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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Frances Fitzpatrick / Mar 18
Student has wallet stolen by man who gave him directions in Limerick
The student is not from Limerick
Another shameful day for limerick enthusiasts.
There was a young man in Limerick,
Who thought maps just a gimmick,
He asked someone for help,
And gave out quite a yelp,
When his wallet stolen by said prick!
Not my finest hour but couldn’t resist giving it a go.
Created after the Coding Help category, this is for other serious requests for help that don't fit in there (or any other subcategories that may be created.)
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@remi said in How large is your, erm, M.2?:
Then again, he's old enough to learn by himself that he fucks up his backups... well, though luck.
Until you lose data through not having it backed up, you don't really understand the importance of having backups. It's best learnt when it is easy to fix (just with a few days of effort) rather than difficult/expensive... but don't tell him that! The acute pain is a vital component of the lesson!
I thought we had a "Fun with maps" thread where this could reasonably go, but I can't find it, so I'm putting it here. If it's out there some place, you're welcome to jeff it to that thread instead:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Tea, Earl Grey, hotlukewarm. Bleh.
Replicator malfunction?
Failure to timely consume it.
@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
Or maybe I'm confusing with l'École des Robinsons (uh, English title is apparently Godfrey Morgan?!?),
A common misconception, that. "Godfrey Morgan" is actually the name of the doctor who creates the monster.
@remi said in The Cat Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall
Mine is working on a campaign to slip into the bedroom and stay there for more than 10 seconds. Consequently, I suspect he's plotting to kill me in my sleep.
@Carnage said in Sportsball WTF:
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By that standard, snooker should be the manliest of sports
Then again, both players have to play with the same balls, but that's the case for most sports (golf and bowling are the exceptions I can think of -- and all variants of boules though each player has their own balls, but they might hit other players'...).
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
I've eaten a lot of cans of soup warmed on a Cat diesel exhaust
I will never forget the day the Caterpillar factory rep asked us why there was a bunch of black residue and some bailing wire on an exhaust manifold of a new machine that was acting up.
The bailing wire was to keep the can from falling out. Good times.
Have you ever seen a turtle chase a cat? Now you have.
Okay, I don't have a pet turtle, but when I get a pet turtle I'm heading directly to Walmart afterwards to pick up a few Tech Deck skateboards. Why? You ask.
@Zecc said in The Belt Onion club:
@Zerosquare Funny, I recently so a Ted-X video claiming coffee berries were discovered around the 9th century AC.
According to the always-reliable font of all human knowledge (), that is a legend, and that legend first appears in 1671, some 800 years after the alleged event. Meanwhile, the first credible evidence of coffee use dates to the mid-1400s in Yemen.
@boomzilla this story misses the absolutely critical part of the third party repair that got crushed
Andy Greenberg / Dec 14, 2023 / tags
McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup
Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business.
(Amazing jorb, wired home page. Pop up some bullshit about subscription halfway across the screen, I dismiss. Scroll , get the same popup again. Dismiss, repeat 3 times: well, looks like you’ve already read 3 of our stories for free, it’s subscription time now. Pops up another thing full screen that can’t be dismissed.)
@izzion said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
If Clippy didn't kill Office, I think you're going to be disappointed by the end result of Clippy On Steroids.
@izzion said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@DogsB said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Mar 5
Copilot pane popup pain incoming in Win11 Beta Channel build
It's in the Beta Channel build for now... but oh my, you're not going to love this
God, this is fucking annoying in bing too. Bing is usually better for how I phrase my search queries but I gave up because the copilot crap keeps popping up.
I hope this buries Microsoft. Billions were spent on it and nothing but an inflated share price to show for it. Going to be funny when it catches up with them.
If Clippy didn't kill Office, I think you're going to be disappointed by the end result of Clippy On Steroids.
@The_Quiet_One said in You won't agree with me. And that's normal.:
@VirginiaN said in You won't agree with me. And that's normal.:
@topspin said in You won't agree with me. And that's normal.:
Bike, boat, hand wagon are probably a language thing, but not vehicles for me.
In my country, a vehicle is defined, legally, as "any mechanical system , with or without means of propulsion, used on a road, typically used for transporting goods and/or persons" .
