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  1. Re:Billions of years? Come on! on An Average Earth Day Used To Be Less Than 19 Hours Long (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Panicked for a moment - the first time I thought it said 4 million.

  2. Re:Moon on An Average Earth Day Used To Be Less Than 19 Hours Long (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mercury is close to the sun and is tidally locked.

    Not quite. A 3:2 resonance, actually.

    Are you posting from the 1960s?

  3. Re: civilization in stasis on An Average Earth Day Used To Be Less Than 19 Hours Long (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you from the 1980s?

    An app!

  4. Re:I'll get more time to do things eventually on An Average Earth Day Used To Be Less Than 19 Hours Long (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I heard something like 40 days.

    It's counterintuitive, since it's not between 1 and 28. I suspect it comes down to momentum and energy, and the fact that the moon's a skinny little runt.

  5. Re:We're at the end of Moore's law on Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck everything, we're doing 16!

  6. Get it while you can! on Google's Lens AI Camera Is Now a Standalone App (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Get it while you can - they'll probably discontinue it next week.

  7. Re:Why would they want to ship new product? on Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    It has a distinct whiff of Kodak about it. Are you picking up traces of sunk cost fallacy too?

  8. Re:Why would they want to ship new product? on Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Because their friends will laugh at them.

    (Posted from a machine using a GeForce 6600. My friends don't laugh at me; I don't have any).

  9. Re:Translation: market penetration of 4K too low on Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    You can use process improvements due to Moore's law and improved designs to produce a smaller GPU capable of the same level of performance as the current parts.

    And/or get the same performance at lower power consumption.

    OMG, what did I say! I'm a tree-hugging hippy cawmnust!

  10. Re:For now on Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    They said WW1 would be over by Christmas.

    And in a way, it was.

  11. I told them on Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    I told them not to outsource manufacturing to Tesla.

  12. Re:License engineers have the power to tell thereb on Mobile Devs Making the Same Security Mistakes Web Devs Made in the Early 2000s (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You'll find clusters of PEs everywhere there are lives hanging on mature engineering. Aircraft, Automotive, Power, Navel

    Surely that last one is the province of MDs?

  13. Re:A problem with an easy solution on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Did your wife leave you because of your philanding?

  14. Re:A problem with an easy solution on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The one who needs to learn something is you. The thing is the English language.

  15. Re:So 23% cancelations is not bad? on Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Since when is the cancellation of 1 out of every 4 pre-sale considered good?

    They're realigning demand and supply to give a ... umm ... more synergistic value chain proposition.

    (Rei is on holiday)

  16. Re:Rei says... on Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Funny

    they haven't hit any production targets

    Maybe the autopilot couldn't see them.

  17. I suspect that shoving it between your thruppennies would count as "holding it wrong".

  18. Re:Skype style UI coming to GitHub ? on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    It's Microsoft that bought it, not Google.

  19. Re:Skype style UI coming to GitHub ? on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why Google Hangouts is good.

    Does that still exist? I used that once and it was quite good, so I naturally assumed they'd squished it.

  20. Re:Very legitimate reason for this on Mobile Devs Making the Same Security Mistakes Web Devs Made in the Early 2000s (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If only there was a way to do the validation in both: on the client side for fast response and on the server for security. That'd be just dreamy!

  21. Re: Obama used the same social media tactics agai on Zuckerberg Grilled At Angry Facebook Shareholder's Meeting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, these people

    Stop. I see the problem, right there.

  22. Re:Visit the Library on New York's Last Remaining Independent Bookshops (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you were such an avid reader how come you don't know the difference between "et al" and "et cetera"?

  23. Re: Amazon should be responsible on Judge Rules Amazon Isn't Liable For Damages Caused By a Hoverboard It Sold (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So If you buy salad from Safeway and get sick, you would sue Safeway instead of DelMonte or whoeverÃ(TM)s name is on the bag????

    Yes. Because your contract, even if it's implicit, was with Safeway.

    They can, in turn, sue the supplier if they think it's worth it.

  24. Re: Pluto IS a planet on Is Pluto Actually a Mash-Up of a Billion Comets? (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    For a long time I thought the same, but a few weeks ago I found out that it does.

    It is however only about the size of Belgium and probably contains considerably less beer.

  25. I, for one, welcome it.