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@pie_flavor Cheaper than Silly Valley, for sure.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor Cheaper than Silly Valley, for sure.
A rather low bar to clear.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
"you don't need a hellfire missile to get the hornets' nest out of your attic"
I'm sorry, but I don't think I believe you on that point.
I need it to get the hornet's nest out of @Polygeekery's house. (You know, before he gets it out of ours...)
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor Cheaper than Silly Valley, for sure.
A rather low bar to clear.
Wouldn't that actually be a high bar you could walk under easily?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
https://tribunist.com/news/man-impersonating-police-officer-pulls-over-van-full-of-detectives/
So that guy was about as dumb as this guy:
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
there's a reason I moved away from Chicago
You wanted to vote, but the polling place was packed with dead bodies?
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Florida cats:
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Headline is a little hyperbolic. The decision is only binding in the mostly rural states of the 10th Circuit, was decided by a 3-judge panel of the Court (as are the vast majority of appellate cases) by a 2-1 margin, and could be overturned by either the 10th Circuit itself, en banc, or SCOTUS.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Water does not need to be boiling; 50degC usually suffices.
"Does not need" in the sense of "you don't need a hellfire missile to get the hornets' nest out of your attic", right?
It should be boiling only if you want them to keep the bit of skin that's fozen to the pole and remove the skin from the rest of the tongue.Well, to be truly , any temperature >0degC should work, depending on quantity and flowrate. But you'd be surprised how many people think that the water needs to be scalding hot to work.
An even better idea would be to direct a hot-air gun (of sufficient wattage) to the signpole, some 10cm above the location of the tongue. But electric kettles seem to be a lot more common than hot-air guns. And people think about it first, usually, even if they had something more suitable.
We have a rather well known movie here which involves this. First, the school broadcast gives a warning along the lines of “we warn pupils against licking the handrail in front of school”. So of course in the next scene three boys get frozen to said handrail and the caretaker uses a blowtorch to heat it (two tear off too early and get their tongues hurt anyway, the third gets slapped so he's not feeling better/getting off free). Follows by one of the teacher telling the director “comrade director, I would suggest not to broadcast that pupils should not dring sulphuric acid or somebody is going to do it.”
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
the electors, once appointed, are free to vote as they choose
What would be the point of the electors if this weren't the case?
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@topspin The broader context of that quote is interesting:
Because the Constitution contains no requirement for electors to follow the wishes of a political party, "the electors, once appointed, are free to vote as they choose," assuming that they cast their vote for a legally qualified candidate.
Umm... yeah. The Constitution contains no mention at all of political parties, in fact, because the Founding Fathers believed that having them at all was a stupid idea. (They turned out to be right.)
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@Mason_Wheeler Political parties (as we understand them) are an emergent feature of the sort of political system present in large parts of the world. The rules don't specify them; they just tend to arise as a consequence of people with similar(ish) opinions banding together to get more of what they want.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@topspin The broader context of that quote is interesting:
Because the Constitution contains no requirement for electors to follow the wishes of a political party, "the electors, once appointed, are free to vote as they choose," assuming that they cast their vote for a legally qualified candidate.
Umm... yeah. The Constitution contains no mention at all of political parties, in fact, because the Founding Fathers believed that having them at all was a stupid idea. (They turned out to be right.)
It's one of those, "The worst except for everything else," kind of situations.
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@cheong said in In other news today...:
Btw, just read news that he is under detention by Shenzhen Police for 15 days.
Now it becomes clear that the "national security law" he broke was "To have sexual affair with prostitute" (I read this in Chinese news, so just have rough translation for "嫖妓")
I'll comment that this is fairly common "reason for detention" for foreigners (even for Hong Kong people in the day we use book-sized "Permit for return to China").
For one thing, this is not a crime and will neither put you in a jail (police station or detention centre only) nor gives you criminal record, so you will not be sent to court. Just anything Chinese police think is "good enough evidence" is enough.
For the "best side effect" it inflect on the person being caught, when they give you back your passport, it will have a chop saying "the holder has been caught because of "嫖妓" on it. This will not only embarrass you, it'll surely cause you trouble when you use this passport to visit other countries, or even when applying visas.
Since "Just anything Chinese police think is "good enough evidence" is enough.", unless the person was arrested on spot, it's usually fake. Given he was caught while he was about to ride on "High speed railway" to Hong Kong, this is very likely to be the case.
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"Going forward, what was once called a convicted felon or an offender released from jail will be a 'formerly incarcerated person,' or a 'justice-involved person' or simply a 'returning resident.'"
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@jinpa Two years till I leave. Just two more years.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Just two more years.
That's long enough to get cancer in California
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iPhones are safe
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What a bunch of iDiots!
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@Mason_Wheeler You're holding it wrong ™
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A support note from Cupertino, spotted by AppleInsider, says the card should be kept away from leather and denim to avoid discolouration, and also away from hard surfaces, to avoid scratching its white finish.
Users are warned not to use household cleaners on the card, nor compressed air and aersols, nor any solvents, or ammonia, or anything abrasive to clean it.
Also, don't expose it to bright lights, get it wet, or feed it after midnight.
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@hungrier So what happens if you feed it before midnight, but then a little sliver gets stuck in its teeth...
