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@Mason_Wheeler I've never been hit by any actual fraudulent charges (knock wood) but when I moved into my new house last year, I had to call the bank because the charge kept getting declined when I was trying to buy a mattress. Sure, I don't usually buy mattresses, but by their nature they aren't something you buy regularly.
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@hungrier At least, you'd really hope not!
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@hungrier Representative sample:
Also, am I the only person who found Seinfeld less funny than The West Wing?
e: Why am I reading Ars comments anyway
Because you're an arse?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
German and humor doesnât always translate well.
No, it doesn't. But the problem might not be the translation.
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@JBert linked in In other news today...:
...well-known legend
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@JBert linked in In other news today...:
...well-known legend
Right?!?!? I'm sitting here wondering "WTF is the legend?!?"
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I'm not a big fan of RMS, but this does seem kind of draconian, though. He was obviously forced out. What he said wasn't even related to his field. Who gets to keep their job and who doesn't seems kind of arbitrary.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
German and humor doesnât always translate well.
No, it doesn't. But the problem might not be the translation.
I know what youâre alluding to, but it worked fine with every other sitcom. I loved King of Queens.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@GÄ ska That's not particularly relevant to closing time.
One time I was visiting a friend in Canada. We went out to lunch, and about 2 minutes after I bought some food, I got a text from my bank's fraud department asking if I was really making purchases in Canada. They didn't need 3 days to check on the legitimacy of my card use!
I still have an account in Germany. When I lived in Ecuador, I used its debit card a lot, which worked fine most of the time. After about four years, I got a "declined" some day and called their hotline. Thy had blocked the card because they "noticed a lot of withdrawals from Ecuador, which was flagged as suspicious"
These months I moved shitholes and just made my first transfer from my Sri Lankan account to another bank. I live about five minutes from the ATM that I used, and before I was home I got the receiver's "hey, thanks for the payment".
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler I've never been hit by any actual fraudulent charges (knock wood) but when I moved into my new house last year, I had to call the bank because the charge kept getting declined when I was trying to buy a mattress. Sure, I don't usually buy mattresses, but by their nature they aren't something you buy regularly.
Actually, you really should. Buy them regularly, I mean. The mattress closest to your skin gets moldy in a few years unless you dry it properly every day.
Unless it's 100% synthetic, in which case it only gets dirty.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@JBert linked in In other news today...:
...well-known legend
Right?!?!? I'm sitting here wondering "WTF is the legend?!?"
RTFAA
But it is nerd-bait, I guess (unless you happen to be a scatologist).
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
isn't what you're describing literally "a technological fix to a social problem"?
More of a bureaucratic fix, which is different because they're used to create social problemsâŚ
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
You only ever add monetary values or multiply them by amounts, but never multiply/divide them (which wouldnât make sense), so thereâs no problem here.
What about interest calculations?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
What about interest calculations?
That's multiplying by a dimensionless factor. By comparison, the $3 is a very rare unit indeed.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
What about interest calculations?
By comparison, the $3 is a very rare unit indeed.
That's a thing?
I would imagine it's only used to express the contents of this:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
That's a thing?
Logically, yes. I can't think of any time you'd use it for real.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
That's a thing?
Logically, yes. I can't think of any time you'd use it for real.
Government procurement?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Government procurement?
I still can't think of anything there. (I can think of a use for $-1 and $-2 in measuring effectiveness of spendingâŚ)
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Man discovers ONE WEIRD TRICK to save money on food!
What the hell is the white stuff on his nose? Is he making his own home cut cocaine too?
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Man discovers ONE WEIRD TRICK to save money on food!
Fun fact: One of my colleagues has the same food budget with a wife (who does all cooking) and two kids as he did when he was living by himself, because of hardly ever going out for food nowadays. (His wife loves cooking and has worked in restaurants.)
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Poor @Tsaukpaetra . Now he has even more Fitbit troubles.
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@DogsB My wife has a step tracker installed on her phone. She says it's common for her to hit around 10,000 steps in a day, but it hasn't been working well lately. Notably, when we spent all day walking around a large convention center at FanX a couple weeks ago, it only reported around 8K steps for her that day.
Looking at the article, it doesn't seem to be at all similar to the problem the Fitbit folks have been having, but you still kinda have to wonder...
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@DogsB My wife has a step tracker installed on her phone. She says it's common for her to hit around 10,000 steps in a day, but it hasn't been working well lately. Notably, when we spent all day walking around a large convention center at FanX a couple weeks ago, it only reported around 8K steps for her that day.
Looking at the article, it doesn't seem to be at all similar to the problem the Fitbit folks have been having, but you still kinda have to wonder...
I have a Garmin tracker. The GPS data is fairly consistent but steps can be all over the place for my runs.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Man discovers ONE WEIRD TRICK to save money on food!
It's The Sun, so I'm going with Noe without reading it.
