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@TimeBandit oddly, YouTube works fine with a Xbox live sub.
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The Adapt Huarache takes its namesake from the company’s popular 1991 Huarache line of shoes.
I thought they were named after the noise you make while vomiting from seeing the shoes, followed by a dull pain
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@hungrier Have you looked at running shoes in, say, the last decade (that's a conservative guess...)?
This is actually a tame colour scheme - I dare say that 90% of them resemble clown vomit.
edit: Then again, most of those don't feature RGB-LEDs, so there's that.
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@Rhywden Colour isn't everything. Luckily, Nike is way ahead of the game.
You think you can avoid ugly shoes by filtering "Colour: black"?
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@hungrier Giger would have had a field day.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
The Adapt Huarache takes its namesake from the company’s popular 1991 Huarache line of shoes.
I thought they were named after the noise you make while vomiting from seeing the shoes, followed by a dull pain
I'm not sure which thread it is (IoS?), but we've probably got one for this over there
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@hungrier Remember when you were a kid and thought putting pogo sticks under your shoes is an awesome idea? Well, the Nike designers apparently still think so.
Filed under:
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@topspin Speaking of things for kids, here's something that I didn't, but probably should have expected to be available in Current Year:
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@hungrier I think I saw these 5-10 years ago.
Since @Rhywden mentioned it, I also recently saw kids with shoes brightly blinking in LED lights. I actually had some of those back when I was a kid myself, but they only had like 3 red LEDs in the back (like a car's back lights) that light up briefly for every step, whereas with recent progress these things are constantly shining up everything.
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@topspin There's also adult shoes with LEDs. Which I know because a thief got on the news by trying to escape into the night while wearing a stolen pair. The police had no problem whatsoever finding him.
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A less sensationalist editor would make the headline say "a woman strangled herself to death with her own hands for a few quids".
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Since @Rhywden mentioned it, I also recently saw kids with shoes brightly blinking in LED lights. I actually had some of those back when I was a kid myself, but they only had like 3 red LEDs in the back (like a car's back lights) that light up briefly for every step, whereas with recent progress these things are constantly shining up everything.
Gaming shoes?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit oddly, YouTube works fine with a Xbox live sub.
It does not however work fine when Xbox live is broken. Which is what this whole subatomic is about.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
subatomic
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
subatomic
Damn autocorrect.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit oddly, YouTube works fine with a Xbox live sub.
It does not however work fine when Xbox live is broken. Which is what this whole subatomic is about.
Ah. Misread.
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See for yourself: https://www.instagram.com/shelma0905/
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
This is the case for the Earth–Moon system, in which the barycenter is located on average 4,671 km (2,902 mi) from Earth's center, 75% of Earth's radius of 6,378 km (3,963 mi).
Proposed definitions:
Planet: a body orbiting a star that is large enough to pull itself into a sphere
Binary planets: two planets near enough to each other to form a secondary orbit around each other
Moon: a body orbiting a planet that is not massive enough to move the barycenter outside the planet's own body
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@izzion I don't get this "high frame rate looks so cheesy" complaint. If the problem is interpolation (24fps doesn't fit into 60fps) then start filming shit at a better framerate instead.
It's not just that. They often do record at a high framerate. But that video won't fit on a standard DVD at that quality, so they have to purposefully degrade it so it will fit. IIRC, that's actually one of the draws of larger capacity media like HD-DVD and Blu-ray. They can have larger picture dimensions, but they can also have a higher framerate.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
This is the case for the Earth–Moon system, in which the barycenter is located on average 4,671 km (2,902 mi) from Earth's center, 75% of Earth's radius of 6,378 km (3,963 mi).
Proposed definitions:
Planet: a body orbiting a star that is large enough to pull itself into a sphere
Binary planets: two planets near enough to each other to form a secondary orbit around each other
Moon: a body orbiting a planet that is not massive enough to move the barycenter outside the planet's own bodyProblem with your moon definition: Where do you draw the line?
Saturn would have billions of moons this way.
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@Rhywden More to the point, that would make Ceres a planet.
