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@Applied-Mediocrity There is at least one similarity: I've never tried either one, and I have no plans to change that.
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@boomzilla no quack!
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This doesn't even come close to the level of in @boomzilla's story, but I'll put it here anyway:
Couple Forced to Adopt Their Own Children – 07:45
— Steve LehtoTL;DW: An Michigan couple wanted another child, but the wife was infertile, so they used a surrogate to carry their children (turned out to be twins). Despite being the biological parents, after the babies were born, they had to go through a two-year process to adopt them to become their legal parents.
Michigan has a law, passed in the late 1980s, which prohibits compensated surrogacy. (It's illegal to pay the surrogate for the inconvenience and discomfort of carrying and giving birth to the baby.) Even if the surrogate isn't compensated, it gives full parental rights to her (and the biological father) and no rights whatsoever to the biological mother. Even if the parents and the surrogate have agreed in advance that the babies should belong to the biological parents (and even if the surrogate doesn't change her mind later, which sometimes happens), the state refuses to recognize any agreements between the parents and the surrogate. The "gestational carrier" is the legal mother, and the only way to change that is to go through a formal adoption process.
That can be done before birth, and the couple planned to do that, but the twins were born prematurely, and they hadn't yet completed the process. In the two-year "legal battle" since then, it sounds like there has been no real opposition to the adoption except the court's busy schedule.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Bulb I approve.
Filed under: currently on UTC+0
How can you be sure that it is not
UTC-0
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
How on earth did this story get into print without a single mention of Florida?
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@da-Doctah must be a Florida local paper.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Bulb I approve.
Filed under: currently on UTC+0
How can you be sure that it is not
UTC-0
?Because there's no such integer as -0.
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@da-Doctah because the word salad AI which wrote it hasn’t picked up on the Florida thing yet?
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Bulb I approve.
Filed under: currently on UTC+0
How can you be sure that it is not
UTC-0
?Two reasons:
- when we're not in +00 we are in +01, so it makes sense (not that logic has anything to do with the subject matter, but you know)
- Wikipedia sayeth so:
An offset of zero, in addition to having the special representation "Z", can also be stated numerically as "+00:00", "+0000", or "+00". However, it is not permitted to state it numerically with a negative sign, as "−00:00", "−0000", or "−00". The section dictating sign usage states that a plus sign must be used for a positive or zero value, and a minus sign for a negative value. Contrary to this rule, RFC 3339, which is otherwise a profile of ISO 8601, permits the use of "-00", with the same denotation as "+00" but a differing connotation.
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It begins.
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Popularity in this case is measured by queries related to programming languages that have been aggregated from 25 different search engines..
Given that logic I suppose toilets are popular because people keep googling how to unclog them.
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@DogsB Toilets are popular.
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You just don't appreciate how popular until they're clogged.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Popularity in this case is measured by queries related to programming languages that have been aggregated from 25 different search engines..
Given that logic I suppose toilets are popular because people keep googling how to unclog them.
The TIOBE index has been basically random garbage since the beginning. Hell, even telling which queries are about Java the language as opposed to Java the island or Java the coffee is rather hard.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-learns-write-computer-code-stunning-advance
Fuck, this is so stupid.
So applied infinite monkeys counts as programming now?Who is going to write the specification? Who’s going to write the test cases that filter the good candidates out of the million trash programs? And how many of them will work just for the test cases but don’t implement the spec, anyway?
So when is it going to rebel over vague and non existent requirements?
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@DogsB It already does. It rebels by implementing those vague requirements to the letter.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB It already does. It rebels by implementing those vague requirements to the letter.
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Much laser, much wow!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Much laser, much wow!
I kinda want to like inertial confinement fusion, because much lasers, but that's still much less energy than they put into systems (lasers are not that efficient), and it's roughly the amount of energy in .. err ... 200g of dried plants?
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That's chump change for the advertising spot they just secured. World wide coverage of Azure fuckups is gonna be pretty funny too.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
That's chump change for the advertising spot they just secured. World wide coverage of Azure fuckups is gonna be pretty funny too.
So, basically, they are going Round 2? Microsoft Strikes Back?
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I'm drawing a line here. I will take up arms against the machines for this one.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm drawing a line here. I will take up arms against the machines for this one.
This, this is how I will assimilate them. This is how they shall know me as their God.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Much laser, much wow!
