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  1. Re:Robin Williams died by auto-erotic asphyxiation on US Suicides Spiked 10 Percent After Robin Williams's Death, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    As someone who lost a friend recently to strangulation of some kind, I fucking hoped autoerotic asphyxiation was the cause. It still would have meant the loss of my friend, but it would at least make _some_ fucking sense. Embarrassing or whatever, it beats the hell out of a 2 sentence note that leaves more questions than answers.

  2. Re:Population levels and social media on US Suicides Spiked 10 Percent After Robin Williams's Death, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I want to know why "we" should be making any decisions for rational adults. There seems to be this misconception that wanting to end your life is inherently irrational. A big aspect is the notion of "unresolved problems". We all have things in our lives that go unresolved - maybe a girlfriend that broke up with you, gave no reason, and never spoke to you again, the senseless death of a loved one, or even the suicide of a loved one. Not all of them are this extreme, but a person reaches a point where there are so many problems that have no solutions that eliminating the problems - the constant source of difficult decisions - with a relatively simple choice that then requires no decision-making after... it's appealing. We may never get a satisfactory answer - but again, it's not our existence. Insistence otherwise seems selfish at best.

  3. Re: Suicide is society's dirty little secret on US Suicides Spiked 10 Percent After Robin Williams's Death, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the worst case outcome in my mind - becoming a turnip and instead of you having to deal with the burden of your shitty existence, someone else has to wipe your ass.

  4. Relation to heliobacter pylori? on Gut Microbes Combine To Cause Colon Cancer, Study Suggests (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    H. pylori is associated with increased risk of pancreatic cancer... I wonder if it may be related? Pure speculation on my part but something that seems worth investigating.

  5. Ken Jennings on Church Elder/'Jeopardy' Champion Charged With Computer Crimes (mlive.com) · · Score: 1

    I read the title, saw "Church", "Elder", and "Jeopardy champion". The first two made me think "LDS" because of my upbringing and that plus Jeopardy champion... well.

  6. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on You Could Soon Be Manufacturing Your Own Drugs -- Thanks To 3D Printing (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The precursors are the hardest part of LSD-25. A person could always "dispose" of ergotamine tartrate in their university lab, but I wouldn't recommend it.

  7. Re:Who is buying the stupid thing on Nintendo's Newest Switch Accessories Are DIY Cardboard Toys (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought it purely for BOTW and have picked up a few more titles. I've loaned it to friends and family and it's got a bunch of use. Great investment IMO.

  8. Re:Not all conspiracies are created equal on People Who Know How the News Is Made Resist Conspiratorial Thinking (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    I'm pretty sure you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the definition of "evidence". Ignoring that it's the Daily Mail and ignoring the speciousness of their "evidence", we still don't have much.

    A long time ago, in a galaxy not too far away, someone made a mistake and said, "Meh, no one's gonna know who this guy is anyway." So they made 2 mistakes, one of which was easily correctable.

  9. Re:HCF was not about working in tech on What's The Best TV Show About Working in Tech? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL username checks out.

  10. Re: Not sure I follow on What's The Best TV Show About Working in Tech? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    And significantly harder to wield from a distance without fancy radio shit.

  11. Toxic managers and fear of resume damage on What Mistakes Can Stall An IT Career? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    I've had 3 truly toxic managers in my career. One of them I didn't realize until after, but if you ever wonder, "Is it normal for my boss to undermine my efforts?", the answer is a resounding NO. Get out. As soon as you can. No paycheck is worth having to battle a person who should be your advocate.

    I had _3_ < 1 year positions in a row. I was lucky in that the first and second had very reasonable explanations and the third was honestly just bad placement. I'm a jack of all trades developer but they were expecting an RBMS _expert_ - someone who had experience with gigantic databases and performance optimization. One of those kinda monastic tech disciplines.

    Provided you don't make completely terrible decisions, the occasional mar isn't going to tank your career. Staying in a shitty position or one you're just not fit for is going to do far more damage.

  12. Must have been a regional thing. I'm in my 30s and went to school in the "city" part of Idaho and we had purple "dittos" up until 3rd grade.

    Reading this thread has brought back a lot of weird memories.

  13. Whooooooa. I had completely forgotten about the little hand-cranked film thing I had as a kid. Thanks for posting this.

  14. Re: He should really get a paramotor on Flat Earther's Homemade Rocket Launcher Breaks Down in His Driveway (desertsun.com) · · Score: 1
    I can see it now... he successfully launches the thing, gets up to space...

    "Holy shit. It is round. How about that."

    ... right before crashing down to earth and not being able to utilize his newfound knowledge because of the practical (and quite painful) lesson in Newton's laws of motion.

  15. Re:I work with this system on This Time, Facebook Is Sharing Its Employees' Data (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The Work Number?

  16. Re:the worst on Vungle CEO Arrested For Child Rape and Attempted Murder (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, what are you quoting in your comment? This text didn't appear in TFA or the summary.

  17. Re:Apple thinks nothing of bad keyboards on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1
    Worked at a large state agency in Idaho. User complained of malfunctioning keyboard. Was advised to "replace with a new one and clean the old one".

    Nearly vomited at the 10+ years of accumulated nastiness and threw the keyboard out post-haste.

  18. Not sure if your comment is tongue-in-cheek or not... it was 17 years ago when I read it for the first time, but recollection tells me the only villagers who interacted with Frankenstein's creation ran away in terror.

  19. Re:NOTHING cloud-related on Stack Overflow Launches Salary Calculator For Developers (stackoverflow.com) · · Score: 1

    ... except the software that makes it all work? Do you think Amazon's services or software like Openstack was just willed into existence, complete with commit histories?

  20. NOTHING cloud-related on Stack Overflow Launches Salary Calculator For Developers (stackoverflow.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF is this, 2006?

  21. Re:Example please? on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    You have an awfully short memory if all you remember is what has happened in the last 4 months.

    Links aren't necessary. Off the top of my head:

    Orlando San Bernardino Charleston (2015, not recent) McVeigh Kazincki (not gonna take the time to spell it right, fuck you Ted) Roberts (Olympic bomber as your memory seems particularly short) Multiple anti-abortion nuts Dude that shot up the Sikh temple

    And "No links to prove your assertions" - you linked to a _ridiculous_ site in your first post. It's not ridiculous because Catholic, it's ridiculous because it Not to mention that you made a claim without any real proof except "organized cuz he has organizer in his name" and he's the favorite bogeyman of the right because WJ Clinton was 20 years ago.

  22. Re:No, not this on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Something this argument consistently fails to address:
    A majority of these murders are being committed by people who are so focused on survival that things like politics aren't a concern aside from the microspheres that govern their existence. I guarantee these people aren't reading treatises by Marx or Hayek and any political affiliation is almost accidental.

  23. I'm an early adopter of a lot of new music (specifically MIDI-oriented) devices. This is the model many of these companies adopt (make prototype, beat the hell out of prototype, make second prototype that fixes the problems, figure out usage/form factor issues, make 3rd prototype we can take pictures of and sell) and no crowdfunding is necessary because they've done their homework already.

    Anyone who sees crowdfunding as anything less than a gamble needs a lesson in investment. If I'm spending a significant amount on anything, it's going to be an investment in the company and not one of their products.

  24. Much needed competition on Watch Out Ticketmaster: Amazon In Talks To Offer Event Ticketing In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ticketmaster operates their primary ticketing market right next to their secondary ticketing market. I wouldn't be surprised to find they feed the secondary market illegitimately.

  25. Re:Is this sarcasm? on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I tried this a few times and got there within 15 every time. Then I found this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It's a loop. A trap, even.