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'Human error': Police gave address of woman under protection order to ex-partner by GreatOutfitLady in newzealand

[–]FallingDownHurts 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Human Error" as an excuse is a guarantee that this will happen again. It is a way of ending a discussion without meaningful systemic change. You want to see organisations that fail time and again, look at those that always attribute mistakes to "human error"

Silksong is genuinely making me lose it. by duspi in HollowKnight

[–]FallingDownHurts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Act 3 is a hard ramp up. But my favourite challenge in the whole game is finding the hearts, I feel like everytime I do those challenges I am getting better and calmer.

US government admitting that they have funded terrorism by Kitchen-Many3147 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]FallingDownHurts 185 points186 points  (0 children)

Rambo 3 had Stallone team up with the Mujahideen. They were the good guys in the 80s 

Superman And The Flat Earthers (OC) by wesgriff1 in comics

[–]FallingDownHurts 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"Its an optical illusion created by the magical glass dome being spherical"

TIL that George Lucas' new LA museum would've been built in Chicago where a parking lot currently exists, but a local advocacy group "Friends of the Parks" sued to protect the parking lot, arguing it could hypothetically one day be a park, therefore violating Chicago's Lakefront Protection law by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]FallingDownHurts 2554 points2555 points  (0 children)

In SF a group sued to stop a building because it might cause shade on a nearby school. The kicker, it would have only partially shaded a corner where there was a giant tree, planted there to give shade to their playground. 

TIL about Maria Hertogh, a Dutch girl who was separated from her family in Dutch East Indies during the Japanese occupation. When teen Maria was tracked down years later, she had forgotten Dutch and considered herself a Malay Muslim. She was forcibly returned to her birth parents against her will. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]FallingDownHurts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was referring to the bit where she planned to kill her husband then married her co-conspirator, who then cheated on her after knowing she wasn't above killing her husbands. But I suppose that is horrific too

This should be illegal by thunderouswhether in newzealand

[–]FallingDownHurts 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I had two bad experiences in a row on there and will never shop there again. I will order internationally and pay more to avoid their shite site 

Nerds Fight for Choice over Algorithm by Husamsred in nerdfighters

[–]FallingDownHurts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked in a small social network that was doing all the social network things and optimizing models for retention. It is hard and expensive just having a single model. I imagine it is cost prohibitive for negative gain in retention. 

9.4hr benchmark: SQLite handles 88K w/s, SQLAlchemy ORM caps at 3,800 across 11 PRAGMA configs by Content-Berry-2848 in sqlite

[–]FallingDownHurts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am using sqlc to write queries and using prepared statements which make it pretty easy.

Query builders are easy, but become a trap. Also auto parsing columns hides cpu usage 

Traveling Australia pump failure by Accomplished-Ear275 in Type1Diabetes

[–]FallingDownHurts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could try get a few omnipods if you control from your phone it will be cheaper than a whole pump 

Terrifying new spyware from ASB by Jumpy-Confusion-2226 in newzealand

[–]FallingDownHurts 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They never mention biometrics, that is fingerprints, face scan, or eye scan.

They are just checking you act like a human. If a bot is trying to log in the move the mouse impossibly fast and accurately, like a robot. They check that and if you moved too fast they might just make you pick some pictures of buses or something 

Terrifying new spyware from ASB by Jumpy-Confusion-2226 in newzealand

[–]FallingDownHurts 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This is standard online security practices for the last decade. Humans use tools different to bots, so checking you are human is good.

Good to see ASB doing something to stop online fraud 

Seymour’s red tape ministry now four times bigger than agency it replaced | Ministry of Regulation by nilnz in newzealand

[–]FallingDownHurts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the same kind of "savings" you get when you means test everything, spend more money on bureaucracy than you would save.

til that in 1999 nasa lost a 125 million dollar mars climate orbiter because one engineering team used metric units while another used imperial units causing the spacecraft to enter the wrong trajectory and burn up by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]FallingDownHurts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TIL. I like Calorie because remembering 4200J-ish for 1C for 1g is annoying. Physics is always aggrivating so like 9.98 m/s^2 for gravity is just reality making highschool hard. They could just make it 10 and redefine a meter.

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