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@Tsaukpaetra apply that to a 17 year old girl saying “Certainly *hiss*” and find yourself on a sex offender list for the rest of your life.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra apply that to a 17 year old girl saying “Certainly *hiss*” and find yourself on a sex offender list for the rest of your life.
I’m pretty sure hiss is just young adult for “I’m 18”
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Pictured:
Apparently they already put it back:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Pictured:
Apparently they already put it back:
This bit stood out to me.
Former Cyprus ambassador to Britain Euripides Evriviades compared the monument to other national beacons like the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
This bit stood out to me.
Former Cyprus ambassador to Britain Euripides Evriviades compared the monument to other national beacons like the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.
"They are nothing alike" is still a comparison.
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From In other news today...:
Former Cyprus ambassador to Britain Euripides Evriviades compared the monument to other national beacons like the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.
Let me quote mr. Evriviades directly from Twitter to explain the comparison:
No. It’s not a homage to the ancient cult of the #phallus, a commonly represented symbol in antiquity.
But a monument to the #Cyprus #potato produced in #Xylofagou (Xylophagou) village.
Other countries have instantly recognizable monuments. Now we have ours.
#Unbelievable
Others felt that the Big Potato was missing something:
There. We fixed it.
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Stephanie Matto experienced chest pains that she believed were symptoms of a heart attack or stroke, but doctors confirmed they were the result of eating too much eggs and beans.
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Oops, somebody typoed. If Xylofagou or Xylophagou is correct (and the internet says it is), the Greek should be ΧΥΛΟΦΑΓΟΥ. If the Greek spelling is correct (which the internet says it's not; it redirects to Xylofagou or Χυλοφαγου, depending on which language I search in), the romanization should be Xylofaou or Xylophaou. So it looks like the Cypriot (or whoever made the image) got the romanization right but their own language wrong.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Oops, somebody typoed. If Xylofagou or Xylophagou is correct (and the internet says it is), the Greek should be ΧΥΛΟΦΑΓΟΥ. If the Greek spelling is correct (which the internet says it's not; it redirects to Xylofagou or Χυλοφαγου, depending on which language I search in), the romanization should be Xylofaou or Xylophaou. So it looks like the Cypriot (or whoever made the image) got the romanization right but their own language wrong.
Does the name in fact mean "wood eater"?
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@da-Doctah I'm not sure, but it would appear to. Genitive singular, so [town?] of the wood eater, maybe.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah I'm not sure, but it would appear to. Genitive singular, so [town?] of the wood eater, maybe.
This sounds like a question for the Oracle.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra apply that to a 17 year old girl saying “Certainly *hiss*” and find yourself on a sex offender list for the rest of your life.
"Is sexually mature" must be defined in the alien's culture as "is an adult," not by mere physical maturity. Having sex with 50-year-old elves is bad touch!
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Others felt that the Big Potato was missing something:
https://imgur.com/gallery/tTc9cKQ
That is to say, we need more!
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
would
Anyone around here who knows you knows it was not intended, but thanks for reassuring us.
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@Zecc It really wasn't, although I did notice what I wrote before I clicked Submit — and commented on it, obviously.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra apply that to a 17 year old girl saying “Certainly *hiss*” and find yourself on a sex offender list for the rest of your life.
"Is sexually mature" must be defined in the alien's culture as "is an adult," not by mere physical maturity. Having sex with 50-year-old elves is bad touch!
I was talking about humans. (Specifically, in certain places with 18 years age of consent and weird sex offender registries.)
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Former Cyprus ambassador to Britain Euripides Evriviades compared the monument to other national b
eacons like the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.Potatoes and bacon... now they're onto something!
:homer_drooling:
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Potatoes and bacon... now they're onto something!
:homer_drooling:
Dammit, it's not even close to lunchtime yet.
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@hungrier I knew there was one, but neither
homer
nordrooling
brought it up, so I used another local vernacular ().Thanks.
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I know it’s in bad taste but you gotta ask what the weather has against bouncy castles.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I know it’s in bad taste but you gotta ask what the weather has against bouncy castles.
: Well, it's called a "bouncy castle". I must bounce it!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I know it’s in bad taste but you gotta ask what the weather has against bouncy castles.
Perhaps from above, bouncy castles look like mobile homes?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I know it’s in bad taste but you gotta ask what the weather has against bouncy castles.
