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Comment Re:Corrects its own headline in the third sentence (Score 1) 474

The fact that you're talking about a trip a few months off to find a case that doesn't work for you is pretty telling. That's pretty much the definition of an edge case. Why are you basing your car buying decisions on a couple of hours of charging on a trip you take pretty occassionally? I suspect that you wouldn't constantly drive around in a moving van for the twice a year situations where you want to move some furniture?

Electric cars don't have to meet every use case a gasoline car can meet before they should be considered a reasonable alternative.

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Samsung's 'Bixby' Voice Assistant Finally Launches In US (theverge.com) 40

After 3 months, Samsung announced that the voice capabilities of its digital assistant are now rolling out to U.S. Galaxy S8 and S8+ owners. Now, if you happen to own a Galaxy S8 or S8+, the physical Bixby button on the lefthand side of your phone will be able to actually do something somewhat useful. The Verge reports: Bixby's voice capabilities have been available in the US as part of an opt-in beta test, and Samsung says that feedback has led to faster response times, improved comprehension of varied phrasing around the same question, better hands-free operation, and more. Over 100,000 users of the flagship devices have enrolled in the early access program and issued over 4 million voice commands. Also, Samsung says Bixby can now read aloud your latest SMS messages and emails -- if you use its stock apps on the Galaxy S8. Bixby can be activated with a push of the dedicated Bixby button located on the side of the Galaxy S8 and S8+, or by saying "hi Bixby." Like Siri and Google Assistant, Bixby can handle alarms, send texts, and so on, but its real power lies in the ability to access granular phone settings or -- in supported apps -- automatically move through several menu screens to perform commands that Google Assistant simply can't do. Samsung says that deep learning should allow Bixby to improve over time as it begins to recognize users' preferences and ways of speaking. Here's a video showing some of the voice commands Bixby can respond to.

Comment Re:What does the headline mean? (Score 1) 359

The title is in reference to chapter titles in some older humorous books. The house at Pooh Corner is the one that I can think of, but it's in others from the same era.

For instance,

"Chapter IV
In Which it is Shown that Tiggers Don't Climb Trees"

The author is implying that it's another piece of an ongoing saga that's got some silliness in it.

Comment Re:Beer drinker (Score 1) 48

All of those can be done with a guy spending two seconds typing in the name of new beers when they come in.

Also, St Augustine's in Vancouver does the whole live update menu thing and has for years. They have it over the bar and on screens over the urinals in the bathroom. I'm assuming they have flow meters or some other type of instrumentation set up.

http://staugustinesvancouver.c...

Looks like they turned over a hell of a lot of kegs recently for whatever reason.

Submission + - Satochi Nakamoto's email address satoshin@gmx.com is compromised (mineforeman.com)

ASDFnz writes: Satochi Nakamoto, much revered and currently missing inventor of bitcoin seems to have had his email address compromised by an unknown agent.

You may or not remember, Satochi exclusively used one email address when he was active in the bitcoin community, satoshin@gmx.com. If you have a look at the original bitcoin whitepaper you will find it there at the top just under the title. He also usually signed his correspondence with his PGP signature.

Earlier today, the head administrator of Bitcointalk Theymos received an email from Satochi’s email address that appeared to originate form GMX’s servers and made a post on the bitcointalk forums saying that he had received an email from the address without Satochi's PGP Signature.

Later developments have the unknown agent posting to other Satochi accounts.

Comment Re:As a girl working in tech... (Score 2) 117

So you think appointing a woman to a political position... hurts equal opportunity for women?

You seem to be working on the assumption that a lesbian inherently can't be a reasonable choice without taking PR into account.

Why don't you think this person's proved herself and in what scenario would you think that the political appointment of a lesbian isn't primarily for PR reasons?

Comment Re:Wait What? (Score 2) 190

Neat, I'm also in Canada and when I had head trauma they observed me and because it looked at least somewhat risky I got a CT scan within a half hour of walking into the hospital. Then when I started showing additional symptoms and the CT was reviewed I got an MRI, also within a very short period of time. The bleed ended up stopping itself.

In the year after that I had another MRI because of some continuing symptoms, in that cases there wasn't an emergency so I had to wait a while, and that's fair enough. Yeah, it's possible something horrible had happened again, but it was unlikely.

While it's certainly possible that your exchange was some horrible problem with the medical system, it's more likely that this:

"That sounds like an emergency, can't we get bumped up the line?" "No, the system does not view this an emergency."

was the doctor telling you he didn't think it was critical enough to escalate. Yeah, there is a system in place, but if a doctor actually has a reason to push for something due to a possible emergency he can do it. If you've had a concussion and it's been a little while and you're not symptomatic it's pretty darn likely that you don't have a bleed. It's not standard practice to perform imaging unless there are certain indicators:

http://www.ohri.ca/emerg/cdr/docs/cdr_cthead_poster.pdf

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