Bit sad not to be able to join in the general trans Dorley Hall love-in but I read maybe 300 pages and the non-consensual and imprisonment aspects of it seem to trigger a lot of anxiety, so it's perhaps not the book for me. And that's OK.
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This is an official translation of the law allowing Greenland self governance. Under it, for Greenland to become independent (to do with that independence what it may) it requires a majority in a referendum of the people of Greenland, an independence agreement with Denmark, and approval of that agreement by the Greenlandic and Danish parliaments. english.stm.dk/media/10522/gl-…
A drunk sailor might fall in, but fall over when they fall out, and as they fall down, fall overboard, it falling to their solicitor to whom their estate would fall.
He never enjoyed snow, unlike his brother. The first time we had deep snow Bilbo spent 10 mins diving forward and skidding headfirst into it. Benji has arthritis now so is a snow/ice wimp like me.
If you played Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum as a kid you’ll be aware of the notorious Attic Bug. It meant that if you entered the Attic in a game, various rooms became instakills.
Today I read an explanation of the bug: bits of non-screen memory are being written to when one of the monsters in the Attic is “drawn”.
@rvedotrc @iris It's probably been a few decades since I read the story originally, but in my hazy memory he was gripped with a sudden doubt that his wife was actually following him and turned back to look.
the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire
icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at...
not sure about that. If "luke" and "yuke" rhyme then "luke" and "nyuke" also rhyme, almost by definition. Different previous phonème (/j/ rather than /n/) doesn't matter.
In US law they pronounce the “v.” in case names as “versus” or “vee”. So we get the famous case of Roe v. Wade. But in English law for civil cases like this we pronounce the “v.” as “and”, thus rendering the case name as “row and wade”.
Or so I thought. It occurred to me just now that if the case had happened here, it’d be a judicial review. So would be called something like R (Roe) v. Wade, pronounced “the Crown (on behalf of Roe) and Wade”.
But! It was in 1973 when we wrote judicial review case names differently. It would probably have been something more like R v. Wade ex parte Roe.
Idly reading about New Zealand's court system. Amusing to me was the way Māori introductions in New Zealand courts became the norm. A judge decided it would be good, so did it, and then a barrister for the Crown followed suit. Obviously at this point defence barristers couldn't be outdone, so... youtu.be/ycL-cKQ_0tU?si=imaGLw…
Watching the darts on Sky Stream, and it's got a bit confused. It's really weird when the sound and picture get out of sync and you hear random plunks while the player is preparing to throw. (Pause and play fixed it.)
Inspired by a blooper in yesterday’s Wallace and Gromit, does anyone here know why the Western Region of BR stuck with lower quadrant semaphore signals when the rest of the network standardised on upper quadrant after nationalisation?
probably stubbornness to be quite honest. GWR did a lot of things differently to the other companies and they were determined to keep as independent as they could, going as far as even making their own loco designs still.
@MikeFromLFE working on an old GWR branch line, you get this kind of insight. Often used phrase “there’s two ways of doing things, the Great Western way and the wrong way”
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AI is a marketing term, not a technical term: Exhibit 1 in what is likely to become a continuing series.
This aircon unit is set to auto. But the icon on the remote shows “AI” instead.
I can state with reasonable certainty that there is nothing in this aircon unit that computer scientists recognise as “AI”, even under archaic definitions.
The "anti phishing" campaigns, when fake phishing emails are regularly sent out and the unlucky ones who click on a link in them have to do additional training, are very efficient in training employees to never click any link in an email.
If there is something urgent, I'll be contacted some over way.
What Lego have done with their PoweredUp stuff is very cool. You can control it from a remote control or from your phone using Bluetooth. But this means that when you’ve not played with this stuff for a while and just want to make the train go forward you have all this technological baggage. I miss the joy of being able to press a button to make it go.
Is it silly to feel a bit nervous around people on the train wearing Harry Potter gowns (not just ordinary academic gowns, but obviously embroidered with Griffindor etc.)? It feels silly, and yet…
I've not got the impression that the people being poisoned by JKR's transphobia are actual Harry Potter fans, primarily. It's not people with HP avatars who tweet out the bigotry, it's single-issue shouty types, different demographic. So many HP fans are sound people, they support Daniel Radcliffe in his vocal support for trans rights, even the ones who keep wearing the shirts etc. This is what I choose to believe, anyway.
@sparrowsion Ha, I've found mine in the village is hard to buy cough medicine in - because they didn't have the sugar free pholcodine in stock and knew I was diabetic!
