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Comment Original paper is way more nuanced. (Score 1) 1

BNE Intellinews article was taken from this press release:
https://www.icm.csic.es/en/new...

which, itself, doesn't represent the research paper accurately:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.10...

The conclusion of the research paper is: hey, we can track these sorts of changes in the southern hemisphere and there are several possible explanations and (as with all successful research papers) more research is necessary.

Submission + - Southern Ocean current reverses, signalling risk of climate system collapse (intellinews.com) 1

OtisSnerd writes: From the news story: "A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history, in what climatologists are calling a “catastrophic” tipping point in the global climate system."

This could impact the slowing of the Gulf Stream, which keeps Northern Europe warm.

Submission + - The terrifying truth about why Tesla's cars keep crashing (theguardian.com)

Alain Williams writes: Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops on the highway – have led to questions about the safety of the brand. Why won’t Tesla give any answers?

Submission + - Budget to close Mauna Loa Observatory Climate CO2 study (cnn.com)

symbolset writes: Slashdot regularly posts milestones on CO2 levels reported by the Mauna Loa Observatory. Continuous observation records since 1958 will end with the new federal budget as ocean and atmospheric sciences are defunded.

Comment Re:Manual transmissions and traffic (Score 1) 185

In fact, the best thing to do is to use the gaps between cars to absorb speed differences so as to allow ALL traffic to flow more smoothly

I agree with you, and I find that this is easier to do in a manual because the acceleration is instantaneous. I have found that I don't have to accelerate as hard if the response is immediate, versus delayed. I don't have to brake as hard because I start slowing as soon as I back off the gas.

With most automatics, the off-pedal cruising speed is 20 to 25 mph, which means that driving any slower than that requires riding the brake. From behind, a slow, steadily moving automatic appears the same as one which is stopping, or stopped. So they create a situation in which drivers behind a steady 15mph automatic vehicle have a harder time estimating traffic speed - which leads to the inevitable traffic accordion.

Comment Re:This is why I warn people to run LOCAL (Score 1) 103

Many years ago, when Motorola was in buyout talks with Google, they used Google docs extensively. One can only wonder if Google got a better deal because they were able to read Motorola's internal discussions. I don't know if they used Google docs for the discussions, but I do know there were quite a few people at the company who expressed no concern for the possibility that Google docs could leak proprietary information.

Comment Manual transmissions and traffic (Score 4, Interesting) 185

One of my vehicles has an automatic transmission, and the other, a manual. The car with the automatic transmission has about twice the horsepower of the manual, but drives as if it's twice as heavy.

What I've noticed is that when driving the manual in heavy traffic, I use the brakes much less than with the automatic; one pedal both brakes and accelerates. Because I can keep the engine in its power band when crawling along in traffic, I get instant acceleration when traffic speeds up again. But with the automatic, the "delay, downshift, overaccelerate" conniption fit of the automatic transmission often allows other drivers the space to cut in front of me.

Comment Re:BETTER Mitigation (Score 1) 66

Non-systemd Debian and more and more Devuan here. This is not a high criticality vulnerability, but, after the sshd near-disaster, the second time not running systemd proves to be the right decision.

I can't hear "Debian" and "sshd" and "disaster" in the same sentence without thinking of https://research.swtch.com/ope... (the OpenSSL bug from September 2006). It really took me a minute to realize you were talking about the xz-utils attack.

Comment So much for effective communication, eh? (Score 5, Insightful) 44

So instead of teaching people to write concise, to-the-point emails, we instead let them ramble on and use AI to communicate what they really intended to say.

This doesn't solve the TLDR problem, it only makes it worse by encouraging people to waste time writing emails that others simply won't read.

Comment Re:Deceptive garbage "study" (Score 1) 115

Furthermore, since when is "fish" an essential food group?
The very diet this "study" claims to base its analysis on - the "Eatwell guide" - doesn't separate fish out other meats. It's basically just a reiteration of the "Mediterranean diet" from the 90's, and its true title should be "if you're middle-class in the UK and not concerned about money, but concerned about your waistline, try this."

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