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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
This is how you ask for cookie acceptance. Good Job SanFranChro.
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tl;dr algorithm matches images of suspects' hands against those found in images of child abuse. Not, as I thought, some bloke looking at your hands to see if you're a nonce.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
some bloke looking at your hands to see if you're a nonce.
... if you're a person who can only be used once then has to be discarded?
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
if you're a person who can only be used once then has to be discarded?
No, that's the kiddy.
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@MZH said in In other news today...:
Edit: I wonder if this kind of rule pedantry is why I like C++ ...
You and Raymond Chen, it seems.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
attach to anything (as long as it is rated for the weight).
How do they manage tongue weight in other regions? Heavy loads on a bumper hitch tend to lift your front tires into the air, which is bad for many different reasons. Gooseneck hitches put the load directly over the rear axle so it doesn't apply a torque to your vehicle.
IIRC even my 2500HD is only rated for ~600 pounds tongue weight on the bumper hitch, while the gooseneck hitch is somewhere upwards of 3,000 pounds.
I guess gooseneck hitches are rare to nonexistent here. Trailers are supposed to be either close to perfectly balanced on their own axles (maximum tongue weight of the average car is likely around 90 kg so ~180 pounds), or they're supposed to support themselves with their own axles of which the front is articulated (here the tongue weight is limited to just the stresses you get during acceleration and deceleration).
EDIT: And if you need more weight, there's always semi-trucks, tractors and multiple-axle RVs...
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@masonwheeler
I hear Tesla is awash in investor capital for major financial transactions these days
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@blakeyrat I would pay $200 for said buildings.
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Duterte's gone ahead and published a list of official enemies from the prior administration, all of whom are now private citizens...
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
I guess gooseneck hitches are rare to nonexistent here.
I can confirm that. I have seen them exactly zero times anywhere in Europe. There might be some, but they're very, very unusual.
The bumper hitches I've seen are usually rated for a vertical weight of about 60 kg, AFAIR, even for pickups or 4x4 rated for a maximum towing weight of 4-5 tons. Which means almost all trailers sold here are balanced accordingly.
Besides, coming back to the question of pickups, if you have a pickup to benefit from the large loading platform, but then use a gooseneck hitch, you're kind of loosing that benefit...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
If the catcher drops the third strike then the batter has the option of running to first prior to being tagged or the ball being thrown to first base (forced out). If first base is occupied, the batter is out, unless there are two outs, then the batter and the runners can advance and the batter must be tagged or forced out.
And I thought cricket was bad...
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
If the catcher drops the third strike then the batter has the option of running to first prior to being tagged or the ball being thrown to first base (forced out). If first base is occupied, the batter is out, unless there are two outs, then the batter and the runners can advance and the batter must be tagged or forced out.
And I thought cricket was bad...
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game
To be fair many sports are like that.
How many people actually understand what the out-of-play rules in football are about?
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
How many people actually understand what the out-of-play rules in football are about?
ITYM offside, in which case the rule can be summarized as "you're offside if you were closer to the goal line than the ball and didn't have at least two players of the opposing team closer than you; also you were involved in play somehow and not just standing there in a corner". I think.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
And I thought cricket was bad...
The infield fly rule is my favorite. Especially in Little League.
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@Zecc I rest my case.
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@boomzilla
Given that the "intentionally dropped fly ball so we can get a double play" play probably still requires a fair amount of skill for Little Leaguers to pull off, it's a wonder they even use the Infield Fly rule.
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@boomzilla
Also, I found this history of the dropped third strike rule to be fascinating: https://sabr.org/research/dropped-third-strike-life-and-times-ruleAnd, as an added bonus, it kind of covers why the infield fly rule is a thing too!
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla
Also, I found this history of the dropped third strike rule to be fascinating: https://sabr.org/research/dropped-third-strike-life-and-times-ruleAnd, as an added bonus, it kind of covers why the infield fly rule is a thing too!
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Enough with baseball, back to the news:
A California man who resolved not to leave his local store until he found a winning scratch-off lottery ticket uncovered a $750,000 jackpot on his fifth try.
Talk about being lucky... He could have been there all day!
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Be careful of giving anyone access to your account:
(It was mostly when she was caught that she proposed donating them. Oh well)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Lunch lady sisters accused of stealing nearly $500G
Five hundred Gigadollars! That could buy half of Manhattan according to Wikipedia.
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@anonymous234 you're thinking of jiggadollars. Our money isn't metric.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/34560/ramen-heist-100000-worth-noodles-stolen-truck-emily-zanotti
The comments are pretty good... never underestimate the power of bored people on the Internet...
I smell insurance fraud. I am with you. No way can $100k of Ramen fit on one truck.
It was a 53-foot trailer which theoretically holds 3816 cubic feet of air (8' wide by 9' high by 53' long). A standard pallet for US grocery is 40" wide, 48" long. The ability to fill the trailer floor-space depends a lot on how well these palletized units fit. If pallets will fit in the trailer "wide:wide" it's possible to put 30 pallet footprints in a 53' trailer.
Wholesale ramen pallets have 120 cases of 24 packages each on them. A wholesaler I Googled sells each of those cases for $4.32 (I seem to recall buying 12-packs for $2 at Aldi, so this seems high), that's $518.40 per pallet or $15,552 for 120 pallets.
Yeah, the math doesn't add up unless they're counting the cost of the trailer, too.
Edit: although, Mr. Math has a slight transcription error, since $15,552 is 30 pallets at $518.40 per pallet, not 120, which lines up with his original 30 pallet footprints. Though if the trailer/pallet design allows for stacking 4 pallets high and 120 pallets per truck is the right number, then you're up to $62,208 per truck at the $4.32 per case estimate, which then is within moderately reasonable range of a truck holding $100jiggadollars ($100,000) of ramen...
