In other news today...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery I assume he just really likes his iPhone.
What sane person could do that?
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@polygeekery My point is that it's more of a participation trophy.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
he robbed the same bank in 2015.
He got only three years for bank robbery?
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:Stick to what you know!
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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911: Man kills daughter who was also his wife after breakup
She was his wife after they broke up? (Technically, the incestuous marriage was probably never legally valid in the first place.)
You can put a colon in a headline; would it kill you to put in a couple of commas?
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@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
The linked article (subscription/sci-hub needed) is even worse, a patient literally ended up with a cooked brain after an MRI.
WTF, why does a medical device even get approval if you can use it at the same time it's hooked up to mains power? For the little power these things need, it shouldn't be too much hassle to have some intermediary cellphone power bank style battery to do the recharging should one need to do that while using it.
And re MRI, did they let the janitor operate that thing? I have a minuscule piece of shrapnel above my eye and the guys were super cautious when I got a MRI recently. Only after I said like five times that I think it's small enough not to cause problems (it didn't) and that I'd have an eye on (more like under) it and let them know when it hurts they let me into the machine.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@magus Maybe because just a few minutes ago I had to make a "fuck you, asshole" list and it put me in a bad mood.
Am I on that list?
It'd be easier to count the number of people not on that list than the number of people on that list.
That reminds me of an insane statement one of my old bosses received from a client. Basically we were trying to get requirements for a sleuthing report for some data, and we had available some 200-odd available fields. They were going through the list trying to cherry pick what fields were valuable and eventually he was told, "Well, it's easier if I tell you what I don't want..."
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Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S. city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones — and then the tiny aircraft were all around them, swooping past in a series of “high-speed low passes at the agents in the observation post to flush them,” the head of the agency’s operational technology law unit told attendees of the AUVSI Xponential conference here. Result: “We were then blind,” said Joe Mazel, meaning the group lost situational awareness of the target.
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INRA
IRAN
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S. city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones — and then the tiny aircraft were all around them, swooping past in a series of “high-speed low passes at the agents in the observation post to flush them,” the head of the agency’s operational technology law unit told attendees of the AUVSI Xponential conference here. Result: “We were then blind,” said Joe Mazel, meaning the group lost situational awareness of the target.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try againskydiving is not for you.
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@laoc said in In other news today...:
WTF, why does a medical device even get approval if you can use it at the same time it's hooked up to mains power?
MRI machines use quite a lot of power.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Stick to what you know!
"Hey, I thought one couldn't be trialed for the same crime twice!"
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Woman pays almost European petrol price, makes news
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@coldandtired Why were the pumps on if the station wasn't open for business?
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery I assume he just really likes his iPhone.
What sane person could do that?
He's old. Maybe the simplicity of having only one button works for him?
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@boomzilla That's the best damn feature of the phone. And they got rid of it. Idiots.
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WARNING: Autoplay video:
Life comes at you fast.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@coldandtired Why were the pumps on if the station wasn't open for business?
Because this way they might get some sucker to pay $9.99 per gallon of gas. :P I imagine she's going to have trouble disputing it.
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@heterodox Sounds like they need to be investigated for price-gouging.
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@anotherusername fuck off, communist.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
Berkshire Hathaway had to be careful with its investments because they had so much purchasing power that they had the power to make or break companies with their trading.
Isn't that the point of investments? Not usually by a single company, but they've always been "you have potential, you may stay alive for a little longer".
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
Berkshire Hathaway had to be careful with its investments because they had so much purchasing power that they had the power to make or break companies with their trading.
Isn't that the point of investments? Not usually by a single company, but they've always been "you have potential, you may stay alive for a little longer".
Well...yes. The point of what he said was that they had the purchasing power to be market makers. They could purchase enough stock that they could inflate the price and then sell it off in order to make a profit. Investment is different than market making. Buffett used to see market making as unethical.
This was all mentioned, IIRC, the context of the Southeast Asia economic collapse:
Which is a fascinating story in and of itself, for those who are interested.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Isn't that the point of investments? Not usually by a single company, but they've always been "you have potential, you may stay alive for a little longer".
After the IPO, stock sales are mostly investor to investor, and don't have any direct effect on the company's finances.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Isn't that the point of investments? Not usually by a single company, but they've always been "you have potential, you may stay alive for a little longer".
After the IPO, stock sales are mostly investor to investor, and don't have any direct effect on the company's finances.
That is just patently incorrect.
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@polygeekery shut up Wesley
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@timebandit Apparently the person who wrote that bothered to ask, and was essentially told that they're showing their competitors' lame parts, not the ones going in their phone.
