A state district judge in Comal County said God told him to intervene in jury deliberations to sway jurors to return a not guilty verdict in the trial of a Buda woman accused of trafficking a teen girl for sex.
Judge Jack Robison apologized to jurors for the interruption, but defended his actions by telling them “when God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it,” according to the Herald-Zeitung in New Braunfels.
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RE: In other news today...
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RE: Random thought of the day
News folks should say 'failed to secure' instead of 'got hacked'. Before:
Foo.com has announced that it was hacked early in 2016, leading to the disclosure of over 20 million email addresses and related account information.
After:
Foo.com has announced that it failed to secure over 20 million email addresses and related account information, leading to their disclosure in early 2016.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Dreikin I tried reporting the bug on meta.d but i cant log in for some reason
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RE: In other news today...
@bb36e said in In other news today...:
“when
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@da-doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That clip art is badly drone.
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RE: Internet of shit
@TimeBandit good setting for a micro horror story:
I left the bathroom, making sure to put the seat down. I have a light outside the room set to light up whenever I leave the seat up, just for fun. A couple of hours after I had gone to bed, I was awoken by the glow of my toilet seat LED. It seems like someone left the seat up after me.
I live alone.
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RE: Nobody running Twitter uses Twitter
@bb36e talk about some complex issue 140 characters at a time is really 2/
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RE: Nobody running Twitter uses Twitter
@bb36e annoying. So maybe there is some value to this change. But it's probably not the most important one they could make. /3
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RE: Exposing Blaggers?
RE: the question.
I wouldn't bother. He'll eventually get what's coming to him and get promoted to middle management.
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RE: YouTube's new logo
@pie_flavor said in YouTube's new logo:
Consistent look means Material Design for me, which is always a bonus
And Material Design for me means indecipherable and hidden UI elements separated by postal codes worth of whitespace and only half a tweet's worth of text visible on screen at a time
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
https://medium.com/@isaaclyman/8-css-gotchas-to-start-your-morning-off-right-c5daade0731d
1 — Vertical centering is hard
Like I said, vertical centering used to be a messed-up gig. You had to relatively position something at 50% the height of its parent element, then give it a top margin of -50% of itself, and there was a special tax form you had to fill out, and sometimes the effect was only temporary and you had to cast it again a few days later.
there’s no hard-and-fast rule about when to use
white-space: nowrap
, but multiple studies have found that it’s far more likely to work during the fifth hour of debugging than the first. And don’t bother trying to outsmart it: CSS can tell when you’re just going through the motions (cycling through properties, trying different values for display and position). The clock doesn’t start until you’re really upset.In the course of your career you may meet people who self-identify as “CSS gurus.”...In all likelihood, they aren’t smiling at you; their face is broken from the strain. Most of them will die of a triple heart attack by the time they’re 40.
Some believe that the maintainers of CSS penciled
z-index
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
I discovered this easter egg today.
Task manager when a regular process is highlighted:
Task manager when explorer.exe is highlighted (I checked this for every other active process on the system):
Good on microsoft for automating common user workflows, I guess.
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RE: Intel Confirms 'CPU Bugs' Episodes 4, 5, 6 (FPU Switching)
Dan Luu called it back in 2015/16:
We've seen at least two serious bugs in Intel CPUs in the last quarter, and it's almost certain there are more bugs lurking. Back when I worked at a company that produced Intel compatible CPUs, we did a fair amount of testing and characterization of Intel CPUs; as someone fresh out of school who'd previously assumed that CPUs basically worked, I was surprised by how many bugs we were able to find. Even though I never worked on the characterization and competitive analysis side of things, I still personally found multiple Intel CPU bugs just in the normal course of doing my job, poking around to verify things that seemed non-obvious to me. Turns out things that seem non-obvious to me are sometimes also non-obvious to Intel engineers. As more services move to the cloud and the impact of system hang and reset vulnerabilities increases, we'll see more black hats investing time in finding CPU bugs. We should expect to see a lot more of these when people realize that it's much easier than it seems to find these bugs. There was a time when a CPU family might only have one bug per year, with serious bugs happening once every few years, or even once a decade, but we've moved past that. In part, that's because "unpredictable system behavior" have moved from being an annoying class of bugs that forces you to restart your computation to an attack vector that lets anyone with an AWS account attack random cloud-hosted services, but it's mostly because CPUs have gotten more complex, making them more difficult to test and audit effectively, while Intel appears to be cutting back on validation effort.
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RE: WTF Bites
An error occurred during extraction. Please enable the listed option and run the extraction again to see the error.
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RE: Adobe Reader is a very polished turd
Especially when it was the Windows 10 new version update that made Edge my default PDF reader without asking.
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RE: WTF Bites
@blakeyrat I emptied my recycle bin to free up space on my computer and lost 3 months of work!!
FUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOUFUCK YOU
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@boomzilla I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.
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RE: WTF Bites
Doing it right: using a forum as a forum
Doing it wrong: using a forum as a bug tracker
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
While driving that same car?
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RE: The dots in Gmail addresses
@deadfast FTA looks like netflix doesn't require email confirmation. perhaps confirmation should be mandatory if you're registering for any site that involves paying for stuff
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RE: WTF Bites
What if I told you there was a blog homepage out there that was ~23M in size and used 25 TCP connections just to load... Take a guess which blog it is...
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RE: Dumb things being crowdfunded.
@Polygeekery inb4 people losing their legs due to exploding batteries
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RE: Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs
quick mockup, i think this is a bit too busy so the contrast could be reduced a bit:
alternatively, in this logo the arrow represents that mozilla will help the user find grumpy cat. additionally the upwards opening text contrasts with the cats frown:
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RE: NPM package that does nothing accidentally removed, breaks shit AGAIN
@Grunnen most libraries and frameworks are pre-alpha, JavaScript actually has issues correctly representing the version numbers because IEEE 754 floats lose precision once the magnitude gets small enough