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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
FTF21C
TBF - if the kid is an attack Cessna, celebrating that reveal with crashed airplanes somehow seems on topic.
In Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator, in neutral conditions you could take off the Cessna (iirc - Camel? no, Cessna) with control stick hard in the near left corner and it... wouldn't crash. it would just loop for hours, slowly gaining altitude.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Every time I see something about Yahoo, I am surprised they are still around.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Every time I see something about Yahoo, I am surprised they are still around.
There are people who worked at AOL, even, who now work elsewhere. Even though, arguably, they contain company records.
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@Benjamin-Hall While I think this is the right decision for both copyright law and the industry, it's one of those cases that I really wish both parties could lose.
We already have the I Hate Oracle Club; I think we need one for Google, too.
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This is from Friday, but I didn't hear about it until today.
TL;DR: Tracie and Myles Albert bought a big, $half-million house in California at the end of January of last year, but the sellers, Sam Boktor and Miriam Khalil, refused to move out. Before the legal process of getting them forcibly removed could finish, COVID hit, non-essential government services shut down, and a moratorium on evictions was imposed. Even when courts resumed functioning, they refused to distinguish between tenants being evicted for being behind on their rent (which the moratorium was intended to prevent) and somebody who sold a house, pocketed the money, and refused to vacate. At one point, the Alberts hired a locksmith and tried to break into their own house, but Khalil threatened them with a tire iron, and the police told the owners they had to leave. Eventually, they got enough publicity from the local new media that there was an outpouring of public support for the owners and hostility toward the squatters, and neighbors called them to say that the squatters appeared to be leaving. The owners showed up again with the locksmith, and they found the house messy and some furniture left behind, but vacant and (surprisingly, to me, at least) not trashed.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
Literally the only thing that was wrong with the entire situation was that the pilot fucked up at the last second.
The pilot probably fucked up an hour before departing. I agree with the rest.
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
Do you want to ban stunt planes or what?
The article says they were supposed to tow banner. That does not involve any stunts, and is one of the few ways to build up hours before attempting an airline job since FAA mandated ATPL, with it's 1,500 hour requirement, even for the right seat of multi-crew aircraft (the other is getting that job somewhere in Asia, because the rest of the world only requires 250 hours).
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I wanted to visit https://eevblog.com, the website of Dave the Aussie YouTuber, and was greeted with this:
As of approximately 2021-04-04 21:13:00 UTC there was a major outage at the datacenter in Odgen Utah where the EEVBlog servers are hosted. This outage was caused by a fire as a result of performing regular load testing of the emergency generators.
Seems like they need an emergency plan for their emergency plan's testing plan. But at least they're testing!
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Seems like they need an emergency plan for their emergency plan's testing plan. But at least they're testing!
Something something isn't that what happened in Chernobyl?
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
The article says they were supposed to tow banner. That does not involve any stunts, and is one of the few ways to build up hours before attempting an airline job since FAA mandated ATPL, with it's 1,500 hour requirement, even for the right seat of multi-crew aircraft (the other is getting that job somewhere in Asia, because the rest of the world only requires 250 hours).
TFA said they were in Mexico (Cancun, specifically).
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@boomzilla True. Nevertheless, towing a banner != stunts.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
big, $half-million house in California
Wait. Those 1st 2 phrases can't be correct together. Unless "big" is now defined as less than 1000sqft (and "in California" is "in the slums").
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
big, $half-million house in California
Wait. Those 1st 2 phrases can't be correct together. Unless "big" is now defined as less than 1000sqft (and "in California" is "in the slums").
Might depend where in California. Certainly not Silly Valley, but there's lots of the rest of the state too.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
big, $half-million house in California
Wait. Those 1st 2 phrases can't be correct together. Unless "big" is now defined as less than 1000sqft (and "in California" is "in the slums").
Might depend where in California. Certainly not Silly Valley, but there's lots of the rest of the state too.
LIAR!
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
there's lots of the rest of the state too.
LIAR!
San Diego is nice, at least in winter.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
big, $half-million house in California
Wait. Those 1st 2 phrases can't be correct together. Unless "big" is now defined as less than 1000sqft (and "in California" is "in the slums").
Might depend where in California. Certainly not Silly Valley, but there's lots of the rest of the state too.
Riverside, in the middle of the desert an hour or so (more during commute traffic) east of L.A. I don't know much about the socioeconomic status of the area; I've been through it, but not to it
, except for staying overnight at a hotel there on my way to Texas. But that little bit of the city, at least, definitely counts as a slum. (It was, by far, the worst hotel I've ever stayed at — broken fixtures, black mold, drug deals in the hallways, and the desk clerk didn't know how to process a credit card payment because all their "guests" paid cash bad, but it was late at night, I was getting too sleepy to drive, Motel 6 was either full or didn't answer the phone, and they said their parking lot could accommodate the moving truck I was driving. Set on a hill overlooking the city lights, it had once been a luxury hotel, but that former glory was very faded. Looking at online reviews after the fact, they had suddenly turned from very positive to very negative about 3 or 4 years ago.)Anyway, it's an area where housing prices are still (relatively) reasonable but increasing rapidly, because the low costs are drawing people from more expensive areas.Never mind. I was confusing Riverside and San Bernardino. There's not a lot of difference geographically; I have no idea about socioeconomics.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
big, $half-million house in California
Wait. Those 1st 2 phrases can't be correct together. Unless "big" is now defined as less than 1000sqft (and "in California" is "in the slums").
It's in Riverside which is an exurb of Los Angeles. $500K should be a decent house there. Zillow says the median price is $482K. Looking up "Skyridge Drive in Riverside" as told in TFA...it's up in the hills where the land was probably reasonably cheap. The homes look fairly new and decently large.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
there's lots of the rest of the state too.
