In other news today...
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“It’s unfortunate because they’re supposed to looking out for consumers here and instead they signed off on a settlement where the beneficiaries are really the attorneys.”
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Magus said in In other news today...:
The things that would make me happiest at this point are the RLM predictions of horrible time travel or an ewok death cult. But at this point, I kind of don't care what they show me, I'll probably enjoy it.
Still rooting for Darth Binks to be behind everything.
don't care what anyone says...... that is canon as far as i'm concerned.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
“It’s unfortunate because they’re supposed to looking out for consumers here and instead they signed off on a settlement where the beneficiaries are really the attorneys.”
are we surprised?
nah. saw that and immediately went "yeah there's no way that anyone's actually getting that big of a settlement.... 5$ maybe..... but no bigger.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Magus said in In other news today...:
Ford hates star wars and wanted out as soon as possible from what I've heard.
He was also old enough to literally break a limb during filming.
They could have just cast someone else as Solo. But no, that would have been too practical.Fun fact: when he broke something, they called his wife (Callista Flockheart) and told her that there had been an accident on the Millennium Falcon and he had been injured, and they were talking him to the hospital.
Her response: "Millennium Falcon? Is that the name of an airplane or something? He's not travelling today..."
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@Mason_Wheeler Well obviously with a name like that, she's from the Harry Potter universe, not the Star Wars one, so it's no surprise she didn't know about it.
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@remi She's an actress who's done a lot of things, most recently playing Cat Grant on the early seasons of Supergirl. (In which she had an amusing line about refusing to interview Harrison Ford because he's a dirty old man who always makes passes at her.)
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
“It’s unfortunate because they’re supposed to looking out for consumers here and instead they signed off on a settlement where the beneficiaries are really the attorneys.”
I tried to sign up for the Equifax settlement. They emailed/mailed me to tell me I was eligible, but they denied me during the sign-up for a complete BS reason I don't recall. Of course, the online sign up was controlled by Equifax.
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@mott555 Did you go to the official website, equifax-totallyrealsettlement.biz?
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Just saw a star wars comment online saying the real sequel trilogy is the thrawn trilogy...
YEAH SURE, the most horrible thing I've ever read is TOTALLY better. Really want evil blue Sherlock Holmes as the villain, yes please.
The EU fans have been holding that trash up as the image of perfect star wars content for years now. They deserve this movie for sure. Thrawn? Give me a break!
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Boeing builds the best flying machines
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The capsule will stay in orbit for a few days but won’t dock with the International Space Station as planned. It will return to Earth as early as Sunday, landing in the New Mexico dessert, NASA and company officials said.
I could really go for some dessert right now. I volunteer to ride the capsule back down.
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@TimeBandit Exactly. That's why they want to land on the dessert. It's not as prickly.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
New Mexico dessert
One of these is not like the other
One's a hand, the other some sort of rocky outcrop.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
The capsule will stay in orbit for a few days but won’t dock with the International Space Station as planned. It will return to Earth as early as Sunday, landing in the New Mexico dessert, NASA and company officials said.
I could really go for some dessert right now. I volunteer to ride the capsule back down.
I'm going to assume it contains guacamole.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Boeing builds the best flying machines
At a briefing, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said it was too early to know if another test flight would be needed before flying astronauts.
“I’m not ruling it out,” Bridenstine said on whether the next Starliner might carry crew or go empty.Had astronauts been on board, they may have been able to take over, correct the problem, and get the capsule to the space station, he said.
Yes, because Boeing has a sterling record of building machines where pilots can easily take back control and make sure the machine flies in the right direction.
:sarkmark:
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
they signed off on a settlement where the beneficiaries are really the attorneys
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
A mysterious letter could absolve the wife of any wrongdoing in the case.
That's not entirely true. It would absolve her of wrongdoing in the death of her husband. There's still the matter of defrauding the government of an estimated $175k of benefits paid to the dead man. But it's somewhat , since she's dead, too. (TFA doesn't mention whether she has any estate from which the government could try to recover the money.)
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
Okay I watched the star War.
It was dumb. There was a scene at the start that made me face palm and laugh, and the pacing was a bit too fast and things were too convenient. Cgi young Leia still looks dumb. There were cheesy throwback moments.
I liked it. It was a dumb adventure movie, and the dialog was almost too playful at times. I even thought we were getting a very Disney moment toward the end, which did not exactly happen because that's not okay in $current_year. But I liked it. It had fun explosions, was star warsy, space wizard fights, lots of space boats shooting color beams.
I recommend people see it. It isn't a cinematic masterpiece that will go down in history for its thought provoking and deep narrative. If you wanted that, why would you be paying to see star wars anyway?
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@boomzilla that particular old guy wanted the sequel trilogy to be about the spiritual beings who embody the force and communicate only with midichlorions.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
The capsule will stay in orbit for a few days but won’t dock with the International Space Station as planned. It will return to Earth as early as Sunday, landing in the New Mexico dessert, NASA and company officials said.
I could really go for some dessert right now. I volunteer to ride the capsule back down.
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Emergency Cute thread is
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@jinpa that does look a lot better for dessert than guacamole (even though that’s nice). I think I even tried it once.
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@topspin what's not to like about fried dough? It's basically a South / Central American donut.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin what's not to like about fried dough? It's basically a South / Central American donut.
They have rarer savory preparations too, but the classic is honey and chocolate sauce.
I think it's wonderful two civilizations thousands of miles apart independently invented the beignet/sopapilla.
I still wish naan/tortilla/injera was a thing everywhere, but you can't have it all.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin what's not to like about fried dough? It's basically a South / Central American donut.
