In other news today...
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
but most people will leave it on and probably use it out of convenience.
I'm always somewhat saddened every time I'm reminded I'm not a part of "most people"....
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@Tsaukpaetra If it makes you feel better, most people on this forum are probably not "most people"
Filed under: Most people are not @boomzilla
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
those who consumed in excess of 50 grams of chili a day had almost double the risk of memory decline
We have a forum member that loves California Reaper, but he probably doesn't remember why
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I don't remember seeing anything about this. It's liable to turn into a Garage discussion, but it's of general IT interest, so I'll post it here anyway; keep it cool.
3% tax on revenue (not profit), and the article doesn't say whether it's just revenue earned in France (which might be reasonable) or total, worldwide revenue. Given the EU's attempts to impose their laws on the rest of the world, France attempting to tax the worldwide revenue wouldn't totally surprise me.
It does target only the revenue from inside France.
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Microsoft develops machine learning enabled Ctrl+F As A Service
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
but most people will leave it on and probably use it out of convenience.
I'm always somewhat saddened every time I'm reminded I'm not a part of "most people"....
I'm usually saddened when I am part of "most people".
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
but most people will leave it on and probably use it out of convenience.
I'm always somewhat saddened every time I'm reminded I'm not a part of "most people"....
I'm usually saddened when I am part of "most people".
We can glom together and just be "people".
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Paging @anotherusername
Think twice before adding that extra kick of chili sauce or chopped jalapeno to your meal.
Yeah, he’s way past that stage.
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https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/tsa-man-checked-missile-launcher-luggage-bwi-64634850
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The artist could have tried to be a little more accurate.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
The artist could have tried to be a little more accurate.
Art is not required to be "right".
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@da-Doctah Sure, but if the point was to show a variety of sizes, I would have expected exaggeration, not an Earth the size of Uranus and Neptune and a Jupiter only 3x as wide.
Most likely this is just a recycled image.
Edit: just noticed this image comes from NASA. I expected better from them.
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@TimeBandit oh, looks like there is gonna be some serious splainin to do.
CBS News has also learned at least two referrals have been made to the FBI.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
move to a shack in the mountains with a generator and no connection to the outside world.
expect for the occasional run to the shops for your pipe bomb supplies
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
move to a shack in the mountains with a generator and no connection to the outside world.
expect for the occasional run to the shops for your pipe bomb supplies
I get my pipe bombs delivered via carrier pigeon, TYVM.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
move to a shack in the mountains with a generator and no connection to the outside world.
expect for the occasional run to the shops for your pipe bomb supplies
I get my pipe bombs delivered via carrier pigeon, TYVM.
Dropped in via Apollo capsule is where it's at!
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Microsoft develops machine learning enabled Ctrl+F As A Service
Quite an interesting tech if it pans out. I suspect they're still a few miles behind google though.
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Guess who's getting kicked off the store soon.
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Remember. Everyone should have a friend that will destroy all their hard drives and delete their cloud storage when they die.
https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/facebook-messenger-data-german-court/
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Remember. Everyone should have a friend that will destroy all their hard drives and delete their cloud storage when they die.
One of the reasons I'm working on legislation regarding AI ownership of property and estate, and the transfer thereof.
Also, a digital deadman's switch.
Edit: clarify, because physical ones only go so far...
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
It's entirely natural for someone to die when they have lots of deep stab wounds.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Remember. Everyone should have a friend that will destroy all their hard drives and delete their cloud storage when they die.
https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/facebook-messenger-data-german-court/
Meh. It's not really any different from people reading your diary, or the letters that you kept in a box at the back of a cupboard. My great-grand-mother burnt out all the letter from her husband during WW1 that she had kept for decades, because she could see the day she'd be gone and didn't want anyone to read them.
Then it's a matter of how those who inherit from you are actually going to look at it (we threw away some papers from my dad after he died without reading them, because we felt it wouldn't have been right not to), whether they are going to find anything (whatever the medium, 99% of it is going to be utterly uninteresting), and whether you actually care about what will happen after you death. Digital or not doesn't make a difference.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I expected better from them.