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@Mason_Wheeler
But alsoIf two credit cards are placed in the same slot your card could become scratched
If it's titanium, how can a plastic card scratch it? Or is it "titanium" in the same way that the iPhone's display is covered in """""""""""""""sapphire""""""""""""""?
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@hungrier Did that ever actually happen? Last I heard they were still using Gorilla Glass and thinking about going to corundum.
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@TimeBandit Is this one of those scaredy-cat articles again where someone thinks that RF radiation somehow has the power to become harmful?
Last time I looked, there still was no smoking gun because there is nothing beyond the thermal effects.
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@Mason_Wheeler I don't recall the exact details, but they claim(ed) that the display, or the camera lens was covered in sapphire, but JerryRigEverything tested it and determined that it was some kind of hybrid material that scratches at Mohs hardness 6 just like any other smartphone glass.
Kyocera's rugged phone uses real sapphire btw.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler
But alsoIf two credit cards are placed in the same slot your card could become scratched
If it's titanium, how can a plastic card scratch it? Or is it "titanium" in the same way that the iPhone's display is covered in """""""""""""""sapphire""""""""""""""?
Titanium carbide has a hardness of around 9 on the MOHS scale. Pure titanium is around 6.
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@Rhywden Right. But other credit cards are made of plastic, which IIRC is around 2 or 3.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Right. But other credit cards are made of plastic, which IIRC is around 2 or 3.
The chip isn't.
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@Rhywden Typically it's inset into the card, rather than bulging out.
e: and if my extensive research is correct, they're gold plated, which is softer than titanium.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
there still was no smoking gun because there is nothing beyond the thermal effects.
I still won't use my microwave with the door open
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Kyocera's rugged phone uses real sapphire btw.
Kyocera also make bitching ceramic knives:
I have a couple and they're awesome
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Right. But other credit cards are made of plastic, which IIRC is around 2 or 3.
So is this one, apparently. Titanium is the name of the color of the card.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@jinpa Two years till I leave. Just two more years.
Most likely about 10 for me.
Despite living in the Bay Area myself, I eagerly look forward to a magnitude 9 rupture on the San Andreas and/or Hayward faults that obliterates the entire region. It's really too bad the joke about California falling into the ocean is geologically inaccurate.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@jinpa Two years till I leave. Just two more years.
Even if you paid out of state tuition rates, wouldn't the lower rent make it cheaper to move now? Or are you living with your parents? I wonder even with in-state tuition, since it's CA, if out of state, wherever you'd like to move to, may be cheaper.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
It's really too bad the joke about California falling into the ocean is geologically inaccurate.
I didn't know that.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@hungrier Did that ever actually happen? Last I heard they were still using Gorilla Glass and thinking about going to corundum.
There was an article a while ago (I don't remember how long ago, but it was discussed here; I participated in the discussion) about the company that was manufacturing synthetic sapphire for Apple, the manufacturing problems they were having, the price pressure Apple was putting on them that was a major cause of the problems, and the contract with Apple that forced them to throw the product away when Apple cancelled the order, because they were forbidden to sell the sapphire to anyone else, even if Apple didn't want to buy it.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Typically it's inset into the card, rather than bulging out.
e: and if my extensive research is correct, they're gold plated, which is softer than titanium.
That's not even the chip. The chip itself is inside the card; what you see is gold-plated copper contacts that are connected to the chip.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
the price pressure Apple was putting on them
Apple does that so they can sell their iPhone cheaper to the poor customers
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
It's really too bad the joke about California falling into the ocean is geologically inaccurate.
I didn't know that.
Yeah. The Pacific plate is sliding northwestward relative to the North American plate. The NA plate is trying to move southwest, but the Pacific plate is in the way, and the compression between them is pushing California's Coastal Ranges upward.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
the price pressure Apple was putting on them
Apple does that so they can sell their iPhone cheaper to the poor customers
The customers are poor after they buy one.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler You're holding it wrong ™
I think the problem is when they stop holding it.
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@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@jinpa Two years till I leave. Just two more years.
Even if you paid out of state tuition rates, wouldn't the lower rent make it cheaper to move now? Or are you living with your parents? I wonder even with in-state tuition, since it's CA, if out of state, wherever you'd like to move to, may be cheaper.
I want to finish school here; costs aren't an issue while I'm doing that.
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@Dragoon but but but ... blockchain
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@topspin if there were animal protection laws for hornets in California then I'd move a couple years early.
They're endangered over here. Maybe it's different there.
Do you mean bees or hornets?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Is this one of those scaredy-cat articles again where someone thinks that RF radiation somehow has the power to become harmful?
Last time I looked, there still was no smoking gun because there is nothing beyond the thermal effects.
Probably.
Furthermore, they didn't specify whether they had any shielding around the test lab to prevent outside RF radiation from spoiling the results. I don't know if that was just shoddy journalism or shoddy testing.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Right. But other credit cards are made of plastic, which IIRC is around 2 or 3.
So is this one, apparently. Titanium is the name of the color of the card.
Is this an Apple fail or an English fail? What kind of language has colors with the same name as materials? On the other hand, what sort of company names something using {color} {material} order when they really mean {material-color} order?