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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
So he added 180 to 32 and got 212f as the boiling point of water.
:not_sure_if_serious.png:
Serious.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
@boomzilla said in Internet of shit:
since it's so dependent on atmospheric pressure
Almost like I typed that out exactly. And F still has that exact same issue at 212.
Yes. Which also applies to Celsius. I guess I could have been more explicit. In any case, as I've already said, who gives a shit about how some numbers were arrived at more than what they are and how they are used?
@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
I've given up arguing with Americans. You are all literally brain-wormed into stupidity.
Sure, we're the people who get all silly about irrelevant stuff like the boiling point of water. Your aversion to reality is pretty bad today.
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
@admiral_p said in Internet of shit:
mapping the behaviour of arguably the most important substance on Earth
I don't get it, what kind of basis is -114°C to 78°C? Those aren't very memorable numbers.
78°C?!? HOW PAINFUL IS IT FOR YOU TO CUM!?!
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@boomzilla said in Internet of shit:
who gives a shit about how some numbers were arrived at more than what they are and how they are used?
You
@boomzilla said in Internet of shit:
Sure, we're the people who get all silly about irrelevant stuff like the boiling point of water.
"Yes, you literally are." - the rest of the world
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@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
@admiral_p said in Internet of shit:
mapping the behaviour of arguably the most important substance on Earth
I don't get it, what kind of basis is -114°C to 78°C? Those aren't very memorable numbers.
78°C?!? HOW PAINFUL IS IT FOR YOU TO CUM!?!
It's a blessed relief from not cumming at -114
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@GÄ ska said in Internet of shit:
@hungrier holy cow there's actually a single Unicode code point for a group of three letters! What's more, even though it represents the rad unit, the codepoint is called "square rad". Dafuq
The reason for that is (as I suspected before looking it up) that itâs in the CJK Compatibility block. Itâs not intended for westerners like us to use, but to fit in the same space as one Chinese or Japanese character or one Korean syllable â which all fit neatly into a square.
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@admiral_p said in Internet of shit:
fucked up his Windows 95 install and somehow made the splash screen not appear at startup
Delete
logo.sys
. Easy.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
@admiral_p said in Internet of shit:
fucked up his Windows 95 install and somehow made the splash screen not appear at startup
Delete
logo.sys
system32
. Easy.FTFY.
Filed under: I made a rainbow colored logo.sys back in the day
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
@admiral_p said in Internet of shit:
fucked up his Windows 95 install and somehow made the splash screen not appear at startup
Delete
logo.sys
system32
. Easy.FTFY.
Filed under: I made a rainbow colored logo.sys back in the day
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This is only tangentially related because while connecting your garbage bins to the internet is ridiculous, it's not actually the stupidest thing going on
So, some startup developed a """smart""" bin that can recognize and categorize food dumped into it, and they say it's supposed to help the bin owner with planning. IKEA are testing them.
The problem is that any commercial kitchen can easily keep track of the unsold food they throw away already, because they're the ones throwing it away, and adjust accordingly. The only thing these bins can help with is check how much sold-but-uneaten food customers throw away, but that's completely pointless because what are you going to do with that kind of information? Do you reduce your portion sizes to average them between people who eat an entire hotdog and people who buy a hotdog, realize they're running late, take a bite, and throw the rest away because they have to?
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@blek said in Internet of shit:
The problem is that any commercial kitchen can easily keep track of the unsold food they throw away already, because they're the ones throwing it away
That's the most surprising assertion in your post. I'd be much more likely to believe that commercial kitchens have relatively poor control over that sort of thing as their focus is typically on what actually reaches the customer, and not on the rest of the food that they handle.
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@dkf I think that any business that wants to survive keeps track of how much stuff they waste and adjust accordingly, and since they're the ones throwing it away, so they can (and already do!) already keep track of their waste without "smart" bins - so my conclusion is these bins are basically useless. I don't have any experience with running a food business but throwing food away without keeping track of it seems like really poor practice, and if a restaurant is dysfunctional enough to do that, I doubt a "smart" bin will do any good.
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@MrL said in Internet of shit:
-5 and +20 and hard to bare.
I wouldn't suggest bare at -5, regardless of humidity. Frostbite probably won't be a problem for perhaps an hour or so, but smallish appendages are going to be the parts that freeze first, and that's a risk I'm not willing to take, especially with appendages that aren't usually bare.
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
â€0°C: I think my freezer uses that end of the scale.
5°C: my fridge setting
10°C: winter is really cold this year!
15°C: winter
20°C: can't wait for this winter to end...
25°C: spring's here!
â„30°C: spring's over!FTF
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
â€0°C: it's soooo cold
5°C: winter
10°C: normal
15°C: summer
â„20°C: it's soooo hotFTF
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@dkf said in Internet of shit:
â€0°C: it's soooo cold
5°C: winter
10°C: normal
15°C: summer
â„20°C: it's soooo hot
: what devilry is this!?FTF
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As you can probably guess, "Objets Connectés" means "Connected Objects", i.e. IoT stuff.
You could think "Objet con" would be a suitable abbreviation, but it literally means "stupid/useless thingy".The company appears to be French, so I can't imagine they didn't do that on purpose.
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That word is widely used in France, too (there's an official translation for it, but nobody uses it).
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
That word is widely used in France
Of course. And they prononce it with the most terrible French accent possible.
