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  1. Re:Golden age of remakes maybe on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 0

    Arrival would have been so much better if the aliens were more alien than squid, and the language was more alien than "language, but in-a-circle".

  2. It's not like a split view would be useful for copy files from one location to another. Nope, we get tabs. Thanks Microsoft.

  3. Re:More US warmongering on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people profit, even if only a little, while some other people lose, up to and including everything.

  4. Re:Indeed on Someone on Medium Just Said C++ Was Better Than C (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The result of "C++" > "C" is undefined because the pointers point to different objects?

  5. Most coders on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm a better than average programmer.

  6. Re:The are cashes FOR hard drives on With Optane Memory, Intel Claims To Make Hard Drives Faster Than SSDs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The cache worked so well that the HDD would spin down because it wasn't being accessed. Ideally I'd have stopped the HDD spinning down, but at the time it wasn't too much of a problem. Obviously the cache can't provide data it doesn't have, and this can result in processes waiting for the HDD to spin up. The cache was a 64Gb SSD, although I can't remember if RST used all of that or about a half.

  7. For movies, I think copyright should be based on the time between an original film and the remake.

  8. Re:The are cashes FOR hard drives on With Optane Memory, Intel Claims To Make Hard Drives Faster Than SSDs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I used it for a bit on my desktop machine. My OS was on a newer - at the time - SSD, and my old SSD got used as cache for my HDD. The cache worked very well, so good, in fact, that my system would occasionally pause while the HDD spun up after a cache-miss. However, it wasn't long before I'd switched to just SSDs for my desktop machine and the HDD got stuffed in a NAS (where I wouldn't have to listen to it).

  9. Re:Tau is greater than pi on This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi' (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Also tau is the whole pie, whereas pi is half pie.

  10. Re:Proselytizing on Why Is the Vatican at a Tech Conference? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Same shit, different shade.

  11. Re:Proselytizing on Why Is the Vatican at a Tech Conference? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's the adults that accepted all the bull. they were fed as children.

  12. Re:What the fuck is an empanade on Stunning Close-up of Saturn's Moon, Pan, Reveals a Space Empanada (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Cornish Pasty is the English version. It's a Space Cornish Pasty.

  13. Re:Not all RAIDs are equal on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    Mail the HDDs?

  14. Re:tabs4lyf on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The tab-width makes no difference to my code. Tabs are there purely for indentation and nothing else. The spaces are there to space, not align.

  15. Re:tabs4lyf on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. If I use tabs for indention I don't care about the number of spaces they're equivalent to. The setting is also tied to the editor, and not the code, so if you look at my code on your editor, the code will have your favored indentation length.

  16. The pain in C++ is on account of the "keep it compatible with C" mantra. C++ could be great if they'd just jettison that idiocy.

    Which would be nice, but it would also break existing code.

  17. Re:People should learn english on Mozilla Releases New Open Source 'Internet Health Report' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a bonus we can stop using Unicode and go back ahem to ASCII!

  18. Re: Now lets see. on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of them aren't bipolar.

  19. Re:Offer, Not Bring on Microsoft is Bringing Cortana To Android Lock Screen (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    "Master Chief"

  20. The collective noun for a group of bittorrentors?

  21. You can't survive on just water, beans, rice and vegetables. You need an occasional metaphorical lobster or beer, although hope is a cheap substitute if you're still young.

  22. Re:Time for OpenWRT? on Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    I've managed to bork mine too, but this was before I discovered "Backup & Restore" under "Diagnostics".

  23. Re:Time for OpenWRT? on Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought a cheap Intel Celeron N3150 that came with dual NICs, and installed pfSense on it. Best router I've ever had. Although the modem plugged into it is Netgear...

  24. Re:Looks like the loudness war is being fought on Vinyl Records Outsold Digital Downloads In the UK Last Week (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Their hearing isn't what it used to be.

  25. Also Kills WiFi on 'DroneGun' Can Take Down Aircraft From Over 1.2 Miles Away (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    At those frequencies I could also use it to kill someone's WiFi. And, possibly, do it from a mile away.