The fundamental problem is that we've accumulated a lot more information about what's out there, and the simple planets+moons scheme isn't sufficient any more.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
This is the case for the Earth–Moon system, in which the barycenter is located on average 4,671 km (2,902 mi) from Earth's center, 75% of Earth's radius of 6,378 km (3,963 mi).
Proposed definitions:
Planet: a body orbiting a star that is large enough to pull itself into a sphere
Binary planets: two planets near enough to each other to form a secondary orbit around each other
Moon: a body orbiting a planet that is not massive enough to move the barycenter outside the planet's own bodyProblem with your moon definition: Where do you draw the line?
Saturn would have billions of moons this way.
And our own moon is not a moon.
(Put it with the strawberry that's not a berry, the watermelon that's not a melon, the mountain goat that's not a goat, the horned toad that's not a toad, and the electric eel that's not an eel.)
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
And our own moon is not a moon.
It matches the definition of moon: the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system is inside the Earth.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
This is the case for the Earth–Moon system, in which the barycenter is located on average 4,671 km (2,902 mi) from Earth's center, 75% of Earth's radius of 6,378 km (3,963 mi).
Proposed definitions:
Planet: a body orbiting a star that is large enough to pull itself into a sphere
Binary planets: two planets near enough to each other to form a secondary orbit around each other
Moon: a body orbiting a planet that is not massive enough to move the barycenter outside the planet's own bodyProblem with your moon definition: Where do you draw the line?
Saturn would have billions of moons this way.
Doesn't it, though?
Ok, so moons and rings are all natural satellites, but the difference is that a moon has enough gravitational pull to clear all debris that is not at the Lagrangian points of its own orbit, while rings are formed of natural debris that are small enough that their own gravity can't contribute sufficiently to create distinct Lagrange points for their orbits...?
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
the mountain goat that's not a goat, the horned toad that's not a toad, and the electric eel that's not an eel.)
TIL.
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I-wish-it-were-2-factor strikes again, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
the mountain goat that's not a goat, the horned toad that's not a toad, and the electric eel that's not an eel.)
TIL.
Which one? Or all three?
And don't even get me started on Grape Nuts.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
This is the case for the Earth–Moon system, in which the barycenter is located on average 4,671 km (2,902 mi) from Earth's center, 75% of Earth's radius of 6,378 km (3,963 mi).
Proposed definitions:
Planet: a body orbiting a star that is large enough to pull itself into a sphere
Binary planets: two planets near enough to each other to form a secondary orbit around each other
Moon: a body orbiting a planet that is not massive enough to move the barycenter outside the planet's own bodyProblem with your moon definition: Where do you draw the line?
Saturn would have billions of moons this way.
Doesn't it, though?
Ok, so moons and rings are all natural satellites, but the difference is that a moon has enough gravitational pull to clear all debris that is not at the Lagrangian points of its own orbit, while rings are formed of natural debris that are small enough that their own gravity can't contribute sufficiently to create distinct Lagrange points for their orbits...?
Suggestion:
-Pieces larger than Earth, that orbit a sun, are Planets.
-Pieces that orbit Planets are Moons.
-Pieces smaller than Earth that orbit a sun are whatever the first finder deems them to be. Consider it a perk, like a finder's fee.Keep It Simple(tm)
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
This is the case for the Earth–Moon system, in which the barycenter is located on average 4,671 km (2,902 mi) from Earth's center, 75% of Earth's radius of 6,378 km (3,963 mi).
Proposed definitions:
Planet: a body orbiting a star that is large enough to pull itself into a sphere
Binary planets: two planets near enough to each other to form a secondary orbit around each other
Moon: a body orbiting a planet that is not massive enough to move the barycenter outside the planet's own bodyProblem with your moon definition: Where do you draw the line?
Saturn would have billions of moons this way.
Doesn't it, though?
Ok, so moons and rings are all natural satellites, but the difference is that a moon has enough gravitational pull to clear all debris that is not at the Lagrangian points of its own orbit, while rings are formed of natural debris that are small enough that their own gravity can't contribute sufficiently to create distinct Lagrange points for their orbits...?
Suggestion:
-Pieces larger than Earth, that orbit a sun, are Planets.
-Pieces that orbit Planets are Moons.
