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TIL
In plane geometry, the einstein problem asks about the existence of a single prototile that by itself forms an aperiodic set of prototiles, that is, a shape that can tessellate space, but only in a nonperiodic way. Such a shape is called an einstein, a play on the German words ein Stein, meaning one tile.
Apropos:
https://nitter.se/cs_kaplan/status/1637996334685863938?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
In this paper we present the first true aperiodic monotile, a shape that forces aperiodicity through geometry alone, with no additional constraints applied via matching conditions. We prove that this shape, a polykite that we call "the hat", must assemble into tilings based on a substitution system. The drawing above shows a patch of hats produced using a few rounds of substitution.
Seems simple enough:
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@DogsB . In driving antipatterns, I think.
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@Zecc uh, didn't they say aperiodic, not large periodic?
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@DogsB I kind of expected a mushroom peaking over a window sill, ominously saying "SOON".
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB I kind of expected a mushroom peaking over a window sill, ominously saying "SOON".
Some of us are capable of multiple memes. Sometimes even at the same time!
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Fresh from the department of duh.
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@izzion Another deceptive practice Verizon and others have is advertising one fee, and only when the prospective customer gets to the end is a monthly fee ($10+) for the box. Note that the box is not optional - there is no value to the service without the box, and the user cannot buy a generic box somewhere else.
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@jinpa Do they also have an "Oh, you'd like to actually pay for that?" fee, like some budget airlines do?
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@dkf There's a paper statements fee and pay-by-check and pay-in-person fees. There also used to be an online statements fee and a pay-by-credit-card fee, but I think those are no longer present.
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@jinpa They were required by law to offer the CableCARD system, which was set up so that you could choose with box to use -- including your PC with an appropriate PCI card -- and just slot in the card they provided. After over a decade of charging double or even triple the box rental price if you wanted a bare card, they figured out that there was nothing stopping them from riveting a blanking plate over the CableCARD slot after installation and only offering CableCARDs so enclosed. I think they also got the mandate removed because , but they continue using CableCARD-compatible boxes.
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@TwelveBaud Does FIOS fall under the same laws as "cable"? You sometimes hear people say things like, "Do you have cable or FIOS?" (Where I am there are both), even though FIOS is a fiber-optic cable.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@izzion Another deceptive practice Verizon and others have is advertising one fee, and only when the prospective customer gets to the end is a monthly fee ($10+) for the box. Note that the box is not optional - there is no value to the service without the box, and the user cannot buy a generic box somewhere else.
Cheapies!
Eventim (? not sure, might have been a different company) charged users 20 Euros for delivering a ticket via email ...
(Fortunately they lost at the highest civil court in Germany)
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud Does FIOS fall under the same laws as "cable"? You sometimes hear people say things like, "Do you have cable or FIOS?" (Where I am there are both), even though FIOS is a fiber-optic cable.
"Cable" in this context generally means coax cable, generally provided by a company that mostly does (or traditionally did) cable tv.
Even if upstream of the box outside is fiber.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
After the US demonstrated its new balloon-hunting capabilities, Russia tries to one-up them by ... uh. Unclear. Regardless of what the mission was, it was clearly completed with the usual competence and professionalism the world's come to expect.
They probably tried to get it to crash using tail vortexes.
Or some dumbass attempt to dump fuel and light it?
They aren't the sharpest cucumbers in the shed after all.Feels like a round of "I'm not touching you!"
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
if one could have a forum where the requirement was that you be drunk when posting.
thedailywtf.ie
I could squat that but most of the providers charge extra for whois privacy. Bite my ass.
I can foot the privates-see.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
I mean, they could just ban contraceptives instead, and nature takes care of the rest.
I volunteer as tribute?
If all they want is genes, I'm technically half there already. 🙃
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@izzion Another deceptive practice Verizon and others have is advertising one fee, and only when the prospective customer gets to the end is a monthly fee ($10+) for the box. Note that the box is not optional - there is no value to the service without the box, and the user cannot buy a generic box somewhere else.
Cheapies!
Eventim (? not sure, might have been a different company) charged users 20 Euros for delivering a ticket via email ...
(Fortunately they lost at the highest civil court in Germany)They also say that tickets are personalized and may not be sold (ostensibly to combat black market / scalpers), then offer you to resell them on their own platform, for like a 20% fee or so. I bought tickets on eBay classifieds anyway, because fuck them.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud Does FIOS fall under the same laws as "cable"? You sometimes hear people say things like, "Do you have cable or FIOS?" (Where I am there are both), even though FIOS is a fiber-optic cable.
