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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Microsoft
I'm holding out until they pay me to upgrade, since the free upgrade apparently got un-reserved (how the fuck...) on my holdout PCs...
If you want then you can still make the free update tool work with a little effort.
You need a copy of
Windows10Upgrade24074.exe
and after it fails for the first time replacec:\windows10upgrade\wimgapi.dll
with the one fromc:\windows\system32\wimgapi.dll
and try again.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Microsoft
I'm holding out until they pay me to upgrade, since the free upgrade apparently got un-reserved (how the fuck...) on my holdout PCs...
If you want to then you can still make the free update tool work with a little effort.
You need a copy of 'Windows10Upgrade24074.exe' and after it fails for the first time replace
c:\windows10upgrade\wimgapi.dll
with the one fromc:\windows\system32\wimgapi.dll
and try again.Will keep in mind. If memory serves I just manually upgraded and resigned to the watermark.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Airbus does use two-of-tree for sensors...
Edit: Just aim for the gap in the middle...
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@PJH “fixed”
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Can they do Material Design next?
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Fuck those parents.
edit: On further, detailed reading:
The order affected the private Green Meadow Waldorf School
Why does that not surprise me? Also:
“The school they attend has not experienced a single case of measles,” the parents’ attorney, Michael Sussman, told Patch. “We believe that state law forbids exclusions of students except where the school they attend has an outbreak of a communicable disease. That did not happen here.”
Let me translate that: "Oh, the school hasn't had an outbreak. Better make sure it has one!"
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Fuck those parents.
edit: On further, detailed reading:
The order affected the private Green Meadow Waldorf School
Why does that not surprise me?
What's the significance of "Waldorf?"
Hmm...I think this is an area where a lot of Orthodox Jews are moving in and locals are trying to stop them. TFA doesn't say, but...yep:
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
The order affected the private Green Meadow Waldorf School
"When better Waldorfs are made, Green Meadow will make them!"
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Switzerland, bringing us the future in secure, verifiable, online elections! No more need for a federal holiday, just vote in your underwear before going to work!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
What's the significance of "Waldorf?"
They have salad for brains.
Serious answer ():
Public funding of Waldorf schools in English-speaking countries has met some road blocks due to widespread rejection of vaccines among the parents of Waldorf pupils[6] and the mystical and antiquated nature of some of Steiner's theories.[7] Several Waldorf schools in the UK have closed due to their administrations' failure to adhere to normally accepted standards of education (e.g. required levels of literacy,[8] safety standards for child welfare,[9] and mistreatment of special needs children).[10]
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
just vote in your underwear before going to work!
It's the Swiss Post. Chances are the online voting system is only open during their office hours. So, like 4h per day.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
What's the significance of "Waldorf?"
They have salad for brains.
Serious answer ():
Public funding of Waldorf schools in English-speaking countries has met some road blocks due to widespread rejection of vaccines among the parents of Waldorf pupils[6] and the mystical and antiquated nature of some of Steiner's theories.[7] Several Waldorf schools in the UK have closed due to their administrations' failure to adhere to normally accepted standards of education (e.g. required levels of literacy,[8] safety standards for child welfare,[9] and mistreatment of special needs children).[10]
Ah. I'd never heard of that before. Thanks.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Public funding of Waldorf schools in English-speaking countries has met some road blocks due to widespread rejection of vaccines among the parents of Waldorf pupils[6] and the mystical and antiquated nature of some of Steiner's theories.[7] Several Waldorf schools in the UK have closed due to their administrations' failure to adhere to normally accepted standards of education (e.g. required levels of literacy,[8] safety standards for child welfare,[9] and mistreatment of special needs children).[10]
Things don't improve after that...
These stages each last approximately seven years, as Steiner believed human beings develop in seven-year-long spiritual cycles. He also believed each stage was imbued with a different "sphere" - the Moon (0-7 years old), Mercury (7-14 years old), and Venus (14-21 years old).
Maybe somebody else has the mental strength to get through the rest.
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@cvi Not even going to try. I just closed the tab without even focusing it again.
<Insert your favorite NOPE! GIF here>
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Fuck those parents.
edit: On further, detailed reading:
The order affected the private Green Meadow Waldorf School
Why does that not surprise me?
What's the significance of "Waldorf?"
I don’t know if it’s the same for New York (for whatever reason I didn’t know these idiots exist outside of Germany), but they literally teach you how to dance your name.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@cvi Not even going to try. I just closed the tab without even focusing it again.
<Insert your favorite NOPE! GIF here>
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
I've played the fastest game of Exploding Kittens possible.
We were two players and the player who started before me discarded three cards and asked for my defuse.
Then in my turn I drew an exploding kitten.
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I knew it
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"We used 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams as a [comparison]," said Dr Sun.
On the topic of the Eaten's lyrics, he added: "I didn't personally write them, but I would be frankly astounded if anyone listened to that song and then felt a desire to be eaten by a cannibal."
Notably absent: any similar sentiment about "Happy"
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@hungrier That song doesn't make me feel the desire to be eaten by a cannibal.
