#soylent | Logs for 2020-07-06
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[00:25:31] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - New Mac Ransomware is Even More Sinister than it Appears - https://sylnt.us - "Macs-don't-get-viruses"
[00:45:03] <Bytram> biab
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[02:16:36] <tedious> I should have kept my mouth shut. :)
[02:16:58] <tedious> Gentoo dumped a bunch of python updates on me tonight.
[02:25:22] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.5 Billion or More in Funding - https://sylnt.us - you-want-us-make-our-own-instead-of-buying-yours?
[02:37:31] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.55 Billion or More in Funding - https://sylnt.us - you-want-us-make-our-own-instead-of-buying-yours?
[02:49:44] <AzumaHazuki> chilli is a-cookin'. i seared some onions and beef scrap bones first; this will create bone broth to cook the chilli in. also got some habaneros. they're nowhere near as hot as people say and they're soooo yummy
[03:44:37] <TheMightyBuzzard> https://www.bolde.com
[03:44:38] <systemd> ^ 03New 'Intelligent' Sex Robots Can Have Mood Swings Just Like Real Women
[03:44:39] <exec> └─ 13'Intelligent' Sex Robots Can Have Mood Swings Just Like Real Women
[03:48:43] <TheMightyBuzzard> i get that there are some guys who have no knack for getting women to want to be around them but that's just fiscally wasteful when you can get a hooker to pms at you for way cheaper. and then go away when you get tired of it.
[04:22:46] <chromas> Maybe you can exploit the feature to trigger a rampage somewhere
[04:37:33] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - https://sylnt.us - better-than-bees'-knees
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[06:23:08] <FatPhil> #weather
[06:23:09] <MrPlow> Pärnu mnt 67a, 10131 Tallinn, Estonia - Today: "Clear throughout the day." 66/55F, Humidity: 73%, Precip: 52%, Wind ~17mph. Tue: "Possible light rain in the afternoon." 62/51F, Humidity: 77%, Precip: 50%, Wind ~14mph. Wed: "Possible light rain in the afternoon and evening." 64/49F, Humidity: 76%, Precip: 73%, Wind ~9mph.
[06:36:19] <chromas> https://digiday.com
[06:36:20] <systemd> ^ 03Sex toy sales are up and publishers are seeing an opportunity to grasp - Digiday
[06:36:21] <exec> └─ 13Sex toy sales are up and publishers are seeing an opportunity to grasp - Digiday
[06:36:54] <chromas> Probably EF stocking up on extensions
[06:46:30] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - https://sylnt.us - Use-it-up.-Wear-it-out.-Make-do.-Do-without.
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[07:07:18] <FatPhil> Probably EF extending his stockings collection
[07:07:29] <FatPhil> =gorgonzola chromas
[07:07:30] * systemd niggardly heaps a cylinder of mud on chromas
[07:08:19] <chromas> =gazongas FatPhil
[07:08:19] * systemd absolutely imagines a carload of alcohol-free beer with FatPhil
[08:49:16] <FatPhil> niggardly's not an adverb, it's an adjective.
[08:56:34] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - https://sylnt.us - a-snitch-in-time-saves-nine
[09:05:44] <chromas> How about niggardlyly?
[09:13:17] <FatPhil> -lily would follow the usual pattern.
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[10:56:36] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - https://sylnt.us
[12:25:44] <Bytram> coffee++
[12:25:44] <Bender> karma - coffee: 5297
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[12:33:25] <RandomFactor> =submit poke e mon https://www.scientificamerican.com
[12:33:27] <systemd> Submitting "Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show"...
