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  1. Re: Hiss and crackle on Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued To Grow Last Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The only time I've seen it recently is for novelty value. A band hands out albums on cassette, and everyone says, "hey cool! I remember these!" I haven't been able to find anyone who claims they like the audio better.

  2. laptops on Lenovo's Chairman Says Worst is Over For PC Giant (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there anyone making laptops with a reasonably sturdy case, and reasonably powered specs?

  3. Re:Why not put this at river exits? on Giant Plastic Trap Breaks, Gets Towed Back To Land (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Only about 1/5th of the plastic in the ocean comes from Rivers

    Where is the rest of the plastic coming from?

  4. A lifestyle brand is one that matches your lifestyle. "I like yoga, so I buy yoga-themed things." "I like C64, so I buy everything in rainbows and all my music is chiptunes."

  5. 2) Windows 10, or at least its update cycle

    Microsoft is doubling down on their update cycle, and getting as close to continuous integration as they can. In practice the closest they can get is probably weekly releases.

    So get ready for weekly releases of Windows! Hey, no complaining, all the cool kids are doing it!

  6. Re:Free pass over privacy on Apple Took Out a CES Ad To Troll Its Competitors Over Privacy (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Airdrop worked fine last time I tried it.

  7. Re:Transistors and AI on Will the End of Moore's Law Halt AI Progress? (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Transistors and AI on Will the End of Moore's Law Halt AI Progress? (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 1

    the brain isn't electrical like computer circuits in nature, it's chemical. Even impulse transmission is chemical.

    That just means it's slower, right?

  9. Re:Transistors and AI on Will the End of Moore's Law Halt AI Progress? (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 4, Informative

    How many transistors in the human brain?

    Of course the answer is zero, because the brain has neurons. But we can have some numbers for comparison. A Graphcore GC2 IPU has 23 billion transistors. In comparison, a brain has:

    100 billion neurons.
    10 trillion synapses.
    300 billion dendrites.

    Which of those need to be emulated? A transistor does not do as much as a neuron, and we don't know all the things a neuron does. There is some evidence that the inside of a neuron does some kinds of calculations. So it's much more complicated than just comparing raw numbers. That said, transistors do operate faster than neurons.

    Good link for more reading.

  10. Re:Well, there's a bit of truth... on NVIDIA Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit Tied To Cryptocurrency Implosion (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a long shot, glwt.

  11. Re:Well, there's a bit of truth... on NVIDIA Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit Tied To Cryptocurrency Implosion (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1
    Such communications from companies are always prefaced by appropriate legal disclaimers. In NVidia's case, they disclaim like this:

    "Certain statements....are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof"

    Unless they said something that was actually false at the time they said it, then this case is unlikely to have success.

  12. Re:Mining or Transactions? on Ethereum Plans To Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption By 99 Percent (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    That's a good question, I'd have to look at the source code to be sure. You might be able to just do an "empty" transaction (that is, a block with no transactions in it).

    In practice, if that ever happened, a processor could just send some money to themselves to make a transaction.

  13. Re: *shrug* you're still wrong on the minor point. on Ethereum Plans To Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption By 99 Percent (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Correction means you say how it actually is. You haven't corrected anything.

  14. Re:Mining or Transactions? on Ethereum Plans To Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption By 99 Percent (ieee.org) · · Score: 0

    *shrug* I've written my own bitcoin clone, I know how it works.

  15. Re:Mining or Transactions? on Ethereum Plans To Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption By 99 Percent (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Right, but it's not actually "mined" in processing the blockchain transaction ledger though you are rewarded for that. So it's a distinction with a small difference.

    I'm seriously interested if you are even capable of expressing how it is mined.

  16. Re:Mining or Transactions? on Ethereum Plans To Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption By 99 Percent (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, not quite, but I see why you phrase it that way even though it's not quite correct.

    This is probably the most useless comment I've read in a while. Aren't you the smart one.

  17. Re:Mining or Transactions? on Ethereum Plans To Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption By 99 Percent (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You 'mine' a coin by processing a transaction. The person who processes the transaction gets free coins as a reward for doing the mining. For bitcoin, the reward gets smaller and smaller over time, until eventually there will be no new coins mined, and the transaction fees will increase to cover the cost of processing the transaction.

  18. Re:Call it hacking on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Almonds start producing fruit after 3 years or so. By age 15 or 20 you start thinking about putting in a new set of trees.

  19. Re:Call it hacking on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, growing them from seed usually results in bitter almond crops (but beautiful trees). Sometimes they are grafted on to peach trees.

  20. Re:Call it hacking on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    Able to resist being covered in increasingly caustic pesticides = bad modification.

    If they don't harm humans or the environment, is that a bad modification?

  21. Call it hacking on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Call it hacking and it's good, call it GMO and it's bad.

    "This one simple trick a woman discovered in her lab!"

  22. What apps are worth buying? Serious question.

  23. Re:Google blows!!! on Google's Fuchsia OS Confirmed To Have Android App Support Via Android Runtime (9to5google.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What kind of moron would trade privacy for free stuff?

    99.9% of humanity.

  24. A team for backend, frontend, Android and iPhone, devops, and then sales, accounting, HR, and managers. Note that most of the programmers there probably suck, but that is the way of the modern world: you can't find good programmers, so you hire a lot of bad ones. Plug them in with agile and a safe language like Java or Python and things still manage to get things done well enough.

  25. 90% of the bugs are the p1 and p2 bugs and are budgeted to take 90% of the time.

    Then you suck at programming? I don't know what you are doing wrong that causes you to spend all your time fixing bugs. Improve your skill, take a class, do something, but don't keep writing such crappy code.