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  1. After 35 years my love for this language (and its KeXX and ooReXX variants) has only grown deeper and more profound. Python is a funny language with white space issues.
     

  2. One button? I call BS. No way. on Researcher Reveals a Severe, Unpatched Mac Password Flaw To Protest Apple Bug Bounty (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I have pressed every button on a Mac at least once and none show passwords. Do I have to type in a command line and then hit one button? In which case I can also create a complete post like this one with just one button.

  3. Re:Events on Apple Receives a New Patent For 'Smart Fabric' (dwell.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously, the sensors on the fabric would be ones that are different than the wearer's built in humanoid sensors; and like there are people who are blind, there are also people who cannot detect cold outside. For example: the inebriated. There are many useful sensors that could alert the wearer: radiation, carbon monoxide. Alert! dodge incoming high velocity objects.

  4. Re: Gravity... on Physicists Measure Gravity With Record Precision (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Solved!

    QM + R = G

  5. I get Transcription Beta "Agreed insurance plan at the price you can afford and we make it ___________________ ___________ we ________________ _________ in your area including CIGNA Blue Cross Edna United and many more press want to get a hassle free assessment or press two to be placed on our do not call list thanks for your time and be heathly and blessed..."

    A 20 second recording, and as many as 8 of these in a day. Listening to the message and pressing 2 does not seem to make them stop or increase in frequency. Recently I've been getting fewer and fewer.

    AT&T rep said nothing they can do about this.

    I guess SS7 and SMTP need sheriff's.

  6. Sheets have two Dimensions on MIT Discovers Way To Mass-Produce Graphene In Large Sheets (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one here who expects a sheet to have two dimensions? I see that the process produced 10m of graphene. What is the other dimension? If it doesn't have one, then I'd call it a fiber. If it is 1cm, I'd call it a ribbon. The paywalled scientific article has a picture that looks more like a small piece of Scotch tape.

  7. Re:Definition of Consciousness on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I think being is first, then consciousness, then knowledge, then meaning.
    I am. I know I am. I know that I know I am. I understand that I am, that I know that I am, and that I know that I know I am. Meditate on this and realize your place in the universe.

  8. Re:That's why people shop there on Amazon Plans Cuts to Shed Whole Foods' Pricey Image (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Many people shop there because it is convenient to where they live.

  9. plover

  10. Dropped to cmdline in Win7 and did dir $MFT, stuff that runs from cache still worked but anything requiring disk locked up hard. Had to reboot. Sad. Thanks Obama!

  11. Re:Beginning of shield technology? on Humans Accidentally Made a Space Cocoon For Ourselves Out of Radio Waves (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine n transmitters each transmitting at a low frequency f, starting at t0 + ndt such that sum ndt = f. As n goes to infinity we have VLF cacophony.

  12. Re:I wonder if they corrected for on The Older the Doctor, the Higher the Patient Mortality Rate, Study Finds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only that, it seems reasonable that Junior doctors can avoid hard patients or avoid them better than older doctors can. The impact of failure to a Junior doctor's career is greater than an older doctor who has a shorter time left to practice. On the other hand, Doctors may need to experience failures in order to become better doctors.

  13. Re:Amazing, and they cant build a server on Apple Becomes First US Company To Top $800 Billion Value (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that most PC's come without 5K monitors seems crazy to me.

  14. Unicorn = venture capital win on 'Silicon Valley Is Missing Unicorns Because It Doesn't Understand Poor People' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    unicorns --private, venture-backed companies valued at a billion dollars or more

    source:
    How Unicorns Grow - Harvard Business Review
    https://hbr.org/2016/01/how-un...

  15. I would argue that "where/when" there is no space, the temperature is absolute zero.

  16. Genocide should be illegal world-wide!

  17. Re: To reduce STEM wages on 'To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics' (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 2

    That's not true, I had two 1st grade math teachers. : I was doing multiplication problems and powers of 2 in with my first one (a continuation of stuff I learned from my father). Then my family moved. My second 1st grade math teacher docked me for writing fours with a triangular top (4) as opposed the accepted fours that look like an upside down 'h'. I was also docked for writing 9's that look like upside down 6's, instead of the accepted nines that look like mirrored P's. As punishment, I was required to fill up a notebook page of with hundreds of mirror-P shaped 9's.

    Many of my teachers were more focused on indoctrinating me rather than improving my mind.

    Reflecting; it is funny that the fonts I use today depict numbers the way I learned to write them from my Dad rather than the way I learned to write them in school.

  18. Re:Sitting too much, much? on Sitting Too Much Ages You By 8 Years (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that sitting and exercise are not necessarily independent variables. For example: I spend many hours sitting on a bicycle training for my next Ironman.

  19. Re:How many charge/discharge cycles? on Next-Gen Samsung EV Battery Gets 300+ Miles of Range From 20-Minute Charge (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    How is 600 miles worst case? It wasn't wise but as a kid, I once drove 36 hours straight with maybe a 2 hr nap. Worst case in miles is going to be 24 hours * (max sustainable miles / hour) - number of recharges required * recharge_time. I think a number closer to 1500 miles is more like it. There are toll roads where the speed limit is 85.

  20. Re: Well rounded. on Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? · · Score: 1

    And ReXX.

  21. Re:So overpopulation is not an issue? on Cheetahs Heading Towards Extinction as Population Crashes (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Overpopulation is overrated. There is plenty of space for 50 Billion on our little Earth-egg if we manage it and stop wasting lives and resources on violence. We can warm up our planet so that sparsely populated arctic and antarctic lands become comfortable or adapt to cold weather. Reserve a whole continent (warm Antarctica?) for wild animals and very few humans. With 50 billion people there is bound to be a few Einsteins that can figure out the details. There are zillions of planets out there to live on and we aren't even cramped enough on Earth yet to pop.

    As far as extinction goes, as long as we don't make ourselves extinct, even the dinosaurs aren't extinct. If we continue down our current path of understanding genetics we will one day learn to make Chetahs and other wild animals from scratch.

    Right now we need to save ourselves from stupid violent humans. The violence needs to stop now. Imagine.

  22. Re:Utilitarian vs. literature on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    Post Office fell into my lap this year as well. What a surprising good read. One of the best novels I've read this year.

  23. I think you could cure motion sickness with VR. For example, one of the remedies for sea sickness is to go out on deck and see the horizon. Oftentimes during foul weather when seas are most rough passengers are restricted from going outside for safety. If they could jack into a VR view of a horizon corresponding to what their inner ears are sensing, they could be cured.

  24. Re:I'm no physicist but... on Las Vegas Gets "Kinetic Tiles" That Power Lights With Foot Traffic (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What if the sidewalks have a slight downward slope?

  25. Shouldn't the world have a UBI first? I recommend a start at $1 per day. That buys a ton of rice and it'd only cost about 3 trillion a year.