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Scavenging the internet since 1988.

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peturdainn, to random
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Side project: Wife's favourite watch broke down, not going to pay 219 euro for another Mondaine that runs a 30 euro module inside 🤷‍♂️

ives,
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@peturdainn What's the plan to fix it? Can you get hold of a replacement module that would fit? Are they generic enough?

GottaLaff, to legal
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NEW 🧵starts HERE.

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

1/… First, via Lawrence O'Donnell:

J.D. Vance was on the phone the entire time. He wasn’t taking in a word of testimony. Tuberville, to his credit, looking straight ahead, taking it all in as best he can, whatever sense he can make of it

ives,
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@GottaLaff NFL (who's doing a fantastic job, thank you so much!)

I don't understand the point of an NDA if you sign it with a false name and signature. Anyone who can explain?

vicgrinberg, to random
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For a bit of Sunday happiness & silliness: tell me about some a book you've recently excitedly told someone about and why!

I've talked about Erin Meyer's "Culture Map" because it opened my eye to a lot of intercultural interactions I have in both, my everyday and my work life.

And about Marcin Wicha's "Things I Didn't Throw Out" because it made me laugh and cry at the same time + made me fall in love with Daunt books because I would not have found out about the book without them.

ives,
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@vicgrinberg 'A Brief History of Seven Killings' by Marlon James, because I loved the Jamaican Patois so much. It takes a while to get into it but after that you'll read it as if it was plain English. And besides that it's just a really good and well-written book.
It came up in conversation because a friend had a very similar experience watching 'Top Boy' on Netflix.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20893314-a-brief-history-of-seven-killings

stux, to random
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As a kid I got stung by these a looot and indeed after a little while you’re basically ‘immune’

A short info video about nettle plant

ives,
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@stux What also helps is to pinch really hard when you pick them. Sounds counterintuitive but it does work!

peturdainn, (edited ) to random
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Cleaning bookshelves. This is most of the section

ives,
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@peturdainn Are you following @terrybot and the hashtag?

simondh, to random Dutch
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📽 Ik zet net vaak een film halverwege af, maar Tenet heb ik toch na 25 minuten afgezet.
Net zoals bijna alle films van Nolan was het weer een draak van een film.

ives,
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@simondh Memento en The Prestige vond ik wel goed. Dunkirk vond ik dan weer zo afgrijselijk dat ik sindsdien niet meer gekeken heb. Vraag me af of ik Oppenheimer moet proberen.

PhilippeBoey, to random Dutch
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Ik dacht bij mezelf “Hoera, Vrijdagavond. Kast ineensteken. Gesjelleeeeuh.”

(Shoot me, please)

ives,
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@PhilippeBoey Gratis business-idee: kasten die even plezant zijn om ineen te steken als een lego set. Gegarandeerd binnen de kortste keren rijk als je dat klaar krijgt.

jpmens, (edited ) to random
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Yeah, I can see how this might be a problem

https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

ives,
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@jpmens I'm sorry for your loss.

stux, to random
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This is what I see when I look left:

ives,
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@stux If I could choose a superpower, it would be to be able to sleep like a . They always look so cosy.

stux, to random
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Maggie: You're welcome, miss nothing-in-the-toaster

Maggie phishes a mouse out of the toaster

ives,
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@stux Maggie obviously put the mouse in there herself. Who doesn’t like toasted mouse in the morning?

philipdutre, to leuven Dutch
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Nogmaals een verdere discrepantie tussen ‘studeren’ en ‘slagen voor een examen’. Een samenvatting maken is een cognitief proces en dus studeren. Een samenvatting laten genereren is dat niet. We zullen nog sneller onze evaluatie-methodes moeten aanpassen. https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/04/11/acco-ontwikkelt-tool-om-via-ai-online-cursussen-samen-te-vatten/

ives,
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@philipdutre Was ook m'n hoofd aan het schudden toen ik dit op het nieuws zag. Die samenvatting is maar een nevenproduct van het verwerken van het cursusmateriaal. Die eerste verwerking kan je niet overslagen.

coffeegeek, to coffee
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A Grinder PSA.

I know James Hoffmann, in a few videos now, heavily suggests doing the RDT (ross droplet technique) on coffee in single dose grinders; indeed, in one video, he heavily suggests doing this 3x as much to get, as he says 'better anti static results". He even demos it on a DF64 Gen 2 in his Best grinders under £500.

But he's wrong. At least with grinders equipped with a plasma generator.

Doing the RDT on grinders with a plasma generator (like the DF64 Gen 2) WILL GUM UP the works inside around the plasma coil, making it 100% ineffective, and increase the overall static issues.

