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Glass that continent!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Glass that continent!
You'll have to be quick, otherwise that continent will get you first.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Glass that continent!
You'll have to be quick, otherwise that continent will get you first.
Spiders, for instance, can be found at any elevation including midair. You are never more than 6 feet from a spider.
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TodayA few days ago in shadenfreude news:another version with some funny-ish Twiits:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
cockatoos may have learned to defeat some methods, leading people to escalate to more effective measures.
Eventually, the cockatoos will win. Because on the human side, there's
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
cockatoos may have learned to defeat some methods, leading people to escalate to more effective measures.
Eventually, the cockatoos will win. Because on the human side, there's
Maybe. It seems like the cockatoos move on after a bit when they can't figure it out. So they might give it up altogether, at least for a while until everyone disarms and they start trying it again.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Glass that continent!
You'll have to be quick, otherwise that continent will get you first.
Spiders, for instance, can be found at any elevation including midair. You are never more than 6 feet from a spider.
So much for social distancing.
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@boomzilla You want to get socially close to a spider?
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@boomzilla I think he's a spider
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@Gribnit "People who are not more than 6 feet away from a spider" group?
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
never more than 6 feet from a spider
Then you've left 2 feet behind.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit "People who are not more than 6 feet away from a spider" group?
Currently, I am one of that group. There's a Pholcidae - likely Pholcus phalangoides - not far from me.
With all her 8 feet.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit "People who are not more than 6 feet away from a spider" group?
Currently, I am one of that group. There's a Pholcidae - likely Pholcus phalangoides - not far from me.
With all her 8 feet.I've had a sequence of those in one corner of my kitchen for years now. I leave her alone unless she starts getting territorial with her web and I have to trim it back a bit. Considering how much bigger she is now than when I first noticed her, I know she's not starving so she doesn't need as much space as she tries to lay claim to.
I call her Chloe.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dkf uh...? The implication of @Gribnit's post is that you can't get away from them.
Fuckin' spiders!
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If only red hat would stay away from us.
Not being limited by location when hiring provides a much broader opportunity to attract and retain great associates, especially when it comes to diverse talent
i can work from home now!
you are a remote cost centre. We’re replacing you with a cheaper Eastern Europe one.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
TodayA few days ago in shadenfreude news:another version with some funny-ish Twiits:
It is worth mentioning that in some languages, Ferris wheel is actually called "Russian wheel"
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russenrad (although that is pretty much reserved for the smaller, pre-Ferris ones)
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@Kamil-Podlesak Yes; I thought about that, but forgot to mention it.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
It is worth mentioning that in some languages, Ferris wheel is actually called "Russian wheel"
I've never heard that.
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Around here we call rollercoasters "Russian mountains".
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"365 Apps?" That's a lot of apps
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People are very quiet on Teams today. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
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@Arantor Hm… I had the red skewed box of office update in the tray in the morning, but it's no longer there, so it might have even happened.
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@Zecc Same here in Quebec in French
Montagnes russes
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
TodayA few days ago in shadenfreude news:another version with some funny-ish Twiits:
It is worth mentioning that in some languages, Ferris wheel is actually called "Russian wheel"
We call them 'reuzenrad' (literally 'giants' wheel') which may well have the same origin based on phonetic similarity.
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@PleegWat that last one pictured is cognate to "Russian asshole", isn't it?
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Today in measurements that even the yanks will raise questions about.
which is somewhat like using a semi-truck to move boxes, compared to a moving van.
I'm sure this makes sense to someone.
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@DogsB eh, just trying to explain one effect of packet size to the layman. Not the greatest analogy but far from the worst.
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@DogsB I'm a huge fan of truck analogies, been using them for years.
The complaint I have with that analogy is that I'd expect a lot of people, when they think of "moving van", to be thinking of one of the semi-trucks that moving companies use. "So that analogy means WiFi7 is a different color than before?"
I like comparing pickup trucks to semis, pretty much everyone knows that difference.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
which is somewhat like using a semi-truck to move boxes, compared to a moving van.
I'm sure this makes sense to someone.
It will take longer to speed up and it won't reach tight corners, is what I'm guessing.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Today in measurements that even the yanks will raise questions about.
which is somewhat like using a semi-truck to move boxes, compared to a moving van.
I'm sure this makes sense to someone.
It will swear on the CB band...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm sure this makes sense to someone.
I can confidently say I have absolutely no idea what that means.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm sure this makes sense to someone.
I can confidently say I have absolutely no idea what that means.
It's not his fault, he's Irish
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Uber is now experiencing the Uber Hack:
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The hacker had alerted Curry and other security researchers to the intrusion on Thursday evening by using an internal Uber account to comment on vulnerabilities they had previously identified on the company's network
I like their style.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
The hacker had alerted Curry and other security researchers to the intrusion on Thursday evening by using an internal Uber account to comment on vulnerabilities they had previously identified on the company's network
I like their style.
An article at Heise.de said the boy (18yo) was just enjoying the fun of a lifetime, actually not knowing what to do with all of that hack.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
The hacker had alerted Curry and other security researchers to the intrusion on Thursday evening by using an internal Uber account to comment on vulnerabilities they had previously identified on the company's network
I like their style.
An article at Heise.de said the boy (18yo) was just enjoying the fun of a lifetime, actually not knowing what to do with all of that hack.
some more info with screenshots
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
That's crazytalk. Car's just a phone, like everything else.
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@MrL Apple don't make cars, but if they did, they'd be magical and revolutionary. And they wouldn't have buttons, they'd have a notch.
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@Arantor They've been gearing up for it for ages now. I guess they can't figure out how to present it as magical and revolutionary, since at the end of the day it will still (have to) be a driveable car. Lots of rules these days, which is why most of them look like enlarged pieces of soap already. And Rose GoldTM doesn't sound too impressive alongside Imola Red, Dragon Orange Metallic or Magnetic Blue either.
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@Applied-Mediocrity There's ways around the rules. For example, most places have special rules for "light vehicles" such as quads. This is how Tata Nano and Reliant Robin were legal; they aren't technically cars.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity There's ways around the rules. For example, most places have special rules for "light vehicles" such as quads. This is how Tata Nano and Reliant Robin were legal; they aren't technically cars.
Trikes are probably even better, except for having all the disadvantages of both cars and motorcycles, none of the advantages and a few disadvantages all of their own.
But there were road legal gokarts that were registered as quads. If they hadn't been chinesium, I'd have had one just for the novelty.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@MrL Apple don't make cars, but if they did, they'd be magical and revolutionary. And they wouldn't have buttons, they'd have a notch.
Car makers have pre-empted that already: Thats where the rear-view mirror goes!
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@Arantor And it would be an electric car.
And of course, to charge it, you would need an adapter.