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  1. Re:You all need to read the FAQ from the Boring Co on Elon Musk's Boring Company Bids On Chicago Airport Transit Link (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    it is not a trivially nor cheaply solved problem, and let's just say those of us in the Chicago area know of important train tunnels that have flooded, even recently.

  2. Re:ho boy, a redundant system at 10x the cost on Elon Musk's Boring Company Bids On Chicago Airport Transit Link (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    yes but doesn't that show a standard electric train can do the job? we could build another standard electric train line to be "express" with few stops, and the current 50 MPH speed governor limit can be raised to the 70 MPH the units are capable of. that seems like a more reasonable solution to me for business travelers that are in hurry and don't care about cost

  3. Re:WTF does it take? on An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo (nejm.org) · · Score: 1

    a conscious person who can move their jaw and tongue can always off themselves. just bite your tongue off and bleed to death. problem solved.

  4. it's slang, you autistic pedant on Cryptocurrencies Aren't 'Crypto' (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    it's just slang, deal with it. the majority get to define language, you don't.

  5. Re:You all need to read the FAQ from the Boring Co on Elon Musk's Boring Company Bids On Chicago Airport Transit Link (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    no I have concern with complete disregard for where the water table is here in the chicago area in the proposed path, the thing will often be submerged. weather proof is one thing, making a tunnel under water is a whole 'nother kettle of fish. even the kennedy expressway along which the current Blue Line electric train runs has parts that turn into a lake in five inches or more of rainfall as do parts of the highways it joins.

    so for passengers that are amphibians, this will be a great system.

    And note the real travel time is "20-25 minutes", so you shave 15 minutes off the current Blue Line travel for a mere $33 more. So let's amend that to system for rich stupid amphibians.

  6. ho boy, a redundant system at 10x the cost on Elon Musk's Boring Company Bids On Chicago Airport Transit Link (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    we already have an electric train from o'hare to downtown in 40 minutes, and by the way the realistic time without the marketing hype for this proposed thing is 25 minutes.....so for $33 more than the current price you save a whopping 15 minutes. whoop de fucking do.

  7. Re:Drum roll please... on YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    yes it should be in the range of things that are auto-guessed, matters involving the word "sex" are a *popular* topic among normal humans. Sexual preference, sexual identity, sexual health, sexual celebrity gossip, sexual media, etc. etc. etc.

    The world between your ears may be different, but most of us don't live in that.

  8. expected full service load deflection (for heavy turbulence for example) is over five meters on the big jets, and they test to 150% of that.....wonder if most people know that

  9. Re:Thanks, science... on DNA Analysis Finds That Yetis Are Actually Bears (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    of course they found bear DNA, yeti is manbearpig. another shill for science leading young people astray with half-truths....or is that one-third truths?

  10. Re:Never mind the carbon dioxide on Could Collapsing Antarctic Glaciers Raise Sea Levels Sooner Than Expected? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    sun adding much less than that at the pole though

    I'm more worried about ocean acidification than all this alarmism about warming/climate change

  11. no we have modern 21st century station wagons made in the USA, the minivan

  12. in the atmosphere relatively close to the ground...even for a 1 megaton bomb the optimal altitude is about 2 miles up, and north korea's largest weapon was but a fraction of that

  13. Re:He should really get a paramotor on Flat Earther's Homemade Rocket Launcher Breaks Down in His Driveway (desertsun.com) · · Score: 2

    well yes, we keep having to add turtles to maintain standard g, duh!

  14. Re:highest factor of 262,144 on Computer Pioneer Geoff Tootill Passed Away (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of the "one-off" computers had them, the binary floating point Z3 had multiply and divide in 1941 (but no condional branching, ha!). ENIAC, decimal computer, finished in 1945 did too.

  15. Re:Will Intel at last have a chipset 16Gb LP RAM on Intel Core i9 Mobile And 9th Gen Coffee Lake Processors Detailed In AIDA64 Update (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    running Windows in a VM for certain corporate software while doing others things in the main OS.

    Get a real job, ya fucking hippie, and you might find you need more than your 8GB of gamer RAM.

  16. will they run a management engine having operating system intended for student training and a web server? if no we don't want it, the owner of facebook says privacy is bad

  17. Re:Never mind the carbon dioxide on Could Collapsing Antarctic Glaciers Raise Sea Levels Sooner Than Expected? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're going to pretend to know something about science, at least get the units correct. 150 milliwatts per square meter of ice...which is a lot.

    JPL antarctic plume modeling study author HélÃne Seroussi of the heat under Marie Byrd Land:
    "I didn't see how we could have that amount of heat and still have ice on top of it,â

  18. Re:When Go replaces C, C++ will just link to it. on Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    You made a rather ignorant statement, FORTRAN development is still done in the realm of high performance computing, for some of the most interesting and complex problems mankind is tackling. that's why the FORTRAN 2018 standard is in the works.....

    Sure, its mainstream use is in libraries for which no superior replacement has been done, but maybe that also says something

  19. Re:He should really get a paramotor on Flat Earther's Homemade Rocket Launcher Breaks Down in His Driveway (desertsun.com) · · Score: 1

    you forgot the infinite stack of turtles under the earth. they cause earthquakes and smelly swamp gas.

  20. Re:Drum roll please... on YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    what are you a prude? a castrino? a monk who beats himself whenever he "has an impure thought"?

    plenty of sentences a normal human might say might end in "sex". Whether the topic is medical, gender, joke or porn......

  21. Re:He should really get a paramotor on Flat Earther's Homemade Rocket Launcher Breaks Down in His Driveway (desertsun.com) · · Score: 2

    wow, so we live on the surface of a neutron star. that's why shoveling dirt is so tiring.

  22. he's repairing it so might get a launch somewhere either legal or before "the authorities" can stop him. whether he survives or kills/maims anyone remains to be seen, of course.

  23. Re:He should really get a paramotor on Flat Earther's Homemade Rocket Launcher Breaks Down in His Driveway (desertsun.com) · · Score: 2

    funny, at an altitude of the height of my eyeballs I can see evidence of the curvature of the earth as things move away with the bottoms disappearing first as they go "over the horizon"

  24. Re:What about an experiment on Lightning Can Trigger Nuclear Reactions, Creating Rare Atomic Isotopes (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    already known to happen with deuterium and tritium, thermonuclear reactions from lightning are cited in the footnotes of that paper.

  25. if that nutcase suceeds with his rocket jump, he could get more chicks than a slasherdotter ever will. The horniest and most attractive more likely to pass on their genes....not the smartest.