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  1. Wow, a Gorilla killed because of a 3 year old? on Elon Musk Continues To Amuse Himself On Twitter, Sharing Song, Duck Emoji (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    Cincinnati Zoo gorilla who was killed in 2016 after a 3-year-old climbed into its living area.
    Well, I can agree that one would prefer the life of a three year old over a mere gorilla.
    However Gorillas are very peaceful creatures ... albeit extremely strong and heavy. Why could they not shot a tranquilizer?

  2. What happened between say 1935 and 2019?
    They shrinked.
    Shrunk?
    Shronked?

  3. Re: Hilarious on Tinder Announces New 'Height Verification' Feature. But They May Be Lying (gotinder.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no definition for curvy.

    Go to http://okcupid.com/ and set your preferences to "curvy" girls.

    American curvy girls are fat

    European curvy girls have "big tits/big ass" and are either normal weight or just slightly above average .. as in "curvy".

    How a fat girl can think she has curves is beyond me :P

  4. I understand your grief.
    Woman are not to heavy for their height.
    They are just to small for their weight.

    Obviously you could argue the same way for men :P

  5. How much is 5.97113 feet in real measures ... and how is your size relevant?

  6. Re:Jif... on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    And why would it be pronounced like that (I mean ü)? As a non native english speaker I obviously would pronounce it like an 'a'. Funny ...

  7. Stuff like this is silly ... on Tinder Announces New 'Height Verification' Feature. But They May Be Lying (gotinder.com) · · Score: 1

    People faking stuff about their body might get an more easy date.
    But get kicked instantly in the ass when they actually have a date.

    So what is the point?

    The funny thing is, you fake something to impress someone you don't know who is actually interested into the opposite ... fail.

    What you think how many people I know who like tiny woman, but they add 10cm on their profile? Or woman who try to impress with breasts, but the guy actually likes small sizes?

    Same for men, just don't find a good example, probably coloured hair. Grey hair does not look bad in the right context ... same with no hair.

    Running around faking something you are not, trying to impress someone you like, but might be interested in just the opposite you fake, plain stupid.

  8. Re: So is TIFF pronouced as SHIFF? on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Both in greek and german pronounced with an ordinary (hard?) G. (The word prefix is greek, btw. )

  9. Re:Better question on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    "is it better to use Vi or Emacs?"
    The correct answer obviously is:

            true

    However you could use notepad or pico, but that obviously feels somehow wrong, doesn't it?

  10. Re:Pronounced like the peanut butter most moms lov on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Six is actually funny.

    I played once with an america ex soldier Eve Online. There are planets and the planets have moons, both are numbered using roman numbers. He insisted calling "lets warp to planet vie eye eye and moon eye eye eye" ... So I asked: "you are aware that this are roman numbers?" He was confused and answered "yes, and that is how we pronounce them in the field" (not sure if that is true - we simply pronounce them by saying the number, never heard any one else spelling them out letter by letter).

  11. Re: Jif... on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    2. The Cabal has authorized me to reveal that, for as long as the GIF format has existed, pronouncing "gif" correctly -- i.e., like "gin", not like "git" -- has been one of the not-so-secret recognition codes by which people who have any clue about computer stuff identify each other.
    Sure. Because when .jif was invented we had webcasts about talks of the inventor all the time, so the other 400million software developers who are not american citizens and native english speakers instantly knew that they should pronounce it .jif but write it .gif.

    Hint if you would read "JIF" you never would pronounce it like you claim you do. You would pronounce it DJIF. Knowing that G stands for "graphics" obviously not invited to the party pronounces it like GiT and not like Gin.

     

  12. Re:Jif... on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Never knew that Scuba an acronym, however what is your argument?

  13. Re:Today's Turk... on When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you want to grasp what AI actually means. A starting point would be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  14. Re:NOBODY believed in 'the Turk' on When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The Babbage machine would have worked fine if he or his workers would have worked more precise.
    There are working Babbage replicas!!

    The first computers build by Konrad Zuse were based one relays, and worked fine, too.

  15. Re:"Feel No Pain" on Scientists Find Genetic Mutation That Makes Women Feel No Pain (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    A friend of mine was deeply depressed and tried to commit suicide.
    They found her and put her a hospital, actually a psychiatric one, but stupid as they are they did not fixate her.
    So when she woke up, she took the plastic knife from the neighbour bed and tried to cut her wrist. She damaged her wrist so much (sinew and nerves) that the hand got useless. She however got healed and is happy again (that happened over 20 years ago).

    After a few weeks out of hospital, she was cooking ... when one pot was finished she put it away and while stirring in the other pot she put her broken hand on the still hot other flame. Burned it so bad that 2 or 3 fingers needed to be amputated ....

