Comment Human hearing is amazing (Score 4, Informative) 40
This is simply using our amazing ability to spatially locate sounds. We can spatially locate sounds in front of us side-to-side with an accuracy of around 1 degree. That's pretty incredible. For comparison, cats and dogs cannot spatially locate sounds with nearly that accuracy (about 5 degrees for cats, 8 degrees for dogs), even though they can physically pan their ears around to focus sound collection where they want.
To give an idea of just how incredible that is, 1 degree accuracy means that a sound (or echo) from 20 feet away can be determined with 4 inches accuracy side to side (or in metric, an object 6 meters away can be located to 11 centimeters accuracy).
Using this innate ability for echolocation just makes sense.
Comment Re:Sully’s Hudson Landing (Score 1) 63
And you only fly on Boeing 727-51 planes like DB Cooper that have a convenient ramp for you to jump off of?
Comment Re:10 feet do not 9 meters make (Score 1) 53
Oh no, another metric / imperial mismatch like the $327 million Mars Climate Orbiter fiasco. This time they'll just poke out the eye of a geosynchronous satellite because they are 6.952 meters closer to it than they thought they were.
Comment Re:Most users are oblivious to updating. (Score 1) 106
Comment Avoiding Legal Precedent (Score 1) 64
Comment Re:Cue all (Score 2) 108
I think people upvoting you misread your post, and I think that's perfectly fine lol.
Comment Re: Still used because 10 is current, right? (Score 1) 106
The difference was almost entirely to FORCIBLY OBSOLETE a ton of perfectly serviceable machines merely because they came with TPM 1.2 or less from the manufacturer, or they had a CPU "not quite new enough," because OEMs were screaming "we need to force people to trash computers and spend money buying new hardware from us."
OEMs started salivating at Apple's "3 year old hardware? Fuck you, throw it in the trash and buy something new" sales model and demanded MS start doing the same thing.
Comment Re:Most users are oblivious to updating. (Score 0) 106
If someone like MachineShedFred is getting a forced reboot in the middle of the day, it's because he's the Dumb Fucking Retard who's been pushing "delay" on the machine over and over and "sleeping" the machine during the mandatory reboot times rather than save his work and pick a sensible moment, and now he's run past the mandatory delay allowance. He's known this reboot was coming, he just chose to IGNORE it and be a whiny little bitch about it.
Most IT departments have no idea how to set up automatic updating properly so that it still gets the job done, but doesn't piss off the users that you can't really piss off...
Most Dumb Fucking Retard Users like MachineShedFred imagine that they are above the requirements that IT have been ordered to apply to everyone, or that they've found some magical "workaround" to the system. I have no sympathy for his bullshittery.
Comment Re:This should surprise nobody (Score -1, Flamebait) 108
Comment Re:That can't be true. (Score 0, Troll) 108
Comment Re:Cue all (Score 0, Troll) 108
Comment Re:Is this like the algo trading stuff? Or an API? (Score 0) 215
Comment Re:Then explain the layoffs (Score 1) 251
Comment Re: New normals (Score 3, Insightful) 215
Nixon and Reagan were LITERALLY shit-eating Treason Fucking Traitors to the USA.
Nixon went behind Johnson's back to end peace negotiations in Vietnam, getting tens of thousands of our troops killed so he could win an election, including my uncle. He should have been put in front of a firing squad and shot dead for the TREASON he committed.
Reagan did worse, going behind Carter's back, telling the Iranians to keep holding CIVILIAN HOSTAGES in exchange for a weapons deal. Reagan was a shit-eating Klan Fucking White Supremacist Bitch Traitor to the USA.
No member of the GOP can ever be trusted. They are ALL America-hating Treasonous White-Supremacist Scumass Bitch CRIMINAL TRASH.