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• Commented on Shrinking the world
  In England the early rail routes often ran near or alongside the canals as the surveyors for the latter had already avoided steep inclines and minimised the lengths of tunnels through hills and aquaducts across valleys. Sometimes they even used...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  I've seen reports that the judge in the Trump assault case has advised the jurors to remain anonymous for a long time, and directed them not to name any of their fellow jurors. If this is the case then I'm...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Well it did inspire a new song for football supporters in Glasgow : "you can shove your coronation..." - you can probably approximate the remaining words....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Something like the binja fighters in "Un Lun Dun" ( a YA novel by China Mieville ) ?...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Surely Trump will just stall for time until the election, using this and any other charges to build his support. Unless he is actually imprisoned is there anything to stop him being elected president if its a state (rather than...
• Commented on Place your bets
  I thought Trump was encouraging a crowd of protestors to show up so he could claim it was unsafe for him to attend any formal proceedings (probably phrased as "innocent people could get hurt")....
• Commented on Place your bets
  The EBC web site covered the SVB story very soon after it broke, although the reports got moved to the Business section fairly quickly. They also mentioned the resulting hit to bank valuations worldwide. As I understand it, SVB had...
• Commented on Place your bets
  As most of the DLR stations are unstaffed the presence of the train 'guard' also provides some comfort to those worried about other passengers pratting about. Apparently there is a small console behind a locked panel which the guard can...
• Commented on Place your bets
  For (slight) interest - the first international cricket match was USA vs Canada, in 1844. https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/canada-tour-of-united-states-of-america-1844-318993/united-states-of-america-vs-canada-318995/full-scorecard...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Well sort of; you walk out of Haymarket station onto a tram, which runs on rails......
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Round here we get a pair of RAF fighters practising their contour flying about once a month. They get to fly over sea, high ground, loch, BRIDGE, loch, high ground, low ground, high ground, all within a 30..35 mile stretch....
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Is Prestwick still a "main" airport ? Its a lot less busy than top-10 airports Glasgow, Belfast, and Bristol ( none of which have a direct rail link )....
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  760: I wouldn't claim our local takeaway is anywhere near the cheapest, not least because there isn't another one anywhere near...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  ONE hour's work - missed the crucial word, sigh...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  728: "in the UK there's no fish 'n chips to be had for less than the equivalent of three man-hours of salary" - we pay £10 for a decent portion of fish and chips, which is very close to hour's...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I sympathise. I was staying with family in Edinburgh over Christmas and fell victim to the pedestrian traps masquerading as cycle track barriers when crossing London Road at night (the things with a vertical pole in an extended concrete base...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Hmm, lights are on 7 hours per hour ?...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Oh, I remember using Forth for a Uni project in 1975/6 (s**t thats over 45 years ago...). Chuck Moore gave us a copy plus a half-day intro. I think the best term for it as it was then is "minimal"....
• Commented on WTF
  On the general subject of domestic heating, has anyone looked into using "radiating wallpaper" ? ( essentially passing an electric current through a thin graphite film ) - for example, https://nexgenheating.com (the first one I came across)...
• Commented on WTF
  A Scottish town arriving from 2237 might be able to advise on how to survive in a permafrost environment....
• Commented on WTF
  Ooh, I dare you to repeat that in a Glasgow (or Swansea) pub :) The French team beat the English team; Wales were eliminated in the group stage and neither Scotland nor Northern Ireland qualified for the finals. The 4...
• Commented on WTF
  gigolo ?...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  If you're old enough to run up large debts that then you're old enough to vote (modern equivalent of "if you're old enough to die for your country...")....
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  The Shetland tidal power array has been going for 6 years - its partly a research project but is also generating energy for the grid ( 4 x 100Kw turbines, 2 more to be added this/next year )....
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Sorry for the rabbit hole on railcards. On the original subject of voter ID for young people, there is a "proof of age" ID card for £15, but my duaghter tells me those who can afford the extra £19 have...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  If I start the application for a 16-25 physical railcard it tells me I will need an existing form of id to show that I qualify, examples are driving licence, passport. Where can you get a rail pass (for someone...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Bus passes are issued by local councils with photo id you provide. Railcards are issued by National Rail with photo id you provide....
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Sorry, that should be up to 30 GWh (duh)....
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  I think Coire Glas is the latest pumped hydro scheme in Scotland - up to 1.5GW https://www.coireglas.com...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  The floating point sorting issue pre-dated IEEE754 by at least 5 years; the host machine was a French minicomputer and the values came from an external graphics workstation. IIRC, and I probably don't, the flpt format was: word 1: 1st...