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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@GOG said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
However... isn't Poland one of the countries with special "Engineer" title (Inżynier / Magister Inżynier I believe) given to graduates from mechanical engineering, EE, IT and economic schools? Because this means that economics is officially, by a law, part of the STEM (the E part).
Yes, there is a special "Engineer" title that is awarded to a certain class of graduates, in addition to any academic degrees, e.g. "magister inżynier" means someone who has both a Master's and an Engineer title.
No, economic schools do not necessarily bestow such a title - I, for one, have a Master's degree in Economics, but am not an Engineer.
In my defense, wikipedia actually mentions the Bc variant: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauki_ekonomiczne
But of course, it's wikipediaThat's... kinda odd of Wikipedia (even accounting for the fact that the Polish version is generally worse than the English). Licencjat is the typical undergraduate degree I'd expect to see in Economics.
That said, I'm finding it pretty hard to establish what the current legal situation is, given that there's been a bunch of changes recently. Previously, I'd be inclined to say that inżynier is a professional degree, typically awarded following the completion of undergraduate studies in a number of technical fields, usually conditional on submitting a relevant engineering project (equivalent to a thesis), but now - I'm not so sure.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
The plan is laid out in a post titled "Building a more private Web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete." It articulates a shift from a stance Chrome developers took in August, when they warned that the blocking of support for third-party cookies—which allow advertisers to track people as they move from site to site—would encourage the use of an alternative tracking method.
Instead, Google's August post unveiled the "privacy sandbox," a proposed set of open standards that would serve as an alternative to the blocking of third-party cookies.
Chrome Engineering Director Justin Schuh said on Tuesday that adoption of the privacy sandbox will allow Chrome to drop support of the cookies altogether.
Maybe I'm but to me that seems to imply that the new "privacy sandbox" is so effective at tracking and potentially monetizing individual users that it makes third-party tracking cookies obsolete. And maybe it just so happens that whatever advertising-related information they can get is locked down such that only a certain G based company would be able to access it.
Update: This has probably been discussed , but someone brought it up in a work meeting this morning:
https://www.howtogeek.com/724441/what-is-googles-floc-and-how-will-it-track-you-online/
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
After being cited, she proceeded to ride her scooter home, because how the F else was she going to get there? The police officers followed her the whole way with lights and siren on in a very low speed chase, but she refused to stop. When she got home, she was arrested for felony fleeing/evading in a motor vehicle. (In some jurisdictions, at least, that's a more serious crime than fleeing on foot, which may only be a misdemeanor.)
Hindsight and and all that, but maybe she should have called some sort of emergency service rather than going home (and obviously disobeying a police order, even if it was an obviously moronic one). "Yes, 911, my scooter is broken and I can't get home." Well not sure if it's 911 remit to handle that, but I expect there should be some service that would react (after all, what would she do in case of a real breakdown?).
And then let an EMT look at the police, and bill them the ambulance's cost to bring the lady (and her scooter) back home.
Well maybe I'm just dreaming. Because the sad reality is that even if (when!) the conviction gets ultimately thrown out, she will have lost time, probably money, and stressed a lot, all that thanks to Stupidity.
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Incoming political instability! (More than the usual.)
And in true fashion, the party that initiated the vote wants to keep the prime minister they no-confidenced...
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Incoming political instability! (More than the usual.)
And in true fashion, the party that initiated the vote wants to keep the prime minister they no-confidenced...
It's the weaksauce commies. It's just a power play. Their press conference where their party leader bitched about how the other parties did not want to compromise while at the same time saying that they themselves refused to compromise in any way shape or form was annoying as all hell. And she is apparently one of those people that does deep exhales several times in a single sentence.
I for one hope that it ends up being a new election and that the chaff falls below the 4% barrier. Unfortunately, that doesn't include the weaksauce commies.
Oh well. It's going to be interesting. If there is an election, I'll probably vote for one of the parties that are not in parliament.
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All hail the Chinese mining crackdown!
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Those of us living in Massachusetts, U.S., use Android, and don't want the app on their phone, may now want to peruse their App Info settings menu.
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@acrow Mass Install, amirite?
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
In the future, we will pass through the Subway Wall of ... bad stuff on the Unstoppable Train Of... fucking B*****ns
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Tragic, really. One moment a tiny nun, then the whirling cloud comes through and a spray of greasy feathers is all that's left.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
Light at the end of the tunnel
More like lights inside the tunnel
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Happy Prime day!
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Happy Prime day!
But, you need to drive them to the hospital. Costing fuel. If we burn them right here they are fuel.
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There are easier ways of getting around Oracle licensing issues.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
There are easier ways of getting around Oracle licensing issues.
As someone in the comments points out, that might not actually do that.
