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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Make America Great Again, buy computers made in USA
I'll take three things that make me not want to buy a computer forÂŁ500
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Okay, he obviously got just enough stuff from Game Of Thrones to find the phrase "Winter is coming." attractive. And then made that his own by replacing
winter
withsanctions
.He obviously neither did watch nor read (ha! as if!) far enough to realize that this phrase is meant as a warning about an impending disaster for everyone.
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@Jaloopa A computer should not be "Linux-powered". A computer's job is to run whatever OS I install on it.
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Company organizes conference for hardcore PC gamers, uses it to reveal casual mobile game. PC gamers shockingly don't like it.
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@Nagesh The Onion articles aren't really news though, those can go in any other thread.
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@pie_flavor Did Mueller find something?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Nagesh The Onion articles aren't really news though
Might as well be.
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@topspin No, I just thought it was funny.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Chicken lays bizarre egg
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2751942/kip-legt-bizar-ei-ik-schrok-me-kapot
To me, it looks like the hen was trying to lay a Klein egg.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 AND HERE I AM IN BARE FEET!
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Do you iron them often? Asking for a friend.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Chicken lays bizarre egg
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2751942/kip-legt-bizar-ei-ik-schrok-me-kapot
To me, it looks like the hen was trying to lay a Klein egg.
That egg does not seem small.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Chicken lays bizarre egg
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2751942/kip-legt-bizar-ei-ik-schrok-me-kapot
To me, it looks like the hen was trying to lay a Klein egg.
A mathemachicken?
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Chicken lays bizarre egg
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2751942/kip-legt-bizar-ei-ik-schrok-me-kapot
To me, it looks like the hen was trying to lay a Klein egg.
That egg does not seem small.
A Klein bottle has zero volume, so by that measurement it'd be pretty small.
It'd make a pretty terrible egg, though, since an egg by definition has to have an inside and a nonzero volume in order to be useful. A Klein manifold has neither.
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@loopback0 Make Italy great again.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Chicken lays bizarre egg
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2751942/kip-legt-bizar-ei-ik-schrok-me-kapot
To me, it looks like the hen was trying to lay a Klein egg.
That egg does not seem small.
A Klein bottle has zero volume, so by that measurement it'd be pretty small.
It'd make a pretty terrible egg, though, since an egg by definition has to have an inside and a nonzero volume in order to be useful. A Klein manifold has neither.
Klein is Dutch (and German) for small.
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@PleegWat Yeah, Felix Klein was German.
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@loopback0
He was obviously just trying Point to the entrance
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@loopback0 Lousy detective skills. Thereâs (at least) two men, only one of who is circumcised. đ§
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Seriously, who lets this guy supervise an election where he's one of the candidates? With all the stories out of Georgia, this is some serious Banana Republic kind of shit.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Chicken lays bizarre egg
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2751942/kip-legt-bizar-ei-ik-schrok-me-kapot
To me, it looks like the hen was trying to lay a Klein egg.
That egg does not seem small.
A Klein bottle has zero volume, so by that measurement it'd be pretty small.
It'd make a pretty terrible egg, though, since an egg by definition has to have an inside and a nonzero volume in order to be useful. A Klein manifold has neither.
Klein is Dutch (and German) for small.
I know that (well, I knew it's German).
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Catching up because I haven't checked this thread in a while...
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
From the "Whoah, that's impressive" Department:
Anyone got an article on this that's not 90% inane metaphorical explanations for preschool children? It's hard to read it like that. What's the big breakthrough? I thought we've nailed the CO one-in-a-billion detectors years ago.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Chicken lays bizarre egg
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2751942/kip-legt-bizar-ei-ik-schrok-me-kapot
To me, it looks like the hen was trying to lay a Klein egg.
That egg does not seem small.
A Klein bottle has zero volume, so by that measurement it'd be pretty small.
It'd make a pretty terrible egg, though, since an egg by definition has to have an inside and a nonzero volume in order to be useful. A Klein manifold has neither.
Klein is Dutch (and German) for small.
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@GÄ ska said in In other news today...:
Anyone got an article on this that's not 90% inane metaphorical explanations for preschool children? It's hard to read it like that. What's the big breakthrough? I thought we've nailed the CO one-in-a-billion detectors years ago.
