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  1. Re: Sisu vs sissy on Regular Sauna Users May Have Fewer Chronic Diseases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    btw if it's over 100C, you can't really stay in there long. A few minutes is about all anyone can handle.

  2. Re:Won't be rare for long on Rare Blue Diamonds Lurk Deep In Earth's Core (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The bizarre thing is that people actually want these shiny chunks of carbon.

    They are kind of pretty.

  3. Re: Ok what gives? on Regular Sauna Users May Have Fewer Chronic Diseases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I can only give you anecdotal observations here: sitting in a sauna does reduce my stress personally. It also seems to loosen the tight muscle knots that build up over time in my body. So to me it seems reasonable that a sauna could reduce stress related diseases. I don't know, though.

  4. Re: Sisu vs sissy on Regular Sauna Users May Have Fewer Chronic Diseases (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    It takes time for the heat energy to transfer to your body. If the air is moist, it transfers more quickly. In a drier sauna, it transfers more slowly. If you sit in a sauna long enough you'll probably heat up enough and die but I've never done that.

  5. Re: "I have friends who own coal mines..." on White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You can see it right there, in the "we"

  6. Re: Sisu vs sissy on Regular Sauna Users May Have Fewer Chronic Diseases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you put a thermometer in the sauna on the wall, that will tell you the temperature. The one I used to frequent had a normal temperature of 180F. As you mention steam rooms are much cooler, even 115F as a wall temperature can be too hot for me.

  7. how telecoms rip off customers on How AT&T and Verizon Rip Off DSL Customers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Longest book ever written.

  8. Re: Electron flow on A Material Found To Carry Current In a Way Never Before Observed (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    Its actually kind of amazing how both of those editors have continued to make improvements to remain useful in the modern era......

  9. Re: Thanks, TRUMP on A Material Found To Carry Current In a Way Never Before Observed (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Hey, I would of left but my tires on the three wheeler was flat. Hella cool in there.

  10. Re: New games? on The NES Classic Outsold the PS4, Xbox One, and Switch In June (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Mario Oddessy is a fun game with a relatively simple main quest , but with very difficult side quests available right from the beginning. It sounds stupid but putting a hat on a T-rex was the highlight of my week.

  11. Re: Did they control for wealth? on Regular Sauna Users May Have Fewer Chronic Diseases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "That said...isn't a 50% reduction in multiple chronic health problems so huge a result as to reflect an almost guaranteed causation?" ââ"â"â" no, see for example this graph:. https://www.google.com/search?... Note that it also doesn't rule out some kind of correlation, like having more free time to sit in a sauna, or drinking more water as a result of sitting in a sauna.

  12. Those users are wrong, they are mainly people who don't want to think about errors, and deal with them by pretending they don't exist. If you want to write secure code you need to know if the function you are calling is going to throw an error or not. There is a better way to deal with the unwieldiness of exceptions: always throw "Exception" (with an appropriate human readable error message), unless there is something the programmer can do at runtime to handle a specific exception (like an interrupt exception). In that case, to increase flexibility you can throw "Exception" *and* "InterruptException" if you want to increase flexibility, but you need to deal with errors when they happen. Checked exceptions may be awkward, but unchecked exceptions are unusable for reliable code.

  13. A lot of these aren't code smells in the traditional sense, rather they are optimizations that reduce power usage. For example, one of them is using sparsemap instead of hashmap. While I agree in many cases the former is preferable, I'm not going to call the latter bad quality because it is 2 percent slower (which is approx thw number I got from the paper). In any case they should be talking about efficiency and power usage in the article, rather than overall code quality (because efficiency is only one aspect of that)

  14. Re: Product without purpose shows great promise on 3D-Printed Deep Learning Neural Network Uses Light Instead of Electrons (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the original was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... but maybe the particular aspect you are looking for was not.

  15. Re:About time on Amazon Plans To Move Completely Off Oracle Software By Early 2020 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What exactly do you prefer instead of SQL? They work fine until you have huge, huge numbers of requests.

  16. Re:Half of the story is missing on Amazon Plans To Move Completely Off Oracle Software By Early 2020 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Because a lot of noSQL databases give up consistency so they can become reliably distributed.

  17. Re: Product without purpose shows great promise on 3D-Printed Deep Learning Neural Network Uses Light Instead of Electrons (newatlas.com) · · Score: 2

    Check out the perceptron, it is almost exactly what you describe, made a long time ago

  18. Re: Impersonating me STILL YET AGAIN? apk on Inspector General Says NSA Still Hasn't Implemented Its Post-Snowden Internal Security Measures (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Your posting style is definitely more recognizeable. I cannot be decieved by imposters.

  19. GOOD

  20. Re: Huh? on Tesla On Track To Turn a Profit This Year (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is better :)

  21. Re:Huh? on Tesla On Track To Turn a Profit This Year (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    ok, I guess I was wrong, this is a financial website.

  22. Re:This is why we need more science education on Bacteria Becoming Resistant To Hospital Disinfectants, Warn Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I got a free bottle of essential oils. Figured I could spray it in the air as kind of a nice scent to have for a while, but no, don't do that, if you spray oil around, it will just attract dirt. So essential oils are not just useless, they are worse than useless.

  23. Re:STEM Warning [Re:STEM for at-risk only] on LeBron James Opens STEM-Based School For At-Risk Students In Ohio (sbnation.com) · · Score: 1

    That reminds me that both CSS and C++ were written for that purpose, giving programmers employment. :/

  24. Re:Noble but misplaced on LeBron James Opens STEM-Based School For At-Risk Students In Ohio (sbnation.com) · · Score: 1

    Honorable, but not quite useful.

    It's useful for the kids it helps.

  25. Re:Software easter eggs have to be hidden! on Tesla Is Adding Atari Games To the In-Car Display (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. We're a technology website, not a finance website. The only people who care about the stock price are the ones who one (or loaned) stock. The rest of us look at the Atari thing and think it's cute.