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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I am led to conclude that the thing being disliked is having people call them on their outrageous statements.
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The interview scores are stored in an Excel spreadsheet. Each of the seven [UK] recruitment regions creates a separate spreadsheet, but these have no standardised template, naming convention or structure. After being manually amended, all of the various scores are entered into a Master spreadsheet. This is carried out row-by-row and takes several days, likely to be subject to interruptions," the report said.
ANRO decided to honor the 10 job offers it had made by mistake and used Oriel to tell the candidates. Unfortunately, a system error in Oriel meant it then erroneously sent that communication to an additional 16 candidates. ANRO decided to honor these 16 additional offers too, and find the candidates posts.
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The last two generations of iphone have been a bit of a damp squid. I expensed an 13 max two years ago and since I can’t really do anything interesting with it I haven’t felt a need to upgrade. It does everything it can do well and since better retrogame performance isn’t an issue I don’t really need to move up. Could be stuck here for a while.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
... I can’t really do anything interesting with it I haven’t felt a need to upgrade. It does everything it can do well...
This is how I feel about my Pixel 3a. Maybe in another couple three years the battery will be worn down enough that I'll replace it.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I am led to conclude that the thing being disliked is having people call them on their outrageous statements.
Whereas people there are completely immune to being called on their outrageous statements, where their modest proposals of how they want to kill you causes not so much as a blink.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The last two generations of iphone have been a bit of a damp squid.
Depends. I had a 12 and upgraded to a 14 Pro and the screen, camera and battery life improvements (with the always-on screen setting disabled) were noticeable. Having Live Activities on the dynamic island thing is handy.
I think all flagship phones have got to the point though that they're so good that there aren't any significant hardware upgrades left, just small improvements.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra We are a wretched hive of scum and villainy
Well, DUH .... that's why we're here.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I am led to conclude that the thing being disliked is having people call them on their outrageous statements.
Whereas people there are completely immune to being called on their outrageous statements, where their modest proposals of how they want to kill you causes not so much as a blink.
A scary place indeed
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I am led to conclude that the thing being disliked is having people call them on their outrageous statements.
Whereas people there are completely immune to being called on their outrageous statements, where their modest proposals of how they want to kill you causes not so much as a blink.
I know I threatened to burn your house down but in fairness you either threatened to move my cheese or you were housing a copy of that terrible management book.
I’m fairly certain a jury of my peers, including you, would have left me free.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The last two generations of iphone have been a bit of a damp squid.
Depends. I had a 12 and upgraded to a 14 Pro and the screen, camera and battery life improvements (with the always-on screen setting disabled) were noticeable. Having Live Activities on the dynamic island thing is handy.
I think all flagship phones have got to the point though that they're so good that there aren't any significant hardware upgrades left, just small improvements.
They had a good cadence with an upgrade cycle every two years that had something interesting and a reasonable performance bump. Don’t know why they went with the android crowd and had a new one every year. I have to admit the Apple iPhone launch use to be a bit of an event. If only just to poke fun at the fanboys.
Maybe we need a “Tim wants a new yacht” meme for Apple now.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I am led to conclude that the thing being disliked is having people call them on their outrageous statements.
Whereas people there are completely immune to being called on their outrageous statements, where their modest proposals of how they want to kill you causes not so much as a blink.
I know I threatened to burn your house down but in fairness you either threatened to move my cheese or you were housing a copy of that terrible management book.
I’m fairly certain a jury of my peers, including you, would have left me free.
I wasn’t referring to jokes but about serious statements.
Your joke is fine by me.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
They had a good cadence with an upgrade cycle every two years that had something interesting and a reasonable performance bump. Don’t know why they went with the android crowd and had a new one every year
There's always been a new iPhone every year with the more significant changes every other model, they just changed the numbering.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
They had a good cadence with an upgrade cycle every two years that had something interesting and a reasonable performance bump. Don’t know why they went with the android crowd and had a new one every year
There's always been a new iPhone every year with the more significant changes every other model, they just changed the numbering.
O_o. I thought they were bi-annual thingie. My ruddy complexion is not the only thing the alcohol is affecting.
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@DogsB the number used to go up every other year as they had the S models inbetween.
The 8 and the10X even came out the same year.
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I’m fine with my still relatively new 13 mini. Usually upgrade once swapping batteries doesn’t make sense anymore.
I just hope that once the next upgrade cycle is upon me, they have a mini again, because I want a current one with reasonable size. The SE models used to come with yesteryear’s hardware, and the other ones are approaching phablet sizes. I don’t have manhole cover hands.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
The SE models used to come with yesteryear’s hardware
The SE models waste so much space.
