#Soylent | Logs for 2019-05-28
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[00:43:46] <TheMightyBuzzard> chromas, it doesn't have a dept yet and you're an editor...
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[02:16:44] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - AMD and Intel at Computex 2019: First Ryzen 3000-Series CPUs and Navi GPU Announced - http://sylnt.us - /me-want
[02:20:03] <chromas> AMD and Intel at Computex. When the walls fell. First Ryzen 3000. His arms wide
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[02:37:39] <takyon> chromas: Chex Quest 3 has been out for a while. General Mills just acknowledged it exists.
[02:37:46] <takyon> and it is good, "clean" fun
[02:38:04] <chromas> they should spray milk-based gibs
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[03:47:53] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Deep Fakes Advance to Only Needing a Single Two Dimensional Photograph - http://sylnt.us - cheese!
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[06:16:47] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - HyQReal Four-Legged Robot Tows a Three-Ton Passenger Plane - http://sylnt.us - towing-the-line
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[08:36:31] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - GitHub Launches "Sponsors" Feature for Crowdfunding Developers - http://sylnt.us - M$-per-month
[08:45:24] <FatPhil> anyone a fan of Sherlock Holmes' The Adventure of the Dancing Men?
[08:45:39] <FatPhil> Can you work out the missing word: https://i.dailymail.co.uk
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[10:23:46] <Bytram> coffee++
[10:23:46] <Bender> karma - coffee: 4783
[10:48:56] <Bytram> break time
[10:58:21] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Poland Challenges EU Copyright Directive - http://sylnt.us - a-program-to-push-buttons-randomly-is-a-lot-cheaper
[11:47:26] <FatPhil> I never knew this existed until 2 minutes ago 8-o https://www.youtube.com
[11:47:29] <upstart> ^ 03Hurl! - Hurlpool (S1E9) (9.7.08)
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[12:02:31] <RandomFactor2> 'sup
[12:07:18] <AndyTheAbsurd> ~gday RandomFactor2
[12:07:20] * exec scientifically sets an XFS volume of socks by RandomFactor2
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[13:06:30] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - E. Coli Created Using Synthetic DNA - http://sylnt.us - debugging
[13:17:51] <RandomFactor2> so, if we ever manage to kill if e.coli we can now bring it back?
[13:17:57] <RandomFactor2> off
[13:21:55] <AndyTheAbsurd> IIRC, we actually need E. coli in our gut
[13:22:08] <AndyTheAbsurd> problems only arise when it gets places it shouldn't be.
[13:26:37] <FatPhil> there's more than one E. Coli, and indeed some are good
[13:33:08] <FatPhil> fecal-oral transmission = e. coli forms anal strains
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[14:56:21] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - In Baltimore And Beyond, A Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc - http://sylnt.us
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[15:22:15] <boru> Neat, looks like Musk has tasked his spacex engineers with lowering the albedo of the spacelink satellites after enough of us astronomers complained.
[15:22:39] <cmn32480> put them in a black bag
[15:31:56] <boru> The problem is thermal radiation; you could coat them in vantablack, or some other space grade material like that.
[15:32:12] <boru> But then you have a problem with dissipating heat, which they have (I think their radios are x-band)
[15:32:34] <boru> Ergo, it's not an easy problem to solve, but certainly a PITA for astronomers and astronomical surveys, as it stands.
[15:33:33] <AndyTheAbsurd> Musk should solve this problem by creating a moon base observatory.
[15:34:11] <boru> Indeed. I'd get behind constructing the OWL telescope on Luna.
[15:34:21] <boru> But that's quite the logistical problem.
[15:34:41] <boru> Even here on Earth it was. Ergo, ESO decided to build the ELT instead.
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[15:51:12] <cmn32480> just build a really tall escalator...
[15:53:05] <RandomFactor2> used to take the longest one in the southeast to and from work. it was.. great.. when it wasn't working.
[16:19:08] <FatPhil> where was that?
[16:37:38] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - http://sylnt.us - all-natural-phenomena
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[18:27:00] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - IBM Plans to Commercialize a 58-Qubit Quantum Computer - http://sylnt.us - just-a-wee-machine
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[18:35:44] <AndyTheAbsurd> FatPhil: I'm guessing the CNN Center in Atlanta. (60m free-standing escalator.)
[18:38:40] <AndyTheAbsurd> I've been on the escalator at Porter Square MBTA station (technically Cambridge, Mass. but from as far away as you, you can just think "Boston") which is 43m and I thought that was ridiculously long.
[18:46:19] <chromas> https://www.kcra.com
[18:46:20] <upstart> ^ 03Nutritionist says pizza is better for breakfast than most cereals
[18:46:29] <chromas> pizza++
[18:46:29] <Bender> karma - pizza: 43
[18:52:40] <AndyTheAbsurd> Tim Ferris's (the "Four Hour Work Week" guy) book "the four hour body" suggests that 30 grams of protein for breakfast is best, and that pizza would have too many fast-processing carbohydrates to be good for breakfast.
