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  1. So in other words... on Ibuprofen Linked To Male Infertility, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    Painkillers make you a girly wuss

    Suck it up, be a man

    Pain is just weakness leaving the body

  2. Re:Remote Operation on Amazon Alexa is Coming To Headphones, Smart Watches, Bathrooms and More (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably followed by: Alexa, find me the address of the nearest divorce lawyer

  3. Oh wonderful,

    having to go through to the random iOS app store approval process is something that every iOS developer dreads. It's like playing a lottery run by village idiots.

    Can't wait to get the same treatment for macOS apps.

  4. Re:Design mis-management... on Jony Ive Returns To Apple Design Management Role After Two Years (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    All hail Jony Ive, the king of user-hostile design.

    And to top it all off : the king of the notch

  5. Re:The priesthood has spoken on The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Is Burning (wired.com) · · Score: 1
    I read somewhere a theory that claims that the melting arctic icecap has as a direct effect that stronger more persistent high pressure ridges are building up over California. That has less precipitation as a result, which correlates to higher fire risks.

    So there may be a link between global warming and these fires

  6. Re:What specific problem did NN try to solve? on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So this SpaceX idea with the low earth orbit satellites may not be such a bad one then ? https://arstechnica.com/inform...

  7. Re:The meaning of "bete noire". on Internet Activists Urge Congress to Fire Trump's FCC Chief Ajit Pai (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    AFAIK "bete" means "beast".

  8. Re:First sentence is absurd on Could 'Re-Engineering' Earth Help Ease the Hurricane Threat? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1
    Okay, fair enough.

    But what about a third parameter: size ?

    http://www.miaminewtimes.com/n...

    According to this both Irma and Andrew were both Cat 5 storms but Irma is way bigger

  9. Re:affordable housing for Millenials (yeah, right) on Bricklaying Robots and Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    House value/cost is for a large amount determined by location, location, location. Automation is not going to make that part cheaper.

  10. Or make the solar panels very slippery. And use them to electrify the spikes.

  11. Re:Avoid travel or leave laptop at home on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1
    I recently did fly from the USA over Istanbul and I could experience it first hand.

    Turkish Airlines did only require you to check in your laptop at the gate before getting on the plane to the USA.

    It wasn't very well organized so it took about 30 minutes but they did bubble wrap everyone's electronics, noted down a description and gave you a tag. Arriving in the US there was a stand at the luggage carousel where you could go pick up your laptop. Again this required some standing in line.

  12. Re:Let's focus on the trivial on Trump Misunderstood MIT Climate Research, University Officials Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well wait until the EU and other countries start slapping carbon import taxes on US goods. It's already being discussed in Europe. $3B is going to be peanuts compared to the cost of those.

  13. Re:Pulling out on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope it's a Covfefe

  14. Re:Not an error. A lie. on President Trump's Budget Includes a $2 Trillion Math Error (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we perform an SQL injection on him ?

  15. Re:Its ok, we're in the EU on Leaked Document Reveals UK Plans For Wider Internet Surveillance (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Soon to come: the great channel firewall

  16. Re:My experience was different on 'This Isn't AI' (shkspr.mobi) · · Score: 1

    I like "Alexa, turn on the sprinklers" when they are outdoors playing on the lawn. Though they are quick to turn the tables on you...

  17. Re:Oh boy, another "satellite internet" scheme on SpaceX Plans To Send the First of Its 4,425 Super-Fast Internet Satellites Into Space in 2019 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well at least he still has hair to generate these ideas with. Jeff Bezos on the other hand ...

  18. Amen. Python does not represent progress. It represents consolidation, which may or may not be a good thing in itself. It's not too complicated for non-programmers to pick up but it's good enough for professionals to write decent code in it. Hence it's popularity.

    Languages like Rust and Swift and several others go beyond Python.

  19. Does an HP-41 count ? on Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Otherwise, Pascal, then Modula 2 in CS

  20. Re:Old School : Darkstar on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. Trying to reason with a bomb and trying to convince it not to explode. That's pythonesqe

  21. Re:Golden age of remakes maybe on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Blade Runner ?

  22. Re:permissions on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop The Deployment Of Unapproved Code Changes? · · Score: 1
    Ah, I recall a system like that at IBM. I think it was called CMVC

    It required a 7 step checking process. Totally maddening.

    It was a very efficient productivity annihilator.

  23. Re: Sounds great! on House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    ... Most environmental regulations should be made by the states, not the federal government..

    You seem to assume that no rivers cross state borders. They also should make it illegal for a tornado to cross a state border.

  24. He's probably less of an exception than you would assume.

    Have you seen the "surge" of ADHD cases in high schools ? One of the major causes of that is that different parts of the brain grow at different rates for different people and for many of these AD(H)D cases the issue "fixes" itself when they get older. But that is after they flunked their SAT and finished high school with a 2.5 GPA

    So the system is rigged against late bloomers and only the lucky ones that somehow struggled to get past all these early hurdles get the opportunity to "bloom". Cranking up math in high school is just another hurdle for these people.

  25. Re:This is the BEST news I could have hoped for to on Twitter Is Ditching the Egg (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    But it's not stuff that matters