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@JBert said in In other news today...:
I wonder whether he had French Toast for breakfast this morning, and whether he'll have a Hamburger later on?
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@dcon Dude, don't get me started on "Hamburgers".
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
I wonder whether he had French Toast for breakfast this morning, and whether he'll have a Hamburger later on?
Meanwhile, among my own "local products": Arizona Green Tea is from Brooklyn, and Tombstone Pizza comes from Wisconsin.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
I wonder whether he had French Toast for breakfast this morning, and whether he'll have a Hamburger later on?
Meanwhile, among my own "local products": Arizona Green Tea is from Brooklyn, and Tombstone Pizza comes from Wisconsin.
Hehe, right?
It's almost like names don't mean anything...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
I wonder whether he had French Toast for breakfast this morning, and whether he'll have a Hamburger later on?
I wonder what he'd do about Stilton cheese, which not only isn't made in Stilton but can't be made in Stilton.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
can't be made in Stilton.
To save anybody else from having to look it up, from Wikipedia:
only such cheese produced in the three counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire may be called "Stilton". The cheese takes its name from the village of Stilton, now in Cambridgeshire, where it has long been sold.
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Stilton cheese cannot be produced in Stilton village, which gave the cheese its name,[14] because it is not in any of the three permitted counties, but in the administrative county of Cambridgeshire and the historic county of Huntingdonshire. The Original Cheese Company applied to Defra to amend the Stilton PDO to include the village, but the application was rejected in 2013.[15]Since this is an EU regulation, Stilton may now be able to say .
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Leicestershire
Layshushuh? Layshshushuh?
Can't remember how it's pronounced.
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@Zecc Less-ter-shire
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Okay, I'm not posting this as an attack on Trump - in this particular instance I think other politicians would not have fared better. The Trump administration's part in this saga is only incidental anyway.
Also, long!
With that said, Foxconn: !
Some choice quotes:
“The best is when you’re in the elevator with somebody and then they just scream out of nowhere,” said an employee who experienced this several times. “They’ve had enough, because things don’t make sense here.”
And
With Blaze stalled, employees began convening to discuss literally any other idea to make money. They searched for things in Wisconsin they could export to China: cosmetics, designer handbags, ice cream, carp.
Carp.
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AI 8K+5G
Resolutions for 2022: Relocate to a deserted, far-away island without stupid technology. Anyone who mentions "AI", "Internet of Things", "Blockchain", social networks or advertisement will be shot on sight.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
AI 8K+5G
Resolutions for 2022: Relocate to a deserted, far-away island without stupid technology. Anyone who mentions "AI", "Internet of Things", "Blockchain", social networks or advertisement will be shot on sight.
To be fair AI 8K+5G might just be the name of Elon Musk's next kid.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
AI 8K+5G
AI DLSS-style resolution enhanced 8K game streaming service over 5G? I'm sure that'll rake in the revenue -- after Stadia has been such a success, who wouldn't want to get into that market?
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
I wonder whether he had French Toast for breakfast this morning, and whether he'll have a Hamburger later on?
Meanwhile, among my own "local products": Arizona Green Tea is from Brooklyn, and Tombstone Pizza comes from Wisconsin.
And you can only get an "American" coffee in shops outside the U.S..
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
I wonder whether he had French Toast for breakfast this morning, and whether he'll have a Hamburger later on?
I wonder what he'd do about Stilton cheese, which not only isn't made in Stilton but can't be made in Stilton.
My favorite example of this is the Lincoln County Process, where an aromatic charcoal filter is used to distill "Tennessee" whiskey. ("Straight" whiskey and burbon, by contrast, is filtered in a way that does not change the taste.)
The process is named for Lincoln County, Tennessee. Under Tennessee law, in order for a product to be labeled "Tennessee Whiskey," it needs to be distilled using the Lincoln County Process.
The only distillery that's actually in Lincoln County today does not use the Lincoln County Process. With that one exception, every distillery in the state uses it.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Now, if this succeeded, it would be a very, very, very bad news for Anheuser-Busch! The lawyers of the other other Budweiser (which is actually made in Budweis) would gain some heavy ammunition.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
A Michigan zoo is asking residents to recycle their Christmas trees after the holidays by donating them to be played with and eaten by the facility's goats.
The Zoo in Prague always feeds lot of Christmass trees to all kinds of animals after Christmass, but they get the left-over trees from vendors, not the used ones. The used ones may have a forgotten hook or two on them and while they are made from thin and soft wire, it is still indigestible wire and might injure some animal's digestive tract, so they don't want to risk those.
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@boomzilla This thread is morphing into a Today's Proof That Stupidity Is Infinite…
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Poor guys
Who? Microsoft? Or rather the hackers?
