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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Where in the fuck is PKD when you need him
Seems a bit over the top to wish polycystic kidney disease on someone just for the suggestion.
I feel like I've done this joke before but since I still have NFC what PKD is meant to stand for I'm not bothered
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
mfr how is Hurd doing...
Pardon?
I mean that news has me thinking of figuring out how to get a working Hurd deployment but I do not know how near to the heat-death of the universe to target with my time machine.
I hear that Milliways could make a good target.
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Where in the fuck is PKD when you need him
Seems a bit over the top to wish polycystic kidney disease on someone just for the suggestion.
I feel like I've done this joke before but since I still have NFC what PKD is meant to stand for I'm not bothered
Philip K Dick. Wrote Minority Report, a cautionary tale about this exact thing.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@sweaty_gammon Would you want to date an iPhone user? Saves us all time if they keep to themselves.
iPhone X users should be sterilised or at least should be
sectionedcommitted.FTFA
You British and your weird English!
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@pie_flavor I know who Philip K Dick was, I've never seen him referred to as PKD
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
I've never seen him referred to as PKD
Yes you have. Just now.
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I think the channel has more than 12 weeks of inventory between us and the other brand
^_~ you're blaming other companies for your bad decisions?
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I don't think Macron is liked in France:
(Yes this is the best version of this I can find).
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Karla NYC has more taxis than trucks on the street during rush hour, was my Svengali-like assumption.
Probably. Buses are also an issue. Though buses move much more predictably than taxis and usually have more consideration but they don't depend on tips that will be influenced by the speed of their trip.
From what I've seen, taxis drive faster on their way to a pickup than during a fair, when they drive very moderately. Though it probably depends on locality, their fairs usually depend not just on distance, but on time.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
No Brits should post here
That sounds like hate speech to me.
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\m/
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
\m/
Interesting, it sounds very much like it's the same thing as a Vacuum Channel Transistor but that they've made the channel so small you get quasi-vacuum-behaviour in normal packaging conditions. This could be awesome but I'd worry about leakage and they don't mention that.
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@Cursorkeys Science journalism hyping things up and not mentioning all the potential problems? That's not a thing that happens, ever.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
taxis drive faster on their way to a pickup than during a fair
I don't know, it seems like the taxis here drive the same speed during the State Fair.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Karla NYC has more taxis than trucks on the street during rush hour, was my Svengali-like assumption.
Probably. Buses are also an issue. Though buses move much more predictably than taxis and usually have more consideration but they don't depend on tips that will be influenced by the speed of their trip.
From what I've seen, taxis drive faster on their way to a pickup than during a fair, when they drive very moderately. Though it probably depends on locality, their fairs usually depend not just on distance, but on time.
Most
fairsfare in NYC are street pickups. I think @Polygeekery told the story of when he thought a NYC cabbie was going to kill him and his wife. People in NYC move fast, so I think it may depend upon the urgency of the passenger.ETA: I am also an aggressive walker and will put up an elbow when people don't let me through.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
ETA: I am also an aggressive walker and will put up an elbow when people don't let me through.
More and more I'm thinking pedestrian roads should also have clearly marked lanes and right of way. Most of all so that stupid fucks that apparently don't have places to be get over on the right.
And then gradually bring in other rules and points, say, for fondling gadgets, stopping, unpredictable behavior, littering, walking the dog all over the road. Upon, say, 12 points you have to pay crapton of money and also prove you can walk 100m in a straight line without fondling your gadgets before you're allowed back again. And, of course, introduce insurance and road tax (weight * CO2 * CH4 measurement). The collected funds then shall be used for maintenance (of someone's pocket lining).
Regulation is a crap solution, but what else there is to do? Unlike on motorways, there are no consequences for being a nuisance as a pedestrian. About a half of people are more or less mindful, but the rest - get over on the right, I said.
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@Zecc I read the title as "Nu-Metal" and then wondered what that genre of music had to do with semi-conductors.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
ETA: I am also an aggressive walker and will put up an elbow when people don't let me through.
More and more I'm thinking pedestrian roads should also have clearly marked lanes and right of way. Most of all so that stupid fucks that apparently don't have places to be get over on the right.
And then gradually bring in other rules and points, say, for fondling gadgets, stopping, unpredictable behavior, littering, walking the dog all over the road. Upon, say, 12 points you have to pay crapton of money and also prove you can walk 100m in a straight line without fondling your gadgets before you're allowed back again. And, of course, introduce insurance and road tax (weight * CO2 * CH4 measurement). The collected funds then shall be used for maintenance (of someone's pocket lining).
Regulation is a crap solution, but what else there is to do? Unlike on motorways, there are no consequences for being a nuisance as a pedestrian. About a half of people are more or less mindful, but the rest - get over on the right, I said.
This is where shame used to work. Because we live in such large communities it is easy to remain anonymous and suffer no consequences for being jerks.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Itâs the real me, I assure you
Sounds like something a clone would say.
Also he didn't ask for anyone's help in moving money so I'm definitely skeptical.
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@sweaty_gammon said in In other news today...:
@Zecc I read the title as "Nu-Metal" and then wondered what that genre of music had to do with semi-conductors.
Every real \m/ knows that tubes are the real deal. Except those playing nu-metal, which, of course, isn't real metal...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
prove you can walk 100m in a straight line without fondling your gadgets
every seven seconds, right?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
ETA: I am also an aggressive walker and will put up an elbow when people don't let me through.
More and more I'm thinking pedestrian roads should also have clearly marked lanes and right of way. Most of all so that stupid fucks that apparently don't have places to be get over on the right.
