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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Here's a better way to get rid of the notch
And here I was thinking you were going to suggest not installing Minecraft…
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@boner Nice titling of the video of the news report too:
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@boner said in In other news today...:
So the shuttle's programming caused it to stop. And the other guy just kept going. Solution? Teach the AI road rage and make it honk the horn.
One wonders if
GoogleWaymo would have done better...
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@atazhaia said in In other news today...:
@boner Nice titling of the video of the news report too:
news3lv should also hire somebody who knows how to wrote coherent paragraphs. Paragraphs are allowed (and generally expected) to have more than one sentence. Nor are they limited to 140 characters.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Teach the AI road rage and make it honk the horn.
One wonders ifGoogleWaymo would have done better...Given that I have witnessed a Waymo car stopped and waiting patiently for a crow to finish picking at fast-food trash in the middle of the street, I'm guessing road-rage is not part of its programming, either.
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@dkf Which reminds me of Path of Exile, as many things do:
The bow Infractem has a very interesting set of characters making up its name, and contains it's designer's name in its flavor text:
Mark us with mercy, then press on with care,
Execute us steadily, notch away at our despair.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Waymo car stopped and waiting patiently for a crow to finish picking at fast-food trash in the middle of the street
I haven't witnessed this myself. But the things are fricking sticklers to the speed limit like it's an actual limit....
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
But the things are fricking sticklers to the speed limit like it's an actual limit....
Can't wait for them to trial those here, on the highway, in a traffic jam
FileUnder: Minimum speed is 60 km/h, I must obey the rules !!!
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
But the things are fricking sticklers to the speed limit like it's an actual limit....
Can't wait for them to trial those here, on the highway, in a traffic jam
FileUnder: Minimum speed is 60 km/h, I must obey the rules !!!
No, they treat it as an upper limit, not a static requirement.
If you're in a traffic jam, why would it try going 60 km/h?
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
No, they treat it as an upper limit, not a static requirement.
If you're in a traffic jam, why would it try going 60 km/h?You missed the "minimum" part
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
No, they treat it as an upper limit, not a static requirement.
If you're in a traffic jam, why would it try going 60 km/h?You missed the "minimum" part
Huh. Never seen that TBH, I thought you were just being funny.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Huh. Never seen that TBH, I thought you were just being funny.
I've seen them - usually 45mph on US interstate highways.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Huh. Never seen that TBH, I thought you were just being funny.
I've seen them - usually 45mph on US interstate highways.
Sounds interesting. Lets go driving!
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Huh. Never seen that TBH, I thought you were just being funny.
I've seen them - usually 45mph on US interstate highways.
Sounds interesting. Lets go driving!
Can't remember if it's a state thing or federal - under 45 you have to turn on your hazard lights. Assuming you're not in a traffic jam, that is.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Can't remember if it's a state thing or federal - under 45 you have to turn on your hazard lights. Assuming you're not in a traffic jam, that is.
Must be state.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
FileUnder: Minimum speed is 60 km/h, I must obey the rules !!!
The various rules have different priorities. “Don't hit the object in front” is going to b one of the highest priority rules, far more than any minimum speed limit.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Never seen that
I've only ever seen them in a few places, and not round here. (We've definitely got them in law, as I can remember them from when I was getting my driving license long ago, but they're something that seems to be never deployed.)
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@heterodox all traffic laws in the US are State. Now that "you can't drive 55" is repealed.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Huh. Never seen that TBH, I thought you were just being funny.
I've seen them - usually 45mph on US interstate highways.
Back when the speed limit was 55 (and before the interstate system went all the way through), my aunt was driving through the California desert. Being a new driver, she was conscientiously going the speed limit. After several miles, a state trooper pulled her over. "But officer, I was going the speed limit." "Yes, but you don't have a radio to hear the line of truck drivers behind you complaining. Now drive at least 10 mph faster or the highway patrol won't guarantee your safety." (Ok, the exact dialogue is probably not accurate, but the gist is close enough).
If someone drove 45 mph on the interstate around here (barring traffic jams), they'd get strung up from the nearest tree. And the jury would probably not only acquit, but order the deceased's estate to pay the killer a fine.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
If someone drove 45 mph on the interstate around here (barring traffic jams), they'd get strung up from the nearest tree. And the jury would probably not only acquit, but order the deceased's estate to pay the killer a fine.
The other cases I've seen where things going very slowly on highways make sense are ones where you think “well how else are they going to move an object that big around?” They also tend to have a lot of flashing hazard lights deployed.
After all, houses aren't usually designed to pack up on a normal truck easily.
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
Seriously, guys, that's included in every instruction manual from IKEA: Anchor the damn things to the wall.
Be nice if they'd put that in words instead of pictures. Maybe even in English.
I just looked: That information is put on the second to sixth page in plain English, French, German, Turkish, Persian, Russian and pretty much any other language of the countries they sell furniture in.
Do I understand correctly? That not only do you have to assemble the damn things, but you have to anchor them to the wall? Sounds like a royal hassle.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
with chocolate sprinkles?
or as they are know locally: mouse shit
I think I've mentioned this before, but, there are some areas where ice cream sprinkles are called 'jimmies'. The looks one gets for asking for jimmies on their ice cream in places where it means something rather different can be priceless.
Can confirm.
Source: Grew up in upstate NY. Also, pop and hoagie.
