I bought about five DVDs in a row where the copy protection prevented them from playing on the only DVD player I owned - my laptop. Having shelled out about 20 euro for the DVD, I'd then have to download an illegal torrent to watch the legally-purchased movie.
Do that often enough, and yarrrr going to optimise the process.
My boss and I have talked often, with our phones in our shirt pockets, about a device that uses liquid gallium. Nothing weird had happened as a result.
Then he talked about it in a meeting with me and someone from outside the department, her iPhone on the desk, and two hours later *I* got 20 grams of gallium at the top of my Amazon recommendations. Never seen anything like it in my recommendations before or since.
I wonder whether there's scope for a "reverse Buzzword Bingo" game, where the objective is to use as many words like "huge", "purple", "pleasure" and "vibrating" as possible, as close and as often as possible, around the boss...
Given that the sun here sets well after midnight in summer and is back up again before 4am, and I've seen people out having a picnic in broad daylight at 2am, summer evenings really aren't an issue. Spring and autumn, though, sure. If we could have permanent DST, great; it's the changing back and forth this half-time half-assed DST implementation brings that makes it suck a pain.
Well, yes, but without "summer time" we wouldn't have "winter time". And in the summer we have so much daylight we have to black it out if we want any sleep, so (until we can bottle the stuff) why would we want to save it then?
Why do we have to piss around with the clocks at all?
65N here and I haven't met a single person who thinks DST is a good idea, even when the clocks go forward.
Just as the autumn proper ends and it turns really dark, grey and nasty for November-season, you lose an hour of daylight in the evening along with a good chunk of your will to live. By the time you get to December the sun might bother to drag its arse over the horizon by 10:30, but it'll never get above the trees and it'll be back in bed by 2:30. The kids are going to school in the dark and coming home in the dark, whether we faff about with the clock or not.
Here, DST is a swift kick in the nuts when you need it the least. Much further north and there's no daylight to save.
There's an animated one of a smiley turning green and throwing up, but that's hidden behind a "More smileys" link. IIRC, all the animated ones are (thankfully).
The ice-cream part of the ice-cream emoji is exactly the same shape as the poop emoji. There's a great animated gif of this out there somewhere. Not googling it at work.:P
I participate in a forum with a very limited number of "smileys", one of which is pretty much exclusively used to indicate disgust. Its bbcode is {crazy}. They mean what the community decides they man, not necessarily what the designers intended.
Nah, I'm just a lonely code monkey in a sea of pipette monkeys.:) I did the "Crystallography Fundamentals" course here, and it made my head spin, so I'll let you experts deal with that while I focus on getting all the machines to play nicely with each other, thank you very much. I'm quite happy to have various origami and 3d-printed icosahedron-based things on my windowsill, but that's as far as I go. Gallium's just what the hardware manufacturer uses, so I assumed they had their reasons and haven't investigated further.
I think I'm fortunate that I don't have to deal with the complexities of crystallography, having seen what it can do to a programmer. Lovely summer's day at a previous workplace, ducklings nibbling along the near edge of the canal out of sight, and four or five crystallography programmers engaged in a heated debate over where the ducklings were and how many, based on the ripple patterns on the water... These weren't even Fourier ducklings.
Indeed it's possible, although we each have our own IP so it'd have to be the subnet. But the timing was just too perfect, and I'm on Amazon all the time so it's had plenty of chances to happen before. It's not like we use gallium for anything else, either.
I really thought the whole fuss about these things all joining up and selling you stuff was overblown, until one day at work...
I work in a university biochemistry department, where we do X-ray crystallography. We have a home X-ray source downstairs, which we're talking about upgrading. (No, Alexa, we're not buying it off Amazon, STFU.) My professor is interested in a system that uses liquid gallium for the anode, as opposed to the traditional spinning lump of copper. We've talked about it, a lot, phones nearby. Nothing weird has ever happened as a result.
Then we had a meeting with the nice lady from the Innovations department - the one where they deal with all the patents and fun secret stuff. My boss, being a wonderful old-school professor, just had to tell her in detail about this device, even though it was only vaguely related to what we were meant to be discussing. Her iPhone sat innocently on the table the whole time.
Not two hours later, I went to Amazon to buy some kayaking stuff. Top of my recommendations? 20 grams of gallium. Never had anything even vaguely like it recommended, before or since.
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I bought about five DVDs in a row where the copy protection prevented them from playing on the only DVD player I owned - my laptop. Having shelled out about 20 euro for the DVD, I'd then have to download an illegal torrent to watch the legally-purchased movie.
Do that often enough, and yarrrr going to optimise the process.
I'll let you send them my font list if I can send them yours...
We could do something about school shootings, or we could sell guns AND surveillance systems AND clear backpacks.
We could do something about obesity, or we could sell Twinkies AND mobility scooters AND healthcare.
