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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon So it's an election year, and Amazon just released its tax returns? Is anyone else getting nervous?
I'm not following whatever conspiracy theory you're trying to make me think of.
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@boomzilla It's a joke. Who is customarily expected to release their tax returns during election years?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
the first time i get a political spam/scam call i'm muting my phone until December
You could try just asking them what they're wearing, and whether they've been a naughty boy/girl/fox/attack helicopter/whatever seems apt…
If they're an aide for one of the Democratic 2020 contenders...
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla It's a joke. Who is customarily expected to release their tax returns during election years?
Witches?
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Yes Bloomberg
Add a gun that can’t shoot straight to the problems that dog Lockheed Martin Corp.’s $428 billion F-35 program, including more than 800 software flaws.
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@TimeBandit You're a bit off target.
7 hours ago: https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1644993
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Maybe it was easy to miss...
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
the first time i get a political spam/scam call i'm muting my phone until December
You could try just asking them what they're wearing, and whether they've been a naughty boy/girl/fox/attack helicopter/whatever seems apt…
that would be a good way to get off their call lists....
I usually try to sell them some random junk I may or may not have.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
"Glove Guy,"
Fucking Glove Guy...
The Masturbator’s Gloves would be a front page story with a twist.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
a front page story
Oblig: A what now?
A story about the popular Microsoft program.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Forgets to Connect Them
how come they're not wireless?
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@boomzilla 01/02/2010, 11/02/2011... 909 years. sigh.
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@dcon If you order the day, month, and year in a certain order, yes. 909 years ago was the last time that we had an unambiguous palindrome date.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@dcon If you order the day, month, and year in a certain order, yes. 909 years ago was the last time that we had an unambiguous palindrome date.
but that's not what the headline says!
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@dcon
actually it is. The headline says "global" palindrome, which means the same thing as "unambiguous palindrome".
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
01/02/2010, 11/02/2011...
Not globally, as 01/02/2010 in the USA is 02/01/2010 in other parts of the world; 11/02/2011 is 02/11/2011 etc.
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Hospital "built" in 8-10 days, depending on source.
And after the plague passes, they can tear it down again due to the inevitable mistakes; I doubt that it'll stay dry year around. But hey, some space for all those patients.
Now where the hell are they going to get competent staff to man it with?
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@acrow Some further arm-chair-analysis:
They likely either copied an existing building that was completed recently, or executed on a building that was meant for somewhere else.That, or jammed together a cluster of a smaller building design. Either way, the foundation is going to crack. But that won't matter in the short run. And I'm still wondering where they swiped the materials from.
Kudos for actually pulling it off, though.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Now where the hell are they going to get competent staff to man it with?
It was mentioned somewhere they are commanding military personnel there (that would normally run field hospitals; it basically is one, they've just built a more solid structure for it).
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Hospital "built" in 8-10 days, depending on source.
And after the plague passes, they can tear it down again due to the inevitable mistakes; I doubt that it'll stay dry year around. But hey, some space for all those patients.
Now where the hell are they going to get competent staff to man it with?
You can criticize the inevitable shit quality (and likely awful work conditions it was built with), but it's still impressive what an authoritarian regime can get done.
Over here, we'd take the first 10 to 15 years to get a planning permission.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
10 to 15 years to get a planning permission
Germany or France, IIRC? And does that still hold if someone finds rare animal excrement on the site, or does it generate an additional delay?
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@acrow Already factored in. Will just generate more civil suits but those were already included because someone is going to NIMBY anyway.
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@topspin That's always been thus: If you don't have to give a shit about anything you can get a lot done.
Though the actual results may also be less than stellar - building codes, for example, exist for a reason.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
01/02/2010, 11/02/2011...
Not globally, as 01/02/2010 in the USA is 02/01/2010 in other parts of the world; 11/02/2011 is 02/11/2011 etc.
E_ASSUMES_FACTS_NOT_IN_EVIDENCE
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Florida Man? Izzat you?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
building codes, for example, exist for a reason.
To indefinitely delay opening e.g., an airport?
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Don't worry that we share your data, it's anonymized anyway
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
they can tear it down again due to the inevitable mistakes;
They won't need to. It'll fall down first.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
they can tear it down again due to the inevitable mistakes;
They won't need to. It'll fall down first.
just like the wall.
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@TimeBandit "Anonymization" (removing your name but still having an individual profile), is useless, but "aggregation" (where you only keep the totals or the statistics of some things) is fine.
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@Vixen never seen a wall with so many slats. Looks more like a fence. And then it fell over in a stiff breeze, like they don't get hurricanes in Texas. lmao
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@Captain said in In other news today...:
@Vixen never seen a wall with so many slats. Looks more like a fence. And then it fell over in a stiff breeze, like they don't get hurricanes in Texas. lmao
Pretty sure that's not Texas. The portion of the border that abuts Texas consists of a river.
We've got a dry border out my way. And what I've seen of our wall is mostly chainlink.
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Red Hat's favorite teenager is at it again:
https://en24.news/n/2020/02/fosdem-systemd-and-the-reinvention-of-the-home-directories.html
(Article seems to be blatantly translated from the German source, but that's all I could find)
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@topspin I'm sure this would do only good things to my compile times (aside from all the other problems that it apparently implies).
(Fortunately, it's unlikely that I will have to deal with any of those problems, considering that I'm not running systemd to begin with.)
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@topspin That's what ecryptfs has been used for since quite some time already. So now they'll integrate it in systemd and properly tie it to the session so it's not visible for other processes. But it's nothing new.
It will also almost certainly be opt-in anyway.
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Who wants to bet on the next big company to forget to renew certificates?
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@Tsaukpaetra Sectigo
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