@hungrier said in Random thought of the day: @da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day: Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have the same last name. While it's certainly possible for this to be the case even without them actually being related, you'd expect them to have a quick explanation worked out to offer anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship. In Tony Toon Adventures, whenever Buster and Babs (Bunny, both) introduced themselves together they would quickly point out "no relation" That wouldn't have been the reason though, since unlike Mickey and Minnie, they weren't presented as a couple, so it would have made perfect sense to just assume they were brother and sister. Yakko, Wacko and Dot were explicitly put forth as siblings, although Dot Warner insisted that her full name was Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banna-Fana Bo-Besca the Third, suggesting that she must have changed her name from "Warner" at some point.

 

@error said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: For me, I see the effect in my peripheral vision, but when I focus directly on it it goes away. For me the effect is visible while the image is moving across my field of view, probably some persistence-of vision effect of the resulting cyan/white/black flickering.

@izzion said in The Official Status Thread: @dkf said in The Official Status Thread: @Zenith said in The Official Status Thread: Voted 18 times Vote early! Vote often! The Chicago school of economics. Apparently, it was a phrase more related to New York and Tammany Hall than anywhere else in the US.

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@Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: Airport security have their senses of humour removed when they clock on and don't get them back until after the shift. So that's what Severance was about?

@sockpuppet7 Give 'em shit Swampie... I'll make sure to post videos elsewhere even youtube again... I hope I don't have to Do A Dance...

@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites: @Arantor said in WTF Bites: nw.js predates Electron That... doesn't make it any better. No, but it was kinda knowingly experimental and actually back then it wasn’t the sluggish bloated monstrosity it came to be. I remember seeing stuff done in it in 2013 or so where it was in active production use and you kinda didn’t know that’s what it was because it didn’t eat all your RAM like a fat kid on cake. I think Game Dev Tycoon still uses that old a build actually.

@loopback0 £100 flipflops :theres_your_problem:

@DogsB said in The Cat Status Thread: https://twitter.com/catshouldnt/status/1641457837376430085 OMG! OMG indeed, the tweet is a year old and the incident actually happened on July 22, 2015: Robin Levinson King Staff Reporter Cat clings to wing of plane during flight A stowaway cat shocked small-plane pilot and passenger.

@Zerosquare should there be some magenta though?

@Zerosquare said in Commuting WTF Thread: @Atazhaia said in Commuting WTF Thread: got off on his own accord. Wait. If he owned a car, why did he want to take the bus? What, you're not going to ask about his fetish for relieving himself in public on his car?

@sockpuppet7 said in I, ChatGPT: @Zerosquare said in I, ChatGPT: @Bulb said in I, ChatGPT: Stock photos don't contain unphysical elements. Stock photos aren't always above nonsense, either: I've seen that picture before and I just realized that she might be Milana Vayntrub who became famous about 10 years ago doing some television commercials for AT&T. I guess she got her start in stock photos.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hFoMkQCuqw Today, we will take a look at the SM6337.02 – a vintage Soviet dot matrix printer made in Russia in the late 1980s. In my life, I've seen a lot of computers and devices manufactured in the USSR, but this one features an unbelievably low quality level. Technically, it is an Epson-compatible peripheral device with RS-232 and Centronics interfaces, and it comes with a few built-in fonts. However, from what I see, it is unlikely that it was functional even when it just came out of the factory. Even more bizarre it becomes when we take a short look at its military/KGB counterpart.

@dkf

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@HardwareGeek It's a very small place with only one notable feature: the ferry port.

Microsoft seemingly admits "ads" on Windows 11 Start menu are in the works Microsoft may finally be coming clean. With a new hidden change, the tech giant seems to acknowledge that "ads" on the Windows 11 Start menu are real, though it could also mean more ads are coming.

@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...: @cvi Ok, I think we can start. Let's go 'round and introduce ourselves, all. ... Call me Ishmael I once did this on a Usenet group where some schoolteacher had introduced her students with something like "Hi, we're a group of students who want to connect with others interested in {topic}." My response was "Hi, I am an apteryx, a wingless bird with hairy feathers."

Honorary Florida Man: Colorado man tries to pay for Burger King with meth, proceeds to go on least-successful shooting spree of all time Move over Bitcoin, there's a new alternative currency on the market: Methamphetamines.

How Google Search was "killed". A very long article, but nice to read. Enjoy! Apr 23 The Man Who Killed Google Search This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, then the VP and General Manager of Ads at Google, and Shiv Venkataraman, then

@Gurth is that a picture of the notepaper that one writes Lotus Notes on?

@Gern_Blaanston said in UI Bites: How/why do you even do something like that? DESIGN

@HardwareGeek I would add that the hold appears to double as a procedure turn to align with the approach course in this case, that is any aircraft arriving from that direction has to enter the hold anyway. That might be the reason the controller expected the pilots to expect it.

@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF: Mark Harris Texas High School Baseball Game Takes 2 Days To Play, Ends After 23 Innings A high school baseball game in Texas took two days to complete and finally ended after 23 innings with a final score of just 4-3. The 23-inning slugfest that took place over 25 and a half hours set a record for the longest game in Texas high school sports history, but somehow fell two innings shy of the American high school record for the longest game of all time Nothing about 7 runs in 23 innings says, "slugfest." Maybe the author is a Chicago White Sox fan who dreams of 2 runs in 23 innings

@BernieTheBernie said in Programming Memes Thread: @Arantor said in Programming Memes Thread: pointless Did you mean disap-point-ing to her? No.