They'll never again take the chance to look at MS code.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla This thread is morphing into a Today's Proof That Stupidity Is Infinite…
That's kind of the original point of this whole site, so...
:mission-accomplished:
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Now, if this succeeded, it would be a very, very, very bad news for Anheuser-Busch! The lawyers of the other other Budweiser (which is actually made in Budweis) would gain some heavy ammunition.
I just love when the the Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in!
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I can relate too well to this. My ex-wife would wake up absolutely certain I had done something she dreamed about. Depending on what it was, it might be fairly easy, or not, to convince her that it was just a dream, but at least she never stabbed me over it.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
at least she never stabbed me over it.
Only because you divorced her too soon
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I can relate too well to this. My ex-wife would wake up absolutely certain I had done something she dreamed about. Depending on what it was, it might be fairly easy, or not, to convince her that it was just a dream, but at least she never stabbed me over it.
I've wondered more than once whether say, cats will dream their roommates did something bad to them and then hold a grudge after they wake up, not realizing the offense never actually happenend.
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Google contractors have long complained about their unequal treatment compared to full-time staff. While they make up the majority of Google’s workforce, they often lack the benefits of salaried employees.
Maybe because you're not actually employees and unless you've negotiated foolishly your pay cheque is bigger.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in Wales...
Somewhat related in Turkey:
Also related, in France this time:
Clearly not news-worthy enough to have an article in English: wild boar caught on the 3rd floor of a residential building (it apparently climbed the stairs). The video is of its release, and the pictures of the capture are not showing a lot.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
it apparently climbed the stairs
I'm impressed that 4 legged animals can go up and down stairs. It occurred to me one of the times I was taking my dog down the stairs. Though with animals that are commonly pets, that was likely part of their breeding.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
I'm impressed that 4 legged animals can go up and down stairs.
Some animals can go down stairs more elegantly than others.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
I'm impressed that 4 legged animals can go up and down stairs. It occurred to me one of the times I was taking my dog down the stairs. Though with animals that are commonly pets, that was likely part of their breeding.
I remember once being impressed as I watched a elephant walking along the narrow berm of its water pool, flinging trunkfuls of hay to either side with each step. The footprints, front and rear, would have formed a single file, and it amazed me that she could walk so gracefully and nonchalantly while being unable to see her own feet.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
at least she never stabbed me over it.
Only because you divorced her too soon
Then she just raked him over.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Maybe because you're not actually employees and unless you've negotiated foolishly your pay cheque is bigger.
I suspect most don't directly contract. So they make (way) less and all the huge profits go to that staffing company that is their actual employer.
edit: Their "negotiations" probably are limited to "Do you want this job or not?"
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I'm impressed that 4 legged animals can go up and down stairs. It occurred to me one of the times I was taking my dog down the stairs. Though with animals that are commonly pets, that was likely part of their breeding.
I remember once being impressed as I watched a elephant walking along the narrow berm of its water pool, flinging trunkfuls of hay to either side with each step. The footprints, front and rear, would have formed a single file, and it amazed me that she could walk so gracefully and nonchalantly while being unable to see her own feet.
It is my understanding (unverified) that in India, the statement "You walk like an elephant" is considered a compliment; it means that you are graceful.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Google contractors have long complained about their unequal treatment compared to full-time staff. While they make up the majority of Google’s workforce, they often lack the benefits of salaried employees.
Maybe because you're not actually employees
This is why many companies make such a clear distinction between employees and contractors — different colored badges, different format usernames, strictly limited length of contract, in some cases contractors (or the consulting/staffing companies) even have to supply their own computers. Years ago, contractors at a large company sued over employee benefits and won, because the court said that legally the were employees — open-ended employment, for years, treated like employees in every way except benefits.
and unless you've negotiated foolishly your pay cheque is bigger.
A little; not necessarily a lot. It depends on the length of the contract. For a long-term contract, > 1 year, there isn't necessarily much difference, if you're working for a consulting/staffing company and getting benefits from them. If you're working independently, directly for the client on a 1099 or as your own business on a B2B contract, and have to pay your own insurance, self-employment taxes, etc., then yes, you should be paid substantially more than an employee.
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Maybe because you're not actually employees and unless you've negotiated foolishly your pay cheque is bigger.
I suspect most don't directly contract. So they make (way) less and all the huge profits go to that staffing company that is their actual employer.
edit: Their "negotiations" probably are limited to "Do you want this job or not?"
BTDT, but it depends on the staffing company (and to some extent on the client). My experience has ranged from "You're selling yourself short. The client has a standard rate for someone with your experience of $x+10," through "$x? Yeah, we should be able to get that, no problem," to "Sorry, we only have a budget of $x-20," and then, after reluctantly agreeing to x-20 because it's better than unemployment, trying to chisel me down a few more dollars. However, I have never been in the position of being offered way less than an employee. Even the job I thought I was getting screwed by the staffing company, I was getting a fairly decent salary for the time (~10 years ago) and region.
