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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2019/07/02/smiling-turd-goes-missing-in-ostend/
Ostend ... the Florida of Flanders
Apparently they caught the thieves:
So, the punishment for taking shit away from beach is... taking shit away from beach?
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Yeah, can't allow the plebs to browse where they want.
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@Gąska
We have been debating the entire week at work if you can leave the dog poop on the beatch if it is close enough to the turd. Unfortunately is unwilling to perform the experiment
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Pod people.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I've heard of maybe 3 of the artists named in that article, and none of them I'd willingly listen to.
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@HardwareGeek
What more proof do you want: those bands are hip!
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Yeah, can't allow the plebs to browse where they want.
I have to admit Firefox is kicking ass and taking names lately. Kind of interested on how they will squander all the good will they've acrewed.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
acrewed
Time for spelling fun: did he mean “accrued” or “screwed”? Hard to tell from context…
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If you wanted to meet a "rock star" then you might have just missed your chance:
Kurt Steiner, who holds the Guinness World Record for stone skipping after throwing a rock that skipped 88 times on the surface of the water, was among the professional "rock stars" to compete.
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So, you may remember my last piece of news about this AfD party in Germany which managed to accidentally place all their votes for members of a party directly opposing them? Well, that particular piece of idiocy was only a municipal issue.
This time they botched things in their bid for a state:
Basically, with state- and nation-wide elections you have two kinds of votes: Direct (primary) and indirect (secondary) votes. Direct votes are always bound to a person in a certain district, indirect votes are always bound to a party. Direct votes work by the First Past The Post system - if you get the majority of votes you're in. Thus, if you have, say, 20 districts you get 20 people voted in this way. For the indirect votes there's a certain number of seats total (the number of which is ... complicated. Don't ask). If you get, say, 20% of indirect votes you also get 20% of those seats.
Now, here's the important part: Before the vote you have to formally present your ranked list for the secondary votes - the higher you are on that list, the more secure is your seat. Say, if you get 5 indirect seats then your party has to pick the first five from that list. If someone from that list is voted in directly they may then take the sixth from that list (AFAIK). And so on.
So, making sure that list is valid is pretty fucking important: If you fuck that up there are no second chances and you only get seats through direct votes.
Now guess what those jokers managed to do? Yeah, almost.
For some weird reason the AfD split creating that list in two: Rank 1 to 18 was voted for on a different day than 19 to 68. Which ran afoul of the rules which in turn means that only the first list (i.e. only 18 names) is valid.
So even if they get more than 18 indirect seats they won't be able to fill them. Why is this such a big deal? Because they're likely to win more than 18 seats in Saxonia.
This is, by the way, a party which always screams for Law and Order. Unless they run afoul of the law. Then it's a conspiracy.
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@boomzilla It was a fun thunderstorm.
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What amazing new feature is Google adding to Chrome today? Ad-blocking? Tracking prevention? Reduced memory usage? Better performance? Playback controls next to the URL bar?
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-japan-laborers-idUSKCN1TV089
Time for some regularly scheduled DRAM and NAND price-jacking
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Oh no, it's fake bewbs:
The six-pack t-shirt looks sketchy though when your arms are either too fat or skinny...
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Not sure if all the people Googling "Google" will find this baby or
www.google.com
as first result from now:Or could it be that this person will be unabled to be found through Google? Only the future can tell...
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Looks like the Finns are still practicing practical ways to get their women to safety:
Ironically, it's a foreigner who won by a hair.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Not sure if all the people Googling "Google" will find this baby or
www.google.com
as first result from now:Or could it be that this person will be unabled to be found through Google? Only the future can tell...
I predict he'll be unable to sign up to any online services, and will eventually go on a murderous rampage after a colleague says 'OK, Google' at him one too many times.
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@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Swans are assholes and big.
I have engaged in fisticuffs with birds before. Twice with a swan and once with a goose.
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Swans are assholes and big.
I have engaged in fisticuffs with birds before. Twice with a swan and once with a goose.
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@JBert From that same site:
“Be careful, your girlfriend might fall in love with the chatbot one day,” a person commented.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Well, people can be a bit piggish when driving. But not quite feral.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@JBert From that same site:
“Be careful, your girlfriend might fall in love with the chatbot one day,” a person commented.
I first misread that as "busty developer"
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
And another, a bit less known similarity: we're one of the leaders in importing garbage, including highly toxic substances, from all over EU, and having them magically disappear later on.
