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Large metal toy airplane, with twin tail fins. One of them broke off in my foot, the other just cut it up.

Way worse than legos.

I just got had someone change the e-mail address associated with my Amazon account. I use generated, unique passwords per site and have two-factor authentication turned on, and it made no difference. Called customer service, explained the situation, I'm supposed to be hearing from someone in account security "soon".

Fortunately, whoever did this hadn't changed the password yet. In the meanwhile, I've changed the e-mail address (to a third one never before used with Amazon) and generated a new unique password. Will see what happens now.

Hmm did you change information of a credit card? These days they update sites like amazon with your new informaiton. Are you sure it wasn't a phish and it wasn't actually changed?

Heiwashin wrote:

Hmm did you change information of a credit card? These days they update sites like amazon with your new informaiton. Are you sure it wasn't a phish and it wasn't actually changed?

Definitely not a phish. I thought it might have been, but I didn't click on anything in the e-mail, went to a different computer and checked my Amazon account settings - the e-mail address had been changed. I snagged a screenshot of the fraudulent address for posterity, spoke with Amazon service immediately (went through their contact protocol, where you input a phone number on their page to receive a call), then after making the report I changed the login and password information on the account.

Also contacted financial organizations, just to have some extra flags put on accounts. Bah, this is annoying.

Stack Overflow just sent me a job listing for "Lead NodeJs Software Engineer for Bitcoin Casino".

Seems a bit redundant to me.

It does make me wonder though. I wonder how many gambling addicts aren't attracted to bitcoin because they don't know they'd be gambling.

Redocbew wrote:

Stack Overflow just sent me a job listing for "Lead NodeJs Software Engineer for Bitcoin Casino".

Seems a bit redundant to me.

It does make me wonder though. I wonder how many gambling addicts aren't attracted to bitcoin because they don't know they'd be gambling.

The entire derivatives market (futures/options/etc.) is effectively a form of legalized gambling. Those markets function because there are people/organizations willing to accept risk (speculators) and others who seek to reduce risk (hedgers), who are willing to bet against each other. The financial exchanges play the role of the house, and skim the profits off the top in the form of transaction fees.

Hauling back 24 lbs of Hawaiian varietal (macadamia nut blossom) honey in your checked luggage gets your bag opened and searched by the TSA. Just found the "we opened your bag and went through the contents" love note...

It says the bag was "randomly selected", but I'd be willing to bet it was due to the rather odd size-to-weight ratio (really heavy carry-on size bag, checked instead of carried on). Or the multiple cylinders of unidentifiable liquid, which I assume were quite visible on x-ray.

Oh, and for anyone who is flying anywhere, if Alaska Airlines is a reasonably priced option for your itinerary, my wife and I recommend them. Their economy class section has seats that are noticeably roomier than on the bigger carriers. This is quite noticeable even though we're both pretty short (under 5'6"); I can only imagine how awful the economy seats on the big carriers are for taller people.

just brew it! wrote:

Redocbew wrote:

Stack Overflow just sent me a job listing for "Lead NodeJs Software Engineer for Bitcoin Casino".

Seems a bit redundant to me.

It does make me wonder though. I wonder how many gambling addicts aren't attracted to bitcoin because they don't know they'd be gambling.

The entire derivatives market (futures/options/etc.) is effectively a form of legalized gambling. Those markets function because there are people/organizations willing to accept risk (speculators) and others who seek to reduce risk (hedgers), who are willing to bet against each other. The financial exchanges play the role of the house, and skim the profits off the top in the form of transaction fees.

There was an article in yesterday's WSJ whereby Coinbase is going to allow co-located high-frequency Bitcoin trading servers in its data centers. I printed it, along with this chart showing a moving 7-day average of transaction confirmation time, and gave it to my boss and the head of the Securities division of my department. On it, I attached a sticky note with the statement "Micro-second trading with 20-30 minute transaction confirmation times? What could possibly go wrong?"

Captain Ned wrote:

There was an article in yesterday's WSJ whereby Coinbase is going to allow co-located high-frequency Bitcoin trading servers in its data centers. I printed it, along with this chart showing a moving 7-day average of transaction confirmation time, and gave it to my boss and the head of the Securities division of my department. On it, I attached a sticky note with the statement "Micro-second trading with 20-30 minute transaction confirmation times? What could possibly go wrong?"

LOL... classic Captain Ned snark. If you were a software developer, you'd probably fit in well with the group of people I work with. The internal Slack dev channels are full of this kind of stuff.

Well, since the last "programming language" I ever worked in used line numbers (and I rarely, if ever, ended with 999 instead of 99), I'm hopeless as a dev. I even used GOTO instead of GOSUB.

Mind you, this was 1980/1981 and it was high school on a PDP-8/e, but the mental mutilation was terminal.

First DRAM... now canned tuna?

http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/16/news/co ... index.html

just brew it! wrote:

Oh, and for anyone who is flying anywhere, if Alaska Airlines is a reasonably priced option for your itinerary, my wife and I recommend them. Their economy class section has seats that are noticeably roomier than on the bigger carriers. This is quite noticeable even though we're both pretty short (under 5'6"); I can only imagine how awful the economy seats on the big carriers are for taller people.

My dad lives in Seattle, so I've flown on Alaska Airlines a few times, always with a good experience. They should definitely be on your travel shortlist if going to/from/around the west coast.

just brew it! wrote:

Hauling back 24 lbs of Hawaiian varietal (macadamia nut blossom) honey in your checked luggage gets your bag opened and searched by the TSA. Just found the "we opened your bag and went through the contents" love note...

It says the bag was "randomly selected", but I'd be willing to bet it was due to the rather odd size-to-weight ratio (really heavy carry-on size bag, checked instead of carried on). Or the multiple cylinders of unidentifiable liquid, which I assume were quite visible on x-ray.

"Cylindrical container of suspicious density" apparently gets flagged by the X-ray every time. Now and then via our own travels or those of family, we like to export Marionberry jelly from Costco stores in the PNW. That bag always gets searched.

New phone feature i didn't know i wanted but i did. When i pick up the phone and there's a notification of a message or call, the phone will vibrate. It does it really fast and responsively too, so i can easily palm it and just put it back down confidently if i was only checking for messages or missed calls.

Marionberry jelly is badass. Black raspberry jelly is pretty good also.

just brew it! wrote:

Oh, and for anyone who is flying anywhere, if Alaska Airlines is a reasonably priced option for your itinerary, my wife and I recommend them. Their economy class section has seats that are noticeably roomier than on the bigger carriers. This is quite noticeable even though we're both pretty short (under 5'6"); I can only imagine how awful the economy seats on the big carriers are for taller people.

For sure Alaskan is pretty good, especially when you compare them to the likes of Soutwest/Delta/United/American. I'm not that tall (5'11"), but if extra leg room or an exit row seat is not that expensive, I usually grab it (especially when it's on a corporate card). I already dislike flying and my knees are just trashed from my youth.

I'm into huckleberry jelly.

ludi wrote:

just brew it! wrote:

Hauling back 24 lbs of Hawaiian varietal (macadamia nut blossom) honey in your checked luggage gets your bag opened and searched by the TSA. Just found the "we opened your bag and went through the contents" love note...

It says the bag was "randomly selected", but I'd be willing to bet it was due to the rather odd size-to-weight ratio (really heavy carry-on size bag, checked instead of carried on). Or the multiple cylinders of unidentifiable liquid, which I assume were quite visible on x-ray.

"Cylindrical container of suspicious density" apparently gets flagged by the X-ray every time. Now and then via our own travels or those of family, we like to export Marionberry jelly from Costco stores in the PNW. That bag always gets searched.

Yeah, the macadamia honey came from one of the Oahu Costco stores as well. I really like how they stock local products even though they are a massive national chain.

Saved us a good bit refueling the rental car too; they were ~60 cents/gallon less than the local filling stations. I suppose I ought to feel bad about that, since I like to support local; but I figure did that indirectly by doing a large buy of local honey (which unlike the gas, was actually produced in the islands).

"Restoring your previous version of Windows"... I guess that update didn't work.

Redocbew wrote:

"Restoring your previous version of Windows"... I guess that update didn't work.

Could be a lot worse... "Reboot and select proper Boot Device"

Or just a blank screen.

TBH, all mobile/desktop OSes seem to be converging on a baseline level of suckiness. Server OSes fare only slightly better (probably because they tend to lag a couple of years on bleeding edge feature adoption).

In other news, ARBYS is giving out a free font called Saucy AF LOL. Yes Arbys.

https://arbys.com/saucy_af

they thought to themselves, "i'm tired of hearing comic sans jokes, can we do something about that?"

Such "Saucy" language!

I'm gonna start using that in all my PowerPoints.

The Star Trek universe and the Dune universe are more related than one would think, if one looks at it in an odd manner.

For ST warp drives to not violate Special Relativity causality, they must instead shorten the distance between two points that is then traveled at sub-light speeds from the viewpoint of SR (see Alcubierre drives). Since Paul, the Kwisatz Haderach, stands for "the shortening of the way", should warp drive be renamed?

This is what you get when you spend several hours on the road a couple of days after reading Charles Stross' two "Eschaton" books, namely Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise and finding oneself pondering, "would SR causality still hold in a universe where ansibles exist (that are not due to spatially-separated superposed particles as in the Stross books)"?

And I wonder why people think me odd.

Captain Ned wrote:

The Star Trek universe and the Dune universe are more related than one would think, if one looks at it in an odd manner.

For ST warp drives to not violate Special Relativity causality, they must instead shorten the distance between two points that is then traveled at sub-light speeds from the viewpoint of SR (see Alcubierre drives). Since Paul, the Kwisatz Haderach, stands for "the shortening of the way", should warp drive be renamed?

This is what you get when you spend several hours on the road a couple of days after reading Charles Stross' two "Eschaton" books, namely Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise and finding oneself pondering, "would SR causality still hold in a universe where ansibles exist (that are not due to spatially-separated superposed particles as in the Stross books)"?

And I wonder why people think me odd.

I've always assumed the "warp" in "warp drive" referred to the ability to locally warp space itself and/or facilitate limited traversal through some orthogonal dimension (kind of how the "warp" threads in a woven fabric touch widely separated regions of the "weft" threads). Not quite a "portable wormhole", but sorta related to wormholes. I don't recall pursuing the train of reasoning much beyond that.

Clearly you've spent more time thinking about this than I have, and therefore "out-geek" me, at least in this respect.

Though the weaving analogy may be my own unique invention (don't think I've seen it described elsewhere, but haven't really looked).

I equate warping to folding (a la Steven Hawking) the fabric of the time-space continuum. In that sense it is very different than hyperspace in SW which is more akin to a parallel universe.

Usacomp2k3 wrote:

I equate warping to folding (a la Steven Hawking) the fabric of the time-space continuum. In that sense it is very different than hyperspace in SW which is more akin to a parallel universe.

So more like my weaving analogy, where the weft threads are folded back and forth and the warp threads run straight across them.

I don't understand the point of attempting to mix natural language into a programming language. If you're not able to fully utilize natural language, then it's not really "natural", and there are still syntactic boundaries that need to be respected in order to avoid ambiguity. It's not really any different than using any other language at that point.