Does anyone here know gRPC / protobuf? I'm passing large-ish chunks of data between my own client and server and have implemented streaming because the overall dataset to pass is larger than the max message size (default is 4 MB, I know I could increase that but probably not to the point where it would cover all my use cases, so streaming it is in any case). The issue I have is how to find out what size of messages to send in my streaming implementation? Searching the interwebz I can find tons of discussions on how to set the maximum message size when starting the server, but this is not what I want. What I want is querying an existing server to find out what is that maximum size. Either my google-fu is weak, or nobody ever discusses that? Currently I need this in two places and in one I've hard-coded a 4 MB (minus a small margin for headers etc.) limit. In the other one I've been smarter and implemented a horrible hack where I parse the string from the error message (!!!) to read the maximum size.

@Zerosquare Anyways, Microsoft is technically correct !

@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread: Is it getting cold where you are? Do you have a Keurig? Mott's (I miss @mott555, when was he last around?) makes K-Cups of spiced apple cider that are surprisingly fairly good. Add a splash (or several glugs) of bourbon and you have something to warm you up in two ways. You're welcome, or I'm sorry, depending on how many you decide to drink in a night. Tonight was a fairly cool evening here where we are. Several of the neighbors ended up hanging out in my shop and I decided to introduce them to this cocktail and after this evening there's a strong possibility that many of those neighbors will not be allowed to play with me anymore.

@HardwareGeek Did you searching on PornHub? They got some great statistical data.

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@Atazhaia said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @Watson said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @LaoC said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : Nah, just kidding, it's over 7100 pages, ...which Microsoft Word doesn't fully comply with, giving us Wait... Microsoft doesn't follow their own standard? Well, Microsoft's first submission to ISO had a lot of Windows-specific stuff (for supporting all their different versions of Word), and ISO naturally said that such stuff wasn't appropriate for a vendor-neutral industrial standard. Microsoft went away and split their backward compatibility out those 600 pages of "Legacy" @LaoC referred to, and resubmitted the "Strict" part as the standard, with the optional "Legacy" extension. ISO accepted this on the condition that all new OOXML documents adhere to the "Strict" part, with the extension only used as required for backward compatibility. Microsoft said "Okay, sure" with its fingers crossed behind its back.

@loopback0 said in Tinder is shit: get her a library ticket we let women read now?!?! Tangentially related… Apr 3  /  2+2= █ How well do you know Orwell’s 1984? Take the quiz to find out Are you more of a blagger than a member of the Brotherhood? To celebrate Audible’s new audio dramatisation of 1984, our quiz will test your knowledge of George Orwell’s dystopian classic Audible, an Amazon company, using 1984 to advertise.

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@Zerosquare said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!): I think I've seen this car before... is that a regression? Shit that happens when you're

@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites: @boomzilla That's merely a little mix-up of Big Endian and Little Endian. It's just the latest standard™. After slot, tri-point, Philips, Pentalobe, Allen, double-square and 12-point, behold: the InfiLobe!

@Gurth said in “iPad doesn’t recognise fingerprint anymore, and the code also doesn’t work!”: France ... old No, not necessarily. France is well known for good food and good wine. That may have some effects.

@coderpatsy Thanks though, the follow up(s) clarify. A bit.

@BernieTheBernie said in Pay peanuts or chicken feed: How many Indian "sofwtare specialists" would be willing to take software job abroad The point isn't to pay foreigners a reasonable wage, no matter how the "Fachkräftemangel" talk makes you believe that. The point is to drive the price down with the alternatives of not paying well here or outsourcing because you "can't find anyone" here.

@HardwareGeek said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread: I'm certain this dream was entirely unrelated to watching Fast and Furious 5 just before going to bed. Ah yes, Fast and Spurious...

@loopback0 said in Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?: Check out this Studio flat for rent on Rightmove Studio flat for rent in New Street, Dudley, DY1 for £750 pcm. Marketed by Taylors Estate Agents, Brierley Hill The building's a former police station. The holding cell is left in this studio flat as a feature. Key features LARGE STUDIO WITH FEATURE HOLDING CELL Perfect for teenage daughters!

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@PleegWat said in Fun with maps: @loopback0 And then they'd been in Edinburgh/Geneva (Cross out what is not appropriate). Why would they do that to themselves? To lay down at your door, of course.

@Gern_Blaanston Interesting that you mention Barbie, whose middle name is the same as Millie's first.

english-don-lafontaine gets interesting stuff

 

@acrow said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot: Eurion I do not think so: I scanned all the documents myself with a vintage scanner from the early 2000ies (@Tsaukpaetra may like such hardware, too). And with LibreOffice 4.x, it just worx.

@PleegWat said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread: @Tsaukpaetra said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread: @Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread: @Mason_Wheeler err 2b not found Mount options invalid, try fsck and mount again? Dunno, it looks fine, but what is its personality like? Divergent