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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA: Vice City's writing was "awful," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, but acting icon Ray Liotta "made it sound good"⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The main thing I remember from Vice City was the excellent sound track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fandom won’t allow adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, although I’m slightly suss about the extension wanting access to my Google data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestine Action arrests make up 94% of all UK terrorism arrests, Home Office data shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep they are being arrested for supporting a proscribed organisation. They know what they are doing - it’s not like they accidently used that particular form of words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field during geomagnetic storms actually enough to cause stress on our cells and bodies, or am I encountering junk science?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not completely safe, you do for example have to take care there are no chunks of metal in you or attached to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestine Action crowdfunder for UK supreme court challenge blocked due to US sanctions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are other groups protesting genocide that aren’t Palestine Action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name me country which has better food than England⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a nod to history and the speaker who had to defy the king.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article - How RAF Fairford 'bomb plot' narrative fell apart as US and UK made competing claims⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the first mistake was to think the Orange Man said anything worth listening too. The default assumption should be he’s lying unless there is corroborating evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not dynamic, but an EV rate so I get the overnight rate and a daytime rate and I also hand control of the car charger to my provider. It will usually charge overnight but if energy is cheap on the network at other times it will trigger the charge and my entire consumption during that time will be at the night rate.

  There are also incentives to save energy at particular times, cut your usage below normal levels at high demand times and get “free” energy at other times in return. It helps the provider balance the grid with their wholesale input deals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No public charging stations go by the commercial rate. That is not too say you can’t get discounts based on high energy days. Using my domestic energy supplier charging tag i sometimes get a discount if the wind is blowing out the sunshine is strong.

  It will still be more than my overnight domestic rate though (7p/kwH).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preview ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season Finale With 18 New Photos From “Tomorrow’s Enterprise”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really didn’t mind them although I can see the density of them might grate considering the short run of episodes. It’s not like TOS had some very campy episodes.

  I really looked forward to the comedy X-Files episodes but there was never more than one a season and that was an old school 26 episode run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reform given record-breaking £72m by two crypto billionaires⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are very well funded for an “upstart” “insurgent” party fighting the “establishment”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK recognises 'ethnic cleansing' in West Bank, sanctions settlements and declares Israeli occupation illegal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect it’s because it’s legally harder to argue the Gaza incursion is in service of land expansion rather than “self defence”. Have settlers started moving into Gaza?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What time is it? (Pebble Time 2 Demo)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice to see old school demo sensibilities on a “modern” smart watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blow up fossil fuel infrastructure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plastics, waxes, solvents, synthetic fibres and even pharmaceuticals. There are second order products from cracking like hydrogen which are important for things like fertilizer but that is rather carbon intensive.

  You can use organic oils for some of these. However organic oils are more complex so need to be broken down into simpler building blocks which all takes energy and processing. Of course you also need to grow oil bearing plants which also tend to require a lot of fertilizer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blow up fossil fuel infrastructure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My first year Chemistry dissertation was about this. Of all the useful things you can do with hydrocarbons burning them is the most wasteful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t begrudge peoples difficulties with English. It has some positives like not needing gendered conjugation for objects and a fairly wide cultural exposure. However it freely steals words from other languages making it a bit of a mongrel. Also the spelling and pronunciation is entirely non-regular so the usual answer to people looking for rules to work these things out is “just know”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Are they related? I don’t understand any Asian languages myself but I do recognise difference in for example the Korean symbols and Japanese ones. But Japanese and Chinese ideograms look very similar to my ignorant eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s super common if it’s any sort of open source project because the collaborators can be anywhere and English is a good baseline.

  IIRC one of the big tasks when Star Office became Open Office (later Libre Office) was translating a bunch of the German comments to make the code more accessible.

  I’m sure I’ve seen some majority french code bases as well. There are certainly academic hypervisors out of China which have comments in Chinese kanji.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Britain get to send three teams to the World Cup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have their own flags, languages, laws and legislative assemblies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been on one recently in Wales but that last local train I got was a new one so I think they are being replaced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most trains have toilets on them. The only ones that don’t tend to be the local 2-3 carriage bus on tracks style ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No rent control for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The evidence on rent controls is mixed. I’d much rather councils built more good quality social housing to compete with the shoddy priced private sector.

  Then hopefully the bad houses can be returned to the market for renovation and those looking to get on the housing ladder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selective judgement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a UN organisation which the USA are famously not a signatory of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite, I think her long career in genre films was one of the reasons Tarantino was so keen to work with her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could anyone explain what a “hypervisor crack” is in this context? I’m very familiar with hypervisors but less so in relation to gaming.

  Is this just using a hypervisor to virtualise system services the DRM uses to assure it it’s not being monitored or interfered with at the OS/kernel level? Do you have to intercept networking as well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I Live Off-Grid Using Littered Vapes & Solar? | Chris Doel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair to him he certainly seems to have tried to be careful. I have no idea if he’s actually a qualified sparky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Episode IV was in the initial crawl text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI used to cover a wide field of study, nowadays it seems to be all about the generative models. Oh how we’ve moved on since that original summer symposium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British police tries to arrest suspect⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They got him didn’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ignore the miserabilists: Andy Burnham as PM is a moment when things really can get better⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bless Polly’s optimism, hopefully not copium. Labour’s problem hasn’t been an uncharismatic leader but the very tight constraints they have set themselves for government. I’m not sure Burnham is willing to venture outside of them and start freestyling with the manifesto.

  Hopefully he’s given this a lot of thought. I haven’t lived in Manchester for years but the mates I still have up there seem to think he’s alright. Mayor’s certainly can make a difference that local voters can feel. Hopefully he can replicate that in the top job.