Yeah, when I wanted to see a (hopefully) sensible discussion of what was happening at Reddit—from outside Reddit—this was where I came. I used to visit /. every day; now I come here to talk about Reddit. Sheesh.

I'd guess that having so many subs go private meant that fewer requests got routed to Reddit's CDN, so that their central servers wound up more heavily loaded. Just a WAG, though -- grahamsz's theory about needing more requests to build a user's main page is attractive, too.

Since when does posting something online mean it has "no saleable value"? That's gonna come to a shock to the many webcomic authors selling hundreds or thousands of print copies of their free-to-read-online comics: XKCD, Questionable Content, SMBC, Kevin & Kell, Skin Horse, and more. Narbonic ended thirteen years ago, has remained free online ever since — and the author just put out a new print edition two years ago.

Curiosity has a CPU that's rated a maximum of 200mhz and 256MB of RAM. It's better than a 68040 but not comparable at all to an iphone.

Plug in the claimed numbers. At 1kW in, it generates 1.2mN of thrust. At 100km/s that is a power of 1.2kW. Clearly such over-unity numbers are bogus, and the only place for bogosity to enter in is in the 1.2mN/kW. That's why it must be bogus.

I'm not arguing; I'm ignorant and genuinely curious. (My last formal exposure to physics was over 35 years ago.)

Can you explain why this same reasoning wouldn't apply to any constant-thrust drive, such as a laser or microwave drive? Is it a matter of the thrust/power ratio? Is the "no-perpetual-motion" argument not that the EM drive can't produce any thrust, but that it can't produce so much?

You mentioned elsewhere that you support light-sail research. Hypothetical: Shine an ideally-focused laser upon a light sail. Does the light sail maintain a constant acceleration up to relativistic speeds?

Well, which of the two candidates:

• has billions to throw at an election, yet
• spent much less on his campaign than he said he would, and
• has alleged ties to Russian hackers?

Not saying he spent his campaign money on Russian hackers, but...

I agree. The entire image is only about four times the Moon's diameter wide, which means (if my calculations are correct, bwa ha ha!) the Moon only travels through about 1-1.5 degrees of arc during the video (which is why DSCOVR could shoot it in only 5 hours). The effective pull of the Moon on the Earth is pretty much straight toward the observer the whole time.

But there are no real depth cues, so it's hard to judge that the two bodies are nearly a quarter-million miles apart.

Is that large bright area that stays centered in the Pacific the reflection of the Sun behind DSCOVR? If so, I'm surprised how large and diffuse it is. I suppose that even from a million miles away the surface of the ocean must be pretty rough.

I still refer regularly to my CRC Standard Math Tables—two different editions, both sadly decades out of date.

I was tickled years ago to discover the OEIS; some other math website referred to it, and I was lost for hours. TV Tropes for math nerds.

Bingo. The whole point of the Caps Lock key is that you don't have to press it over and over. "...Around 0.1% of all keypresses" is a completely useless measurement. A measurement of how many other keys were pressed while the Caps Lock was on might actually mean something.

That said, the size and placement of Caps Lock are simply a historical accident. If keyboard manufacturers wanted to halve the size and stick another key left of A, that would be fine with me. (The "context menu" key that's missing from so many keyboards these days would be a great choice.)

Now if we could only get CPU/RAM usage as well!

Exactly what I came to say. I'd love to be able tell which tabs are pushing FF over 2GB, or carpet-bombing my CPUs when they auto-refresh, without having to close them all one by one.

I'll take either as long as the audio stays muted.

Takes me back to the 1970s. "What's a four-letter word for intercourse?" "Talk." Bet your sweet ass.

Actually, who's hurt if Google delists the movie's IMDB page? Heck, Google should just delist every page about every Universal Pictures title in current release. See how fast Universal finds the problems with their automated takedown notices when all their titles—all their theater listings—disgoogle at once.