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Comment Re:Monkeys and buttons (Score 3, Interesting) 194

by jeti on Monday March 18, 2024 @03:29AM (#64323783) Attached to: Why Oregon's Drug Decriminalization Failed

I don't know about monkeys, but a similar experiment with rats and morphine water is well known.

Comment Re:Prohibition Yay!! (Score 4, Interesting) 194

by jeti on Monday March 18, 2024 @03:24AM (#64323779) Attached to: Why Oregon's Drug Decriminalization Failed

You think marijuana is more deadly than alcohol? I call bullshit. You'll have to provide a source for this claim.

Comment Enshittification (Score 0) 227

by jeti on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @04:16AM (#64108439) Attached to: Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29

The term for this is enshittification.

Comment Re:I can't help but think the name is apt (Score 1) 157

by jeti on Monday December 18, 2023 @07:31AM (#64088627) Attached to: Creator of JSON Unveils New Programming Language 'Misty'

Most Germans speak English. If they are programmers, it's a given. I would always read "Misty" as an English term and not associate it with "Mist".

Comment Re:If Congress were actually serious... (Score 1) 18

by jeti on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @03:38AM (#64055633) Attached to: Automakers' Data Privacy Practices 'Are Unacceptable,' Says US Senator

Those cars are sold in Europe as well. The GDPR is useless if no one enforces it.

Comment Re: Well gee it seems the road is no longer a road (Score 1) 138

by jeti on Sunday November 26, 2023 @02:44AM (#64031995) Attached to: Google Maps Error Misleads Row of Cars Into the Mojave Desert

The design is to reduce cognitive load. It let's you better focus on the road. Everything else is a welcome byproduct.

Comment Maternal mortality (Score 1) 191

by jeti on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:20AM (#64014113) Attached to: Why US Women Now Live Almost 6 Years Longer Than Men

So maternal mortality has gone up? It's a national shame.

Comment Re:So we aren't sequenced yet? (Score 1) 145

by jeti on Saturday August 26, 2023 @04:52AM (#63798152) Attached to: The 'Weird' Male Y Chromosome Has Finally Been Fully Sequenced

The abstract says that the Y-chromosome has a 62,460,029-base-pair sequence. How long are the fragments that can now be sequenced?

Comment Re:How do you measure "thinking"? (Score 1) 157

by jeti on Sunday August 20, 2023 @02:28AM (#63781670) Attached to: Can You Measure Software Developer Productivity?

My proudest moments are those when I was able to remove three or five thousand lines of code while keeping all the features.

Comment Hobbyist projects (Score 1) 80

by jeti on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @06:33AM (#63560667) Attached to: Tears of the Kingdom's Bridge Physics Have Game Developers Wowed

It's amazing how much more advanced mechanisms in hobbyist projects can be compared to AAA titles. For example, here's a video of Tundra Fight School toying with a buoyant chain.

Comment Re:Decentralized and open - nice idea, but... (Score 3, Informative) 54

by Sanity on Sunday May 21, 2023 @12:14PM (#63539805) Attached to: Freenet 2023: a Drop-in Decentralized Replacement for the Web - and More

The new Freenet is written in Rust.

Comment Re:The new word in replacements (Score 1) 54

by Sanity on Sunday May 21, 2023 @12:14PM (#63539801) Attached to: Freenet 2023: a Drop-in Decentralized Replacement for the Web - and More

lol - same thing with pilots ;)

Comment Re:Nice to see Ian is still at it. (Score 1) 54

by Sanity on Sunday May 21, 2023 @12:12PM (#63539797) Attached to: Freenet 2023: a Drop-in Decentralized Replacement for the Web - and More

Thank you!

Comment Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score 1) 54

by Sanity on Sunday May 21, 2023 @12:11PM (#63539793) Attached to: Freenet 2023: a Drop-in Decentralized Replacement for the Web - and More

You're very welcome :)

Comment Re:Nice to see Ian is still at it. (Score 4, Informative) 54

by Sanity on Sunday May 21, 2023 @01:15AM (#63538887) Attached to: Freenet 2023: a Drop-in Decentralized Replacement for the Web - and More

When the new Freenet is up and running, I think it will be the first system of any kind that could host something like wikipedia, not just the data but the wiki CMS system it's built on. An editable wikipedia, entirely decentralized and very scalable.

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