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Automation meets ersatz automation

Hey it's me the fun ruiner here to ruin your fun.

Nuclear Ghandi was mostly a myth until Civilisation V where it was deliberately programmed in.

Also the concept of an integer wrapping around below it's minimum value is still integer overflow, just like wrapping above it's maximum value. Underflow does exist in the context of floating point numbers, when a calculation produces a result too small to represent in the floating point schema.

Buffer overflow is putting more elements into an array than can fit in the array, therefore trying to write beyond the end of an array. They're a super common form of vulnerability exploit, particularly in older programs written in C. Buffer underflow is when something consuming from a buffer consumes faster than it is filled, and so empties the buffer. I didn't actually know this term before making this comment.

Australia will get submarines the same year it gets high speed rail.

BYD is getting big in Australia, which drives on the left. They don't sell the Seagull here though.

I use Waistline. It pulls food data from OpenFoodFacts and has support for meals and recipes as well, although I mostly track weight not nutrition.

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"Mongrel" is the word, but I've barely heard it used.

Pretty confident "domestic shorthair" is the "John Doe" of cat breeds.

Not where I am it doesn't. No idea where OP is

(Still has chocolate on top though)

The modern English word "bear" originally came from a proto-Germanic word meaning one of "brown one" or possibly "wild animal". There was an actual name for bears, but speaking it was taboo in case it caused a bear to appear, so the euphemism eventually replaced the real name.

When I learned this originally, I was taught that the true name was lost to time, but Wikipedia just says it was "arkto" so whatever.

Just like bears

Subject matter also resulted in significantly different levels of CO2 emissions. Questions that required lengthy reasoning processes, for example abstract algebra or philosophy, led to up to six times higher emissions than more straightforward subjects, like high school history.

So we've finally realised the sci-fi trope of defeating machines using philosophical paradoxes. Only, instead of robot heads exploding, Tuvalu sinks.

That product description sounded to me like a mechanical (not chemical) sunscreen. Unlinke chemical sunscreens those tend to have a visible whitening effect when applied properly. Given that the Choice tests were blind and on human skin, I can imagine a scenario where it was "rubbed in" like chemical sunscreen until invisible, and gave the absurdly low score as a genuine result of misapplication

On the other hand, two independent labs getting similar awful results is damning.

It's unfortunate the responses from these companies are mostly along the lines of "nuh-uh". It's good that there have been some emergency retests, but I would have hoped that someone would have worked with Choice to figure out what was up rather than just telling them "you did it wrong".