  16. Re:Tesla, like Apple, generates the web hits.... on Tesla Cars Keep More Data Than You Think (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not their responsibility to protect someone else's data. It might even make a car worth a lot more money,
    It most certainly depends on jurisdiction. I would assume that in Europe, everyone who commercially sells cars/used cars is obliged to "clean" them first from foreign private data.

    It is perhaps a good idea to make sure anyway, before you sell a car (as a vendor) that it is in factory approved conditions?

  17. Re:I assume they keep everything on Tesla Cars Keep More Data Than You Think (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they don't even know hat they could/should should delete the data.

  18. Re:people still blaming cops on California Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Deadly Kansas 'Swatting' (fox4kc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Gun ownership in Switzerland is higher "on paper only". First of all they have strict rules for carrying a weapon. Secondly the guns/rifles are in possession of members of the militia. Weapon and ammunition is locked away in different lockers, ammunition amount is minimal. In case of mobilization they gather at assigned points with their base equipment they have at home, and specialists who bring transportation and orders bring the extra ammunition.

    Perhaps one from Switzerland can comment more precisely how it exactly works.

  19. Re:Ars Technica link... on California Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Deadly Kansas 'Swatting' (fox4kc.com) · · Score: 2

    If I recall correctly the situation was even more absurd.

    The police on the scene had everything under control. A further police car arrived, an officer left it and shot the guy instantly from a quite big distance (something like 30yards).

  20. AKA dispatch center, control center, grid operations center, Independent System Operator (ISO) regional control center.
    Half guessed that, we call it dispatcher center/room. I only spent a few hours there.

    I spent a decade+ writing software that collected real time system data and fired off many simulations in the 1 day to 1 week forecast range. Allowed the system operator or power trader to examine various operational scenarios.
    I did the same.

    That job took me around the world a few times.
    Unfortunately stuck in Baden Württemberg as I basically only worked for EnBW.com ... I hoped to visit ENCF.fr, too but it never happened.

  21. No, my plan would be to buy power e.g. from Texas.
    And if we talk about Mexico, obviously we set up wind and solar plants there as they have lots of sun and a long coastline.

    Mexico build coal plants
    Why would they? It is the second most expensive power source, or the third if one was so stupid to build an oil plant.

  22. The biggest share of renewable sources you have, the lowest the capacity factor of your whole power supply And why would the CF be relevant when I actually know with a very small error margin how much power my plants will produce over the next 6hours?

    so you need more redundancy to meet the requested power supply Erm ... no?

    that is you need more plants, which means more costs. Erm ... no? You have the plants already ... you use the plants you are replacing with renewables ...

    Moreover, for traditional power sources, maintenance and refuelling can be planned months in advance, so can usually power production by renewables be planned.

    while for wind or solar you have no control on their downtime, so you have to plan in advance a backup source, that is you have to build even more plants. Erm ... no? You have those "backup plants" already.

  23. Re:So what on Fukushima Contaminants Found As Far North As Alaska's Bering Strait · · Score: 2, Informative

    The deer pisses out the Cs-137 just like the other isotopes of Cs they consume normally when eating mushrooms.
    Only over a considerable amount of time, it is not like: oops I accidentally ate some Cs-137 and now need to go to pee quickly. As long as they eat the mushrooms they have a higher level ...

    Heavy metals just don't work the same way as organic molecules. Of course not. They accumulate in the kidneys and leaver, or wander into the bone marrow ... or in this case, no idea why you neglect it: in he nervous system. I told you now several times that Cs is a potassium "ersatz". Everywhere where the body usually uses potassium, cesium is displacing it and thus cesium is bioaccumulated, in everything that is eating it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... scroll to: "Health and safety hazards"

    Interesting read, too: accumulation of cesium in human bones: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/a...

    No idea where you got your misinformation about cesium from. It is an alkali metal, obviously it acts everwhere where other alkali metals act.

  24. Re:So what on Fukushima Contaminants Found As Far North As Alaska's Bering Strait · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Iodine is a complete different story as it accumulates in your Thyroid.

    Cesium, like Strontium, is a heavy metal and won't combine with carbon or participate in other biological reactions
    It does. It replaces potassium and acts more or less like it ...

    That's why most experts worry about Iodine and not Cesium or Strontium when evaluating the risk of bio-accumulation of medium lived fission products
    Sure ... in your world. In my world they worry about mushrooms, wild boar eating mushrooms, deer eating mushrooms, humans eating mushrooms, deer and wild boar ... oops, and that Caesium.

    No idea about the link, but the numbers are clearly in the summary, if you don't like it, google for another one, should be easy.

  25. Re:So what on Fukushima Contaminants Found As Far North As Alaska's Bering Strait · · Score: 1

    In a human body it actually _replaces_ potassium with server side effects. So in that sense it indeed does bioaccumulate.

    the longer you are exposed to it in your diet the higher the cesium fraction in your cells.
    Exactly, but bio accumulating would be even server, e.g. as in mushroom that suck cesium up like a sponge.