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  1. Diehard? on EA Shuts Down Fan-Run Servers For Older Battlefield Games (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "As diehard fans of the franchise, we will respect these stipulations."

    More like die easy.

  2. Re:The future is NoOps on Time To Move on from DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Says Google Advocate (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ha!

    Here's the "simple calculator" that doesn't even cover all of the services:
    http://calculator.s3.amazonaws...

    Put it on S3? S3 is storage! You need it to be on EC2. Possibly behind Beanstalk. Oh, you want to actually make use of the fancy cloud features for internet-accessible shit? You'll need Route 53, too, and the Elastic Load Balancer.

    https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pric...
    https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pri...
    https://aws.amazon.com/route53...
    https://aws.amazon.com/elastic...

    Beanstalk is free, though!

    Take a look at this fucking list. https://i.imgur.com/nBasljK.pn...

  3. Re:Expensive phone, expensive screen on PSA: Apple's iPhone X Screen Repair Will Cost You $279 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    You expected your $1k phone to have a cheap screen?

    If you want to save money on your phone, don’t buy the most expensive phone available.

    To be fair, the Pixel 2 XL's screen is hard at work conditioning people to exactly that.
    Get your shit together, LG. You make the best 4K OLED TV panels but you can't maintain any consistency for phones? Someone needs to step up and kill Samsung's stranglehold on that market.

  4. Re:It's a fair price... on PSA: Apple's iPhone X Screen Repair Will Cost You $279 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    considering each pixel has to be hand painted by hand.

    And here I thought they were hand painting them by foot!

  5. Re:Not if you have AppleCare... on PSA: Apple's iPhone X Screen Repair Will Cost You $279 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple Care is now the baseline tax if you want any semblance of service.
    If you want good service you pay for Apple Care+, or you make repeated visits to the Apple Store until you get lucky.

  6. PSA: This Isn't Reddit on PSA: Apple's iPhone X Screen Repair Will Cost You $279 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    PSA: Only idiots on Reddit label mildly-informative and highly-specific shit with "PSA".

  7. Re:The future is NoOps on Time To Move on from DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Says Google Advocate (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With Amazon Lambda and other microservices, you just need HR to hand out IAM accounts, and a company really doesn't need an IT staff whatsoever. Just some CI/CD mechanism to get pushes in production, and that is basically it.

    Ops is dead. Who needs to rack and stack physical servers when the cloud takes care of that, and far cheaper. Who needs OS guys, app guys, net admins, and DBAs when serverless services replace all this?

    Lets be real... the future is NoOps. Pay your Amazon bill, and they take care of your IT infrastructure.

    The cloud is NOT cheaper. Amazon is expensive. And you never know how much you're going to pay.
    Even hosting a simple static website is a nightmare. They have about different 40 products for simple domain name management alone.

  8. Re: First CS assignment. on If You Type 1+2+3 Into Your iPhone's Calculator on iOS 11, You Probably Won't Get 6 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Do Alt+1/2/3/4 not work?

  9. Re: Choose the right outfit. on British Company Adds the Word 'Blockchain' to Its Name, Sees Its Shares Surge 394% (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agreed, less polygons is better

    Fewer polygons are better.
    Having fewer polygons is better.

  10. Anyone selling you on "blockchain technology" or a "blockchain product" is a useless piece of lying shit and should be shot in the teeth.

    A blockchain is a digital ledger. That's literally all it fucking is.

    If you want an encrypted, distributed, decentralized blockchain go copy Bitcoin. It's free and easy to do.
    If you want all of that but want to tweak the speed, algorithm, difficulty, storage, etc. just roll your own coin. It's free and easy to do.
    If you want to do stupid bullshit like have central control over your blockchain you can do that too. If you want to copy from someone, go copy any of the alt coins pegged to BTC. Or go copy any project/token from Ethereum.
    If you want to outright scam people, just copy paste an "ICO".

    Absolutely NONE of these companies are working on "blockchain technology" or a "blockchain product".

    They're either:

    A: Acting as a middleman to buy, sell, and transact in various crypto currencies.
    B: Doing absolutely nothing but taking investor money and pissing it away.
    C: Trying to fork, leverage, brand, and control a blockchain of their own. With that control aspect, they're essentially creating their own currency. The major financial institutions are absolutely poised and ready to do this. No one has made the first move because taking control of the money supply away from the feds is about the only thing that would get banksters thrown in jail.

  11. Re:Reader math as good as Apple math on If You Type 1+2+3 Into Your iPhone's Calculator on iOS 11, You Probably Won't Get 6 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    This bothered me as well.