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED BUT REPULSIVE", "WRONG BUT WROMANTIC", "FREQUENTLY MISUNDERSTOOD", "NOBODY BOTHERS WITH THIS BIT", "SHOULDN'T REALLY BUT WE WON'T JUDGE", "REQUIRED IN ORDER TO WORK AROUND EVERYONE ELSE'S BUGS", "YOU DO YOU", and "OBVIOUSLY ABSURD BUT VERY COMMON FOR SOME REASON" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
@tryst alas, I can't claim credit for actually inventing that word. That's lifted from Sellar & Yeatman's "1066 And All That", in its description of the English Civil War: the Cavalier side was described as "Wrong but Wromantic", and the Roundheads were "Right but Repulsive".
@dwenius @anticomposite @EdG avian carriers are all very well, but I think 418 I'm A Teapot is more iconic.
I proposed a 1st April RFC myself once, but it wasn't accepted. At the time SSH-2 was still considering a "none" cipher, for countries outlawing encryption: you wouldn't encrypt, but would still MAC, so the spooks could read but not hijack your session. I proposed adding the "rot13" cipher instead, to protect network-monitoring sysadmins from movie spoilers and distractingly juicy gossip.
@anticomposite @EdG Is there any form of humor more absolutely niche than IETF RFC jokes? Like these are for an audience of dozens…luckily we are all on Fedi.
I was actually online on the morning of April 1, 1990 when the canonical example, “RFC 1149 - A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers” dropped*, and it is deeply embedded in my headcanon Internet Timeline of Important Events. But I run into supposed industry professionals (even network and security admins!) who are completely unaware of this seminal document with alarming frequency.
(*) the standard has since updated twice, once to add Quality of Service and once to add IPv6 support. A real world implementation was only partially successful, as latency and packet loss were substantial. The whole protocol is nerdvana and the commitment to the bit is exemplary…
Interesting conversation the other day. In relation to the ban on GnRH agonists I said that the requirement for puberty blockers before hormones at 18 was a sop to the cis. A friend pointed out that my experience was very gender binary and that blockers might have a role for those whose gender identity is more complicated or in flux. Food for thought.
Curious thing I’ve just noticed about my progesterone prescription. It’s for 28x100mg capsules, fine, but the capsules come in packs of 30. So every month the pharmacist cuts two capsules from the blister pack before sending the rest to me.
What happens to these little pairs of progesterone capsules? Is there someone who finds themselves with a box containing 14 little two-capsule blister packs? Is any of this worth anyone’s time and effort rather than letting me have an extra two?
I have a medication that comes in 28s, which I am prescribed in an odd multiple of 14. I can receive that as all sorts of random offcuts, presumably from others with more fiddly quantities. (It's a lifelong, cheap, uncontroversial medication, so indeed it seems like unnecessary faff for everyone to dole it out a month at a time -- even increasing the interval to 2 months would mean no-one would have to faff around cutting up anything.)
amazon.co.uk/Na%C3%A7%C3%A3o-C… I've been reading this in Portuguese, because I enjoyed another of the author's books and because I find the level of Portuguese very easy to follow. The best thing about it has been some of the idioms I've met along the way.
“Pôr a carroça à frentes dos bois” - to put the cart in front of the oxen.
“Tremer como varas verdes” - to shake like green twigs
"tirar nabos da púcara” - to pull turnips from the clay pot. Metaphorically to tease something out or to go on a fishing expedition in the journalistic sense.
"Engolir o sapo" - to swallow the toad. Kind of "bite the bullet"
"sair pela culatra" - to exit through the breech, i.e. to backfire
Nyle: Enjoy being HELPLESS. Because that's what you, and people like yourself will get with Donald Doofus, who all of you voted for... Imagine that though, these right-wing voters voted for a man that doesn't give a sh*t about any of them. Remember when TFG shutdown the government and most had to go to shelters for food?? Well, get ready for that again.
@HarriettMB @rlstone4dems lol, what tragic, empty lives. You just know these people are single and hate themselves and now their lives have turned out.
Why is it that whenever there's an Israeli drama about Mossad or Shabak, the Israeli intelligence services are portrayed as completely incompetent buffoons? Even by the standards of thriller TV, agents are so absurdly unable to follow orders that you do wonder if they'd do better ordering them to do the opposite.
Or maybe this is just the Israeli dramas that are selected to be exported to the rest of the world via Netflix and Apple TV. Perhaps Israel is less threatening if you associate it with 007 in clown shoes.
You can tell I'm getting to the nitpicking and rewording stage of writing an assignment for the OU when I go on flights of sfnal legal fantasy instead.
A bunch of senior members of the judiciary have a time machine. When a miscarriage of justice is discovered, they use the time machine to wind the unverse back to before the miscarriage. Obviously this looks splendid, and nobody in the rewound universe (handwave handwave) suffers the consequences of long prison times.
Unfortunately, a convicted criminal learns of the existence of this machine and on his release uses it to rewind so he committed the perfect crime...
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