Adrian Midgley

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• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Grok is "drink". And much else....
• Commented on Pushing it back
  Orientation of a large lightweight satellite. Circular and spin stabilised? Two very long cables with a weight on each end along the gravity gradient? The transmitter could be on the end of the stabilising string closer to where you want...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  His Dread Majesty is presented as actually liking his pets. Signs of that in our current horrors are absent....
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  But which God damned it ;) Am I misremembering or misinterpreting Bob's rumination about thumbs on the cat?...
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  Gynoid AI thriller https://www.androidblues.com/...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Coil and implant, Charlie?...
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  Looking forward to that....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Some regiments are Royal. And then there's the Household Division, the Guards. The Army not being Royal goes back to the New Model. The oath is the same for all the Services though, the {named} Sovereign and their lawful successors....
• Commented on Minor updates
  Entertained....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Feeling yourself to be more of a monster than other people seem to think you are is, in moderation, and if you are an incomplete monster, good....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  And what would His Dread Majesty do to Crapita, who are currently Crapiter than usual. Run it? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/31/capita-it-systems-fail-cyber-attack-nhs-fears...
• Commented on WTF
  Russian agents/dupes/fellow travellers breaking components that will remove spares or production of components required for the Ukrainian power distribution system as part of the Russian special war operation. Or perhaps not....
• Commented on WTF
  The wallaby story I heard was of a climber who pulled over the top of an edge which might well have been the Roches, and was face to face with a Wallaby to their mutual surprise. The Wallaby bounced away...
• Commented on WTF
  He stole them....
• Commented on WTF
  I'm not sure we have reliable records for all places and times in "99.5% of human history ... without money or the concept"...
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  Coal, gas etc plants cost more to produce more power, so throttling them makes sense. Fission plants don't, do they. Given a lot of excess power, finding a non-urgent job to do with it seems sensible. I've assumed electrolysis, blowing...
• Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
  Higher up there is the question of "why?" and the assertion that what results is some{one|thing} else. But... We can't build a brain, but we might build an auditory processing sub-system which works well on someone whose auditory cortex or...
• Commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
  Tb: some people have little damage anc recover well with good but simple care. This is a story about someone who had worse trouble and absent to poor care....
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  The idea, from Dawkins, that it is genes, in clusters, rather than complete organisms that are affected by selective pressures is an advance on that. How one applies that to antivaxers is another matter - perhaps it is the other...
• Commented on Invisible Sun: signed copies and author events
  I enjoyed that reading and Q&A. Looking forward to the book. Soon....
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  John Brunner's The Long Result comes to mind, but SoZ not quite so much....
• Commented on Fossil fuels are dead (and here's why)
  We like the ionosphere ionised, for long distance shortwave communication. But is anyone doing much of that now, other than for fun?...
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  A surprisingly large number of women have alleged a violent crime was committed against them by him, no? And he has not been convicted of any of them, so this is just allegation....
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  I'm told the windows are bulletproof. I suppose that might just be the oval office, but you would, wouldn't you, there. Probably golf club proof....
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  And indeed California should probably be North California and South California, on numbers and nature....
• Commented on All Glory to the New Management!
  A bit less so for those days than more recently. I'm older, and there was a change I noticed....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Our Influenza subunit immunisations always arrived filled I to syringes with the needle built in. No glass....
• Commented on Roll the dice
  I still have mine, in the loft. Good gadget in its time....
• Commented on I ain't dead
  Colchicine is another option, very effective....
• Commented on I ain't dead
  ACE inhibitors and Agniotensin receptor blockers (eg Ramipril and Candesartan) are two major treatments for hypertension - along a single axis, not combined. Ramipril has some other useful actions, heart failure became suddenly more treatable and survivable with it. So...