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  1. Re:To be fair to AI on Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    Logic is a little bird.

  2. Re:Anybody hear "Yarry"? on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. That cloud is obviously a duck. Look at his bill!

  3. Re:Just say no! on YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's often mixed with dihydrogen monoxide, and that stuff can KILL you!.

  4. My cousin invented the game "Tongue Chop". We lined up and stuck our tongues out, and he ran along the line hitting us in the chin from below.

    This is actually true. And we actually tried it. Once. Only the youngest of my cousins actually stood for it and didn't dodge.

  5. Re:Crypto is one solution on Swedes Turn Against Cashlessness (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Paper currency is for delivering the cocaine to your nose; it's plastic cards that arrange it into convenient lines.

  6. Re: Like this change matters on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 1

    Hex doesn't do thirds well. The Mayan's had it right: base 60 FTW.

  7. Re:Well.. on SpaceX Rocket Engine Explodes During Test (space.com) · · Score: 1

    No, who's on first.

  8. Re:Take care of your body on Doctors To Breathalyse Smokers Before Allowing Them NHS Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Utter bullshit. I did a century, followed by 5 more days of 70-80 miles, with no advance prep (too lazy) and while not being in good shape (not as fat as I am now, but still with a BMI near 30. It was not that hard. I was definitely one of the slowest riders out there, and I was incredibly tired each day, but it was well within my capabilities.

  9. Re: Crank up the prices, produce garbage movies on Hollywood is Suffering Its Worst-attended Summer Movie Season in 25 years (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Best. Movie. Ever.

  10. And yet I've seen more movies this year than in any previous year of my life. Some of that is my kids being old enough to see movies I like.

  11. Re:Snobbery on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    From context, "eschews". I don't think I've ever heard it spoken; I thought it was pronounced "ess-shoes", but I suppose the "ch" could be a hard "ch" so "eskews" could be correctly phonetic. Or it could be wrong twice. Either way I don't think it made the post hard to understand.

  12. Re:What the fing f ?! on Samsung To Roll Out In-TV Ads To Legacy Displays Via Software Update · · Score: 1

    But that's SOCIALISM!!!!11!bang!!

    I was all for single-payer. So were most Democrats, but the theory was that single-payer wouldn't fly with the Republicans, so we got Romney-care relabelled as Obama-care to get it to pass. In hindsight, as I recall, they couldn't get any Republicans to vote for it anyway, so the pandering to delicate Republican sensibilities (probably also pandering to DINOs) was useless. Should have had the single-payer, government option in there as well.

  13. Re: American people should have a voice on Obama Nominates Merrick Garland For Supreme Court (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    When it reigns it poors...

  14. I see what you did they're....

  15. Re:But but but.. on Dr. Frances Kelsey, Who Saved American Babies From Thalidomide, Dies At 101 · · Score: 1

    Learn to read. 2 separate companies are referenced in that sentence: Bayer, which IS still around; and Chemie Grenenthal, which is the company that brought Thalidomide to market. No claim was made that Bayer brought Thalidomide to market.

  16. Re:No VBA Compatibility == No Go on LibreOffice 5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I was extremely surprised when my Excel spreadsheet that uses a VBA macro opened perfectly in LibreOffice 4.4. I have no idea how complete the VBA compatibility is, but there definitely is some. I suggest you try your Excel spreadsheets using VBA in LibreOffice; they might just work, or might only need very minor changes. My VBA usage is not enormous, so my success may not be representative, but it's worth a shot.

  17. Re:White! on Researchers Demonstrate the World's First White Lasers · · Score: 1

    #darkmatterlasers

  18. Re:Summary's wrong on After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs · · Score: 1

    They can go work for EA :)

    out of the frying pan..

    ...into the Battlefield 5?

    meat to of be played from.

    Does that really say meat and be? It was suppose to of said: meant to of been played from

    Should say: meant to have been played from.

  19. Re:Why this toy is dangerous! on 1950s Toy That Included Actual Uranium Ore Goes On Display At Museum · · Score: 1

    No, 115 mg/kg is LESS toxic than lead at 70 mg/kg. It takes LESS lead to kill you, MORE uranium to kill you.

  20. Re:Thought process on AT&T To Match Google Fiber In Kansas City, Charge More If You Want Privacy · · Score: 1

    Actually that was Lily Tomlin.

  21. Re:Cue Yoda on US Army Wants Weapon To Destroy Drone Swarms · · Score: 1

    Thank you. I read the comments solely to find this quote. I'm surprised it was so far down.

  22. Re:Inverse Wi-fi law on Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots · · Score: 1

    I regularly find them in Europe.

    In the US it's a lot more rare. I did stay at a hotel in Manhattan that had private rooms but a common bathroom (shared for the floor). Bu that was an extremely low price, for NYC. And I wouldn't do it again (now I have a family).

  23. Re:Can the writings be read? on Is Germany Raising a Generation of Illiterates? · · Score: 1

    What was the rule?

  24. Re:I think they have a point on Google's Plan To Kill the Corporate Network · · Score: 1

    The way to fix that is to just use remote desktop over the VPN. Then the machine that needs fast access to the files is on the fast network. You have fast access to everything that way. The machine that displays the desktop can be anything, and cheap; the machine that you really use can be fully virtualized (although I just use a regular desktop at the desk I never visit; it could be moved into a data closet or onto a shared VM box and I wouldn't care).

    About the only thing that doesn't work well over VPN remote desktop is video (a smarter remote desktop could deal with that, but I haven't seen it personally). My job doesn't involve video at work anyway.

  25. Re: It's not the NSA who will pay the price on Letter to "Extended Family" Assures That NSA Will "Weather This Storm" · · Score: 1

    Only the highest ranks get to use the Constitution in the executive washroom.