Don't RDT any grinder with a plasma coil.

Got this direct from TWO grinder manufacturers. I've been told one is trying to get James to do a new video "recanting" the advice. It's causing them a lot of service calls.

cc @coffee @espresso

ives,
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@coffeegeek @coffee @espresso 3x as much? Might as well add hot water to the beans in your grinder for instant pourover.

peturdainn, (edited ) to random
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small discussion here, resulting in this poll about C header dependencies:

if a header file depends on another header, do you include it before it in de source file, or do you include it in the header that depends on it?

ives,
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@peturdainn In the header file. But make sure you use include guards in your header files.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Include_guard

ives,
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@peturdainn I wouldn't do that. For complex projects, that list in the source file can get rather long. And what do you do if a header changes and no longer depends on another one? Do you edit all the files that include it to remove the include there as well? Sounds quite bothersome.

Pentaxke, to random Dutch
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Even onder de aandacht brengen dat dit weekend de meest idiote van alle idiote beslissingen weer aan de beurt is.

ives,
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@Pentaxke ik ga zo blij zijn dat die merel onder mijn slaapkamervenster pas om 6:30 gaat zingen ipv 5:30. En ‘s avonds een uur langer licht! Laat maar komen, dat zomeruur.

stux, to random
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Whatchaa dooiing?

Leopard stands on back legs high up to check what you are doing

ives,
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@stux when you cross a large cat with a Meerkat…

ElleGray, (edited ) to random
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that saying "getting all your ducks in a row" makes no sense I mean how would that even h-

ives,
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@ElleGray The ALT text reminds me of this old 'The Far Side' cartoon by Gary Larson.

codinghorror, to random

The Last of Us, once it finally came to PC.. that's when I found out it was no mere video game, it was an amazing work of art, a profound, deep statement about the human condition. I still think about that game, almost every day. (and yeah the show was good too, but the show was almost a literal carbon copy of the game, minus the outstanding bottle episode). Easily top 10 all time for me.

ives,
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@codinghorror Almost ashamed to say it, but I haven't played the game, nor did I watch the series. But I did read The Road by Cormac McCarthy and it was so good that I'm afraid the game or the series will just be a slightly less good derivative.
Should I stay clear of The Last of Us? Or can it withstand the comparison?

jbaert, to random
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Crazy read: detecting positions of players in Counterstrike by listening to their GPU over a microphone

https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~genkin/papers/lendear.pdf

ives,
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@bart @jbaert Is that what's being taught at the military academy? 😬

philipdutre, to random Dutch
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Studenten worden telkens succes gewenst voor de komende examenperiode en ‘de blok’. Maar waarom nooit eens aan professoren? :-)

ives,
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@philipdutre veel succes!
Waardoor ik me afvraag: wanneer is een examenperiode succesvol voor een prof?

philipdutre, to random Dutch
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Wat zou er eigenlijk gebeuren met een gewone werknemer die -achtige uitspraken doet?

ives,
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@philipdutre Goh, ik denk eigenlijk dat er voor de meeste mensen die zo'n uitspraken doen gewoon geen repercussies zijn.
Waarmee ik niet gezegd heb dat Rousseau dit niet verdient.

vicgrinberg, (edited ) to Astro
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Typically, the only cosmic things that disturb the "sunny side" of Earth's atmosphere come from our closest star, the Sun.

Except, it turns out, if you get a very bright GRB, the brightest we ever detected. And suddenly a star, exploding 2 billion light-years away (the Sun is just 8 minutes light away!) can - just temporarily, for a few minutes, but still - affect the Earth's ionosphere (and possibly the ozone layer).

More:

▶️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Integral/Blast_from_the_past_gamma-ray_burst_strikes_Earth_from_distant_exploding_star

▶️ https://www.science.org/content/article/cosmic-blast-seared-earth-s-atmosphere-2-billion-light-years-away

ives,
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@vicgrinberg So we were hit by a burst of rays from an explosion that happened two billion years ago. Cosmic scale is truly mind-boggling.

Pentaxke, to random Dutch
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De koffie is op en ik ben er vergeten te kopen gisteren...

ives,
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@Pentaxke Uit de oude doos.

dimillian, to random
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Notifications and activities done right are game-changers for efficient traveling! See you in Washington, by the way!

ives,
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@dimillian @MelissaAtwell IIRC it can be used to cancel your return flight.

kevinctofel, to music
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Thanks to technology, the final new track is due out this week, having started out with an in-progress song Lennon recorded to a cassette tape. Nice behind the scenes look at how it came to be.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=APJAQoSCwuA&si=kmgaiD8DEjpAoyfS

ives,
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@kevinctofel Can't they just let it be? 😬

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