In other news today...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'd go without rather than drink star bucks.
Coffee at Starbucks is fine although as the article notes it has less caffeine.
Greggs coffee is trash though, and I'd have rated Costa coffee higher than the article does.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
except for straight espresso, which was OK
Not had much luck there, found it that they typically use too dark a roast, i.e., the "charcoal cigarettes" experience that they describe further down. (But it's been a while since I tried.)
Filter from Starbucks is a tolerable coffee-substitue whenever there's nothing better to be had, especially with a shot or two of espresso in it.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Filter from Starbucks is a tolerable coffee-substitue whenever there's nothing better to be had, especially with a shot or two of espresso in it.
The important thing with so many of these places is that the filter coffee needs to be recently brewed. If it's sat around for an hour keeping hot, it's going to be dreadful whoever's it is.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
If it's sat around for an hour keeping hot, it's going to be dreadful whoever's it is.
If it's coffee (or coffee), it's dreadful regardless of source or freshness.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
If it's sat around for an hour keeping hot, it's going to be dreadful whoever's it is.
If it's coffee (or coffee), it's dreadful regardless of source or freshness.
Yes, yes. You want something more insipid that won't throw off your vaginal pH.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Filter from Starbucks is a tolerable coffee-substitue whenever there's nothing better to be had, especially with a shot or two of espresso in it.
The important thing with so many of these places is that the filter coffee needs to be recently brewed. If it's sat around for an hour keeping hot, it's going to be dreadful whoever's it is.
You have not, then, explored the Dregs with the proper palatal attitude. A 4-hour-boil in a gas station does things to coffee, and these things also must be known. Although it has become liquid hatred, it must be known.
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@HardwareGeek I am the face of downvotes again but I doesn't downvote this one... Yet.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Coffee at Starbucks is fine
Ah, so you prefer coffee to be ruined at roasting vs at brewing.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
GOP politicians in a number of states would like to ban dressing in drag altogether.
I doubt that (I think it's more like drag shows around kids), but .
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@jinpa More like politics.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
GOP politicians in a number of states would like to ban dressing in drag altogether.
I doubt that (I think it's more like drag shows around kids), but .
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@jinpa More like politics.
But also not being in the Garage is politics
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
If it's sat around for an hour keeping hot, it's going to be dreadful whoever's it is.
If it's coffee (or coffee), it's dreadful regardless of source or freshness.
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I wasn't sure whether to put this in Funny Stuff or News, because it's just plain weird: a Polish professor is using Tropico 5 (the tongue-in-cheek banana-republic simulation game) as actual coursework. Apparently, they picked Tropico partly because it gives you a good idea of how much stuff you have to juggle as a ruler, and partly because it's funny, which keeps students interested.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
I wasn't sure whether to put this in Funny Stuff or News, because it's just plain weird: a Polish professor is using Tropico 5 (the tongue-in-cheek banana-republic simulation game) as actual coursework. Apparently, they picked Tropico partly because it gives you a good idea of how much stuff you have to juggle as a ruler, and partly because it's funny, which keeps students interested.
Department of Political Theory and Political Thought
Playing vidya is all you will be doing after graduating this, so it kind of makes sense.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
I wasn't sure whether to put this in Funny Stuff or News, because it's just plain weird
Maybe https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/14377/not-sure-if-good-idea-bad-idea-or-evil-idea?
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@boomzilla lodged rent-free, maaaaan
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
I wasn't sure whether to put this in Funny Stuff or News, because it's just plain weird: a Polish professor is using Tropico 5 (the tongue-in-cheek banana-republic simulation game) as actual coursework. Apparently, they picked Tropico partly because it gives you a good idea of how much stuff you have to juggle as a ruler, and partly because it's funny, which keeps students interested.
Department of Political Theory and Political Thought
Playing vidya is all you will be doing after graduating this, so it kind of makes sense.
Weerrl, that depends on whether you learn ideals or practices.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla lodged rent-free, maaaaan
Eh, he'd of been lucky to have gotten away with just an arm and a leg.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
So after all that effort proving his worthiness to mate, now he can't seem to attract the ladies.
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@jinpa of course they're using EC. Which has stank of backdoor since ever. So of course.
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@jinpa I am somewhat surprised they talk about TLS; last time I looked, for x509 certificates, rsa ones can be used for everything while the other types are rather confusing which one you can or can't use when that I wouldn't expect anybody to actually bother.
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@Bulb Sounds like someone will have fun with TLS 1.3, which does not include any RSA cipher suites at all. It's all ephemeral or pre-shared-key from there.
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@PleegWat Yeah, but TLS 1.3 will be used on St. Anotherday's day because lot of parties have problems with the ESNI for various reasons.
