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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
MORRISSEY’S cat thinks his owner is a knob
All cats think that of their
humansslaves.FTFY
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Have we as a society become so rushed that half a minute ruins our day?
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@boomzilla Facebook and "utopian socialists" in the same sentence don't sound like the opinions of a sane person.
And of course they are the keepers of the Holy Grail concerning nutrition.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
Bad onebox, bad! Actual headline:
Japanese woman of the extinct Jōmon people lived 3,800 years ago and had a high alcohol tolerance, smelly armpits and a high-fat diet
Why would any of this be surprising?
I saw somewhere the alcohol was the key to our success because it was safer to drink than available water.
It was surprising to me because I hadn't consciously realized that genetic science had advanced to the point that they could tell these things from 4000 year old DNA.
I remember reading long ago that the Eskimos were the only traditional culture that did not have any psychoactive substances (including alcohol). Also that American Indians (AKA Native Americans) had a high rate of alcoholism because they didn't traditionally drink alcohol and so those prone to alcoholism had not already been weeded out from the gene pool.
Smelly armpits and high fat diet. Who didn't have smelly armpits 3K years ago. And I imagine those with a higher fat diet survived longer.
I'm pretty sure the alcohol tolerance bit has been beated to death.
Nobody has answered why smelly armpits and high fat diet are surprising.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Chip-and-PIN
:shudder:
What's wrong with it? Something you have, and something you know. Pretty reasonable security theater.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
Nobody has answered why smelly armpits and high fat diet are surprising.
Asians generally lack the genes that make sweat stinky.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
Nobody has answered why smelly armpits and high fat diet are surprising.
Asians generally lack the genes that make sweat stinky.
It's bacteria which are responsible for that.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
Nobody has answered why smelly armpits and high fat diet are surprising.
Asians generally lack the genes that make sweat stinky.
It's bacteria which are responsible for that.
True. But for some reason it's established that Caucasians smell worse than Asians.
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(My apologies in advance to the Christians here. Not meant to be a jab at Christians or Christianity. Or any other religion that regards Genesis as canonical. :0)
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@jinpa Perhaps something in Asain's genes makes them an unsuitable host for that kind of bacteria. An interesting thought. And I've been watching too much Sanctuary lately... :P
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
Nobody has answered why smelly armpits and high fat diet are surprising.
Asians generally lack the genes that make sweat stinky.
It's bacteria which are responsible for that.
East Asians (Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese) have fewer apocrine sweat glands compared to people of other descent, making East Asians less prone to body odor.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
For card payment, you either tap the thing (a couple seconds total if it's a slow terminal), put in the chip and type your pin (upwards of 10-15 seconds, again if it's slow), or maybe swipe and sign.
POS systems where I am are usually POS. Usually five seconds just for the reader to say "Hey, gimme a card!" ten seconds minimum to say "Don't take out that card!" and a bit once it's finished to come back and actually tell the register that payment was good.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
Nobody has answered why smelly armpits and high fat diet are surprising.
Because back then people were actually robots and ran off of oil.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
Nobody has answered why smelly armpits and high fat diet are surprising.
Asians generally lack the genes that make sweat stinky.
It's bacteria which are responsible for that.
East Asians (Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese) have fewer apocrine sweat glands compared to people of other descent, making East Asians less prone to body odor.
That's a bit different to what you were saying. Quantity is not the same as quality.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
POS systems where I am are usually POS.
From what I've seen, the big difference is whether they connect to the bank over the internet or over a phone line (often a very cheap GPRS plan) using a modem. The first kind are fast and pleasant to use; the second… aren't, especially when the POS is deep inside a building with lots of steel rebar in its construction.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
POS systems where I am are usually POS.
From what I've seen, the big difference is whether they connect to the bank over the internet or over a phone line (often a very cheap GPRS plan) using a modem. The first kind are fast and pleasant to use; the second… aren't, especially when the POS is deep inside a building with lots of steel rebar in its construction.
The ones I'm talking about are definitely at least DSL.
Either that or their terminals and three different tablets (for various delivery on demand services) are sucking up data for no benefit.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
Nobody has answered why smelly armpits and high fat diet are surprising.
Asians generally lack the genes that make sweat stinky.
It's bacteria which are responsible for that.
East Asians (Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese) have fewer apocrine sweat glands compared to people of other descent, making East Asians less prone to body odor.
That's a bit different to what you were saying. Quantity is not the same as quality.
They lack a gene that increase the number of apocrine glands, and that makes them smell different and the sweat smell a lot less rancid, so it is not different.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
Nobody has answered why smelly armpits and high fat diet are surprising.
Asians generally lack the genes that make sweat stinky.
It's bacteria which are responsible for that.
East Asians (Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese) have fewer apocrine sweat glands compared to people of other descent, making East Asians less prone to body odor.
That's a bit different to what you were saying. Quantity is not the same as quality.
They lack a gene that increase the number of apocrine glands, and that makes them smell different and the sweat smell a lot less rancid, so it is not different.
