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@hungrier Can we use German?
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@djls45 Sure, but you have to make it funny.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@djls45 Sure, but you have to make it funny.
Yah, good luck with that.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@djls45 Sure, but you have to make it funny.
Yah, good luck with that.
Just gotta say it in Werner Klemperer's voice.
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@hungrier In only one word?
delegate
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: "Ordinary citizens showed little interest in the product, as it turned out to be a gray, single-ply brand that tended to turn yellow and grow brittle under prolonged exposure to sunlight."
Who puts toilet paper out in the sun?
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@boomzilla Ze Germans, apparently
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Who puts toilet paper out in the sun?
How else would you make it dry after washing used ones?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Who puts toilet paper out in the sun?
They've got to use something to reserve those sunbeds when they run out of towels!
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Cool story. Local town is currently a small island in a brand-new ocean, so a bunch of local pilots volunteered to help people get home or buy supplies.
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Okay. This one takes the prize for most nefarious data leak.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
Cool story. Local town is currently a small island in a brand-new ocean, so a bunch of local pilots volunteered to help people get home or buy supplies.
Says:
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Surprisingly, the one-box does work…
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Surprisingly, the one-box does work…
I think they are cached server-side. For instance, that content is all in the response from the server.
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
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From the criminal company that keeps on giving:
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Okay. This one takes the prize for most nefarious data leak.
Regarding the nomenclature, it's likely something lost in translation.
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TE;DR:
Presumed fertile might be a more reasonable English version of the term.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
Cool story. Local town is currently a small island in a brand-new ocean, so a bunch of local pilots volunteered to help people get home or buy supplies.
Says:
Sorry, this content is not available in your region.
Surprisingly, the one-box does work…
Basically, we got about eighteen hundred feet of snow this winter and it was so freaking cold none of it ever melted. Then, it all melted early last week. A creek called the Elkhorn River briefly became the second-largest river in the country, with more flow than even the Missouri River, and half the highways on the east end of the state were shut down.
A nearby town called Fremont was surrounded by waters with no way in or out, so 25 - 30 local private pilots ran volunteer missions from there to one of Omaha's small airports to reunite families and bring in supplies.
The waters are starting to go down and the highways look like ancient Roman ruins now. It's going to be months before things start returning to normal.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
Basically, we got about eighteen hundred feet of snow this winter
That's a bit more than in Canada
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Okay. This one takes the prize for most nefarious data leak.
Regarding the nomenclature, it's likely something lost in translation.
Yeah. I'm sure they meant to say axlotl tanks.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
TE;DR:
Presumed fertile might be a more reasonable English version of the term.
I assumed "sexually mature" myself.
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You're holding it wrong
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@TimeBandit I have a student whose iPad flexed like that. And she's not particularly rough with things.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUBsxCcJeUc
No, I don't think it'll ever get old, why do you ask?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
iPad flexed like that
This time it's not about iPads, it's about MacBooks screen issues.
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A picture of my aunt's lake (which is surrounded by a whole bunch of rental lots she leases out) made the news!
Somehow, her house was totally fine and still had working utilities. Most of the other lots are completely gone...
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Shockingly, and not called out in the article, they were being sold for £5, so breaking adverting codes...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@dcon Yeah, but it's MySpace. Would anybody even notice it was gone?
It's the modern version of "if a tree fell in the forest..."
I think the modern version of "if a tree fell in the forest" is Google+ shutting down.
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@brie Google+ was shut down? TIL.
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@mott555 Nope. But it's irrelevant enough that you could be forgiven for thinking it was.
It's going down for good on April 2nd, I believe.
In fact, most of the fuss about it has been from Google themselves...
"Warning, warning! Your Google+ account is going to be deactivated! Make sure you save anything that you don't want to lose!"
*crickets*
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
TE;DR:
Presumed fertile might be a more reasonable English version of the term.
That's still a really fucking creepy thing for a government database to include.
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I assumed "sexually mature" myself.
Why would they need a column that would presumably just be a view on the existing
age
andsex
columns?Unless they're actually somehow tracking whether the women have had their first period yet... in which case, even more fucking creepy.
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@PJH
Well, they wanted to sell them as a five-piece assemble-your-own-toy collectable set, for 1 quid per loot crate, but turns out there are health implications for a "some assembly required" sex toy.
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FakeEdit: Yes, Bloomberg, I am a robot. Why do you ask?
Alternate source:
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@brie said in In other news today...:
Why would they need a column that would presumably just be a view on the existing age and sex columns?
Unless they're actually somehow tracking whether the women have had their first period yet... in which case, even more fucking creepy.They used to track when women had had their first kid in order to prevent any subsequent kids, and maybe still are in some places. Yeah, creepy is one of many appropriate words.
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@boomzilla That's right, it didn't even occur to me that it might be a holdover from the one child laws. "BreedReady" is close enough to "HasGivenBirth" to at least be a somewhat plausible mistranslation.
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@TimeBandit There does not seem to be any mention of an observer contributing to the resolution at the reliable source, but the aircraft did indeed complete one flight between replacement of the left AoA vane and the accident flight, in which the problem occurred and was resolved by the crew. It was also logged, but because the maintenance manual didn't link the symptoms to a possible common cause, the maintenance only did some unrelated checks and fixes.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
but because the maintenance manual didn't link the symptoms to a possible common cause, the maintenance only did some unrelated checks and fixes.
I'd be very interested in what exactly Boeing had in the fault trouble-shooting manual and if it even covered possible MCAS faults (in light of their attempts to hide it's existence).
For Line Maintenance, which is stage-one fault troubleshooting basically, you are supposed to just follow flow diagrams and BIST systems to diagnose faults. It's only beyond that where you really get to properly troubleshoot without just rote following of if-then diagnostic charts.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
but because the maintenance manual didn't link the symptoms to a possible common cause, the maintenance only did some unrelated checks and fixes.
I'd be very interested in what exactly Boeing had in the fault trouble-shooting manual and if it even covered possible MCAS faults (in light of their attempts to hide it's existence).
For Line Maintenance, which is stage-one fault troubleshooting basically, you are supposed to just follow flow diagrams and BIST systems to diagnose faults. It's only beyond that where you really get to properly troubleshoot without just rote following of if-then diagnostic charts.
The AvHerald article does have some details, and links to the preliminary report.
Basically yes, there is a list/flow chart of checks and repairs for each symptom. There are two problems with it:
- It missed checks for some possible causes, one of which was this one. It was not specific to the MCAS. The AoA vane should have been included in the check-list for speed disagree (which was among the reported symptoms; the AoA is used for compensating position error to calculate calibrated airspeed from indicated airspeed), but wasn't.
- When some repair is done based on some check, and the part then tests successfully, the procedure is terminated without the rest of the checks or some kind of ‘integration’ check, so if the check failed spuriously (maybe because it wasn't done right) or there are actually multiple faults, the real problem may not get tested at all.
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Possible slogans: "It's like OnLive, but 10 years later" or "It's like OnLive, but it'll get cancelled even faster"
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Possible slogans: "It's like OnLive, but 10 years later" or "It's like OnLive, but it'll get cancelled even faster"
- Game streaming
- Gamepad
- Subscription
That's a hard no on all accounts.
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Some before and after. It should be noted that under normal circumstances, calling the Platte River a "river" is a joke. Even though it looks wide in the "before" picture, it's normally only an inch or two deep with tons of exposed sandbars. The flow probably results from some drunk guy taking a piss a few miles uphill.
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@MrL Nothing wrong with gamepads, unless they get bricked with a firmware update and require an old version of Chrome OS to fix
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