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SomeoneSomewhere

@ SomeoneSomewhere @lemmy.nz

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  • Probably the shittiest part of my job :(

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  • If you're in a country with good worker protection, there's a big difference between 'made redundant' and 'fired for cause'. There is no 'fired for no reason'.

  • Conception begins at ejaculation

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  • I mean, if it was written well, it might say something like discharge reproductively viable genetic material. It looks like an unfertilised egg disintegrates before leaving the body, so isn't viable.

    'Discharging genetic material' on its own includes a nosebleed.

  • Conception begins at ejaculation

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  • Yeah, it's kind-of the onion in that it's a satirical bill, presented to the House.

  • Google and Adobe appear to be abusing copyright to silence a whistleblower's video

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  • Google has removed the video through an automated process without talking to the owner of the channel or verifying who owns the video in the first place.

    Honestly sounds like Hanlon's Razor on Google's part. No collusion necessary, just can't be bothered to maintain/staff an actual effective system.

  • xkcd #3080: "Tennis Balls"

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  • Fair point, have edited.

  • Dad joke

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  • Running through a tent site is not the world's smartest plan. You'll trip on a guy wire.

  • OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing

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  • That's not bad pricing wise. There's very very little prosumer gear that's multi gigabit and it's all much higher price, or it's just a PC with several NICs.

    If and when we move to hyperfibre this is going to be pretty high up on the list.

  • Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch

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  • Lots of places also have variable limit signs that get updated based on traffic, accidents etc.

    Here in NZ those seem to all be marked on the speed limit maps as 100km/h even if in some places the signs never go above 80.

    Ngauranga Gorge is one such location and I believe has the country's highest grossing speed camera.

  • Removed

    Just Because

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  • "Greater Canada".

  • Chess

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  • It's been a long time since I played, but king+queen+bishop should be pretty achievable?

  • A Request to the Fediverse Community

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  • A Request to the Fediverse Community

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  • As Someone Somewhere, I urge you to post more.

  • Every wonder about the possibilities hidden behind SPORK?

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  • Where on earth do they get the 'AYD' from?

    Seems like spifk, sporf, or knorkoon might be more sensible.

  • Pragearnant

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  • Never ask questions you don't want answers to. Rule 34.

  • TIL about powerships, special purpose ships on which a power plant is installed to serve as a power generation resource until a local power plant is built or until high demand in power supply is over

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  • It's often a disaster recovery type of thing.

  • China’s new bullet train prototype sets global speed record at 450 km/h in test run - Hindustan Times

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  • 603 for maglevs, 574.8 for steel rail, set in France in 2007 by a hotted up, modified TGV.

    China holds the record for a stock train at 487, set in 2010.

    (all per Wikipedia)

    It looks like the article might be implying that they will be the fastest trains operating in revenue service when they enter service, but that surely needs to be demonstrated with a production train in revenue service.

  • Power outage

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  • "I want this to finish at 6PM" can be easier maths than 11h 15m from now.

  • Power outage

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    1. Most of these are in a metal box, which blocks signal. Adding careful routing to get an antenna in an unshrouded position where it's still physically protected is a pain. Also, in the middle of an apartment building can give you pretty terrible reception in the first place.
    2. GPS doesn't provide time zones or daylight savings info. The appliance would know where you are and what UTC time it is, but not which time zone you're in. The manufacturer could pre-program shape files in (yay, more memory) but they become obsolete the next time a politician decides to move time zones or change daylight savings. If this happens to you, your device will keep repeatedly changing to be an hour fast/slow no matter how often you reset it.

      You could have the GPS satellites continually broadcast shape files for the time zone but this would be a big change, use up a lot of the limited bandwidth, and it would take your clock half an hour to set itself.

    3. it's like an extra $5-10 in parts and unlike a WiFi module, the manufacturer can't make any big data or ad revenue from it.

  • Wishes

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  • I was thinking she was only going to live long enough to see two Christmases...