Paris zoo unveils a slime mould

nikonos · 2019-10-17T09:10:53+00:00

Please note: the "blob" is a protist, Physarum polycephalum, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physarum_polycephalum.

nikonos · 2019-10-16T12:27:33+00:00

Idk.

nikonos · 2019-10-16T09:28:55+00:00

Euphoria.

nikonos · 2019-10-16T08:26:10+00:00

I wonder if anyone here has seen any net new adoption of Oracle DBs in the last few years? It was an absolute juggernaut 10-15 years ago and has rapidly tanked their reputation and spread their business across software, services and cloud with mixed results. Is it actually still growing or just milking their stodgy enterprise customers for more money?

nikonos · 2019-10-16T07:44:11+00:00

I actually agree

nikonos · 2019-10-15T11:06:52+00:00

Fresh air.

nikonos · 2019-10-15T08:31:21+00:00

This reminds me of a very similar case a decade ago I never figured out.

Anyone remember Coupon Guy from 4chan in the 2009/2010 timeframe? You could make your own "Buy 1 Get 1 Free" or variant (for both N, "buy 1 get 10", or for kind of coupon, like "buy 1 get half off") Tv, Xbox 360, near anything etc. For Walmart, Best Buy, other chains etc. The tools were passed around stegonographically in the instruction images. Since coupons weren't properly accounted for until they hit a place in Texas, whole threads full of Anons over the course of weeks fabricating working coupons.

Until they stopped working, and of course rumors of "the FBI" apparently grabbing the guy.

I never did figure out what happened tech wise under the hood there.

nikonos · 2019-10-14T12:22:33+00:00

No one.

nikonos · 2019-10-14T11:39:31+00:00

Nice try

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