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#2711551 22-May-2021 19:38

I'm playing Warcraft and someone in chat asked what the command is to show your current target. Cue the chat filling up with <no target> and names of various targets as people responded by typing the command verbatim, which of course executed it.

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#2711788 23-May-2021 17:20

Annoying anti-vaxxers on social media. Some clown was ranting about the new vaccine rules here being "1984"

In every reply I posted a quote from 1984. Of course the clown had no idea, he'd probably never read 1984.

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#2711976 24-May-2021 08:48

It's done! I've finally finished my new home office setup, with a new (old) desk courtesy of my best friend moving overseas, matching filing cabinet and a new mesh chair.

After 24 years, I've also finally put my original Microsoft Natural Keyboard into storage. The new-ish Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard is close enough to the original to be a usable replacement. I don't see it lasting decades, but at least the size is similar buttons are mostly where they should be. Still hoping to see a re-release of the original one day.

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#2711983 24-May-2021 09:02

Going mountain biking in the forest on mainly blue and black trails on Saturday for approx 3 hrs on my new full suspension bike (after a few years of riding hardtails), at the tender age of 52 and waking up on Sunday morning with no hip or knee pain.

So good!

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#2711991 24-May-2021 09:33

Getting the price I wanted and not having to pay fees on it, on trademe. Super Quick and easy transaction. I wish they were all like this.

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#2712101 24-May-2021 11:17

One of my favourite Youtube channels (Perifractic's Retro Recipes) started a new series a couple of months back called "The Retro Show" which has a number of segments about retro computing, including one called "Nostalgia Flakes" where he shares content that has been submitted by viewers enjoying their retro machines. I submitted one of my 6-year old daughter having a ball playing Pinball Dreams on my Amiga 500, and it was included in this segment. I watched it this morning over breakfast, and that same daughter watched with me, and her jaw dropped on the floor when she saw herself on the TV.

It made me smile how something so simple can still make kids so happy. They see themselves on TV all the time whenever we cast videos of them to the screen, but there's something different about being included in someone else's material. It's a bit like the feeling you used to get when your letter got read out on What Now back in the 80s.

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#2712143 24-May-2021 11:53

Yikes. Googles ShakeAlert(R) system on Android works!

It took about two seconds after the house started shaking to tell me that there was an earthquake nearby, and to "expect shaking".

(Edit - on checking with GNS, it overestimated magnitude, and underestimated distance - but maybe useful if a big one lets rip further away).

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#2712147 24-May-2021 11:56

Fred99:

Yikes. Googles ShakeAlert(R) system works!

It took about two seconds after the house started shaking to tell me that there was an earthquake nearby, and to "expect shaking".

It's like when you get a weather reporting telling you to expect rain when you are standing outside soaking wet!

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#2712149 24-May-2021 11:59

networkn:

It's like when you get a weather reporting telling you to expect rain when you are standing outside soaking wet!

Yep - but to be fair I edited my post above with more detail, it could be useful in some circumstances. Seems to be enabled by default in Android. I'll leave it switched on - that was fun - kind of.

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#2712151 24-May-2021 12:01

networkn:

It's like when you get a weather reporting telling you to expect rain when you are standing outside soaking wet!

What was that great line on the Simpsons? It's not a miracle, just good timing.

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#2712169 24-May-2021 12:33

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#2712193 24-May-2021 13:16

Bitcoin gamblers' advice to "buy the dip" - while the dip's still dipping.

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#2712199 24-May-2021 13:23

networkn:
It's like when you get a weather reporting telling you to expect rain when you are standing outside soaking wet!

Or a Google alert telling you the make of the car that just ran into you.

For better earthquake info, try the Raspberry Shake network, they have the most sensors deployed.

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#2712206 24-May-2021 13:30

neb:
networkn:

It's like when you get a weather reporting telling you to expect rain when you are standing outside soaking wet!

Or a Google alert telling you the make of the car that just ran into you.

For better earthquake info, try the Raspberry Shake network, they have the most sensors deployed.

Isn't the google app using every android phone with G sensors (most phones?) and the app enabled by default?

I think the reason for the app overestimating magnitude was that the local Chch quakes are shallow and the bedrock hard and brittle. Google also estimated location within GNS science ~2km margin of error.

They said 4.8, was a 3.4. I'm not sure if I can easily check PGA on the Geonet site these days, but I'd wager that it was much higher than what most people would expect for a M3.4 quake. There's good reason why a M6.3 quake destroyed most of a city.

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#2712412 24-May-2021 16:15

Pedestrian crossing in Iceland - painted to slow motorists down.

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