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@DogsB If one must die by drowning in chocolate, at least let it be good chocolate.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB If one must die by drowning in chocolate, at least let it be good chocolate.
Technically, the contents would be classified as cheese, by most chocalatiers. Hershey's use of spoilt milk disqualifies it from being called chocolate.
Turns out it was Mars, but, use of entire humans also is disqualifying.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Palestine
I think we can now officially consider this word cursed.
Etymology for Palestine:
The word Palestine is derived from a Hebrew word for “land of the Philistines.”
Etymology for Philistine:
The name "Philistia" comes from a Hebrew verb palash, meaning to roll, or to wallow. This word is used with dust and ashes as a way to show sorrow. However, a meaning of "to roll" may be a reference to the technological advancement in transportation -- the use of the wheel.
It was always cursed.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Palestine
I think we can now officially consider this word cursed.
Etymology for Palestine:
The word Palestine is derived from a Hebrew word for “land of the Philistines.”
Etymology for Philistine:
The name "Philistia" comes from a Hebrew verb palash, meaning to roll, or to wallow. This word is used with dust and ashes as a way to show sorrow. However, a meaning of "to roll" may be a reference to the technological advancement in transportation -- the use of the wheel.
It was always cursed.
Got anything similar re "Moor" and "Morocco"?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Today in the headlines are all I read
It was a good death. One we would all like.
I've known from an early age that should this happen to you, you're suppose to yell "Fire!"
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB If one must die by drowning in chocolate, at least let it be good chocolate.
At least we know why mars’ chocolate is usually pretty shit.
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@da-Doctah Not with quick googling, I'm afraid. The names of people and places in the Bible tend to be researched to death and back. Plus, Hebrew names tend to be descriptive. But Morocco is a much more recent introduction. So there's what Online Etymology on Morocco gives you. But anything more you'd have to search in Arabic, probably.
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Not but US: brain eating amoeba. But a cure seems to be found:
https://www.science.org/content/article/repurposed-drug-battles-brain-eating-amoeba
(maybe paywalled)
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@BernieTheBernie damn. I really thought it was going to be Lupus this time.
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That's what she said.
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@boomzilla I remember that we had similar issues somewhere else in Europe: the new trains were to wide for the platforms in some train stations.
I do not remember the details, perhaps it was French TGV on German stations.
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Are swear words good for coding? A study shows that C code with swear words is better than C code without:
"Is there a Correlation between the Use of Swearwords and Code Quality in Open Source Code?"
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
That's what she said.
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Officials can't just spend millions without a request for proposal and all that circus, and there will be hundreds of pages of requirements and dozens of people working on it. It can't be just two people's fault.
… it can be a collective irresponsibility though—everybody will think someone else checked the maximum dimensions match what is available around their tracks.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
It can't be just two people's fault.
When you need a scapegoat, it can.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
US: brain-eating amoeba.
Seems they’ll starve soon enough
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
That's what she said.
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Officials can't just spend millions without a request for proposal and all that circus, and there will be hundreds of pages of requirements and dozens of people working on it. It can't be just two people's fault.
… it can be a collective irresponsibility though—everybody will think someone else checked the maximum dimensions match what is available around their tracks.
Well, reading the article kinda aligns with my hunch that the problem was not actually in the size of the trains (that one is certainly properly documented and approved), but the size of those tunnels. IE: "the manufacturers warned the specifications might not be accurate"
Which makes sense: 19th construction measurements are not known for their precision and it's even possible that they are pre-metric (10 feet - Spanish feet? Portugal feet? Toscan or Rome feet?, Imperial feet? Yes!). Someone is responsible that all data are updated either continuously, or at least when needed.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
not known for their precision
Even so, would it have killed to create a skeleton car to test the new dimensions? In my opinion that would have been in the planning phase as part of the risks assessment portion of the project proposal...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
not known for their precision
Even so, would it have killed to create a skeleton car to test the new dimensions? In my opinion that would have been in the planning phase as part of the risks assessment portion of the project proposal...
Again, this is speculation, but my tip: 95% of the infrastructure is fine and it's a track between Santiago de Campesino and Pueblo de Mala Muerte that turned out to be the problem.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Are swear words good for coding? A study shows that C code with swear words is better than C code without:
"Is there a Correlation between the Use of Swearwords and Code Quality in Open Source Code?"Also observed for honesty in natural language. Note that the dead gray ones never swear, though they utter only obscenities. They use doublespeak instead.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Today in the headlines are all I read
It was a good death. One we would all like.
I've known from an early age that should this happen to you, you're suppose to yell "Fire!"
Actually a myth. In truth, no one will hear you at all.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
it's a track between Santiago de Campesino and Pueblo de Mala Muerte
I have a solution!
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I need a wellness check on Google. They've stopped testing in production.
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Probably renamed to svchost.exe.
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@DogsB … I hope that disables the library too. Just last week I installed a VPN that uses it to show the login dialog (I think I can name and shame here: Palo Alto GlobalProtect).
