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April 2020 - wasn’t this when bidding on as much PPE as possible was basically the government’s only hope?

Apologies for Daily Mail link, but these were the headlines at the time. Any minister worth their salt would have been on a Turkish runway with a suitcase full of treasury bonds, and instructions to buy whatever is available.

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From 2005: “The Israeli Defence Ministry will appeal against a supreme court ruling banning the use of Palestinian human shields in raids, officials said.” - it used to be policy. They wanted to continue.

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That is essentially what the “Post-Open Source” idea is trying to do.

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That, and hosting & domains got expensive. It used to be a trivial cost to have a website, now the prices are all “introductory offers” with asterisks.

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Assault shed.

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Dr Glaucomflecken just did a sketch mocking a doctor for saying dehydration when they meant hypovolemia (lack of water vs lack of total fluids). There was also this one about mental health terminology.

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This was a cute video

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Once several different instances have downloaded the same video, they could share information on which segments are the same?

Ads would change for each download based on all the factors used in the automated ad auctions.

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Had a “pay as you go” contract since 1997 (not with T) - they told everyone that you need a new SIM for a network upgrade which required deactivating the original SIM. New SIM didn’t work in normal (Nokia 1110) phones. Then they sent SMS saying that they weren’t going to honour the original PAYG phone contracts.

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Has it been 30 years already since The Vicar of Dibley aired, after this issue was resolved in the church of england

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In English is this why we say fifteen instead of tentyfive?

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Good thing that the EU countries are quitting one of these systems.

Wikipedia still says that cases can be brought 20 years after exiting, but reuters says that’s 10 years now?

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Can you add a banknote or EURion symbol somewhere to dissuade image-processing software?

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https://i.imgur.com/lFrIReK.png

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It was five years ago!

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countryfile.com/…/a-beginners-guide-to-wild-campi… seemed like a pretty good guide. Maybe combine it with a holiday to Scotland or the lake district if you’re worried about the legality of wild camping.

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Not sure why the UK is included here - the travel ban is:

  • has been convicted of a criminal offence in the UK or overseas for which they have received a custodial sentence of 12 months or more
  • is a persistent offender who shows a particular disregard for the law
  • has committed a criminal offence, or offences, which caused serious harm

Two of those look like something for the Home Secretary to decide, and good luck expecting the Home Secretary to make any sense.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

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Arguably that may be related - cryptocurrency people needed a new thing to prop up their Nvidia shares, and “AI” fills that niche.

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Imagine being one of the people to make that measurement though… You’re in the observatory with some notes and a spreadsheet to calculate the keyhole orbit parameters. You have a big stack of business cards from journalists wanting to publish the result as soon as you calculate it.

If you made the measurement and it… wasn’t good - imagine the result of telling the world that life would end in 2029 - would you maybe be tempted to call the other scientists around the world and discuss whether or not to reveal the actual result?

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Wouldn’t that mission need to have already been in space in 2013 though?

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Maybe you can buy more days off through the benefits system?

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👍

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Fourth panel from Mark Pilgrim:

  • Writing a programming book that typesets your sample code into the book and also runs it to update the sample output shown in the book.
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Consulship of Caesar and Bibulus - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59_BC lists some options of how it would be called in various places

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The centre is .1337

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Add a bit of a Dazzle paint scheme…

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Or even Ami Pro’s keyboard settings, where each function key was mapped to a paragraph style. F2 = body text. F5 = bullet list. F6 = number list. F8-F12 = heading levels 1-5 (from memory, it’s been a while). Function keys in Word are so useless that I can’t even remember what they do (except for F9 which is super broken).

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Water isn’t clean enough to make a cup of tea with

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Well yeah, one of them went to prison for this exact payment!

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“Welcome to camping with Steve”

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Finishing your climb before any afternoon thunderstorms is often one of the good ideas when you are climbing a very long metal cable.

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Just be careful naming your function “stdout()” or things could get weird…

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If someone was going to jail for having those documents, making them available to the public might not be the best demonstration of why they needed to be kept secret.

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What do you mean, “employer”? Anyone who fills that form, by definition, doesn’t work in the US. The form certifies that your income is not associated with a US business.

Canadian photographer Francois Brunell searches and photographs similar people, but who are not related to each other. He has currently done about 200 couple portraits.

Canadian photographer Francois Brunelle spent 12 years tracking down real life Doppelgängers — two individuals who are not related but could pass for identical twins — and photographing them. He calls his project “I’m Not a Look-Alike,” and it’s starting to get some well-deserved attention....

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Would be an interesting test set for categorising the accuracy of such software.

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Don’t even need to reduce size - just reduce hood height (especially when it is unused space for “aesthetics”)

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And then notice the spelling error.

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Cassini took closer pictures if you need some.

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Apparently it’s not as safe as that unless they put more effort into having trusted people in the control room.

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Introversion themselves talked about it at the time

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Countries_numbering_floors.svg/440px-Countries_numbering_floors.svg.png

Red has first floor = ground floor. Blue has first floor above ground floor.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey

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They are on stilts - you can walk underneath the first floor!

The US base calls them first level and second level. The British base calls them operational level and upper level.

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Mercury would be solid at room temperature

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Channel 4 managed to convince a group of people that they had gone to space! They just had to find some very special people who would believe the ‘gravity compensator’ story.

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Same with The End of Eternity - they can travel to different times at which the machine existed.

In fact, isn’t it a bit similar with the only ‘real’ possibility of time travel - you create a wormhole and take one end on a relativistic journey to create a time difference between the ends, but the only possible travel is between the two ends that you have created.

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When Dan’s Data reviewed these, he said something like “even if you use this in space, you are still no further away from a shop that sells replacements than you would be at home”

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New Zealand sounds like “expecting the climate to collapse”, but Cyprus just sounds like Russian asset?

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That is how it works - gov.uk/deposit-protection-schemes-and-landlords

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