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  1. On nibble weeks, aka 4 day weeks, I would agree, but not on 8 days.

  2. It is actually a second every few years.

  3. Re:All commonly used calendars are bonkers on Big Tech Warns of 'Japan's Millennium Bug' Ahead of Akihito's Abdication (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Finally ....
    Or not ...
    The number system has nothingto do with it, but you don't grasp that.
    A month is 28 or 29.5 days long, depending how you count. And the number system does not change anything about that.
    I leave it to an excersice to you to figure why the sumerians used a system based on 12 and 60 ... actually it is not hard, but basically everyone I ask fails to grasp it :)

  4. Of course it is true.
    Strangely *all* calendars on ghe world are 7 days based.
    Anyway: what relevance does changing the calendar system have for modern life?

  5. Re:All commonly used calendars are bonkers on Big Tech Warns of 'Japan's Millennium Bug' Ahead of Akihito's Abdication (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing arbitrary in our calendar system.
    Chrismas is 3 or 4 days after Jule, the winter solistice. (Because the Christians wanted to steal that germanic/nordic festival)
    A month is 28 days long, following the moon, hence its name.
    Our calendar is arranged around the 4 corner stones: the two equinoxes and the two solistices.
    I spare me to call you an idiot or a moron, blame your school system that you seem not to know the most simplest things in the universe.

  6. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I gave about 10 - 20 sources of B12 in my previous post.

    "Vitamin B12 is generally not present in plant foods"
    Does not mean: not at all

    I gave several plants that contain B12 ... now step off my lawn.

  7. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    700 million people in the world live vegetarian, and most of them have no problem with B12 or lack there off. You just fell into the american lie about B12 is only in meat.

    Why don't you make up your mind, if the topic interests you, and read a book about it.

    Facepalm ...

  8. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I already did name 20, 5 posts back.

  9. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, e.g. the yeast bacteria, depending if you want to call it a bacteria or a 'mushroom' ;D

  10. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they don't.
    And vegan != vegetarian anyway.
    E.G. 'vegetarians' might still eat cheese, eggs or drink milk.

    Anyway, as I pointed out, there are plenty of plants that support the body with B12.

  11. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The more you take, the more the body 'forgets' how to absorb it.
    Vitamin supplements are a double edged sword. As soon as you are not on them, e.g. while traveling, your body needs weeks to adapt to get them again out of fruits or other food.
    I can understand that people in a cold climate take them in winter, but during normal weather periods no one should take vitamin supplememts. They are unnecesary and counterproductive.

  12. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Which institude of Havyed do you mean? Perhaps you should direct your frustation more specifically?

  13. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that is wrong.
    I mentioned plenty of B12 sources in my post.

  14. Re:Moon, at night [Re: Two stories, one draw] on Evidence Detected of Lake Beneath the Surface of Mars (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The point wad H2/O2 production fo rocket fuel.
    Not running on the energy.

    And providing enough storage is actually not such a problem anyway.
    If you already sunk the cost to fly to the moon, some batteries should not be a problem, cost wise.

  15. Re: The moon could be inhabitable again on Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Giving the moon an atmosphere is relatively easy. Drop a few comets ...
    Spinning it up is close to impossible. Consider the mass of the moon ...

  16. Re: Two stories, one draw on Evidence Detected of Lake Beneath the Surface of Mars (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    True, at the equator, the sun is only up 50% of the time.
    However it makes no difference if that time period is 12h (a typical earth day) or 14*24h (a typical moon 'day')

  17. Re: Two stories, one draw on Evidence Detected of Lake Beneath the Surface of Mars (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Mars,
    because of its (albeit dim) atmosphere, it had much nicer sunsets and sun rises.

  18. Re:Name Change? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    frankenburger is not taken yet, but "frankfurter wuerstchen" is!

  19. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Strange that no one of the die hard vegetarians knows that ...

    No idea why you americans keep spreading that myth. First of all the vitamin in question is not "B" but "B12".

    Then: there are plenty of vegan foods that have plenty of B vitamins of any type, like 11 or 12. E.g. mushrooms, Sauerkraut, fermented Soy, like Tofu, Algae, even black tea comes to mind, everything containing yeast, e.g. beer! Who had guessed that, beer contains vitamin B! Carrots and other "root vegetables".

    Sorry, that you only can get vitamin B* from meat is the biggest lie in the internet.

  20. I'm not a vegetarian.

    But I like eating good vegetarian dishes. I'm basically the salad king ... not sure if cheese already is forbidden for vegetarians, the line between vegan and vegetarian is not clear for me.

    But I loath vegetarian food, that tries to mimic meat. Tofu is tofu, and good tofu is like a good cheese. Bastarding it into meet is a crime in my opinion. Same with that new attempt.

    Can't be so hard to eat a real Falafel instead of having a pseudo meat burger.

    But alas ... americans ...

  21. Re:Shorts are running scared... on Elon Musk Calls Boss of Tesla Troll Who's Heavily Invested In Oil Industry (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    (Note: Tesla makes about 6,000 cars/month, so an increase of 7000 cars puts them even further behind on reservations. And as noted in the link below, they have not started showing them in stores yet, so Tesla has yet to tap the "drive before they buy" potential pool of customers.)
    FYI: Tesla makes 7000 cars per week

  22. Perhaps you want to read again what an "ad hominem" is.
    Hint: if I call you an idiot, it is not an "ad hominem" (fallacy - not attack)

  23. Re:It's great.... on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    In C it is perfectly legal to assign an int to a char, and that means an enum to a char.
    Nevertheless:


          e value = FOO;
          sizeof(value) == sizeof(int) // this should be true

  24. Just pulling it out is simply dumb on Slashdot Asks: Do You Need To Properly Eject a USB Drive Before Yanking it Out? (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 2

    First of all: an annoying dialog pops up and an annoying beep comes, you have to close the dialog, probably even with the mouse because ESC or ENTER does not work.

    Secondly, you probably have forgotten that a file is open in Excel or whatever and it is half modified but not fully saved.

    Why not eject it and be safe, respectively be not annoyed?

  25. As you may know, risk = damage x chance.
    Only if the damage is monetary and you are in the insurance business. Otherwise risk and chance are two orthogonal axis.

    E.g. the typical prisoner dilemma: you are sentenced to life time prison. You get offered to either stay and accept the sentence or walk through two doors: one door gives you freedom, the other door execution.

    The chance is 50% for either freedom or death. The risk is death, and not an abstract number multiplied from two other numbers.