In other news today...
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Was the universe waiting for John Conway to die before this was solved? :/
It looks to me that she did the work done time ago, so he may have been clued in on the solution before he died.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
That is a complete failure on the front-end part. So, business as usual then.
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@Carnage I'd never even heard of HEIC images before I saw this article. I own neither an iPhone nor a Samsung.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Carnage I'd never even heard of HEIC images before I saw this article. I own neither an iPhone nor a Samsung.
Me neither, but a front-end that just hangs on unexpected data is bad.
I mean, there is probably also a fair amount of dumb in the backend, so blame goes there as well.But not handling unexpected image formats being used? There are so many dumb formats that could be sent that not handling it is retarded. And since they don't seem to have any controls for it, I bet it's also a security hole waiting to be exploited.
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@Carnage HEIC also exists for several years now. Imagemagick and similar libraries support it now as well.
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44.2 terabits per second
over
nearly 50 miles of existing optical fibers in the Melbourne metropolitan area
A lot of mumbo-jumbo the writer clearly didn't understand in TFA, but that part, at least, sounds like it might actually a practical thing, not just a lab curiosity.
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@HardwareGeek The Australians have a track record at being good at physical-layer networking research.
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Not everything to do with aviation news is bad for Boeing…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek The Australians have a track record at being good at physical-layer networking research.
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...and as seen on Facebook:
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@boomzilla Wait, since when did Civil War cannonballs have live ordnance in them? Wouldn't having an explosive charge inside of them kind of defeat the purpose of detonating a big explosive charge in order to shoot them out of a barrel?
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@boomzilla Huh. TIL.
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@boomzilla Did the Veteran's Administration have to go back and pencil in one more casualty of the Civil War?
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
since when did Civil War cannonballs have live ordnance in them?
They might technically be shells rather than true cannonballs.
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Why do pupils at any age need to learn about porn? It does enormous damage.
Well, if it does "enormous damage" all the more reason to learn about it? It's merely a question of how and when.
But not touching the topic at all is... counterproductive. After all, porn is way more accessible than drugs and we definitely talk about the latter, right?
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"...surrounded by wolves"
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@boomzilla I'm calling BS on the "23 packs". There's one, maybe two at most nearby, unless quite a number of them migrated to the north.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I'm calling BS on the "23 packs". There's one, maybe two at most nearby, unless quite a number of them migrated to the north.
Yes, my reaction to the 23 packs was also "That doesn't seem realistic." Wolves tend to have pretty large territories, and 600 acres isn't quite enough for 23 whole packs. It's even on the rather small side for a single pack.
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@Carnage I remember reading somewhere a quote about wolves always seeming more numerous than they really are. 23 wolves, 23 packs, same difference.
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@Rhywden so it looks like we have a single, lone wolf in our whole state. Suddenly feeling like I can relate to that one...
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@Carnage From article:
a senior in British Columbia, had the same problem with Computer Science A last week — she attempted to rename the file to JPEG and received the same email a few hours after submitting her test.
Maybe the system was designed by their own students.
Another fun tidbit:
Senior Dave Spencer took a demo test before his Calculus AB exam to make sure he understood the process for uploading photos. He Airdropped an iPhone image of his responses to his Mac and tried to convert it by renaming the HEIC file to PNG. Changing a file’s extension does not guarantee that it will be converted, but Spencer was still able to submit the demo test with no problem.
Demo system accepting what the final system doesn't?
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I'm calling BS on the "23 packs". There's one, maybe two at most nearby, unless quite a number of them migrated to the north.
Yes, my reaction to the 23 packs was also "That doesn't seem realistic." Wolves tend to have pretty large territories, and 600 acres isn't quite enough for 23 whole packs. It's even on the rather small side for a single pack.
The only live data on wolf pack movements is via radio-collared individuals. Of which there may be 23. And those individuals may or may not be part of a pack.
The only other data source is visual observations from hunters. And hunters only visit the forests on their days off their dayjob; they don't live in the woods. When a report comes in about a pack sighting, someone gets the job of trying to figure out which pack it was. And since hunting teams have territories too, a pack may be reported twice; once on each hunting team's territory.
Oh, right. And wolves are not regularly hunted, so their total numbers can't be estimated from yearly catch. In suitable conditions, their numbers could explode, and we wouldn't know about it before prey gets scarce. For all we know, there could be 23 actual packs.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I'm calling BS on the "23 packs". There's one, maybe two at most nearby, unless quite a number of them migrated to the north.
Yes, my reaction to the 23 packs was also "That doesn't seem realistic." Wolves tend to have pretty large territories, and 600 acres isn't quite enough for 23 whole packs. It's even on the rather small side for a single pack.