LIAR!
San Diego is nice, at least in winter.
It's nice in the Summer, too.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
decently large.
4000 sq. ft. (372 sq. m.) 4 bedrooms. That's more than decently large; the house I'm renting in TX, which I'd call spacious, is half that. My former 3-br house in Silly Valley was less than 1/3 of that.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
The article says they were supposed to tow banner. That does not involve any stunts, and is one of the few ways to build up hours before attempting an airline job since FAA mandated ATPL, with it's 1,500 hour requirement, even for the right seat of multi-crew aircraft (the other is getting that job somewhere in Asia, because the rest of the world only requires 250 hours).
TFA said they were in Mexico (Cancun, specifically).
It does. Unfortunately no ASN record yet so I don't know whether it was local or US aircraft and crew.
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Golden retriever retrieves reporter's microphone:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
there's lots of the rest of the state too.
LIAR!
San Diego is nice, at least in winter.
It's nice in the Summer, too.
I can believe it, but I was there in January (nearly 20 years ago).
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
there's lots of the rest of the state too.
LIAR!
San Diego is nice, at least in winter.
It's nice in the Summer, too.
I can believe it, but I was there in January (nearly 20 years ago).
It's, like, 70 degrees and mostly sunny with a slight breeze in the winter and 80 degrees and mostly sunny with a slight breeze in the summer.
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Global warming thread is
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
was confusing Riverside and San Bernardino
I was almost going to pipe up, but figured the Mandela effect would have just confirmed itself.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Never mind. I was confusing Riverside and San Bernardino. There's not a lot of difference geographically; I have no idea about socioeconomics.
Fairly similar. Though if you're talking counties then Palm Springs is part of Riverside and of course is on the very high end of all that (though more so in the winter than the summer).
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
on the very high end of all that (though more so in the winter than the summer).
Unless you're talking about the temperature, which is very high in the summer. (I almost typed simmer, which is wrong; it's more of a broil.)
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IBM is pretty late for April Fools':
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@topspin Toby Faire, they've probably got a use case (and customers) for that sort of thing. Someone has to keep ancient business systems working, and the hardware doesn't last forever.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@topspin Toby Faire, they've probably got a use case (and customers) for that sort of thing. Someone has to keep ancient business systems working, and the hardware doesn't last forever.
I thought that was usually accomplished by emulating the mainframe on a raspberry pi?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Never mind. I was confusing Riverside and San Bernardino. There's not a lot of difference geographically; I have no idea about socioeconomics.
Fairly similar. Though if you're talking counties then Palm Springs is part of Riverside and of course is on the very high end of all that (though more so in the winter than the summer).
City-wise, they are pretty similar. Neither is much like what people think of when they get starry-eyed about California. :)
Source: I've lived in both the city of Riverside and the city of San Bernardino, but it was quite a while ago.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall While I think this is the right decision for both copyright law and the industry, it's one of those cases that I really wish both parties could lose.
Both parties did lose. Google lost less, but them actually winning would have been a sane ruling that APIs are not copyrightable.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Maybe they'd be in better shape if they stopped giving out 6 packets to people who didn't even want ketchup.
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I skimmed this and agree with the gist of it, but the headline is questionable...
Also +100 wtf points for the matrix code in the picture, because that's very much what coding is like
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"Learn to code!"
Vox: "Okay."
"NO NOT LIKE THAT!"
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@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
The Healing Power of JavaScript
Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm
JS: Hold my beer
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla True. Nevertheless, towing a banner != stunts.
Picking up the banner, is kinda close.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
The Healing Power of JavaScript
Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm
Is @Tsaukpaetra also bound by that?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
The Healing Power of JavaScript
Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm
Is @Tsaukpaetra also bound by that?
Absolutely not.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
The Healing Power of JavaScript
Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm
JS: Hold my beerJS: I took the upgraded oath - the Hypocritic Oath.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@topspin Toby Faire, they've probably got a use case (and customers) for that sort of thing. Someone has to keep ancient business systems working, and the hardware doesn't last forever.
I thought that was usually accomplished by emulating the mainframe on a raspberry pi?
I know a guy who's basically trying to recreate some old computer (a PDP-8 I think?) by using original chips slotted into breadboards and wired together by hand.
I've often thought he's insane.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
The Healing Power of JavaScript
Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm
Is @Tsaukpaetra also bound by that?
I'm not that type of Hippo.
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@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@topspin Toby Faire, they've probably got a use case (and customers) for that sort of thing. Someone has to keep ancient business systems working, and the hardware doesn't last forever.
I thought that was usually accomplished by emulating the mainframe on a raspberry pi?
I know a guy who's basically trying to recreate some old computer (a PDP-8 I think?) by using original chips slotted into breadboards and wired together by hand.
I've often thought he's insane.
PDP-8 was all wire-wrap, anyway.
For those of you who don't know what wire-wrap is, it looks like this:
Each connection looks like this:
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
a sane ruling that APIs are not copyrightable.
IANAL, and much less a US L or an IP one, but I suspect this might in part boil down to what is the minimum amount of work that makes something copyrightable. There indubitably was some work put into creating that API in the first place, and if the creators had written a book describing it (which they certainly have, but that's not really the point here) there would be no doubt that the book itself was copyrightable, as any other book. Things that require much less work than a complete API, such as companies' logos (that a design studio billed you millions to design a new doesn't mean they actually worked to do it ), can be copyrighted. So it doesn't really strike me as illogical to say that the API, as any other work, can be copyrighted (plus, in some (most?) jurisdictions copyright is automatic... but that's also not the point here). But being copyrighted doesn't mean it can't be copied by others, as there are several exceptions (which is what the ruling is about).