In other news today...
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I don't remember which thread we were discussing the 737 MAX crashes in, so I'll just drop this here. Technical (at a very high level) article from someone who is both a software engineer and a pilot who has an MCAS-like flight control system on his own plane, published in the IEEE Spectrum, the journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Some people will get offended by anything:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/europe/billionaires-raced-to-pledge-money-to-rebuild-notre-dame-then-came-the-backlash/2019/04/18/7133f9a2-617c-11e9-bf24-db4b9fb62aa2_story.htmlThe cash flow has also furrowed brows abroad, with critics emphasizing that destroyed landmarks in non-Western locales — like the ancient sites destroyed by the Islamic State in Syria — have hardly inspired such a global groundswell.
Global? It seems to be that it's French and European billionaires throwing some money at it. Should the locals want what the ISIS retards destroyed, turn to local billionaires? There should be at least a few oil billions around that area.
“In just a few hours today, 650 million euros was donated to rebuild Notre Dame,” South Africa-based journalist Simon Allison tweeted. “In six months, just 15 million euros has been pledged to restore Brazil’s National Museum. I think this is what they call white privilege.”
No, this is an example of Europe steamrolling much of the world. While Europe isn't that fucking great, we're pretty damned good at getting shit done when the need arises. I mean, no other geographic area has yet set off a world war! No other geographic area has yet made a majority of the world into colonies.
But in all seriousness, there are Brazilian billionaires as well. If they want more money for the museum, they themselves should pay for it. The rest of the world needn't apply. It's not like the whiteness of the givers makes it easier for them to give hundreds of millions of euros to rebuild a fancy church now is it? Though, that'd be pretty amusing.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
“In just a few hours today, 650 million euros was donated to rebuild Notre Dame,” South Africa-based journalist Simon Allison tweeted. “In six months, just 15 million euros has been pledged to restore Brazil’s National Museum. I think this is what they call white privilege.”
But in all seriousness, there are Brazilian billionaires as well. If they want more money for the museum, they themselves should pay for it. The rest of the world needn't apply. It's not like the whiteness of the givers makes it easier for them to give hundreds of millions of euros to rebuild a fancy church now is it? Though, that'd be pretty amusing.
Not to mention the difference in level of fame of the landmarks mentioned. Brazil has a national museum? You mean, just like every other country in the world? And it's 700 years old?
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
But in all seriousness, there are Brazilian billionaires as well.
I don't think there's quite that many.
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TL;DR: Out of his literal office, not the presidency; the building is being fumigated.
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This seems like a bit of an overreaction to me.
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But it looked even more diabolical for the Brits - just four per cent of its population glugged a whopping 30 per cent of all its alcohol and they easily outpace Aussies and Americans.
"Clearly government has a responsibility to address the problem of cheap alcohol by fixing the way alcohol is taxed, introducing floor prices and halting the proliferation of harm-causing packaged alcohol sales," he said
clearly.
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@hungrier
Must have been a truly terrifying experience for the person sitting inside
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
It is considered a miracle that none have died yet in NL from ATMs being blown up.
There is not even any loot; the explosions tend to destroy the ATM, the money, and the structural integrity of the building the ATM was housed in.
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Mr Zelensky, a political novice, is best known for starring in a satirical television series Servant of the People, in which his character accidentally becomes Ukrainian president.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Mr Zelensky, a political novice, is best known for starring in a satirical television series Servant of the People, in which his character accidentally becomes Ukrainian president.
Life imitates art.
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@boomzilla #simpsonsdidit
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we're getting there... just a few more years, and i will finally be able to claim disability allowance for my allergy to stupidity
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
I read that in another article a few days ago. It suggested somewhere in northern/eastern Europe might have suitable trees, although I don't remember specifically where.
It's interesting that this article indicates they're considering using "new technologies" to rebuild the roof. Since the roof structure is no longer historical, this isn't necessarily a bad idea. As long as the visible interior and exterior maintain the historical character, the hidden structural support can be anything that does the job well.
