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  1. Re:loyalty is a two-way street on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    Probably.....for example, it would probably cause him to care even less if the company stopped paying him, or if it turned out the company was just run on hookers and blackjack.....

  2. Re:Autopilot on Second Tesla Autopilot Crash Under Review By US Regulators (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Just go and ask a random person in a street if he would fly in a plane without a pilot, and then ask them about autopilot.

    I did. They said autopilot flies the plane itself. When I asked specifically about takoff and landing, they didn't know.

  3. It depends what agreements the UK makes with the EU if/when it exits

  4. Re:THIS JUST IN! on Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See · · Score: 1

    most conservatives have left Facebook/Twitter/etc

    I really, really doubt that's true, unless by 'conservative' you mean some subset of 'non-RINOs' whose numbers are too small to really worry about anyway

  5. Re:Should have eliminated the COO position... on Microsoft's Nadella Reshapes Top Management as Turner Leaves (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What in-house brand are you talking about here?

  6. Re:Autopilot on Second Tesla Autopilot Crash Under Review By US Regulators (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the term "auto-pilot" is deceptive in this context, despite your attempts to make parallels to a context that most people don't understand, and have no experience with. Most of your comments I agree with, but your attempt to defend Tesla's use of the word here is just dumb.

  7. He's pulling the numbers out of his trunk.

    Wow, good thing Teslas have a big trunk, that's a big number.

  8. Re:Never go to be work "as is" on Elon Musk: Tesla's Autopilot Software Could Save Half a Million Lives Every Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Self-driving cars are Agile!*

    *Move fast and break things

  9. Re:That's just great... on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize Athlon had such a tough life. I would have given him more support!

  10. Re: That's just great... on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Here is their list. Looks like they've finally given up on vax.

  11. Re:FBI Director [Re:And she gets away with it...] on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh fuck you, in no way should Hillary's problems here be blamed on IT.

  12. Re:Information is key on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, I am discussing here with a bunch of programmers, so it's not really a problem, I guess. Mainly I am lazy and would rather not listen to a whole podcast, and would rather you summarize what they said lol

  13. Re:That's just great... on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Incidentally here's a list of architectures supported by Suse 12, so:

    aarch64 alphapca56 armv5tel geode ia64 ppc64 ppciseries sh4 sparcv9 alpha amd64 armv6hl i386 noarch ppc64iseries ppcpseries sh4a sparcv9v alphaev5 armv3l armv6l i486 pentium3 ppc64p7 s390 sparc x86_64 alphaev56 armv4b armv7hl i586 pentium4 ppc64pseries s390x sparc64 alphaev6 armv4l armv7l i686 ppc ppc8260 sh sparc64v alphaev67 armv5tejl athlon ia32e ppc32dy4 ppc8560 sh3 sparcv8

    I don't even know what all of those are.

  14. Re:That's just great... on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's hard to believe that testing 32-bit really doubles the testing effort, but whatever.

  15. Re:FBI Director [Re:And she gets away with it...] on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You may argue that nobody cares enough about the underlings to prosecute them, but if that's the case, then Democrat's claim of political "witch hunting" rings true: Republicans only push to bust her because of her political position.

    Right now, the Democrats control the executive branch, which is responsible for prosecuting. Congress (and the Republicans) can't do anything here.
    Come on, Clinton did wrong here. Admit it.

  16. Re:This kind of thing is way too common in science on MRI Software Bugs Could Upend Years Of Research (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Worth mentioning that not long ago, someone got fMRI results from dead salmon.

  17. Re:Its official, the FBI has become a joke. on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    FBI AGENTS: You have officially become a joke to the rest of the world. Dont expect any respect from any of us anymore.

    What does that even mean?

  18. A lot of times that's ok.
    In any case, if you're going for efficiency, it's worth experimenting with.

  19. Re:FBI Director [Re:And she gets away with it...] on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Intent doesn't matter when dealing with classified documents. You let them out, you get fried.
    Unless you have enough power, then you don't.

  20. Re:And she gets away with it... on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or, like Scott Gration, who was forced to resign by Hillary partly because he ran his own mail server.

  21. You have a branch, on average, every 7 instructions. To fill a pipeline of 50 instructions, you need to speculatively execute past 7 branches.

    Oh, that gives me an idea of spacing my branches out better to speed things up. At least experimenting with it.

  22. The summary is bad. My understanding of what they did (after reading the article): implemented a shortest-path algorithm in software, but parallelizing it by putting a priority queue into hardware to allocate tasks.

  23. Re:median vs average on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Fun fact: they note that the cost of owning and driving a car has fallen to a six-year low, so TFA's author can go peddle their papers someplace else.

    That's worth mentioning again. It's hard to find good statistics about inequality.

  24. Re:Buy very used... on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 2

    That wasn't an argument against buying a used car. It's an argument against calling it reliable.
    I drive a really old used car (1990), but I also carry my cell phone because I know it could break down unexpectedly, and I'll have to deal with it.

  25. Re:median vs average on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Tl;dr there are a lot of cars under $20,000, so the fact that the average person can't afford the average car is irrelevant. The average person can afford a car.

    And that's not even taking into account used cars, which I consider to be an excellent option, even though I can afford something more.