"Cable" in this context generally means coax cable, generally provided by a company that mostly does (or traditionally did) cable tv.
Even if upstream of the box outside is fiber.
Do they do other skeuomorphic things too? Or do they, like, snicker whenever somone says "don't touch that dial!"?
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud Does FIOS fall under the same laws as "cable"? You sometimes hear people say things like, "Do you have cable or FIOS?" (Where I am there are both), even though FIOS is a fiber-optic cable.
"Cable" in this context generally means coax cable, generally provided by a company that mostly does (or traditionally did) cable tv.
Even if upstream of the box outside is fiber.
Do they do other skeuomorphic things too? Or do they, like, snicker whenever somone says "don't touch that dial!"?
I think it's just a fixed phrase that no one thinks about. Because no one really understands how the Internet appears on your computer (aka monitor) when you push the Internet button (aka browser icon).
So "cable" is short for "Internet from the company I pay (or would pay) for wired TV" (from cable TV, which was different from the over the air channels because it used a cable to get to you not an antenna). And FIOS is "the fiber one" even though they don't know what fiber is or how they differ.
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Remember that Polish company, industry darlings that made sooo goood games (uhu), but then somehow didn't quite deliver on a 7 year long 400 million investment? But then they announced - holy shit - 6 new AAA games - and a new trilogy at that - to be released in the span of the next couple years and... yeah. How it's going?
CD Projekt revealed in a March 20 announcement to investors that it is writing off expenses related to the development of Project Sirius, one of its three Witcher games currently in the oven, and seemingly rebooting the project.
it described spending the equivalent of $7.75 million on Sirius' development in 2022, with an additional $2.2 million at the beginning of this year
Then again, maybe it's not really their fault?
Sirius is being developed by The Molasses Flood, a Boston-based studio acquired by CD Projekt in April 2022.
Clearly they haven't heard about the @GuyWhoKilledBear's Law.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Boston
Would you of preferred Reval/Riga/
VirusVilnius?
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
The Molasses Flood
Jokes just write themselves.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Boston
Would you of preferred Reval/Riga/
VirusVilnius?We have enough slavs in tracksuits doing "business" as it is
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
"Cable" in this context generally means coax cable, generally provided by a company that mostly does (or traditionally did) cable tv.
Even if upstream of the box outside is fiber.
Do they do other skeuomorphic things too? Or do they, like, snicker whenever somone says "don't[emphasis jinpa's] touch that dial!"?
How does that fit in this context? 1) It's not a visual thing, like modern ferry boats with old fashioned chimneys and 2) It seems like the opposite, even if we take the term figuratively. There actually is a cable involved (as opposed to say, Dish), people just don't usually call it that. People will say, "Cable or FIOS", even though both use cables.
P.S. Upon thinking about it more, yes, if people call Dish TV "cable", then it's analogous to skeuomorphic.
P.P.S. But even in Dish, there is a short cable from the dish to the house, as implied above.
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Tough competition for was found in siberia: a fish which survives being frozen.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Remember that Polish company, industry darlings that made sooo goood games (uhu), but then somehow didn't quite deliver on a 7 year long 400 million investment? But then they announced - holy shit - 6 new AAA games - and a new trilogy at that - to be released in the span of the next couple years and... yeah. How it's going?
CD Projekt revealed in a March 20 announcement to investors that it is writing off expenses related to the development of Project Sirius, one of its three Witcher games currently in the oven, and seemingly rebooting the project.
it described spending the equivalent of $7.75 million on Sirius' development in 2022, with an additional $2.2 million at the beginning of this year
Then again, maybe it's not really their fault?
Sirius is being developed by The Molasses Flood, a Boston-based studio acquired by CD Projekt in April 2022.
Clearly they haven't heard about the @GuyWhoKilledBear's Law.
It worked out great for Duke Nukem Forever, right?
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@BernieTheBernie Sounds like cryonics may not be as far-fetched as was once thought.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
I mean, they could just ban contraceptives instead, and nature takes care of the rest.
Not necessarily; a big part of the problem, both in Japan and in other Western nations, is not that people are having too much sex with contraception but rather that too many people are simply not having sex (or more broadly speaking, socializing) at all.
If you want to look at things to ban to fix this, contraceptives might help, but much higher up the list would be pornography and social media.
