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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Today's XKCD has a bit of a goatse vibe.
Does anybody know why crazy new algorithms needed be developed to get this image? Or know of a good place to read about it?
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Atazhaia It's a rather crappy service anyway that many people just use because the preinstalled widget on their phone uses it and replacing it with a better one.
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@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Today's XKCD has a bit of a goatse vibe.
Does anybody know why crazy new algorithms needed be developed to get this image? Or know of a good place to read about it?
Nothing new, just a novel application of Gaussian blur to a screenshot of the documentary Interstellar (2014)
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
to a screenshot of the documentary Interstellar (2014)
Or, alternatively...
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@Applied-Mediocrity That's not a black hole the size of a solar system! It's a box for AMD's new solar-system sized 10^1300-core processor!
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@mott555 The AMD sphere.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
AMD's new solar-system sized 10^1300-core processor!
@topspin said in In other news today...:
The AMD sphere.
Taken together with the overly generous Amazon packaging it will come in, its mass exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit, so the difference is
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Lion bites idiot. News at 11...
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The 29-year-old passenger said she “dared” her boyfriend to go into the store nude because he said it was legal in Rhode Island.
Police say 60-year-old John Walsh, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, was charged with disorderly conduct
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Fiona Onasanya becomes first sitting MP to be jailed in almost 30 years
For "3 months." After lying continually about it.
Now that she's served her time and is back in Parliament, next up: the Solicitor's Regulation Authority's turn (she's also a solicitor as well as an MP):
https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/solicitor-check/391606.article?Decision=2019-02-28
On 19 December 2018 at the Central Criminal Court she was convicted on indictment of a single count of doing an act tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice and thereby failed to:
- uphold the proper administration of justice
- act with integrity
- behave in a way that maintains the trust the public places in her and the provision of legal services.
The allegations are subject to a Hearing before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and are as yet unproven.
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Criminal company aiming to trade for up to $120bn:
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Criminal company aiming to trade for up to $120bn:
https://www.continentaltelegraph.com/business/taxi-ride-anyone/
The conservative valuation put forward is $100 billion. Yes, that’s right, about 20 cents per human on the planet even if they prefer to go by Shank’s Pony rather than be taken around by an Uber Mensch.
It’s all a bit of hype, don’t you think?
We’ve been here before. The dotcom bubble is one such episode. As were tulips in Holland or the South Sea Bubble. It can only end in tears as is reputed that someone mistook a nice tulip bulb for an onion and ate it. Probably a better use of your money than flinging it at Uber.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
We’ve been here before. The dotcom bubble is one such episode. As were tulips in Holland or the South Sea Bubble. It can only end in tears as is reputed that someone mistook a nice tulip bulb for an onion and ate it. Probably a better use of your money than flinging it at Uber.
I guess you have to be a Brit to understand the tulips reference.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I guess you have to be a Brit to understand the tulips reference.
Not really. Try Dutch.
Tulip mania (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637. It is generally considered the first recorded speculative bubble;...
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I guess you have to be a Brit to understand the tulips reference.
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Presumably, not enough people were keeping the full-fat Facebook app on their phone when all they needed was the messenger app, and of course the Zuckerplex doesn't like that. So now they're rolling the messaging features back into the full app. However,
Wong said testing is in early stages and that the new section has basic text, no reactions, calls, video or photos. She told Engadget that to access those features “you’d still have to open the Messenger app.”
:womp_wah:
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Dutch F-16 flies into its own bullets, scores self-inflicted hits
That's why there's very few things more awesome than is A-10 (Kneeling) Warthog. It's so lazy (max. 706 km/h) it simply cannot outrun them
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT... ... ...wrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Dutch F-16 flies into its own bullets, scores self-inflicted hits
That's why there's very few things more awesome than is A-10 (Kneeling) Warthog. It's so lazy (max. 706 km/h) it simply cannot outrun them
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT... ... ...wrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt!
The comments on the story say that it, however, can put itself in a stall if it shoots too long.
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@Mingan
Wikipedia confirms that, but in practice:- barrel overheating means it's limited to max. 2 second bursts (and it can carry enough for just about 20 seconds worth in total).
- if whatever's down there is not dead after being fucked with ~130 high-explosive incendiary rounds the size of an average dick, in a very narrow area, nuking it from orbit may be advised
Filed under: Obvious QooC bait is obvious
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-weird-messages-oculus-touch-controllers-2019-4
Makes me want to open mine up now...