For every problem, a profit. Solving the problems means removing the profit, and that's Communist. You're not a Communist, are you, son?
Ah, so they're experimenting on the homeless? That has to be some kind of ethics violation.
It stands for Make America Great Again.
I've told the story before, but:
My boss and I have talked often, with our phones in our shirt pockets, about a device that uses liquid gallium. Nothing weird had happened as a result.
Then he talked about it in a meeting with me and someone from outside the department, her iPhone on the desk, and two hours later *I* got 20 grams of gallium at the top of my Amazon recommendations. Never seen anything like it in my recommendations before or since.
I wonder whether there's scope for a "reverse Buzzword Bingo" game, where the objective is to use as many words like "huge", "purple", "pleasure" and "vibrating" as possible, as close and as often as possible, around the boss...
That's not a red flag, it's a MAGA hat! Duh!
...it's a link to a Getty Image?
tineye.com, drag, drop.
Given that the sun here sets well after midnight in summer and is back up again before 4am, and I've seen people out having a picnic in broad daylight at 2am, summer evenings really aren't an issue. Spring and autumn, though, sure. If we could have permanent DST, great; it's the changing back and forth this half-time half-assed DST implementation brings that makes it suck a pain.
Well, yes, but without "summer time" we wouldn't have "winter time". And in the summer we have so much daylight we have to black it out if we want any sleep, so (until we can bottle the stuff) why would we want to save it then?
Why do we have to piss around with the clocks at all?
65N here and I haven't met a single person who thinks DST is a good idea, even when the clocks go forward.
Just as the autumn proper ends and it turns really dark, grey and nasty for November-season, you lose an hour of daylight in the evening along with a good chunk of your will to live. By the time you get to December the sun might bother to drag its arse over the horizon by 10:30, but it'll never get above the trees and it'll be back in bed by 2:30. The kids are going to school in the dark and coming home in the dark, whether we faff about with the clock or not.
Here, DST is a swift kick in the nuts when you need it the least. Much further north and there's no daylight to save.
...they can damned well reinstate the API used by the Netgear Skype DECT phone I paid a shitload for. The one that says "Skype certified" on it. >:(
Where else but America would ads become tradition?
There's an animated one of a smiley turning green and throwing up, but that's hidden behind a "More smileys" link. IIRC, all the animated ones are (thankfully).
The ice-cream part of the ice-cream emoji is exactly the same shape as the poop emoji. There's a great animated gif of this out there somewhere. Not googling it at work. :P
I participate in a forum with a very limited number of "smileys", one of which is pretty much exclusively used to indicate disgust. Its bbcode is {crazy}. They mean what the community decides they man, not necessarily what the designers intended.
Emojis are [poop-emoji].
Nah, I'm just a lonely code monkey in a sea of pipette monkeys. :) I did the "Crystallography Fundamentals" course here, and it made my head spin, so I'll let you experts deal with that while I focus on getting all the machines to play nicely with each other, thank you very much. I'm quite happy to have various origami and 3d-printed icosahedron-based things on my windowsill, but that's as far as I go. Gallium's just what the hardware manufacturer uses, so I assumed they had their reasons and haven't investigated further.
I think I'm fortunate that I don't have to deal with the complexities of crystallography, having seen what it can do to a programmer. Lovely summer's day at a previous workplace, ducklings nibbling along the near edge of the canal out of sight, and four or five crystallography programmers engaged in a heated debate over where the ducklings were and how many, based on the ripple patterns on the water... These weren't even Fourier ducklings.
As for Alexa and her ilk, not in my house!
Indeed it's possible, although we each have our own IP so it'd have to be the subnet. But the timing was just too perfect, and I'm on Amazon all the time so it's had plenty of chances to happen before. It's not like we use gallium for anything else, either.
I really thought the whole fuss about these things all joining up and selling you stuff was overblown, until one day at work...
I work in a university biochemistry department, where we do X-ray crystallography. We have a home X-ray source downstairs, which we're talking about upgrading. (No, Alexa, we're not buying it off Amazon, STFU.) My professor is interested in a system that uses liquid gallium for the anode, as opposed to the traditional spinning lump of copper. We've talked about it, a lot, phones nearby. Nothing weird has ever happened as a result.
Then we had a meeting with the nice lady from the Innovations department - the one where they deal with all the patents and fun secret stuff. My boss, being a wonderful old-school professor, just had to tell her in detail about this device, even though it was only vaguely related to what we were meant to be discussing. Her iPhone sat innocently on the table the whole time.
Not two hours later, I went to Amazon to buy some kayaking stuff. Top of my recommendations? 20 grams of gallium. Never had anything even vaguely like it recommended, before or since.
Could be blind coincidence, of course...
Those aren't power lines, they're tentacles in disguise!
He's not an "engineer" by their definition, but I bet the asshats that pursued this wouldn't hesitate to label themselves as "public servants"...
My Natural keyboard begs to differ.