sjclemmy

You know what? You don't need to do anything for now.

What you need to do over the next few months is answer a single question:

"What do I want to do with my life?"

I think you need to go with one you are comfortable with.

That said - there will undoubtedly be bias depending on the company. For example I had a phone screen for a company that used Ruby and Go and I suggested C# and javascript because I don't know any Ruby or Go. I didn't get any further and this may have been a contributing factor.

Just to add to the lineage conversation; Derrick May released a remix of Sueno Latino in 1992. It was based on E2 - E4. Derrick May also played Exit by Tangerine Dream on a BBC radio 6 set a few years ago which he said was a big influence on him.

That’s the range. So definitely a test of some sort. Possibly the MIRACH system as detailed here https://aberporth.qinetiq.com/faq/index.aspx

I don’t think so. We were near Tywyn. So Pembrey is probably a bit far south.

I was camping in west Wales (UK) in summer and there were some really odd sounds coming in off the sea. The sounds were not audibly ‘loud’; you could here them but they sounded like they were a long way off. What was strange was that they ‘hurt’ the eardrum and could be felt in the chest. I speculated that it was big guns or something. But I’ve no idea really. Does anyone know what this could be? The internet is particularly unhelpful.

I’ve loved Suzanne Vega’s music since I had her first album on cassette when I was about 13 years old. I finally got to see her live last year whe she toured her Solitude Standing album as a 30 year anniversary - she did the whole album and indeed opened with the A Capella Tom’s Diner.

It’s great to hear how she embraced other people’s versions - she totally understands the social aspects of ‘song’ and she’s not just ‘in it for the money’.

I was a child when it was first broadcast and I loved it. It was the inspiration for many a childhood game. We always used to argue about who was going to be who - everyone wanted to be Blake, no-one wanted to be Servalan.

I think I recall trying to make Orac out of a shoe box and felt tip pens!

Blake’s Seven? [0]

0: http://blakes7.wikia.com/wiki/Orac

I’m really interested in understanding this. So please indulge me... So, I’m Oumuamua rocking my way through interstellar space. I see nothing around me so as far as I know I’m not spinning. Then, all of a sudden I happen upon a solar system that is spinning around me. Who is spinning? Me or the solar system?

Is the point here that I’m spinning with reference to my direction of motion?

I really misunderstand my relativity then.

What I meant was, the origin of the object may have been in a different inertial frame of reference to our solar system, so the 'spin' as far as it is concerned is not spin.

I'm still convinced this is an alien probe. I mean look at that trajectory. 0.163 AU from Earth - what are the odds? The spinning is irrelevant surely - I mean, it's all relative, so as far as ’Oumuamua is concerned, we're spinning. Maybe it was spinning that way to stay aligned with a distant companion for communication.

I have to concur with this. I tried the Impossible polaroid film a few years ago and it's not very good compared to the original polaroid film and the Instax film. I use the Instax mini now and it's a great little instant camera.

I live in Northern England and a couple of years ago my wife and I visited the town of Staithes[0][1] on the the North Yorkshire coast. To get there from where we live you have to go around the North York Moors, either travelling east and north up the coast or north and east. If you take the latter route you can end up going through Cook's childhood home of Great Ayton. I had no idea Cook was from around there and that he lived in Staithes.

Staithes (along with Robin Hood's Bay[2] further south) is an amazing example of what English fishing ports were once like and I encourage everyone to visit if you have the opportunity.

[0] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Staithes

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staithes

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood%27s_Bay

From the article: “If further evidence of the importance of healthy mitochondria continues to emerge, drugs that focus on regulating cellular energy production instead could become a new line of defense for psychiatric and biological disorders.”

I know enough exercise helps regulate my mood. Seems like there’s a link there somewhere.

Some companies I’ve worked with aren’t able to specify their requirement. Sometimes it’s better to say to them - let’s build a product that adheres to your stated requirements, and then you can use it. This allows them to identify all the parts of the business process they hadn’t been aware of or anticipated and provides a much better basis for creating a clear specification that is built on a shared understanding of the actual business processes and requirements.

This is pretty much the pattern I follow. People like to come up with solutions and so they ask - can you do this? The answer is of course ‘yes’, but it’s not necessarily the correct solution to the unstated problem.

Just to add that the mMellotron inspired the innovative looping ‘choir’ effect on 10cc’s I’m Not in Love.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/feb/26/10cc-how-we-ma...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Not_in_Love

I recently found a copy of the commodore 64 programming manual in a garage sale. Of course, I had to buy it. Compared to the *nix paradigm with heaps and stacks, it's very, er, basic. The manual explains that you are just loading registers with instructions when you program. No Heap, No Stack, No memory management.

The picture of Spring Gardens looks 1970s judging from the fashion. At least 1969 from the number plate - ‘H’ reg.

I was initially going to say 1970 - but apparently 1967 saw both E and F registered cars. I never knew that.

I've worked extensively in the card manufacture business. Does anyone know who manufactures and fulfils the card orders?

Is Jeremy Corbin on Facebook?

Edit: it’s a serious question. He may have a presence but is it actually him?

Very Kafkaesque.

It’s completely unacceptable to remove a service without explanation.

I was thinking about communication the other day and came up with an aphorism:

“We can’t even understand other people when we speak the same language - what hope do we have of communicating with an alien life?”

By which I mean we wouldn’t even recognise the nature of the intelligence presented to us, never mind work out how to exchange information.

I’m sure lots of people in the UK would like to believe that a summer like this is the ‘new normal’. But I can attest to the fact that the last time temperatures and rainfall were like this in the UK was in 1995 and before that 1976 (which I don’t quite remember, but I was there)

From my experience this is a foundational idea in a marriage / coupling. Took me many years to realise there were two forms of support and more importantly that my response was always solutional.

I am now able to sit and listen without offering answers.

I totally agree with the author. I’m a ‘finisher’ (so tend not to start things! ;)) Like the author it’s taken me a while to get to the point where I can ditch a book part way through. But when it comes to books, if you don’t want to read it, don’t. Forget 50 pages. If it’s boring or annoying simply stop reading and use your time more wisely.

I have so many problems with these kind of articles / studies. For starters, does any of this matter? There seems to be a moral assumption that more motivated kids are somehow better.

I also dislike the ‘more autonomy’ argument - somewhere in the article it says something like ‘ we can’t give kids that much autonomy because it would be dangerous’. So it’s setting up a morally superior scenario and parenting approach and then discounting it as inapplicable in the modern context. What does that tell you about kids? Nothing. But it tells you a lot about society’s priorities.

I’ve got a counter conclusion; the American kids have seen the toys before and they’re just not that interesting. The Mayan kids have fewer toys so are interested in playing with them.

An interesting article but some of the conclusions at the end of descriptive paragraphs seems to come from nowhere and are completely unsubstantiated; “But machines don’t correct our flaws—they replicate them.”

“We face a world, not in the future but today, where we do not understand our own creations. The result of such opacity is always and inevitably violence.“