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And really, how different would it be if they were there? Stuck in a studio being fed information just the same. I love those political broadcasts "Here I am outside a building where something is…

Or maybe award less than half points for a draw?

> there are only around 10,000,000 possible game-states after the first WBBWW Do you have a source for that?

Late correction - book was We Are Bellingcat

"I demand free speech with advertising!"

> The government has made a big push to use data to improve public services, but despite "significant sums" being spent on data storage departments are "making little use of this dat…

Just finished reading Eliot Higgins’ Becoming Bellingcat last night. He stresses how important it is to archive sources because, as we know, stuff online is here today gone tomorrow. Sometimes literal…

On one of my relatively few visits to America, from my hotel room I could see the zoo less than half a mile away. In reception I asked the best route to walk there. There was a stunned silence and out…

And also with samples. If you take, say, a tuba the player must start blowing well before the beat so there is a natural breath you want to preserve. In midi there is no real way to preempt that excep…

Others have mentioned microcontrollers and using shifts for efficiency, but also often because system services are often described and accessed by individual bits. So for instance (in C) xxx |= (1 <…

If we called Bitcoin "Tulip Bulbs" we might get things in better perspective. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania …

That site has the most appalling cookie dialogue I have seen. There is no generic 'disagree' and an unending list of sites to deal with individually. I decided to accept all and delete as I …

I read about the reasons somewhere, but basically it is a general phenomenon where colonists lock in the habits and culture of their homeland as they remember it, and are more resistant to natural cha…

... also it's a link that goes to what it says it is!

English has always been gloriously open source, and anyone can fork it. It is not owned by anyone and words mean exactly what you intend them to mean, and no-one can tell you otherwise. And you can sp…

In the UK deep in the countryside there are miles and miles of twisty single track roads. In Cornwall in particular they have high walled sides for some reason, and are just wide enough to drive down.…

It is a tool I have often thought would be useful. It's tricky to get the questions right but this is pretty good. I think extending it to the rest of the country will add a lot of complexity- li…

I think the problem is "commit". I would like to propose "lets-see-how-things-go-for-a-while" as an alternative.

Yes, in the UK it will be a massive problem. But practical issues seem to be irrelevant to those making policies.

On single carriageway roads it is often hard to reach the speed limit let alone break it, just because of traffic and the general layout.

> Why would we switch over to primarily utilizing .us Precisely because .com is used by all the world and his dog. It gives no indication where the organisation presents its home to be.

Quite a lot of milliseconds in fact. For a visual stimulus it is 1/4 of a second minimum. That's 22 feet at 50 mph.

Sorry, it's a 'cut and cover' as far as I can see. Unlikely to preserve anything.

Less sport on TV? Actually I do follow F1 through the Channel 4 highlights, but last weekend it was all live from Silverstone. I realised my life is too short for hours and hours (and hours) of covera…

Thanks so much for this. Sadly Bundleron's are online only now.

I would suggest you read "Medical experimentation in Africa" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_experimentation_in_A... …

So, experiment on poor black people? I think you are on the wrong forum.

My wife and I have reached an age (1 month apart) where death has become “when” rather than “if”. My mother, father, and three siblings have all died around an age I am rapidly approaching. My sister…

But when you get it back you think - I can give that to charity - thus begining a never-ending loop.

Yes, being suburban Londoners in early 2020 we were checking the car would start periodically and contemplating getting rid of it. But then Covid struck, and us being high risk, public transport sudde…