They were probably still enjoying it for at least a few seconds while airborne.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Microsoft's Happy-New-Year-in-code tweet sucked
Microsoft'sHappy-New-Year-in-codetweet sucked
Microsoft's Happy-New-Year-in-code tweetsucked
Microsoft's Happy-New-Year-in-codetweet suckedPick your FTFY.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Microsoft's Happy-New-Year-in-code tweet sucked
Microsoft'sHappy-New-Year-in-codetweet sucked
Microsoft's Happy-New-Year-in-code tweetsucked
Microsoft's Happy-New-Year-in-codetweet suckedPick your FTFY.
I'll do it myself!
sucked
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I'll do it myself!
sucked
I'm surprised you did but I'm not one to complain.
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@topspin it’s a whole two counties away from that one… it’s fine.
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That's about the first innovative idea I've heard that makes sense in two years.
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@DogsB can we just shoot him before this goes on?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB can we just shoot him before this goes on?
And waste an opportunity for second (overlapping!) pandemic?!
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Apparently opt-in, but still difficult to remove.
Edit: Skimmed a bit further. Apparently Norton takes 15% of the "income". Aside from being unpopular with users, other users seem to be complaining about it being difficult to get at their
vapourethereal coins, since they apparently have to stand for the transaction fees.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
That's about the first innovative idea I've heard that makes sense in two years.
In particular if the health workers are entirely unsymptomatic. I came up with the idea when the virus first started going around causing much panicked news articles. It will require dedicating buildings for it, but that shouldn't be a yuuuge pramblam.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Apparently opt-in, but still difficult to remove.
Edit: Skimmed a bit further. Apparently Norton takes 15% of the "income". Aside from being unpopular with users, other users seem to be complaining about it being difficult to get at their
vapourethereal coins, since they apparently have to stand for the transaction fees.“Here, I’ll sell you the shovel for 15% of the gross, and you pay all the taxes and reprocessing expenses”
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Well, that's going to be fun. Intentionally bricking libraries to stick it to the man, that's a new one.
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Someone twattered:
This trains people not to update, 'coz stuff might break.
Just think, then they might have to take some personal responsibility for their external dependencies! That doesn’t sound webscale at all.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Someone twattered:
This trains people not to update, 'coz stuff might break.
Just think, then they might have to take some personal responsibility for their external dependencies! That doesn’t sound webscale at all.
Yes, the problem rather is that people (developers and consumers) are being trained to update all the time. The TV I bought two months ago (see ) has great picture quality, but it has since had about 5 OS updates. And the individual apps (Netflix, YouTube, etc.) get updates like once a week.
Just FUCK OFF with that. Unless it’s an emergency security patch, I don’t want to see an update more than twice a year.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Well, that's going to be fun.
And people are commenting on the commit!
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Intentionally bricking libraries to stick it to the man, that's a new one.
Some day somebody is going to do something truly malicious rather than just mildly annoying. On the scale of impact, this rates a "meh" and perhaps a snicker.
I looked up the "color" library. From what I can see it has a few helpers for outputting ANSI color codes, plus some rather unnecessary weird-ass random stuff. Worst come to worst (i.e. can't roll back to an earlier version for whatever reason), somebody half-competent should be able to create a stub in about half a day. Guess that means living without colorized and zalgofied output for a bit, but that should be survivable.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
somebody half-competent should be able to create a stub in about half a day
Can confirm, it's just special bytes. Stick 'em in an array.
If it can't generate the various I Ching ideographs it was no great loss.
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@Tsaukpaetra Through your link I've arrived at this:
Embedded for her pleasure:
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The article also has this screenshot:
What the fuck is that? Did they monkey-patch the string class so that a property of a string computes a formatted version?!
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Did they monkey-patch the string class
Wouldn't it be easier for them to monkey-patch the object class that strings inherit from? Then anything that can be converted to a string can have its
america
property retrieved.
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@topspin Yes, I think so.
I think I saw a comment mentioning that his breaking changes break when importing the "safe" version of the code, i.e., one where the formatting is provided with normal functions and no monkey patching string.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
one where the formatting is provided with normal functions and no monkey patching string.
This is definitely some kind of "too clever for your own good" functionality.
Like, they probably did that to show off that they can, not because it's good design to have these functions in string.