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  1. Re:not very intelligent on IGN Pulls Ex-Editor's Posts After Dozens More Plagiarism Accusations Surface (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    They are very dangerous and could attack at any time, so we have to deal with them.

  2. Re:not very intelligent on IGN Pulls Ex-Editor's Posts After Dozens More Plagiarism Accusations Surface (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    The Hydraulic Press Channel is also assisted by the fact that native English speakers get a lot of amusement out of listening to Lauri and Anni speaking English. They comprehend it just fine, which is why we understand them, but their accents will never stop being cute.

  3. Re:not very intelligent on IGN Pulls Ex-Editor's Posts After Dozens More Plagiarism Accusations Surface (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    He broke the basic rule: if you steal from one source (at a time) it's plagiarism. If you steal from three or more at once, it's research.

  4. Re:It stops being an economy on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So long as 3D printers and CNC mills are "mass produced items" anyone can have, then non-mass-produced items can be manufactured on site.

  5. Re:It stops being an economy on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The Antebellum south (before the Civil War) would be inclined to disagree. Their economy couldn't have operated without many slaves, which is precisely why they were willing to go to war to keep those slaves.

  6. Re:Training for what? on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I understand the value of a math major. I've worked with people holding math degrees who were intelligent and competent, but never got to apply their field of study in any meaningful way. Meanwhile I was busy writing tools to make my job (and by extension, theirs) easier because I realized I was doing the same shit every month, and for the same clients. Why the fuck shouldn't I automate that? (Musicians are often thinking "how do I take this thing I want to do, and do it more accurately, faster, and with less effort?") And once I had, everyone else started using the tools as well.

  7. While the meaning of the word has changed to be similar to "docking", the word for this practice used to be "snoodling", and that has been around for decades now. The fact that you haven't previously heard of this indicates you didn't follow alt.tasteless back in the day.

  8. Vapers use batteries, and most of them charge off USB now.

  9. INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER

    god damn yelling filter, fuck you when I can't even quote something accurately.

  10. Re:Alexa, How many rounds does an AR-15 hold? on Saint Louis University Is Outfitting Student Living Spaces With Thousands of Echo Dots (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It holds whatever the capacity of its magazine may be, plus one in the chamber. It's not a question with a single answer.

  11. Re:Can't you just... on Man Sues Over Google's 'Location History' Fiasco, Case Could Affect Millions (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This might be the real reason for sealed-in batteries: so you can't ever totally turn off the phone.

  12. VRrequires a stereo image, so why wouldn't it do better with two separate GPUs rendering left and right eye frames? The only latency would be in making sure they're both updating frames at the same time, and that shouldn't be any worse than conforming to a Vsync is now.

  13. Re:Nvidia sleeps well at night. on Nvidia Unveils Powerful New RTX 2070 and 2080 Graphics Cards (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Because latency.

    I bought a cheap 4K TV with the intent of using it as a monitor. Unfortunately, it has a whopping 250 ms of input lag on every input including broadcast TV. I had to dial the delay on the audio all the way up (to 200 ms) and it still has the audio running just a shade ahead of the video. As a monitor, or for console gaming, it is completely unusable. The lag is bad enough to induce not only incorrect inputs, but motion sickness.

    I couldn't return it, as it was deemed to be functioning correctly, and there was nothing in the specs that said it had low latency. It also performs perfectly adequately as a TV, unless in the same room as another TV that doesn't have the immense latency.

  14. Re:FP16 support on Nvidia Unveils Powerful New RTX 2070 and 2080 Graphics Cards (polygon.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Green Day is for American Idiots.

  15. Re:That argument is utterly illogical on President Trump Says It is 'Very Dangerous' When Companies Like Twitter Regulate Own Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    However, say you were fooled by special effects into believing there actually was a fire, and then shouted "fire!". While you might well get arrested (because the police don't have to accept your defense, that's for a court to do), there is still no crime. So perhaps Alex Jones can pull out the "I believe everything I say is true, but I can't help it if my sources are sometimes wrong" defense. Thing is, this only covers whether acts are criminal, not whether Twatter or Fecebook have to put up with it.

  16. The data likely still exists in many scattered plaintext copies on other people's machines.

  17. Re: Conservation of resources is a negative now? on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    People read on their tablets and phones, sure – but that's a secondary function. Aside from burning some battery for the backlight (which may well be offset by not needing as much room lighting) it comes at no extra cost. It's like using the phone's camera. It's not the best camera, but it's the best one you always have with you. If forced to carry a second device, one Kindle can hold a whole lot more than one book. Really, it can carry every book you own, and having your entire library with you at all times is more versatile than having to pick one or a few books to take with you for the day.

  18. Re: Conservation of resources is a negative now? on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't even touch on the number of books that get printed, never get sold, and end up returned and mulched. While the paper does get recovered, there's still the energy of printing, binding, and moving the book both directions. Print On Demand doesn't have this problem, but instead suffers from a lack of economy of scale, and the other aspects (materials and shipping costs) are pretty much the same as traditional mass market press runs.

    I personally hope printed books become a niche market. I don't want them to disappear, as there are still purposes for which they are ideal, but most of the books in existence are in that form because that was the best thing going at the time for distributing mass written media. It no longer is, and the world will be better off if hard copy is reserved for the places it actually outperforms the electronic version.

  19. Re: Conservation of resources is a negative now? on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Energy spent distributing ebooks is almost certainly far less than the energy involved in cutting down trees, pulping paper, printing, binding, and distributing books.

  20. Re: No Actual Article...? Just a Bunch of China Ar on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Quality is the problem on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hobbyists generally want the most common tube types – 6V6, 12AX7, EL84. The power tubes are the most highly prized because guitar amps drive them hard enough to destroy them over a span of years or even months. (Hi fi equipment generally babies tubes enough that you'll need a re-cap before you need new tubes.)

  22. Re: Conservation of resources is a negative now? on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be much power, though. That's the whole point of e-ink displays, to only consume power at the moment the page is turned.

  23. True, but there was only one such library, not effectively thousands of distributed copies around the world.

  24. Has nobody informed Musk that baseball games generally don't pull the entire crowd simultaneously? Some people arrive early and watch batting practice, while others don't show up until after the game has already started. Now getting everyone out of the facility at the same time might be a bigger challenge.

    Personally, I have found that parking at Union Station and then walking up the hill to the ballpark just isn't that bad, and keeps me out of the horrible traffic that always results when 60,000 people try to drive away from the same place at the same time.