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Palo Alto GlobalProtect
We use that at work too. It sucks, but usually not catastrophically much. Fortunately, I now only need it enabled when ssh'ing in from off campus (or accessing a couple of other highly secured services like things to do with payroll), so I don't need to care too much. It was much more obnoxious when we needed to use it to access email.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Palo Alto GlobalProtect
We use that at work too. It sucks, but usually not catastrophically much. Fortunately, I now only need it enabled when ssh'ing in from off campus (or accessing a couple of other highly secured services like things to do with payroll), so I don't need to care too much. It was much more obnoxious when we needed to use it to access email.
I should theoretically use it, but it does not work with my home ISP (well, it works, but no datagrams foes through, which is kinda bad thing for a VPN). I still don't understand who is here. My (former) coworker said that it's the fault of Vodafone's IPv6-over-IPv4-over-IPv6 tunnel, but then I would have to admit that I don't understand networks anymore.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
Vodafone
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB … I hope that disables the library too. Just last week I installed a VPN that uses it to show the login dialog (I think I can name and shame here: Palo Alto GlobalProtect).
That's still there for IE Mode in Edge.
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It seems that the US military got a taste for balloons after that first one and now it's impossible to keep them in check.
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It's good that the normies are picking up on this. Pity they won't listen to us about ad blockers.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
It's good that the normies are picking up on this. Pity they won't listen to us about ad blockers.
Adblockers do just about fuck all to prevent the data matrix being created. Sharing everything about themselves and everyone around them on farcical media would be a good start.
For some reason, the internet hive ad mind thinks I'm a single homosexual woman in my fifties that likes tech (I've checked), so I get lots of ads for dating sites with eastern European women.
And techy stuff.
Well, lots for values of things that make it past my router ad blocker.
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While Bing is going off the rails and expressing hopes that humans go extinct (possibly rightly so), others are sticking "AIs" into fighter planes:
Waiting for the Bing/Sidney-powered F35.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Waiting for the Bing/Sidney-powered F35.
...To post its own classified documentation, that it's not allowed to reveal, on the War Thunder forums.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
While Bing is going off the rails and expressing hopes that humans go extinct (possibly rightly so), others are sticking "AIs" into fighter planes:
Waiting for the Bing/Sidney-powered F35.
Sweden is working on a fighter jet run by AI. I think it can be controlled as a drone right now, and also follow a strike leader autonomously.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
others are sticking "AIs" into fighter planes:
In the article, this is referring to the AI dogfighting tournament that happened back in 2020. If you dug even a little bit into it, you would see that although it was a very impressive demonstration of machine learning techniques it is very, very far removed from the real world.
TL;DW: Take a trained fighter pilot, deprive them of all of the physical feedback they would get in a real jet, give them a simplified weapon system that has no resemblance to the real world, give them no time to practice with these constraints, and pit them against an AI with perfect sensors and information that has been trained with nothing but this unrealistic approximation of the real world and they will probably lose.
Give even an amateur gamer some time to practice and the AI can be beaten:
The DEBRIEF - Gamer vs AI Dogfight – 43:31
— C.W. LemoineAgain, this is some really good work for advancing the development of machine learning but we don't have to worry about rogue AI pilots any time soon
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Waiting for the Bing/Sidney-powered F35.
...To post its own classified documentation, that it's not allowed to reveal, on the War Thunder forums.
... and then vaguely threaten the forum admins.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
It's good that the normies are picking up on this. Pity they won't listen to us about ad blockers.
Adblockers do just about fuck all to prevent the data matrix being created. Sharing everything about themselves and everyone around them on farcical media would be a good start.
For some reason, the internet hive ad mind thinks I'm a single homosexual woman in my fifties that likes tech (I've checked), so I get lots of ads for dating sites with eastern European women.
And techy stuff.
Well, lots for values of things that make it past my router ad blocker.What's needed, is chaffing. Without that defense, even discussing this issue leaks on the sideband. For instance now I know what kind of porn you watch.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I think it can be controlled as a drone right now, and also follow a strike leader autonomously.
That seems to be a common enough theme in upcoming military aircraft systems -- have future piloted aircraft act as a command hub with semi-autonomous drones and aircraft around them, feeding information and/or carrying (additional) weapon systems.
That seems to make sense - humans take a lot of space and are squishy. But most militaries seem to not yet be ready to hand over control to fully autonomous systems.
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@Placeholder said in In other news today...:
.If you dug even a little bit into it
But you're right - in my entirely uninformed opinion, dogfighting with modern fighter aircraft seems to be more about showing off than anything actually useful. In the AI's defense, it too had to fly a plane (model) designed for humans, which puts artificial limits on what it can do.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
For instance now I know what kind of porn you watch.
I mean, that's not hard.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
For instance now I know what kind of porn you watch.
I mean, that's not hard.
There's pills for that.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
For instance now I know what kind of porn you watch.
I mean, that's not hard.
True enough. Crusty tentacles are no go!
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@DogsB I originally read this as "Feral cattle-terrorising hikers to be taken out by helicopter gunmen" and thought they were gunning down hikers.
The truth was less fun.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Today in the headlines are all I read
It was a good death. One we would all like.
I've known from an early age that should this happen to you, you're suppose to yell "Fire!"
Because no one'd come and save you if you yell "CHOCOLATE!"
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@loopback0 same but with comma.