In other news today...
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I dunno if anyone else finds this interesting, but I do, because seriously, a working (if really, really inefficient and not especially complete) Lisp interpreter in 200 lines of C code? Damn, that's tiny.
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37 years and everything still worked. Amazing bit of engineering, and probably all that will be left of us one day (if it survives the Oort cloud in 50 kiloyears it should then be safe for at least 6 million more).
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
Council suggests buying a loved one a wheelie bin for Christmas
That sounds like a… rubbish present.
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@dkf You might say that they've been criticized for a "rubbish" idea after recommending that locals buy a loved one a £60 wheelie for Christmas.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
council suggests buying loved one wheelie bin christmas
Is that an english thing ?
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
Contrary to popular belief, LISP does not stand for “lots of irritating spurious parenthesis.”
I heard it was "Lost In Superfluous Parenthesis," referring to the state of one who tries to read the code.
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@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
37 years and everything still worked. Amazing bit of engineering, and probably all that will be left of us one day (if it survives the Oort cloud in 50 kiloyears it should then be safe for at least 6 million more).
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@pjh Honestly, I'd rather have that than another pair of socks, or underwear, or a package of handkerchiefs.
Stupid presents.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
37 years and everything still worked. Amazing bit of engineering, and probably all that will be left of us one day (if it survives the Oort cloud in 50 kiloyears it should then be safe for at least 6 million more).
Dammit, sorry about that. I thought I was up to date on the thread but obviously missed that.
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I think the council members need to have their heads examined.
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BREAKING NEWS UPDATE
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Google's newest Doodle celebrates 50 years of kids coding
What I think could be a translation error was responsible for a "muggle" close to me not understanding how loops work.
What I suspect must be "move repetition around the arrow" in the original got translated to "close to" rather than "surrounding".
The game needs some quality-of-life tweaks too.
The block for turning left is to the right of the block for turning right. Intuitive!
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@zecc
Try putting your interface in Australia mode, then the blocks will be inverted
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@izzion Doesn't help
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
Contrary to popular belief, LISP does not stand for “lots of irritating spurious parenthesis.”
I heard it was "Lost In Superfluous Parenthesis," referring to the state of one who tries to read the code.
I always heard it as "Let's Insert Some Parentheses" from those who write the code.
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I didn't see this anywhere, which surprises me. Apologies if it is a double post:
Praljak drank what he said was poison just seconds after hearing he had lost his appeal against a 20-year-prison sentence.
"I, Slobodan Praljak, reject the verdict. I'm not a war criminal."
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@polygeekery I considered posting it, but finding an English-language article sounded like work. That article is pretty in-line with what Dutch national media have written.
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tl;dr; That stretch has always been HOV-2 (unless you were coming from Dulles airport) but now there's an option to take it without a passenger for a toll. The toll operator has an obligation to keep speeds no lower than 45mph, which I've taken that road at rush hour and I've never seen speeds that high.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
I didn't see this anywhere, which surprises me.
I did see that, but I don't remember if it was posted here or just linked from some other article that was posted here.
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@pleegwat said in In other news today...:
I considered ..., but ... sounded like work.
Our next moderator?
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
I didn't see this anywhere, which surprises me.
@boner posted about a week ago in this same thread:
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Since Google is not doing the best of job on some words, here's the slightly corrected version of the relevant bits (I don't feel like fixing all the gramming as well):
The Tax administration has punished a craftswoman for a banal typo. Index.hr published a news bulletin about a 10,000 HRK fine, because the aforementioned craftswoman wrote a capital letter "P" instead of a lowercase letter "p".
Seriously.
Tax penalizes a craftswoman with 10,000 kuna because she wrote "P" instead of "p"
Let's repeat, the Tax administration, due of the capital letter on the receipt, and a lower case letter in the database, just because of that, for no other reason, he concluded that the store was not reported and decided to fine the woman for the sum of 10 thousand kuna.
"She's guilty"
In the misdemeanor warrant, just below the name and the surname of the "defendant", in the bold letters stands a dramatic subtitle "guilty".
Unproductive parasites
Just a second.
The "Administration" in "Tax administration" is not written with the capital "a". Tax administration is not written as a "Tax Administration", as stated in the misdemeanor warrant of the "defendant".
Not that while Google claims it's "Tax Administration" in English, the article correctly states that this in not the case in Croatian.
There's ry, and there's... this
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@onyx Is it final or did she appeal?
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@bulb I imagine she did, but there are no developments on that yet.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
From the comments:
So maybe it really is true, no-one reads newspapers anymore. Including those who print them.
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“All toilets were full and passengers needed to ‘go really bad,’” read a report from Delta.
The plane was flying near the Canadian borderMaybe it was just frozen
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The Boeing 757 made a stop in in Billings, Montana, on Saturday after the toilets became full and the passengers could not hold it all the way to the West Coast
Was the plane coming back from a laxative convention or what?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Was the plane coming back from a laxative convention or what?
I once had a flight delayed because one of the three bathrooms wasn't working correctly. There was a long debate with the flight crew over whether they could take off with two functional bathrooms or not. At the time I thought "jesus, we're being delayed by THIS crap? Just rope it off with some electrical tape and let's go."
Anyway, now I'm reevaluating that reaction.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Was the plane coming back from a laxative convention or what?
Maybe showed the emoji movie during the flight and everybody threw up
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(Warning: possibly NSFW images at the link)
These Bikini Baristas Can Keep Their Clothes Off While Serving Coffee, Says a Federal Judge
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@boomzilla So glad this place is not in Montreal. This would not help my coffee addiction at all
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Was the plane coming back from a laxative convention or what?
I once had a flight delayed because one of the three bathrooms wasn't working correctly. There was a long debate with the flight crew over whether they could take off with two functional bathrooms or not. At the time I thought "jesus, we're being delayed by THIS crap? Just rope it off with some electrical tape and let's go."
Anyway, now I'm reevaluating that reaction.
...wait a minute, you mean the separate lavs don't all go to the same place?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
...wait a minute, you mean the separate lavs don't all go to the same place?
I have no idea? Probably? What's your point.
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Today in Unintended Consequences:
LED lights are too efficient; they don't waste enough heat to melt the ice and snow that obscures them like the older bulbs did.
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@blakeyrat If all the waste goes into one big tank, then having one lav shut down for mechanical issues wouldn't cause the other lavs to fill up quicker. If each lav has its own tank for waste, then it would.
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@anotherusername Ok.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Was the plane coming back from a laxative convention or what?
I once had a flight delayed because one of the three bathrooms wasn't working correctly. There was a long debate with the flight crew over whether they could take off with two functional bathrooms or not. At the time I thought "jesus, we're being delayed by THIS crap? Just rope it off with some electrical tape and let's go."
Anyway, now I'm reevaluating that reaction.
...wait a minute, you mean the separate lavs don't all go to the same place?
I'd expect front and back to go to different places, but those next to each other or even across just an aisle to have
separateshared tanks.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
LED lights are too efficient; they don't waste enough heat to melt the ice and snow that obscures them like the older bulbs did.
If only they had Solar Freakin' Traffic Lights.