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  1. I call B.S. on Listening To Music May Be Damaging Your Creativity (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    The study must have required that the study participants be actively listening. There is a difference between that and passively listening. I have done a lot of coding to music. I find that when not employing the Balmer maximum method, listening to appropriately harsh metal or alternative rock helps me stay in the zone.

  2. On the shoulders of giants on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Scientists Constantly Surprised By What They Discover? · · Score: 1

    As a researcher who has made and published "surprising" discovery of a new class of solution to a longstanding problem, my surprise came mostly from knowing that some really smart people have worked on my problem for decades, and they did not find it. I think that understanding of numerical methods led me to approach the problem from a standpoint that they would/could not. Maybe not so surprising then, but invigorating to know that for a time, you are the only person on Earth that knows a certain thing.

  3. Now how does this work?? on Venezuela Launches Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So, is it like a futures contract, as in if I want to claim my barrel of oil, I just have to go to Venezuela and get it? Sounds like fun!

  4. Fire suppression system? on SpaceX Lands the 13th Falcon 9 Rocket of the Year In Flames (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems that the barges could easily accommodate a fire suppression system. A matrix of foam shooting nozzles would do it. The system could be autonomous with heat sensors, or just "fire all upon landing". Just an idea.

  5. Online C code examples are dying... on Is The C Programming Language Declining In Popularity? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to search for examples of C-code online with quite a bit of success. However, over the past two years I've found that the search engines just don't find the C code examples like they used to. Google search is no longer my "go-to" tool for trying to find code snippets. I search through other codes that I've worked on or written in the past. I supposed the development of good help features in IDEs has played a major role.

  6. Re:Before you do it on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FICKS LAW OF DIFFUSION. That is what is going to happen to your tattoo as you age, until it looks like a bruise.

  7. Nope. on Does Your College Or University Support Linux? · · Score: 1

    I would speculate that most IT staff at many Universities have MicroSoft Certification- and have been told that Linux is insecure. There are exceptions of course, but I've met many people at three different universities where I have worked that fear Linux. -Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it..... poorly. (the Spence)

  8. Re:How much is your time worth on Handmade vs. Commercially Produced Ethernet Cables · · Score: 1

    Pointy haired administrators at my University have banned ethernet cable manufacture by anyone but licensed electricians because 'lectristy flows through them cables. Brilliant...

  9. Re:Slackware rules! on A Trip Down Distro Memory Lane · · Score: 1

    Yep, back in '94 a Linux distro looked like a big pile of 3-1/2" floppies. I started with Slackware 0.99 patch level 15. I walked uphill to school both ways too. Through neck-deep snow! Them was the days, I tell ya. Yesssssss-sirrrr-eeeee.

  10. Re:Welcome to Nazi-America on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    Godwin's LAW Lives! TWDUHADTRI

  11. Re:Back in Europe on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    Stunning piece of non-insight from an Anonymous European Coward. The personal risk associated with a Nazi or Communist checkpoint back in the "good old days" of Europe was a bullet to the brain depending on the whims of the thug with the gun. Get real. There is no comparison. I travel through U.S. customs with a laptop and esoteric/whacky looking scientific equipment in my carry-on ten times per year. I've been doing this for three years. I have NEVER had a problem. I've never been searched. What's more, I've never been AFRAID. Come on! Their rules seem arbitrary and capricious. But you ain't gonna DIE going through US Customs. Furthermore, if you aren't doing anything illegal, you aren't going to have a serious problem.

  12. Re:circular slide rule on Know How To Use a Slide Rule? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my travel watch has an E6B circular slide rule on the bezel ring. Great for geek calculations in flight. Makes the watch a little bulkier than I like though. Anyone know of a good wrist-mounted titanium, thin E6B???