Slashdot Mirror


User: fubarrr

fubarrr's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
488
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 488

  1. Re: Addressing Some of the Objections Here on Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    You are an idiot and don't know what you are saying.

    Wood is fucking hard to work with.

    To design a CLT highrise, designers probably spent days trying to figure out a design that accounts for all possible stresses resulting from CLT bars deforming like any wooden thing do.

    Wood is fire hazard because it is fuel, concrete is not.

    + water damage issues, insulation, insects

    complete shit all those high tech wooden buildings are

    My advise:

    Highrise - composite rebar, monolithic concrete skeleton, light concrete filling in non removable formwork.

    Light duty building - light/heavy steel frame, spray on fire protection, mgo drywall, light concrete filling where appropriate, rockwool

    This is all you need for happiness

  2. Re: Recent 10 story Portland OR timber tower on Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    No matter what, and and amount of fire retardant thrown on wood, wood can't be 100% fireproof. Modern CLT highrises are tragedies waiting to happen.

    Wood is fuel, concrete is not

  3. Re: A long time on This Machine Kills Captchas (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And this is no neural network, but a banal seventies era frequency analysis and perceptrons

  4. Re: A long time on This Machine Kills Captchas (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There are people who solve captchas for money.

    Google's recaptcha is dumb when it comes to puzzles, the api gives out if the answer is correct.

    Russians made a rather banal frequency analysis bots that train on yes or no answers of the recaptcha.

    The correct way of doing that could be letting some wrong answers through and denying perfectly correct ones.

  5. Re: Game changing? on Blue Origin Successfully Test Fires Game-Changing BE-4 Rocket Engine (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    Russians are making Soyuz first stages for less than $1m a pop, and they don't even use aluminium there.

  6. Re: Natural gas as fuel? on Blue Origin Successfully Test Fires Game-Changing BE-4 Rocket Engine (geekwire.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hydrokarbons are for hipsters, real men fly on pentaborane + chlorine pentafluoride

  7. 17H standby time with 60kw/h battery and 22w TDP CPU? Not gonna happen, Satya should learn math

  8. Re: Depends on what factors you use on Is Amazon Lowering The Global Rate of Inflation? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Alibaba group as a whole, other than aliexpress, and wholesale, they have a dozen mammoth sized Chinese language marketplaces + Lazada + other wholesale marketplaces and on and on

  9. Re:Depends on what factors you use on Is Amazon Lowering The Global Rate of Inflation? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >Is Amazon Lowering The Global Rate of Inflation?

    No, but Alibaba does. Amazon is all but a bug splat in comparison to Alibaba. The analyst who wrote the article does not see the elephant in the room.

    While Alibaba is already really big with small importers in US, it is even bigger in developing countries.

  10. China was already pumping ~$25 android crapphones on Can Cheap Android Tablets Bridge the Digital Divide? (teleread.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    China was already pumping ~$25 android crapphones for half a decade.

    Those things sell like hot cakes in South Asia and Africa.

    For an even longer period, they were selling $70 arm6 based crapbooks. First ones came during netbook boom, and they are being sold to this day to the same markets I named above. You can't do anything with them other than checking email, playing mp3s, or browsing nineties level websites, but for most people there it is more than enough.

  11. I did a half a year stint in Shanghai on a shared PM/Developer position.

    CNY 25000 a month, crazy good food every day

    The thing with China is that Alibaba and Tencent hoover pretty much ALL worthy talent, and everybody else is left with scraps.

    Imagine Google and Necrosoft hiring 7 out of 10 of new CS graduates in USA.

  12. It is still a plain puny 60kw/H battery on HP's Spectre x360 13 Promises Up To 16 Hours of Battery Life in a Faster, Cooler Design (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see how can they squeeze more hours out of the machine while not having a lower idle TDP cpu or a bigger battery.

  13. Re: Too honest on North Korea Gets Second Route To Internet Via Russia Link (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, Russians had 2 unannounced ICBM live fire drills last month

  14. No, they didn't. Millions of Russians killed themselves by themself, so they can blame Germans for that later

  15. My bet on SEC Discloses Hackers Penetrated EDGAR, Profited in Trading (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I bet that what they are talking about refers to people being able to see company's statements earlier than their nominal publication date. No hacking was required, that just had to make up a URL parameter

  16. Well, nobody can credibly deny that all those mass surveillance systems were made to look inward and spy after country's own citizenry.

    Ever seen spies sending messages to their governments on Facebook?

  17. Re: Serious Threat...minor chances on Why You Shouldn't Use Texts For Two-Factor Authentication (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The exactly same attack "false roaming request" has been in the wild since 2003 or 2004. Literally millions of people loose money due to having their phone number hijacked and being used to send SMSes to paid numbers.

    Same trick is being used by Russian spies to regularly steal online accounts of European politicians

  18. Re: fMRI is the only non-invasive way for BMI. on Typing By Brain Arrives: No Surgery Necessary (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it is EEG.

  19. Re: competition on Trump Blocks China-Backed Takeover of US Chip Maker 'Lattice Semi' (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Lol, 8 out of 10 PCBs ordered by Raytheon are fabricated and populated in China.

    Hey, they even sell refurbished components there: https://www.bunniestudios.com/...

    Now talk about how Lattice merger block protects US from Chinese messing with American missiles

  20. Say that to an irrational mofo like Kim, Xi, or Putin.

    Putin has zero problems shooting himself in the foot.

    You need to be politically educated

  21. Why do you think so? China is not a country that can be bothered with refugees. China has a massive illegal immigration issue, yet Chicoms don't even think of that as bad, rather they find it amusing. Guangzhou will soon turn into a district of Mombasa, and Eastern Europeans will steal last engineering job from local specialists.

  22. Re: nothing surprising on Huawei Surpasses Apple As the World's Second Largest Smartphone Brand (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have Huawei Maimang 5, a good but overpriced mid-range phone.

    As I understand, the model has like 10 different names and minor modifications that are sold as different models

  23. Re: Go ahead, copy Samsung and Apple on LG Announces V30 Smartphone With 'FullVision' OLED Display, Dual Cameras (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    >POLED

    This stands for passive matrix OLED, much simpler and cheaper. I had one on my philips phone back in 2004.

  24. I feel it is more popular vs niche than less or more advanced.

    The market for web development is the biggest one in the world out of all development practices. No wonder that "CMS website in under 1 week" type of outsourcing sweatshops are present all across the world

  25. Commodity fetishism to the next level on Burger King Now Has Its Own Cryptocurrency - the 'Whoppercoin' - in Russia (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Uncle Lenin will be proud