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  1. Re:Will websites start blocking Chrome? on Google's Chrome Ad Blocking Arrives Tomorrow (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Internet Explorer died a few years ago, Microsoft replaced it with Edge.

    Also, requiring people to use Edge would be a big fuck you to users of other browsers and to Mac and Linux users, which is a sure way of losing users for your website.

  2. Re:Translation on Google's Chrome Ad Blocking Arrives Tomorrow (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I prefer static images ads or text-only ads. If that's the end result of Google's filtering, I'm all for it.

    Ads with scripts, plug-ins, videos and animated GIFs should be banned.

  3. Re:Anti competitive on Google's Chrome Ad Blocking Arrives Tomorrow (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Internet Explorer is no more, the replacement is called Edge.

  4. 5000 - 248 = 19896.

    Calculated on my Intel Pentium processor.

  5. When most of the work in forecasting is increasingly automated and computerized, it makes sense to trim the fat.

    Except that for decades, the truth has been hidden from us. It's not the fat that's the problem, it's salt and sugar!

  6. Re:Fastest transition to 3rd world nation? on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    I guess those who believe one Bitcoin will be worth one million U.S. dollars will see their dream come true after all, but not exactly as they thought it would.

  7. Costanza transform

    It's not a lie if you believe in it?

  8. Re:Trump isn't going far enough on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    And why 248, anyway? It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Now, needing 128 or 256 forecasters, I can understand.

  9. Re:Step Right Up! You Could Be A Winner! on LoopX Startup Pulls ICO Exit Scam and Disappears with $4.5 Million (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you talking about the olympic games?

  10. If you can see it, and it's not there . . . it's virtual.

    You mean like the cash in everyone's bank accounts?

  11. Re:PT Barnum Was Right on LoopX Startup Pulls ICO Exit Scam and Disappears with $4.5 Million (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    A random Reddit user recommended that I go fuck myself. I took matters into my own hands and I've got to tell you - I enjoyed it!

  12. Re:Science is a verb now? on Porsche Is 3D Printing Hard-To-Find Parts For The 959 And Other Classics (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

  13. You only know about PLA and you apply that knowledge to everything that says "3D printed".

    Fascinating.

  14. Re:You probably get a new one anyway on HomePod Repairs Cost Almost as Much as a New HomePod (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But upgradable RAM, even if it were in custom form that would require a trip to an Apple store, would at least lower the environmental impact of laptops being discarded because they can't be upgraded. Environment should always come before profits and it should be made into law.

  15. Re:Wow, I'm getting one on Reddit Audiophiles Test HomePod, Say It Sounds Better Than $1,000 Speaker (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a little obscure trick that you can do with gold plated cables that only a few dozen people know about. Did you know that tying these cables around your neck will grant you three wishes? It's true! My father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate tried it and he died!

  16. Meanwhile, in the real world... on Reddit Audiophiles Test HomePod, Say It Sounds Better Than $1,000 Speaker (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
  17. Re:Isn't it... on The Quest To Find the Longest-Serving Programmer (tnmoc.org) · · Score: 1

    It depends on your definition of "serving", I guess.

  18. Re:The Quest To Find the properly commented code on The Quest To Find the Longest-Serving Programmer (tnmoc.org) · · Score: 2

    So it is, in a way, a Quest for Glory?

  19. Re:A contest? on The Quest To Find the Longest-Serving Programmer (tnmoc.org) · · Score: 1

    +1 Funny.

  20. Re:I'm not a contender on The Quest To Find the Longest-Serving Programmer (tnmoc.org) · · Score: 1

    Sure did.

    Posted by DontBeAMoran (1.95pi^2) on 2018-02-12 17:08 (#56113582)

  21. MARDAH: The first rule of dabo is watch the wheel...
    BOTH: Not the girl.

  22. Office Space on Why Paper Jams Persist (newyorker.com) · · Score: 0

    HP Jam Paper? What the fuck does that mean?

  23. Re:You probably get a new one anyway on HomePod Repairs Cost Almost as Much as a New HomePod (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they're the ones who started this insanity? Thinness at all costs is not good for the users.

  24. Re: Please explain to me ... on HomePod Repairs Cost Almost as Much as a New HomePod (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    They don't ship them individually, they just fill a couple shipping containers and send them to some shithole 3rd world factory where the workers get paid a nickle a day. In the end, they make a huge profit.

    Do they really? Let's look at the raw numbers. According to the United States Mint, a nickle weights exactly five grams.

    According to a search on Google, Foxconn assembly-line workers will make as much as $400 a month, based on location and passing a probationary period. That's for 160 working hours a month, so the hourly pay is about $2.50.

    According to the same search, Foxconn has 1,000,000 workers.

    To make $400 you need 8000 nickels. Multiplied by 12 months, that's 96000 nickels per worker per year, multiply by 1,000,000 workers and you get 96000000000 nickels. Multiplied by 5 grams equals 480000000000 grams, or 480000000 kilograms, or 480000 metric tonnes.

    I don't know which shipping company you're using, but I know that sending 480 thousand metric tonnes to China every year can't be cheap.