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  1. Re:To have pages that load fast in mobile or other on Should Webmasters Resist Google's Push For AMP Pages? (polemicdigital.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    6 seconds is not fast. 2-3 seconds for body content or the user bounces. And even that's a long time. If the whole page isn't done loading in six seconds, I'll be suspecting malware or mining JavaScript.

  2. Re:Mobile devices vs full-feldge computers on Should Webmasters Resist Google's Push For AMP Pages? (polemicdigital.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care how fast my network is. I don't want bandwidth-wasting mobile sites. Not just because I have a limited data cap, but it's still faster to have a lean site regardless.

  3. Re:Why are people not upgrading? on Windows 7 Will Get Updates for Four More Years -- If You Pay (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And maybe some of those computers should be on a VLAN with no Internet access in the first place, since they are not acting as general purpose computers. No updates, no major malware vector. Sometimes a computer is only there to run one program

  4. Renters pay property taxes too, you know. How else do you think the landlord paid the tax bill?

  5. Re: Don't take probiotic pills on Study Finds Probiotics 'Not As Beneficial For Gut Health As Previously Thought' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They likely contain a lot more biodiversity vs. a monoculture or handful of strains in probiotic supplements. And they would still probably be ineffectual most of the time, except after antibiotic use. This study doesn't cover any of that. Of course if you're trying to feed the microbiome you already have, eating unfermented vegetables makes more sense as they still have the complex sugars like oligosaccharides, fructans and so on that would feed it. That depends on whether you are repopulating after antibiotics or not.

  6. Re:This study is done by morons on Study Finds Probiotics 'Not As Beneficial For Gut Health As Previously Thought' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Look, if you take probiotic pills, you are replacing your normal biome WITH the biome of the pills.

    The study concluded the opposite (in all cases except with antibiotic use). And the results are surprising. What it sounds like is happening is that all of the bacteria in the probiotic compete for food with the biofilm in your intestines. However, the probiotic has no way to supplant the biofilm - that's a protective layer that keeps out competing bacteria. It just starves the resident population a little bit as it passes on through. Either way, more or less none of it stays behind and it all leaves the body with your digested food.

    With antibiotic use, the biofilm dies off, but there are only a few strains in the probiotic. These compete with the remnant biofilm reserve in the appendix for recolonization and actually slow recovery. Again this is just continuing my theory based on the results of the study. And those few strains are not enough diversity to maintain your digestive health and should not be the entire makeup of your intestinal microbiome.

  7. Re:Bitter sweet on Study Finds Probiotics 'Not As Beneficial For Gut Health As Previously Thought' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The "S" stands for syndrome, which identifies it as a collection of symptoms and not a disease. It's a diagnosis only in that there are good ways to treat the symptoms even when you don't understand the root cause fully.

  8. Re:I bet you on Google Investigating Issue With Blurry Fonts on new Chrome 69 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So you like the way I word it (No Giggity).

  9. Re:I bet you on Google Investigating Issue With Blurry Fonts on new Chrome 69 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If it looks significantly worse, it could also have nothing at all to do with the bug - Chrome is DPI aware and should never have that enabled. Especially since the bug report doesn't have any mention of anything but the system DPI setting.

  10. Re:I bet you on Google Investigating Issue With Blurry Fonts on new Chrome 69 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Looking at some zoomed in screenshots, I think they're scaling the subpixel rendering itself (which should never happen). There is no reason to have red or blue tint on anything but the outermost pixel, but looking at my screenshot close up I'm seeing two side-by-side bluish or reddish pixels.

  11. Re:I bet you on Google Investigating Issue With Blurry Fonts on new Chrome 69 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. I use the standard DPI settings for the whole screen (1.5x on my 27" 4K screen), which only works with programs that are DPI-aware. It's true that I didn't notice the blurry fonts until I saw the headline, but I really just thought I was that tired (I've only had 69 for about a day). At least for me, it's fairly mild.

  12. Re:Streisandotted? on Amazon.com Suffers Search Glitch, Users Say · · Score: 1

    They definitely eat their own dogfood. That's how AWS even came to be in the first place. Not everything is AWS, but I'm sure product search would be. This is from a few years ago:

    The WSJ spoke with a former Amazon executive who said that back-end databases with confidential data on them do not run in AWS’s cloud. An AWS spokesperson told the WSJ that “the vast majority of Amazon.com runs in AWS.” But not everything.

  13. Re:So if you have already owned the phone on Researchers Used Sonar Signal From a Smartphone Speaker To Steal Unlock Passwords (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you used the word "password" when the whole article is about unlock patterns. Just because I used words more similar to you doesn't mean I forgot what we were actually talking about.

  14. Re:So if you have already owned the phone on Researchers Used Sonar Signal From a Smartphone Speaker To Steal Unlock Passwords (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This is about a pattern unlock. How often do those get reused?

  15. Re:needs to be done but needs parity in funding on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they rejected your review because they know you only watched 3 minutes of it and that's not very useful.

  16. Re:30% from each state? on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    All Goosio, all the time.

  17. Re:What does it even mean to "give over 30%" on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The content still isn't free. And Netflix is put into a poor bargaining position with this - if the content is limited enough the EU studios are free to extort higher license fees. And to hit their quotas they will likely have to either increase subscription rates or shrink the catalog to stay competitive.

  18. Re: Catalogue reductions on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Those things all happened while governments existed. Show me a counterpoint /s

  19. Background microphone doesn't require any permissions? Maybe we need to solve that one first. Would be great for getting rid of those advertising ping listeners too.

  20. Re:So if you have already owned the phone on Researchers Used Sonar Signal From a Smartphone Speaker To Steal Unlock Passwords (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    More importantly, why would you even need the passcode at that point?

  21. indeed such jobs may be charity or generosity

    No. Not if they need the labor. There are no mental gymnastics to credibly say that trading money for work is a pretend job.

  22. Re:Most indexes are failing... on Amazon.com Suffers Search Glitch, Users Say · · Score: 1

    The search indexes are fine. You get a correct number of results listed, and paginated blank results page. The actual search results appear to load in via javascript after the empty page loads and that's what's failing. Everything is working except for populating the list on each page of results with titles, descriptions, and photos.

  23. You're just saying it's okay to push one out and then deprive the kid of an average upbringing. I'm saying it's not.

    That actually sounds like your argument. You said the solution was to deprive them of their upbringing (i.e. "ideally would have the children taken from them") rather than have society do something to correct it (help the child with their upbringing).

    I'm saying that letting kids be born stupid if you can prevent it, and/or WRT education then providing them with an insufficient one, is mistreating them horribly. Do you disagree?

    What makes them born stupid? And K-12 education is already socialized - I'm not sure what you're getting at.

  24. Re:Streisandotted? on Amazon.com Suffers Search Glitch, Users Say · · Score: 1

    2xx is a successful response, and I assume they have enough brains to report hitting a traffic limit as an error. Also, they have the entire AWS system at their disposal. Why would they put in traffic limits or de-prioritize themselves vs. their AWS clients?

    Why the actual search results aren't in the page body and instead are fetched after page load is a question that I don't even want to try to answer.

    On the other hand, I do see 502 and 503 errors related to their (newish) advertising platform. And maybe that was implemented in a way that breaks the rest of the page. Google says this page was updated in the last 3 hours: https://advertising.amazon.com...

  25. Re:Streisandotted? on Amazon.com Suffers Search Glitch, Users Say · · Score: 2

    It doesn't look like a traffic problem. A search does return a number of results. Searching for something that has a large number of results does paginate correctly. But the actual API request to pull the actual items in seem to be returning a 2xx response with an empty body.