dhaen - Slashdot User

Comment Contraception a major factor (Score 1) 243

by dhaen on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @09:51PM (#65601370) Attached to: Three-Quarters of Countries Face Below-Replacement Fertility by 2050

I searched the page for this term but nobody has mentioned it. Looking at my ancestry, before contraception, 12 births per couple was common, though barely more than half survived. Nevertheless, many more births.

Comment Give us a break (Score 2) 243

by dhaen on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @09:44PM (#65601352) Attached to: Three-Quarters of Countries Face Below-Replacement Fertility by 2050

Most of us are already decedents of Gengis Khan.

Comment Re: Stop this Slashdot. (Score 1) 143

by dhaen on Sunday August 17, 2025 @05:43AM (#65595210) Attached to: Volkswagen Wants You To Pay Monthly To Unlock More Horsepower

Interestingly BBC are one of the more neutral and honest news reporters.

Everything they say is true, it's what they omit that makes them biased.

Comment Re:not arcane (Score 1) 34

by dhaen on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @11:36AM (#65507374) Attached to: UK Police Dangle $102 Million To Digitize Its VHS Tape Archives

If you are so sure, go ahead and tender, there's a lot of money up for grabs. Submit a tender document and see what happens... Or you could leave it to those who have some idea, who have been digitising video on a large scale for years.

Comment Re: Quite a bit of culture in Japan is ossified (Score 1) 85

by dhaen on Saturday June 28, 2025 @01:28PM (#65482452) Attached to: Japan's Civil War Over Surnames

We Europeans are extremely lucky compared to most other parts of the world. In the best places (Belgium, for some reason) you can get back to the 1600s on all lines, not just the paternal.

Yes, I found my paternal Belgian line easily back to 1450 but the maternal British line runs out 200 years earlier.

Comment Re: Children. (Score 2) 56

by dhaen on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:56PM (#65466189) Attached to: What are the Carbon Costs of Asking an AI a Question?

I think you mean 10Wh

Comment Note to self (Score 1) 39

by dhaen on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:02AM (#65343877) Attached to: Millions of AirPlay Devices Can Be Hacked Over Wi-Fi

Don't invite hackers to connect to my LAN. If I do, check the colour of their hat at the front door.

Comment Re:Safer than Mars (Score 1) 17

by dhaen on Saturday January 11, 2025 @03:55PM (#65081301) Attached to: Spacecraft Buzzes Mercury's North Pole and Beams Back Stunning Photos

Mercurys magnetic field deflects the solar wind inducing a magnetosphere, which deflects charged particles, much as our earth's field does.

Comment Safer than Mars (Score 1) 17

by dhaen on Saturday January 11, 2025 @08:03AM (#65080561) Attached to: Spacecraft Buzzes Mercury's North Pole and Beams Back Stunning Photos

Since Mercury has a magnetic field, it's a safer bet than Mars to inhabit. There are regions at the poles that are in shadow and probably have water ice. These may be close enough to the sun side to tap its solar energy.

Comment WTF is a quadrillionth of a metre? (Score 1) 53

by dhaen on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @08:20AM (#65072207) Attached to: Scientists Find 'Spooky' Quantum Entanglement Within Individual Protons

I had to stop reading the article at that point as I couldn't take it seriously. Mind you this is Slashdot isn't it?

Comment Re:Does prayer make God change his mind? (Score 2) 210

by dhaen on Thursday December 12, 2024 @03:20PM (#65008737) Attached to: Former Intel CEO Calls For Prayer and Fasting For Employees

The plan is to make you prey.

Comment Probably (Score 1) 95

by dhaen on Thursday October 24, 2024 @05:54AM (#64889831) Attached to: Boeing-Made Satellite Explodes In Space

Those discounted lithium batteries

Comment Marvin (Score 4, Funny) 47

by dhaen on Friday September 06, 2024 @04:11AM (#64767336) Attached to: Part of Brain Network Much Bigger In People With Depression, Scientists Find

Brain the size of a planet

Comment FUD (Score 1) 79

by dhaen on Thursday August 29, 2024 @05:02AM (#64745648) Attached to: 'Uncertainty' Drives LinkedIn To Migrate From CentOS To Azure Linux

It's nice to hear they've got "Uncertainty". Now wait for the "Fear" and "Doubt".

Comment Incumbents (Score 1) 52

by dhaen on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @11:09AM (#64702222) Attached to: Canceling Subscriptions Should Be As Easy As Signing Up, Newly Proposed federal Rule Says

Promises by incumbent parties at election time always beg the question: Well why didn't you it already?

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