-Pieces smaller than Earth that orbit a sun are whatever the first finder deems them to be. Consider it a perk, like a finder's fee.Keep It Simple(tm)
Yeah, but that would still make Saturn have quite a Number of moons.
Also, to reverse Star Wars:
That's not a space station, that's a moon!
in regards to the ISS.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Grape Nuts
Are they filled with protein?
Some – the wheat and barley that makes up the breakfast cereal contain sufficient amounts of the essential amino acids for the human body to make the necessary proteins, especially if combined with something else, like milk.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Grape Nuts
Are they filled with protein?
Some – the wheat and barley that makes up the breakfast cereal contain sufficient amounts of the essential amino acids for the human body to make the necessary proteins, especially if combined with something else, like milk.
Did you mean to say "unless" instead of "especially"?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Suggestion:
-Pieces larger than Earth, that orbit a sun, are Planets.
-Pieces that orbit Planets are Moons.
-Pieces smaller than Earth that orbit a sun are whatever the first finder deems them to be. Consider it a perk, like a finder's fee.Keep It Simple(tm)
Still some problems with that. Mars is smaller than Earth, so depending who you identify as the first finder, may not be a Planet, and if not, Phobos and Deimos aren't Moons.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Grape Nuts
Are they filled with protein?
Some – the wheat and barley that makes up the breakfast cereal contain sufficient amounts of the essential amino acids for the human body to make the necessary proteins, especially if combined with something else, like milk.
Did you mean to say "unless" instead of "especially"?
No, I meant especially. Grains contain the essential amino acids, but may require more than the recommended amount for caloric intake needs in order to supply sufficient quantities of some amino acids. The necessary quantity can be reduced by mixing other grains or legumes that contain high quantities of the amino acid of which the first grain contains low quantities. Milk or other protein-rich foods can also supply the necessary quantities, further reducing the quantity of the first grain that would be necessary to obtain sufficient quantities of the essential amino acids.
Wikipedia: Protein Combining
Wikipedia: Essential Amino Acid: Minimum Daily Intake
USDA Food Composition Databases: Nutrient Search (pick up to three nutrients [e.g. amino acid name], select sorting by either food name or quantity of nutrient, and search)
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
And our own moon is not a moon.
It matches the definition of moon: the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system is inside the Earth.
But is the barycenter a berry?
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
the mountain goat that's not a goat, the horned toad that's not a toad, and the electric eel that's not an eel.)
TIL.
Which one? Or all three?
There's a reason I quoted those specific three. It's a coincidence there were all consecutive.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Keep It Simple(tm)
Then here's a better solution:
- Ask me.
- I nominated @Tsaukpaetra as my successor if I'm gone.
- No reversing of another's declarations.
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@izzion quoted in In other news today...:
bring Rust to full parity with C
Is that even parity or odd parity? (I did actually RTFA; it's about doing some things with equivalents-of-unions that are needed for handling particularly tricky type punning and data compaction.)
But seriously, the big problem with anyone saying that Rust should be used for low-level code is that most low-level code isn't written from scratch now, and the overhang of existing code is colossal. It's very difficult to justify rewriting lots of code in a different language at the best of times, and it isn't at all clear that there would be very much gained from the effort here. The result of that fundamental truth is that Rust advocates are going to have to put up with living in a mixed world for a long time to come; being able to interoperate with C (especially at the ABI level) is the most important thing for any low-level language that actually deals with reality.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
needed for handling particularly tricky type punning
I love puns!
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I'm surprised global warming hasn't been blamed...
In this case it's more water privatization.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@error said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
One of the tricky parts of defining a planet is not winding up with the Earth-Moon system being a binary planet.
Don't be ridiculous: the moon identifies as nonbinary.
Which position does it take in lifestyle parties?
I guess if you went and mooned someone there, chances are you'd end up a bottom.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@error said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
One of the tricky parts of defining a planet is not winding up with the Earth-Moon system being a binary planet.
Don't be ridiculous: the moon identifies as nonbinary.
Which position does it take in lifestyle parties?
I guess if you went and mooned someone there, chances are you'd end up a bottom.
Yeah, one must really avoid being pegged like that.
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