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  1. Re:What about the Moon on Blockbuster Video Now Has Just One Store Left On Earth (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's where the Toast King and Insanity Prawn Boy do their movie renting!

  2. Re:Closing gender gaps selectively on A 60 Minutes Story on Gender Equality Accidentally Proved the Persistence of Patriarchy (qz.com) · · Score: 3

    I find it interesting that most of the people behind the whole gender wage gap issue are people who are not in the industries they complain about. College professors that mostly exist in the qualitative realm, complaining on jobs that mostly exist in the quantitative realm. Such as sociology, or gender studies professors complaining about microbiology.

  3. Windows 10 calculator is slow compared to 7 on Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Calculator (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    In Windows 7, Start > Run > Calc and calculator loads instantly and you can start using it. That's when the calculator appeared to be written using Windows Forms. When they switched to Modern UI or WPF in Windows 10, when you open it, Start > Run > Calc. wait...wait...wait... and then it's open. Nearly every application that they switched from 7 to 10 in this way has a loading lag that wasn't there before.

  4. Explains the crazy cat lady phenomena on Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked To Schizophrenia in Largest Study Yet (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So the lady on the Simpsons that throws cats at people was just schizo from cat parasites.

  5. Re:So, kinda like Executor? on Emulator Project Aims To Resurrect Classic Mac Apps, Games Without the OS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It ran extremely well too. I remember playing Star Wars: Rebel Assault in the 1990s on it, I think on a 486 and it had full screen video that didn't play noticeably worse than the 486 version.

  6. It probably sounds like a 1U server when running too.

  7. Re:Paris ... yeah, right on Natural Gas is Now Getting in the Way; US Carbon Emissions Increase by 3.4% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Clean Coal only refers to the amount of junk in the coal. Dirty coal has stuff like radioactive and embedded hydrocarbon compounds and such that get released into the atmosphere during burning. The higher grade of coal, overall, the cleaner it is. With Graphite basically being the ultimate clean coal as it is just pure carbon. Clean Coal was never really about CO2 amounts.

  8. Re: Not news. on In Some Bay Area Counties, College Grads Have Higher Unemployment (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    True, they don't get sent overseas, however they can be replaced by imported labor. In the south, carpenters, brick layers, (anything related to home building) has largely been replaced by cheaper imported labor. I would say that you wouldn't see that as much in customer-facing labor such as a plumber or electrician that you call to come to your house, but for bulk carpentry, electrical, and plumbing, it's a thing.

  9. Re:Removing the 3.5mm jack was not necessary on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
  10. Removing the 3.5mm jack was not necessary on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There was a guy on youtube that lives in China that was able to source the parts, and free up enough room inside his iPhone to readd a 3.5mm jack. He used one of those lightning to 3.5mm passthrough dongles and stripped it down to the bare minimum. So if some guy in his bedroom could do it, apple could have done it.

  11. Re:What is the problem? on Tech is Killing Street Food (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    Translation, they decided oh those poor street vendors, but forgot there are people trying to make a living off of cleaning tables mopping floors and serving food inside the building. Not to mention the cooks, farmers, delivery drivers all that make their wages related to the company.

  12. Don't they mean the LG 0.035274 Ounces?

  13. Failure done right - Sandisk USB on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 2

    I had a Sandisk USB stick recently go read only. I had been using it as a hypervisor boot drive and the boot was crashing. When I inspected it, it was read only and any attempts to format it, diskpart it, fdisk it failed with some kind of error. I looked it up and apparently this is the designed failure route for these USB drives. When the controller detects an inconsistency or uncorrectable error, the drive is locked from writing so you can get data off of it.

  14. Re:With spinning disks, you do not know either on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ok, I'm in IT and it unnerves me. I've had numerous computers have an SSD totally die and lose all data with no smart warnings in the last few years. (Not me personally, I mean people at our organization)

  15. is the never ending "Hmm, I'm not sure" on things that the google assistant has no problem doing. I get so much "Hmm, I'm not sure" from Alexa I wonder how it's a real "assistant" product. It seems fine for turning lights off and on (if I had that setup) and the sound quality is pretty good, but answering questions is it's weakest point.

  16. "In the SciMark testing, the AWS system-on-chip was twice as fast as a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ on Linux 4.14."

    So twice as fast as a 35 dollar computer that can run off of a cell phone charger. Ok yeah I know, more ram, better storage, better networking. But we're being sold on the CPU itself rather than the system.

  17. Re:Better to use the dead fish as fertilizer on Norwegian Company Plans To Power Their Cruise Ships With Dead Fish (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you could just use the dead fish as SlashBait.

  18. Re:gratuitous insult on Bill Nye: We Are Not Going To Live on Mars, Let Alone Turn It Into Earth (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Here-here!

  19. Dupe Dupe Dupe on Google Is Using AI To Digitize 5 Million Historical Photos (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dupe of URL Dupe dupe dupe of URL.

  20. Re:It's called a dehumidifier. on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    He has a doctorate in a hard science, so I would assume he's not just referring to Wikipedia when he makes a statement.

  21. Re:This is not helpful on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Winner!

  22. Re:I say this on every nuke thread on US Congress Passes Bill To Help Advanced Nuclear Power (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How does a nuclear reactor produce CO2?

  23. And they're gonna make Mexico pay for it... on California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, wrong politician. This one just keeps raising taxes and and the Californians keep asking for more.

  24. Re:Supercomputers don't excite me anymore on University of Texas is Getting a $60 Million Supercomputer (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a mention of Intel and Nvidia in the article so that's my guess. Intel Xeons and Nvidia cards.

  25. Re:Top speed 90 km/h... on Return of the Bubble Car? (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh, I can get up to 90 Mph at times (150 in Metric)