If it was accurate, the picture would be pretty much just black with a white-ish pixel for the Sun.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Guess who's getting kicked off the store soon.
I wonder how that works with, say, airline apps? Airlines are certainly big enough to directly have the payment infrastructure themselves — they really don't need to leverage the app stores for that — and the purchases are large enough that they aren't going to want to have someone top-slicing 10%.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Guess who's getting kicked off the store soon.
BTDT, did not get kicked.
In my previous job we published a free app with some free content and more content for purchase from our web. And even when we did the in-app purchase for Apple, we passed on it for Play. Never got kicked for that—we did get kicked when the owner got into extended business dispute with the content provider (fault was probably on both sides), but after we got reinstated we still didn't offer in-app purchase via Play.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
we did get kicked when the owner got into extended business dispute with the content provider
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Guess who's getting kicked off the store soon.
I wonder how that works with, say, airline apps? Airlines are certainly big enough to directly have the payment infrastructure themselves — they really don't need to leverage the app stores for that — and the purchases are large enough that they aren't going to want to have someone top-slicing 10%.
Google probably does not actually give a shit. Their rules—unless they've changed them recently as I stopped really caring a couple of years ago—only said that if you have in-app purchases, paying via their checkout must be supported (but more options are/were permitted). And as I mention, we got away ignoring it, but it was a small company.
More interesting is the case of AppStore, because Apple rules are that:
- In app-purchases are only allowed through AppStore and
- links to your web are not permitted (I believe generally, but certainly if it was possible to make purchases there).
Though, to be honest, I am not sure why Airlines need apps in the first place—a properly mobile-optimized web app should be able to do all they need, and is completely independent of any store shenanigans—though I know they have them, and two years ago I was forced to install one, because the electronic check-in didn't accept non-Spanish phone number in the web version, but it did work in the app version.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
we did get kicked when the owner got into extended business dispute with the content provider
No. The company that sells (one version of) the data that our application needed to work.
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@Bulb It ceases to amaze me how people take my jokes seriously.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Though, to be honest, I am not sure why Airlines need apps in the first place
I'm guessing that's because of boarding passes and scope-creep. A web-app won't work to show your boarding pass when offline, and once you get the app working for that, how long before someone said that it would be better if you could also buy your tickets from there?
That, plus the "app-everything" cancer, of course.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I'm adding Slovenia to list of countries to glass. Also the comment section has a link to a college essay service. Kind of curious how long it will stay up.
This conflicts severely with my world view and shall be ignored.
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One day I'll just byte the bullet and create a new thread for this shit.
http://press.capitalone.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=251626&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2405043
I'm somewhat suprised there's no og:data. That SEO isn't going to write itself.
*edit To be fair it's rather small. Only about 140,000 SSNs.
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@DogsB Explains the issues I had with a card that migrated to Capitol One. I had fraudulent charges, called and cancelled the card. They changed the number, mailed me a new one...and the new one accrued fraudulent charges while the replacement card was still in the mail. New one showed up in an untampered envelope, and I thought it absolutely had to be an inside job of some kind.
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Just one day earlier, in fact, he had been injected with a radioactive compound at another hospital to treat his tumour – and when his mortal remains were incinerated, this radioactive and potentially dangerous dose of lutetium Lu 177 dotatate was still inside his body.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Bulb It ceases to amaze me how people take my jokes seriously.
You need to emote more.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
. A web-app won't work to show your boarding pass when offline,
Uh, yeah, of course it can.... I've literally done just this by saving a screenshot.
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I think we hit peak Spanish with this:
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"If it's not on Strava, it didn't happen"
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon But does eating spicy food cause dementia, or is it a result of dementia? Because either my Carolina Reaper powder is harming my brain, or it's already too late for me.
It definitely causes it. A few weeks ago I made Reaper dry rub that gave me stomach cramps, on Sunday I made dry rub chicken with the same amount again (I'll have tolerance now!) ...I was up most of the night with stomach cramps again
Don't worry; you'll get there eventually.
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@anotherusername That you even forget what caused the pain?
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@JBert You get used to it. I don't even feel the pain; all I feel is breakfast, lunch, dinner...
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