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  1. Re:Still needs to run for a while... on Canadian Company Gets $68M Investment To Turn CO2 Into Fuel (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, there's just 44 years of oil left, 160 years of natural gas and 400 years of coal. . After that, the human contribution to CO2 emissions drops pretty much to 0 anyway.

  2. Re:Nothing new under the sun on Engineers Build Teeny-Tiny Bluetooth Transmitter That Runs On Less Than 1 Milliwatt (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, that and taking the moral high ground.

    (and arguing about the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow)

  3. More Like Idiocracy... on Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Which in itself is depressing and disheartening to see.

  4. Re:Nice Wording on Solar Panel Splits Water To Produce Hydrogen (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    It was the "Hydrogen gas is an energy vector that can easily be stored and transported" bit that annoys me. No it is not.

  5. Hodgkin's Lymphoma is not "Blood Cancer" on Scientists Report a Second Person Has Been Cured of HIV (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hodgkins is a cancer in the immune/lymph system, which is a whole separate plumbing system to the blood stream. If it was in the blood stream it would be leukemia.

    (21 years cancer free now, yay).

  6. It would be good to know the IOPS for the new chips. The pdf suggests it should be significantly higher with random read time dropping from 49us to 35us.

  7. It would be interesting to know the IOPS of the new cards, SD card latency is traditionally a fraction of embedded flash.

  8. "ou guys think I'm just some untouchable peasant? Peon? Huh? Maybe so, but following a broom around after shitheads like you for the past eight years I've learned a couple of things. I look through your letters, I look through your lockers. I listen to your conversations. You don't know that, but I do. I am the eyes and ears of this institution my friends. By the way, that clock's twenty minutes fast!"

  9. Similar to a Roald Dahl Story on Plants Can Hear Animals Using Their Flowers (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Makes me think of the story 'The Sound Machine' by Roald Dahl (part of the "Tales of the Unexpected" series in the UK) where a botanist invents a machine that lets him 'hear' plants.

  10. I was thinking more 'Pi'...

                    "Listen to me. The Ancient
                    Japanese considered the Go
                    board to be a microcosm of
                    the universe. Although when
                    it is empty it appears to be
                    simple and ordered, in fact,
                    the possibilities of game play
                    are endless. They say that no
                    two Go games have ever been
                    alike. Just like snowflakes.
                    So, the Go board actually
                    represents an extremely complex
                    and chaotic universe. That is
                    the truth of our world, Max.
                    It can't be easily summed up
                    with math. There is no simple
                    pattern."

  11. I heard there's a Hungarian company that will power hovercraft with eels.

  12. 'The Shining; Commentary on Movie Commentary Tracks Are Back (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The Shining has a whole other film as a commentary, for the conspiracy nuts.

  13. We just need Dominos to start accepting Bitcoin for pizza and we will have come full circle. I imagine they will cost significantly less than 10,000 BTC each though.

  14. Article doesn't mention if the DRAM latency is any better or not... (DRAM latency hasn't changed significantly in the last 15 years)

  15. Re:Because they're easy to miss on Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 2

    Makes me think of the segment from the Crumb movie "A Short History Of America" (50 seconds long)

  16. Bigger memory limits on Linux 4.14 Has Been Released (kernelnewbies.org) · · Score: 2

    "Original x86-64 was limited by 4-level paging to 256 TiB of virtual address space and 64 TiB of physical address space. People are already bumping into this limit: some vendors offers servers with 64 TiB of memory today. "

    64TB RAM... fuck.

  17. Rather a Short 'Age' on Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1

    Solar panels generally have a 25 year rated life span and, like most modern consumer durables, are effectively embodied fossil fuel energy.

  18. The Best Noise Suppression... on Donate Your Noise To Xiph/Mozilla's Deep-Learning Noise Suppression Project (xiph.org) · · Score: 1

    Is to have enough signal in the first place to boost the SNR to the point where the noise becomes irrelevant. Good quality worn microphones close to the mouth, dual mic setups for simple background suppression. Sound engineers have known this forever.

  19. This is like something from the original Robocop movie.

    A similar kind of messed-up.

    "and remember... we care!"

  20. That's from over 10 years ago, which in computing terms is ancient history.

  21. "Pure Profit" on Hollywood, Apple Said To Mull Rental Plan, Defying Theaters (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sir Chris Gent, founder of Vodafone, once famously quipped that
    "SMS is the closest thing to pure profit ever invented". This deal would surely take that crown.

  22. Re:Full text of lawsuit on 269 People Joined An Age Discrimination Class Action Suit Against Google (bizjournals.com) · · Score: 2

    having the word 'goat' in the URL was the giveaway... mod parent down

  23. Re:The bullshit never ends on Elon Musk + AI + Microsoft = Awesome Dota 2 Player (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    s/AI/dragons/

    Makes about as much sense really.

  24. Daisy Daisy.... on Intel Unveils One-Petabyte Storage Servers For Data Centers (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    This image of the new drives loaded in a rack makes me think of this scene from 2001.

  25. Side Effects? on Blocking a Key Enzyme May Reverse Memory Loss, MIT Study Finds (mit.edu) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A certain degree of memory loss is important; removing it completely might lead to hyperthymesia, Jill Price being a notable example. For her, time does not heal all wounds.