Detecting a single molecule is easy. Detecting that your single-molecule detector has detected a single molecule is the tricky part. One molecule finding its way to one detector just doesn't normally produce a measurable change -- it's just way too tiny. It usually takes a whole lot of those detectors, all chained together, and with a substantial number of them activated at the same time, in order to actually register as a detectable quantity.
They managed to create a detector where a single molecule attaching itself to the detector changes the whole lattice of the molecular arrangement of the detector, and that results in a big enough change that a transistor can switch based on it.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat I feel like I can understand that headline perfectly well, despite not reading Dutch and only inferring the meaning of the first half of it from your post.
They're all just bad German dialects.
Well, English is also partly germanic, so it's also just a garbled mess of a bad dialect of german.
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@Carnage So's German.
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@anotherusername What someone else in the comments to the article also asked and which is also interesting:
How does the system cope with repeated signals? Do you need to "scrub" or does it reset by itself? And if it does reset what's the dead time?
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Paging @dkf, I think.
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@cvi Interesting, just last Monday I've heard "neuromorphic computing" the first time and wondered if that's what @dkf is doing.
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This has to be the dumbest idea I've recently read outside of the IoS and monopoly-money threads.
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@topspin I predict that, a la Amazon's hirebot, it'll determine that people like being not given the whole plot (and every joke), and they'll decide that they built it wrong and shutter it.
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@pie_flavor OTOH, it might determine that people do like being given the whole plot (and every joke).
...they just don't like the movie very much, then, if the trailer spoiled it...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
This has to be the dumbest idea I've recently read outside of the IoS and monopoly-money threads.
Dumb because it's never going to work, or dumb because it's going to result in even more boring movies? I can see how it could be both ways.
On one hand, I've not seen anything "AI" scale to that amount of data, so they'd have to extract some set of features that may or may not be representative of the whole movie. On the other hand, the "AI" will probably just end up rating ${semi-successful series} high because it's been trained to do so.
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Quick survey: who here drinks black coffee?
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- PEOPLE WHO SPOIL THEIR COFFEE WITH CREAM AND SUGAR SHOULD BE TORTURED
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
- PEOPLE WHO SPOIL THEIR COFFEE WITH CREAM AND SUGAR SHOULD BE TORTURED
I have to suffer Canadian winter, I guess that's torture enough
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@TimeBandit
By this line of thinking I must be two parts Irish@Zecc said in In other news today...:
- PEOPLE WHO SPOIL THEIR COFFEE WITH CREAM AND SUGAR SHOULD BE TORTURED
Oi, leg eet, ye effin' slag...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
But why?
I hated it when SuSE did that. Gnome is pure cancer and KDE is infinitely better.This is the way of things. It will continue until someone writes a desktop shell that runs on node.js.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
It will continue until someone writes a desktop shell that runs on node.js.
Someone did
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@Zecc The
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auto colouring makes it look particularly psychopathic
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Quick survey: who here drinks black coffee?
Yes, it's true. My black coffee cravings might make me a psychopath.
If they're not accommodated!!!
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Linus Torvalds: If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won
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@TimeBandit I donât drink coffee. This is, however, not a point supporting their data.
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Your kids are fat because you drive Diesel trucks
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
This has to be the dumbest idea I've recently read outside of the IoS and monopoly-money threads.
Dumb because it's never going to work, or dumb because it's going to result in even more boring movies?
Yes.
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World's biggest statue at the price of $182 million
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/world/asia/india-worlds-tallest-statue.html
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Quick survey: who here drinks black coffee? đš
If You Drink Coffee Black, You're Probably a Psychopath | Reader's Digest
Dear kids who are just starting to drink coffee. Take the following into consideration when you make this very important life-choice. Not only is being a psychopath basically required for many positions of power and wealth (e.g., CxO level in an over-hyped startup company fleecing other people), but regardless of how badly you fail/succeed at this, you will always be drinking the better-tasting coffee compared to the latte-hipsters.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
- PEOPLE WHO SPOIL THEIR COFFEE WITH CREAM AND SUGAR SHOULD BE TORTURED
Can't spoil something that's already that disgusting