In other news today...
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
I am fine with making language more inclusive
Next thing on the list: no more female an male plugs.
Because, you know, non-binary and gender-fluid is a thing
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
I am fine with making language more inclusive
Next thing on the list: no more female an male plugs.
Because, you know, non-binary and gender-fluid is a thing
But I thought butt plugs were gender neutral already?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
I am fine with making language more inclusive
Next thing on the list: no more female an male plugs.
And shortly after that:
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Is there a measurement of negative sharing of information?
The SI unit is called the Madison.
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Samsung introduces a NoSQL storage drive:
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Finally, someone realizes they've been marginalizing us color-blind people for centuries....
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Apple is innovating
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/05/how-apple-uses-its-app-store-copy-best-ideas/
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@TimeBandit In other news, water is wet, the Pope is Catholic, and traffic is bad in LA today.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Developers have come to accept that, without warning, Apple can make their work obsolete by announcing a new app or feature that essentially copies their ideas.
Back when I did an iOS app probably ~7 years ago, Apple's license agreement for developers was essentially 300 pages of "We reserve the right to steal your idea, sell it as our own, and ban you from the App Store," worded 1200 different ways.
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@Dragoon As I sit here with my mouth tingling as feeling comes back after 1 cavity and 1 (temporary) crown this morning... HURRY UP!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
If the tabled legislation is passed the UK can't legally leave on no deal.
Just to note for Left-Pondians, you mean it's legislation that Parliament is currently discussing, right? It's been "pulled off the shelf" and "put up on the table" for everyone to see and consider.
In USA-an, "tabling legislation" means to set it aside to be considered later. It's a way to move on to other business without requiring an immediate vote on the question.
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@djls45
: This is a very important matter. We should table it immediately.
: What are you talking about? This is very important; we can't table it now!
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From the no shit department:
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
I think you got your units switched around. Gasoline has a much higher energy density than batteries, so you would need less gas than battery to get the same distance. 260 gallons of gas in a fuel-efficient car (assuming the car could handle the weight and drag) would easily get it all the way across the USA (and at least most of the return trip) on a single tank.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
That depends on the application. For some it is essential metric. For cars it's not that important
Then why did you bring up internal combustion engines?
Because 30% of 43 MJ/kg is 12.9 MJ/kg, which is still ~8× higher than batteries' 1.56 MJ/kg, assuming @Bulb's numbers are correct.
though hauling all the extra mass does have some effect on the efficiency and manoeuvrability.
It has multiple effects, some bad, others good. For example, putting a big, heavy battery pack on the underside of the car lowers the center of balance, making it more stable and improving handling in some regards.
Gasoline tanks are also mounted low on the underside of the vehicle for the same reason. The only difference is that as gasoline is burned, the vehicle gets lighter, which slightly increases fuel efficiency, while a battery remains effectively the same weight with no corresponding slight increase in efficiency.
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@topspin I always have an upvote for Calvin and Hobbes.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
These researchers have clearly never been to an auction.
I'd wager the rate is actually much lower TBH. Lots of retransmission going on there...
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I wonder why
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Google says that auto-playing videos on store listings will “help more users discover your content at a glance.”
Ah yes, that's what people are saying about auto-playing videos. "They help more of us discover content at a glance. We love 'em!"
The next Stagefright exploit will bring autoinstallation to the Play Store, even taking the heavy burden of decision off users whether or not they want an app in the first place. Hallelujah!
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@LaoC TBF, that would help more people discover content at a glance
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden ideally Europe will say "fuck it! We're tired of this bullshit" and kick the UK out on their arse. No deal isn't the end of the world and would end this part of the saga. I suspect that everyone will take the safer route and keep applying/extending this deadline. The EU will make a tidy profit out of it too.
Given the shitshow this has become I honestly can't wait until the trade negotiation starts. The EU is going to own Wales.
Yeah, kick them out already. I'd prefer if the UK had stayed in the EU as I think that would be beneficial for both sides. But if they want out so bad and don't accept any deal that's not "have your cake and eat it too", that's their choice.
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Via Firefox today—as in, when I opened XKCD, it popped up a toast:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler
TheTheoretical lifetime of a LED lamp is way higher than 300 hours, by the way.Practice shows something completely different.
If you don't buy the cheapest of shit then
...you're not the kind of person who's affected by the incandescent ban.
The biggest problem with the ban was that when it went into effect the only real alternatives were CFLs, which are mostly garbage. Now that LEDs have come down in price it's not so bad. It's possible that we only got them because of the bans, but I think that's not an easy question to answer and it definitely wasn't a certainty at the time.
It's almost as if the vicious cycle of "LEDs are expensive because they're not a mass market good because they're expensive" was broken by the ban.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
If it was "passlist" or "okaylist", then maybe.
Even those sound pretty dumb TBH. "Blocklist" might sound fine if it wasn't for the high probability that someone will confuse it with blockchains.