Well, that just means if it's in the park, then it's not being used on a road, therefore it's fine!
But when there are roads in the park...
Mar 12
Nintendo needs to port these 12 games before Switch 2 | VGC
There’s still plenty of gold to be mined from Nintendo’s back catalogue…
Predicting another entry in this thread next month.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
If you like series about laundries
NO!
Are you opposed to washing clothes, laundries in particular, or specifically Magdalene laundries?
If the latter, probably not best discussed in this topic.
@Zecc said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
Now I've seen them, I can't unsee them.
Impressive. I can unsee them, but not voluntarily. When I shift my gaze to a different part of the picture I randomly either see them or not, and if I don't see them I can keep it that way. But if I decide to start seeing them at one point, I can't unsee them until I've looked elsewhere and back. Weird.
As ever, wish I hadn’t said anything at all let alone something half-tongue-in-cheek over the fact that the previous conversation asserted a great deal more than the singular fact being claimed. Specifically that damn near everything was political all the time according to you and that I was in the wrong for so much as breathing an idea (not even the one I agreed with you about)
Don’t worry, you can have this garage back too.
@jinpa said in Story Details and Acceptance Criteria:
I expect you to respond with, "You're doing it wrong."
Everyone does it wrong sometimes. Some people do it wrong a whole lot more than others.
@topspin said in Killed by Google:
Did they axe you a doubt?
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Artificial Intelligence can have good uses:
Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers
Roni Bandini, a maker and developer, has created a Raspberry Pi-powered device that detects and distorts Reggaeton music played by his neighbors. The device, which uses machine learning to identify the music genre, is a fun experiment and its legality varies depending on location.
My noisy neighbors are too far away for bluetooth interference, but the project may help other WDTWTFers.
@dcon said in The Official Weather Status:
make sure they bring enough food. The stores up there are currently stocked well, but that won't last.
Party in the mountains!
Shaina Mishkin / Feb 26 / Barron's
Home Prices Hit a High in 2023. Limited Supply Continues to Fuel Gains.
Prices gained 6.1% in December from a year ago, Case Shiller says..
@Kamil-Podlesak said in 10x, 0x, and -10x engineers:
I don't know if I'm too much or something, but lots of these points are actually for -10x managers .
Where engineers who weren't able to avoid promotion go to die.
@Zerosquare said in Delphi 2024:
@Gern_Blaanston said in Delphi 2024:
When I was first starting out, all I had access to was BASIC and assembly language. Then I got a copy of Delphi's great-grandfather, Borland Turbo Pascal, which I thought was pretty good. By the time it morphed into Delphi I had already moved on to other stuff.
Wait. Are you me?
You're both @boomzilla, and boomzillaness is transitive, so yes.
@Zerosquare said in German Humor Orbital Canon:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What if the earth's rotation slowed down and instead of 24 hours it took 29 hours. How would that affect society?
Yay! More time to every day!
Unlikely. You'd now get 9.67 hours of work per day instead of 8h. If you're on an hourly contract, great. If you're on a fixed contract, you'll be screwed over.
Filed under: However, I do want a 54.4 minute lunch break. up from 45 minutes
@Gustav said in What, exactly is the basic unit of an api?:
@jinpa said in What, exactly is the basic unit of an api?:
"buying the result of an action of type X"
I fail to see the connection between this and heap paradox. I'm 90% sure I misunderstand what you mean by buying. An example please?
Here, "buying" into the argument. That is, agreeing with it.
Watch this brewery worker get knocked to the ground by a powerful stream of IPA
One of the many perks of working at a brewery: Sometimes the beer just comes right at you, free of charge.
IPA. Figures.
@BernieTheBernie said in The 'Nobody Overshares Worse Than This!' thread (NSFW, probably):
@Tsaukpaetra Sweat?
Not my kink. Nah this is the induced-fear type.
@remi said in Could medieval peasants even read the headlines:
Official inscriptions on public buildings (typically temples/churches but also e.g. castles or milestones) is also IMO a great indicator of how much of the population was expected to be able to read it.
The tradition of barbers having a red-and-white pole, or a pawnbroker having three balls, or an inn having a punny graphic on a signboard...