In other news today...
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
So Apple can pull off their bullshit because it is primarily at the expense of the independent application vendors.
Which acts to decrease the number who publish on Apple's platform. Sure, each one will agonise over it, but it's a drag factor overall. It's a much stronger drag factor outside the US.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@PJH
Gotta have something to do with your second hand while drivingThat's why we have manual transmission
Part of the problem might've been that he was a bit heavy on the clutch, but maybe his big end hadn't gone…
Maybe he was masturbating too hard!
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The NHL used to be cool.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Gentleman sent to prison for shooting imaginary clowns in his apartment
So he was... a few clowns short of a circus.
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@Applied-Mediocrity
You dropped these
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What's old is new again.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
He's not even describing what I think of as master/slave. What he's describing is primary/hot standby.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
TRWTF is the GHCQ's sniffing permits are called "Edward Snowden surveillance powers" now.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Magus "Ten Ess". It's really obvious if you were one of the seven people who called the previous model the iPhone Ten.
I bet they're not using
U+2169
(ROMAN NUMERAL TEN) in their ads. There are few fonts where this doesn't look crap.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
There are few fonts where this doesn't look crap.
They can always use the same glyph as U+0058 (
X
).
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Magus "Ten Ess". It's really obvious if you were one of the seven people who called the previous model the iPhone Ten.
I bet they're not using
U+2169
(ROMAN NUMERAL TEN) in their ads. There are few fonts where this doesn't look crap.X vs Ⅹ
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Satanic Temple members said they have already cleaned up their stretch twice this year along U.S. 421 near State Road 32. That's not enough to win over Jill Konija, whose property line is just a few feet from one of the signs.
"We're obviously believers in God," Konija said. "It's like advertising a Satanic church in front of our home."
Mary Rosswurm, who lives across the street, said she's concerned about the sign affecting her property value.
"There could maybe only be one other sign that's worse that that to have up from your house," Rosswurm said. "Which would be the KKK (Ku Klux Klan)."
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The brothel was staffed by seven female mannequins and one male sex doll called Alessandro which boasts an adjustable penis that can extend between five and seven inches.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
"We're obviously believers in God," Konija said. "It's like advertising a Satanic church in front of our home."
So?
: "We're obviously believers in Satan. It's like advertising a Christian church in front of our home."
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Austria is hunting for a kangaroo of unknown origin that has been seen hopping about in the area of Hellmonsodt.
Just a hunch, but I'd say its origin was probably Australia.
Now, how it got to Austria... well...
I dunno, maybe it booked the ticket to the wrong country by mistake. They are very similar names.
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Sorry string theorists... So far you're 0 for lots in validated predictions.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Sorry string theorists... So far you're 0 for lots in validated predictions.
Further evidence that strings are messy and it's best to just keep them as arrays of bytes, to be interpreted elsewhere...
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@Tsaukpaetra but here's the critical question? Null terminated or not?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Sorry string theorists... So far you're 0 for lots in validated predictions.
I don't think this has anything to do with string theory. String theory posits tiny, sub-millimeter extra dimensions. This would, among other effects, allow gravity to have the same strength as the other fundamental forces at short distances, and then quickly become weaker due to soreading out among more dimensions (which the other forces don't see). This paper talks about non-compact (i.e., universe-sized) dimensions.
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@MZH Problem is, if you postulate a set of dimensions that are conveniently sized so that there are no physical effects...you're postulating something non-scientific. Might as well go "God made it" at that point.
That's the big problem with string theory--it doesn't really make predictions. Or at least it doesn't make testable predictions. It's mathturbation.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@MZH Problem is, if you postulate a set of dimensions that are conveniently sized so that there are no physical effects...you're postulating something non-scientific. Might as well go "God made it" at that point.
That's the big problem with string theory--it doesn't really make predictions. Or at least it doesn't make testable predictions. It's mathturbation.
There are people working on revealing such physical effects (so far found to be null):
The fact that sting theory is so hard to test is a point against it, but if people are still interested, more power to 'em.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
That's the big problem with string theory--it doesn't really make predictions.
Or maybe it maks 10100 predictions (or some daft number like that). One of the problems with string theory is pinning the stupid thing down to something you can attempt to think about testing…
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@Benjamin-Hall
#7 terminated. Also known as bellend strings.
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@boomzilla knows better than anyone that you need to watch your lawn. This woman didn't.
And yes, if you watch the video in the article you can see they chose a regular sedan car to steal a 16-foot (slightly short of 5m?) roll of turf and drove off with nearly all of it hanging out the back...
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@JBert seems like a very dirty thing to do to someone.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
bellend strings
Note to self - don't google parts of random posts.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
knows better than anyone that you need to watch your lawn.
When I had my lawn redone (many years ago, it's now dead/brown/weeds due to the last few years of drought), someone stole a couple pieces of sod. Fucking assholes.
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Fucking hell are you kidding me? That would actually impact people on this site.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Fucking hell are you kidding me?
The default UK politician response is "BAN IT" so... probably not.
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
That would actually impact people on this site.
I'd be surprised as it seems aimed at Facebook et al and even then it's too stupid, but as the proper detail isn't yet available then
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Fucking hell are you kidding me? That would actually impact people on this site.
How TF would she know if they are closed groups?
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
How TF would she know if they are closed groups?
I guess they wouldn't let her join.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
How TF would she know if they are closed groups?
I guess they wouldn't let her join.
That's the point. She is making accusations that she can't know to be true.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
How TF would she know if they are closed groups?
I guess they wouldn't let her join.
That's the point. She is making accusations that she can't know to be true.
Well, if they wouldn't let her join, it must be because they hate her.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
How TF would she know if they are closed groups?
I guess they wouldn't let her join.
That's the point. She is making accusations that she can't know to be true.
Well, if they wouldn't let her join, it must be because they hate her.
I see nothing extremist about that.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I'd be surprised as it seems aimed at Facebook et al and even then it's too stupid, but as the proper detail isn't yet available then
It never is. Not even when it comes to voting for complete idiocy like this, it isn't.
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Biology is not a strong point for some people...
Soot particles have been discovered in the placentas of pregnant women for the first time, leading scientists to warn that pollution may directly harm unborn babies.
Researchers discovered small black areas in the organ that surrounds the foetus in five mothers-to-be who were living in London.
Of course, if soot was - somehow - to get into the bloodstream of the mother (how?,) isn't the placenta exactly where you'd expect to find it, since it's filtering, rather than - say - in the baby?
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RIP EU DST
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@izzion Threvelant read: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/25701/eu-schedules-a-task-to-get-a-lock-on-daylight-saving-time/49