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  1. This gave me an idea! I'll launch my own Python repository, called PyPl.

  2. Re:Can't Log Out? on GNOME 3.26 Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I find MATE less bad than Gnome and KDE. Both used to suck less.

  3. Re:Can't Log Out? on GNOME 3.26 Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It probably means that there should be at least two linux users with uid >= 1000.

  4. Re:CPU power put to good use on At Least 1.65 Million Computers Are Mining Cryptocurrency For Hackers So Far This Year (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    It also supports Irma and Jose.

  5. Re:So along with the new sensors on Apple Announces iPhone X With Edge-To-Edge Display, Wireless Charging and No Home Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My cheap chinese headphones have continuous playback rated at +infinity hours.

  6. Facial recognition without button. How? on Leaks Reveal New Features In Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 2

    How is facial recognition supposed to work without any button?
    Is the camera always recording and scanning even when the phone is supposedly off?

  7. Re:it was a scam on Juicero, Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer, Is Shutting Down (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have anything planned in the next 10 hours, don't start watching this Youtube video!

  8. Re:Betteridge's Law of Headlines on Is the iPhone 'Years' Ahead of Android In Photography? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand the joke.

  9. Re:Not common?: The U.S.isn't the world on IBM's AI Can Predict Schizophrenia With 74 Percent Accuracy By Looking at the Brain's Blood Flow (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't know if you're joking/trolling. Schizophrenia affects 1% of the population and this rate is pretty much constant over the whole world and through history.

  10. GP has a point though. 1.2% of 7.5 billion is still 90 million.

  11. What does "Jew" got to do with anything?

  12. Re: old movie on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 1

    It depends. Many buyers ask the same price for all payment options, some add a fee for Paypal.

    I only use family/friends payments for family & friends :)

  13. Re: old movie on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 1

    They charge the seller, not the buyer. And if you want to send money to family/friends, it's free as well.

  14. Re:its not on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 1

    - Bob, how many donuts could we buy with $10 000?
    - I don't know, around 300?
    - Ooooohhhhhhh. Step away from your vehicle, sir!

  15. Re: old movie on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 2

    Paypal can suck a lot if you're the developer of a suddenly well-known game and receive too much money in a short time. It can suck if you're responsible for a charity whose goals don't fit Paypal's.

    But for the average Joe (including myself), it's pretty much perfect, easy to use and free.

  16. Re:What they don't tell you in the article on Google's New Startup Heats Your Home With Energy From Your Lawn (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    +1 But to be fair, it doesn't make sense to update *any* HVAC system before insulating the house. Plus, it's usually cheaper to insulate the roof, top-floor or windows than to install a new heat pump or pellet boiler.

  17. Re:make you feel better on 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does it have to be placebo? Do you really claim that the loud noises are the only reasons I feel better afterwards?

  18. Re:make you feel better on 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    What does placebo have to do with anything in my story? Why shouldn't I get the same placebo effect from massages? Why didn't pills work if "placebos do work"? The chiropractor really helped solve my acute problems, and nothing else did.

    Note that I'm not saying that it's the miracle solution for everyone, just like you shouldn't tell everyone that chiropractors can never help and only rely on placebo.

  19. Re:make you feel better on 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I went to 3 different massagers before going to the chiropractor. It felt good but it didn't relieve much pain afterwards. They all said that my back muscles were so stiff that they couldn't help much.

  20. Re:make you feel better on 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    Chiropractor helped my back problems a few times, during very acute pains (as in : walking, seating, climbing stairs and laying down are all extremely painful). It relieved 80% of the pain in a mere seconds. It's *not* placebo. I could hear my back and neck go "clack/clack/clack/clack/clack". It felt great after the initial schock of hearing very loud noises that sounded similar to movie sound effects when bad guys die from a neck-breaking move. Still, this treatment was needed if I wanted to stop this agony. Painkillers didn't help, neither did conventional doctors.

    It didn't solve the underlying problems though : mostly that I sit 10 hours a day in front of a computer, and that the only sport I did was skateboarding (with very unsymmetrical movements).

    So now, I try to walk regularly to work. The most important for me is to walk for a long time at a slow pace as soon as I notice my back hurts a bit. I feel great afterwards. Core exercises with a good warm up and cool down help too, as well as a hot bath (or sauna, as you mentioned). I still skateboard, but I push with both feet now.

  21. Re:Ruby on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    The order is different, which might become more apparent with nested comprehensions and chained Enumerable methods. For brownie points, you could have written (0..9).select(&:odd?).map{|i| i**2}, which brings us back to Ruby's TIMTOADY against Python's zen ("There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it").

    BTW, Python's range(10) has 10 elements (between 0 and 9), so it's equivalent to (0...10) or (0..9)

  22. Re:I hope not on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Javascript easier to scan than Python? You must be trolling.

  23. Re:Ruby on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ruby lover here. I can code Ruby while I sleep, but I felt a bit left out because there are so many awesome Python projects.
    In comparison, there's Rails as awesome Ruby project with a lot of momentum, and .... that's about it.

    With Ruby knowledge, it's actually pretty easy to grasp Python. There are a few gotchas and the syntax feels a bit boring compared to Ruby, but it's also easier to read other people's code because it's usually more explicit and a bit less dynamic than Ruby.

    I still love Ruby, but it's good to be able to write a few lines of Python and release the power of Numpy/Pandas/Sympy/Matplotlib/NetworkX/... It took me about 2 weeks to learn enough Python to use those libraries, and I still learn new stuff every day.

    Some parts of Python's syntax are really nice, e.g. list comprehension :

        >>> [x**2 for x in range(10) if x % 2 == 1]
        [1, 9, 25, 49, 81]

    It's completely different than all the Enumerable methods in Ruby, but it's very powerful and quite easy to read after a while.

  24. Dear lazy internet on JRR Tolkien Book 'Beren and Luthien' Published After 100 Years (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it a new story? I've read somewhere that it's just a re-edition. How much different is it from the Silmarillion's chapter?

    I obviously didn't bother to RTFA.

  25. Relevant movie to your post :
    https://www.rottentomatoes.com...

    98% Tomatometer, so you cannot go wrong. ;)