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Interesting job offer. Fun doing the research, but I have to do the documentation too. But the client gets full credit . Just for doing what besides providing a topic, I'm not sure.
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Huh?WWGD said:
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I mean, the job involves me analyzing, interpreting data, given a topic, then formatting . So I do essentially all the work while the client published under their name. EDIT: I had done similar where the client did basic analysis and then was responsible for the APA or otherwise formatting. Now I do it all and the client puts their name .phinds said:
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Detectorist strikes gold with largest ever nugget found under English soil
https://www.yahoo.com/news/detectorist-strikes-gold-largest-ever-203934554.htmlThar's gold in them thar hills!
Pretty impressive nugget. But Australia has bigger nuggets.
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Who said that, anyway? Agreed. Lots of bigger nuggets, and Australia has big black opals too!Astronuc said:
Still a lot of gold in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains too, California and Nevada. Sitting there under mining bans too since the early '80s, though.
Anyone thinking of going vacationing/prospecting in England for gold now, make sure to buy the most powerful EM metal detector on the market. Deeper is better. I've always wanted to try to construct and wire up a huge metal detector. Gold fever is a virus that one can never fully get rid of. Prospecting makes walking fun.
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I ran into a former advisor from college. I remember once , asking him for advice, he seemed intensely, deeply focused, interested on what I was saying. Until, some 5 minutes into the meet, he shouted " Hypochondriac, that's it, hypochondriac ".
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Only IT (anti-support) industry can be so lame that even after years of struggle with the frequent black screens of faulty docking stations (of a hyped, but apparently crappy brand) they still blame the user and believe that just one more FW update will miraculously solve the issue.
For any other industry, those offices would be long burned down by and with complaints.
For any other industry, those offices would be long burned down by and with complaints.
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The messages in black/blue screen used to read along " Windows has experienced a problem and will be shutting down", to " Your PC has experienced a problem and will be shutting down". So I guess Windows' IT group is not quite better at taking responsibility.Rive said:
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The getaway's getaway - https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ne...onger-takes-five-nights-to-get-to/ar-BB1kel2y
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I have been away from this thread for a long time!
If you want to hear an off-color and political joke about Dick's stores, message me.kyphysics said:
I had the opposite: an east to west flight from Hartford CT to Phoenix, AZ. The flight just went on and on and on. Finally, I asked the flight attendant "what's going on, we should have landed over an hour ago." She said the captain told them we were flying directly into a 250 mph headwind. So, our groundspeed was ~350 mph. That's 560 kph to you guys (BDL to PHX is 2200 miles, 3540 km).Astronuc said:
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I have the unenviable task of working with Sharepoint 2019 at work. So, while it will allow you to load hundreds of thousands of records, it will break the ability to view them if you have more than 5000. It seems that you have to create special views that greatly limit how many records can be viewed. If I want to look at other records, I have to create over 20+ views if I have 100K records???? What a worthless piece of junk!
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I was on a flight from Europe to US, with a headwind. I don't remember the speed, but probably > 100 mph, possibly ~150 mph. The flight was supposed to be 6.5 hrs, but it lasted 9 hours (2.5 hours late). Engines were roaring and it seemed we were going slower than we should have given the sound of the engines.gmax137 said:
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Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge (I-695) collapses after ship collision; 2 rescued, search continues
https://news.yahoo.com/baltimore-bridge-partially-collapses-collusion-075148049.html
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/baltimore-bridge-collapse-03-26-24-intl-hnk/index.html
Quite an understatement given that the bridge collapsed.
The ship his one of the piers. From the image, it looks like pier on the south side of the main span, south of the channel where the boat was supposed to be, if it was underway. Someone screwed up big time!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_(Baltimore)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/26/us/baltimore-bridge-collapse
It looks like the ship changed course in the last minutes and veered into the bridge. It seems like they were on course to pass under the main span - in the appropriate channel.
https://news.yahoo.com/live/baltimo...after-container-ship-collision-114855033.html
Update: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a...scale-of-cargo-ship-crash-tragedy/ss-BB1kzubb
Bridge not appropriately protected
Problematic ship/crew
What was the pilot doing?
Where were the tugboats to realign the ship when it lost power?
https://news.yahoo.com/baltimore-bridge-partially-collapses-collusion-075148049.html
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/baltimore-bridge-collapse-03-26-24-intl-hnk/index.html
Quite an understatement given that the bridge collapsed.
The ship his one of the piers. From the image, it looks like pier on the south side of the main span, south of the channel where the boat was supposed to be, if it was underway. Someone screwed up big time!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_(Baltimore)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/26/us/baltimore-bridge-collapse
It looks like the ship changed course in the last minutes and veered into the bridge. It seems like they were on course to pass under the main span - in the appropriate channel.
https://news.yahoo.com/live/baltimo...after-container-ship-collision-114855033.html
Update: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a...scale-of-cargo-ship-crash-tragedy/ss-BB1kzubb
Bridge not appropriately protected
Problematic ship/crew
What was the pilot doing?