[12:33:28] <exec> └─ 13Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - Scientific American
[12:33:49] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show" (33 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[13:07:39] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - NASA’s Most Iconic Building is 55 Years Old and Just Getting Started - https://sylnt.us - lots-of-room
[13:18:28] <Teckla> coffee++
[13:18:28] <Bender> karma - coffee: 5298
[13:52:43] <TheMightyBuzzard> coffee++
[13:52:43] <Bender> karma - coffee: 5299
[13:52:48] <TheMightyBuzzard> kanye++
[13:52:48] <Bender> karma - kanye: 2
[14:27:01] <Teckla> LOL @ Kanye's presidential run
[14:27:16] <Teckla> Can't imagine what he thinks he's going to accomplish.
[14:38:54] <FatPhil> he's there to split the idiot vote
[14:46:22] <TheMightyBuzzard> he's there to make me laugh my ass off
[14:46:31] <FatPhil> 000000
[15:17:24] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - https://sylnt.us - math-simplified
[16:06:43] <FatPhil> but the completing the square method is wildly simple?!??
[16:07:24] <FatPhil> I could do it while I was in single digits, I'm sure.
[16:25:32] <chromas> Yeah but did you get an article written about you?
[16:26:31] <RandomFactor> Kanye's running, but he can't even get on the ballot in some important states at this point. And in others would have to get hundreds of thousands of signatures within days.
[16:26:53] <RandomFactor> basically it is a non starter IMO. However it's a great way to feel things out and prep for 2024 if he's seriously interested.
[16:32:45] <RandomFactor> @phatphil niggardly is an adjective, however it has an archaic usage as an adverb (frankly any usage is archaic at this point imo) - https://www.lexico.com
[16:32:47] <exec> └─ 13Niggardly | Definition of Niggardly by Oxford Dictionary on Lexico.com also meaning of Niggardly
[17:18:44] <FatPhil> its etymology would put it as either, as with most 'like' endings, but that 'archaic' supports my claim, hypocrisy be damned!
[17:19:53] <FatPhil> chromas: this a high-profile enough place for an article about me to be written? https://www.bbc.com
[17:19:57] <exec> └─ 13A few controversial numbers may be illegal to share - BBC Future
[17:20:07] <systemd> ^ 03A few controversial numbers may be illegal to share
[17:25:50] <chromas> I remember the number thing. Didn't know that was you
[17:26:05] <chromas> But on the other hand, the BBC hardly counts as news
[17:26:32] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - The Bat-Virus Détente - https://sylnt.us - holy-interferons-Batman!
[17:26:34] <FatPhil> It was a very long time ago, no idea why the BBC resurrected it.
[17:26:35] <TheMightyBuzzard> chromas++
[17:26:35] <Bender> karma - chromas: 294
[17:27:05] * TheMightyBuzzard tips hat to FatPhil
[17:27:33] <TheMightyBuzzard> been following your exploits for a while but didn't ever put two n two together
[17:29:37] * TheMightyBuzzard buggers off for a nap
[17:33:43] <chromas> I like how they just have stock photos of numbers on things
[17:35:04] <chromas> Perhaps I need to get into the stock photography of inane things business
[19:38:50] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - https://sylnt.us - Hmm,-Braaains!
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[20:15:57] <FatPhil> oh, jeebus, just watched Life (2017), and think I need my brain to be electrocuted back to life.
[20:17:17] <boru> I looked it up because I thought it was David Attenborough or Monty Python. I stopped reading at "American sci-fi horror".
[20:17:42] <FatPhil> check the user reviews, or the <=40 Metacritic ones
[20:18:00] <boru> Pft, reviews. Now there is a waste of time.
[20:18:21] <boru> On imdb, they're about as useful as amazon reviews.
[20:18:29] <RandomFactor> @phatphil hey, I have a DeCSS T-shirt floating around somewhere still
[20:18:31] <boru> "I ordered the wrong thing. 1 star."
[20:19:00] <FatPhil> 'what the f**k, haters? If you want to watch a sci-fi alien monster movie that's 'realistic', go watch some NASA documentaries, don't come to the cinemas.'
[20:19:17] <FatPhil> Come on, that's worth the effort isn't it?
[20:21:22] <boru> I remain unconvinced. I think that giving the general public a voice on the web was one of the worst things imaginable.