It's like "Email" pronouced "e-mel"
France: where we don't speak French, we just use English words but pronouce them the worst possible way
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It works both ways. Ask anyone whose native language is English to prononce déjà vu or rendez-vous correctly ;)
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@Zerosquare Then use the proper French word
Email = Courriel
Spam = Pourriel
I was listening to a French guy on the radio, and he said something 3 times before I was able to understand he was saying, because he used the English expression but pronouced it the worst possible French way. And I speak both language.
He was saying "Prime time"
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@Zerosquare
That's easy
day-JAH vooo
ron-DAY-vooo
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
It works both ways. Ask anyone whose native language is English to prononce déjà vu or rendez-vous correctly ;)
Too shay.
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@TimeBandit
There are three reasons for that:- English teaching in France is pathetic (really)
- Too many people still think that using (poor) English makes them hip
- Official translations are released several years after a foreign word has already been adopted by everyone, and they tend to be clunky, inaccurate, or both.
Courriel/Pourriel are from Québec. They're the usual words there AFAIK, but they are rarely used in France.
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
Too many people still think that using (poor) English makes them hip
Yes, that's the main thing I think.
Courriel/Pourriel are from Québec. They're the usual words there AFAIK
Yes.
Courriel comes from "Courrier Electronique"
Pourriel comes from "Pourri" contracted with Courriel
And when we do use the English word (a lot of people say email), we also use the English prononciation.
We actually speak French here, not like in France
Edit: fixed a typo
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
we also use the Egnlish prononciation.
No wonder we can't tell what you're saying...
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
we also use
thdehEnglish prononciation.
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
we also use
thdehEnglish pronounciation.
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
We actually speak French here, not like in France
By "actually speak French", you mean "copy/paste English sentence structures and just translate the words"?
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
copy/paste English sentence structures and just translate the words
No, you also have to switch word placements
Ex.: Electric car -> Voiture Ă©lectrique
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
Too many people still think that using (poor) English makes them hip
We have this same problem here.
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
I was listening to a French guy on the radio,
Mistake #1
and he said something 3 times before I was able to understand he was saying, ...
He was saying "Prime time"Are you saying that, as a broadcast personality, he isn't ready for prime time?
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@HardwareGeek said in Internet of shit:
he isn't ready for prime time?
He's ready to go back to France
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
He's ready to go back to France
Don't you know you're never going to... get to France?
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@Mingan said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
Ex.: Electric car -> Voiture Ă©lectrique
Voiturel?
In France they'd say "le electric car"
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@CarrieVS said in Internet of shit:
@Luhmann said in Internet of shit:
@CarrieVS said in Internet of shit:
garbage-eating
goldfishalligatorsHow about alligator-eating goldfish? Or water-soluble alligators?
Genetically modified alligator-eating goldfish sound like a horrible escalation of "we'll just use X to eat the Y".
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
No, you also have to switch word placements
I imagined you pronouncing "placements" as in French.
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
He's ready to go back to France
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
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That word is widely used in France, too (there's an official translation for it, but nobody uses it).Around where I live, among some people itâs common to call it a âvrieftillefonâ in the local dialect, literally âphone that you rubâ.
@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
France: where we don't speak French, we just use English words but pronouce them the worst possible way
Thatâs far from just a French phenomenon.
@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
It works both ways. Ask anyone whose native language is English to prononce déjà vu or rendez-vous correctly ;)
Any French word pronounced by English people on TV tends to make me cringe. Even if they manage to get the sounds more or less right, their placing of the accent (about the easiest thing to get right with French words) is always wrong.
@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
We actually speak French here, not like in France
By "actually speak French", you mean "copy/paste English sentence structures and just translate the words"?
Iâve long been of the opinion that you could make a fairly decent satire of modern language trends in Dutch by doing the opposite: use Dutch sentence structure and grammar with nothing but English words.
Then I tried it, and found it to be almost indistinguishable from actual English for simple sentences :(
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
literally âphone that you rubâ.
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
Any French word pronounced by
EnglishDutch people
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
@Mingan said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
Ex.: Electric car -> Voiture Ă©lectrique
Voiturel?
In France they'd say "le electric car"
Le electric car with cheese.
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
Filed under: I made a rainbow colored logo.sys back in the day
My father used to always harp on about waiting for the safe-to-turn-off screen on his precious computer, so (being a smart-arse) I edited
logos.sys
so that it saidIt is not safe to turn off your computer
. My father left the computer on that screen for a whole day until I told him. Some screaming occurred.
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@GÄ ska said in Internet of shit:
Le electric car
with cheeseĂ la fromage frais de le boulangerie.:tgv:
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@Cursorkeys said in Internet of shit:
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
Filed under: I made a rainbow colored logo.sys back in the day
My father used to always harp on about waiting for the safe-to-turn-off screen on his precious computer, so (being a smart-arse) I edited
logos.sys
so that it saidIt is not safe to turn off your computer
. My father left the computer on that screen for a whole day until I told him. Some screaming occurred.Excellent.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
@Cursorkeys said in Internet of shit:
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
Filed under: I made a rainbow colored logo.sys back in the day
My father used to always harp on about waiting for the safe-to-turn-off screen on his precious computer, so (being a smart-arse) I edited
logos.sys
so that it saidIt is not safe to turn off your computer
. My father left the computer on that screen for a whole day until I told him. Some screaming occurred.Excellent.
Filed under: Things read in the Emperor's voice.