In other news today...
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra The chiken can be desert after I eat my cow.
We can do better than that, surf 'n' turf and dry-rubbed chicken.
Add mashed potato and that might be the perfect meal
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http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/Welcome.html#LHCCCKM
Seems like the Lhc has found something. I don't really understand what the post says, so maybe one of our physicists can summerise?
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@Cursorkeys I understand most of the words. But not quite the sentences. My best guess is they found some new baryons that hadn't been observed before. Baryons are particles composed of a trio of quarks, for example protons and neutrons are stable baryons. But there are six kinds of quark, only two of which are stable in normal conditions, so there are a lot of very unstable combinations that only show up briefly in high-energy environments.
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@ben_lubar I don't know what you're talking about. whistles innocently
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
desert
that's not a meal, that's a biome
I just fixed that very same typo in my latest post, which is ironical because I noticed it on @mott555's post.
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@LB_ said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
But what about the antibiotics resistance crisis? Shouldn't we still be removing appendixes so as to avoid using antibiotics?
As long as we continue literally feeding chicken and other livestock with antibiotics, actually treating human sicknesses is the least of our problems. Well, while it still works.
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Administration stops claiming climate change is a hoax entirely made up by the Chinese, goes full throttle the other direction into "there's nothing we can do, we're doomed anyway, no need to reduce emissions. "
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Administration stops claiming climate change is a hoax entirely made up by the Chinese, goes full throttle the other direction into "there's nothing we can do, we're doomed anyway, no need to reduce emissions. "
Who wrote this document?
The document projects that global temperature will rise by nearly 3.5 degrees Celsius above the average temperature between 1986 and 2005 regardless of whether Obama-era tailpipe standards take effect or are frozen for six years, as the Trump administration has proposed. The global average temperature rose more than 0.5 degrees Celsius between 1880, the start of industrialization, and 1986, so the analysis assumes a roughly 4 degree Celsius or 7 degree Fahrenheit increase from preindustrial levels.
Hmm...looks like they used this:
http://www.globalchange.umd.edu/gcamrcp/
So, they said, "OK, let's assume one of the craziest scenarios out there is actually true. What then?" And it turns out the fuel standards stuff has almost no effect.
Checkmate atheists!
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@mott555 @Cursorkeys Specifically they found excited bottomed sigma baryons of a unique stable mass, and they think that'll give more details on the strong force, which among other things holds quarks together in regular nucleonic baryons. It's rather charming.
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
US Congress has been banned from Wikipedia:
I was trawling twitter and I dredged this up:
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
strong force,
Luke?
You see, when a mommy quark and a daddy quark and an it quark love each other very much, they squirt very powerful and very sticky streams of colorized gluons at each other...
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
It's rather charming.
Sounds awfully strange to me.
I'm down with that.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
It's rather charming.
Sounds awfully strange to me.
I'm down with that.
But are you up for it?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
It's rather charming.
Sounds awfully strange to me.
I'm down with that.
But are you up for it?
I'm all about it.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
It's rather charming.
Sounds awfully strange to me.
I'm down with that.
But are you up for it?
Certainly, because I'm at the top of my game and will get to the bottom of this!
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
It's rather charming.
Sounds awfully strange to me.
I'm down with that.
But are you up for it?
Certainly, because I'm at the top of my game and will get to the bottom of this!
Sure puts a different spin on things, so strange...
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Terrible puns. Making me lepton my death.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
Terrible puns. Making me lepton my death.
We’ll get your baryon, provided you’ve set your obituary.
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[...] there are low-energy neutrinos that can pierce through miles upon miles of rock unaffected. But high-energy neutrinos, as well as other high-energy particles, have "large cross-sections." That means that they'll almost always crash into something soon after zipping into the Earth and never make it out the other side. And yet...
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Great to see the Tory party so on the ball with accessible user experiences. Login by email address only, no password required
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@japonicus I really hate when stuff like that's described as a "security breach". Like what security was breached? There was no security.
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@blakeyrat Like how it's not breaking and entering if the front door was left ajar.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat Like how it's not breaking and entering if the front door was left ajar.
Not quite. If you leave your front door open it's more like accidentally posting your own password to a forum. There is security but you made it useless.
This is a case of: "Let's build a house without any locks!"
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@Rhywden I was going to write 'left unlocked' but typical front doors are always locked if they are closed.
Dutch terminology is slightly different but it really is not breaking and entering if they didn't break anything while entering.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Dutch terminology is slightly different but it really is not breaking and entering if they didn't break anything while entering.
Yes, someone kicked in my front door - the police were a bit pissed-off that there was no evidence of entry (no theft etc.) - it made the crime merely 'criminal damage' and not worth pursuing (though they still farcically dusted the door for foot-prints ).
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@loopback0 I do hope the barman asked "Is this a joke?"
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat Like how it's not breaking and entering if the front door was left ajar.
It can still be charged as burglary and trespass.
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@japonicus said in In other news today...:
Great to see the Tory party so on the ball with accessible user experiences. Login by email address only, no password required
So you can see other people's details including phone number.
The bad news is that calling one of those numbers will have you talking to Boris Johnson.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@japonicus I really hate when stuff like that's described as a "security breach". Like what security was breached? There was no security.
The security breach was the decision to put information that should've been kept secure into the hands of people so utterly incompetent.
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Today, we're re-open-sourcing MS-DOS on GitHub. Why? Because it's much easier to find, read, and refer to MS-DOS source files if they're in a GitHub repo than in the original downloadable compressed archive file.
The source will be kept static, so please don’t send Pull Requests suggesting any modifications to the source files! 😉
Well that's disappointing. I was looking forward to writing 8086 assembly code.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Well that's disappointing. I was looking forward to writing 8086 assembly code.
I was wondering about adding 64 bit com support, but then I smacked myself for retard.
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Winter click-bait season, in the northern hemisphere, is upon us already...
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Winter click-bait season, in the northern hemisphere, is upon us already...
Somebody really needs to put a stop to Gwyneth Paltrow....
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Somebody really needs to put a stop to Gwyneth Paltrow....
Strangely, one such somebody is where I got those from:
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
make the connection between the dead cow being sold at the butcher's shop and the sentient, living being he or she once was.
It was a cow (or more likely a steer); it was never sentient. Alive, yes. Intelligent, somewhat. Sentient, no.
Sentience is the ability to perceive or feel things, while sapience is usually used to refer to the capacity for conscious thought.
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
desert
that's not a meal, that's a biome
Or a much less common form of the noun (gerund) "deserving."
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@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
@mott555 @Cursorkeys Specifically they found excited bottomed sigma baryons
I think they said something about SM bottoms.
of a unique stable mass,
A black mass presumably, full of dark matter and all?
Sounds Houellebecqish to me.
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@LaoC For some reason all of your post reminds me of your avatar.
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HP is trolling Vegans, I guess
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@TimeBandit Pro: finally hinges that won't break in a year
Con: doesn't dissipate heat very wellAs a brutalism enthusiast, I'm hoping they'll release a laptop made of concrete next.