    1 + 2 + 3

    23: drop the 1 and the second +.
    24: drop the second +.
    16: no fucking clue, we'd need to duplicate the first one. Perhaps the author typod it and meant 15 (drop the first +).
    32: no fucking clue.

  12. This is an accurate and correct description of the behavior of calc.exe .
    For my purposes, I'm almost always in scientific mode (occasionally in programmer mode, but only if I don't want to open up a better tool).

  13. Re:First CS assignment. on If You Type 1+2+3 Into Your iPhone's Calculator on iOS 11, You Probably Won't Get 6 (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It gets even weirder than that!

    4 @ - 2 = -8.1648465955514287168521180122928e-39 (@ is the shortcut for clicking the square root key)
    4 y .5 - 2 = 1.0605907030850721689734498566293e-38 (y is the shortcut for clicking the "x to the power of y" key)
    4 y ( 1 / 2 ) - 2 = -8.1648465955514287168521180122928e-39 (y is the shortcut for clicking the "x to the power of y" key)

    It even shows "0.5" after you type the closing parenthesis when doing 4 y ( 1 / 2 ). Yet the result differs compared to 4 y .5 - 2 (or 4 y 0.5 - 2).

    WTFOOK MS?

  14. Re: Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    ooooooooooooooooooooooh sick burn

  15. Re: Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    What was it about then?

    Same as always. Power (facilitated by money, facilitated in large part for the South by slavery).

  16. Re:Oh boo-hoo! on Reddit Conducts Wide-Ranging Purge of Offensive Subreddits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a clear difference between handing out fliers promoting unpopular opinions, and publicly displaying distasteful or harmful images.

    No there isn't. If you allow that kind of bullshit then you're zero steps away from declaring the fliers to be distasteful or harmful.

  17. Re:Oh boo-hoo! on Reddit Conducts Wide-Ranging Purge of Offensive Subreddits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Free speech rules don't allow "content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people", which is what we're talking about. If you were in an actual town square behaving that way, you'd be arrested. Being a common carrier does not make such speech legal.

    Free speech rules? Which rules are those?
    There's only one. Go read it. It absolutely allows for all speech.

  18. Freedom of speech has pretty simple limits.

    Not in the U. S. of A. Not legally, at least. The highest law in the land plainly states there is no limitation on speech.

    You can hold people responsible for the direct results of their speech. But you can never legally restrict someone's speech. Yet it happens all the time. How do you expect ANY of your rights to be respected when you won't stand up for ALL of them?

  19. If you want reddit to be a platform for hate you should have no issue with any social media being a platform for ISIS or literal nazis

    I'd have no problem with ISIS or capital N Nazis having a free and open platform. That's the quickest way for people to see what they are.

  20. Re:Good bye, old friend... on Reddit Conducts Wide-Ranging Purge of Offensive Subreddits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    DeviantArt threw out its's creeps

    DeviantArt threw out DeviantArt?

  21. I'm not a fan of fucking the existing definition of kilobit/kilobyte/megabit/megabyte/etc., or approximating discrete things unnecessarily.

  22. Re:Many was pro-union? What a surprise! on Tesla Hit With Labor Complaint On Behalf of Fired Factory Workers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It takes a long time for a critical mass of people to experience the shit and get sick enough of it that they take action.

  23. Bossa Nova Robotics? on Walmart Tests Shelf-Scanning Robots In Over 50 Stores (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Soul Bossa Nova? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  24. Re:"not just for graphics cards anymore" on PCIe 4.0 Specs Revealed: 16GTps Rate and Not Just For Graphics Cards Anymore (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 2

    NVMe is not PCIe.

    NVMe is implemented over PCIe. It doesn't have to be. PCIe is a physical and electrical bus with logical controllers. NVMe is a logical interface that runs over PCIe. It could run on whatever.

  25. 16,000,000,000 transfers per second * 1 bit per lane (in each direction) = 16,000,000,000 bits per second per lane (in each direction).

    16,000,000,000 bits per second per lane (in each direction) / 130 bits per datagram =123,076,923.07692307692307692307692 datagrams per second per lane (in each direction).

    123,076,923.07692307692307692307692 datagrams per second per lane (in each direction) * 128 bites payload data per datagram = 15,753,846,153.846153846153846153846 payload bits per second per lane (in each direction).

    15,753,846,153.846153846153846153846 payload bits per second per lane (in each direction) / 8 bits per byte / 1024 bytes per kilobyte / 1024 kilobytes per megabyte / 1024 megabytes per gigabyte = 1.8339890700120192307692307692308 gigabytes payload data per second per lane (in each direction).