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Bob
Bob
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@JourneymanGeek More specifically. Workstation is approx equal to Fusion. Player is ... Workstation Lite.
 
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Can anyone verify if the reg command is incorrect? superuser.com/a/1413106/726810
 
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08:46
> petrol can
Holy crap that must've taken decades to come up with
morning
@rahuldottech during WW2 the british army in north africa were under strict orders to steal the german's petrol cans because they were a superior design
09:35
@rahuldottech plz, tell me more
tell me how you can design a can to be non crushable, non piercable, cheap, easy to make, carriable, stable.
and can also be used to carry other liquids
 
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@djsmiley2k unbreakable... Glass is most of those
i think UV breaks down petrol so the glass would have to be frosted and coloured
like beer bottles
also glass is a bit heavy...
> The development of the jerrycan was a significant improvement on earlier designs, which required tools and funnels to use, and it contained many innovative features for convenience of use and robustness.
A jerrycan (also written as jerry can or jerrican) is a robust liquid container made from pressed steel. It was designed in Germany in the 1930s for military use to hold 20 litres (4.4 imp gal; 5.3 US gal) of fuel. The development of the jerrycan was a significant improvement on earlier designs, which required tools and funnels to use, and it contained many innovative features for convenience of use and robustness. After widespread use by both Germany and the Allies during the Second World War, today similar designs are used worldwide for fuel and water containers, some of which are also produced...
i rest my case
what is the german name for it? i'm guessing they didn't call it a jerry can because jerry is derogatory towards germans
Das kann
(I have no idea)
> Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister
11:14
Kanister?
Close enough :P
war machine unity cannister
Unrelatedly, where's a good place to buy a small amount of trunking?
Toolstation want to sell it by the 15m, which is a tad more than I need
maplin B and Q?
Ah yes
11:54
@DavidPostill i thought of a technology not invented by the military... www
12:12
@Burgi Yeah, well ARPANET was funded by the US DoD
true
but the internet <> the worldwide web
but at this point it is just semantics
12:44
Hmm. I'm getting random downvotes on some of my most popular answers. Below the serial voting threshold ...
13:05
haters be hating.
/me still needs to locate some meters of pipe
but not 25M
 
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16:24
Iceland, once again proving they are utterly bonkers.
Their eurovision entry.
Bob
Bob
16:36
@djsmiley2k I'm just confused
@djsmiley2k One word - weird
@Bob That's weird too :)
16:53
They are all crap this year.
17:08
@Bob hey quick question like why on Earth
Bob
Bob
@rahuldottech ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I like some of Kate's older songs, but ... this one's just weird.
@djsmiley2k [Laughs in Björk].
Romeo must've been dealing with one hell of a 500 after seeing Juliet return a 404 when he thought she returned a 410. And the parents hit it with a 403.
17:28
Something happened at work today.
I'm pissed. Coworkers are pissed.
More details on Riot.
17:39
@ThatBrazilianGuy I'm waiting...
Now banned from EU airspace.
> a ban on all Boeing 737 MAX jets this morning
I'm out of the loop, what happened?
I think usually a plane crash doesn't induce a ban on all the fleet.
18:20
@ThatBrazilianGuy Two with fatals in 6 months ...
The following is a list of accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 737 family of jet airliners, including the Boeing 737 Original (737-100/200), Boeing 737 Classic (737-300/-400/-500), Boeing 737 Next Generation (737-600/-700/-800/-900) and Boeing 737 Max (737-MAX -7/-8/-200/-9/-10) series of aircraft. The 737 series is the best-selling commercial jetliner in history, with the first unit having first entered airline service in February 1968 and the 10,000th unit (and still counting) rolling out in March 2018. The list shows: the first accident was on July 19, 1970, when a 737-200 was damaged...
@ThatBrazilianGuy not just fatals; the aircraft slammed into the ground at extremely high rates of speed due to what appears to be a design defect in the 737 MAX (the latest generation of 737)
Boeing is issuing a software patch (further confirming that software can kill thousands of people if not properly tested) in April
4
so in the interim many airlines are grounding
the US is trying to keep Boeing stock from falling too bad by propping them up even though they know the software is buggy
so there are something like 50 737 MAXes flying in the United States right now
@allquixotic What's the meaning of "propping them up" in this phrase?
Also, wow
> In the case of the Lion Air crash, the MCAS malfunctioned because of a faulty angle-of-attack (AOA) sensor. The sensor caused MCAS' algorithms to act as if the aircraft was entering a stall, automatically pushing the nose of the aircraft down—a condition known as a "stabilizer runaway."
> If such a failure were to occur during level flight at cruising altitude, the air crew would have a reasonable amount of time to diagnose the problem and shut down the MCAS. The procedure to shut down automatic trim control (part of MCAS) remains the same from older 737 designs.

But in both the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes, the air crews had relatively little time to determine what was wrong while fighting to keep their aircraft in a climb—in the Lion Air case, the aircraft crashed 10 minutes into the flight.
@ThatBrazilianGuy refusing to ground them
Boeing is a US company so the FAA wants to maintain as much value in the company as possible by keeping 737 MAX running in US airspace
18:35
Maximize profit, human lives be damned!
yup
I mean, when China grounds it...
out of safety concerns...
and the US doesn't. something is wrong.
Reminds me of this excerpt from a Chuck Palahniuk book.
I think it's Fight Club.
Protagonist works at an insurance firm. He describes how they calculate the recall cost for a faulty, potentially fatal component and the forecast of money lost to potential suing. Recall is more expensive, so it's not done.
reminds me of THX-1138, George Lucas's first film
the protagonists become too expensive to chase, so the police give up and let them run
It is (or at least was) on Netflix, I mean to watch it someday.
I'm getting faster. Question closed as dupe in < 2 minutes after posting :)
 
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@DavidPostill I have an Automatic Duplicate High-probability Detector (ADHD) and close duplicates before they're even asked because I make the user get distracted by a squirrel and forget about their question tab
21:10
Jul 17 '16 at 21:00, by Ben N
Oh hey, it's time for some Windows Updates! <game show music>
!!/learn updategameshow <>https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/31096268#31096268
@bwDraco Command updategameshow learned
!!/updategameshow
Jul 17 '16 at 21:00, by Ben N
Oh hey, it's time for some Windows Updates! <game show music>
Android owners, do you have any idea on how I can achieve this?
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Q: Append a string before opening external URLs

That Brazilian GuyI frequently read news articles shared on social media. A lot of times, these articles are full of advertising and other irritating elements. I use a service that strips just the content and formats the article in a nice presentation. Currently I have to: Long click the link on the social app ...

 
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Interesting question, I wonder if you can do that with Tasker.
Make Tasker the default URL handler, then have it pop up an option or service.com/url or just url

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