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Health Canada approved a company to manufacture and distribute cocaine
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Bulb Sounds like someone will have fun with TLS 1.3, which does not include any RSA cipher suites at all. It's all ephemeral or pre-shared-key from there.
I am still a bit confused by this, but it looks like RSA is still fine as signature algorithm in TLS 1.3 so RSA certificates should continue to work. The dropped part is just RSA key exchange, but ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key exchange works with RSA signatures just fine, and I believe can be used with TLS 1.2 already.
Also, TLS 1.3 does not include any RSA cipher suites at all, but it does not include any ECDSA, ED25519 or X25519 cipher suites either because the signature algorithm is simply not part of the ciphersuite definition.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Also, TLS 1.3 does not include any RSA cipher suites at all, but it does not include any ECDSA, ED25519 or X25519 cipher suites either because the signature algorithm is simply not part of the ciphersuite definition.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Oh, that does it. After an announcement like that, he'll probably end up outliving Takei and Koenig too.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
the largest bank failure since the financial crisis
The largest bank failure since other banks failed!!!
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
the largest bank failure since the financial crisis
The largest bank failure since other banks failed!!!
Bankers are an industrious lot, always working to outdo themselves and each other in the art of the creation of crises.
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Because of this loophole, Samsung has decided to ship its 8K TVs with low-powered default settings. According to AV Magazine(opens in new tab), the new Samsung 8K TVs will come out of the box with a “brightness-limiting eco mode” as the default brightness setting. This will allow the TVs to still meet the EEI limit while maintaining their 8K resolution.
But does this mean that Europeans will be limited to low brightness settings if they want 8K resolution? Turns out, the answer to that is, no. The E.U. regulation requires that the TVs be energy efficient out of the box, but once users have them set up, they can change to a higher brightness setting and watch to their heart's content, even though their 8K TV will now consume more power than the 90W limit set by the EEI.
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@boomzilla my company built a new building. The city says you can't have more then x parking spots per sq ft for office space to pass final inspection. So they put bike racks on asphalt (which don't count as parking spots). But didn't bolt them down or anything. And as soon as the occupancy permits clear, you can remove the racks and voila, more parking.
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@Benjamin-Hall But they won't. Not if the number of businesses where the entire front of the store is taken up with handicapped spaces is any indication.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall But they won't. Not if the number of businesses where the entire front of the store is taken up with handicapped spaces is any indication.
Oh, we're planning to do that ASAP. Handicap spots need signage and marking change. This just needs someone to go drag the flimsy bone racks away. Heck, the homeless folks might do it for us for salvage. Without even asking!
In other news, China? Are you ok?
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Who in google thought this was viable?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Who in google thought this was viable?
People who have lived for a long time in places with FTTH with low latency and jitter.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Who in google thought this was viable?
There are other companies who seem to be making cloud gaming services work
I've tried the Xbox and nVidia cloud gaming and they seemed fine - although that was on a decent internet connection.
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@boomzilla Beyond certain point I am not sure how good the people actually were if they were willing to go to Google. Though if they knew they'll be getting paid for sitting around …
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Beyond certain point I am not sure how good the people actually were if they were willing to go to Google. Though if they knew they'll be getting paid for sitting around …
I find it kind of implausible. I mean, don't most companies have a list of things they want to do as long as your arm? I could imagine that if they wanted these people off the market, they could point them at something, even if it wasn't worth the money.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
list of things they want to
dokill as long as your armFTFGoogle
We even have a thread about that.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
list of things they want to
dokill as long as your armFTFGoogle
We even have a thread about that.
The ancient scrolls suggest it can be found
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I've tried the Xbox and nVidia cloud gaming and they seemed fine - although that was on a decent internet connection.
Common sense dictates that buying your own GPU will pay itself back within a year or two as lower internet costs. But there's a lower limit to internet access cost (the lowest mobile contract I can find now is €15/month, ), and you still need a good connection for the game to update itself before you can play, so that kinda thwarts the economy.
Still, if game streaming were to really pick up, imagine the bandwidth needed for everyone in a city block to play at the same time. The networking gear requirements... I get the feeling streaming can only work as long as it abuses existing infrastructure.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Common sense dictates that buying your own GPU will pay itself back within a year or two as lower internet costs.
- Not when most sensible home contracts are unmetered and
- also depends on how often you game compared to do other things that need decent internet connection, but not high performance graphics card.
That said, I'd expect the latency to make the gaming experience crap even if you do have great bandwidth.
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@Bulb It's largely the same debate that already gave some ISPs the idea to ask Netflix to pay for infrastructure upgrades. ISPs have run the numbers and found that they don't see enough return value spending their profits to keep upgrading the networks. Both sides are assholes. ISPs have oversold themselves with 1Gbps consumer offers and Netflix promises their customers 4K30 when it's pretty much outside of their control.