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Comment Re:Algebra is "Higher math"? Really??? (Score 1) 97

Did this video show you every person he asked? It's not hard to find a small number of idiots, or even people pretending to be idiots to make for juicy click bait. There's a reason that drug companies can put something on the market because they found one person who claims that Fuckitol has cured their depression, fixed their thinning hair, and makes them shit thunder.

Yes, it does. This seems to be the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Apparently, they also have no clue what a quarter of a century is.

Submission + - Crocodiles are alarmingly attuned to the cries of human infants (science.org)

sciencehabit writes: Whether they're in mortal peril or just suffering from indigestion, infants across the animal kingdom cry out to tell their parents they need help. Unfortunately for them, the parents aren't the only ones attuned to the cries of their vulnerable young. Nile crocodiles are uniquely sensitive to the wails of distressed primate babies, according to a new study—and the more anxious the cry, the more interested the crocs become.

Indeed, according to the research, published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the reptiles are even better at identifying the emotional cues hidden in the wails of babies than we are—perhaps because they’ve evolved to home in on helpless prey.

“Oh, what a pity yum, yum!” jokes Stephan Reber, a cognitive zoologist at Lund University who was not involved in the study. On a more serious note, he says, the work raises the possibility that emotion may be communicated across species lines in more ways than scientists thought. “If crocs can do it, it probably means that many, many more animals can do it.”

Comment Re:Fuck snaps (Score 1) 71

As an over two-decade long Gentoo user, still happily compiling away, I detest the bloatedness of modern package systems. I remember installing a Flatpack for meld on a friend's Ubuntu machine a couple of years back and was appalled by the 1.7GB download.

Here's how meld looks like on a Gentoo system:

$ ls -lh /usr/bin/meld -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16K May 3 22:55 /usr/bin/meld

Sure, no libraries included, but that was the entire point of libraries - common use. Young programmers...sigh.

Comment Re: Japan (Score 2) 77

And the same happens in Korea, Taiwan, China, and most of East Asia today. At the beginning of a meeting, everyone exchanges business cards. The article appears to have been written by someone who doesn't know much about the topic, didn't bother to do any research, and only writes about his limited personal view of the world.

Comment Re: Like I'm a 6 year-old (Score 5, Informative) 119

AQM = Active Queue Management. The basic idea is to probabilistically drop packets before the queue becomes full. This as opposed to drop packets only at the tail when the buffer is already full. Apparently, this is particularly beneficial to reduce the latency of bursty traffic.

Comment Re: I'm happy to be living in the 21st century (Score 1) 399

Don't forget that South Korea is basically an island (the border to North Korea cannot be crossed). In other words, it is easy to control, quarantine, and track who came in the country. Many island states did significantly better than countries/statea with open borders (US/Europe). It also helps that South Koreans are a lot less obese on average that Floridians. Last but not least, until very recently, everybody in South Korea who came down with a positive test was hospitalized, no matter the symptoms. That greatly helped to minimize the death rate.

Comment Re: Taskbar and File Explorer (Score 1) 161

This, plus success is measured as "user engagement." Since the world today revolves around ads, more engagement = more opportunities to show ads = more $$$ = better. If you have to click two times for an action that used to take one click, it appears the user engagement has incrased. Thank you, Google!

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