bencollier49

It's wonderful. I've pretty much watched it to death, but still occasionally have another go.

Or a bit of blu-tack, in the shape of a runner bean...

In addition to your points, the perspective is rather "metropolitan socially-liberal". I would disagree that they are anti rapid change on social issues.

That's an effective and viral message because it plays on the fears of people who have spiritual inclinations. Of course in reality, it's remarkably evil in its effects. How many people have died or been disfigured as a result of failure to vaccinate thanks to this claptrap? Spirits of darkness indeed, the greatest of which have a reputation for clothing themselves in light.

The same argument could be made against imprisoning serial killers.

How much geothermal power would you need to extract to completely cool the core of the Earth?

Genuinely surprised that "bank managers" either exist or have any say in loan decisions. In the UK it appears to be pretty much entirely computerised, with a small amount of oversight from teams of analysts if the computer decision is borderline. Different elsewhere?

I wonder. Perhaps they're overseas, in places like China.

If someone wanted to bulldoze your home town to build a nuclear reactor, you'd be upset, right? That said, there are different sorts of love. The Greeks had many words for it. We're impoverished in that regard.

Just use a spreadsheet?

Does having a list of friends on a spreadsheet make you a data controller?

Ah, good. The Americanisms did my nut in. 5 thumbs up.

Why?

Brilliant, thank you.

Related question - is there an FGPA simulator / designer which works on OS X?

> no one has 3l kettles

I have! Duckduckgo it.

Also Byrdle, for Anglican Choral Music:

https://rbrignall.github.io/byrdle/

I agree with this. I think robots are probably where it's at these days.

Kids sometimes like the simplicity of the old computer games, but as mentioned above, the old excitement at having your hands on cutting edge tech isn't there with a Raspi, or an old retro computer.

Honestly, I'd be super paranoid about this. Someone with an axe to grind about foreign workers could report you on the off chance. You seem like a super clever bloke and the US would do well to take you, but if I was an immigration official and read this post, I'd be red underlining your application. They've made it mega-easy to report, as well.

Fastmail is great.

Of course the beauty of a dishwasher that needs firmware updates is that, like my phone, the vendor can simply stop providing them in three years and force me to buy a new dishwasher to prevent my house from getting pwned.

Is that not mostly engineering? Refinement of existing hard science?

That's an interesting parallel with St. Paul's position on sexual morality. He appears to condemn varieties of homosexual behaviour, but it's in the context of institutionalised behaviour in Roman society which possibly parallels that in Afghanistan today.

Oh, not another one!

It drives me batty. Another instance of solving the problem by adding "Reddit" to the end of the search string. Of course this means Reddit will shortly be swamped with AI spam bots driving crap to the top of forums. Presumably that's a current issue.

Even more frustrating than this are the sites which automatically append the current year to their article titles.

"Best CMS frameworks (2022)", for example, and yet the content is out of date.

Absolutely. We are still suffering as a society from the baggage of the 20th century, when man rather foolishly imagined that science would explain everything. This was pretty much ruled out philosophically from the get-go, but we still have this naive scientism which crops up everywhere and claims to have explained the human condition and origin, when it has done nothing of the sort.

IMO this is something which ought to be written into law. It'd be easy to implement a kill switch, and would actually encourage innovation, as people would feel more empowered to experiment with the technology.

I'm confused here - are you saying that ethnic categories are social constructs?

You think Corbynites would be less keen on authoritarianism?

The "Grim Reapers" videos are great fun. Love watching them occasionally with my sons.