Posts by Robert Carnegie 4546 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Sep 2009
Part of the variation of course is the bits of the radio one that John Lloyd wrote, and that I gather Douglas Adams had second thoughts about having a co-writer for book publication.
It's also one of "those" programmes where we hear that the last page of script was being typed while the actors were performing the start of the scene. And they only had the studio till go home time.
Today's (17/01/22) ITV4 repeat of British spy-type show "The Avengers", also tomorrow with sign language at 08:05, is "Stay Tuned", in which spy guy John Steed plans a holiday but is grabbed by brainwashers and finds himself three weeks later still thinking he's just setting off. Tara King, setting him right, asks whether he would take a suitcase of dirty laundry on holiday, which is what he has. So the answer in that case is no.
I wonder if this is accurate as to geography. Wikipedia says "The current boundaries of Hungary are the same as those defined by the Treaty of Trianon [in 1920], with some minor modifications until 1924 regarding the Hungarian-Austrian border and the notable exception of three villages that were transferred to Czechoslovakia in 1947." Also "through the 1947 Paris Peace Treaties, Hungary was again reduced to its immediate post-Trianon borders." On those statements, any territory that is in Hungary now has been in Hungary since 1920? Are we looking before 1920? Thanks in advance. ;-)
I was thinking that SPECTACLE singular might be available. But if this thing still is just eyeglasses with a forward facing video camera in them, then you won't see a "spectacle" in them that you didn't provide yourself.
We shouldn't object to them being "spectacles", only to claiming to own the word.
Another angle on this... Ben Aaronovitch's "Rivers of London" urban-fantasy series combines magic, rather a lot of horrific violence, and what I believe to be a well-informed and maybe even realistic portrayal of ethical and diligent police work at street level. Anyway, several times in the series, the officer we're usually following, Peter Grant, explains to us that he's just found the clue he was looking for - but that you still keep looking for anything else that could be relevant, because that's the job - doing it properly.
Of course this doesn't really apply to you looking around the house for your car keys, because when you find them, you are reasonably sure that there aren't more sets of car keys that you can usefully find... though, come to think, there are some important keys that I've lost track of. Maybe if I just kept looking, I'd find everything.
I see that as of recently, there are enough NEMA 10-30 outlets in home garages for Tesla and compatible suppliers to sell a car charging cord. "Fits most dryer outlets installed in homes built prior to 1997." "Since the 10-30 outlets only have three conductors, the ground and neutral are shared, and both are present on the outlet’s L-shaped slot. Our EV adapter has been designed to route the ground connection from the 10-30 outlet while leaving the neutral alone." (Note, not actually Tesla.) So, what, the L-shaped pin is two-sided??
I think the patch for GPS week rollover was, roughly, to add 1024 to the week number if it is less than X. So if X is 512, then weeks 512 to 1023 are used as is, followed by weeks 0 to 511 which are treated as week 1024 to 1535. As noted, if this is put in place just after week 512, then it will go wrong 19½ years later, but you should update the software before then using a different value of X, such as 768 coming up about 5 years later.
Or to put it another way, you can design the Week1K failure to happen on any future week date of your choice, within 19½ years.
My phone doesn't have a +. I suppose I can't make international calls. The rest of the time, I dial 0 when apparently I mean +44. Or I dial 567890 when I want to talk to 01234 567890. (I made this number up, but it is like that.)
I mean my real phone. My cell phone does have a +. It is on the 0.
You had me worried but I see that actually I think more than one clothing manufacturer uses a brand name of Rhea. Doesn't that miss the point of a brand name? So, happily, Men's Rhea is not a bird fancier's magazine by subscription, but various things to wear. And I'm happy to say that Women's Rhea is well covered.
In Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58422607
"The passport was introduced as a way of allowing events to go ahead despite surging cases of Covid-19 and avoiding wider restrictions, while also encouraging the uptake of the vaccine in younger people."
And vaccination is going pretty well in Scotland, so that part worked. Showing that the vaccine stops the virus spreading is trickier. Mainly it stops the virus from killing the vaccinated person, which is good, but some vaccinated people think they're completely safe, and they're not. So they could engage in risky behaviour like going to big public events...
But to the extent that the vaccines do ward off the virus, the virus spread is slowed.
That's all right. It's basically this from Harry Potter books. https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Pensieve
"One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form."
In other words, it's searchable.
I've put the old "basic" USB fork logo on the "top" side of ambiguously oriented USB sockets, too. On "power banks" for a start. And thumb drives.
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The letters "USB" may be printed by the manufacturer on "top" or "bottom" or neither, or the trident symbol may be in the proper place but merely bas-relief or intaglio, and basically invisible. Here's a white one that I permanent-marked, so that the manufacturer's USB icon is now white in a field of black.
But I'd rather stick labels in the right places and draw on them, then put clear Scotch tape around the whole plug. I suppose that painter's masking tape would do to draw on.
Apparently it's not really a "fixed term contract", it is a perpetual renewing contract. They just call it a fixed term contract. But really it isn't. Read it. And they're called "Wiifinity" so you know you're paying forever. You are married. (No, that doesn't mean the same thing.)
In other news, my mobile internet, which is not Wifinity, simply cuts me off when my monthly subscription plus excess megabyte use fees reach £50. Outrageous, I'm sure you agree. They should cut me off when just the excess megabyte use fees reach £50.
Updating iOS is what did it. Two months, two unsuccessful update attempts - the second with iTunes which should be more reliable.
On Windows I think you can use the utility "AutoHotkey" to intercept nominated keystrokes and substitute them with "standard" PC functional keys, or run macros, whatever. If you want to get fancy with it, you also can make it detect which program is in foreground, and vary the key mapping behaviour, such as by running the same macro but giving it a different output.
A dimension standard specifies, very exactly, how wrong can you be.
I own AA batteries in distinctly varying sizes, plus it might be wear and tear, but some of them, the knob on the positive end doesn't stick out very far from the battery. Like, not far enough to reach a contact at the bottom of a little slot, and actually work.
I can put something in my digital microwave and press Start, and it runs for precisely 30 seconds, then stops. Or press Start twice, it's 60 seconds, and so on, up to 5 minutes. Knobs are hit and miss. Admittedly you are supposed to supervise a microwave anyway so you don't need a timer at all, but I interpret it as "come back within a reasonable time just to make sure that it's not on fire or something".
I think the title may be incorrect in referring to "private" phone calls by prisoners except with lawyers. But also it's the sort of thing where you could find that legislation doesn't apply to wiretapping by an AI in or near to a privately owned prison, unless you make sure that it does.
And we have repeated cases where, whoops, conversations with the lawyer shouldn't have been recorded and they were. But no harm done, eh?
Little My is the only (other) one I've heard of. If I'm thinking of the right character, I would call her a little...... difficult.
I suppose that paradoxes are thematic for a Finnish startup... and I think "Paradox" was taken.
An explanation offered to me was on lines that it's more complicated with actors. An actor typically isn't a gun expert and therefore isn't given any responsibility or freedom to check whether the thing in their hand may go bang. They have to trust the specialist, and the specialist, of course, must not trust the actor. A corollary is that almost always, the thing in an actor's hand must not be an actual go bang thing.
We had an issue today... some software I may have written in let's say 2016 stopped working. A database grew, not mine guv, filled up the server disk drive. Shouldn't have happened, shouldn't have been made my problem, should have been spotted earlier... and I'm pretty sure that the same system failed before, pretty much the same way.
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