Angostura

Never enough Frank Sidebottom on here

Chain Of Tokens

Tongue in cheek dry humour, nothing more. "That wasn't a very good idea was it old chap?"

Interesting. My initial thought was “this is so horribly written it must be human”

Big studios will love this

They’ll come across some talented little band playing some nice new tune in a tiny club, record it on their phone and give it to one of the existing boy-bands to play.

No need to sign up aspiring artists any more - just take their songs.

Of course it’s the boy band that will sell the merch and the concert tickets.

There was also the semi-mythical PowerPC 615 that was meant to have both PowerPC and x86 instruction sets. W

I found the piece interesting, once I worked out what it was about. I strongly disagree that taking time to spell out acronyms should be taken as a signal that an article is low level.

I have a particular antipathy for articles too lazy to spell out acronyms on first use.

So: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation

If you enjoy clicking things you can spend hours in their cookie consent boxes untickinv the several hundred individual ‘legitimate interest’ tick boxes for individual vendors

Could someone outline the threat to me? If mirrror life can only use mirror molecules as a source of nutrient - which are unavailable for use by conventional organisms, it feels like an infection risk is limited.

The final paragraph of the article

> According to NextEra Energy, Unit 1 at St. Lucie is back online at 100% power after operators safely resolved an equipment issue.

I wish the article had said where on earth St Lucie is. Never heard of it

I knew him as the founder of UK Online - only met him a few times but he seems a really friendly, helpful guy. Sorry to hear of his passing

My electric company are paying me to discharge my solar batteries during the eclipse. Nice

I quite happily pay quite a lot for apps. The number I subscribe to is tiny

Apologies, I re- read my comment. It’s missing a rather important “no”

Should have said “no heightened risk”. Looks like it’s impossible to edit or delete now.

Just for context all the major studies I’m aware of show heightened risk of miscarriage from Covid vaccines.

…unlike the risk from catching Covid itself

I'm interested in contrary informed views. I was interested in your view until your third sentence, when it became apparent that you're just making stuff up.

I’ve never found them user hostile. They just sell appliances that do a thing.

If you don’t want that thing don’t buy it. If you do want that thing, it dies it pretty well.

I don’t have an iPad. My wife uses her, a lot.

Yes. My incompetence in maths strikes again. I knew it wasn't right as I typed it

If they are targeted at older patients, I'd expect them to be a sensible starting point for older patients

As I understand it, the FDA doesn't regulate melatonin as it's not sold as a medication, but as a supplement.

30% more time to know exactly where to board up etc. seems very significant

Amusingly, however - IBM did produce - or worked on - a Laptop AS/400, based on PowerPC for purely internal use. I believe it was designed for sales/marketing types to take on the road for demos

I think the article is a lot more interesting than you make out, because it isn’t really about ‘what we mean by reasoning’.

It’s about do we really know what’s going on in the box - an is the ‘chain of reasoning’ indicative of what’s going on, or merely an anthropomorphised fiction that kids us into believing we understand what’s going on.

Annoying article in that sentence 2 mentions temperature control and that’s the last mention

I’m going to submit this to Mirsky’s Worst of the Web.

The BBC doesn’t have a ‘CEO’ if you mean the Director General, there wasn’t one appointed in 2017. Tim Davie was appointed in 2020, with Matt Brittin appointed recently.

Possibly you mean David Clementi who was appointed in 2017 as Chair of the BBC, but he was a financier, with no background in journalism tabloids or otherwise, so not sure what you are talking about.

Laura Kuenssberg hasn’t been political editor since spring 2022. The political editor is Chris Mason.

I’m going to take the rest of your comments with a pinch salt.

I have a 2026 LG, attached to the internet - absolutely no ads. You need to tweak the settings

I have mine attached to the internet, but it does take a good 30 minutes plus Googling to find out all the places that you have to turn stuff off.

I cherish BBC Radio.