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@DogsB donât even have to do that, one of them is leaving to go play with LLVM.
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The driver was not injured in the crash, police said.
I guess he's no longer in high spirits.
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Next time, try bribing the cops with your cooler's content.
Then again, the Ozzy cops might still not be amused.
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Man cited for driving a motorized cooler without a license
They have license for motorized coolers?
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB donât even have to do that, one of them is leaving to go play with LLVM.
I'm starting to worry.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB donât even have to do that, one of them is leaving to go play with LLVM.
Donât let those people touch LLVM, please.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB donât even have to do that, one of them is leaving to go play with LLVM.
Now I'm glad that I never jumped on the LLVM bandwagon.
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@topspin to be fair, Nikita is one of the key people responsible for making PHP less shitty over the last few years, introducing a lot of type safety behaviours and until the end of November, currently works for JetBrains.
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@Arantor He says he's going to leave in a week.
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@TwelveBaud well, it's now the early hours of 24th November. A week today will be the 1st December, which means he will indeed be leaving in a week. At the end of November. Same thing.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
A week today will be the 1st December
How the fuck did that happen? I'm sure it was only March like yesterday.
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@loopback0 Time flies when you have so much insanity around you to be angry about.
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Hey look, NASA is trying to crash a space craft into an asteroid:
But there's such a fine content:Astronomers discovered the asteroid in 2006, and confirmed the existence of its orbiting moonlet in 2003.
Exactly: 3 years before discovering the asteroid, they discovered it's being orbited by a moonlet. There seems to be an interesting time distortion field.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
NASA is trying to crash a space craft into an asteroid
That's not much news. There was already a couple of such missions.
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@Bulb Oooh. Burn. âIs what happened.
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@BernieTheBernie And the odds of them botching in a major way, nudging the asteroid onto a crash course with Earth are....
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@acrow I'd say the odds are astronomical.
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@acrow ⌠very small. The max momentum and kinetic energy transferred is pretty easy to figure out, and the orbital deflection from that is well understood. And that's the maximum effect; the real one is expected to be smaller (how much smaller is of some genuine interest).
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie And the odds of them botching in a major way, nudging the asteroid onto a crash course with Earth are....
welcomed.
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I'm seeing a glut of these articles now. Not one. Not even one! Talks about the fact that wireless headphones cost a fucking fortune especially if you lose the fucking things on a regular basis. Most of GenZ is also broke and up to their eyeballs in debt. A dongle and cheap headphones are all they can afford.
*edit got so irritated with the article I missed this.
Sensible girl. Have a star.
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@DogsB Wired headphones also don't need to be charged separately. We've already got enough things that do.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Not even one! Talks about the fact that wireless headphones cost a fucking fortune especially if you lose the fucking things on a regular basis.
The cheapest generics are like âŹ20 now, and visually indistiguishable from Apples while in ear. Crap for actually listening to music though...
Oh, hey! Here's a hat with built-in speakers for âŹ15:
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Not even one! Talks about the fact that wireless headphones cost a fucking fortune especially if you lose the fucking things on a regular basis.
The cheapest generics are like âŹ20 now, and visually indistiguishable from Apples while in ear. Crap for actually listening to music though...
Oh, hey! Here's a hat with built-in speakers for âŹ15:
Image in case embed doesn't work:
Honestly, that is the most Finnish thing on this forum, ever.
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@Kamil-Podlesak Manufactured by Expert AS, Norway.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm seeing a glut of these articles now. Not one. Not even one! Talks about the fact that wireless headphones cost a fucking fortune especially if you lose the fucking things on a regular basis. Most of GenZ is also broke and up to their eyeballs in debt. A dongle and cheap headphones are all they can afford.
*edit got so irritated with the article I missed this.
Sensible girl. Have a star.
: I wonder if there's a market for clothes and accessories with mirrored logos so they look correct when taking selfies in a mirror. Probably not.
2: I wonder if there's a market for phones with automatic flipping of images taken in a mirror. That would actually make a lot of sense.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I wonder if there's a market for phones with automatic flipping of images taken in a mirror. That would actually make a lot of sense.
Automatically detecting mirrors is going to be a problem. I thought of detecting the phone in the image, but everybody uses a cover. Maybe you could detect the lens arrangement on the newest iPhone. But single-lens phones are out of luck.
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@acrow The phone could send itself a signal using the flash or an LED or whatever.
How much does a mirror reflect a phone's radio emissions?
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@acrow The phone could send itself a signal using the flash or an LED or whatever.
You'd get the same reflection off any polished metal. People would wonder why pics of chrome fenders get mirrored.
How much does a mirror reflect a phone's radio emissions?
Depends on the metal backing. But not enough to be of interest to us. Especially since you can't geet good directionality from antennas small enough to fit in a phone.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak Manufactured by Expert AS, Norway.