And then gradually bring in other rules and points, say, for fondling gadgets, stopping, unpredictable behavior, littering, walking the dog all over the road. Upon, say, 12 points you have to pay crapton of money and also prove you can walk 100m in a straight line without fondling your gadgets before you're allowed back again. And, of course, introduce insurance and road tax (weight * CO2 * CH4 measurement). The collected funds then shall be used for maintenance (of someone's pocket lining).
Regulation is a crap solution, but what else there is to do? Unlike on motorways, there are no consequences for being a nuisance as a pedestrian. About a half of people are more or less mindful, but the rest - get over on the right, I said.
Not everywhere is as busy as NYC where just being alive on the sidewalk is a nuisance to someone.
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Tumblr is about to commit Sudoku.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Tumblr is about to commit Sudoku.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Sorry mate, but we didn't believe the guy who said he was Paul McCartney, and you're not fooling anyone either.
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@boomzilla The headline makes it sound like it is one of David Ike's conspiracy theories. As if he was grown in a vat somewhere.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
ETA: I am also an aggressive walker and will put up an elbow when people don't let me through.
More and more I'm thinking pedestrian roads should also have clearly marked lanes and right of way. Most of all so that stupid fucks that apparently don't have places to be get over on the right.
And then gradually bring in other rules and points, say, for fondling gadgets, stopping, unpredictable behavior, littering, walking the dog all over the road. Upon, say, 12 points you have to pay crapton of money and also prove you can walk 100m in a straight line without fondling your gadgets before you're allowed back again. And, of course, introduce insurance and road tax (weight * CO2 * CH4 measurement). The collected funds then shall be used for maintenance (of someone's pocket lining).
Regulation is a crap solution, but what else there is to do? Unlike on motorways, there are no consequences for being a nuisance as a pedestrian. About a half of people are more or less mindful, but the rest - get over on the right, I said.
Not everywhere is as busy as NYC where just being alive on the sidewalk is a nuisance to someone.
I get you are mostly but pedestrians in NYC in the street and especially bike lanes are so oblivious you'd think they were walking around in 6 ft bubble wrap.
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@Karla No, I get the sentiment. Iâd probably also be annoyed by all the people there being in the way. I just prefer somewhere with less people in the first place, personally, instead of establishing London tube style order.
Edit: oh, actually in the street, not on the sidewalk. Yeah, that sounds like Darwin waiting to happen.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
More and more I'm thinking pedestrian roads should also have clearly marked lanes and right of way. Most of all so that stupid fucks that apparently don't have places to be get over on the right.
Given how well that works for streets... (Hell, I had to swerve several times on the morning commute because the <censored/> couldn't drive a straight line.) Besides, all those people can't see past their phone anyways...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Edit: oh, actually in the street, not on the sidewalk.
There's a difference?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Edit: oh, actually in the street, not on the sidewalk.
There's a difference?
Not according to some of the students at work.
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I think I might have accidentally moved into an alternate universe.
Edit: I'd very much like to know what their sources are, of course.
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@Zecc As long as it replaces Edge rather than supplementing it as Edge does to IE, it's not so bad...
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@Zecc As long as it replaces Edge rather than supplementing it as Edge does to IE, it's not so bad...
I'm not using Edge, personally, but I'm not keen on there being even less competition to Google's crap.
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@topspin I would like to know why Chromium seems to be held as some sort of gold standard of browsers.
Is it just that good, or is it because Chrome has market dominance (due to Google's persevering insistence) and hence most websites conform to its quirks rather than those of other browsers?
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@Zecc
I suspect it's to have a variant of Chromium bundled with Windows. Updates for the runtime will then be shoveled through Windows Update. As UWP hasn't quite taken off (and I'm being generous here), they'll be pissing all that away and take another stab at replacing ol' Win32, now with even more shitty Electron-based PWAs.
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@Zecc So they're going for the shitpile that is Chromium as their base, the one ran by wannabe Discodevs? I tend to avoid anything Chromium-based so I'll be happy to keep ignoring whatever Edge replacement MS is putting out.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Zecc
I suspect it's to have a variant of Chromium bundled with Windows. Updates for the runtime will then be shoveled through Windows Update. As UWP hasn't quite taken off (and I'm being generous here), they'll be pissing all that away and take another stab at replacing ol' Win32, now with even more shitty Electron-based PWAs.I'm not seeing why they should do away with UWP when they're changing the rendering engine. First of all, this would only hit the Javascript part of UWP, secondly, all WinJS does is provide additional APIs.
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@Rhywden
It hasn't fulfilled the five-year plan.
And it's not fully cross platform (the UI part). The reformed Microsoft rather leans on this. Making it so has been promised, but would be exceptionally difficult.
On the other hand we have VSCode - the most popular Microsoft app ever (used voluntarily, at any rate). Is it UWP? No. Does it need UWP? No. So screw UWP.
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@Zecc Yay for monopolies! Well, can't say I blame them. Maintaining a web engine that no one uses is expensive.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
As UWP hasn't quite taken off (and I'm being generous here)
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@topspin I'm quite upset by that. I've used tumblr as my main porn source for years. Now to see where all the artists migrate.
And yes, it's a terrible decision from the business point of view too. You've captured a huge chunk of a massive market by (inadvertently) developing the perfect platform for it and you just drop it? Not even split it and give it a new name?
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@topspin I'm quite upset by that. I've used tumblr as my main porn source for years. Now to see where all the artists migrate.
And yes, it's a terrible decision from the business point of view too. You've captured a huge chunk of a massive market by (inadvertently) developing the perfect platform for it and you just drop it? Not even split it and give it a new name?
From what I read elsewhere, it was their host/owner/ISP Verizon that put the screws to them. True? Not sure.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Now to see where all the artists migrate.
I'm seeing patreon mentioned a lot.