In other news today...
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Win7 wasn’t a rolling shitshow that needed live-blogging.
They were taking a rest then after Vista, getting ready for Win 8.
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@dkf 7 was basically a honking great service pack for Vista in a lot of ways. And was the last of the “every other version is good” meme.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
This is one of those "does biweekly mean every two weeks, or twice a week" questions for which there is no satisfactory answer.
The answer is, "stick an 'every' on the front." Bi means two, so bi-weekly is something that happens every two weeks. Twice a week would be every half-week, or semi-weekly.
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@Mason_Wheeler if it was that easy, he wouldn’t have posted it.
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There is science to be done:
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@Dragoon to make a neat gun?
For the people who are still alive??
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon to make a neat gun?
For the people who are still alive??If you can make a gun out of colliding neutron stars, can I be in another galaxy?
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@dkf Someone please shoot the editor of that article into a neutron star. Perhaps there's a (tiny) chance they might replace him/her/it with someone who knows English grammar.
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@HardwareGeek ChatGPT is your best bet.
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@hungrier I guess “cheaper” very much depends on your price for tap water.
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Article @hungrier posted in In other news today...:
The researchers estimate that if the system is scaled up to the size of a small suitcase,
Wait wait wait, so once again it's tested at scales so small that there's probably a significant-figures issue?
I'm still waiting for my free lunch...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@hungrier I guess “cheaper” very much depends on your price for tap water.
And how much it costs to supply saltwater to your house.
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@hungrier I guess “cheaper” very much depends on your price for tap water.
And how much it costs to supply saltwater to your house.
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@Tsaukpaetra Nice sighting of @RaceProUK!
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon to make a neat gun?
For the people who are still alive??we'll just keep on trying till we run out of cake.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@hungrier I guess “cheaper” very much depends on your price for tap water.
Hm. TFA does no mention a dollar price.
In Nature or Science, I read an article about Israel's desalination program. They mentioned something like 50 cents per cubic meter.
Compare that to the 2.50€ I pay per cubic meter (including delivery), that price is really OK.
And btw I read an article in the FAZ where they mentioned plans for desalination of water of the Baltic Sea to provide fresh water for Berlin...
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@jinpa I don't recall the previous invention date I've read, but I've definitely heard before that it predates Pythagoras.
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@PleegWat It looks like though the information is true, it's not news. I guess IFL Science is not fully reputable.
From one of the comments:
Ratner's paper was published in 2009. The contents of the Babylonian tablet, called Plimpton 322, were known and discussed at least as far back as 1957. Why is this being presented as something new in 2023?
I have confirmed that the article mentioned in the article is from 2009.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I guess IFL Science is not fully reputable.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I guess IFL Science is not fully reputable.
A blog that merely claims to love science but that doesn’t pretend to be news per se isn’t reputable?
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@Arantor It doesn't call itself a blog.
And it does have a newsletter. And the article in question did appear on its news feed yesterday.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Arantor It doesn't call itself a blog.
And it does have a newsletter.
It might not call itself one but that does not change that it is one.
As for a “newsletter”, this does not reflect that it carries “news” in the traditional sense, but mayhaps a package - an electric letter, if you will - containing the newest items amongst their collection of carefully curated curiosities?
“News” is simply the plural of “new” reflecting the plurality of newness, after all.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
It might not call itself one but that does not change that it is one.
Hypothetically, that could be true (one could have a blog that does not call itself a blog), but I certainly would not call it a blog.
One could easily imagine them adding a blog to the website, though.
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@jinpa curious, why not?
It is functionally no different from the “zine” concept which is really a multi-author blog.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
a multi-author blog
Is already stretching the term. Yes, one can weasel words into meaning anything they want, but the website is clearly not a blog as it stands, though they could add a blog, which shows that it is not a blog.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
Yes, one can weasel words into meaning anything they want
See also: Much of the political in .
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@jinpa that’s constraining the definition of a blog to being a journal of sorts, but the term was originally much broader.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@jinpa that’s constraining the definition of a blog to being a journal of sorts, but the term was originally much broader.
Citation needed. I remember when the term first came into usage, and it was originally much narrower than it is now. It was only used for web logs (thus the name), i.e. online diaries, journals, daily writings.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
And was the last of the “every other version is good” meme.
Windows 9 would have been good, so they skipped it
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@TimeBandit But they are not skipping Windows 11 and so far it's looking like it didn't see good even from an express.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
It predates Pythagoras
That "It" seems to be a ferocious predator! Better stay away from it.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
It was only used for web logs (thus the name), i.e. online diaries, journals, daily writings.
Etymology wonk here: journals and diaries are by definition daily.
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Patreon made another brand change today.
The new look is a blobby P with a varying wordmark (shown here with their other two logos):
I think it looks worse than the other two they've had, but I'm sure they're proud of the money they spent having it designed for them.
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@Parody they also redid the interface and I hate it. I just want a simple chronological feed of content, dammit, not with arbitrary grouping in it.
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@Parody the second one was so awful that “amorphous blob” was the only logical conclusion.
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@topspin Next, but as an outline...
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@Parody Inkblot logo?
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Parody Inkblot logo?
Funny you should use that example: on some pages, including the News post I linked above, the P-blot logo in the page header is a constantly shifting vector graphic. it's static in other places I looked at yesterday.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Parody they also redid the interface and I hate it. I just want a simple chronological feed of content, dammit, not with arbitrary grouping in it.
They're just following the Facebook model: We know better
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@Parody That new one makes me feel like I need new glasses - it feels blurry.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Parody they also redid the interface and I hate it. I just want a simple chronological feed of content, dammit, not with arbitrary grouping in it.
They're just following the Facebook model: We know better
Facebook’s model is: what you want isn’t what makes us money.
My feed is roughly 5% of content made by people, the rest is ads and “suggestions”. For some reason (targeted advertising fail ) it really thinks I’m interested in football news.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Mice showing more sense than Samiyuk afficionadoes:
Mice with a functional OTOP1 protein found the taste of ammonium chloride unappealing and did not drink the solution, while mice lacking the OTOP1 protein did not mind the alkaline salt, even at very high concentrations.
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Liman speculates that the ability to taste ammonium chloride might have evolved to help organisms avoid eating harmful biological substances that have high concentrations of ammonium."Ammonium is found in waste products—think of fertilizer—and is somewhat toxic," she explained
More like salmishit amirite?
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@boomzilla now what gene do you lack if you don’t realize cilantro tastes like soap?
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@topspin I think cilantro tastes weird, but good. Sometimes I wonder if I just like the taste of soap.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Parody said in In other news today...:
I think it looks worse
Looks oddly familiar...
Who's That Pokemon?
Oh, it's Roblox.