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@HardwareGeek As long as they don't try to glom a modern architectural tumor onto it:
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I'm wondering how it ever got pre-released in the state that it was to begin with. If it only took tech writers and reviewers less than a day to accidentally break the thing in multiple different ways, how did it get past the entire design process?
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@hungrier I seem to recall just last week or so, some articles in tech news claiming Samsung had tested it to 300,000+ fold/unfold cycles without breaking. Obviously they must have missed something.
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@mott555 "You were doing something other than opening and closing it? "
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@hungrier I seem to recall just last week or so, some articles in tech news claiming Samsung had tested it to 300,000+ fold/unfold cycles without breaking. Obviously they must have missed something.
Quite probably they used a folding robot that did a perfect fold every time, at just the right speed.
Users on the other hand, don't.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@mott555 "You were doing something other than opening and closing it? "
"How do you mean, you broke it by not using it? So you don't carry it with a strap around your neck but in your back pocket?!?"
Place your bets on how long it's going to take them to fire all the non-Koreans working on the project... (Closest by the minute wins)
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I'm wondering how it ever got pre-released in the state that it was to begin with. If it only took tech writers and reviewers less than a day to accidentally break the thing in multiple different ways, how did it get past the entire design process?
At least the Apple crowd is well-prepared:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Place your bets on how long it's going to take them to fire all the non-Koreans working on the project...
Based on the things I've read about Samsung, my guess was that the phones did fail in testing, but the tests were done by non-Koreans, so management disregarded them.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@hungrier I seem to recall just last week or so, some articles in tech news claiming Samsung had tested it to 300,000+ fold/unfold cycles without breaking. Obviously they must have missed something.
Their fold test machine only bent 10degrees? And reported test complete.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla #simpsonsdidit
After Trump, I'm not surprised by anything anymore.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek As long as they don't try to glom a modern architectural tumor onto it:
E_NOT_ENOUGH_BRUTALISM_FOR_CANCER
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Place your bets on how long it's going to take them to fire all the non-Koreans working on the project...
Based on the things I've read about Samsung, my guess was that the phones did fail in testing, but the tests were done by non-Koreans, so management disregarded them.
They folded it ten times, then used Excel's autocomplete feature to extrapolate the remaining 299,990 cells.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
I read that in another article a few days ago. It suggested somewhere in northern/eastern Europe might have suitable trees, although I don't remember specifically where.
It's interesting that this article indicates they're considering using "new technologies" to rebuild the roof. Since the roof structure is no longer historical, this isn't necessarily a bad idea. As long as the visible interior and exterior maintain the historical character, the hidden structural support can be anything that does the job well.
Not quite anything. Dry wood has one of the best strength/weight ratios, only bested by carbon fiber.
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I am shocked — shocked — that they would disrespect the venerable user agent string like that.
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https://config.edge.skype.com
And Skype is related to this how? Did they forget to renew the certificates for microsoft.com?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
And Skype is related to this how?
Edge users can't block skype.com or their browser will not function properly
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Earthworm Jim
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Contra: Hard Corps
Streets of Rage 2
Castlevania: Bloodlines (previously announced)
Comix Zone (previously announced)
Gunstar Heroes (previously announced):kreygasm:
It's amazing how huge is the market for selling the same games over and over again for decades.
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@TimeBandit HTTP/TCP streams being tunnelled through a Skype call as audio like old dial-up connections?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Python's fucking impossible to secure properly because of how everything is linked together in a squirrelly way; this project's just going to be so rife with exploits.
It will run completely within the confines of the js+wasm sandbox. It does not plan to actually integrate any bit of cpython with the browser itself. So it will be impossible to secure against bad libraries, like js itself anyway, but it will not be any less secure than web page code written in anything else.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
This seems like a bit of an overreaction to me.
It's Thailand. Overreacting seems to be their thing.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@hungrier
Must have been a truly terrifying experience for the person sitting inside@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
It is considered a miracle that none have died yet in NL from ATMs being blown up.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
This seems like a bit of an overreaction to me.
It's Thailand. Overreacting seems to be their thing.
I thought ladyboys was their thing.
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Whoops!
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Whoops!
You'd think that coffee from McDonald’s is enough punishment.