It just make me want to punch Pharrell Williams in the face, violently and repeatedly, screaming "ARE YOU HAPPY NOW"
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It revealed that death metal fans are not "desensitised" to violent imagery.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I had my doubts about this, but I was waiting to hear from denizens who actually knew something about physics. (I know next to nothing.) The question came up on Stack Exchange: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/466335/have-researchers-managed-to-reverse-time-if-so-what-does-that-mean-for-physi
Top answer so far:
"While website you've linked to, phys.org, tries to pass itself off as a science-journalism site, it is nothing of the sort.
Instead, its core business is to aggregate press releases written by universities themselves.
For most of the press releases they publish, phys.org does not do any vetting at all of the contents of the documents, nor do they do any independent journalism or check with independent experts."This means that the text you've linked to was written by someone (a university press office) with a direct financial stake in the impact of the piece, and it was not verified by anyone, and neither the writer nor the editor checked with any independent experts to confirm what they were publishing."
"...So what does the current paper have to do with the arrow of time? Nothing at all, except for hype. "
... ""
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@thegoryone said in In other news today...:
this guy is literally a millionaire, so it's hilarious he's splitting hairs over a 1.5k debt
I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks
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@thegoryone
Yeah, that's Steiner / Waldorf alright. But, hey, at least they can dance their names!
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Tune in tomorrow when
GoogleAmazon services stop working.Fake edit: from the comments, apparently Google already went down a few days ago?
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@hungrier Well, tomorrow it will be Azure's turn to be taken over by SkyNet?
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@TimeBandit So, you mean to say that Azure is only vulnerable to SkyNet during a leap year?
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Courtesy blakeyrat
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@Rhywden Yes, in a German humour kind of way
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LOL. Makes sense when you think about it though.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@thegoryone
Yeah, that's Steiner / Waldorf alright. But, hey, at least they can dance their names!
Perfect fit for most of our colleges now!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
LOL. Makes sense when you think about it though.
Pluto’s inclined and eccentric orbit does not work with their assumptions, but it’s not a planet anyway, as defined by the International Astronomical Union. Please do not email me about this.
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Talk about an ambulance being in the right place at the right time!
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Yes, in a German humour kind of way
What is this "humour" you talk about? I don't understand...
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I had my doubts about this, but I was waiting to hear from denizens who actually knew something about physics. (I know next to nothing.) The question came up on Stack Exchange: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/466335/have-researchers-managed-to-reverse-time-if-so-what-does-that-mean-for-physi
Top answer so far:
"While website you've linked to, phys.org, tries to pass itself off as a science-journalism site, it is nothing of the sort.
Instead, its core business is to aggregate press releases written by universities themselves.
For most of the press releases they publish, phys.org does not do any vetting at all of the contents of the documents, nor do they do any independent journalism or check with independent experts."This means that the text you've linked to was written by someone (a university press office) with a direct financial stake in the impact of the piece, and it was not verified by anyone, and neither the writer nor the editor checked with any independent experts to confirm what they were publishing."
"...So what does the current paper have to do with the arrow of time? Nothing at all, except for hype. "
... ""
Maybe it changed the arrow of time to before the SE question was closed?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Yes, in a German humour kind of way
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
What is this "humour" you talk about? I don't understand...
I've heard about this "four humours system", but I didn't know they came up with a fifth one in Germany...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Pluto’s inclined and eccentric orbit does not work with their assumptions, but it’s not a planet anyway, as defined by the International Astronomical Union. Please do not email me about this.
Was just going to post this.
Along with:
Fuck you, IAU!
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
You never had an emergency and needed to bring someone to the hospital ASAP and couldn't wait for the
Has been held in court to not be a reason to speed. The only legal way to speed, other than in an emergency vehicle, is under police escort.
Depends on what that emergency is. If there is a life in danger, it's legal.
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Good old Gizmodo
It sort of makes sense—if you were getting seats to a football game, you’d prefer one near the 45.72m line rather than one of the end zones in order to see the most action, even if you’d occasionally be much closer to the players from the end zone. That’s sort of what’s going on here.
What kind of football has a "45.72m line"? I'd like to sit near the 50m line in the football (rugby league) games I go to!
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@Zemm said in In other news today...:
What kind of football has a "45.72m line"?
Sounds suspiciously Canadian.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
You never had an emergency and needed to bring someone to the hospital ASAP and couldn't wait for the
Has been held in court to not be a reason to speed. The only legal way to speed, other than in an emergency vehicle, is under police escort.
Depends on what that emergency is. If there is a life in danger, it's legal.
Most actions that are legal for authorized public personnel (such as ambulance drivers) are also legal for private citizens. It's just that certified, sworn or licensed professionals are given the benefit of the doubt more than private citizens doing the same thing.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hottest-chat-app-teens-google-docs/584857/
Filed under: POS 911
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@izzion ZOMG...the other night my son was talking on the phone to another Scout in his patrol about their plans for summer camp. A bit of silence ensued...so we asked him what was going on. The other kid was having some technical difficulties getting his google docs to come up.
YOU'RE ALREADY ON THE PHONE! JUST FUCKING TALK TO EACH OTHER!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
YOU'RE ALREADY ON THE PHONE! JUST FUCKING TALK TO EACH OTHER!
Finally we're returning to a more civilized version of communication: text. No more stupid shouting into noisy microphones. Just text. Glorious.
Now if we could downgrade the capabilities of Google Docs to be more like notepad, so we don't have to deal with stupid formatting and useless GIFs, we'd be golden.
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