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New year, same Linus
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
New year, same Linus
ECC RAM isn't too big a deal for most consumer systems. Most users probably won't see any bit flips in the entire lifetime of their devices. It's a much bigger deal for a big datacenter; they have enough silicon that random bit-flips from radioactivity are a virtual certainty, and you can't fix them in software as the bit-flips are possibly in the bit-flip-detection code.
Note that not all RAM is equally susceptible to the effect. Because nature likes a giggle or something…
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Even the job I thought I was getting screwed by the staffing company
Pretty sure I was. But then I was fresh out of school - first programming job. Became a full time employee after about a year and been that way ever since.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
you can't fix them in software as the bit-flips are possibly in the bit-flip-detection code.
I once interviewed for a job doing just that, except in hardware. FPGA, so the configuration of the bit-flip-detection hardware could potentially be bit-flipped. I didn't get the job, though, so I don't have any details of how they were solving the problem.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I once interviewed for a job doing just that, except in hardware. FPGA, so the configuration of the bit-flip-detection hardware could potentially be bit-flipped. I didn't get the job, though, so I don't have any details of how they were solving the problem.
I had a colleague working on testing systems that needed to be resistant against a whole slew of different errors, random bitflips included. The prototype system based on some vehicle control unit that they had (and could artificially inject various errors into) would however just reset and restart itself if it detected an error. The idea was that starting from scratch would bring it back into a safe state; this was apparently also the behaviour of some of the real-world products of the associated company.
Semi-fake edit: There are probably different strategies. This was specifically for protecting against errors that would occur inside the actual processing unit. From what I remember, the system didn't have large amounts of RAM nor was it a particularly beefy unit in the first place.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
I remember once being impressed as I watched a elephant walking along the narrow berm of its water pool, flinging trunkfuls of hay to either side with each step. The footprints, front and rear, would have formed a single file, and it amazed me that she could walk so gracefully and nonchalantly while being unable to see her own feet.
It is my understanding (unverified) that in India, the statement "You walk like an elephant" is considered a compliment; it means that you are graceful.
Someone should probably let the elephants know how much we admire them for things they probably don't even think about.
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@TimeBandit Well, they effectively have most of it already—I've been only using the in-browser version for a couple of years by now and it does almost everything the ‘thick’ version does.
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@TimeBandit choice quote:
I'm told the app will feature native OS integrations with support for things like offline storage, share targets, notifications, and more. I understand that it's one of Microsoft's goals to make the new Monarch client feel as native to the OS as possible while remaining universal across platforms by basing the app on the Outlook website.
Wow, their goal is for this to have features that are default for native applications.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
FPGA, so the configuration of the bit-flip-detection hardware could potentially be bit-flipped.
Unless you have a very large number of FPGAs, or are putting them into a nuclear reactor or somewhere else really horrible, you won't have much of a problem. My point wasn't that there was a high rate of problems, but rather that with enough area of silicon, you'll see them in production anyway.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
After all, Google cannot continue not updating any of its iOS apps
If only that could be wrong... why should an app be updated every other day? I dream of the day this update-all-the-time brainworm will finally be seen as a brainworm.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
After all, Google cannot continue not updating any of its iOS apps
If only that could be wrong... why should an app be updated every other day?
The article isn't saying it should, just that historically they're updated fairly frequently.
@remi said in In other news today...:
I dream of the day this update-all-the-time brainworm will finally be seen as a brainworm.
Pushing out smaller batches of minor bug fixes more often isn't inherently a bad thing.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Wow, their goal is for this to have features that are default for native applications.
… in one multi-platform application instead of five of them, yes.
Writing multi-platform applications has always been so much pain and extra work until somebody decided to make a portability layer out of the web browser, because those do exist for all platforms already and behave fairly consistently across all.
If we could replace the behemoth that is electron with a wrapper calling into the already installed browser like it is done on mobile, we could even get the overhead down to a passable level.
@remi said in In other news today...:
After all, Google cannot continue not updating any of its iOS apps
To be honest I don't get why many mobile apps, many of the Google ones included, even exist. They are just wrapped version of the web anyway, but there is some kind of brainworm that makes everybody want a “native” (because actually hybrid) app on mobile.
With a notable exception of the app used for paying for parking in Prague. That one is just a ‘progressive’ webapp that the browser creates a shortcut in the applications menu for and that's it. I approve that. I see not needing to go through the shop as easier for everybody and most functionality has a web api already (this app only uses location so you don't have to copy the number from the road sign).
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Pushing out smaller batches of minor bug fixes more often isn't inherently a bad thing.
Moving the cheese every fucking day and breaking things is, though.