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Comment Crashed everything (Score 1) 19

by BigT (#59524352) Attached to: Google Halts Chrome 79 Rollout After It Breaks Some Android Apps

I didn't lose any data, I just couldn't use any of the apps on my phone. All of the apps dependent on webview crashed immediately.

I was able to isolate the Chrome update as the cause, but didn't know the why until now.

It has given me an opportunity to try Firefox Focus as the main browser on my phone. I may not switch back to Chrome.

Submission + - Remember that 70-solar-mass black hole announced last week? Yeah, not so much.

Submitted by The Bad Astronomer
The Bad Astronomer writes: Last week, scientists announced the discovery of a stellar-mass black hole with 70 times the Sun's mass, far heftier than theory predicts they can get. Within days, though, four separate papers have come out casting extreme doubt on the claim. They show that the data weren't processed correctly, and that the black hole is closer to Earth than first assumed, which changes the calculations and makes it a more normal 5 — 20 solar mass object.

Comment Re:The popularity of open offices has exacerbated (Score 2) 290

by BigT (#53157379) Attached to: Noisy Coworkers And Other Sounds Are Top Distraction in Workplace, Study Says

but management, who naturally "must" have their individual offices.

Which they then congregate outside of to loudly talk with each other, various minions, visitors, etc. Right next to my cube. Or, my favorite: conference call on speakerphone with the door open. Then they get indignant when I close the door for them. Especially if I use superglue to keep it closed.

And using the speakerphone in the cube farm should be a capital offense.

Submission + - SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rock On A Floating Drone Ship For The First Time (theverge.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: SpaceX has finally landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea, after launching the vehicle into space this afternoon. It's the first time the company has been able to pull off an ocean landing, after four previous attempts ended in failure. This is the second time SpaceX has successfully landed one of its rockets post-launch; the first time was in December, when the company's Falcon 9 rocket touched down at a ground-based landing site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, after putting a satellite into space. Now that SpaceX has demonstrated it can do both types of landings, the company can potentially recover and reuse even more rockets in the future. And that could mean much greater cost savings for SpaceX.

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