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Loads of random notes from/to and about Babbage. When did letter writing like this slim down and all the long flowery language disappear?

Note that this change is not getting rid of the Lords; it's just getting rid of Hereditary piers - i.e. those passed down through generations. We'll still have Lords who have been selected by previous governments within their lifetime; so they still provide that speed bump; but do it in a way that means they were at some point chosen by an elected body.

Hmm I guess you'll get this pile of used boards which hmm is not a great source of waste; but I guess they will get reused for a few generations. A problem is it doesn't seem to be just the chips that would be thrown but the whole board which gets silly.

I suggest a daily airing of Leonard Cohen's 'Democracy'

Anyone else getting an automatically downloaded PDF 'ai report' when clicking on this link? It's damn annoying!

Yes but in many ways it's riskier to do that when you have a license from them.

Why are people still using telnet across the internet in this century? Was this _all_ attack traffic?

(OK, I know one ancient talker that uses it - but on a very non-standard port so a port 23 block wouldn't be relevant)

The UK has a big tungsten deposit; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemerdon_Mine

Come buy our tungsten! (We'll throw in a choice of Eccles cake or Tunnocks tea cakes as a special offer)

That page numbers in books were only invented 50 years after the printing press is a fun snippet from the article

That's ok, but I think if you spend a minute looking at that backtrace you'll see it's pretty obvious where you need to add a check.

I've got 9.0 running self built on Fedora 43; it's working OK, I have had a couple of crashes (which I can't figure out how to report); a seg: #1 0x00007f5085ea1663 in jack_port_type_to_ardour_data_type (jack_type=0x0) at ../libs/backends/jack/jack_portengine.cc:71 #2 0x00007f5085ea346a in ARDOUR::JACKAudioBackend::port_data_type (this=0x1ac84ad0, port=...) at ../libs/backends/jack/jack_portengine.cc:465 #3 0x0000000000e3c719 in PortGroupList::gather

which I think is a lack of cast check in port_data_type? (from IOSelector::setup_ports -> PortMatrix::setup_global_ports )

I also got an assert in; #5 0x00000000011fa927 in StartupFSM::check_session_parameters (this=0x3dcf00a0, must_be_new=true) at ../gtk2_ardour/startup_fsm.cc:740 #6 0x00000000011f80d2 in StartupFSM::dialog_response_handler (this=0x3dcf00a0, response=-3, dialog_id=StartupFSM::NewSessionDialog) at ../gtk2_ardour/startup_fsm.cc:267

I think this was opening an existing ardour project that I'd copied onto this machine and was the first run of ardour on this machine.

the title says 'giant owl sculpture' - how giant is it, I don't see any reference

'Maris piper' are very common in the UK that I'd say are floury.

There's a 476k year old wooden structure in Zambia, and includes some tools somewhere around 3x0k years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalambo_structure

Fascinating stuff!

I suspect many of us still using X, are xfce users waiting for an alternative; I've heard very mixed things about current Fedora xfce wayland setups from different people.

Impressive collection of embarrassingly young founder pictures :-)

It's all that wheel running, terrible on the knees.

True, and there's probably a lot of it; still I think they already have some EU devs, but I guess only on some things.

If the EU employees can look around the code, it would then get quite interesting if they were to point out a backdoor. which they would of course raise with an EU based CERT. In a way that protects US customers as well having a set that can't be stopped from doing that.

Yeh I was curious how it was different - I thought MS did a similar thing of getting T-mobile to operate it's EU cloud.

I'm surprised the US doesn't try doing chocolate growing in some of it's big empty, hot states.

Gnome is quite 'opinionated' in what it chooses; if you like their choices you enjoy it; if you don't....hmm. Personally I also have some things I specifically dislike; I prefer to have a fixed 3x3 virtual desktop grid, and Gnome didn't let me do that. I generally don't like the heavy use of menus and random stuff in the title bar of windows.

or on the way to Mars.

The new leg design is interesting - it's quite a change to have one segment out of line with the others; and unlike any natural leg ??

Ooh, it's got to be about 30 years since the Tcl plugin for Netscape; so perhaps we can have it back in the browser via WASM.

Wouldn't the other reason to have multiple manufacturer keys, be to guard against them losing the private key for one in a way that means they can't sign anything any more?

Does anyone have a feel for how heavy the weight of an equivalent oil(?) driven ship would be? It has the big number for the weight of batteries, but I've got nothing to compare against.

Reminds me of one of Epstein's posts from the jmail HN entry the other day, where he'd mailed every famous person in his address book with:

https://www.jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019871?view=p...

Can they do that here, they've got quite a few sets of 4/5 atoms which they've interconnected, so that's a lot to get by shotgunning it. I'd assumed they were using something like a STM to nudge the atoms around.

The engineering at those scales is pretty magical isn't it! Getting a whole bunch of individual atoms exactly where they want them. I wonder what the success rate is - i.e. how many do they build to get one working.