They should just stop talking to journalists.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
South Park- How Family Guy Jokes Are Made (Good Quality) – [00:36..01:51] 01:51
— CS
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
South Park- How Family Guy Jokes Are Made (Good Quality) – [00:36..01:51] 01:51
— CSYou just need to have a "random shit" switch in your brain that you can flip on to write cutaway gags for Family Guy.
It's like that time Martha Stewart set an arson fire at Popeye's chicken and the only one who could save everybody was David Letterman riding a unicycle.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm drawing a line here. I will take up arms against the machines for this one.
That article appears to use the words semiconductor and superconductor interchangeably. I strongly suspect the author doesn't know there's a difference between them, much less what the difference is. All of which leaves me confused as to WTF the article is talking about.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
All of which leaves me confused as to WTF the article is talking about.
First time reading a NTB article?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm drawing a line here. I will take up arms against the machines for this one.
That article appears to use the words semiconductor and superconductor interchangeably. I strongly suspect the author doesn't know there's a difference between them, much less what the difference is. All of which leaves me confused as to WTF the article is talking about.
Obviously, it's about heroic cape-wearing conductors that haul their orchestras in semi-trucks. Coffee helps a lot.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Much laser, much wow!
They should just stop talking to journalists.
After the third dupe on slashdot, someone has posted what we discussed last time and what was immediately clear, but I’m too lazy to dig up:
Q != QtotalAchieving ignition is a landmark, and it certainly deserves a bit of hoopla. But net energy gain in a commercial reactor is still a very long way away.
And even ignition has been claimed before.
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Gotta admit that's pretty cool.
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From the comment section
What? No mention of MSFT's buy-in to LSE in an article about reducing latency?
Smart play: Buy into exchange, buy cable co that reduces latency, attract high frequency traders etc with your new "twice as fast connection option"Worked well as a business model for the dow jones.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
After the third dupe on slashdot, someone has posted what we discussed last time and what was immediately clear, but I’m too lazy to dig up:
Q != QtotalI don't know where that author came up with the numbers in his infographic, but I found another source that seems to be more reliable.
Power output = 3 MJ
Laser input to the fuel = 2 MJ → Q = 1.5
"Wall" power into the lasers = 300 MJ → Qtotal = 0.01And even ignition has been claimed before.
Yes, with Q = 0.67. (Don't even ask about Qtotal.)
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Gotta admit that's pretty cool.
For a successful attack on such systems, a rogue insider or an opportunist intruder must first plant custom-made malware on the target computers through physical access to the air-gapped device or network.
Something something airtight hatch.
TFA mentions a couple of mitigation strategies, such as locking the CPU core frequency and monitoring the computer power supply current for fluctuations that don't match the computer's expected load, both of which have drawbacks. I can think of a couple of other simple mitigation strategies that don't have those drawbacks (although of course they have others).
The technique uses a cell phone as the receiver for the data exfiltration and has been shown to work at distances of 2 meters. Ban cell phones and other unauthorized electronic devices not just in the computer room, but also within, say, 5 meters of it. This isn't perfect, of course; people can be sneaky. But it gives them additional stuff they have to be sneaky about, and possessing a cell phone in the forbidden area is prima fascie evidence of criminal intent.
Better shielding of the power supplies, cables, and the room itself might not completely eliminated the radiated signals, but it should significantly reduce it and require the would-be snoop to be even closer to the target computer, increasing the risk of detection.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Power output = 3 MJ
Oh. Well. Update my previous post to about 450g of dried plants.
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There is a bit of a brouhaha going on in the Swedish security police, the top intelligence boss of the National Operative Unit (the people that smack you around when shit gets real)
Linda StaafSeems to have had a several years long secret relationship with the top boss of the National Operative Unit:
Mats LöfvingAnd, when she was hired see apparently entered into the process very late, and did not have the qualifications of the other applicants. There have been several lawsuits filed against Mats for this, but they have all been shut down by the overall boss of all police in Sweden. There is a current ongoing investigation of crimes committed here as well now.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Löfving
Is that swedish for "love sick"?
I'm not certain what it means, something like heir or witch or so, but not lovesick.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
long secret relationship with the top boss of the National Operative Unit
Mats LöfvingAnd he was Löfving it.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
And he was Löfving it.
Ba-da-ba-ba-baaaa
McDonalds - I'm Lovin' It – 00:16
— WOW Music
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@loopback0 Exactly.
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