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  1. Re:So... on 'I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse For a Week and It Was Amazing' (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vim.

    No sane person should ever use vi.

    Now Vim, on the other hand...

  2. Re:Wait, so can we send Trump on Trump Offered NASA Unlimited Funding To Put People on Mars by 2020, Report Says (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry I didn't realise you needed your politicians to be interesting.

    I would have thought in recent times you would be craving a bit of boredom in the political realm.

  3. Re:Bad for me, but not for thee on Why Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman is Haunted by Stalin's Dream (factordaily.com) · · Score: 0

    No. It means individual freedom, but for everyone rather than freedom with responsibility.

    FTFY

  4. The fewer of these resistive heaters we have sucking otherwise useful energy and further warming our planet the better.

  5. Re:It was easy. on 'I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So you took a holiday, good for you.

    Your experience sounds lovely and relaxing, and we should all strive to do this once in a while, but it's not practical as a sustained way of avoiding specific technology vendors when your solution is to avoid all technology.

  6. Re:Why doesn't Congress just approve the budget? on Shutdown Hits Industries Nationwide (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't the President's power of veto overruled by a more-than two-thirds majority?

    ie he can only veto something that has a majority between 50% and 66.67%

  7. Re:Sure, blame google on Google Maps Deterring Outback Tourists, Say Small Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I understood that reference.

  8. Re: No jack, no sale on USB Type-C Headphones Were Nowhere in Sight at CES 2019 (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, but that's kind of the point:
    Not all phones are ideal.

  9. Re:It's almost as if simple answers on Giant Trap Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Isn't Working (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, Pierre might have, if he hadn't gotten himself run over.

  10. Re:Got it on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, Oracle did buy the company that said that, so you might be on to something there :)

  11. Let me explain:

    This is 2018. The word "software" has fallen out of favour with news media and has been replaced with two terms; "app" and "AI".

    Since the software on this dedicated chip likely doesn't fit the minimum criteria to be called an "app" (isn't downloaded from an app store, and doesn't present a GUI), it must therefore be called an "AI".

    Yeah, me too.

  12. Well, then make it *not* beyond most people.

  13. Re:It got a waiver to the state driving test. on People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, do you actually believe that, or are you just repeating some obscure meme?

    "Scrupulously careful driving habits" do not begin to describe the problems with automated cars.

  14. Re:Mired in Controversy on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet Kanye West's music videos persist on the medium.

  15. Re: Interesting, "combustion cars" on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    $30k?

    Do you not have a second-hand EV market where you live?

  16. Second hand they're a lot less than that.

    Mine will have paid for itself after three years of ownership. And that's with the cost of power factored in.

    And that's *not* factoring in the massive drop in maintenance required (spark plugs, oil changes, coolant flushes, regen-less brake pad wear, engine mounts, etc, etc).

  17. I assume he'll also be ending subsidies for fossil fuels, right?

  18. Do you support your grandparent's network hardware with that mouth?

  19. Cod am pizza ship.

  20. Did the car break the law? on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this autopilot isn't *actually* a self-driving system and shouldn't be treated as such, but in most jurisdictions blue flashing lights behind you is a legal requirement to pull over.

    Do Google's self-driving cars respond correctly in this situation?

  21. Yes, most SJW's I know are not in the slightest interested in civility.

    Come to think of it, they don't seem all that interested in actual equality either.

    Carry on.

  22. Re:Business opportunity... on 'The Supremacy of Japanese Cars Has Been 40-Plus Years In the Making' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I'm glad someone did :)

  23. Re:Business opportunity... on 'The Supremacy of Japanese Cars Has Been 40-Plus Years In the Making' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Good idea. I'd happily drive an electric carbon-fiber Charger.

  24. Re:In the past, their software was a good choice on Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief · · Score: 1

    Molly guard FTW

  25. Good on Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm no fan of Amazon as a company, but that bastard Oracle deserves to lose all his customers.

    I only hope other locked-in companies watch the Amazon transition with great interest.