That's easily disambiguated: if it's in the context of bullshit marketing talk, it means blockchain stuff.
Quite a few IT terms sound incredibly dumb if you think about them for a second. The B in USB makes absolutely no sense and the D in SSD is just there because the thing they are not but that kinda performs the same function has a disk in it that's completely irrelevant to the user. A "firewall" would be called something like a "Network Policy Device" if marketing talk hadn't prevailed, and what's that "soft-ware" thing supposed to be anyway?
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
the D in SSD is just there because the thing they are not but that kinda performs the same function has a disk
The D in SSD is for Drive, not Disk.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
the D in SSD is just there because the thing they are not but that kinda performs the same function has a disk
The D in SSD is for Drive, not Disk.
Backronym to your heart's content...
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
the D in SSD is just there because the thing they are not but that kinda performs the same function has a disk
The D in SSD is for Drive, not Disk.
I stand corrected. Not like that would be much less silly considering that there's nothing driven in there, unless one means the "driver" that drives a wire to a digital logic state, but then pretty much every digital electronic thing could be called a "drive".
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
If you don't buy the cheapest of shit then practice is not that far off from the posted lifetime.
So their lifetime is huge or not?
Of course it's always cheaper to snipe from the sidelines without providing an actual credible source for your opinion.
My source is my experience. I have different kinds of light bulbs at home, and traditional are not the ones I must have a stock of, because they crap out all the time.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Via Firefox today—as in, when I opened XKCD, it popped up a toast:
From the article:
"affected users are strongly advised to immediately change their XKCD password, as well as passwords for any other online accounts which re-use the same password."
That's all very well and good, but if the forum now redirects to the message that the board is down because of the hack, how am I supposed to get to it to change my password?
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@Rhywden Category.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler
TheTheoretical lifetime of a LED lamp is way higher than 300 hours, by the way.Practice shows something completely different.
If you don't buy the cheapest of shit then
...you're not the kind of person who's affected by the incandescent ban.
The biggest problem with the ban was that when it went into effect the only real alternatives were CFLs, which are mostly garbage. Now that LEDs have come down in price it's not so bad. It's possible that we only got them because of the bans, but I think that's not an easy question to answer and it definitely wasn't a certainty at the time.
It's almost as if the vicious cycle of "LEDs are expensive because they're not a mass market good because they're expensive" was broken by the ban.
It's almost like you're repeating what I said.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler
TheTheoretical lifetime of a LED lamp is way higher than 300 hours, by the way.Practice shows something completely different.
If you don't buy the cheapest of shit then
...you're not the kind of person who's affected by the incandescent ban.
The biggest problem with the ban was that when it went into effect the only real alternatives were CFLs, which are mostly garbage. Now that LEDs have come down in price it's not so bad. It's possible that we only got them because of the bans, but I think that's not an easy question to answer and it definitely wasn't a certainty at the time.
It's almost as if the vicious cycle of "LEDs are expensive because they're not a mass market good because they're expensive" was broken by the ban.
It's almost like you're repeating what @boomzilla said.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Via Firefox today—as in, when I opened XKCD, it popped up a toast:
I wonder how many variations of "correct horse battery staple" there are going to be in there...
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Via Firefox today—as in, when I opened XKCD, it popped up a toast:
I got an email from the forum admin.
I didn't even remember I had an account (the forums aren't linked from the main page anymore) and it was probably a throw-away password anyway.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
It should be rolled back, the government has no business telling me which lightbulbs I can buy.
👉😎👉Externalities
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Just to note for Left-Pondians, you mean it's legislation that Parliament is currently discussing, right?
Yes. It's tabled, not shelved, binned, kicked into the long grass, or knocked for six.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
"Blocklist" might sound fine if it wasn't for the high probability that someone will confuse it with blockchains.
Shhh! If any corporate executive hears that, they'll demand we put blocklists everywhere.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Shhh! If any corporate executive hears that, they'll demand we put blocklists everywhere.
why not? they'll never find out, after all they are on the blocklist
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Feeling the heat
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DMVs are competing with Facebook
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Feeling the heat
Ironic.
They’re also making a terrible point for marketing. “Users only use Chrome and Word anyway. So get that sweet i9 for 18% faster PowerPoint PDF export.”Who the fuck has ever used that as a benchmark.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
So get that sweet i9 for 18% faster PowerPoint PDF export.
How do they export PowerPoint to PDF if they only use Word and Chrome?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
So get that sweet i9 for 18% faster PowerPoint PDF export.”
Who the fuck has ever used that as a benchmark.I'm sure some nerd somewhere has created a FPS game engine in PowerPoint that exports its framebuffer to PDF documents for display...
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@mott555 Nonsense, that’s what Excel is for.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@mott555 Nonsense, that’s what Excel is for.
Different target audiences. The Excel one is for the accountants, and the PowerPoint one is for the marketing people.
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Oh, good