If you say so. If you cannot see the difference then I won't bother arguing the point further as it's useless.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
For card payment, you either tap the thing (a couple seconds total if it's a slow terminal), put in the chip and type your pin (upwards of 10-15 seconds, again if it's slow), or maybe swipe and sign.
POS systems where I am are usually POS. Usually five seconds just for the reader to say "Hey, gimme a card!" ten seconds minimum to say "Don't take out that card!" and a bit once it's finished to come back and actually tell the register that payment was good.
In my recent experience, when I use a checkout with a human cashier, that's all done and my card is back in my wallet before the cashier has even finished scanning the items; all that is left is to approve the final amount of the purchase. When I use self-checkout, none of it starts until I'm done scanning the hit the "Finish and Pay" button. Combined with (usually) more efficient scanning with the professional cashier, the actual checkout is quicker. Overall, it depends on the length of the queues, which are usually shorter at self-checkout.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
that's all done and my card is back in my wallet before the cashier has even finished scanning the items; all that is left is to approve the final amount of the purchase.
Yeah, almost no register I've used allows taking the payment information before the handler has pushed the "we're done now" button.
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From the "stating the obvious" department
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@TimeBandit From the article:
eBay's solution was to run multiple barcode scanners alongside each other in the browser: eBay's own Wasm-based scanner, the open-source barcode reader ZBar compiled to Wasm, and the original JavaScript-based scanner code.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
Well, that happened.
Too many milkshakes?
All the boys in her yard??
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
that's all done and my card is back in my wallet before the cashier has even finished scanning the items; all that is left is to approve the final amount of the purchase.
Yeah, almost no register I've used allows taking the payment information before the handler has pushed the "we're done now" button.
The system I used at Walmart, when I worked there, would allow the customer to enter their card information while I was still scanning stuff. Then, when I pushed the Card button (credit, debit or shopping), it would take the info they had entered and performed the financial transaction. If I pushed Cash or Check instead, then it would ignore their card info.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
that's all done and my card is back in my wallet before the cashier has even finished scanning the items; all that is left is to approve the final amount of the purchase.
Yeah, almost no register I've used allows taking the payment information before the handler has pushed the "we're done now" button.
The system I used at Walmart, when I worked there, would allow the customer to enter their card information while I was still scanning stuff. Then, when I pushed the Card button (credit, debit or shopping), it would take the info they had entered and performed the financial transaction. If I pushed Cash or Check instead, then it would ignore their card info.
I suppose I need to shop Walmart more then.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
Well, that happened.
Too many milkshakes?
All the boys in her yard??
Uh, no. This:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1523993
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
Well, that happened.
Too many milkshakes?
All the boys in her yard??
Uh, no. This:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1523993I like my version better.
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Physicist finds new pass-time by coming up with creative ways of storing his tennis balls:
And just to show that it can be done without glue:
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
It would be funny if it was the Ark that was damaged, but apparently
The rain […] caused severe damage to the access road
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Albright’s credit score tanked as a result of his repayment troubles, making it difficult for him to buy a car
don't pay your debts
nobody wants to loan you money
:surprised_pikachu:
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Good riddance.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
He then went back to school to pursue a master’s degree in comparative literature at the University of Colorado Boulder.
He really didn't learn the first time around there.
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Burglar steals just the dirt:
Homeowner suspects it was a professional.
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Police had to make an arrest for assaulting an officer of the law:
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Skimming through the memorandum it sounds to me like it's basically W3C saying "okay, you guys at WHATWG won, could we please get a chair in your process, we promise to write pretty documents".
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit From the article:
eBay's solution was to run multiple barcode scanners alongside each other in the browser: eBay's own Wasm-based scanner, the open-source barcode reader ZBar compiled to Wasm, and the original JavaScript-based scanner code.
Not seeing the here.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit From the article:
eBay's solution was to run multiple barcode scanners alongside each other in the browser: eBay's own Wasm-based scanner, the open-source barcode reader ZBar compiled to Wasm, and the original JavaScript-based scanner code.
Not seeing the here.
I find it very weird that their recognition software behaves differently in WASM and Javascript when the underlying algorithms are the same - and behave differently to the point where they use both in conjunction because each recognizes a different set of problems.
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Apple's innovation
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
This is not really news, but kind of in the same gist. He's a terrific guy though.
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Oh, for fuck's sake.
Shoval shared a document link he’d been given by First American from a recent transaction, which referenced a record number that was nine digits long and dated April 2019. Modifying the document number in his link by numbers in either direction yielded other peoples’ records before or after the same date and time, indicating the document numbers may have been issued sequentially.
It's sad that I don't think this even deserves its own thread because what else is new.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/china-food-delivery-trash.html
How is this news?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
From the "stating the obvious" department
Javascript is definitely not 50x slower than WebAssembly. I'm not saying I like Javascript, but it's NOT the main source of the web's slowness.