[20:21:33] <boru> It's like Eternal September all over again.
[20:22:07] <boru> I wonder if the IETF will accept that RFC for sterilising people over IP.
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[21:47:36] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - https://sylnt.us - poke-e-mon
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[22:32:28] <Sulla> Is there a reason that the Shellenberger story isn't being accepted?
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[23:45:57] <RandomFactor> You mean https://soylentnews.org
[23:45:58] <systemd> ^ 03On Behalf of Environmentalists, I Apologize for the Climate Scare: SoylentNews Submission
[23:45:59] <exec> └─ 13On Behalf of Environmentalists, I Apologize for the Climate Scare: SoylentNews Submission
[23:47:59] <Sulla> Yeah. Just finished the book. Devistating evidence in support of nuclear power
[23:49:02] <RandomFactor> Environmentalists should always have been the strongest proponents of nuclear power.
[23:49:22] <RandomFactor> scratch that
[23:49:37] <RandomFactor> EVERYONE should always have been the strongest proponents of nuclear power.
[23:50:02] <Sulla> TLDR version of the book is that renewables wont ever meet requirements for power and it would be bad if they did, and that the pushing of wind and solar is funded by big oil/coal that knows that it wont work and keeps failing forcing us back into their hands
[23:50:35] <RandomFactor> Never ascribe to ill intent what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
[23:50:51] <Sulla> I really suggest reading or listening to the book
[23:50:57] <Sulla> I'm going to listen to it a second time
[23:51:15] <RandomFactor> He might convince me otherwise, but it would take some doing :-)
[23:51:41] <Sulla> The whole california SE asian oil deal was outstanding
[23:52:19] <Sulla> Jerry Browns father major investment in SE Asian oil, Jerry Brown works to kill nuclear projects, as other renewables fail to work effectively his family makes millions on oil sales
[23:52:43] <Sulla> I need to pick up book as it is supposed to have some 100 pages of backup
[23:52:54] <RandomFactor> 400 pages, 100 of it endnotes
[23:53:00] <RandomFactor> is what the sub said
[23:53:22] <Sulla> Wish more people backed nuclear
[23:54:03] <RandomFactor> Yeah. Fusion might fill that gap eventually, but not in my working lifetime.
[23:54:48] <Sulla> Shellenberger in podcasts has said that kicking the can down for fusion is a terrible idea when Gen2 reactors would work fine for the extent of any gap
[23:55:14] <Sulla> do love me some fusion though
[23:55:30] <RandomFactor> yep
[23:55:49] <Sulla> Modern reactors and getting rid of the nuclear non-proliferation act to allow us to build breeder reactors to eliminate waste would solve pretty much all our issues
[23:56:16] <Sulla> Old Trojan site near Portland, OR has some 1k years of old reactor waste we could burn for power in a breeder reactor
[23:57:19] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - https://sylnt.us - free-as-in-beer
[23:57:41] <Sulla> I do wonder if the guy has any investments in nuclear. Won't change my opinion because nuclear is needed, but is bad optics for his points
[23:57:49] <RandomFactor> 30 years ago a nuclear engineering professor explained it was a minimum of 50 years before we would see a commercial fusion reactor. He was a bleeding optimist.
[23:58:27] <RandomFactor> actually make it 35
[23:58:54] <AndyTheAbsurd> LOL...commercial fusion reactors have been 30 to 50 years away for 50 years.
[23:59:03] <AndyTheAbsurd> it's...not a front where we're making progress.
[23:59:25] <RandomFactor> there's been a good bit of progress recently, i'm thinking 45 now.
[23:59:52] <chromas> In 35 more years, it'll only be 40 years away
[23:59:55] <Sulla> https://www.lockheedmartin.com
[23:59:57] <exec> └─ 13Compact Fusion | Lockheed Martin
[23:59:57] <systemd> ^ 03Compact Fusion