You Southerners talk about pop and hoagies. The correct terms are tonic and grinder.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
I have witnessed a Waymo car stopped and waiting patiently for a crow
Speaking of which, when I went out to lunch today, I observed a self-driving car — it wasn't Google/Waymo, but I was too far away to read the name on the car — make a left turn onto a street with two lanes in each direction. It turned into the right-hand lane because, as it turned out, it subsequently made a right turn at the next corner.
It so happened that there was a utility truck at the side of the road with hazard flashers and orange traffic cones. The road was wide enough that the truck was not even slightly blocking traffic, but the car seemed quite puzzled by its presence, and hesitated for a few seconds before proceeding (manual intervention?). Also, the right lane is extra-wide (wide enough for parking next to the curb, but no cars actually parked there), and after it passed the truck, it seemed to have a little trouble figuring out where it was supposed to be in the width of the lane.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@karla How about in line vs. on line?
Shopping cart, carriage, buggy, trolley, or... I think there is at least one more but I can't recall.
Groceries - Shopping cart.
Babies - StrollersAlthough strollers are a more modern invention. The older ones were known as "baby carriages".
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Can't remember if it's a state thing or federal - under 45 you have to turn on your hazard lights. Assuming you're not in a traffic jam, that is.
Must be state
Yes, I think there's fairly few federal traffic laws. Even the old 55 mile an hour maximum limit was not actually a federal law - it was tied into highway funding.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
Even the old 55 mile an hour maximum limit was not actually a federal law - it was tied into highway funding.
For those of you in other countries, too young to remember the nationwide speed limit, or otherwise unaware of the law, what that means is that the Federal government said to the States,
We have no authority whatsoever under the Constitution to regulate motor vehicle traffic; that power belongs solely to you. However, if you want to see a single penny of Federal money for any highway projects in your state, even fixing potholes in the Federally-funded Interstate highways, you will use your exclusive power to regulate traffic the way we want you to regulate it. Or else, kiss millions of dollars goodbye.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
strollers are a more modern invention. The older ones were known as "baby carriages".
When they weren't being called "prams".
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@rhywden said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
@rhywden said in In other news today...:
Seriously, guys, that's included in every instruction manual from IKEA: Anchor the damn things to the wall.
Be nice if they'd put that in words instead of pictures. Maybe even in English.
I just looked: That information is put on the second to sixth page in plain English, French, German, Turkish, Persian, Russian and pretty much any other language of the countries they sell furniture in.
Do I understand correctly? That not only do you have to assemble the damn things, but you have to anchor them to the wall? Sounds like a royal hassle.
If you have toddlers you damn sure anchor everything that even remotely looks like it could topple over.
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@rhywden Funny, we've never anchored our dressers (or any other furniture), and yet all three of our children made it past the climb-on-everything stage...
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@rhywden Funny, we've never anchored our dressers (or any other furniture), and yet all three of our children made it past the climb-on-everything stage...
And? "I didn't wear a seatbelt and survived the trip anyway!"
That's the same sort of logic. It even has a name, by the way: "Survivorship bias".
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Never seen that
I've only ever seen them in a few places, and not round here. (We've definitely got them in law, as I can remember them from when I was getting my driving license long ago, but they're something that seems to be never deployed.)
Normally used for long tunnels in the UK.
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Trigger warning: Autoplaying video.
Netsafe has created an artificially intelligent email bot called Re:scam, which is designed to waste scammers' time with a never-ending series of questions and anecdotes.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
The other cases I've seen where things going very slowly on highways make sense are ones where you think “well how else are they going to move an object that big around?” They also tend to have a lot of flashing hazard lights deployed.
And extra vehicles with flashing lights and banners and stuff.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
Normally used for long tunnels in the UK.
The Mersey Tunnels are to be considered long?
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Rather than comment on this myself, I pass the soapbox off to our resident expert, Mr. R. Monroe:
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Actually, I lied, I will make this comment: anyone surprised to hear that ordinary Twitter users don't understand the risks of indexing on implicit foreign-key relations, raise your hands.
Thank you. You can put your hand down now, Mr. Dorsey.
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@boner What happened to "The customer is always right"?
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@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
@boner What happened to "The customer is always right"?
Somewhere in my mind, this and his username combined into 'the customer is always boned'. Somehow, I suspect that this may be closer to the truth anyway.
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
It even has a name, by the way: "Survivorship bias".
Or it could (also) be called, Ikea made a product that was more prone to tipping than it should've been. I'm also having trouble finding sources lamenting the scourge of dresser tipover deaths and injuries prior to this latest issue with Ikea's...
I could've made a snarkier comment, but this isn't the Garage...
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He lifted up the false leg and warned me he needed to roll down the sock because the tag had to go on the skin.
'I thought he'd realise then but he fitted the tag and asked me how it felt.'
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Isn't the point that she's supposed to be good? The customer has expectations about the quality of service received, not the, um, vendor.
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@rhywden said in In other news today...:
It even has a name, by the way: "Survivorship bias".
Or it could (also) be called, Ikea made a product that was more prone to tipping than it should've been. I'm also having trouble finding sources lamenting the scourge of dresser tipover deaths and injuries prior to this latest issue with Ikea's...
I could've made a snarkier comment, but this isn't the Garage...
The point is that your anecdote does not a reliable piece of advice make. And "scourge"?
Yeah, I guess we Europeans must be more ... "lucky" because we don't have such a scourge. And I kind of doubt that IKEA makes special "made for tipping over" furniture.
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@dragoon Thank you!
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
I kind of doubt that IKEA makes special "made for tipping over" furniture.
Prone to tipping != made to tip. Learn to parse better. :D