[18:52:51] <AndyTheAbsurd> That said: I had pizza for lunch and it was fantastic.
[18:58:58] <RandomFactor_> Very closeby that, the MARTA escalater at Peachtree Center station
[18:59:27] <chromas> Why are the escalators so long?
[18:59:49] <RandomFactor_> It's a health thing. If they aren't working 3 times a week you get all your exercize in
[19:02:04] <AndyTheAbsurd> I think I've been to that MARTA station.
[19:03:32] <AndyTheAbsurd> Went to Atlanta for DragonCon, and managed to score a room at the Hyatt - so we dropped our stuff at the hotel, then I drove the car out to one of the suburban stations with a garage and rode MARTA back in.
[19:03:52] <AndyTheAbsurd> It was the cheapest way to park the car for the five days we were going to be there.
[19:04:17] <AndyTheAbsurd> (And Atlanta's not far enough from home for me to bother with a flight.)
[19:14:08] <RandomFactor_> Heh, i went to the Hyatt for years for that. Finally gave it up and didn't go this last time. Just not enough new each year and the kids aren't into it anymore.
[19:15:08] <RandomFactor_> le sigh - I remember the Marriott Carpet, when it was still in the Marriott
[19:15:25] <AndyTheAbsurd> we stopped going a few years back...mostly because it's gotten too big to be enjoyable, but also because we enjoy "literary" cons more than "media" cons.
[19:31:48] <RandomFactor_> yeah, getting stuck in the gerbil tunnels for a couple hours while con-goers freak out is un-fun
[19:32:11] <RandomFactor_> or navigating through the foodcourt by just picking your feet up and letting the press carry you along (almost true)
[19:37:49] <AndyTheAbsurd> #submit https://techcrunch.com
[19:37:49] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[19:38:15] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[19:38:25] <RandomFactor_> That sounds interesting
[19:40:49] <AndyTheAbsurd> #submit https://www.sciencedaily.com Surprise! It's <i>not</i> autism!
[19:40:50] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[19:41:15] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[19:42:37] <AndyTheAbsurd> Yeah; apparently Honda is claiming a 125 mile range for the vehicle. Which doesn't put it on a par with Tesla's claimed range, but it's enough to not have range anxiety if you're using it as a commuter vehicle and keeping a dinosaur-burner for longer trips.
[19:54:36] <chromas> naughtism
[19:55:01] * cmn32480 considers a nap before going home
[20:06:47] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Stronger Than Aluminum, A Heavily Altered Wood Cools Passively - http://sylnt.us - sawing-logs
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[21:40:11] <FatPhil> "Your answer profile matches most strongly to the Analytical/Tough-minded temperament. This temperament is dominated by the neurotransmitter testostrone, which promotes confidence, aggression and rule based thinking. People with this temperament are competative and direct." -- https://openpsychometrics.org
[21:45:29] <AndyTheAbsurd> ...smells like testosterone^Wbullshit.
[21:46:30] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Quake II to Get Free Real-Time Raytracing Update on June 6 - http://sylnt.us - quaking-in-my-bits
[22:05:10] <FatPhil> bullshit ain't a neurotransmitter
[22:05:50] <FatPhil> even though it sometimes seems that some people's brains are driven by it.
[22:07:13] <TheMightyBuzzard> s'true. it's what's transmitted not the transmitter.
[22:21:23] <FatPhil> an exhaust product
[22:21:28] <FatPhil> sometimes quite exhausting
[22:34:54] <AzumaHazuki> huh...i got 35 each for the estrogen and the testosterone scores, lol
[22:35:24] <AzumaHazuki> 25 for serotonin, 16 for dopamine
[22:47:57] <TheMightyBuzzard> 22/43 Curious/Energetic | 28/43 Cautious/Social Norm Compliant | 41/43 Analytical/Tough-minded | 20/43 Prosocial/Empathetic
[22:48:59] <TheMightyBuzzard> dunno where they got 43 energetic from but the rest is more or less fair for a dippy internet thing.
[22:50:28] <TheMightyBuzzard> should really have asked how many addictions i have for the dopamine end of things though. caffeine and nicotine alone should tip that up in a big way.
[22:51:35] <chromas> They don't need any of those questions if they just ask about your opinion on Perl. If you like it, they automatically know you smoke and drank coffees
[22:55:58] <TheMightyBuzzard> true
[23:02:54] <TheMightyBuzzard> oh and...
[23:02:56] <TheMightyBuzzard> coffee++
[23:02:56] <Bender> karma - coffee: 4784
[23:17:40] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - New Optimization Chip Tackles Machine Learning, 5G Routing - http://sylnt.us - chips-will-soon-design-themselves
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