Yes, that's what he said.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I wonder if there's a market for phones with automatic flipping of images taken in a mirror. That would actually make a lot of sense.
Automatically detecting mirrors is going to be a problem. I thought of detecting the phone in the image, but everybody uses a cover. Maybe you could detect the lens arrangement on the newest iPhone. But single-lens phones are out of luck.
It could use the front camera and compare it with the back one. If there is a mirrored overlap, mirror is detected.
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: Selfie stick, except the phone is attached next to the handle, and there's a mirror at the end of the stick. For when you need to take those mirror-selfies on the go.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
If there is a
mirroredmatching overlap, mirror is detected.I think.
Well, I stopped thinking when I realized I had a mirror nearby, and just stood in front of it and compared the selfie-preview with the mirror-selfie-front-camera preview. Although I wouldn't be surprised if there's an option to mirror/unmirror the selfie camera.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Although I wouldn't be surprised if there's an option to mirror/unmirror the selfie camera.
There is, at least on the default Samsung camera app. But not for the preview, only the captured image.
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when the 10:13 long
ten minutes. She's written a ten-minute song over a break-up? WTF? Did he fart rainbows and shit golden nuggets? I'm in the wrong racket.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
The phone could send itself a signal using the flash or an LED or whatever.
How much does a mirror reflect a phone's radio emissions?A couple of near-infrared LEDs would probably work as well as anything (with each flashing a different code or rate or something like that). Radio waves would be completely useless for this job; the wavelength is far too long to get the required spatial resolution without people having to move the phone around a lot, and you don't want to ask people to do that.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
The phone could send itself a signal using the flash or an LED or whatever.
How much does a mirror reflect a phone's radio emissions?A couple of near-infrared LEDs would probably work as well as anything (with each flashing a different code or rate or something like that). Radio waves would be completely useless for this job; the wavelength is far too long to get the required spatial resolution without people having to move the phone around a lot, and you don't want to ask people to do that.
Do the phones use the same code, or is it a GUID? Let's take a phone of them while they take one and see!
ď š:(we need a better explosion icon...)
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
wireless headphones cost a fucking fortune
Eh. Maybe airpods or other big brand ones do, but there are cheap ones available. Some are even nicer to use, because they have physical buttons instead of stupid touch surfaces
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@DogsB I'm trendy now? Oh, dear. I might have to start using the wireless earbuds my son gave me when he bought a better pair.
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Clearly.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
I hardly know what to say....
If it wasn't for the word âSouthwarkâ putting this firmly in the London area, I'd guess this was peak Florida Man.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
ten minutes. She's written a ten-minute song over a break-up? WTF? Did he fart rainbows and shit golden nuggets? I'm in the wrong racket.
Breakup songs are long. Nothing new in that.
Here's 14 minutes inspired by a band's breakup with their former lead singer:
Edit: P.S. And it's not long because it's live. The album version is just as long.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
peak Florida Man.
can't be ... there is no alligator to be seen
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@acrow I didnât think Poet and the Pendulum was about Tarjaâs departure or even Tuomasâs reaction to it (while Bye Bye Beautiful absolutely is a breakup statement)
PatP always struck me in the same vein as Song of Myself, an insight into Tuomas himself, his inner turmoil, the folly of worshipping meaningless things and missing out on what life has to offer. Certainly it comes from a dark time in his life.
I get how âthe widowed writerâ and some of the metaphor looks that way, it was just I never took that meaning from it, especially as it draws from Poeâs work.
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@Arantor Mostly I posted that because it's the longest song I could remember off the top of my head. (TIL, nightwish has now an even longer one.)
But the link to breakup actually comes from something I found while googling for the chart rankings of it:
The Poet and the Pendulum is the first song in Nightwish's 6th Album, Dark Passion Play. This song is one of Tuomas' most personal songs, dealing with Tarja Turunen leaving the band and his feelings of it. The song at its time was the longest Nightwish song in duration,and is now the second longest song only to The Greatest Show on Earth. Clocking at around 14 minutes. The song is divided into 5 sections, each with different themes and styles being applied: White Lands of Empathica, Home, Pacific, Dark Passion Play, and Mother and Father. There is a demo version by Marco Hietala, with even darker lyrics.
Emphasis mine.
And no, I got no idea if that's got any truth in it - a fan site is a fan site.
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@acrow Iâm not suggesting itâs wrong, merely that wasnât my takeaway from it, I never saw it as a breakup song but I can totally see how others might.
And yeah, there is Greatest Show On Earth at 24 mins and change but thatâs definitely not a breakup song.
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Status: listening to Gershwin's American in Paris, after which I'll listen to his Rhapsody in Blue.
It's not like I'm competing for who knows someone with a longer musical penis. I just got reminded of those songs.
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I'm beginning to regret that outburst about Taylor Swift.