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The show is the world's biggest live music event and is hugely popular with younger viewers.
Really? Back in my days only old people watched that.
... people like 18-year-old Gemma Lee see it as a "legitimate place to find new music".
... discuss what her friend Luke Hardwick calls "the World Cup of music".Absolutely. I mean, I had to listen to last year’s sounds-like-a-chicken-dying winner at least three times on the radio.
Arguably, Loreen's win for Sweden in 2012 was a turning point in the transformation of Eurovision.
Her anthem Euphoria won by a mile, going to number one in 17 countries and reaching number three in the UK charts.Admittedly, that one was pretty good.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
I'm surprised it took this long to discover. I would have thought that there would be collectors who would carefully examine every change to a note. Maybe there's not as many as there used to be.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I use titanium dioxide and zinc oxide for everything but my face for daily wear. I already look white enough.
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"Other intelligent suggestions include recommended acronyms based on their usage in Microsoft Graph, calculated average time to read the document, highlight extraction, as well as familiar fixes for spelling and grammatical errors and advice on more concise and inclusive language such as 'police officer' instead of 'policeman."
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
I'm surprised it took this long to discover. I would have thought that there would be collectors who would carefully examine every change to a note. Maybe there's not as many as there used to be.
"every change"? The whole thing's been completely redesigned. You'd have an easier time examining everything that wasn't changed.
Let's see…
- face value
- size
- colour (roughly)
- the people (but not their actual portraits)
yeah, that's about it.
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From the "memorable perp walk" files....
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@thegoryone said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@thegoryone said in In other news today...:
@jinpa I mean, he's not wrong, there's a list. The most obvious being a PHP Developer
But is that a cause or a symptom?
Can't it be both?
Vicious circle detected.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Android, MacOS, WSL, Chromebooks... 2019 is the Year of the Linux Desktop But Not Like Linux Proponents Expected.
MacOS is not Linux, it's a custom kernel based on Mach and BSD. Userland is mostly based on BSD AFAIK
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
If this were at @boomzilla's I guess he'd chase them off his lawn rather than filming.
If he did, that would be a crime against awesomeness.
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@TimeBandit Periodically breaking links on MSDN is not enough, now you get it on MSN as well.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Microsoft has acknowledged that its efforts to push UWP apps into the market has fundamentally not worked
I'll add it to the list after WinRT, Windows Phone (7, 8 and 10), Bing and Edge.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
LOL. Gotta love this statement from Apple about its appstore (which, as the article points out, is not being addressed in this suit)
It’s argued, for example, that customers are free to buy apps through other app stores on other mobile operating systems.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
customers are free to buy apps through other app stores on other mobile operating systems
Technically, it's true, but only after you jailbreak it
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
customers are free to buy apps through other app stores on other mobile operating systems
Technically, it's true, but only after you jailbreak it
I read that "other" as in Android. Who cares if those other app stores can't supply things that work on Apple. "Not My Problem"
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@dcon I read it as 'you're free to buy off the play store, just buy an android. or buy off the amazon store - just buy an amazon device'.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Don't you just love an article built around a creative misinterpretation of exactly the opposite action that the title suggests?
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@dcon I read it as 'you're free to buy off the play store, just buy an android.
Yup, I did.
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It doesn't look good for me
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Good job, Iframely. Or broken BBC site today. Not sure which.
Hackers were able to remotely install surveillance software on phones and other devices using a major vulnerability in messaging app WhatsApp, it has been confirmed.
WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, said the attack targeted a "select number" of users, and was orchestrated by "an advanced cyber actor".
A fix was rolled out on Friday.
The attack was developed by Israeli security firm NSO Group, according to a report in the Financial Times.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Arguably, Loreen's win for Sweden in 2012 was a turning point in the transformation of Eurovision.
Her anthem Euphoria won by a mile, going to number one in 17 countries and reaching number three in the UK charts.Admittedly, that one was pretty good.
It was good. But I liked "Hard Rock Hallelujah" (2006) even better. It should be noted that the contest got televoting for all countries as late as 2003. Before this, an inside clique chose votes in most places. The change improved the quality of the winning entry by a lot. Not the average quality of the contestants, however, as those tend to be chosen by cliques still. I mean, in Finland, after Lordi won 2006 with the wrong kind of music, they made damn sure that there will not be a second time.