Edit: oh, it's only on the Quest and Rift S packages... Womp... Wuh?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Presumably, not enough people were keeping the full-fat Facebook app on their phone when all they needed was the messenger app, and of course the Zuckerplex doesn't like that. So now they're rolling the messaging features back into the full app. However,
Wong said testing is in early stages and that the new section has basic text, no reactions, calls, video or photos. She told Engadget that to access those features “you’d still have to open the Messenger app.”
:womp_wah:
I've never installed messenger after they removed that from the main app (rarely use it anyway). The amount of shit they make you go through trying to force you onto messenger is amazing. You still get push notifications from the facebook app, but opening them tells you to install messenger. Going to the web page doesn't let you use the messenger functionality either, unless you explicitly request the desktop version.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
I've never installed messenger
That's enough to describe my situation. I avoid the whole suckyberg empire.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
The amount of shit they make you go through trying to force you onto messenger is amazing.
On the very, very rare occasion I need to access Messenger on mobile (I barely use Facebook), I go to mbasic.facebook.com, which actually shows messages instead of trying to force the app on you.
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@Luhmann How do you 'break' a penis? Isn't it mostly a muscle?
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann How do you 'break' a penis? Isn't it mostly a muscle?
Note that it's often called broken when the erectile tissue is damaged as well.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann How do you 'break' a penis? Isn't it mostly a muscle?
Humans are actually rather unusual in not having a bone in their penis.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann How do you 'break' a penis? Isn't it mostly a muscle?
Humans are actually rather unusual in not having a bone in their penis.
Humans can, nonetheless, suffer an injury that is referred to as a penile fracture, even though it's not a bone being broken. It's actually the rupture of a fibrous covering of ... some other structure in the penis.
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@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann How do you 'break' a penis? Isn't it mostly a muscle?
Humans are actually rather unusual in not having a bone in their penis.
Humans can, nonetheless, suffer an injury that is referred to as a penile fracture, even though it's not a bone being broken. It's actually the rupture of a fibrous covering of ... some other structure in the penis.
It's called corpora cavernosa according to the first google result with a cross-section of the groin.
I hope that's right, because I'm not going to search again. Got enough pictures of either cut-up or animal d***s the first time. Wrong search terms.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
The only connection I can see to the post you were replying to is Switzerland. I wish my country was more neutral. You have to go back over 60 years to find a case where it turned out to be a good thing that they weren't neutral, though I could even argue that.
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@jinpa It was just because it's Switzerland
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@jinpa
If being a neutral means not considering coffee "essential for life", then Zapp's distrust of neutrals is absolutely justified. In fact, he probably doesn't go far enough.
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His parents admit they dumped the porn, which included titles such as “Frisky Business” and “Big Bad Grannys.”
The man filed a complaint with police, but the Ottawa County prosecutor declined to press charges. The lawsuit includes an email excerpt from the man’s father, who told his son, “I did you a big favor by getting rid of all this stuff.”
The man is seeking triple financial damages of roughly $87,000.
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Nope thread is
So I can either allow all the tracking or pay for no ads. So I can't even choose ads with no tracking. Well, fuck you AccuWeather!
I was about to make a night vale reference but I don't think they ever mention the colour of their glow cloud.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Presumably, not enough people were keeping the full-fat Facebook app on their phone when all they needed was the messenger app, and of course the Zuckerplex doesn't like that. So now they're rolling the messaging features back into the full app. However,
Wong said testing is in early stages and that the new section has basic text, no reactions, calls, video or photos. She told Engadget that to access those features “you’d still have to open the Messenger app.”
:womp_wah:
It's also a real pain in the neck to have people send messages to my phone from Messenger; the (dumb) phone doesn't accept emoji, flairs, or reactions and treats all messages, even the text-only ones, as multimedia messages. (Also, almost everything Apple-related does the same thing.)
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I can't believe nobody posted about this earlier, but a week ago Adobe discontinued Shockwave! The Shockwave Player is no longer available for download! And I who planned to make my website all Shockwave-based, but now nobody can see it...
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The end of the world must be coming, because there is some genuinely good news about a Chrome update:
tldr: Websites could detect if you were using private mode. Now, at least assuming this works, they shouldn't be able to. Of course, who knows what other garbage that update is going to have.
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
I can't believe nobody posted about this earlier, but a week ago Adobe discontinued Shockwave! The Shockwave Player is no longer available for download! And I who planned to make my website all Shockwave-based, but now nobody can see it...
As long as the blink tag is still available, we will survive.
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@jinpa Even if it's not natively supported, I'm sure there's no shortage of heavy Javascript frameworks that you could pull in to approximate this critical functionality.
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