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@hardwaregeek sounds like a postal code violation
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We're almost certainly getting continued drought and probably an official heatwave. Weather models hitting extremes of 42°C, which are unheard of even in a prediction model in NL. The highest actual temperature ever measured (since 1901) at an official station is 38.6°C.
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@pleegwat said in In other news today...:
an official heatwave
We had an official heatwave in Montreal 2 weeks ago.
Looks like we're more used to Winter than Summer here
FileUnder: And I moved on July 1st. It was 35° Celcius
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@pjh Wait, 6,000 employees is a startup?
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@pleegwat said in In other news today...:
We're almost certainly getting continued drought and probably an official heatwave. Weather models hitting extremes of 42°C, which are unheard of even in a prediction model in NL. The highest actual temperature ever measured (since 1901) at an official station is 38.6°C.
I just hope that our Deutsche Bahn has finally figured out how to properly do air conditioning. A few years back it turned out that the morons only planned for 35 °C and below which lead to the AC shutting down in some high velocity trains when it was hotter than that outside. Couple that with the fact that you cannot open a window in said trains and you might guess at the resulting problem.
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
I just hope that our Deutsche Bahn has finally figured out how to properly do air conditioning
I'd be shocked if they have. The whole of Germany seems to distrust aircon as somehow unteutonic...
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
@pjh Wait, 6,000 employees is a startup?
They're going vegan - it needs that many to do the same work as 100 before they start fainting of rickets or anemia or somesuch..
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Maybe @Fox was on to something. Very short article mentions the guy having a sign four times
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An MIT postdoctoral staffer was arrested and charged with insider trading
I'd have expected an MIT postdoc to be smarter than that.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
I'd have expected an MIT postdoc to be smarter than that.
I wouldn't. Smarts can be like a laser, illuminating one thing brightly and leaving everything else in the dark.
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What the fuck?
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@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
What the fuck?
From the article:
In a statement released Monday, MGM spokeswoman Debra DeShong appeared to portray the lawsuits as an act of compassion for the victims. “Years of drawn out litigation and hearings are not in the best interest of victims, the community and those still healing,” she said, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
... so let's sue them right away so that the years of litigation will be over that much sooner??
:brain_asplode:
In lighter and, frankly, more comprehensible news:
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In her defense, it seems to have worked.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
In her defense, it seems to have worked.
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@boomzilla She's a few bricks short of a load.
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Finally
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@timebandit Now they only need to port the Win7 UI and disable forced updates and they'll have a good OS.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Finally
Milestone feature highlighted for your pleasure:
The big reveal of the new API is coming soon, and with this, Windows should finally be able to have reliable, effective tabbed consoles, with emoji support, rich Unicode, and all the other things that the Windows console doesn't do... yet.
Well, the former follows from the latter, but I wonder if they'll support the zwj-combination for skin tones too.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@timebandit Now they only need to port the Win7 UI and
disable forced updatesthe Debian package manager and they'll have a good OS.FTFY
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@timebandit Somebody REALLY likes Windows Update
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
Well, the former follows from the latter, but I wonder if they'll support the zwj-combination for skin tones too.
And the
gunwater pistol.
Does the poo emoji come in pink, yet?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Does the poo emoji come in pink, yet?
Don't assume... oh, wrong section.
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
has said 'doggy' style during sex is the major cause of cancer and stroke.
Article:
The most energy consuming and stressful sexual position for men is dogg; hence the connection is more than clear."
Can confirm, maintaining a stance that's neither fully crouched or fully standing is very energy intensive, especially if you're gyrating.
Filed under: I just thought of a new addon for the Shake Weight!
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Apparently not even the first such incident...
Asia Times quotes a spokesman at the Ryugasaki Police Department as saying it was ‘a tragic accident but not the first of its kind’.
See, this is why you keep some fantasies just that: Fantasies.
Enacting them is often not practical for health and safety reasons alone... :(
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Article:
The most energy consuming and stressful sexual position for men is dogg; hence the connection is more than clear."
Really? Cowgirl is hell on the quads.
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Article:
The most energy consuming and stressful sexual position for men is dogg; hence the connection is more than clear."
Really? Cowgirl is hell on the quads.
Maybe.
Someone should do a study!
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blowing air up his anus using an air compressor.
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
See, this is why you keep some fantasies just that: Fantasies.
Sure, whatever floats your boat.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
blowing air up his anus using an air compressor.
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
See, this is why you keep some fantasies just that: Fantasies.
Sure, whatever floats your boat.
My boat floats using many systems, for redundancy. Gotta protect against catastrophic failure of any individual component, right?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Sure, whatever floats your boat.
Not recommended to float your boat by blowing air up its arse.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Can confirm, maintaining a stance that's neither fully crouched or fully standing is very energy intensive, especially if you're gyrating.
Hey, at least you're finally getting some, right? :P :P
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Finally
While there are third-party efforts to do the same on Windows (with programs such as ConEmu), they all tend to be quite limited: they work by creating a Windows console window, hiding it somewhere off-screen, and scraping the characters from that console window.
The 90s called, they want their 1337 haxx0ring tr1x back.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Really? Cowgirl is hell on the quads.
Maybe.
Someone should do a study!
An arduous one, like that minister dude.
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@luhmann said in In other news today...:
One reason it doesn't mention: In an open floor plan, every conversation disturbs everyone. Thus, out of consideration for others, people tend to avoid conversations as much as possible, thus paradoxically resorting to Skype, email, etc..
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@scarlet_manuka said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Sure, whatever floats your boat.
Not recommended to float your boat by blowing air up its arse.
Unless it's an inflatable boat.
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@tharpa said in In other news today...:
Thus, out of consideration for others, people tend to avoid conversations as much as possible, thus paradoxically resorting to Skype, email, etc..
This is not my experience of open plan offices.
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@loopback0 Confirmation bias, source is the asshole who thinks a phone conversation is a great place to show off their public speaking abilities, vocal projection, and clear enunciation to the entire office.
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A plane passenger who flew into a rage after being denied a bacon roll by cabin crew has been fined £230.
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@loopback0 Seems like someone was hangry:
'Not a happy customer'
The argument lasted for "a couple of minutes" when the flight was 25 minutes from landing in Exeter, Devon.
Ms Baker said the row started because Mr James had "promised" his grand-daughter a bacon roll which wasn't available on the flight.
Mr James - representing himself - told the magistrates: "We had no breakfast, my granddaughter had been pushing for something to eat, and I said wait until we are on the plane."
After buying beef burgers that were "dried out", Mr James was given a refund, but said it "wasn't enough".
He said he wanted to speak to the captain to suggest that customers should be warned at check-in that there would be "no hot food".
"I was not a happy customer - I wish I had not been on the plane and I wish it had not run out of food," he added.
You know, instead of having to be told everything you could have asked instead of assuming, right?
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@jbert It seems like a perfectly reasonable reaction to being denied bacon.
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Apple fans are waking up, maybe
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Surprise!
Not.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Surprise!
Not.
So they're actually getting better. Six percent usable is a huge improvement over the ones my company insisted on hiring anyway.
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@da-doctah The non-IT engineering bumps it up.
More than 36,000 engineering students form IT-related branches of over 500 colleges took Automata—a Machine Learning based assessment of software development skills—and more than 60% could not even write code that compiles. Only 1.4 per cent could write functionally correct and efficient code, it said.
Some days I'd say that seems optimistic.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
more than 60% could not even write code that compiles.
My code doesn't compile either
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@timebandit PHP isn't code.
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@gribnit
Code abominations are stillimportant creaturescode too!
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@izzion You can't even crit on most of them. No recognizable physiology.