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Comment Re:I can't be doing the math right... (Score 1) 51

> unaware slow-moving doom scrollers

Dealing with people moving with their eyes (nose) on the screen is especially difficult and annoying.

They made a special walk lane for them in Asia somewhere, years ago (one place, one city).

I'd like to have:

* A name for them, like you said

* A strategy. Currently I decided they have the lowest priority, and so I barge in, even if they collide a bit it doesn't really matter because they are unaware and just correct themselves.

Comment Then, why not bury back mined coal? And then... (Score 1) 100

Wouldn't it be more effective to not release CO2 that mined coal would emit by burying it back in the ground?

And yes, that sounds a bit silly, but it highlights how silly this whole thing is.

Next logical idea would be to not dig out the coal from the mines, and instead sell the biochar to clients that would have bought the coal to burn it.

This reminds me people interested in pumping back the very dilluted CO2 from the atmosphere, with a complex and costly process, while there are concentrated CO2 sources (coal plants) that are ignored, and natural means to pump this CO2 (forests). Silly projects.

Comment Re:Just use KDE (Score 2) 114

I never left KDE. Too bad Linux Mint has dumped (as an integrated flavor).

That said, the KDE team did something against the users: removing the ability to set the window's border width & color, and the gradient & color & 3D texture for the window's title bar. (I'm against the flat design for clarity)

It's maddening how developers remove user's freedom, and in the GNU/Linux ecosystem, no less... The Gnome team is one of the worst here. Firefox is next.

Sorry for the rant.

Comment Silly Scam, CO2= 0.04% in air, 14% plant exhaust (Score 2) 64

I can believe this silly scam is back and nobody yells to them:

Pump it from coal plant exhaust instead of the atmosphere!

CO2 in air: 0.04% , hard to capture in large quantity;
CO2 in coal plant exhaust: 14% (vol) : much more effective.

It goes into the atmosphere anyway if you don't capture it, why are you waiting for it to be diluted from 14 to 0.04 !!!

Comment No latency improvement (Score 1) 42

The implication is that they can also eliminate the part of the transmission latency that is a function of the distance of the end points.

No they can't because to read the teleported quantum states they need additional information that is sent through classic channels, not faster than light.

Why is this forgotten every time?

Comment Two sexism ratings: one for depiction, one for... (Score 1) 642

... intent.

There is a difference between a game depicting some reality where there is sexism, and a game made by sexist people who promote sexism.

That's why the sexism rating should be two ratings:

One rating for how much sexist clichés there are in the game, has there are in real life.
One rating for how much the game could induce sexist behavior, as it may be done on purpose by sexist people.

(this late posting is more a note to myself...)

Comment It depends on... (Score 1) 2

How many different sites are you browsing and keep going back to?
If it's a lot, bigger cache will help. but I doubt you have so many that you will reach a cache size that penalize the search in the cache.
Speed of your Internet tube is at stake also, of course, very high speed needs no cache from user point if view.

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