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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I bet most people won't look at the screens and just open the doors instead. This is the most brainless idea I've seen in a while.
You have to open the doors to see what's really behind them. Not only do they give no indication of whether the item pictured is actually in stock, they show a single picture for each brand of ice cream so you need to open the door to shop for flavors.
So, yeah, the screens are worthless.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I bet most people won't look at the screens and just open the doors instead. This is the most brainless idea I've seen in a while.
You have to open the doors to see what's really behind them. Not only do they give no indication of whether the item pictured is actually in stock, they show a single picture for each brand of ice cream so you need to open the door to shop for flavors.
So, yeah, the screens are worthless.
That sounds like it's worse than worthless, it sounds like a net cost.
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@DogsB Maybe he's trying to level-up for the big boss.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
That sounds like it's worse than worthless, it sounds like a net cost.
In terms of customer experience? Yes
In terms of complexity, energy usage, cost of implementation? Also yes
But on the other hand, they can now blast you with video ads
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https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/6-in-10-across-uk-would-support-right-to-disconnect-law
New research by Ipsos shows a majority of UK adults aged 16-75 are in favour of introducing a law giving employees the right to ignore work-related communications, such as emails, texts and instant messages, outside of their official working/on-call hours. Sixty per cent would support the Government introducing such a law, including 34% who would strongly support it. Only around 1 in 10 (11%) would be against it.
I don't understand this, every job I have worked I have been pretty up front about my unwillingness to work after hours. It has never been an issue.
Reasonable requests for after hours work will be considered and usually accepted, but you start abusing that and it goes to 100% piss off real quick.
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Ever Green, Ever Given, Ever Forward, Ever WTF;
You remember the ship blocking the Suez canal?
Well, another one of the same group got stuck next to Baltimore:
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/6-in-10-across-uk-would-support-right-to-disconnect-law
New research by Ipsos shows a majority of UK adults aged 16-75 are in favour of introducing a law giving employees the right to ignore work-related communications, such as emails, texts and instant messages, outside of their official working/on-call hours. Sixty per cent would support the Government introducing such a law, including 34% who would strongly support it. Only around 1 in 10 (11%) would be against it.
I don't understand this, every job I have worked I have been pretty up front about my unwillingness to work after hours. It has never been an issue.
Reasonable requests for after hours work will be considered and usually accepted, but you start abusing that and it goes to 100% piss off real quick.
Yeah. To be honest--the only job I've had where after hours work was expected and abused (although not for me, but for others with less scrupulous bosses, but fully normalized) was grad school. One particular friend over in Microbio had an advisor who was gunning for tenure. She did 10-12 hour days not counting classwork in the lab 5x/week, with half-days on Saturday and he still badmouthed her to other faculty saying she was lazy because she refused to come in on Sunday and do 5+ hours. All while getting paid based on the fiction that she was working 0.33 FTE (19 hours/week). And she was still supposed to find other time to work on her actual dissertation research--that was just his projects. Spoiler--she quit.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Ever Green, Ever Given, Ever Forward, Ever WTF;
You remember the ship blocking the Suez canal?
Well, another one of the same group got stuck next to Baltimore:
Graniaud article for non-German speaking members:
Maybe this article should have gone in the "Driving Anti-Patterns" thread for this:
The ship needs water at least 43ft deep to move, but it was stuck in an area that was just 25ft deep.
The German article stated it as 13m and 7,5 meter respectively.
Seriously, how did they even float into that area?
EDIT: It's called the "Ever Forward", guess this one will have to go backwards for a bit.
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There's a lag between the wholesale price changing and it being reflected at the pump, so hopefully it'll go down a bit soon.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
There's a lag between the wholesale price changing and it being reflected at the pump
Surprisingly (or perhaps not), said lag is only present when the oil price is going down.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
There's a lag between the wholesale price changing and it being reflected at the pump
Surprisingly (or perhaps not), said lag is only present when the oil price is going down.
There was a lag here with it going up too, but yes I imagine it'll take longer to go down than it did to go up.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Not sure what the problem is. It's pie, bring it all to me.
Haggis is a pie.
You're thinking of quiche. Pie with bacon!
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Pie with bacon!
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
A former employee refused to stop using the corporate M$ Office license after his termination?
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
It may just be that I've never fully understood the concepts, but I don't know whether I'm White Irish or Black Irish.