Edit:
typos
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
Userland is mostly based on BSD AFAIK
Except for the whole UI layer and most of the system services. But yes, at the programming level you can largely pretend it is BSD until you need to interact with the bits that only have Objective-C and Swift interfaces…
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
The show is the world's biggest live music event and is hugely popular with younger viewers.
Really? Back in my days only old people watched that.
Yeah, the kids at home watch it religiously.
... people like 18-year-old Gemma Lee see it as a "legitimate place to find new music".
... discuss what her friend Luke Hardwick calls "the World Cup of music".Absolutely. I mean, I had to listen to last year’s sounds-like-a-chicken-dying winner at least three times on the radio.
Arguably, Loreen's win for Sweden in 2012 was a turning point in the transformation of Eurovision.
Her anthem Euphoria won by a mile, going to number one in 17 countries and reaching number three in the UK charts.Admittedly, that one was pretty good.
I, much like @acrow preferred Lordis winning entry. I keep saying we should send Arch Enemy as the Swedish entry some time..
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Spoiler (LOL)
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Spoiler: There will be dubbed screaming, waving of sword-like objects, bad acting and fake tears.
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Spoiler
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@MrL …well, running madly ahead of the books did have to have some effect…
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
Spoiler
Like this, but with the horse facing the other way and a giant pile of crap, intricately rendered, for Season 8
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
It doesn't look good for me
Just wait for next month's study and you'll be fine.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
Spoiler
Like this, but with the horse facing the other way and a giant pile of crap, intricately rendered, for Season 8
I approve your project. Proceed with execution.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
It doesn't look good for me
More than 6 a day? How many?
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https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/14/teenager-discovers-fellow-gym-user-masturbated-towel-9531540/
Ok - that onebox is fairly tame...
Anyone interested in visiting can find it here...
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TLDR: Two new APIs, one for the CPU temperature and one for capturing audio.
I don't care about gaming or streaming on my phone, but what I'd like to know is if this will bring back the ability to record phone calls.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
More than 6 a day? How many?
I drink less than I used to.
I still drink at least 6 a day
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
More than 6 a day? How many?
I drink less than I used to.
I still drink at least 6 a day
Coffee is good for washing down No-Doz.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
More than 6 a day? How many?
I drink less than I used to.
I still drink at least 6 a day
Didn't read - did they define how much 1 cup of coffee is? I drink 2 cups in the morning. According to the coffee pot, that's actually almost 6.
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@dcon Do those cups come with saucers? Otherwise they'd probably be classified as mugs instead.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
did they define how much 1 cup of coffee is?
Not from what I read.
drinking six or more coffees a day can be detrimental to your health, increasing your risk of heart disease by up to 22 per cent.
Decreasing my coffee intake would increase the risk of me killing someone by about 90%
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
More than 6 a day? How many?
I drink less than I used to.
I still drink at least 6 a day
Didn't read - did they define how much 1 cup of coffee is? I drink 2 cups in the morning. According to the coffee pot, that's actually almost 6.
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How do I tell google news to give me relevant results in English about Europe? Do the Brits not actually cover anything besides Brexit and Nigel Farage anymore? Anyways, here's the Deutsche Welle coverage:
Ugh. Fuck that!
That's just going to result in more administrative overhead for tracking my time, at best, or less freedom in my flexible work time, at worst.
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article @boomzilla linked in In other news today...:
"It's an old-school bomb"
Duh.
Fucking regards, our world...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
That's just going to result in more administrative overhead for tracking my time, at best, or less freedom in my flexible work time, at worst.
Yeah. Fuck that.
Besides what do they expect? The instances where I had to do timesheets, I was pretty much explicitly prohibited from reporting the actual times.
Like, in one place, HR actually said that their corporate requirement was that everybody recorded exactly 8h every day, using the exact same times (I got yelled at for that one, because somebody forgot to tell me, and I actually recorded my true working hours). That being somewhat contrasted to a later instance, where the instructions clearly stated that it was "unrealistic" for a person to arrive and leave at the exactly same times every day, meaning we were forbidden from entering the same hours daily.
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@cvi I'm pretty sure that something like that would lead to one of our judges slapping the company around a bit if that instruction came up in court.
"So, you're telling me that each and every of your workers managed to work exactly 8 hours each day while never arriving and going at the same time consecutively? While you're telling me at the same time that here has been no company-wide mandate to make sure that it's 8 hours? Do you hear yourself speaking?"
Whether the workers will actually go to court over something like that remains to be seen, but a scheme like that is so transparent that any judge worth his salt will see right through it.