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  1. Re:Visceral dislike of space-based advertising on Pepsi Drops Plans To Use Artificial Constellation To Promote An Energy Drink (spacenews.com) · · Score: 1

    In a way, I wish Pepsi had gone through with their stupid plan: it might have provoked a real backlash against the ubiquitous brain pollution that is advertising.

    It would have been fun, for every 3rd world country with a rocket program trying to make the big leagues with some anti-satellite antics, to start taking shots at it.

  2. Whoever tried to slap that shit together as a fraction or take shortcuts and try to manipulate those symbols in a way that looks sort of like algebraic manipulation is a clown. Trying to fix that is going to be an uphill battle, but using more of the busted notation isn't really the solution.

    100% agree.

    The thing is, superior notations are right in front of us. Programmers use a variety of them every day.

  3. Re:Seems quite a lot larger... on Old-School Slashdotter Discovers and Solves Longstanding Flaw In Basic Calculus (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 1

    .....given that the original form is too verbose, it is no surprise that longer algebraic constructions are also too verbose

    The problem with both these forms is that while this may be how the theory-side thinks of it, its not how the applied side thinks of it. Trying to get from a relation stated in the original notation, to an applied calculation via algebra, leads nowhere. The second "notation" is clearly a minefield for any applied guy (*) even if algebraic manipulations are now valid.

    (*) most of the hundred million programmers worldwide are applied guys

  4. Re:Chrome was good for a while ... on Chrome, Safari and Opera Criticised For Removing Privacy Setting (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    and made Firefox lift its game out of complacency

    Firefox went far more complacent once the Google money started rolling in.

  5. Re: Another fine piece of fake news... on Alzheimer's Disease Affects 'Twice As Many People' As Experts Thought (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems to me if a theorized-to-be telltale sign of Alzheimer's isnt present in a staggering number of people that are specifically not diagnosed with Alzheimer's, then maybe it isnt such a telltale sign after all.

  6. Re:Where is the cord cutting? on Cord-Cutting Hits Video Games (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. There werent no cord, and now there is. Opposite of cord cutting.

  7. Stop allowing websites to pop up anything, every. Seriously. For fuck sakes.

    Why is this hard to understand?

  8. Re:Policing Internet Content? on Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the real problem here is we can't even decide which speech should be protected, and which should be banned.

    No, we decided that a long time ago. Ergo we arent having a problem deciding.

    The real problem isn't even that thats not good enough for some sensitive fucks.. the problem is that we take those sensitive fucks seriously.

  9. Re:Better question on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 0

    In the BBS days there was no argument. Everyone knew it was like jiff.

    The problem began when the millennial that dont know shit, think that they do.

  10. Re: China and India on 74% of US Coal Plants Threatened by Renewables, But Emissions Continue To Rise (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because virtue signalling?

    The left coast maintains that the signaling of virtue is the most important thing. We are talking about nothingburgers here. Nothingburgers are a healthy alternative to regular stuff.

  11. Re:Just a PR stunt... on First All-Female Spacewalk Canceled Because NASA Doesn't Have Two Suits That Fit (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I mentally replaced all references to the feminine with the masculine within the summary while reading it. Amazingly, I found the references to gender suddenly both extremely offensive and still unnecessary.

    The story is sexist bullshit masquerading as social justice pandering.

  12. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Electrical resistance heating is an expensive way to heat a house in any state, so you can still save money with LED's if you, say, have gas heat.

    So what you are saying is that because there is a situation where someone benefits (gas heat) ... lets stop talking about the situations where someone else can benefit (electric heat) if the government wasnt demanding that they live sub-optimally so coastal elites can feel good about them shallow empty lives...

  13. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That's not really safe -- there are lots of products with hundreds, even thousands of mostly fake reviews.

    And long-selling products change materials and design.... old reviews are not of the current product.

  14. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    But why compare their output to CFL's, instead of incandescents and halogens?

    Its cherry picking and stupidity.

  15. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure U.S. life expectancy has dropped since the anti-incandescent law began.

  16. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The secret to keeping CFL or LED bulbs from dying when used in frequent on/off areas is to just leave them on.

    Somehow I suspect any "green new deal" will work as well in its intended goals.

  17. Re:free and anonymous connectivity is not the prob on 8chan Criticized By Its Founder, Blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    for the love of god mod this man up - information isnt the weapon - it is the restriction of information that is the weapon

  18. Re:All Machine Learning systems have an error rate on Researchers Built an 'Online Lie Detector.' Honestly, That Could Be a Problem (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You are confusing Regression with Classification. Classification produces a yes/no, choice A/B/C type answer.

    Stop modding this guy up as he really doesnt know what he is talking about. Grossly so.

    All the top image classifiers produce probabilities, and further produce many probability not just a single one. They arent answering the question "Is this an image of a cat?" They are answering the questions "Whats the chance that there is a cat in this picture? What the chance that a horse is in this picture? Whats the chance that there is a burned up Tesla Roadster in this picture? Whats the chance that someone is standing in this picture?"

    In this way, the image classifier can make far more specific statements, such as "Image of four girls playing volleyball"

  19. Re:Should use it on it's own press release on Researchers Built an 'Online Lie Detector.' Honestly, That Could Be a Problem (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The sad part is, you have probably already named a reliable source of truthful writings.

  20. Re:the net is as bad a fundamentalist religion on Police Officers In Berlin Had To Break Up Fight Between Supporters of Two Rival YouTubers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our LCARS overloards.

  21. You nailed it. The people going after PewDiePie are the same people going after Trump.

    So, over half the people think its a witch hunt, because... well... yeah..

  22. Re:Oh for fucks sake, no. on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We've all heard of Mad Bakers Disease....

  23. Re:But they didn't discontinue it? on Opera Adds Free and Unlimited VPN Service To Its Android Browser (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Multiple Opera features can get around region locks and what-have-you. The VPN is just the most direct of them. Turbo can also work in many cases.

  24. Re:I only recycle to get my money back on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Let us know when the military shuts down so that your stupid assed analogy works.

  25. Re:Benefits not shared with workforce on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit.

    Makes you a liar too.