Wikipedia doesn't seem to be clear on that, either. It says that "Black Irish" could refer to either Irish nationals of African descent or Irish folk with dark hair and eyes, possibly (though unproven) due to mixed Spanish heritage.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
what day of the year we'd traveled pi radians around the Sun
From which starting point/date?
Also, keeping in mind that the sun is orbiting in the Milky Way galaxy, so the earth's path is more like a slightly curving spiral, and that the MW is moving through the universe, the number of radians becomes a bit more difficult to determine.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
In other news, Walgreens announces that it's electricity usage has skyrocketed.
They'd planned for this, considering they just replaced their fridge doors with video screens...
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After hyping it for like 2 (?) years, Microsoft has finally released DirectStorage:
Supposed to be their answer to e.g. the PS5's dedicated IO system (IO without bogging down the CPU, and support for HW decompression). NVIDIA had RTX IO doing something similar, assuming you had a 30x0 series card (so, practically, one didn't have it).
DirectStorage ... seems underwhelming. OK, at least it works on Windows 10 and not just Windows 11. And has a fallback mode for incompatible drives (e.g., not NVME with PCIe >= version X). But from what little I've seen, on Windows 10, you don't really any benefits from it (e.g., just uses ReadFile() under the hood). Maybe on Windows 11 (don't know anybody who could test that). Unless you want to compress your input data. Compression in their examples is CPU based. So ... meh? (Definitively doesn't seem like a reason to install Windows 11.)
Maybe DirectStorage 1.1. Unless they forgot to announce all the cool stuff and are waiting for that for GDC later this month.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Bulb nobody seems to know for sure whether my great?-grandfather was White Russian or Black Russian. Hadn't thought 'til your post that this uncertainty may indicate for Red vs either.
It may just be that I've never fully understood the concepts, but I don't know whether I'm White Irish or Black Irish. My father's plumbers' union back in the unenlightened 1960s once had a form for him with a space to report his race, and he wrote "Irish". When they were reviewing a big stack of forms at the union hall, one of them held up the paper and asked "is that Black Irish or White Irish"?
Dad shouted out "it's green Irish!"
In the demographics our system collects, those would all be Black of White race.
And choose ethnicity separately, LatinX or Not LatinX.
Same thing as Hispanics. They are 1 or more races and LatinX.
Most Hispanics I know, would consider that their race.The genetics works out really funny with my big kids.
Dad's Dad: white with a pinch of a lot of other things
Dad's Mom: white Hispanic (Puerto Rican )
Dad: White HispanicMom's Dad: black Hispanic (Dominican)
Mom's Mom: black Hispanic (Dominican)
Mom: Black HispanicThe girls: White Hispanic
The boys: They fall somewhere between Black and White Hispanic.
My 8 yo doesn't have have any Black or Dominican blood but her life is surrounded by both Blacks and Dominicans that love her.
My husband's ancestry included (mostly European, Taino-Native, and some African).
I love the scene in the movie "Soul Man" where C Thomas Howell asks Rae Dawn Chong how she feels about interracial relationships, prior to revealing that he's not actually black. Laughed out loud when I realized that when RDC is in a room all by herself there are four races present (her father is Irish-Canadian and Chinese, her mother black and Mexican).
Lots of people in Latin American are also mixed with Chinese.
My friend from work says each of her aunts married a different race so her cousins are all over the place. I think she said one of her grandparents was Asian. She is from Trinidad and Tobago.
My Jamaican friend is light skin black, hazel eyes, very light brown hair (she's beautiful) and identifies as black, her last name is Asian. So there is definitely Asian in her family tree.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Seriously, how did they even float into that area?
Ship captains are well known for being a bit keen on taking short cuts. At least in this case they're not actually in the way; it can be mostly left to the owners to give the captain hell.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
The ship needs water at least 43ft deep to move, but it was stuck in an area that was just 25ft deep.
The German article stated it as 13m and 7,5 meter respectively.
Seriously, how did they even float into that area?
I suppose the 13m is the fully loaded draft plus enough margin for some useful speed (ships can get ‘sucked’ to the bottom if moving fast in shallow water—the water moving out of the way accelerates, so its pressure drops and with it does the buoyancy of the ship).
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Luckily the owner was rather understanding about it (and he did leave his front door unlocked, hence failing to tip off the visitor of their mistake):
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
summonses
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@topspin I was happy thinking about Sméagol, but you had to spoil it didn't you?