I've got a 2nd gen SE as a work phone and even though it's not phyiscally that much smaller than my 14 the screen is tiny in comparison. It's even got a smaller screen than the Mini despite being larger than that.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
The SE models used to come with yesteryear’s hardware
The SE models waste so much space.
I've got a 2nd gen SE as a work phone and even though it's not phyiscally that much smaller than my 14 the screen is tiny in comparison. It's even got a smaller screen than the Mini despite being larger than that.Yes, because it's still on the old hardware design with large bezels.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I know I threatened to burn your house down
Hey, stay in your lane! We already have someone with that job.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
The SE models used to come with yesteryear’s hardware
The SE models waste so much space.
I've got a 2nd gen SE as a work phone and even though it's not phyiscally that much smaller than my 14 the screen is tiny in comparison. It's even got a smaller screen than the Mini despite being larger than that.Yes, because it's still on the old hardware design with large bezels.
Probably going to lose style cred here but a small amount of bezel looks better. Right to the edge is probably overly expensive and every protective case ia going to ruin anyway.
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@DogsB the crack in the glass on my SE would suggest it doesn't help much.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I think all flagship phones have got to the point though that they're so good that there aren't any significant hardware upgrades left, just small improvements.
I got this feeling the moment their big comparisons for performance started to be along the vein if "This one recognizes my fingerprint 20ms faster" and "this one takes less-artifact-y pictures of leaves!"
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@Tsaukpaetra I think it's been nearly a decade since reviews of, e.g. camera technology have been "last year's model took pictures that look super incredible, but this year they look super-duper incredible!"
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As far as phones go, I want my next one to have full convergence, and I'd also like it to measure air quality, and have flir.
The one I really want is the convergence, and I've wanted it for about a decade or two, but it really should have been implemented now, given that current phones are more powerful than laptops 15 years ago.
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@Carnage I want one like in that episode of "My Favorite Martian", where you take the picture and it shows you what that place will look like 24 hours from now.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
The one I really want is the convergence, and I've wanted it for about a decade or two, but it really should have been implemented now,
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@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
The one I really want is the convergence, and I've wanted it for about a decade or two, but it really should have been implemented now,
It's also in Android, being developed since 10. You can enable it in developer mode.
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Large mega chain bullies small local competitors with legal onslaught, protests
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@izzion fuck the large mega chains pulling shit like this.
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@izzion Actually, this sounds like a good thing. Taco Bell wasn't fighting for a Trademark - they were fighting smaller companies that had a trademark. Now everyone can use "Taco Tuesday" without fear of lawyers.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@izzion Actually, this sounds like a good thing. Taco Bell wasn't fighting for a Trademark - they were fighting smaller companies that had a trademark. Now everyone can use "Taco Tuesday" without fear of lawyers.
If I was trying to post fair and balanced, I'd post in the so that I could use my Fox News hat
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@izzion Actually, this sounds like a good thing. Taco Bell wasn't fighting for a Trademark - they were fighting smaller companies that had a trademark. Now everyone can use "Taco Tuesday" without fear of lawyers.
This presumes they're not going to refile for it again after.
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Today in DogsB doesn’t understand anything.
Google Cloud brought in $8.4 billion of revenue – up from $6.9 billion for Q3 in 2022. The stated $266 million of quarterly operating income improved on 2022's $440 million loss.
Another concerning outcome for the Google cloud was that its $266 million operating income number was down from $395 million in the previous quarter – when revenue was $370 million lower.
Alphabet's share price took a dive from around $138 to $131 in after hours trading – a drop attributed largely to concerns about the G-Cloud's performance.
"Optimization" of cloud spend is code for customers asking for cost reductions and/or help in identifying wasteful sprawl of cloud resources. AWS and Microsoft have also admitted that their customers want optimization assistance, as cost-cutting has become a priority.
I’m still trying to avert this in two months. AWS is pushing Kinesis into everything and our cloud team followed them like lemmings. Fucking thing is verrrrry expensive.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@izzion Actually, this sounds like a good thing. Taco Bell wasn't fighting for a Trademark - they were fighting smaller companies that had a trademark. Now everyone can use "Taco Tuesday" without fear of lawyers.
You can bet your ass though that if the situation was reversed, they would never agree that the phrase “should be freely available to all who make, sell, eat and celebrate tacos.” They'd sue any small business into oblivion that so much as dares to put that phrase on a chalkboard sign outside the door.
