baggins
@baggins@beehaw.org
Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)
- Comment on Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair 3 days ago:
We shouldn’t be surprised considering the dates he lived in.
- Comment on ‘Lord of the Rings’ Anime Feature, DC’s ‘Creature Commandos’ Set for Warner Bros. Presentation at Annecy 4 days ago:
Interesting to note Andy Serkis is making a new LOTR film as well.
There is already a film called The Hunt For Gollum though. An amateur production made on a shoestring budget a few years ago. It’s surprisingly good.
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
Thanks - and it’s no doubt intended and they might has well named it Fuhrer, but we need to stay better than them.
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
Have to play devil’s advocate here. I totally agree that naming your chatbot Aryan is a bit of a giveaway, but does it say that exactly anywhere? All I can see is Arya. That is a legitimate name, even more popular since Game of Thrones. This crap is bad enough without making false claims about it. We’d be quick enough to call the other side out when they made a false claim. We shouldn’t adopt their practices. We’re supposed to be better than that.
- Comment on Minuteman D-17b: The Desktop Computer Was Born in an ICBM 4 weeks ago:
Yes, they had a million and one things designed to catch your head, knee, elbow, eye etc. What that diagram doesn’t make clear is the bench seat running down the centre for the operators and Command Post Officer (CPO) to sit on. Underneath that were the batteries for FACE, 8 (or possibly 6) great big 12v 100ah lead acid things. Space was at a premium. In this pic I’m sitting with my back to the teleprinter and Bob Cooper was sitting on the commanders seat - it used to drop down and become a seat for a signaller :-) This would have been taken about 1983/4 Image
- Comment on Fallout is available to watch on Amazon Prime 5 weeks ago:
Non gamer alert!
Started watching and have only see one and a bit episodes so far. I fell asleep so will have to go back to episode one and catch up.
Bearing in mind I know pretty much zip about the Fallout universe other than when I’ve seen it mentioned online, it looks pretty good from here - there’s definitely a lot going on and it’ll take a couple of watches before all the little details are picked up.
Seems to me to be a fun programme that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Hope it continues.
- Comment on Minuteman D-17b: The Desktop Computer Was Born in an ICBM 5 weeks ago:
The computer used by the Artillery (the one I was trained on in the 80s) was called FACE and had a magnetic core memory of about 8k nigelef.tripod.com/fc_computer.htm
- Comment on Minuteman D-17b: The Desktop Computer Was Born in an ICBM 5 weeks ago:
Skimmed through the video and will watch at a later date. Absolutely fascinating. It used to work on kit that had electronics like that back in the 70s. It was like being back in the factory :-)
When I was in the Royal Artillery (80-97) we had a system called PADS (Precision Azimuth Determining System) that was used for survey of gun positions. It had done gabby gyroscope inside. I now know where that originated ;-)
- Comment on Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access 5 months ago:
That took longer than I expected.
- Comment on Hugh Grant Said That He "Hated" Making "Wonka": "I Have Lots Of Children And Need Money" 5 months ago:
Use some of your millions to buy some rubbers then. Or get a vasectomy. Twat.
- Comment on Brands face losing Royal Warrants unless they prove green credentials 6 months ago:
It’s not so much that they won’t survive, it’s a Royal Warrant. That means a lot to some people/companies. Maybe not to you or me, but if, for example, Fortnum and Mason lost the warrant, sales would plummet.
- Comment on The original Apple Watch lineup is officially obsolete 7 months ago:
That’s an expensive paperweight.
- Comment on NHS waiting lists: estimated 340,000 died awaiting treatment in 2022 8 months ago:
How many died because they were on a waiting list though? Don’t get me wrong, any waiting list is one too many but this headline seems like clickbait to trigger people.
And no, I didn’t read the article because the URL didn’t work :-(
