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  I think they did sort of try to, a bit; they were just really, really bad at it. As they usually are with anything....
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  "every self-check is positioned to be just a bit too far down for ease of use" The standard pattern round here is to have the input buffer and the scanning desk at a convenient normal counter-top height, but the bagging...
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  Apart from the shit on the floor, though, I suspect a monkey would be less trouble to keep....
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  Suggests a short story about the environment simulator becoming more intelligent than the "inhabitant"......
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  Sounds a lot like school to me......
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  It seems to me that architects inhabit their own private subsection of reality where the only meaningful opinions are those of other architects. So they repeatedly produce abortions which are raved over by other architects and win awards, but don't...
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  Direction changes and landings aren't a problem; maybe they used to be, but stair lifts now can go round corners and change gradient and all sorts. And have sections that hinge out of the way in case they need to...
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  "Cheaper than a bachelor hiring a cleaning service to come in a couple times a week? Probably not. And it sounds like a lot of work." No work at all - you just take a plate out of the clean...
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  Sounds like ideal living quarters to me. (Which is much of the reason why I can't breathe.)...
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  Surely at some point it should start stuttering in a mixture of Chinese and numbers for a page or two, and then ask if you want to repeat the query with the omitted results included....
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  ...and also -misic, which is frequently more accurate than the common misuse of -phobic. To be claustrophobic is to have an irrational fear of enclosed spaces; to be claustromisic is to simply not like them, which is different entirely, but...
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  I was distinguishing - as Orwell and I think SFR were - between retiring from doing something to still doing something but a less strenuous something, and retiring to do nothing at all....
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  "When did the retirement fantasy of happily doing nothing for the rest of your life get started, by whom?" Dickens? Or earlier?...
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  Possibly some slight traces of it getting confused over the authorship of posts vs. comments on this blog? For example the open-source stuff, given the presence of people like PHK, Colin Watson and Davros in the comments....
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Famous names: in the preface to the updated version of A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking says he's sold more books talking about science than Madonna has about sex....
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  Then either they can't read any of the rest of the site, in which case it's useless anyway, or the translation gubbins needs one extra word added to it, which is insignificant....
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  Y'know, if they just used the word "share" instead of a silly picture, then everyone would know what it means and there wouldn't be any need for websites with pictures of the silly picture to translate it with. And they...
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  There barely was much of a Remain "side", in the sense of campaigning and propagandising; there was a little, but it wasn't very noticeable. People mostly just assumed that the result was bound to come out Remain anyway. So those...
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  I think a good deal of the explanation too is people simply not taking it seriously. Of course the result was going to come out "remain", and anyway it was only advisory, so it didn't really matter what you voted....
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  The sensible thing to do about the Falklands if Argentina gets aggressive would be to forestall them by selling them the islands for 10 pesos. Like we were about to do in the 80s before someone had a "better" idea....
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  "an AI robot seems to have figured out how to get oxygen out of Mars soil." ...out of Mars water, it says. Which doesn't need figuring out, it just needs energy. If their magic catalyst can remove that requirement then...
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  "I have a "Lighting Ring" circuit, but the permanent live goes to the switch - & then the bulb - & then back to the ring-return." Presumably that's because you wired it yourself? It's the way you (or I) would...
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  Similarly, at http://www.geplus.co.uk/technical-paper/technical-paper-railway-earthworks-with-particular-emphasis-on-the-behaviour-of-clay-embankments-in-the-south-east-15-01-2018/ we find: "The costing model found that preventative engineering would be less cost-effective than maintenance and delay costs over both 20 year and 50 year lifespans". Which being translated signifies that they're not going to bother fixing...
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  "It's easy to astroturf sympathy when you can point to your 70%+ tax rate." People with lots of money moaning about how much they are taxed elicit the reverse of sympathy from me. "but they must come to the meeting...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Or even Lwow... I THINK it's Lvov = Russian, Lviv = Ukrainian, Lwow = Polish. And Lemberg = German, of course. Plenty of worse ones, of course. Find Pressburg on a map... :)...
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  "Just UNPLUG the damned thing! ..." C'mon, you know that isn't applicable to any of the examples EC mentioned. I learned about the final anode capacitance of CRTs aged about 8, and they can stay charged for days... I would...
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  "The evident solution is to replace fines with community service work, because 100 hours means as much to a billionaire as it does to a homeless person" One might even hope that the forced contact with people mostly from the...
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  Thanks for that. I quite like industrial history, and it should be most interesting....
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Related, but without the money reference: "It's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it. I have an independent mind, you are eccentric, he is round the twist." Bernard Woolley in Yes [Prime?] Minister. "If a man has lotsh of money...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Thanks to all for various suggestions to pass on to my sister for copying Amazon links....