I... um, didn’t say I don’t like it?! In fact, I wouldn’t mind some right now.
I must’ve severely miscommunicated if you think I did.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin what's not to like about fried dough? It's basically a South / Central American donut.
I... um, didn’t say I don’t like it?! In fact, I wouldn’t mind some right now.
I must’ve severely miscommunicated if you think I did.Yes, I understood that.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin what's not to like about fried dough? It's basically a South / Central American donut.
They have rarer savory preparations too, but the classic is honey and chocolate sauce.
I think it's wonderful two civilizations thousands of miles apart independently invented the beignet/sopapilla.
I still wish naan/tortilla/injera was a thing everywhere, but you can't have it all.
Since I'm in the Bay area, all those things are everywhere! The Bay area may suck for some things (traffic, cost of living, ...) but we definitely nail cuisine!
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@jinpa I wonder how well they'd turn out made from rice or some other gluten-free flour. I might have to do some experiments. For SCIENCE!
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Inb4 they figure out they measured something wrong
From the article:
So, why did this story flare back up again? A new paper, by the same scientists that published the beryllium results. This time, they measured electron-positron emissions from excited helium. Same experiment, different atom, but the same 17MeV boson was found.
The new result is pretty strong evidence. If the experiment has some kind of systematic error in it, then we would expect that the “new” particle would change mass between helium and beryllium. It doesn’t, though; the results are very consistent between experiments. That means that if it is an error, it is an unfortunately flukey one.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
New Mexico dessert
One of these is not like the other
One's a hand, the other some sort of rocky outcrop.
I'm waiting for the outcrop of Rocky Road ice cream.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
That really needs independent reproduction. Yes, the same lab has found what they think to be the same thing in two different ways, but now we need to exclude effects relating to the researchers and the lab itself. The simplest technique is going to be having someone else do the same experiment (following the procedure as documented) and seeing if they get the new particle.
An example of the kind of spoiler for these things that can make a lab matter is if a lab is sited on some sort of bedrock that emits an unusual type of radiation at a low rate. Identifying that there is an issue with such contamination can be really tricky, and there's often an incentive to not look for it as it means uprooting everyone working there to go somewhere else as it is nearly impossible to exclude. I am not saying that this is a problem here but rather that these results are weird and so we must make sure they are not a factor.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
That really needs independent reproduction.
Yeah, fuck all around the world multiple times!
What are we talking about again?
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Hasn't the standard model already been shown to be insufficient to describe physics?
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@djls45 yes, but so far they haven’t really found anything that can’t be explained by it. They want to find something (so they can advance and improve it), but so far nobody could.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Hasn't the standard model already been shown to be insufficient to describe physics?
Sure. It has never included anything like General Relativity (and which is our best current description of large-scale effects and gravitation) so we have always known that the Standard Model is incomplete. Also vice versa. The theoreticians love this as they get to search for ways to join them up, but coming up with some pretty maths to describe something doesn't make it true; we can use math to describe lots of things that don't exist too.
Most person-scale effects (aside from mass and gravity) are described by electric fields; they are why things feel solid and why we get chemistry and so on. Those are largely understood... except for the fact that they're nonlinear and so really hard to understand the consequences of; nonlinearity is astonishingly difficult.
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The US army is now using an highly secure operating system
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@jinpa I wonder how well they'd turn out made from rice or some other gluten-free flour. I might have to do some experiments.
That'd be worth a watch IMO.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@jinpa I wonder how well they'd turn out
That'd be worth a watch IMO.
Like the miners in The Expanse?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
That really needs independent reproduction.
This is especially true given the experimental group's history. From three years ago (the first Be-8 announcment):
The Atomki group has produced three previous papers on their beryllium-8 experiments — conference proceedings in 2008, 2012 and 2015. The first paper claimed evidence of a new boson of mass 12 MeV, and the second described an anomaly corresponding to a 13.45-MeV boson. (The third was a preliminary version of the Physical Review Letters paper.) The first two bumps have disappeared in the latest data, collected with an improved experimental setup. “The new claim now is [a] boson with a mass of 16.7 MeV,” Naviliat-Cuncic [a Michigan State University nuclear physicist] said. “But they don’t say anything about what went wrong in their previous claims and why we should not take those claims seriously.” One naturally wonders, he said, “Is this value that they quote now going to change in the next four years?”
What Naviliat-Cuncic finds most astonishing about [leader of the experimental group] Krasznahorkay’s account of the past decade is his group’s failure to report any of their results that did not indicate new bosons; instead, they seemed to view these experiments as failures. “Is it not a rather flagrant (and naive) admission of a bias?” he said. Thaler explained, “The gold standard in particle physics is blind analysis, where you first decide what you are going to measure, you perform all cross-checks without looking at the final result, and you report the results regardless of the outcome.” Not doing so “sounds like cherry-picking evidence,” he said, which “can be a way to manufacture false positives.”
Most weirdly,
whereas the world’s biggest supercollider was needed to produce the heavy Higgs boson, the hypothetical Hungarian boson is so lightweight, with a mass only 34 times that of the electron, that it could have turned up in experiments decades ago. If it really exists, how did it go unnoticed for so long?
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@MZH said in In other news today...:
“The gold standard in particle physics is blind analysis, where you first decide what you are going to measure, you perform all cross-checks without looking at the final result, and you report the results regardless of the outcome.” Not doing so “sounds like cherry-picking evidence,” he said, which “can be a way to manufacture false positives.”
Does sound like a good way to create green jelly beans.
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@sockpuppet7 So a ridiculous idea yields ridiculous output?
Who would have expected that?
Alternatively I could go and look up mr Babbage's famous quote, but
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Oh shit he's threatening us.