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  1. Re:TI? Bah! on This is the Story of the 1970s Great Calculator Race (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    AFAIR the TI keys were known to become mechanically unresponsive after a few weeks of use.

  2. Re:Between Telegram, Viber, and LINE, why use Skyp on After Making Skype Convoluted and Difficult To Use, Microsoft is Now Rolling Out Features To Restore Simplicity (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    what's app?

  3. Re:C is dangerous... on How Linux's Kernel Developers 'Make C Less Dangerous' (hpe.com) · · Score: 2

    If you think you are immune to C dangers

    Never said that. Would be more like "If you pretend to be immune to C dangers...". Of course C has its dangers, but even more so when people think they can program in C because they're used to Java or another high level language.

  4. C is dangerous... on How Linux's Kernel Developers 'Make C Less Dangerous' (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    ...to the incompetent.

  5. Why is it that the dogs always have to get the good stuff first?

  6. Gates and his "640k ought to be enough for anybody" proved he didn't know what was happening within his OS.

  7. Re:"More accurate prediction..." on Google, Harvard Use AI To Predict Earthquake Aftershocks · · Score: 1

    It seems we have a different view concerning the meaning of that "withheld"

  8. "More accurate prediction..." on Google, Harvard Use AI To Predict Earthquake Aftershocks · · Score: 1

    I was wondering how can they can validate precisely the new model, given the - fortunately - few events (large earthquakes) occurring a year. The explanation comes from one of TFAs, "The authors withheld a randomly selected 25% of the mainshock–aftershock sequences from the training data, and used this subset to validate the predictive power of their machine-learning method". So they used the input that built the neural network to validate the model... that, validates the neural network algorithm, but not the aftershocks prediction model! Aftershocks look pretty random, so let see how the model works from future earthquakes!

  9. Re:I have my own taste on Why Don't We Care About The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of TV Shows? (digg.com) · · Score: 1

    I have my own taste. I don't care what you or some other muppet on the Internet thinks. You can't see with my eyes.

    In this case either you watch a lot of crap, or you can't see the difference between a good movie and rubbish.

  10. Re:Speak for yourself, I do this all the time. on Why Don't We Care About The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of TV Shows? (digg.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Comparing Top 250 movies and Top TV shows, shows start a big higher than movies, then the movies curve decreases faster.

  11. New ERO file-system, not mentioned in TFA, what can that be...

  12. Re:compulsory wikipedia marker on Read Two Of This Year's 2018 Hugh Award Winners Online (thehugoawards.org) · · Score: 1

    "[by whom]"

    By those who want the award to be considered like that.

  13. Re:Fire Linus on Linux Turns 27 (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Lol, fortunately that was a joke. And fortunately Linus still holds the reins. The kernel is highly demanding in terms of dedication, concentration, technical expertise and managing skills (like being able to be tough when necessary), and all these qualities incorporated into a single man is a pretty rare thing nowadays.

  14. Re:Oh no! Who will make fun or us nerds now? on 'The Big Bang Theory' Is Finally Ending (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This. is the reason why TFA's author says "Nothing confuses me more than The Big Bang Theory's success".

  15. It might work, if you believe in it. Like all placebos.

  16. Nobody is above the law on Woman Sues US Border Agents Over Seized iPhone (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    except...

  17. Re:Abusing stores on Netflix Is the Latest Company To Try Bypassing Apple's App Store (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    That was until 2016.

  18. "Internet Explorer isn't fully functional as it simply refused to load pages"
    It won't load nowadays css and html compliant pages. You have to find one of these old made-for-IE crappy pages.

  19. Credit cards companies take between 3 to 5%. Apple and Google take 15%, and it used to be 30% until 2016!

  20. Re:Nikon uses Sony sensors on Nikon Strikes Back At Sony With First Full-Frame Mirrorless Cameras (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And dpreview[dpreview.com] talks a lot about the F-mount, but is not so enthusiastic overall.

  21. The power of the media.

  22. This is both a problem and a rare quality of the language. Even clueless people are able to get some decent output off of PHP.

  23. Interestingly, Intel stock keeps being quite stable.

  24. Re:we saw this coming long ago on Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches With No Benchmarks Or Profiling Allowed (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The microcode feature is there to help you

    Except, as GP said, when that prevents you from using freely the CPU it runs into.

  25. "You will not, and will not allow any third party to ..."