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  1. Re:6 Months? on Oracle Releases Java 10, Promises Much Faster Release Schedule (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    var is about creating code that is harder to read and maintain. The type isn't clear until it's assigned and that is a ticking bomb.

    Maintainability of the code is essential in the long run. If you have to write some extra at the declaration is not a major issue.

  2. Re:6 Months? on Oracle Releases Java 10, Promises Much Faster Release Schedule (adtmag.com) · · Score: 2

    And why would you want anonymous types - it's making it just a lot harder to understand the solution and also harder to do code analysis.

  3. Re:6 Months? on Oracle Releases Java 10, Promises Much Faster Release Schedule (adtmag.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The 'var' that exists in C# is one of the worst ideas ever and the fact that Java didn't have it was one of the benefits of Java.

    'var' is an item for lazy coders.

  4. Re: Bullshit on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    That is if transporters do have that behavior. An alternative is to establish a wormhole between the places you want to transport anything and then move the ends of the wormhole at both ends in a synchronized pattern and then close it. Just don't close it halfway.

  5. Re:Adding to the problem on Mozilla Pulls Advertising from Facebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd consider that we can't get truly private browsing until an inheritance scheme for all browser-stored data is used so that cookies for site X referred by site A are stored differently compared to if X is referred by site B.

    And this applies not only to cookies but any cached content so X sees me as a new user for every new site I access that embeds trackers from X.

  6. Re:Probably a net win on Mozilla Pulls Advertising from Facebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    There are degrees in hell too.

  7. Re:Reptilians did the holocaust? on YouTube Kids Has Videos on How Reptilians Rule the World, Moon Landing Was Fake (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So Nazi Germany never happened?

    Are you from Blight Insular 1 by any chance?

  8. Re:Demonetization on YouTube Kids Has Videos on How Reptilians Rule the World, Moon Landing Was Fake (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Especially the gun related channels - even if most of them are actually pretty informative, like "forgotten weapons".

    Another channel that I do follow is bosnianbill.

  9. Wikipedia is a nexus of information.

    A large amount of information on Wikipedia is valuable. Not always entirely correct but it's hard to get every spot correct in a user-driven system.

  10. More detailed investigation tips. on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic? · · Score: 0

    Just run the speed test against another node in another country or state. That would indicate if the ISP is slowing down explicit traffic or not. Even better to run a bandwidth test with a less common service than Speedtest. Like http://www.bredbandskollen.se/ (You can switch from Swedish to English on that page). Just be aware that the further away the server is the more likely you'd get bad figures since you have to share the channel with others.

    Also try to locate the speed test servers on the same net as the service you like to access, that can also give you a good indication if it's throttling or just shitty network.

    On YouTube you also can right-click on the video and select "Stats for nerds" to see the connection speed as well as dropped frames.

    Tools like traceroute (in Windows tracert) and ping are your friends. hrping is an alternative to ping.

    Also see more test variants here: https://www.digitaltrends.com/...

    If you can - also look at if there are ping responses from the net using wireshark. Look for source quench messages. However those are usually presented to the streaming service and not to the client unless you do an upload of data.

  11. Re:Just say NO on Planting GMOs Kills So Many Bugs That It Helps Non-GMO Crops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    But how about the insects that are beneficial for us humans one way or another? They may as well be impacted by this and that's concerning.

  12. Re:64 bit OS ? on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Launched (raspberrypi.org) · · Score: 1

    I was more hoping to see the Raspberry being able to be fed from a PoE switch.

  13. Re:Fedora users on GNOME 3.28 'Chongqing' Linux Is Here (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    And how about FVWM? That's good enough to manage the GUI for me.

  14. Re:Chongqing? on GNOME 3.28 'Chongqing' Linux Is Here (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Back to "Stoned Beaver" - that was at least a fun name.

  15. They could have used the ham radio locator instead of inventing yet another locator tool.

  16. I agree - he did a lot of contributions to move science ahead.

  17. Re:Donald Trump will die in prison either way. on YouTube, the Great Radicalizer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Blaming YouTube is like blaming the phone company for telemarketer calls.

    It is possible for the phone company to block telemarketers, and the same is for most media platforms. But when there are blocks there's also someone that's creative enough to get around those blocks.

  18. It's now time to bring the Laws of Robotics into play.

  19. After 25 May 2018 this would be "interesting" in the EU.

  20. It's trying to get on German time.

  21. NTSC (Never The Same Color), PAL (Phase Accuracy Loop) or SECAM?

  22. Re:AC mains is excellent if done right on Frequency Deviations In Continental Europe Are Causing Electric Clocks To Run Behind By 5 Minutes (entsoe.eu) · · Score: 1

    That's just a plain transformer then.

  23. That's why you on high end systems have a thin belt between motor and heavy turntable that takes up the vibration and wow caused by small fluctuations in the power. The older Thorens players have a small AC motor with belt drive.

    Thorens also held a patent on a direct driven table but they didn't use it because it caused bad sound quality.

  24. Many digital clock radios also uses the AC frequency and divide that to get the time. It's actually a cheap and relatively reliable solution in most cases. It's only when the power in the outlet becomes unreliable that you discover that the net frequency is used.

    So it's not even a synchronous motor involved.

    The reason it happens is that not enough power generation plants are online or the net is overloaded. Which isn't surprising given the extremely cold weather Europe has experienced lately.

    If you want really accurate time - use GPS, DCF77 or an NTP server on the internet. But for waking up in the morning the 50 or 60 Hz power frequency is good enough.

  25. Re: And yet... on Diabetes Is Actually Five Separate Diseases, Research Suggests (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Which leads me to suspect that her case could be cluster 2 - too little insulin but there's a little and that's enough for her to cope with it that way.

    Without a thorough check it's hard to tell though.

    But one big problem many of us have is all that hidden sugar in a lot of products that has been added for taste purposes. Even sweeteners is a problem. The type of sugar may also be a factor.