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@dcon Ivy is a fruit or vegetable?
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Plans for the facilities in Porthcawl's Griffin Park include weight-sensitive floors to ensure one user at a time.
Violent movement would activate a water jet to soak users, automatically open the doors and sound an alarm.
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@dcon Indian is not the preferred nomenclature. Native American, if you please.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
The new loos could include weight-sensitive floors to ensure only one user at a time.
I'm sure the "healthy at any weight" people are going to love that.
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ο€ Dum de dum
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Violent movement detected
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@hungrier I was wondering whether someone who'd eaten some bad curry and was vigorously expelling the offending substance from one or more orfices would be detected as "violent movement," but I like your idea better.
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@HardwareGeek Someone really needs to teach those guys that "false positives" are a thing.
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@loopback0 When you decide there are absolutely, positively no more urgent things to spend money on.
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@loopback0 I sincerely can't see much of a problem with people fornicating in a public toilet. I mean, they probably lock the door behind them. Well, there is the bit where public toilets really aren't that sanitary since it's where people go to defecate so I'd need to be fairly drunk to pick a toilet over a secluded bit of a park, but that's no real reason to put preventative measures in there.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 I sincerely can't see much of a problem with people fornicating in a public toilet. I mean, they probably lock the door behind them. Well, there is the bit where public toilets really aren't that sanitary since it's where people go to defecate so I'd need to be fairly drunk to pick a toilet over a secluded bit of a park, but that's no real reason to put preventative measures in there.
The new public toilets here in Hamburg are actually rather sanitary: When you leave the door, the door locks and the whole thing undergoes an automatic power scrubbing from floor to ceiling.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
The new public toilets here in Hamburg are actually rather sanitary: When you leave the door, the door locks and the whole thing undergoes an automatic power scrubbing from floor to ceiling.
That sounds brillant! What could possibly go wrong?
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
The new public toilets here in Hamburg are actually rather sanitary: When you leave the door, the door locks and the whole thing undergoes an automatic power scrubbing from floor to ceiling.
That sounds brillant! What could possibly go wrong?
There's a big button in there which stops the cleaning cycle if it goes off by accident. Also, the doors only lock from the outside.
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@Rhywden Seriously? Every time or like once a day?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Seriously? Every time or like once a day?
Every time.
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@PJH @Rhywden's description">I must still be picturing this wrong, because it sound like it uses tons of water / disinfectant and whatever they use to dry it again (giant air blowers?).
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@boomzilla I have an ongoing feud with my friend about whether "putting pumpkin in everything" and "all those disgusting dishes" is an American thing or a German thing.
He claims he never had pumpkin soup in his life until he went to Germany, and here pumpkin is "everywhere". I, on the other hand, claim that my first association with pumpkins is Halloween and American traditions like Thanskgiving, and pumpkin stuff only became widespread at all recently, roughly at the same time we also (due to media and people selling shit) for some reason started to have Halloween parties.This will provide ammo.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@PJH @Rhywden's description">I must still be picturing this wrong, because it sound like it uses tons of water / disinfectant and whatever they use to dry it again (giant air blowers?).
With some self-cleaning toilets, a robotic arm comes out of the wall behind the seat and scrubs the surface. On others, the seat itself swivels through two complete 360-degree turns, passing through a squeegee-like tool at the back that cleans the seat on the first pass and swipes away extra water on the second. And in some of the newest self-cleaning toilets, a section of wall folds down over the toilet in much the same way that a trunk lid hinges down and closes over the back of a car. The toilet is then sanitized with either a disinfectant solution or a burst of ultraviolet light.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
I have an ongoing feud with my friend about whether "putting pumpkin in everything" and "all those disgusting dishes" is an American thing or a German thing.
The American version is actually using the same spices as used for pumpkin pie. Aside from the pies, we almost never eat actual pumpkins.
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@boomzilla I never even had pie.
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@topspin the pie is good. But we usually only have it at Thanksgiving or Christmas.
