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@heterodox It looks like MAVNI is a program for immigrants with certain skills to acquire US citizenship via active military service.
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@djls45 Right, I went back and checked that but figured it didn't substantively affect my post. Yes, that's why they were working in the military. They wanted a faster path to citizenship. That path is not inherently a security violation, for the reasons I explained, but it's also certainly not a guaranteed one.
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
But anyway, I would think the USPS would have a pretty solid case to counter-sue the stock photography site where they bought the photo, since apparently the stock photo site sold them a photo that it didn't actually have the rights to.
What if they didn't buy it but just cropped out the watermark?
You know it makes sense because it explains the extreme close-up.
Nah. Not enough jpeg.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
In other words, the algorithm they've been using to generate the square root of 4 was very slightly out (probably not enough iterations in the newton-raphson convergence sequence).
They were using
exp(½ ln x)
.@dkf said in In other news today...:
They're about one smallest bit of significance in an IEEE double precision float when the MSB is involved in specifying a number on the scale of, say, 2.
It's actually strange, because the binary values for the next double-precision float larger than 2 should be
0 10000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
and the next float less than 2 should be
0 01111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
However, those produce 2.0000000000000004 and 1.9999999999999998 (respectively), and subtracting 2 produces 4.440892098500626e-16 and -2.220446049250313e-16.
So the inaccuracy is in the floating-point register, which has several extra mantisse bits
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@pleegwat Raymond's linked post said it's using an extended precision library.
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@pleegwat said in In other news today...:
So the inaccuracy is in the floating-point register, which has several extra mantisse bits
There's a
long double
type; it's typically 80 bits wide on anything that runs Windows.
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Police have launched an investigation after reports a cow was seen in the back of a car on a motorway.
Motorists were stunned after apparently seeing the large animal in the light blue 04 reg Volkswagen Passat on Friday evening.
INB4 somewhere uncomfortable
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@An_RSPCA_spokeswoman said:
"This is a completely unacceptable way to transport a large, farm animal.
It is still pretty damned impressive though!
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Sippy cups. They are going to do it by making sippy cups for adults.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
Sippy cups. They are going to do it by making sippy cups for adults.
They're going to do it by making a mess. No lid stays on those plastic Starbucks cups that well.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@Starbucks to eliminate plastic straws
Here's a nice replacement
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
INB4 somewhere uncomfortable
Like the back of a Volkswagen?
Funny story (that I may have told before):
When I was in high school one of my friends bought a brand new truck. A Ford F-350 SRW. It was a total lemon. It spent more time at the dealership than it did in his garage. For one of those repair sessions they had to keep it for several days so they gave him a loaner truck. As they did not have any diesel trucks they offered him a Eddie Bauer edition F-150 quad cab.
Now, my friend was the type of person that would actually use his truck. So we did all kinds of shit in that truck that one would normally never do in a loaner. Including transporting calves. In the back seat. We go out to his farm to pick up calves and I make some remark about how the calves might freeze to death (this was the dead of winter) since he could not pull the livestock trailer.
"Put them in the cab. No problem."
"Uhhhh, you sure about that? You're going to ruin this truck if we do that."
"If I had my truck we could pull the livestock trailer. Since we don't we will put them in the back seat which I would also do with my truck."
"Alllllrighty then."Fast forward a few years. Our group of friends had expanded, we had all graduated (well, most of us did anyway, the point is we were not in high school anymore) and somehow that got brought up. I had not realized that one of the newest to the group had worked at that dealership in high school.
"You assholes. I was the one that had to clean that truck. I wondered how the hell it got in that shape. The whole thing smelled like shit. The seats and carpet were all completely caked in mud. I spent hours cleaning that thing."
"Spoiler alert Brian: It was shit."I really wish I could have been there to see the look on their faces when he swapped the loaner for his truck.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
They're going to do it by making a mess. No lid stays on those plastic Starbucks cups that well.
So they get to sell more coffee. Win-win-lose.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@Starbucks to eliminate plastic straws
Here's a nice replacement
Pull 'n' peel Twizzlers would make shit straws. Find a regular package of them.
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@polygeekery We once transported some goats and a llama in the back of a minivan with all the rear seats removed. No mess though because it was a short trip.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
Pull 'n' peel Twizzlers would make shit straws. Find a regular package of them.
@TimeBandit you cockhole, you edited that in before I got to make my snide remark.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery We once transported some goats and a llama in the back of a minivan with all the rear seats removed. No mess though because it was a short trip.
