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  1. wasn't speaking of python though (nor java even though i hate it)...further down the list

  2. Re:Oh, you're finished... well allow me to retort. on Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    those are offshoots that are not GNU/Linux, Linus not a dumbass at all.

  3. Re:As a former mechanic... on MIT Says We're Overlooking a Near-Term Solution To Diesel Trucking Emissions (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You waste energy doing that conversion, and of course the gasoline has less energy per gallon than diesel... why would a long distance truck operation want it? Diesel can now burn cleaner than gasoline, until we get to economical long distance electric trucks not seeing the need for gasoline and certainly not hybrid... again for long distance runs. Local operation of trucks, and light and medium trucks for city/county use is a totally different story, what you're saying might be great there.

  4. Re:As a former mechanic... on MIT Says We're Overlooking a Near-Term Solution To Diesel Trucking Emissions (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    not for gasoline engine it doesn't, power curve REALLY not flat so just trying to fight that. and of course the latest fad CVT for gasoline engines have a short life too (yes fine for consumer cars that will be disposed of in a few years), but that's not for trucking.

    in short, taping a bill and webbed feet onto a pig doesn't make it a duck

  5. the benefit was it gives megaphone to those who support cute niche flash-in-the-pan fad languages

  6. Re:his "hero" is a convicted rapist on Andrew Yang Plans To Use a 3D Hologram For Remote Campaigning (nymag.com) · · Score: 0

    wouldn't expect much from someone who supports Universal Basic Income, that's making irresponsible able-bodied adults into parasites on my dime.

  7. *pulls out moto x pure and stares at it.* There is an Android programming language? who knew?

  8. Re:As a former mechanic... on MIT Says We're Overlooking a Near-Term Solution To Diesel Trucking Emissions (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A mechanic should also note short engine life of gasoline engine compared to diesel, especially under long haul conditions.

    13% more energy per volume of diesel compared to gasoline is significant too, and as for alcohol...pfft that stuff is a joke next to diesel, almost half the energy

  9. Re:As a former mechanic... on MIT Says We're Overlooking a Near-Term Solution To Diesel Trucking Emissions (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    doesn't solve the problem of a gasoline engine needing a very wide RPM range and the wear and tear that puts on engine. short engine life is not an option for trucks

    besides, the energy density of gasoline and alcohol is pathetic compared to diesel

  10. premise is wrong on Gmail Becomes First Major Email Provider To Support MTA-STS, TLS Reporting (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    man in the middle absolutely not the big problem in "today's email landscape". Company emial servers not getting invalid MX lookups to other business. Spam, malware and phising emails are the problem. Let's eliminate that first before worrying about this chickenshit little problem

  11. really? my ten year old Toshiba laptop still has the batteries sold on ebay, the one I bought last year works well

  12. Re:The *woosh* is missing the point on Magnetic Field Reversals Unlikely To Be a Problem For Life, Says Astronomer (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm amused you think transformer order lead-time now would be the same as post-EMP order lead time and assembly. I can assure you the matter would get more than normal priority, they'd be shitting out transformers in a New York minute, relatively speaking.

  13. and who uses a magnetic compass these days? no one, that's who

  14. Re:You don't know anything about how it was taken. on Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There is something even cooler about that, look at the 3D generated models of black holes merging, where the event horizon of each makes a "duck bill" shape that joins the two and then as they join contracting oblong rotating shape exists for a time.

    So the event horizon can even assume complex shapes from our point of view.

  15. Re:Still needed for REAL Work. on Gartner and IDC Agree: Global PC Shipments Fell To Exactly 58.5 Million in Q1 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no longer compelling reason for most people to buy a new PC every 4 years, older machines are fine.

    And for those of us who do real work with Linux a 9 year old machine is often fine... which is what my home pc is.

  16. no, you can read that page without paying

    where did you get that idea?

  17. Re:You don't know anything about how it was taken. on Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That popular explanation is actually wrong. Indeed things slow and are red shifted from our point of view as they fall towards event horizon, BUT the event horizon also is growing and eventually engulfs those things. That's the part often left out. Black holes grow, even to outside observers. Things get engulfed and disappear into the event horizon in the case of a growing black hole, even to outside observers if they wait long enough. The event horizon even from our point of view is not frozen in size.

  18. Re:You don't know anything about how it was taken. on Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    the event horizon is not a "stopped thing"

    black holes do grow from our frame of reference as things fall in, actually it's wrong to say things slow down as they approach the event horizon, instead the event horizon grows to engulf those things as they are slowing. The simplistic explanations of things falling into black holes in popular press are wrong.

  19. Re:An effective countermeasure - overwhelm on Congress is About To Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    the system would not be crushed, they can do it either way. they still have the legacy way of processing paper returns with operators and mainframe. they have not forgotten how as they still do tens of millions of returns that way.

    dream on, kid

  20. Re:An effective countermeasure - overwhelm on Congress is About To Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    false, would not crush system, that's how most returns were filed 20 years ago. they know how to handle that.

  21. Re:Context & cherry picking on 390 Billion Tons of Snow and Ice Melt Each Year As Globe Warms, Study Suggests (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    more flooding where I grew up because more and more suburbs added to an overcapacity sewage / floodwater system.... means nothing

  22. why not link Monotype's site with samples, instead of that eyecandy page?

    https://www.monotype.com/fonts...

  23. Re:In other words... on Samsung's Galaxy S10 Fingerprint Sensor Fooled By 3D Printer (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    and in organic chemistry most of us have fooled with polymer making that could duplicate our fingertip from a clay impression in 1/6 the time as a 3D printer

    3D printing plastic, the most expensive and time consuming way to make something out of plastic....

  24. "child" - evil thug that did a man's crime on Chicago Is Tracking Kids Awaiting Trial With GPS Monitors That Can Call, Record Them Without Consent (theappeal.org) · · Score: 1

    So instead of being in jail because of no bail, the can wear these.

    Let's be clear about something, most of these are animals needing a leash.

  25. Re:It's not the O.S.; it's the (Linux) People. on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    compared to the average Windows fan... who knows nothing much in particular.