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PushMePullYou...
https://www.businessupnorth.co.uk/northumberland-alpacas-bring-touch-of-animal-magic-to-elderly/amp/
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek Someone really needs to teach those guys that "false positives" are a thing.
The false positives get a shower. Win-Win?
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@PJH Ah, so an explosive release (all over the walls) still leaves a smelly mess...
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Looks like this scooter is permanently stuck
inover traffic:
Filed under: ο¬ are a to ; it does appear that it got untangled
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
it got untangled
I wouldn't expect it to have been permanent unless explicit malice and intent was applied...
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Git 2.23 brings a new pair of experimental commands to the suite of existing ones: git switch and git restore. These two are meant to eventually provide a better interface for the well-known git checkout. The new commands intend to each have a clear separation, neatly divvying up what the many responsibilities of git checkout, as weβll show below.
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Wow, what a click-baity title.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Wow, what a click-baity title.
So it has nothing to do with the evolved version of the graboids, from the sequels to Tremors?
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Git 2.23 brings a new pair of experimental commands to the suite of existing ones: git switch and git restore. These two are meant to eventually provide a better interface for the well-known git checkout. The new commands intend to each have a clear separation, neatly divvying up what the many responsibilities of git checkout, as weβll show below.
Ah, consistency:
If you want to replace
git checkout --branch
you can writegit switch -c
where -c is short for (--create) and can replace your muscle memory forgit checkout -b
.EDIT: Of course, I have to admit that if you want to change the command line switches that you have to start somewhere but IMHO there must be a good reason to skimp on consistency. Another option would have been to leave out the
-c
/--create
option altogether instead of making "all-in-one" commands again.
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@hungrier
Trolls are real!
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@PJH That trumpeteer looks like his trumpet is held up by thin air. Where's his left hand?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
That trumpeteer looks like his trumpet is held up by thin air.
It's being held up by the hook on the trumpet round the little finger of his right hand.
Where's his left hand?
By his side by the looks of it.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Legal minimum room size would have been 150ft2 (13m2), with adequate ventilation, toilet and a kitchenette. But for $600 a month, I guess you can't get it all.
Does anybody know if an arrangement like in, uh... "Alice Garden Pods", would actually be legal in New York?
Edit: 10ft2 => 150ft2
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Please, tell me again why hundreds if not thousands in the medical industry aren't under indictment for violations of 15 USC 1...
The hospital costs of the American medical system are so high that it made financial sense for both a highly trained orthopedist from Milwaukee and a patient from Mississippi to leave the country and meet at an upscale private Mexican hospital for the surgery.
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What I was hoping for based on the headline: Something that would reduce the interference from multiple wifi networks in the same place, like in an apartment building.
What it actually is: A QOS system exclusively for video streams
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@Dragoon Finally something that goes BANG properly!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
The new public toilets here in Hamburg are actually rather sanitary: When you leave the door, the door locks and the whole thing undergoes an automatic power scrubbing from floor to ceiling.
That sounds brillant! What could possibly go wrong?
We have some public bathrooms with motion sensors by the door that turns the light on when you enter. Problem is the lights shut off automatically after about 45 seconds, and the motion sensors can't see inside the toilet stalls, so if you're the only one inside, taking a dump that requires more than 45 seconds, it turns the lights out and leaves you in the dark.
I can't wait to add a full-room bidet to this system.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Yet another government regulation that destroyed a free market and made housing more expensive for everybody
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
the motion sensors can't see inside the toilet stalls,
Ah, they cheapo and didn't get ultrasonic ones?
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Yet another government regulation that destroyed a free market and made housing more expensive for everybody
Don't make me convert your condo into a garage.
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The Military is using high-tech
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Yet another government regulation that destroyed a free market and made housing more expensive for everybody
Don't make me convert your condo into a garage.
Nah; just let @Polygeekery convert it into a bonfire.
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@HardwareGeek If you get a Tesla it can be both!
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They should have picked a better souvenir, or at least not 40 kg of the stuff: