xhroot

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There was a guy who made a forum bet he could land a Cessna 172 - first try - with nothing but MS Flight Simulator experience.

Here:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34/other-other-topics/pro...

And outcome:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=35915547&p...

xhroot

5 tahun yang laludiscuss

Huh, it's pretty good at lassoing the intended subject. Even picks out a computer rendered vehicle well: https://xhroot.s3.amazonaws.com/roci.png Original here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=86940...

xhroot

6 tahun yang laludiscuss

So if I go down the IOT aisle at Best Buy and say

"Ok, who is reading a city in Montana a letter?"

everything will light up?

xhroot

6 tahun yang laludiscuss

Seems temporary:

> Amazon Europe has requested we temporarily shut down operations in order to lighten their burden while they try to get necessary products into peoples hands.

> So, as of now, and likely until the end of the COVID-19 crisis, we will not have a working website in Europe.

https://twitter.com/camelcamelcamel/status/12421791057154539...

xhroot

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Maybe they should have gone with a slight tweak of the 1963 version https://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BMW_logo_... and scored retro-nostalgia points with the older crowd, too.

xhroot

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Heh, the icon is named "audible":

    "displayName": "Dynamic command execution",
    "detectedIcon": "fab fa-audible"

It's probably unintentionally used by an engineer unfamiliar with the product as audible is more common as a descriptive word than as a brand.

https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInspector/blob/08c91...

xhroot

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> IronPython, IronRuby

"IronRust" would be amusing

xhroot

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I-1000 is literally called "Affirmative Action and Diversity Commission Measure"

https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1000,_Affirmat...

xhroot

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

Javascript in FF/Chrome:

    > (-80538738812075974n)**3n + 80435758145817515n**3n + 12602123297335631n**3n
    42n

https://caniuse.com/#search=bigint

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