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  1. Am I to understand that every single performance enchancement made by Intel in the last 20 (?) years is flawed and prone to disaster-bugs?

  2. Re:I Read IQ84 on Japanese Writing After Murakami (the-tls.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No I'm pretty sure that's just how modern Japanese writing works.

  3. What a dumbass on People's Egos Get Bigger After Meditation and Yoga, Says Study (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Meditation isn't a "skill" you can practice. Meditation is literally conservation of energy through non-action. You just sit around doing nothing. If you're doing something, you're not meditating. People who don't understand this are people who only have a cursory understanding of meditation, and why Buddhists meditate. All these newage monkeys with their yoga and their meditation workshops and shit, these people will never achieve anything because they don't understand why they're meditating in the first place. They just heard it was supposed to be this amazing thing and they jump on the band-wagon. Of course they're going to pump up their ego by thinking they're doing something incredibly amazing that all the other uninitialized muppets aren't doing.

  4. 5 million retards.

  5. Re:Why the hate for DevOps? on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Using Docker if you are not a developer who can read through some of its code is an automatic security threat.

    Well geez, they'll just have to get in line behind every other software product ever.

  6. Why the hate for DevOps? on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I see so many people complaining about devops and I don't understand why? "Herp Derp developers writing code in production" - no dumbass, that has nothing to do with devops. Devops is just your ops guys using developer tools to streamline testing and deployment.

    Tools like Docker, where your entire platform is defined and described in a configuration file. All the required firewall ports are clearly stated, the number of replicas of each deployed service is clearly stated, the build process is clearly stated. The whole thing is just so fucking ops friendly it has nothing to do with developers writing production code. If you don't even know this much what the fuck are you even doing in this business anyway? Get out you archaic pieces of shit.

  7. Re:Bunch of garbage on Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers · · Score: 1

    If Microsoft hadn't done those things, there really wouldn't have been a Microsoft left to speak of.

  8. Re:I understand just fine, thanks on Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers · · Score: 1

    #metoo ?

  9. Wait, so I can just send malformed UDP packets to anyone on the internet, and their computer will pick it up without having firewall rules or port forwarding configured in their routers? I was not aware that internet technology had regressed to the 1990s.

  10. Re:Golden State on Companies Are Using California Homes As Batteries To Power the Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem overly proud of this. What part did you play?

  11. "Mostly lies"

  12. Re:Whoowee. on UK Military Fears Robots Learning War From Video Games (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You want to be saved by a 2000 year old mushroom cult? Good luck with that.

  13. I don't know? Triangulation? I'm not a fucking sattelite engineer, but clearly these people aren't either.

  14. Stupid is as stupid does on US Government Wants To Start Charging For Landsat, the Best Free Satellite Data On Earth (qz.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Logic dictates that as one of the last remaining successful government run space programs, it must now be castrated, cannibalized and killed so that we can feed off of its rotting flesh. If all that money can be siphoned off instead of re-invested, just imagine what can be accomplished. More parking lots! More malls! More stadiums!

    Politicians really are retarded.

  15. You broadcast a unique ID to all your viewers and see which one comes up on the stream. Then you kill said viewer (this is the middle east, yes?)

    Did I miss something in this obvious 2-step process?

  16. Re:I love the United States. on Senate Democrats Force a Vote To Restore Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The US bipartisan system is fundamentally flawed, and there's nothing short of a complete breakdown and restructuring that is capable of "doing something" about it. There simply is no desire for a democracy among the ruling class in America, because a democracy would not benefit the rulers. More police, on the other hand...

  17. Re:I want my privacy back on Edge Computing: Explained (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Free floating hydron comes together to form stars, and in the process creates all kinds of new things, such as carbon. Carbon comes together to form molecules, and in the process creates all kinds of new things, such as humans. Humans come together to form communities, and in the process create all kinds of new things, such as computers and data. Computers and data comes together to form the cloud, and in the process all kinds of new things are created, such as <insert future stuff>.

    Why fight so hard to go against the natural order?

  18. Obvious outcome on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    SpaceX will hire their own astronauts and send them to space.

  19. Why challenge with a shitty tool? on Windows 10 Is Finally Getting An Improved Screenshot Tool (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Greenshot. Is there any reason for Microsoft to even begin competing?

  20. Re:Headline? on Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm really not sure. Maybe I just can't leave /.

  21. Headline? on Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Why does the headline attempt to garner sympathy for a bunch of psychopaths hell-bent on destroying our habitat? Fuck the Oil Industry. Let them burn.

  22. You just had to explain it

  23. Re:Space Economics on Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    Is that not the same as the prices not being high enough for it to stay in business?

  24. Re:I don't follow the logic on Eating World's Hottest Pepper Sparks Brain Disorder, Thunderclap Headaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's define neurotoxin.

    Neurotoxins are toxins that are poisonous or destructive to nerve tissue (causing neurotoxicity).[3]

    In biology, poisons are substances that cause disturbances in organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when an organism absorbs a sufficient quantity.[1][2]

    Neurotoxicity is a form of toxicity in which a biological, chemical, or physical agent produces an adverse effect on the structure or function of the central and/or peripheral nervous system.[1]

    What is capsaicin then?

    The burning and painful sensations associated with capsaicin result from its chemical interaction with sensory neurons. Capsaicin, as a member of the vanilloid family, binds to a receptor called the vanilloid receptor subtype 1 (TRPV1).[52] First cloned in 1997, TRPV1 is an ion channel-type receptor.[53] TRPV1, which can also be stimulated with heat, protons and physical abrasion, permits cations to pass through the cell membrane when activated. The resulting depolarization of the neuron stimulates it to signal the brain. By binding to the TRPV1 receptor, the capsaicin molecule produces similar sensations to those of excessive heat or abrasive damage, explaining why the spiciness of capsaicin is described as a burning sensation.

    It depolarizes your neurons and causes all kinds of effects on your nervous system. That covers both poison and neurotoxicity.

    Here's a paper titled "Neurotoxic effect of capsaicin in mammals" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

    And here's one titled "Capsaicininduced neuronal degeneration in the brain and retina of preweanling rats" - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.co...

    So if it looks like a neurotoxin, smells like a neurotoxin and acts like a neurotoxin, maybe it's a neurotoxin? And if he didn't get brain damage from eating it, the brain damage must have occurred prior to eating, because brain damaged he is. What sane person willingly consumes high quantities of neurotoxins as a sport?

  25. Re:If you don't want to be part of the computer ag on Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook Should Be Regulated, Disrupted, or Broken Up: Mozilla Foundation (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Teat then. I would edit it, but Slashdot.