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  1. Re:Literal butterfly effect. on Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, there is no evidence AGW is affected monarch butterflies

    There's also no evidence that it won't.

    A scientist would say, "OK, what are the variables? Let's quantify them."

    Touche.

  2. Re:Literal butterfly effect. on Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Bullshit, this has more to do with urban sprawl. Both monarch butterflies and milkweed can easily stand a 1.5 degree increase in temperature.

    Both of those can in isolation, yes, but not if the 1.5 degrees causes more wind, less rain, more rain, earlier summers, or any of a thousand other variables to change.

    Things are interlinked, and that's the real point.

  3. Neither are Apple keyboards. Your point is...?

  4. Re: And some idiot just yesterday INSISTED... on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nor anyone else for that matter.

    Yep.

    "They've really unconscionably led people to believe, I think, that the car is far more capable of self-driving than actually is the case."

    Apparently the car was quite capable of not hitting anything and of coming to a complete stop when something was put in its way.

    "That's a huge problem."

    Given that people fall asleep at the wheel every single day and crash, I'd call it a huge win.

  5. Re: Snowflake developers can hug off on Developer Misinterprets Linux Code of Conduct, Suggests Replacing F-Word with 'Hug' (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Aren't we allowed to use it in Slashdot headlines? I'll do it in the comments:

    "Fuck!"

  6. Re:Was Article Summary run through google translat on Japan Has Restarted Five Nuclear Power Reactors In 2018 (oilvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    A psychological puzzle of the modern world are people who think nuclear is a solution to anything although it has repeatedly shown to be an economical failure.

    The economics have been analyzed to death:

    https://www.google.com/search?...

    Two thirds of the cost is just repayment of capital.

    ie. The main problem is trying to do it privately with borrowed money.

    Governments could step up and do it with taxpayer money, that way there's no interest payments and it all works out much better. No politician wants to go near the word "nuclear" though.

  7. Re:Cheaper solar and wind on More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ah, the first random brainfart that entered the tiny mind of an internet dweeb. Yes, I'm sure it does.

    What's needed is a thing called "storage". Tesla has been busy providing solutions to that:

    https://electrek.co/2018/01/23...

    Of course now you're going to say "what if there's no wind or sun for a whole month?"

    Haters gonna hate.

  8. Re:No source on More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They wouldnt/couldnt continue operating at a loss...that premise is ridiculous.

    Not if there's a government propping them up, because, "jobs".

  9. Re:If this isn't bullshit nothing is on Astronomers Measure Total Starlight Emitted Over 13.7 Billion Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. Take the easy path.

    People have been doing it for millennia.

  10. Re:Was Article Summary run through google translat on Japan Has Restarted Five Nuclear Power Reactors In 2018 (oilvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll believe wind and solar energy can compete with nuclear power when people no longer refer to them as "alternative energy".

    Um, nobody calls wind, solar or hydro "alternative energy".

    (Well, almost nobody. Apparently you do...)

    "Alternative energy" is all those crackpots on youtube who claim to invent perpetual motion machines.

  11. Yes, but do they have to do it in Starbucks?

  12. Re:Chip Maker not Designer. on TSMC, a Company Few Americans Know, is About To Dethrone Intel (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nope, most of the R&D work is in the fab, not the microcode. Making the chips work reliably is the hard part.

    AMD is currently shipping 7nm chips thanks to TSMC, Intel is stuck at 10nm.

  13. I tried to watch an episode of the Kardashians yesterday.

    I lasted about a minute, if that's the human race then we're doomed.

    (not even making this up)

  14. It's a different kind of skill to persuade others to go first.

    Really? For most of military history they simply shot the people who disobeyed.

    High possibility of being shot by the enemy vs. 100% possibility of being shot by your own people. What do you choose?

  15. Most people just want to drive to work and have fun speeding up off-ramps.

    (look at how badly most American "muscle" cars handle, but everybody still swears by them)

  16. Re:It’s coming really, really soon on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    Stupid choice of name, since there already was an actual coin called a Taler.

    a) No, it was the "Thaler"

    b) The American word "dollar" is derived from that name.

    c) Wasn't that the point, re-use a name of an old coin?

  17. Re:So the problem with Bitcoin, according to RMS, on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 2

    You expect too much from AC. That information is in the second line of the summary.

  18. Re:PHP in a good language on PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Once more, for the reading impaired: Nobody's saying it can't be used.

    The claim is: It was "designed by clowns".

  19. Re: $10 once does not seem like "investment" on Bitcoin Loses 32% of Its Value This Week, Falls Below $4,000 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you doubt that Bitcoin will go under $1000? Is there some magical underlying value, or did you just choose a nice round number? I a sure last week you thought it would never drop below $4000.

    This time last year they were telling us it would be over a $million.

    Now the exact same people are promising us it won't go as low as $1000.

    Uhuh.

  20. Re: PHP in a good language on PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't even know what you're trying to say.

    Is the market share of something unspecified relevant to whether PHP 7 has fixed PHP or not?

  21. Re:PHP in a good language on PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    Such as?

    All the ways that ordinary comparison operators can do things you didn't expect.

    The randomness of underlines in the function names.

    etc.

  22. Re:PHP in a good language on PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody's saying it can't be used.

    The problem is the massive number of gotchas and little details you need to remember to be able to use it effectively. It's madness.

  23. Re:PHP in a good language on PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Yep, no clear answers yet.

    PHP 7 deprecated some more functions, broke a few things, added the spaceship operator, but apart from that it's basically the same. That page still applies.

    http://php.net/manual/en/migra...

  24. Re:PHP in a good language on PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Which parts of that are no longer applicable?

  25. Re:PHP in a good language on PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release (phoronix.com) · · Score: -1, Troll