Comment Nah, you're alright. (Score 1) 41
I'm still not interested in VR.
Comment Re: Objection: relevance? (Score 2) 65
Xylitol is a shitty sweetener...it poisons your dog and definitely has GI side effects. I honestly don't know why food producers use it. It can't be that much cheaper than the more established products. I guess because it has a similar volume and texture?
Bacteria can't metabolise it so they use it for sweets that won't rot your teeth.
It's not âoeartificial" either; it's found in birch bark. IIRC it's basically just normal sugar with the opposite chirality.
Comment Yeah, nah. (Score 1) 113
Since the TFS doesn't mention how much they actually cost and just gives the percentage increase (I wonder whyâ¦.) I had to RTFA.
An extra ten bucks for the Windows license pales in comparison to RAM prices tripling.
Comment Re: Just imagine (Score 1) 210
We've seen plenty of corruption elsewhere in government, at all levels, but never in the oval office.
Literally in the Oval Office. Remember when Trump advertised canned beans from behind the Resolute Desk in his first term?
Comment Re: Hearing aid batteries (Score 4, Informative) 75
I just replaced a hearing aid battery not ten minutes ago. They're 8mm by 5mm in case you were wondering.
Comment Re: Global Warming is Hitting Florida Hard (Score 1) 126
In theory, the average IQ is 100.
By definition, not in theory.
Comment Re: "Disarm" is doing some heavy lifting here... (Score 1) 31
The suspect must have been well out of it if the noise from the drone didn't wake them up. So deeply under, in fact, that there was probably zero risk from them in the first place.
Comment Re: Hot or cold? Make your minds up! (Score 1) 164
Houses here are made of bricks and mortar, not wood and plasterboard. Drilling a hole in an exterior wall is not as easy as you may think.
Comment Re: Hot or cold? Make your minds up! (Score 1) 164
If you can't afford central air...just toss up a few window units. It doesn't cost a ton and makes summer's survivable....especially if humidity is there in the mix.
Itâ(TM)s not a question of affording central air. Most homes here don't have air ducts and that's not the sort of thing you can just retrofit.
Comment Re: Before someone says it (Score 5, Interesting) 134
It wasn't Russian disinformation that made Brexit happen, it was Britains own Farage.
Reform's leader in Wales was recently imprisoned for taking Russian bribes to push their talking points. Farage used to say the same kinds of things, and the only difference between Nathan Gill and Farage is that they could prove it. We do know, however, that he took five million from a Thailand-based crypto billionaire and that it's just a coincidence that Farage started promoting cryptocurrency shortly after. It's not an either/or situation.
Comment Re: Caveat emptor (Score 4, Informative) 57
For accuracy's sake the people in Titan didn't drown. Given how fast it happened they would have been simultaneously roasted and crushed.
Comment Re:the exact guy that wears these.. (Score 1) 39
I bet they post on /. using monospace too.
Comment Re: Many young and foolish realise they made a mis (Score 2) 229
The day after the referendum there was a spike in Google searches for "what is the EU?". Not the day before, the day after.
These people live among us.
These people live among us.
Comment Re: Polls don't vote (Score 1) 229
I don't know about the United Kingdomâ¦
Then let me teach you a British saying: wind your neck in.
Comment Re: Don't use "cutting edge" and (Score 1) 61
You're right. When it comes to surgery we should be talking about the bleeding edge.