Where were the tugboats to realign the ship when it lost power?
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Well,..., second...sixteenth seventeenth time's the charm; t-tax is getting a veerrryyyy nasty/letter/review...given that I'm eventually successful.
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Is it just me, or do all large gold nuggets look like meteorites? hmmmm.....Astronuc said:
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In the video I saw of the ship approach, a LARGE puff of black smoke was emitted. The voice-over also stated that a mayday was broadcast that control of the ship had been lost and they were heading toward a bridge support.Astronuc said:
Authorities shutdown vehicle access to the bridge from both directions, preventing any more cars from getting on the bridge (and getting wet).
1) Big puff of black smoke from ship
2) Loss of ship control
3) Reported to the harbor office
Speculation: Blown engine
Sounds like good decisions by several people in a bad situation.
Cheers,
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Astronuc said:
I drive past a high school on the way home and really hate it when I'm driving home when school lets out. I was nearly T-Boned yesterday when I started to enter an intersection and a driver went through their red light at over 60 MPH in a 30 MPH zone.
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Tom.G said:
I was thinking more in terms of protecting the bridge from vessel strikes (civil/marine engineering), and preventing vessel strikes (marine vessel engineering).
I found the answer about the pilot
From - https://news.yahoo.com/news/live-updates-governor-ship-reported-143614239.html
One would think that emergency generators would ensure control (navigation) of the ship - but in this case, No! Flawed engineering.
At least the rudder should have been powered. Had the rudder been able to move to port, then perhaps the ship would not have hit the pier. It appeared from one plot, that ship was headed straight down the middle, until it veered slightly right (starboard) and straight toward the southern pier of the main span.
Edit/update: Dali apparently had engine/power problems while berthed. Maybe it shouldn't have left port. I've heard speculation about dirty/contaminated fuel.
Some analysis. The black smoke from it's funnel indicates a breeze, possibly to the south or SW. That may have contributed to the ship very toward the south pier of the bridge. Until power lost, and even slightly after, the ship was left of center in the correct channel. Two tugboats had left the Dali as it completed its turn to line up with the channel.
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So Tatiana, in one of the former Soviet republics, is looking for a partner and starts with an Aloha , and includes 3 attachments in her emails. Surely I will open those ASAP, Tatiana, you're looking for love in all the wrong places, Tati.
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I wonder whether this kind of fishing could be snuffed out by some kind of regular 'official spam' of same manner with only a warning and educational explanation attached ...WWGD said:
I know, there are all those ethical considerations, but honestly, for me it would mean just a bit more stuffed spam folder. I could accept that much inconvenience for the greater good.
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I think I read on here about someone whose printer suddenly spat out a sheet of paper from their friendly neighbourhood hacker pointing out that they might want to secure their network a bit...Rive said:
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I doubt Microsoft puts much effort into its spam filtering. Its proportion of false positives, negatives has likely increased.Rive said:
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Talking about Outlook, there's too, the charming fact that emails randomly decide to render , display, in odd ways. For one, font size magically increasing up to 15, without the option of lowering it. Other features are disabled, so I can't slide the screen up nor down, sideways, so I cant read most of the message. Ive read that main issue is Outlook doesnt use a fixed set of protocols for rendering messages. Ends up turning emails into like a sort of image file cut to half the screen . Somehow it seemed like a good idea to open an account in the mid-2000's.
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I'm not particularly fond of the whole 'ethical hacker' thing at all, but some artificial spam of educational purposes and without harm would not make much fuss, I think.Ibix said:
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I run into this guy from time to time. It's like a routine : "Ah, you're still doing Math, guy, what are you up to now, Calc 23? " ( Or insert your number. A Natural number for now).
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Interesting phrase I ran into today:
"It's not its, it's it's "
"It's not its, it's it's "
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Harbor_Tunnel
Drove this every couple weeks for Southern States Co-op summer of '72; trying to recall if there was a toll (yes); saw my first Shelby out the truck window moving along in "creeper."
Drove this every couple weeks for Southern States Co-op summer of '72; trying to recall if there was a toll (yes); saw my first Shelby out the truck window moving along in "creeper."
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Dang Kansas weather. 
Thunder storms all around and I'm in a Tornado watch.
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Did/Should we have PSA , a la TIL? Just got an interesting item on Outlook that I should notify them if I wanted to be removed from notification lists, terse to point of unintelligibility; sh*t-canned immediately if not sooner, but ... something a bit off about it ... AI-Frankenstein-phish-sockpuppet-troll hybrid.