penguin42

n8, 25 days ago to random

Immigration pro tip: if you're from somewhere else but living in the UK, you can instantly gain a lot of clout if someone tells you where they're from and you can make a reference to it from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

(e.g., "I'm from Guilford" / "Oh, just like Ford Prefect")

cablespaghetti, 25 days ago to random

My grandma died a few weeks ago and while we are up in Essex visiting my parents, we have spent some time rescuing some things from my grandma and grandpa’s house.

It’s funny the things I have memories attached to, from spending time with my grandpa in his little workshop room as a child.

Some of the stuff is just random like the unused 150w Sainsburys lightbulb from who knows when and the 90s Ford keyring, but the multimeter, magnifying glasses and stopwatch particularly hold memories.

penguin42, 25 days ago to manchester

#Manchester trams are lively enough during football matches, but having a Barry Manilow concert next door to it at the same time will make them 'interesting' - I guess they'll be tram fulls of drunks singing Copacabanaaaaaaaaa.

penguin42, 25 days ago to random

@emf 's health page is very boring; good covid etc rules, sensible camping rules - but no mention of RF burns, radiation exposure or welding accidents - this place sounds way more boring than the people who seem to be going to it.
(I'm not attending, but it does sound fun)

attie, 25 days ago to random

I'm intrigued... what score do you get, and what input device did you use?

Apparently ~10 BPS is typical.

https://neuralink.com/webgrid/

martijnbraam, 25 days ago to random

What are these things actually called?

mansr, 26 days ago to random

What's so special there?

pwaring, 26 days ago to random

Question that came up at film club last week: I subscribe to 3 weekly magazines (one of which resulted in a suggestion for the club, hence the topic). Can you guess which 3?

Hints: they’re all published in the UK and not ‘top shelf’.

penguin42, 26 days ago to wildlife

All #fluff - baby coots and goslings on local fishing lakes.
Heck they really are mostly fluff - but the colours on the head of the baby coot are great.

#wildlife

Two Goslings, one is wide-beaked mid-quack; standing on some concrete next to some grass with parents.
A baby coot; it's 90% fluff, and is standing in shallow water surrounded by leaves. It's head has a ring of yellow feathers but then mixed bright colouring.

elilla, 26 days ago to random

Linux has top(1), bottom(1), and powertop(1). we're missing one

dick_turpin, 26 days ago to random

I'm not convinced people realise just how serious this is.
bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-6902615… IMO, the advice is cursory at best: "Boil the water." The parasite is in the supply, which means any water out of your taps in the kitchen and bathroom, including the toilet.

Even when you do get the "ALL CLEAR," it'll take a good few days of running your taps and flushing the loo to clean the system out.

I love this: "Likely cause...." personally, I don't believe a word of it. The wording is 'get out of jail'. For starters, it gives them an opportunity later to say, "We did say likely, you know."

penguin42, 27 days ago to random

I baked a Banana bread for the first time earlier in the week. Very nice; seems to get more bananay over time. Lovely bananay burps.. 🍌

(I didn't bother with the drizzle and banana chips on the top)
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/brilliant-banana-loaf

sprocket, 27 days ago to intel

Explosion rocks #TSMC Phoenix fab with one death 😨

My team at #Intel #Fab42 discussed this.

Hopefully some lessons can be learned and future injury/death prevented.

https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/one-injured-after-reports-of-explosion-at-tsmc-factory-in-north-phoenix

moopet, 27 days ago to random

Crikey there's a lot of negativity here today.

Seems like every other post is someone being loudly angry at someone else for reasons not covered in the context.

I hope it's just a passing thing, a big coincidence not indicative of anything major, and that everything starts going a bit better for everyone.

eqe, 27 days ago to random

So this paper has this genetic tree and it's not the main point of the paper but

I can identify the first 7 clades from their outlines, avians and theropods and sauropods and so on down to triceratops

But what the hell is the bottom outline supposed to be. A 20 meter long slug?

https://mstdn.science/@CurrentBiology/112446770939706290

woodpunk, 28 days ago to random

When you were a kid, did you ever start colouring a picture, stray outside the lines and then just sort of go with the flow, claiming it was always supposed to be like that?

mansr, 28 days ago to random

ChatGPT just told me I died in 2017. I had no idea, but that's apparently a thing with ghosts sometimes.