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Comment Wrote proof read the headline (Score 1) 32

by _observer on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @12:38PM (#64309791) Attached to: World's Largest Aircraft Goes Supersonic In First Powered Flight

That is the singularly worst written headline ever to appear on Slashdot.

Comment Call a guy.. (Score 1) 75

by _observer on Sunday December 31, 2023 @04:30PM (#64119853) Attached to: Could We Build a Concert Venue in Space?

Quick, someone call Hotblack Desiato!

Comment Later today: Romero and Carmack on Twitch (Score 1) 29

by _observer on Sunday December 10, 2023 @02:35PM (#64071043) Attached to: 'Doom' at 30: What It Means, By the People Who Made It

Later today, John Romero will be hosting a live stream on Twitch with John Carmack: https://twitter.com/romero/sta...

Comment Europe? (Score 1) 71

by _observer on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:19PM (#64063965) Attached to: Sellafield Nuclear Site Has Leak That Could Pose Risk To Public

Since when is Chernobyl, Ukraine, not part of Europe? It's west of the Ural mountains...

Comment 30kg of CO2? (Score 1) 111

by _observer on Saturday February 04, 2023 @01:34PM (#63265129) Attached to: Startups Capture CO2 and Store It In Concrete

The numbers don't make sense to me - 30kg of CO2 from 120km of driving? My car uses around 11L of gas per 100km (it might be better in the summer, but it's winter and I only drive in the city during winter). There's no way that it's producing 30kg of CO2 when I used less than 9kg of fuel.

Comment A what? (Score 1) 150

by _observer on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:36PM (#62561828) Attached to: Pakistan Hits 120F as Climate Trends Drive Spring Heatwave

"What's an F?" - the rest if the World. LOL.

Comment Subject (Score 1) 72

by _observer on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:10PM (#62459508) Attached to: Google Docs Starts Nudging Some Users To Write Less Dumbly

It didn't seem to help the author of the article title.

Comment Re:Depends on the use (Score 1) 44

by _observer on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:25PM (#62252951) Attached to: The Unnerving Rise of Video Games that Spy on You

Yup, for game-play rebalancing, it's been around for a long time. I'm pretty sure I remember it be used in Half-Life 2, 17 years ago. The devs knew where players were getting stuck and could make small changes to keep the game fun.

Comment Which surprises precisely no one (Score 1) 85

by _observer on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:07PM (#62230731) Attached to: Groundhog Day's Spring Predictions No Better Than Chance

What, did anyone not expect this?

Comment This year (Score 1) 46

by _observer on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:34PM (#60779130) Attached to: Darth Vader Actor From Original 'Star Wars' Trilogy Dies at Age 85

2020 - The kind of year that kills even Darth Vader.

Submission + - macOS 10.14.4 Mail client broke Gmail access for some users (apple.com) 1

Submitted by _observer on Friday March 29, 2019 @09:19AM

_observer writes: Hundreds of users are unable to read their Gmail in Apple's Mail client since the upgrade to macOS 10.14.4, with few workaround available. This is impacting business and personal users, although not all Gmail accounts are impacted. The web client and other clients like Outlook still work — it is only Apple's Mail client. Users are caught in a login loop.

It appears that the issue was even found and reported in the 10.14.4 Beta, but not addressed when the update was released.

No word from Apple about this.

While I am somewhat sympathetic to the software engineers having bugs in code (I am an engineer too), but this seems to be a BIG QA miss.

Gmail is the most popular free email service and this is blocking a large number of users.

https://discussions.apple.com/...

The thread on the Apple Support forum is growing rapidly (24 pages and counting)

Comment Jump the shark (Score 1) 1015

by _observer on Sunday April 25, 2010 @09:57PM (#31979952) Attached to: Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking

Normally, I'm a big fan of very brilliant people... but then I didn't think it was possible to jump the shark in a motorized wheelchair. Seriously, what would any civilization want from a messed up, polluted tiny little planet like Earth? Any resource we have, except our own stupidity, is more abundant elsewhere.

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