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@topspin I was happy thinking about Sméagol, but you had to spoil it didn't you?
Damn it, that would've fit much better. *hangs head in shame*
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
summonses
What the fuck? English.
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@Gąska it's a collective plural gerund for a concurrent perfect tense verb / noun. What's yer problem?
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@topspin don't you dare be ashamed. Jar Jar hurts much worse than Smeagol.
shame-based shame is merely discouraged
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Sheesh, DM. Couldn't use a reasonable unit of measure like VW Bugs?
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@Dragoon I was amused/horrified that it was suggesting whole new classes of chemical weapon…
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Sheesh, DM. Couldn't use a reasonable unit of measure like VW Bugs?
The half-giraffe is fairly standard for an exposure this northern.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Sheesh, DM. Couldn't use a reasonable unit of measure like VW Bugs?
It’s a third of a brontosaurus if it helps.
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@Dragoon I guess you would still need to figure out how to synthesize those if you wanted to use them.
But when they say 40k new possible chemical weapons. Do they mean 40k compounds that "just" jam together some of the active chains from common toxins, or do they actually come up with new chains that attack the same receptors/transmission mechanisms?
I guess this is ... spicy ... if you use similar mechanisms to do more targeted design of toxic compounds that have other specific properties.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
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@DogsB apatosaurus
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Sheesh, DM.
I've realized you meant Daily Mail and not Dungeon Master.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
But when they say 40k new possible chemical weapons. Do they mean 40k compounds that "just" jam together some of the active chains from common toxins, or do they actually come up with new chains that attack the same receptors/transmission mechanisms?
Having read that article (even before posted the link here), there seems to be a mix of new compounds with predicted high toxicity. Many of those are indeed just variants of existing known poisons (that's good; it's working correctly) but there were quite a few totally new groups of compounds as well, and that's really what the authors were very worried about (along with the consequences for ethical considerations in AI; an old boss of mine would have loved that as he really liked complicated ethics matters). One of the most interesting issues with these new categories of poison is that the global chemical industry isn't really set up for tracking whether you're preparing to manufacture them; they watch for known poisons and key precursors, and that hole means that someone unscrupulous could be making something as vile as VX in huge quantities with noone really being the wiser. Terrifying possibility, and not an angle that the ethics of AI has really gone into before…
I guess you would still need to figure out how to synthesize those if you wanted to use them.
I think that's what the AI people were working on. An AI to propose sensible synthesis pathways. Or if not them, I know there really are other teams that are definitely working on that problem. (It's really vital for drug discovery; no point in having designed a molecule that's a potential drug if nobody can make it in useful quantities.)
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As an Irishman I’m embarrassed by U2 too. I would also like to apologise for Riverdance.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
One of the most interesting issues with these new categories of poison is that the global chemical industry isn't really set up for tracking whether you're preparing to manufacture them; they watch for known poisons and key precursors, and that hole means that someone unscrupulous could be making something as vile as VX in huge quantities with noone really being the wiser. Terrifying possibility, and not an angle that the ethics of AI has really gone into before…
If you then further set the system up to minimize the trackable footprint... Fortunately that seems a bit more difficult to model, but, yeah.
I think that's what the AI people were working on. An AI to propose sensible synthesis pathways. Or if not them, I know there really are other teams that are definitely working on that problem. (It's really vital for drug discovery; no point in having designed a molecule that's a potential drug if nobody can make it in useful quantities.)
Didn't know - but makes a lot of sense in hindsight. The brief outline made it sound like they "just" came up with potential compounds.
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Not sure how to explain this except that the thief must have robbed a right-foot shoe store some days earlier:
You can try to claim the reward if you spot somebody with more than one left shoe.
EDIT: Miami... I should have known:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
You can try to claim the reward if you spot somebody with more than one left shoe.
Only kind I can wear right now.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
One of the most interesting issues with these new categories of poison is that the global chemical industry isn't really set up for tracking whether you're preparing to manufacture them; they watch for known poisons and key precursors, and that hole means that someone unscrupulous could be making something as vile as VX in huge quantities with noone really being the wiser. Terrifying possibility, and not an angle that the ethics of AI has really gone into before…
Won't it be interesting if they do set up tracking for these, and it turns out that governments all over have been making some of them for a while?
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@acrow Interesting? Yes. Depressing? Also yes.
Do we really want to know?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Do we really want to know?
Never mattered before, why should it matter now?