Oh wait, wrong thread ...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Poor @Tsaukpaetra . Now he has even more Fitbit troubles.
E_EXCESSIVE_ALLITERATION
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@HardwareGeek The article's author advertizes an astounding affinity for alliteration!
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@Mason_Wheeler Don't be an assonance.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Fitbit troubles
Oh, my Fitbit was having issues staying connected for the last six months. Enough so that in order for the background GPS function (during walking exercise(to work I'd have to stay on the Fitbit App and never let my phone sleep. And even then that might not be enough.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Man discovers ONE WEIRD TRICK to save money on food!
Err, that's not an actual news article but an image. The Official Funny Stuff Thread is way.Waaaiit, it seems it isn't a photoshop from Reddit:
Congratulations. You just reinvented home cooking.
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I worry about the hipster economy. Where do they get their money? I understand that the shit end of web development pays fairly well but everything thing they buy is at least five times the price after they show up. do they hibernate for most of the year? We just can't tell because they all look alike.
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INB4 piss doesn't have corn syrup
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Anheuser-Busch, hardly cowed, immediately appealed the ruling and debuted two new ads.
Amazing
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
INB4 piss doesn't have corn syrup
If you drink enough (American) coke, it sure does. On the other hand, beer is made of malt but not syrup.
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@pie_flavor Not sure if we should rejoice or if we should fear the potential "too to fix it, PRs welcome on Github".
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@JBert I'm just waiting for the "does not build on Linux" reports.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Do extra cameras actually do anything?
On my phone, there are two rear cameras with different focal lengths, and one of them is a wide angle lens as well. Depending on the (software) camera settings, the phone determines which camera to actually use. There's also supposed to be a mode that combines the best aspects from both cameras, but I've never tried it.
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@abarker I've got a main camera and a lower-res camera which apparently only provides depth information. Either way it's kind of crappy compared to other recent cameras, which means it's only incredible and not super-incredible.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Poor @Tsaukpaetra . Now he has even more Fitbit troubles.
And yet another company skimps on testing hardware and/or personnel.
Why is it so hard to keep the $200/h devs supplied with a few samples of your own products? And a decent workstation? And now that I'm wishing for unicorns, maybe a testing monkey?
In my whole career, there has been exactly one company with the right kind of attitude towards for R&D samples acquisition. Their policy was: "Take whatever you need from the production hall next door. Just remember to log it in this book, especially the serial number." God, I miss that place sometimes.
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
There's also supposed to be a mode that combines the best aspects from both cameras, but I've never tried it.
Is that how those stupid videos get made that have a vertical section of the actual video recording and a blurred, zoomed video section on either side?
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@abarker said in In other news today...:
There's also supposed to be a mode that combines the best aspects from both cameras, but I've never tried it.
Is that how those stupid videos get made that have a vertical section of the actual video recording and a blurred, zoomed video section on either side?
Wait, that effect is accidental?!? I always thought that was just idiots trying to be cool or something...
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor Not sure if we should rejoice or if we should fear the potential "too to fix it, PRs welcome on Github".
It would be still improvement over the current âtoo to fix it, stuff itâ attitude.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
INB4 piss doesn't have corn syrup
Wait, "beer" with sugar? Yeah, we got that but we're rather upfront about it:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Wait, that effect is accidental?!? I always thought that was just idiots trying to be cool or something...
No - it's deliberate. It''s either that, or have black bars each side when showing video captured on a phone held in portrait mode, when displaying it on a medium presented in what is effectively landscape mode.
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Article @pie_flavor linked to said in In other news today...:
We also want to contribute back to the C++ community by making it possible to take our implementations of major features. (For example, C++17âs charconv.)
This at least tangentially relates to what we discussed some time ago about formatting doubles with smallest amount of digits to correctly round-trip. STL also has a talk scheduled about that.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
INB4 piss doesn't have corn syrup
Wait, "beer" with sugar? Yeah, we got that but we're rather upfront about it:
Ah, I see you didn't RTFA. NTTAWWT.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@abarker said in In other news today...:
There's also supposed to be a mode that combines the best aspects from both cameras, but I've never tried it.
Is that how those stupid videos get made that have a vertical section of the actual video recording and a blurred, zoomed video section on either side?
Wait, that effect is accidental?!? I always thought that was just idiots trying to be cool or something...
AFAICT it's âaccidentalâ and is due to combination of 1. idiots forgetting that shooting video in portrait is really bad idea and 2. the players, that always have a portrait window, not wanting to leave â of it simply black (and optionally 3. the camera apps not showing a warning that it's going to look ugly if you switch to video in portrait.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Wait, that effect is accidental?!? I always thought that was just idiots trying to be cool or something...
No - it's deliberate. It''s either that, or have black bars each side when showing video captured on a phone held in portrait mode, when displaying it on a medium presented in what is effectively landscape mode.
As added , youtube actually supports portrait mode now, but that only works with real portrait-mode videos, not with those landscapified ones.