… often to be found in an abandoned warehouse in Czechia ( looking for an English source, but there were some news semi-recently that some companies rented some warehouses for short time, via enough intermediaries, moved toxic garbage there, and quietly disappeared).
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
This happens semi-regularly. There is enough poor people who just don't know it's below -50°C and almost no air to breathe up where airliners cruise, plenty of Airports (mainly in Africa) where the security is poor enough that they can manage to climb over the fence and come to the aircraft, and just barely enough room in the wheel wells for a person to squeeze in.
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@Bulb ours disappear a bit less quietly.
More than 60 fires took place at dumps in Poland this year and officials said many were likely to have been deliberately started so as to destroy illegal waste brought into Poland from other countries.
They linked the influx of waste into Poland to a decision this year by China to ban imports of many waste products.
The article is from last year. This year is no better. We've just had another one last week.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
And even if it ends up helping less than thought, it will still help a lot against the drought. Some countries already have somewhat ambitious reforestation programmes—I know about Pakistan for sure, there was something about Turkey and I believe also China. And recently there were also some such ideas here—central Europe is quite well forested, but the composition is inappropriate so a lot of it is now drying out.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
The six-pack t-shirt looks sketchy though when your arms are either too fat or skinny...
Given the condition of my abdomen, I don't think any shading would make it look like I have a six-pack. And I don't need any shading to look like I consumed too many six-packs.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
What amazing new feature is Google adding to Chrome today? Ad-blocking? Tracking prevention? Reduced memory usage? Better performance? Playback controls next to the URL bar?
I noticed that! Thought it was weird for my lockscreen to have a persistent notification I was playing something, then remembered I have a tone generator working in the background to keep the audio playing in my monitor (if it stops playing audio, 96 percent of the time it doesn't come back when I start playing audio again unless I turn it off completely, which is annoying because it moves away all the windows on it).
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However, the importance of solving this problem goes well beyond giving you a sharper picture of your feet for your nine Instagram followers.
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From Tuesday, July 16 to Thursday, July 18 between 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., an image of the 363-foot Saturn V rocket which launched Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin into orbit will be projected on the east side of the Washington Monument, facing the Capitol building.
If that wasn't past my bedtime I'd probably go see it.
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@boomzilla I wonder how many people here have enough s to remember seeing the original.
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@HardwareGeek This guy was:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYFMU7XfyzE
TLDW: A guy who watched the moon landing and knows some things about video technology illustrates why it would have been harder to fake the moon landing in 1969 than to actually do it.
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@hungrier I look forward to watching that when I'm not at work.
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@Dragoon
That seems interesting mathematically, but does it have any physics / real-world implications?From what I’ve understood of the article:
It was well known that spherical lenses cause aberration, and conversely that you need aspherical lenses to get rid of it. The article mentions those are more expensive to manufacture, but I assume that for one side planar (as opposed to arbitrary) the corresponding shape was known.
They also mention that numerical solutions already existed. Sure, their solution is analytical, but it’s also huge and looks like the mess you’d get if you just throw Mathematica at the problem. Seriously, did they derive this by hand? And, after evaluating the formula and accumulating errors, is the result actually going to be more precise than a numerical solution?It feel like this is mostly a mathematical curiosity than an optics breakthrough.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon
That seems interesting mathematically, but does it have any physics / real-world implications?From what I’ve understood of the article:
It was well known that spherical lenses cause aberration, and conversely that you need aspherical lenses to get rid of it. The article mentions those are more expensive to manufacture, but I assume that for one side planar (as opposed to arbitrary) the corresponding shape was known.
They also mention that numerical solutions already existed. Sure, their solution is analytical, but it’s also huge and looks like the mess you’d get if you just throw Mathematica at the problem. Seriously, did they derive this by hand? And, after evaluating the formula and accumulating errors, is the result actually going to be more precise than a numerical solution?It feel like this is mostly a mathematical curiosity than an optics breakthrough.
I don't know the ins and outs of lens manufacturing to know if it will matter for normal lenses, but it will matter for high precision applications. Having an exact solution will make it far easier to craft better lenses for highly precise devices.
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I totally missed posting this in a background tab apparently.
Edit: Representative tweet for illustration:
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@HardwareGeek And of course...
Hmm, looks like they've been deleted. Tweet said this:
I call fake lol.
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@Tsaukpaetra first as tragedy, then as farce?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
4 years ago
History repeats itself!
Canada is in Schrödinger's timezone. It's simultaneously both in the present and stuck in the past.