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
A wholesaler I Googled sells each of those cases for $4.32
Yeah, but street value...
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@izzion Maybe it was "gourmet" Ramen.
No, I have no idea what "gourmet" Ramen is, but there's a restaurant in my area that specializes in it. I've never been curious enough to eat there.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
A wholesaler I Googled sells each of those cases for $4.32
Yeah, but street value...
That, too, is already dealt with in TFAC...
Yeah, but that's wholesale. What's the street value?
much less
Stolen goods are half-price at most.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I'd guess the big difference is that in the US, pickup trucks are quite common. From what I understand, they're not so common in Europe
Right; but it's not like there's some mysterious force-field that envelops Europe and if a pickup truck enters it it dissolves into magical butterflies, right?
And if you own horses, wouldn't that be a pretty good reason to buy one? Even if you don't need it for the horse trailer, it's handy for things like: their feed, the equipment needed to re-shoe one, etc.
From my own experience (with horses), pick-ups are not necessarily that much more convenient than any large car (i.e. 4x4 or SUV), on balance. Most stuff that you need to haul around when taking the horses on a trip can fit into a standard car (btw, most people also don't have "the equipment needed to re-shoe one", unless by that you just mean a couple of hand tools that fit into any grooming box with brushes and the like... real farrier's work is too complicated and only specialists do it), and when you don't have that much stuff to carry a pickup isn't really suited to European roads/cities/parking spaces etc. There are some in rural areas, but very few in suburban ones, for that reason.
But regardless of pickups, trailers are common here, most people who only own a couple of horses have one. You don't need a pickup to haul a trailer, any reasonably-sized car can do it.
In the end, many horse-owners end up having two vehicles (at least), a small-ish one for day-to-day business and a large-ish one for hauling the horses. That last one can be either a 4x4 or a SUV, or a pickup, but also a horse box: as soon as you have a vehicle that you use almost exclusively to transport the horses, why bother with a car + trailer when you can have both in one?
Also, a trailer can only transport 2, max 3 horses. A horse box will easily fit up to 8 or 12 (for the truck-sized ones), so professionals might have a small trailer for when they only need to transport a couple of horses, but also a horse box for when they need to carry more.
Basically, both things exist and have different uses for different cases. It's almost as if not all people are the same!
I don't hang around horse circles, but every single horse trailer (or livestock trailer in general) that I've seen used a gooseneck hitch, which can only be hooked up to a pickup truck and not a van or SUV (as far as I know, I"m sure someone will be along to and explain some really weird scenario).
In the USA, one- and two-horse trailers usually have a ball hitch (an upside-down cup locks over a ball attached to the bumper of the towing vehicle):
But 4- or 6-horse trailers (or larger) use a gooseneck or fifth-wheel hitch (the trailer reaches over and attaches in the middle of the bed of a pickup truck or a semi-truck/big rig tractor):
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@anonymous234 hold out for gibidollars
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
never underestimate the power of bored people on the Internet...
Some bored person doing math
Edit: bored @izzion doing math
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@Zecc
I can't help myself! It's a compulsion!
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Besides, coming back to the question of pickups, if you have a pickup to benefit from the large loading platform, but then use a gooseneck hitch, you're kind of lo
osing that benefit...A pickup truck usually has a higher towing capacity as well, which can be a great boon in hilly or mountainous areas.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
If the catcher drops the third strike then the batter has the option of running to first prior to being tagged or the ball being thrown to first base (forced out). If first base is occupied, the batter is out, unless there are two outs, then the batter and the runners can advance and the batter must be tagged or forced out.
And I thought cricket was bad...
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game
To be fair many sports are like that.
How many people actually understand what the out-of-play rules in football are about?
Not me, that's for sure. What I know of the rules consists almost entirely of what I remember from having been forced to play it in high school PE mumble decades ago. And I never did really understand any strategy.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
How many people actually understand what the out-of-play rules in football are about?
They are straight forward for soccer.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
How many people actually understand what the out-of-play rules in football are about?
ITYM offside, in which case the rule can be summarized as "you're offside if you were closer to the goal line than the ball and didn't have at least two players of the opposing team closer than you; also you were involved in play somehow and not just standing there in a corner". I think.
You must be on the attacking half and in that position when the ball is played from a teammate.
The phrase is "gained an advantage" and not "involved in the play" for very specific and esoteric reasons.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
They are straight forward for soccer.
Hockey rules are simple:
If someone pisses you off, you beat the shit out of him then spend 5 minutes on the bench calming yourself
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
They are straight forward for soccer.
Wait for the ball to come within fifty to sixty feet of you, grab your knee, fall on the ground and roll around screaming bloody murder.
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The city of Redwood City, which should have done everything in its power to prevent that from happening, instead concluded that the sign wasn’t a historic landmark.
I heard this news last night, and took it hard. This morning, I instinctively skipped out of work in order to visit the Ampex sign one last time.
Ridiculous.
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@boomzilla That Ampex sign was California's last Confederate monument. Not all disgraces to the nation's history ride symbolically stanced horses.
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@Gribnit what?
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
https://www.reference.com/world-view/meaning-horse-statue-its-legs-raised-332f6b36fc399426
If the horse has four legs in the air, the soldier died fucking around.
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@boomzilla Still too expensive.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
-https://www.reference.com/world-view/meaning-horse-statue-its-legs-raised-332f6b36fc399426
What?
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: received 'What?' : detected Disingenuous Gaslighting protocol : responded 'Your mom.'
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@Gribnit what?
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@boomzilla ACK, also you're spamming identical posts.