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@jaloopa
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't let you eat that.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Bixby will live on phones and smart fridges
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
This implies that Samsung has made a sensible decision
Interesting definition of sensible...
Seriously, why does a fridge need a voice assistant (beyond the question of why anything needs a voice assistant)?
Relatively sensible, as in they won't make a new useless product but work with their existing products.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
Don't American cars have stop-start?
Like the long skinny pedal vs the wide one?
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
regularly drive half a mile including enough stops to be off a significant amount of the time
That's called US101 on a normal day.
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Stuart wrote in the appeal that the ex-girlfriend, who felt she was cyberbullied, filed a complaint with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, but the case was never prosecuted. She then complained to the university, where she is not a student. Several weeks later, Lutz was called into a meeting with the student conduct and Title IX directors to discuss the tweet.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Stuart wrote in the appeal that the ex-girlfriend, who felt she was cyberbullied, filed a complaint with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, but the case was never prosecuted. She then complained to the university, where she is not a student. Several weeks later, Lutz was called into a meeting with the student conduct and Title IX directors to discuss the tweet.
There is no such thing as a D- (in most american grading systems), just D.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
There is no such thing as a D- (in most american grading systems), just D.
THIS. IS. FLORIDA!
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@karla said in In other news today...:
There is no such thing as a D- (in most american grading systems), just D.
I get the feeling that's part of the joke ;)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
There is no such thing as a D- (in most american grading systems), just D.
THIS. IS. FLORIDA!
That sounded like this in my head:
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@karla said in In other news today...:
That sounded like this in my head:
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@karla said in In other news today...:
There is no such thing as a D- (in most american grading systems), just D.
There was when I was in school, for individual assignments (tests and whatnot), but not on term transcripts. Every letter grade but F allowed for either + or - to help communicate that while the letter grade was what it was, the work showed a propensity to drift to the next nearest grade with just small improvement or degradation. (You couldn't drift below an F, so no F-.)
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
Denise Barnwell, 50, was furious when her daughter Lauren (pictured together) was punished for wearing 'non-regulation footwear' after she injured herself falling down a flight of stairs.
So nice of them to wait until the daughter was put back together before taking the picture....
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
Denise Barnwell, 50, was furious when her daughter Lauren (pictured together) was punished for wearing 'non-regulation footwear' after she injured herself falling down a flight of stairs.
So nice of them to wait until the daughter was put back together before taking the picture....
She probably chipped a fingernail.
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
There is no such thing as a D- (in most american grading systems), just D.
There was when I was in school, for individual assignments (tests and whatnot), but not on term transcripts. Every letter grade but F allowed for either + or - to help communicate that while the letter grade was what it was, the work showed a propensity to drift to the next nearest grade with just small improvement or degradation. (You couldn't drift below an F, so no F-.)
This is close to what I had growing up. Except F was <=64% and D was 65% - 69%. Though I was in one school district that used E instead of F.
EDIT Oh and A+ was 97% - 100%.
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
You couldn't drift below an F, so no F-
You just didn't try hard enough.
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@dreikin said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
You couldn't drift below an F, so no F-
You just didn't try hard enough.
Fs aren't allowed anymore because they might hurt the child's esteem.
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I knew people who would have loved to get an F.
In GCSEs, the national exams that British children take at 16, "passing" grades go from A* to G, and a U is a fail. In practice all most people care about is A* to C, so D to G are kind of semi fails
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I think @Groaner is a journalist at the BBC:
The council has not said how many pennies it will have to spend on the conversion.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
I think @Groaner is a journalist at the BBC:
The council has not said how many pennies it will have to spend on the conversion.
What's the pun?
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The dark web is not a safe place if the police seized admin rights.
https://www.politie.nl/en/news/2017/july/20/underground-hansa-market-taken-over-and-shut-down.html
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Mom reported to CPS for “Oral Neglect”
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
Unless I'm mistaken, when stop-start switches the engine off, it still keeps the oil and water pumps on.
Unlikely. Every engine I have ever seen has their oil and water pumps driven by the engine. I have never seen anything but a racing engine with an electric water pump, and never seen an engine with an electric oil pump.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@timebandit It depends: I know some cars fitted with turbochargers will keep the oil pumps going for as much as 30 seconds after switching off the engine to protect the turbos as they spool down. Also helps cool them a bit, too.
