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  1. Re: Something I've been wondering on Poor Sleep Alters Metabolism and Boosts Body's Ability To Store Fat, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I consider staying up late, and not planning sufficient time to sleep, to be a moral failing. This sounds like science backing that up. Poor decisions have more than just one negative consequence.

  2. then which side did those moronic people come from?

    It's not so much that their coming from a side, but more that it's using fear mongering to get them to vote when they wouldn't have otherwise. It's also not so much that they're moronic as it is how skeptical they are. If these people are being bombarded with ads on every page they visit on the internet with demonstrable FUD, it might even get non-moronic people to mis-prioritize what's really important. Garbage in, garbage out.

  3. They do this so they can farm out every scene to a different CG startup contractor, who then loses money, and goes bankrupt, while the movie studio rakes in the cash.

  4. Call it FoxFire on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know why buy my mom can't help but call it FoxFire. I've given up trying to correct her. Rebrand it to FoxFire so at least she'll start being right.

  5. Re:Never been a fan of hyperthreading on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything computationally intensive that could be parallelized

    Anything that's computationally intensive like that will start by asking "How many cores do I have?" and then break up the workload accordingly. If it got back 16, when really there were 8 cores, it would break up the work into 16 pieces instead of 8. Hyperthreading can squeeze out some performance if two threads are using completely different instructions, but are using the same cache lines. That's the opposite of what will happen here. The parallelized numerical solutions will be executing the same instructions, while accessing different parts of memory. So it's going to be spending most of the execution time, rehydrating the core caches.

  6. Re: Never been a fan of hyperthreading on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    WinXP is perfectly capable of scheduling another thread to run, when one gets hung up. It didn't need a virtual core for that.

  7. Re:Everyone who cares disables it anyway on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No, anyone who doesn't have a clue disables it anyway.

    Anyone who cares assesses their workloads against the benefits. Nearly all people who care find they are far better off leaving it on.

    How many times do you go "I wonder if turning off hyper threading will help", and then it does, every time, before it just becomes an SOP.

  8. Re:Never been a fan of hyperthreading on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, but if all of the threads are running at the same time, wouldn't that just make for more false cache sharing? And if the threads aren't running at the same time, the OS's thread scheduler can take care of that.

  9. Re:Never been a fan of hyperthreading on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    What are those workloads that actually benefit from thinking the CPU has more cores than what it actually has?

  10. Everyone who cares disables it anyway on Leaked Benchmarks Suggest Intel Will Drop Hyperthreading From Core i7 Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know we have to disable CPU level Hyper Threading anyway. Too many false cache swaps when it's on.

  11. They're the decision makers on 80 Percent of IT Decision Makers Say Outdated Tech is Holding Them Back (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If the decision makers are feeling that way, they should make the decision to replace the outdated tech.

  12. Re:Can't imagine watching it in theater on Stanley Kubrick Explains The '2001: A Space Odyssey' Ending In A Rare, Unearthed Video (esquire.com) · · Score: 1

    It was made in a time when the audience liked to think and reason. It is necessary have to have simple plots and obvious endings for the lazy thinkers of today.

    I'm generally told to stop thinking about movies by my peers. I'm forbidden to talk about a movie with my wife ten minutes after watching it, so she gets a chance to enjoy it for a while. I don't need to be bored to be able to think about the movie. My mind is capable of being entertained and can still think about what I'm watching.

    2001 Space Odyssey's third act is slow, boring and not entertaining, especially for people who are capable of consuming new information quickly and doesn't need large stretches of time to think about what they just saw.

  13. Can't imagine watching it in theater on Stanley Kubrick Explains The '2001: A Space Odyssey' Ending In A Rare, Unearthed Video (esquire.com) · · Score: 1

    I first saw 2001 on DVD, and even fast forwarding through the psychedelic color tunnel at the end was boring with how long it took. If so many people are asking what the end of your movie means, it means you did a bad job portraying your vision. Acting smug about it doesn't help.

  14. And this is how you pay for OSS on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Open Source software gets paid for by tracking users and selling their information to advertisers.

  15. By targeted ads on How Should Open Source Development Be Subsidized? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Track users behavior, targeted ads to them, and let the corporations pay for it all. That's how the profitable open source companies work.

  16. Re:A thousand times no on Should Professional Sports Switch To Robot Referees? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Does that problem just make it a crappy game?

  17. Eventually on Should Professional Sports Switch To Robot Referees? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    The best way to get rid of mistakes is to use a system that's consistent. At some point the robots will be more consistent than the humans.

  18. Re:Base it off of percentages on Another Universal Basic Income Experiment is Underway, This Time in Canada (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The purpose isn't to change your life, it's to give some breathing room to some people.

  19. Tax 1% of business profits, and 1% of household income, and distribute that pile of money evenly amongst all legal residents. It's simple and changes with inflation.

  20. Doesn't Google have enough money on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that Google has enough money to solve this problem. If they felt like it, they could open an office in Mississippi, hire a bunch of minorities, and have them do something of no consequence. Next diversity report comes out, and they'll be looking great.

  21. This is an idea as old as RFID tags! Seriously, when RFID first came out, this is what they said it would be used for.

    Walmart doesn't want to deploy RFID tags until they can be used for warehouse inventory too. That way they can use the same tracking system for everything. The problem is liquids. An RFID reader, reading a pallet of shampoo doesn't get a positive read on every bottle in the pallet.

  22. Re: 52-dimensional chess on Trump Orders a Lifeline For Struggling Coal and Nuclear Plants (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I openly admit that I voted for Trump because I didn't want to see the blatant corruption get into office.

    Trumps history is a series of one corruption being defended by lawyers/fixers after another. His corruption is so blatant it will be defining definition of corruption for generations to come.

  23. Re:Capitalists no more? on Trump Orders a Lifeline For Struggling Coal and Nuclear Plants (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Little does he know that many of them are capable of looking past the ends of their own noses and will see that things like this that he does will have far-reaching negative effects

    Pretty much the definition of a Trump supporter is that they aren't capable of that.

  24. Re:Need an Android update like Windows update. on Samsung Won't Be Forced To Update Old Smartphones (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Should have gone for a Windows Phone then. You'd get updates like how Windows computers get updates.

  25. Re:This could be about American jobs on US Reaches Deal To Keep Chinese Telecom ZTE in Business (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We'll probably never know.

    How could we not know? The honest Trump (unlike that crooked Hillary) promised to release his tax forms once we was given the nomination. Surely it's happened by now, right? right?