This was the middle of winter and we pulled the calves straight from the muddy field, put them in the back seat and drove them an hour.
It was all kind of funny. They hung their head over the seat to see where we were going.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
They hung their head over the seat to see where we were going.
Calves can be remarkably dog-like. We had one particular calf who pretty much acted just like a dog. Loved people, wanted to be scratched behind the ears, followed you around, etc. Even played with our Labradors. It made our herd very easy to control when she somehow grew up to be the matriarch, because you could lead her wherever and the other 25 cows (even the ones who were afraid of people) would just blindly follow her.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and whenever this cow found a break in the fence she'd get out and come straight to the house's front door so she was easy to find, too.
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Yep, that's a cat alright.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
Sippy cups. They are going to do it by making sippy cups for adults.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
Sippy cups. They are going to do it by making sippy cups for adults.
Big deal. I keep a supply of plastic straws in my car, and mine are bendy straws.
A while back the drive-thru person at Popeye's said I'd have to wait until they cooked some more chicken for my order (actual win, because then I know I don't get chicken that's been sitting under warming lights for three hours). Then she offered me a free drink for while I waited (another win; it was bitchin' hot out that day). And apologized because she was out of straws, having just dropped the last box of them (again, win for me, because I got my own straws!).
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Indian professor wins Padma Shri award for figuring out how to recycle plastic into bitumen for roads. Apparently, the resulting roads are stronger and more resistant to potholes, also. Pretty cool.
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@blakeyrat Only applicable to thermoplastics and elastomeres. Duroplastics will simply burn. But since the former two are the types of plastics most likely to become waste, this is pretty nice.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@tharpa The link to the previous article in the article about the fix explains it:
Try this: Fire up the Windows calculator and ask it to compute √4 − 2. The answer is not zero. It's −1.068281969439142e−19.
Mine said it's -8,1648465955514287168521180122928e-39 (windows 7)
edit: tested it on standard mode and got the -1,068281969439142e-19. I was previously on "scientific" mode
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@Starbucks to eliminate plastic straws
Here's a nice replacement
Pull 'n' peel Twizzlers would make shit straws. Find a regular package of them.
Those aren't Pull 'n' peel Twizzlers.
Regular Twizzlers make shit straws also, btw. They invariably collapse under their own weight inside the package.
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@boomzilla That is quite a picture.
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@boomzilla
What are the chances he was permanently moving to Florida?
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Richards is charged with recklessly endangering safety and marijuana possession.
Jamon Ingelse, with Lanser Garage & Towing, says they've pulled lots of cars out of buildings, but "never any that are completely off the ground."I was really high
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@mott555 Yup. Saving this:
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@mott555 How in the hells did he achieve that angle? I've seen plenty of photos of cars on rooftops or crashed into buildings - but with all of them you could still fathom the trajectory they must have taken...
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
How in the hells did he achieve that angle?
A better look at the surrounding
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@timebandit Yeah, that doesn't clear it up at all.
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@rhywden
Hit the rocks, jumped in the air
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Fish hooks? Really?
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@da-doctah And it's not even Florida.
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@erufael said in In other news today...:
transport a large, farm animal.
Goddamn greengrocers' comma.
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@da-doctah Starbucks sells Guinness now?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The picture is of the statue at the NYNY casino in Las Vegas.
That seems fitting, somehow.
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Much to nobody's surprise:
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The current natural gas network is mostly suitable to carrying hydrogen or biomethanol.
Let's hope that nips the 'mandatory heat pumps and electric cooking for everyone' movement in the bud.
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Every weekday morning, Carles Recio, an archives director in Valencia’s provincial government, would turn up at his office only to clock in and head straight out again, before coming back at 4pm to clock out.
“I do documentation work out of the office, the work of a slave,” he told the Spanish television channel La Sexta.
The Valencian tribunal rejected that explanation, noting that investigations had failed to turn up any record of work he claimed to have done over the decade-long period.
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From the "Bad publicity is still publicity" section:
Marketing decided to name their limited-edition spirits after one of the deadliest known nerve agents and added the slogan "no laughing matter":
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@scarlet_manuka said in In other news today...:
Every weekday morning, Carles Recio, an archives director in Valencia’s provincial government, would turn up at his office only to clock in and head straight out again, before coming back at 4pm to clock out.
“I do documentation work out of the office, the work of a slave,” he told the Spanish television channel La Sexta.
The Valencian tribunal rejected that explanation, noting that investigations had failed to turn up any record of work he claimed to have done over the decade-long period.
El Wally!