Comment Re: Nuclear is the only solution (Score 1) 462
The black coal was obviously placed in the depth of the Earth by Satan as a way to tempt us with the easily accessible energy.
It is the heavenly solar and wind energy which is provided by God.
Comment Re:Confusing characters (Score 1) 150
Yup, this is what I came here to say.
I'd be in favour of retroactively changing all fonts to make I and l, and O and 0 distinguishable.
(looking at my screen right now, you have a chance at the oh and zero above, but not the other two, without maybe a magnifying glass and a lot of patience)
I'd be in favour of retroactively changing all fonts to make I and l, and O and 0 distinguishable.
(looking at my screen right now, you have a chance at the oh and zero above, but not the other two, without maybe a magnifying glass and a lot of patience)
Comment Re:Here's an offensive term (Score 1) 570
The discussion from all angles near the top of the comments section here (from my filtered view, anyway), is good.
I'm just here to acknowledge the comedic beauty of your lead-in (I assume unintentional, but nevertheless....)
I'm just here to acknowledge the comedic beauty of your lead-in (I assume unintentional, but nevertheless....)
> Words to matter.
[slow clap]
Comment They've also saved many shows (Score 1) 170
...ones that were getting cancelled by tv networks, like Lucifer, Fuller House...
Comment Correlation vs casuation (Score 0) 76
"Last month, researchers found that countries where many people have been given the tuberculosis vaccine Bacillus Calmette-Guerin had less mortality from coronavirus".
I also saw some data showing that men in those countries have significantly smaller penis size.
Comment Re:I don't see it... (Score 1) 84
Mod parent up. This is the first thing I noticed that was clearly wrong about the objection also.
Let alone the whole premise for the objection is hogwash.
Comment Texts also affected (Score 1) 60
At least for me. I am with Mint Mobile, a T-Mobile reseller.
Working from home, and can not connect to the VPN, because the only option to get the one-time connection token is an SMS to my cell number.
Comment Already bigger (Score 1) 105
It is already bigger than Windows. Just look at your Task Manager and sort by Memory. I see 300MB taken by Teams, 5 times more than Skype for Business or Outlook.
This may be anecdotal evidence, but the boot time my work laptop doubled after Teams was installed on it.
In terms of CPU cycles consumed, it is also one of the bigger ones - 20-25% of i7-6600U when running an audio-only meeting between 2 people.
Comment Re:Headline is wrong (Score 1) 344
I really hope you typed this normally into vim and then :s/ //g before copy and pasting here, rather than tortured yourself to actually write it that way and/or go erase the spaces one by one afterward!
Comment Re:In the absence of Federal leadership... (Score 1) 267
Believe me, I don't like the Soviet way of doing lots of things. I experienced them firsthand.
However, the basic health service was one of the very few things the super centralized Soviet government handled decently. This included swift coordinated response to pandemics and mass inoculations.
This is a complete opposite of what Russian federal government is doing now. There is no coordination and no real financial support to local authorities.
Comment 600k seems a bit high (Score 1) 447
Yes, fewer deaths because of the reduced pollution and less driving is certainly a silver lining.
Wait, you are talking about fewer deaths from the virus itself? 600k still seems a bit high.
Comment Re: There's exercise... and then there's exercise. (Score 1) 47
Respect.
'Ban All Watches From Exams To Stop Cheating' (bbc.com) 136
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: All watches should be banned from exam halls to discourage cheating, says an inquiry into the extent of malpractice in exams taken by pupils across the UK. Smart watches, connected to the internet, are already banned from use by students taking public exams. But the review, commissioned by exam boards, says it is becoming difficult to distinguish between hi-tech and traditional watches. Review chairman Sir John Dunford called for a "blanket ban" on watches. The Independent Commission on Examination Malpractice, set up by exam boards to investigate the prevalence of cheating in public exams in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, says that overall there is a "very low level of malpractice." "It can look as if it's a time-telling watch and actually, you press a button and it becomes an email-type watch," said Sir John, a former head teachers' union leader. "If you don't ban them all I think you're giving a very difficult job to invigilators who are looking round an exam room. So I think the obvious thing to do here is to ban watches."
Comment Re: Myth: Artificial banana flavor based on Gros M (Score 1) 195
IMHO that article you linked ends up sounding equally in favour of it NOT being a myth, if you read the whole thing.
Comment Re:Mamas don't let your babies grow up (Score 1) 147
Programming (not just Excel/Word "computer literacy") is an important part of many professions. Any scientist these days has to know how to process data using Python. I am an ASIC designer (digital), and significant part of my day is programming fairly elaborate stuff in Tcl, Perl, Python and other scripting languages.
My opinion is that this is a growing trend, and programming literacy is becoming more and more important.
