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  1. Das Boot succeeded in the same format to convey tedium alongside terror: use a very long edit.

  2. Computers vs. tablets and phones on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    A computer generally enables you to create. The other platforms enable you to consume.

  3. ...that monkeys have beaten us to cloning

  4. Re:States' Rights on What Happens When States Have Their Own Net Neutrality Rules? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue for me is not whether an idea originates locally or federally. The issue is that the better idea should prevail.

    Liking good things is not a position that should be marginalized on account of political jurisdiction.

  5. Aha! on Tumblr Is Tumbling (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Found the problem right here:
    "In May of 2013, Yahoo snatched it for a cool $1.1 billion"

  6. The greater issues on Not Every Article Needs a Picture (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Images whose content is 100% textual in nature (usually, as some ham-handed DRM)
    2. Videos that are largely or entirely slideshows of static images with narration OVERLAID AS CAPTIONS.
    3. Video captions laid directly into the video so that they do not disappear when you unmute the audio.

  7. Introspection on Programming Language Go Turns 8 (golang.org) · · Score: 0

    When you think that is a "thing", you're going to write a language I neither understand nor find well-focused on my needs.

    You'll really drive it home when you make the underscore character a keyword (or whatever it is).

  8. Re:Interface themes... really? on Audacity 2.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I downloaded 2.2.0 and they appear to have fixed the bug I cited. Not too shabby!

  9. Interface themes... really? on Audacity 2.2.0 Released · · Score: 2

    This app handles space characters typed into the "save file" dialog box as hot keys to commence playback of the audio in the underlying window. The entire app is full of similar errors, but interface themes leapt to the top of the list?

  10. Who ya gonna call? on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    DUST BUSTERS!

  11. Why shouldn't those who are able to code a bot be welcome to have it cast more votes for them? Capability here is the currency, and money is free speech.

  12. Re: We need more guns on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Witholding access to firearms from unstable people is too much to ask?

    Perhaps you can outline the issues you have with asking drivers to take a vision test?

  13. Re:Obviously bullshit statement there on Code is Too Hard To Think About (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    http://spectrum.ieee.org/trans...

    100 million lines quoted here. And they still can't make the Bluetooth work.

  14. I'm ready to accept they are not equal, but why hasn't anyone the guts to suggest which is greater than the other?

  15. Re:Summary doesn't give the answer on Mathematicians Race To Debunk German Man Who Claimed To Solve The 'P Versus NP' Problem (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it not possible that any given problem understood to be NP might be wrongly thought to be NP, and so proving a P problem was equivalent to it would only highlight the mistaken initial categorization of the problem as being NP?

  16. all these assistants should be available from all these terminals by use of their separate wake-up phrases ("ok, google", "hey Siri", "alexa", etc)

  17. We have really reached the end of smartphones. I read breathless posts of updates and new phones and realize ... I just don't care for what my Pixel cannot currently do.

  18. Re:You got fired... on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    And so, the other partner in this healthy collegial dialog of ideas, FIRED HIM?

    A cudgel is quite the counterpoint.

    tone

  19. Re:You got fired... on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    WAS. When did you leave?

    Not a pointed question; I have no inside perspective. But companies change, to suit the times and their own scale.

  20. Re:You got fired... on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    HE was lecturing? He was the voice in the wild. He merely adopted the tone of the contrary, monocrhomatic dogma that was being preached, in a corporate forum which was uncharacteristically not video taped.

  21. Re:happened over Boston some 2-4 years ago on A US Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Found it. It was part of the tail to the Tsarnayev story.

    https://www.boston.com/news/lo...

  22. happened over Boston some 2-4 years ago on A US Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    a less-sophsticated effort was conducted south of Boston a few years ago. The aircraft was a Cessna-like plane with little to make it appear special, but its routes were so continuous that it attracted attention. Finally, the local authorities said it was collective data pertaining to law enforcement, and no other details. It was later explained more fully, and I think it was terror-related, but frankly I've forgotten the details.

    Can anyone nail this down and refresh my memory? A casual Google query wasn't easy to compose, apparently

  23. This is an outrage on Google, Apple, Amazon Hit Record Lobbying Highs (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    A company as large as, and as subject to government restriction, as Uber is spending a measly $2M per year on influencing politics?

    I'm sad to see my politicians go so cheaply.

  24. Indeed... what right thing? Manning released 750,000 classified documents. Are we to believe she knew the totality of what she was handing over? An honest consideration of this makes it difficult to defend the release of information on moral grounds. You can't point to a subset of those items whose release you find acceptable and then blanket pardon the entire shotgun betrayal. She didn't simply expose uncomfortable rules of engagement for Apache helicopters... she shat upon US interests in the general sense.

  25. There is no "I" in "team" on 'This Isn't AI' (shkspr.mobi) · · Score: 1

    And no "u" in "favorite"