seller to refund you. Amazon? You are shit outta luck.
[21:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Folding@Home ARM64 Linux Beta Release for COVID-19 Vaccine Research - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:14] <exec> 08└─I was more wondering if it would take advantage of the memory. I've not come close to running out of 4gb much less 8gb though it's only been a couple of weeks and I'm not doing anything strenuous with the pi. That being said I'm not running a 64bit os though I don't know if that would make much of a...
[21:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Folding@Home ARM64 Linux Beta Release for COVID-19 Vaccine Research - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:16] <exec> 08└─I do find it funny how some of the biggest open source advocates on here are also the ones drumming up support for folding at home. And don't forget about the proprietary results they don't have to share either.
[21:24:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:44] <exec> 08└─Start submitting some subjectively better stories then, citizen! :) I'll agree though, SN isn't where I (want to) go for my gaming news. I do like seeing the latest Intel security fuster cluck though.
[21:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:00] <exec> 08└─FTR, I thought I did copy-paste in the subscript too but I guess it got lost in the process somewhere.
[21:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:47] <exec> 08└─(same poster). A good example of resonance that I think of would be like a swing. You thrust yourself forward on a swing and then you get swung back and then as you go forward you apply more force again. If you time your force properly the force you apply to the prior forward motion will compound ef...
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[22:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:56] <exec> 08└─As others have noted, the disaster is available on YT. Marginally better written and more canonical than Disney's Soy Warts.
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:57] <exec> 08└─How much CGI is involved?
[22:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:00] <exec> 08└─It's not even one of those "it's so bad it's good" type things. It's just bad.
[22:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:02] <exec> 08└─FFS peeps, I found it while posting my comment. It's downloaded already, I'll watch it later tonight. Reminds me of another movie, Pinocchio in Outer Space. Saw it when I was a kid. For years I posted on forums about it, and searched online. Nobody had heard of it, I finally decided I'd dreamed it....
[22:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─we should all celebrate by not shaving from now until November 17.
[22:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:56] <exec> 08└─Geeks' geek, nerds' nerd, brilliant engineer and all-around good guy*, Steven Wozniak's birthday was this last Tuesday. Happy b-day, my man. * Jobs was stingy/nasty with stock options with some early Apple employees, and Woz stepped up and got them their bit of shares.
[22:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Folding@Home ARM64 Linux Beta Release for COVID-19 Vaccine Research - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:34] <exec> 08└─Probably not, unless the ARM clients are very, very different from the AMD64 client. As I mentioned above, system has 32 gig of ram, and it's not using much at all.
[22:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Folding@Home ARM64 Linux Beta Release for COVID-19 Vaccine Research - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:36] <exec> 08└─I count buffer/cache as part of RAM usage, especially since usage + cache exceeding the limit can push it into using swap on a microSD card. Which I've done at least several times. Have top and htop open in the background. What looks like 1200 MB RAM usage might be more like 2200 MB (me right now),...
[22:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:02] <exec> 08└─As SN's resident philosophy professor, your definition of "first order logic" and assertion that predicate logics of higher order aren't used for practical applications wounds me.
[22:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:04] <exec> 08└─I would hope so from your name.
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[23:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forensic Research Proves That Textile Fibres Can be Transferred in the Absence of Contact - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─What the hell does it mean? "Forensic research" proves... Let's face it. So-called "forensic science" has been voo-doo witch-hunt pseudoscience garbage. Vatican should sue them for patent violation.
[23:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forensic Research Proves That Textile Fibres Can be Transferred in the Absence of Contact - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:38] <exec> 08└─Are they still doing phrenology? Airborne textiles, who knew? Might be a big "garbage patch" of fabric circulating up there.
[23:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:57] <exec> 08└─Oh you are in for a very special evening ...
[23:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:58] <exec> 08└─I kept watching, thinking, "it's got to get better". No, it doesn't have to get better. I'm scarred for life . . .
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:00] <exec> 08└─Once you have seen it you can't un-see it.
[23:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Defender Detected Citrix Services as Malware - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:16] <exec> 08└─I think it's Kanye.
[23:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:16] <exec> 08└─I have been away from gaming for a while. My reflexes are no longer good enough for shooters, or, alas, RTS. I discovered, somewhere along the line between building "Hack" on VMS, "Zaxxon", "Arctic Fox", "Sim City", and "RR Tycoon" on my Amigas, through "Star Craft" and "Civilization" on PCs, that s...
[23:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 1889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:01] <exec> 08└─I mention your top arguments several times in the larger post. I use quantum computing as an example of something that a traditional computer cannot do, radically different physics, etc. - but as you (and I!) pointed out, it's still considered Turing-complete. But without a QC of any significant siz...
[23:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:46] <exec> 08└─My family did have a good reason for owning big dogs when I was younger. I lived in a bad neighborhood. The kind where you heard gunshots fired many nights -- some literally right outside my front door. Robberies, burglaries, and other crime was pretty much rampant This is a good point I hadn't cons...
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