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  1. Re:It must be said... on Man Reports PillCam Stuck In His Gut For Over 12 Weeks · · Score: 1

    I can't stomach these kinds of comments.

  2. Re:Some ideas to try. on Man Reports PillCam Stuck In His Gut For Over 12 Weeks · · Score: 1

    Try a box of prunes. Seriously you will know if a couple hours if you were successful.

  3. Re:IQ does not measure intelligence on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly! I have boosted my intelligence by not reading.

  4. Re:That's not what the article says on The Most Important Study of the Mediterranean Diet Has Been Retracted (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Regardless, a 30% chance of disease either way is statistically meaningless. For instance, smoking increases your risk of lung cancer 15 to 30x that of a non smoker.

  5. Re:I'm the architect on our DevOps team... on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    kanban OPS and Agile DEV is a better approach

  6. Re:"What's a computer?" on On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware (rogueamoeba.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the thing adults use to make a living.

  7. You aren't required to keep every draft of a document.

  8. Re:I've never quite gotten used to... on Microsoft To Give Office 365, Office.com Apps a Makeover (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    FFS I was arguing that they should keep the ribbon and add an option to switch to the menu. So what was your point in the first place?

  9. Re:I still like my first computer... on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My amber screen laughs at your black and white!

  10. Re:I've never quite gotten used to... on Microsoft To Give Office 365, Office.com Apps a Makeover (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you ever consider that it might be 'better' for a certain set of people? I am a professional of 25+ years and use dozens of applications. Word isn't one the ones I use that often but I do use it enough that trying to remember where the icon is and what it looks like is #$%^ing hassle.

  11. Re:The value of entropy and psychovisual perceptio on The End of Video Coding? (medium.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't they encode on the fly? I can understand having copies of the most popular formats but it seems much easier to do the oddball ones on the fly. I use Univeral Media Server and cpu usage hardly registers on my old first gen i7 and it has no hardware acceleration.

  12. Re:I've never quite gotten used to... on Microsoft To Give Office 365, Office.com Apps a Makeover (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The thing that irks me the most is not that they created a ribbon interface but that you couldn't turn it off and revert to a menu system. It would be trivial to maintain both interfaces.

  13. They don't mention obvious stuff like possible local irrigation causing salinity or lowering the water table.

  14. Re:No surprise on It's 2018 and USB Type-C Is Still a Mess (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 2

    They cut off that part of the footage because the rocket crashed

  15. Re:It's about cost... on Amazon Slammed for Destroying As-New and Returned Goods (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Dump the stuff in a warehouse and hold a monthly auction of the stuff to bidders with business license.

  16. Re:A single stock on The World Isn't Prepared for Retirement (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I've done one better than you and have put it all in bitcoin!

  17. Re:Except for a very, very small number of people on The World Isn't Prepared for Retirement (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    47 and I am able to pick up on the latest and greatest easier than ever. It's the same patterns and anti-patterns repeated ad nauseum. Understanding databases and servers better than most operations folks helps too.

    One thing I have stopped doing is giving a crap about politics or trying to advance in the organization having flirted with being a manager for a while and deciding it wasn't something I enjoyed doing.

  18. Re:Here's a tip for the idiots out there on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Options contracts have plenty of valid uses... it is really like insurance. Suppose you have a contract to sell something in Euros and your business is in USD, you can buy puts in case the Euro flops. Farmers do the same thing in case there is a bumper crop and they would otherwise lose money on their crop.

  19. Re:No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to buy the stock when you buy a put, somebody does it for you you just bid on the contract. That's the whole point of the damn thing.

  20. Re:No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    People bid on short sales just like stocks... so if you got in early you made some money. A lot of of people overpaid though.

  21. Re:I always shake my head on Can Washington State Finally Put a Price On Carbon? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I have this feeling as well...a European high taxes high services government sounds appealing but the idea that fellow Americans would be able to administer such a system is ridiculous.

  22. It could be related.. they don't want to invest in their intel products if they have a completely new line coming out.

  23. Excuses from clock watchers on Why a Group of Physicists Watched a Clock Tick For 14 Years Straight (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I have heard them all but this one takes the cake!

  24. Re:No, still 24 hours on An Average Earth Day Used To Be Less Than 19 Hours Long (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Since 1967, the second has been defined as exactly 9,192,631,770 times the period of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    And yeah the discrepancy is made up by adding time at the end of the year....
    https://www.timeanddate.com/time/leapseconds.html?hc_location=ufi
    Aren't seconds just as important as minutes? The whole construct of 24 hours in a day is very recent....

  25. Actually prices are up 25% from last year. I don't believe these fanciful projections.