And banning overtime would probably also be a good start, and shitty foods.
Yeah, someone needs to tell the weebs that real waifus are cheaper than virtual waifus.
There are other benefits. The virtual waifu will thank you for saving her from virtual space pirates. Real ones do not.
Real waifus may be under attack by real space pirates soon. Weeeeeeebs!!!!
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Moore's law is dead
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie Sounds like cryonics may not be as far-fetched as was once thought.
You're missing the quote marks and the 1995.
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PARK VISION:
Parking AI monitors walkways and penalizes third-party shoppers
If you park in a camera-monitored parking lot of a Gelsenkirchen supermarket, you can only shop there. If you go somewhere else, you pay a fine.In Gelsenkirchen, a new digital parking space surveillance system in front of a supermarket is causing trouble. Drivers get lots of tickets because they quickly went to the bakery or the pharmacy next door after shopping in the supermarket, reports Die Welt.
The parking area surveillance was taken over by the company Parkvision and works with cameras and software for facial, license plate and route recognition. Customers are filmed when parking and entering and exiting the supermarket and are fined if they violate the parking rules. People who only get out to read the parking conditions have also been recorded, the report said.
The digital parking surveillance, as Parkvision is called, is free of charge for the parking lot operator in terms of installation and provision. According to the website, Parkvision guarantees "a legally compliant, clear signage concept". The product description goes on to say: "Immediately after registration of the license plate, people and animals are made unrecognizable with the help of intelligent software components."
According to the report, experts see a large legal gray area in this type of parking space surveillance. Dekra has rejected the data protection check carried out by its organization on the Parkvision website as not applicable and is examining the facts.
Complaints are piling up
According to the report, there are also complaints about the video surveillance operated by Parkvision GmbH in the house of the Hessian state commissioner for data protection and freedom of information. According to the report, the authority is currently examining possible violations. Parkvision is based in Hesse.
The owner of a pharmacy nearby reports that many customers have already received one or more tickets. According to the report, some customers also migrate and no longer shop in the supermarket. Should it close, the supply situation in the district would deteriorate significantly.
A lawyer has also made the problem his personal mission and offers those affected a free sample letter on his website with which they can object to the speeding tickets.
Is this the capitalist surveillance dystopia we were promised? That’s just stupid. People will shop there once and never again.
E: I haven’t proof read Google’s work, there. It’s obviously not a “speeding ticket” but a parking fine.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
It’s obviously not a “speeding ticket” but a parking fine.
It's a ticket for being at the wrong speed (zero).
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
It’s obviously not a “speeding ticket” but a parking fine.
It's a ticket for being at the wrong speed (zero).
As opposed to driving at the wrong speed. 🤔
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This is kinda dumb. Reminds me of that stupid Internet sex robot that had similar performance capabilities.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
This is kinda dumb. Reminds me of that stupid Internet sex robot that had similar performance capabilities.
What would it take for this to be really dumb?
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
What would it take for this to be really dumb?
It posting automatically on social media.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
This is kinda dumb. Reminds me of that stupid Internet sex robot that had similar performance capabilities.
What would it take for this to be really dumb?
It's already dumb enough without a tongue. To make it more dumb someone would need to break the speaker in the included smartphone.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
This is kinda dumb. Reminds me of that stupid Internet sex robot that had similar performance capabilities.
What would it take for this to be really dumb?
It's already dumb enough without a tongue. To make it more dumb someone would need to break the speaker in the included smartphone.
I think it needs an inflatable head with a reradiant coating, so that the phone display can populate the head's features. (Please add quotes to all words in prior sentence)
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Today was a day of very large strikes in public transport in , perhaps the largest since some 30 years.
What was the effect?
Hardly anything. Thanks to the 'rona, many employees knew how to work from home, and did so today.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Today was a day of very large strikes in public transport in , perhaps the largest since some 30 years.
What was the effect?
Hardly anything. Thanks to the 'rona, many employees knew how to work from home, and did so today.If that keeps up, more of them will start to wonder why they bother commuting to work in the first place. Public transport patronage will start to drop...
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They removed a couple of slowdown loops
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@TimeBandit there's probably enough of them left to get another 10x after that.
However, as long as it gets rid of Adobe Purple, sign me up.
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I hate taxes and I hate weebs. I am infuriated that this exists.
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@DogsB I, on the other hand, love it, and would very much like for it to take my job.