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@loopback0 No, but it's pretty obvious when someone arrives alone, shirley?
If you can't drive by yourself, but you show up alone with your own car, we don't have to call Scotland Yard to figure out what happened here.
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There has been a long standing leniency on that IME, especially around motorcycles. (at least in the US)
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 No, but it's pretty obvious when someone arrives alone, shirley?
If you're continuously watching them from that moment, sure.
That's not exactly likely.
The examiner walks into the waiting room to collect the next examinee and then they walk together to a car, there's no requirement for the person who drove (or accompanied) them there to be present.
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Woman's life is saved by a heat photo made in a museum of illusions
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Seriously, watch that video. Sadly I haven't found a YouTube version yet so you will have to endure The Daily Mail.
I couldn't, sadly. Attempting to load the page wasted four minutes of my time:
I edited my post to include a YouTube link. I didn't find it earlier because its title is written in what I think is Portuguese (it supposedly happened in Brazil, after all).
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
The only threat in this case was that a raccoon sneaks in and starts
digging through the control center trash canchewing through all the wires.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
The only threat in this case was that a raccoon sneaks in and starts
digging through the control center trash canchewing through all the wires.LHC was a weasel. Racoons invaded Fermilab, but didn't do any damage.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
In chess, bishops move on the diagonal.
Also, a diagonal (line) is also known as an "oblique" (line).
That was the only part I did understand, but it looked like a quote I didn't know. And that bias thing was new to me, too.
Is it possible that you were unfamiliar with the tradition of the "Tom Swifty"?
Entirely ;) Thanks, I'd never heard of it.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Hacking is not particularly dependent on there being an IP-address last I checked.
No, but if there's no network access, you need physical access.
Before you try to gain physical access, just remember that this system is guarded by the U.S. Air force
Good Luck
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
My wife did that with hers - only that she passed it. At the time, nobody would have even mentioned it, much less written about it on the intertubes.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Woman's life is saved by a heat photo made in a museum of illusions
Mom, why is your boob glowing?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
I edited my post to include a YouTube link. I didn't find it earlier because its title is written in what I think is Portuguese (it supposedly happened in Brazil, after all).
Can confirm. Title says "Man tries to kill cockroaches and ends up blowing his own backyard".
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@Zecc
again confirming that the internet caters to even the strangest kinks
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Zecc
again confirming that the internet caters to even the strangest kinksNot only prepositions are hard.
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@mott555 Parp!
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The supply has grown because YouTube appeals to right-wing content creators, with its low barrier to entry, easy way to make money, and reliance on video, which is easier to create and more impactful than text.
Low barrier to entry: Sure, I'll give them that
Video easier to create than text: Only if you mean the lowest-effort "recording yourself with the selfie camera on your phone" type of video, which (spoilers) isn't the type of thing that gets popular
Easy way to make money:
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@hungrier Also, I like how they start off with "theyâre the new mainstream" and spend the rest of the article talking about "far right" "white nationalist" "radicalized" and all the rest of those trendy buzzwords
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Businessman Tan Youhui hired a hitman to "take out" his competitor for $282,000 (ÂŁ218,000), a court heard.
But the hitman hired another man to do the job, offering $141,000. That man hired another hitman, who hired another hitman, who hired another hitman.
The plan crumbled when the final hitman met the man, named only as Wei, in a cafe and proposed faking his death.
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A demonstration of this technology
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
One way to keep kids off your lawn... is to no longer have a lawn.
The fun part about this that in German the expression for watering the lawn can also mean blowing up the lawn. ("Den Rasen sprengen").
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@TimeBandit Another one? How many people are like this? That's like the third time I've heard about it...
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@Tsaukpaetra It's widespread enough that there's a name for it
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@hungrier "Dont have pizza and then operate heavy machinery."
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Last 2 weeks was
slowno news weeks.Now returning to the normal schedule...
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(Reconstructing post)
No report on what the man was thinking, but it is implied that he was a drunken idjit:
Fake EDIT:
Finding the article again, it seems this isn't so uncommon as one would think: (this is from the 1st of October)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Filed Under: Bad Ideas
Update: they're back home:
This article claims the following as the reason for their imprisonment:
The couple spent almost three months in the notorious Evin prison after they were arrested for flying a drone near a military zone without a licence.
Really (Bad Idea)²
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Someone want to take a stab at it? I have a strong feeling this is bullshit in one way or the other.
I mean, they used solutions that took long to compute and then the NN just looked it up fast. Whoo. Or maybe it interpolated them well, but that still seems like something you could do without the NN and is mostly just a result of having lots of pre-computed solutions.
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@topspin As I recall, it has been proven that there is no generic closed-form solution to the three-body problem, and a numeric solution would hardly be new. I'll take a look later.
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@PleegWat Yup, it's just about generating numerical solutions more quickly by predicting the orbit with a neural net instead of doing a numerical iteration. from 2 minutes to 'a fraction of a second', so probably to the tune of a 200-fold increase.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat Yup, it's just about generating numerical solutions more quickly by predicting the orbit with a neural net instead of doing a numerical iteration. from 2 minutes to 'a fraction of a second', so probably to the tune of a 200-fold increase.
Yeah, I got that. But even a numerical solution with a 200 times increase in performance would be pretty big. But I feel it's not even that, it's just interpolating a data set of existing solutions.
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@topspin It's AI. It predicts based on what it learned about existing solutions. It seems unlikely that it will give good results for all cases, but I expect applications are typically looking for initial conditions that give a certain orbit, and having to do 10 candidate initial conditions the hard way instead of all 10000 is a huge saving.
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@TimeBandit
Your viruses are right where you left them.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Your viruses are right where you left them.
On the Windows partition
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Awesome. Like itâs not bad enough IT has an hourly cron job scheduled on everybodyâs machine for clamscan. I donât need more of this shit.
How about MS fix their systems to not execute malware from emails in a fucking office document.