The only live data on wolf pack movements is via radio-collared individuals. Of which there may be 23. And those individuals may or may not be part of a pack.
The only other data source is visual observations from hunters. And hunters only visit the forests on their days off their dayjob; they don't live in the woods. When a report comes in about a pack sighting, someone gets the job of trying to figure out which pack it was. And since hunting teams have territories too, a pack may be reported twice; once on each hunting team's territory.
Oh, right. And wolves are not regularly hunted, so their total numbers can't be estimated from yearly catch. In suitable conditions, their numbers could explode, and we wouldn't know about it before prey gets scarce. For all we know, there could be 23 actual packs.
Not in the given acreage. Of course, those 600 acres could be the intersection point for 23 territories, but that is not at all probable, but possible I guess.
I even doubt that there would be 23 individuals in that area.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I even doubt that there would be 23 individuals in that area.
I don't. According to first google result, a wolf pack may be 2-30 individuals, but may reach 36 (largest pack observed/photographed, I assume).
Particularly interesting:
There appear to be four factors affecting pack size, all of which stem from an ecological basis and have resulted in various behavioral adaptations in the wolf. These are: (1) the smallest number of wolves required to locate and kill prey safely and efficiently, (2) the largest number of wolves that could feed effectively on any one particular prey, (3) the number of other pack members with which each wolf could form social bonds, and (4) the amount of social competition that each wolf in the pack could accept.
But that's based on Alaskan wolves, which may or may not apply to Germany.
And it's assuming that they're all wolves. A more recent problem is dog/wolf crossbreeds, which will behave very differently. Depending on the mixture, all bets are off.I hope they photographed as much as they could. It could be very interesting for research purposes.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I even doubt that there would be 23 individuals in that area.
I don't. According to first google result, a wolf pack may be 2-30 individuals, but may reach 36 (largest pack observed/photographed, I assume).
Particularly interesting:
There appear to be four factors affecting pack size, all of which stem from an ecological basis and have resulted in various behavioral adaptations in the wolf. These are: (1) the smallest number of wolves required to locate and kill prey safely and efficiently, (2) the largest number of wolves that could feed effectively on any one particular prey, (3) the number of other pack members with which each wolf could form social bonds, and (4) the amount of social competition that each wolf in the pack could accept.
But that's based on Alaskan wolves, which may or may not apply to Germany.
And it's assuming that they're all wolves. A more recent problem is dog/wolf crossbreeds, which will behave very differently. Depending on the mixture, all bets are off.I hope they photographed as much as they could. It could be very interesting for research purposes.
Now check how large a territory wolves usually have.
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@Carnage Large enough to encounter prey more frequently than other wolves. I.e. depends heavily on their staple prey. Assuming that they don't just raid trashcans.
And?
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We don't have non-garage In What World Is This Okay thread,, so posting here.
In-depth explanation - short but very worth watching:
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Carnage From article:
a senior in British Columbia, had the same problem with Computer Science A last week — she attempted to rename the file to JPEG and received the same email a few hours after submitting her test.
Maybe the system was designed by their own students.
Another fun tidbit:
Senior Dave Spencer took a demo test before his Calculus AB exam to make sure he understood the process for uploading photos. He Airdropped an iPhone image of his responses to his Mac and tried to convert it by renaming the HEIC file to PNG. Changing a file’s extension does not guarantee that it will be converted, but Spencer was still able to submit the demo test with no problem.
Demo system accepting what the final system doesn't?
Demo system: Yup, got the file. Check it please...
bool IsFileOk(string filename) { // TODO! return true; }
Damn interns.
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Hospital angrily denies snake discovered in operating theatre, insisting there was only a monkey
edit: top work, onebox.
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Let me try:
Gotta love the article's opening blurb:
A hospital in Trinidad and Tobago has admitted a monkey was discovered inside the building, but angrily denied a snake was with it too.
Filed under: Film Horizontally, Dammit
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Let me try:
I wasn't even trying for a video. Plus that's even worse.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I wasn't even trying for a video. Plus that's even worse.
I figured. But we can only work with what we got.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I figured. But we can only work with what we got.
We can also not work at all
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Details here:
Not everything to do with aviation news is bad for Boeing…
This one seems like it will be mainly bad news for PIA and their training department. From the information available so far it looks like a really, really badly screwed approach followed by the worst possible attempt to salvage it. Mishandled go-arounds are the probably the most common cause of crashes lately.
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Countdown in progress. Target is about 4:30 ET.
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Not exactly "news", but threads are expensive:
If you're an asshole in one way, you're probably an asshole in multiple ways.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
Not exactly "news", but threads are expensive:
If you're an asshole in one way, you're probably an asshole in multiple ways.
For historians and other people who might have missed it, here's the dedicated thread:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/27183/what-s-your-d-score
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