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  1. Re: Other opponents on US House Committee Approves Anti-GMO Labeling Law · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  2. Re:paging keith lynch.... on MUMPS, the Programming Language For Healthcare · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  3. Re:MUMPS, ancient and rarely used on MUMPS, the Programming Language For Healthcare · · Score: 1

    https://medium.com/backchannel... This, as well, is a story about health care computer systems, which means it's 60% likely they're talking about MUMPS.

  4. Re:For an alternative on Reddit CEO: Site Is 'Not a Bastion of Free Speech,' Change Coming · · Score: 1

    Free Speech costs money. Reddit was no longer willing to pay the bill. That is the way of these things. Reddit won't be the last instance of this.

  5. Re:For an alternative on Reddit CEO: Site Is 'Not a Bastion of Free Speech,' Change Coming · · Score: 1

    You mean they've come up with a reliable way to distinguish DDoS attacks from real traffic they were unprepared to handle in the wake of mass upheaval at Reddit? Color me impressed! Also, why have they chosen to waste this clearly magical talent on a startup?

  6. Re:Zoology for programmers on Book Review: Cloud Computing Design Patterns · · Score: 2

    The point is to take a bunch of individuals' knowledge and experience and combine them into something greater and consumable by the inexperienced. There's much lost in the translation, and the dangers of cargo-culting is well-known, but that's the purpose of digging into patterns.

  7. Re:Interesting, though I have the opposite experie on What the GNOME Desktop Gets Right and KDE Gets Wrong · · Score: 1

    I think GNOME has evolved on this point into a more-cohesive experience than KDE once had. GNOME 3 is where they said they were going to do that, but I moved far away from all that around that time. So, now, I suspect the article is probably right: GNOME project undertook a major philosophy shift, and now we're seeing the benefits of it. KDE kept doing what they were doing, and now they're here.

  8. Re:That's still exactly what it was on Frank Herbert's Dune, 50 Years On · · Score: 1

    Do you think Hitler or Lenin weren't compassionate for those groups of people they were trying to help? If everyone hates you, nobody is going to follow you.

  9. That's still exactly what it was on Frank Herbert's Dune, 50 Years On · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Herbert was exactly writing about hydraulic despotism, which is a common thing for varying definitions of "hydraulic". Oil is the big one right now, but water is showing all signs of being the next. As for revolution, anyone compassionate enough to be a good leader will have to face the choice that what path they are embarking upon will lead to death and destruction. Playing a race card is just shock value clickbait...

  10. Re:Really ? on First Human Colonies Should Be Among Venus' Clouds · · Score: 2

    It's still a matter of scale. At scale, it's cheaper to ship water around than it is to collect it from the atmosphere. The scale of an offworld colony will be miniscule by comparison.

  11. Re:Alternative uses for this software on SpaceX Breaks Down Its Rocket Landing Attempts · · Score: 1

    Using human pilots to "transition the flight from one automated task to another" is not self-flying, and the person above you linked the NG X-47B which is only capable of semi-autonomous flight.

  12. Re:Alternative uses for this software on SpaceX Breaks Down Its Rocket Landing Attempts · · Score: 1

    The article says "semi-autonomous operation", not "fully autonomous".

  13. Re:And how do they deal with the G-Forces? on University Students Made a Working Model Hyperloop · · Score: 1

    Nah, by that time we'll have quantum teleporters.

  14. Alternative uses for this software on SpaceX Breaks Down Its Rocket Landing Attempts · · Score: 1

    If this software can bring down a rocket safely, could it bring down a plane safely? Could completely self-fly planes be in the wings?

  15. Re:And how do they deal with the G-Forces? on University Students Made a Working Model Hyperloop · · Score: 1

    Of course it's going to cost more than rail. Rail isn't dead in the US because it's expensive, it's dead because the US does not like it.

  16. Re:I remember seeing a carpool club in the 90's... on Anti-Uber Taxi Protest Blocks Access To Airports In France · · Score: 1

    Scale, and an explicit transaction. The carpool club's manager doesn't get a cut for facilitating the carpool club. Someone can't facilitate a dozen carpool clubs and take a percentage. That's why Uber is a taxi company and not a carpool club.

  17. Re:We strike for right to treat customers like shi on Anti-Uber Taxi Protest Blocks Access To Airports In France · · Score: 2

    But it is a "regulated market", the regulations of which Uber is explicitly not following.

  18. Re: Codeword on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Service Providers When You're an IT Pro? · · Score: 1

    I'd much rather hire and keep good T2 and T3 support personnel. When T2 support has to deal with an unending cavalcade of "Oh, it wasn't plugged in, thanks for the help!", they are going to leave right quick.

    It sounds like what you need for your situation is metrics, not eliminating T1 support. The point of tiered support is that the higher-level support people are supposed to be using their time that isn't answering the phone fixing the underlying problems that the support system is perhaps only mitigating. They can't do that while they are answering the phone. Surprisingly, people are only capable of concentrating on one thing at a time.

    And I frankly don't give a shit if you feel like you're dumb because a T1 support answered your problem. The entire world does not exist to cater to your feelings. Maybe stop acting like an idiot would make you stop feeling like one. Or maybe stop trying to feel superior to T1 support whose job it is to help people, even blowhards like you.

  19. Re: Codeword on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Service Providers When You're an IT Pro? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am an IT professional, and even I make simple mistakes sometimes. There is a reason rubber-duck debugging is a thing. Tier 1 is a rubber duck. Deal with it, you self-important asshole.

    Most people younger than me know exactly shit about how their black monoliths (with brightly colored protective cases) actually work.

  20. Re:Good PHP Code is Possible on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 2
  21. Re:Crack addicts on Senate Passes USA Freedom Act · · Score: 1

    It's funny that both sides are blaming the other for this. They're both fucking you.

  22. Re:Special characters on Perl 5.22 Released · · Score: 1

    bigint has been around for a while. Is that not what you want?

  23. Re:Powerpoint is not documentation on Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned · · Score: 1

    My team produces libraries that other teams use, and I keep having to tell my coworkers this: It is not our users' job to fix our documentation (though we can ask them to point out where our documentation is inadequate). Wikis are where documentation goes to die.

    Good documentation starts with the author of the code.

  24. Powerpoint is not documentation on Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let's call it what it is: An aid when giving presentations, which are themselves also not documentation. There is no substitute for documentation.

  25. Re:Love it on The Body Cam Hacker Who Schooled the Police · · Score: 1

    Specifying what I want leaves it open for interpretation (by whom?). Or, worse, reveals what I am actually looking for (making a targeted coverup easy). Allowing police the ability to make judgement calls as to what to give when an FOIA request comes in, or outright deny a request that they can consider unreasonable, is no safety against police misconduct, which is the entire point this exists.