Where Oracle license based on number of cores, it's based on the physically installed core/socket count and not active cores.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
Am I the only one who expects to find Yaldabaoth there? Better fuse some personas first...
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@Kamil-Podlesak
duh ...
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10 million for chat functionality? at least they have a business model that isn't we'll figure it out eventually.
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@DoctorJones said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I can't wait for the UK rollout
It's fine - offices just need one room that has one of those on the door in but no way out. Then the annoyingly happy people every office has get trapped and the rest of us can carry on being miserable in peace.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
10 million for chat functionality? at least they have a business model that isn't we'll figure it out eventually.
Isn't that the successor of the encrypted chat app that was built by secret services so that they could listen to everything suspected criminals said?
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@DoctorJones said in In other news today...:
I can't wait for the UK rollout
Time to invest into some makeup.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DoctorJones said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I can't wait for the UK rollout
It's fine - offices just need one room that has one of those on the door in but no way out. Then the annoyingly happy people every office has get trapped and the rest of us can carry on being miserable in peace.
If you're ordering one for testing purposes, wouldn't the best place for it be on the inside of your manager's office door? Or maybe the CEO's, if it's a particularly flat organization.
A lot more peace and quiet for concentrating on work.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DoctorJones said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I can't wait for the UK rollout
It's fine - offices just need one room that has one of those on the door in but no way out. Then the annoyingly happy people every office has get trapped and the rest of us can carry on being miserable in peace.
Well, the problem is that you actually have those people.
Now in Central Europe (Visegrad+DDR), this can be straight out used as an automated drug test.
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@DoctorJones said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I can't wait for the UK rollout
I can't wait for the burn survivor coworker with the extensive facial skin grafts to complain that he's locked out.
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Nucular
Its nukiller.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Nucular
Its nukiller.
I supposably learned this at the liberry back in Febuary for all intensive purposes..
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Nucular
Its nukiller.
Ah, expresso...
I think most people probably know this classic, but in the case someone doesn't:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVnr7rsWrE
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Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending customers unplug My Disk Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world.
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Oh shit.
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@dcon whenever I see
area expert
, I prepare for several eventualities, most of them not optimal... spin the wheel of cranks!Outcome: some guy. Observing, having fallen down, perhaps there was something wrong with it. This is honestly much better than I expected from Florida's expert.
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@cabrito said in In other news today...:
Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending customers unplug My Disk Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world.
I posted that in one of our Slack channels:
All those darn Chia farmers are gonna have their crops wiped out
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I am dreaming of a brave new world:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6549/1380
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
I am dreaming of a brave new world:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6549/1380Neato, the hacks will be of leg3nd.
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They worry companies might one day use smart speakers like the Amazon Echo to detect people's sleep stages and play back sounds that could influence their night visions and behaviors.
I mean, "smart" speakers are already a hard pass, but guess this makes them a double-hard pass?
(Though, I suppose that means locking smartphones, laptops, tablets and anything internet-connected in a sound isolated room away from the bed.)
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
They worry companies might one day use smart speakers like the Amazon Echo to detect people's sleep stages and play back sounds that could influence their night visions and behaviors.
I mean, "smart" speakers are already a hard pass, but guess this makes them a double-hard pass?
(Though, I suppose that means locking smartphones, laptops, tablets and anything internet-connected in a sound isolated room away from the bed.)
Means knocking them off any nearby Sidewalk net and denying their MACs access to legit networks during some times. Since the deregistrations are network specific this won't even necessarily take out your neighbors. Unless the grid networks can hide, it seems they can be suppressed.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Oh shit.
A theory on the root cause (though horribly insensitive):
Those pilings appear to be concrete, not steel, and not wrapped except at the very bottom, but whether the bottom wrap is actually reinforcement (against potential vehicle damage) or paint is not clear.
I'll lay odds that one of those pilings (or its connection to a load-transfer beam) on the collapsed part of the building failed and set off the building coming down; the rest of them were overloaded and failed in turn. Nearby surveillance video showed the center section coming down first, then the "wing", presumably as the center section took out enough structural support for the rest of it to fail. Fortunately it stopped there.
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Throw in a gant chart and project managers from the late 90s will start calling asking for their shit back
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
A theory on the root cause (though horribly insensitive):
You had me at insensitive, no need to gild the lily
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@dcon whenever I see
area expert
, I prepare for several eventualities, most of them not optimal... spin the wheel of cranks!Outcome: some guy. Observing, having fallen down, perhaps there was something wrong with it. This is honestly much better than I expected from Florida's expert.
Florida has released an update - yon building collapse, they indicate, more likely started near the bottom of yon building, as opposed to, for instance, the top.
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Happy to know that the shit we're pissing away is making something happy.
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refining our partner access policies, validation and the signing process to further enhance our protections
Long winded way of saying DOING YOUR FUCKING JOB.