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@magus Yeah, sure, that sounds totally plausible.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
That is just patently incorrect.
It's technically correct. The direct relationship is closer to being the other way round; a company's finances (including how they're trending) tend to have a strong connection to the value of their stock. The opposite direction is usually more indirect, as there it's more about an indicator (and a cryptic one at that) of trust and hence what can be borrowed, either directly from banks or via bond issues. The only exception to that is where a company decides to issue more stock or buy it back (effectively destroying it) but those are relatively uncommon actions in most non-financial companies. Day-to-day stock trading doesn't have an effect on the company's balance sheet (other than the P/E ratio, of course).
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla That's the best damn feature of the phone. And they got rid of it. Idiots.
Apple are good at removing features.
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Starting with the current Windows 10 Insider build, Notepad will support Unix/Linux line endings (LF), Macintosh line endings (CR), and Windows Line endings (CRLF) as usual. New files created within Notepad will use Windows line ending (CRLF) by default, but it will now be possible to view, edit, and print existing files, correctly maintaining the file’s current line ending format.
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@bb36e I wonder if the new notepad is also going to start bugging people to review it in the windows app store...
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@bb36e the fact that it took this long for them to fix Notepad just goes to show that literally nobody at Microsoft actually uses it...
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
Starting with the current Windows 10 Insider build, Notepad will support Unix/Linux line endings (LF), Macintosh line endings (CR), and Windows Line endings (CRLF) as usual. New files created within Notepad will use Windows line ending (CRLF) by default, but it will now be possible to view, edit, and print existing files, correctly maintaining the file’s current line ending format.
Microsoft knows what features we really want
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
Great!
Starting with the current Windows 10 Insider build,
Argh! No, you blithering morons! Backport it to the rest of your OS catalog. It's not like it's difficult to do...
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As with any change to a long-established tool, there’s a chance that this new behavior may not work for your scenarios, or you may prefer to disable this new behavior and return to Notepad’s original behavior. To do this, you can change the following registry keys in the following location to tweak how Notepad handles pasting of text, and which EOL character to use when Enter/Return is hit:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad]
https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2018/05/Notepad-Registry.png
Now you know there's got to be one piece of software which opens Notepad and pastes some text in it, or at least depends on the CR/LF behaviour to linearize files...
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@bb36e said in In other news today...:
Great!
Starting with the current Windows 10 Insider build,
Argh! No, you blithering morons! Backport it to the rest of your OS catalog. It's not like it's difficult to do...
Finally Windows 10 gets a killer feature. No way they back port it.
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@timebandit There ain’t a big enough.
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ChromeOS is a real Debian machine
https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/08/chrome-os-is-getting-linux-app-support/
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- Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
- Bash on Debian on ChromeOS
- Bash on ??? on MacOS
- Bash on ??? on SteamOS
- Bash on * on *nix
I'm convinced we'll never be able to escape legacy terminal interfaces that were designed in the 20th century.
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@lb_ said in In other news today...:
I'm convinced we'll never be able to escape legacy terminal interfaces that were designed in the 20th century.
Eventually, we'll have legacy web interfaces that were designed in the 21st century that we'll never be able to escape…
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@lb_ Hell, my company still has to support vt220 (and older) terminals for our product.
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As fascinating as this is all I can do is think of edge cases... it's really cool but it gives me anxiety!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKVppdt_-B4
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
As with any change to a long-established tool, there’s a chance that this new behavior may not work for your scenarios, or you may prefer to disable this new behavior and return to Notepad’s original behavior. To do this, you can change the following registry keys in the following location to tweak how Notepad handles pasting of text, and which EOL character to use when Enter/Return is hit:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad]
https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2018/05/Notepad-Registry.png
Now you know there's got to be one piece of software which opens Notepad and pastes some text in it, or at least depends on the CR/LF behaviour to linearize files...
Actually, I had depended on WordPad for that....
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@lb_ said in In other news today...:
As fascinating as this is all I can do is think of edge cases... it's really cool but it gives me anxiety!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKVppdt_-B4"OK Google, can you find me a wife?"
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@tsaukpaetra Facebook is starting a dating service. If Google wants to continue to one-up them, they could do one Black Mirror-style.
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
Are they expecting these values to become more complex flags in the future, or are they just messing with our heads?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@bb36e the fact that it took this long for them to fix Notepad just goes to show that literally nobody at Microsoft actually uses it...
Or that they don't use files from other operating systems. I've never run into line ending issues with Notepad because I don't have random .bashrc files lying around that I want to view on Windows