Which ones? I have never seen such a system. I have seen cars that will keep the engine running after being shut down in order to do that. But never seen an electric oil pump on a car, ever.
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The wife of a Virginia cop claims her husband was denied service when he tried to buy a meal while in uniform on the way home after a shift.
Cathy Naff said her husband, Scott, went to the fast-food store on Parham Road in Henrico at the end of a 13-hour shift last Thursday, and what allegedly happened next left her 'completely shocked'.
'He was in uniform and his police vehicle. He paid for his food and drove forward to the next window. The young man who was working that window looked at him and backed away from the window mouthing something to my husband,' Naff wrote on Facebook.
'My husband couldn't hear him since the window was closed. The guy finally walked to the window and slid it open. My husband told him that he couldn't hear him and the guy said "I ain't serving no police" and closed the window.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
But never seen an electric oil pump on a car, ever.
Probably because it's mostly pointless, if cursory internet research is to be believed.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Probably because it's mostly pointless, if cursory internet research is to be believed.
Well, yeah, and mechanical oil pumps are dead reliable. Electric motors are not. I do not know if I have ever heard of one failing. They get replaced on engine rebuilds just because they are cheap, but there is almost nothing to fail.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
In the wake of the alleged incident, the store took action against the staff member who in accused of not serving the office.
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FFS
The fine was dropped, the council saying that they expect their officers to use common sense, but according to her father the kid was really distressed.
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@carrievs And of course, no indication that the shitheads that call themselves 'enforcement officers' have received any penalty whatsoever.
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Which is TR: using the e-mail address on your LinkedIn profile to administrate a Dark Web website, or administrating said website from an unencrypted laptop?
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
Headline:
Cop in uniform denied service at McDonald's in Virginia
in the article:
what allegedly happened next left her 'completely shocked'.
I think they're doing clickbait wrong
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Which is TR: using the e-mail address on your LinkedIn profile to administrate a Dark Web website, or administrating said website from an unencrypted laptop?
They caught the Silk Road guy because of a similar thing. He posted a question about (more-or-less) "how do i run a drug marketplace on TOR?" on StackOverflow with his normal email address.
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'Don't read the comments' strangely doesn't make up the whole of this article.
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@coldandtired Representative sample:
the feature is pretty well hidden - you need to right-click
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Every time you run a YouTube search you can open up the Filter drop-down menu at the top to sift through the many results you're going to get. One of the most useful filters lets you look for videos longer than 20 minutes if you're in the mood for something substantial.
Huh.
I shall try not to forget to remember to use that in future.
@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
'Don't read the comments' strangely doesn't make up the whole of this article.
It doesn't make up any of the article
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Never fuck with weaponized autism:
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Soon after the hunt began, 4chan moderators started temporarily banning people and deleting the threads for doxing, so the investigation was moved to Discord.
Seems like Discord more than 4chan.
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
There is no such thing as a D- (in most american grading systems), just D.
There was when I was in school, for individual assignments (tests and whatnot), but not on term transcripts. Every letter grade but F allowed for either + or - to help communicate that while the letter grade was what it was, the work showed a propensity to drift to the next nearest grade with just small improvement or degradation. (You couldn't drift below an F, so no F-.)
Yeah. All the US systems I'm familiar with have + and - grades for everything but an F. For us, the cut-off for a - grade is x9.5%, so a D- is 59.5% or higher (and a passing grade). I had a senior student who managed to pass a required class with a 59.6%. I was just glad I didn't have to deal with him again =).
Growing up, my high school didn't count A- different from A on the GPA (but, IIRC B+ was different than B and there was no A+). That ended after we had 10% of the class at a 4.0 GPA. I was tied for 31st, since I got one B+ (in Yearbook Basics!). The guy I was tied with had a B+ in Introductory Keyboarding, since he found it hard to improve from his natural typing speed of 60+ WPM. GPA is stupid.
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@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
4chan moderators started temporarily banning people and deleting the threads for doxing
Woah. When did they start shaping up?
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@masonwheeler yeah, since when the hell does 4Chan have rules? These are the same people who nearly ruined a girl's life because she asked for pizza in trade for nudes and she did not produce the nudes.
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@masonwheeler They don't have many rules, but they do have a rule against doxing.
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@magus Yeah, that really surprises me. Isn't doxxing specifically one of the things they're most infamous for?
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@masonwheeler They're also famous for being "The Infamous hacker known as 4chan" and a bunch of other things.