William T Goodall

William T Goodall

  • Commented on Place your bets
    Anyone else going to Eastercon (Conversation 2023) this weekend?...
  • Commented on I can't even
    Aberdeen is being provided with wholesale full Fibre by CityFibre. I get my retail FTTP 200/200Mbps from Vodafone on the CityFibre infrastructure. They had to trench in the pavements everywhere to lay their own ducting with an access in front...
  • Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
    M&S scan and go works by scanning items with the smartphone app and you put them in your bag as you go; when finished you pay in the app (with Apple Pay if it's an iPhone) and it displays a...
  • Commented on Holding pattern 2022 ...
    I was at Eastercon too and also came home with con crud (non COVID bronchitis). Apart from being triple vaccinated I also had COVID after Novacon last year. It could have been flying ABZ <-> LHR that did it though...
  • Commented on Oh, 2022!
    I suspect EVs will be like iPhones, where you trade in the whole thing when the battery gets too annoying. Apple does battery replacements for out-of-warranty iPhones for a flat fee of £49 for older iPhones back to the...
  • Commented on Omicron
    I'm probably not on those numbers but I was at Novacon 50 and tested positive for COVID after, as did my friend who was also there. And he went home and his wife got it. Fortunately none of us seem...
  • Commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
    I finished reading the UK Kindle edition yesterday. Very good. I picked up a large number of basic editing errors (more than usual- COVID maybe?). I include enough text to search for the problems. side-order of mus cle: two troopers...
  • Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
    I got hired as a programmer at a grade that entitled me to overtime. After a couple of months of claiming the actual hours worked (at least 50% more than the job description) I was 'promoted' to a salary and...
  • Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
    I upgraded to FTTP in January, no data cap, 20 ms ping and 217Mbps down and 192Mbps up according to an actual speed check. (I could get faster tiers up to 900/900 for more money but I thought 200 was...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
    control-command-space pops up the Character Viewer on macOS. Ðð...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
    I was FaceTimeing with a person I have to keep in touch with for reasons the other day. This person voted for Brexit, is antiVax, a global warming denier, racist, supports JK Rowling on the trans issue, pays money to...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
    Politics is religion-like when it puts ideology above reality, trying things that fail every time but trying them again anyway. Like Republicans and Laffer-curve tax cuts. Or the UK Conservative approach to crime and sentencing which results in higher incarceration...
  • Commented on Because I am bored ...
    Because in math uncountable is a term of art for an infinity with a cardinality greater than aleph-null so the idea that the number of guns in the USA is uncountable is side-splittingly funny....
  • Commented on A death in the Firm
    The problem with religion isn't the behaviour of individual religionites, which on average is probably only a little worse than that of the non-religious, it's that all religions, necessarily in order to survive, must suppress evidence-led rational thinking and questioning...
  • Commented on A death in the Firm
    Stalin probably learned his methods from his years studying at Tiflis seminary....
  • Commented on A death in the Firm
    And the Mormons can call themselves Christians!...
  • Commented on A death in the Firm
    Clearly there is a human tendency towards religion and so new religions tend to accrete around things that weren't initially a religion. In that respect you may be right about the 'religionising' of Dawkins and indeed the ironic quasi-religion around...
  • Commented on A death in the Firm
    The reason that Stalinism and Nazism are religions is that they share enough of the identifying features of a religion to qualify. There is a checklist of features that are characteristic of religion but none of which are essential. For...
  • Commented on A death in the Firm
    The definition of religion doesn't require a supernatural element. Confucianism is usually included in lists of major world religions and has no supernatural elements. There are many religions that don't require a belief in gods (Buddhism, Jains). I have noticed...
  • Commented on A death in the Firm
    Marxism is a religion. Like scientology it doesn't have supernatural gods but opts for a more 'modern' brand of nuttery....
  • Commented on A death in the Firm
    Punching down on the idiotic superstitious evil mendacious nonsense of religions is easier than shooting fish in a barrel. So it attracts trolls who like easy targets. It's an ad hominem to pretend that invalidates the actual arguments. Yes, there...
  • Commented on Lying to the ghost in the machine
    I got gigabit fibre installed on 5th January (although I'm only paying for the 200Mbit/s tier and actually getting about 217, other options are 100, 500 and 900 at different prices but over the same connection) - installation involved: drilling...
  • Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
    Got my first shot of Oxford AstraZeneca this morning at the new P&J Live indoor arena. All running very smoothly. Arm is already a bit sorer than it was from the flu vaccine we'll see what follows....
  • Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
    I'm in Scotland, 60 years old and type II diabetic and my first vaccine shot appointment is Wednesday 3rd March....
  • Commented on Countdown to Crazy
    I have a couple of those touch activated dimmer bedside lamps and they work fine with the Philips Luster dimmable LED bulbs. But I don't use them anymore because I have a zigbee motion detector to turn on the main...
  • Commented on Countdown to Crazy
    I have a box of B22 bayonet 0.5W 20 lumen 6000K LED bulbs I got for my home theatre as the Philips Hue dimmable was still too bright at its lowest setting. I find the Philips to be the most...
  • Commented on Countdown to Crazy
    On macOS control-command-space brings up the character viewer with categories Frequently used Favourites Emoji Arrows Bullets/Stars Currency Symbols Latin Letterlike symbols Maths symbols Parentheses Pictographs Punctuation and a search by Unicode name so "root" finds 🦷 √ ∛ ∜ ؆...
  • Commented on Countdown to Crazy
    iTunes has been gone since macOS Catalina, and we are now on Big Sur. It was replaced by Apple Music app, Apple TV app and Apple podcasts. This is the same whether it’s an x86 or an Apple Silicon Mac....
  • Commented on Countdown to Crazy
    The new Apple M1 SoC is an example of Apple's vertical stack - they are replacing x86 with their own ARM-based processor and the initial testing results as the machines reach reviewers are clearly very very good. Hands-on with the...
  • Commented on Dead plots
    The UK doesn't have a single NHS. Each of the four nations has its own. Quoting from https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/devolution-nhs In the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the four health systems of England, Scotland, Wales and...
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