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Todays’ talking out of both sides of your arse recipient.
Performance issues aren’t a deal breaker but they’re our top priority!
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@DogsB The game is quite playable, even with the performance issues, but it may require (much) lower graphics settings than you want until they get the problems fixed.
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@DogsB I watch creators who play skylines, and I watch creators who play KSP. My impression is that skylines 2 is a universe ahead of ksp 2.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
skylines 2 is a universe ahead of ksp 2.
I haven't played KSP2, but from what I've read, this may be true.
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I don’t think anyone could have seen Cisco moving into the luxury earbud space this year.
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@DogsB Enterprise luxury earbuds.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Webex
That's a name I hadn't heard in a while. Almost everything is Zoom these days.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Almost everything is Zoom these days.
Here it's mostly Teams. Because Microclot.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Here it's mostly Teams. Because Microclot.
Same. Teams is default because default.
Discord for whenever mostly external people are involved, because Teams is weird with that. (I have like 5 different accounts/connections/servers/whatever at this point.)
There's the occasional boomer that insists on Zoom, for some unknownable reason. (As in, we were just text-chatting on Teams or Discord, let's exchange meeting links over email and then call each other in Zoom. But path of least resistance is to just roll with it.)
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@HardwareGeek Most job interviews I did were done with Teams.
2 with Webex, and that worked rather good (and used less Gigabytes per interview hour).
Zoom was used once, and quality was abysmal: several seconds of delay. Very hard to have a conversation instead of sequential monologues.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
(As in, we were just text-chatting on Teams or Discord, let's exchange meeting links over email and then call each other in Zoom. But path of least resistance is to just roll with it.)
I'd just hit the button and pretend I never got the invite.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek Most job interviews I did were done with Teams.
2 with Webex, and that worked rather good (and used less Gigabytes per interview hour).
Zoom was used once, and quality was abysmal: several seconds of delay. Very hard to have a conversation instead of sequential monologues.Huh. I used to use Zoom for meetings (as in until the start of this month) and it was great for that. Teams isn't quite as good at the actual meeting bit (but integrates with other things better).
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Discord for whenever mostly external people are involved, because Teams is weird with that. (I have like 5 different accounts/connections/servers/whatever at this point.)
Just yesterday Teams offered me upgrade to new version that claims to work more sanely with multiple accounts. But I don't have multiple accounts ATM to see how big improvement it is.
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Swiss parliament election results were wrong. Data from 3 "kantons" (provinces) were imported from Excel lists, and the script contained a bug.
Who could of expected that?
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@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
@jinpa New nuclear power definitely has risks and downsides. However, base-level electrical load will continue to exist, and most likely increase due to EVification. Wind and solar are too irregular to fill that role. Storage techniques have limited efficiency, limited capacity, and (for newer techniques) rely on toxic and/or conflict minerals. Hydro is geographically bound and has ecological considerations. Combustibles, even "clean" combustibles, are too dirty and will be exhausted "soon". Let's assume new nuclear is completely off the table. That leaves our existing power plant fleet: in the Americas, for base loads, mainly 1960's-1970's Gen I nuclear, which in many cases has already exceeded design life and was built before modern reactor processes or high-level automation or human factors analysis. Isn't that the option with the worst downsides and risks?
Some hesitance is rational. But there's a point where it stops being justified caution and becomes unjustified recalcitrance. If there's a realistic alternative to Gen III+ or Gen IV nuclear I'd love to hear about it, but in the twenty years I've followed this debate I haven't heard one, and our existing fleet is only getting older.
Serious questions (and no, it does not belong to ): are there actually any serious political groups pushing nuclear power? By this reasoning or any other?
...because from the media (well, mostly internet), I got an impression that nuclear power has no chance against coal miners' votes. Which is basically what happens in all other countries except the very few ones without sufficient coal reserves. It is worth noting that USA has enough coal for at least 300 years (probably more, up to 1000).
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
are there actually any serious political groups pushing nuclear power?
It's big in France, at least, so there has to be some political group who is pushing it. Maybe not for the given reasons.
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@Kamil-Podlesak our Green Party doesn’t shout it from the rooftops (because they’d rather talk renewables in general) but they have acknowledged that renewables don’t necessarily produce the base load support you need when you need it, and that nuclear energy is a decent enough option (though they’re not fond of what to do with the waste)
Though I think maybe there’s some mileage to go in talking about tokamaks and stellarators rather than big nuke plants.