ErroneousBosh

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by ErroneousBosh 12d ago
You know, as a television personality, Jeremy Clarkson is a pretty polarising figure. The gammons see him as all that's wrong with Britain with his pro-EU views, the cartoon student lefties are whining about "oh it's all just
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by ErroneousBosh 12d ago
I will check what it says on them next time I take a look at the draff pit - we still use the tyres to weigh down the cover :-)
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by ErroneousBosh 12d ago
I can tell you this annoyance - if you're behind a Kia Niro EV and you wonder why the driver is braking from 70 to 30 randomly all the way down a totally clear motorway, it's not the driver. The car's cameras have spotted a s
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by ErroneousBosh 12d ago
One of the films I want to watch at 4x normal speed so I can put it in my brain faster, then go back and look at each individual frame for ten minutes apiece so I can see every single thing in it.
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by ErroneousBosh 12d ago
Commonly used to this day in photography and cinematography, where you have a "key light", big bright one up high and off to one side aiming down a bit at the subject, a "fill light" being dimmer, lower down, and off to
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by ErroneousBosh 12d ago
As recently as the late 90s (which, yes was 30 years ago, not all that recent) in the UK we were getting tractor tyres coming in stamped "MADE IN DDR". Although I don't know if that was more a case of "we really ought to
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by ErroneousBosh 13d ago
Yes, but in America you have a lot of electrical fires, and in the UK, we don't.
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by ErroneousBosh 13d ago
They are completely different words. Why should they be used to mean the same thing?
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by ErroneousBosh 13d ago
> In the electrical panels, of course. So how do you know what size to fit? Or do you just get in about your panels and replace them every time you unplug a lamp to plug in a TIG welder?
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by ErroneousBosh 14d ago
> defending the BS 1363 power plug that needed an embedded fuse because their domestic postwar electrical wiring was Not Great Where would you put the fuse, then? Also, if you think that's "Not Great", just take a look at
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by ErroneousBosh 14d ago
Death is there because he is no longer Death, he is the Hogfather. Someone else has to be Death while he's moonlighting. Bloody irresponsible thing to do, that, just wander off and work out of scope and expect others to pick up the sla
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by ErroneousBosh 15d ago
Take heart in the thought that this is going to ease off a bit in a couple of years when the current solar cycle dies down and the sun is not dumping about 5% more energy into the atmosphere than normal.
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
"Why yes I do have E1 twisted pair to E1 coax baluns, and 50 ohm BNC to 75 ohm BNC with matching stubs, and VGA to SCART cables, right here in my big box of cables!" <gestures at shed with bulging walls> I need to get this u
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
I mean make him read Hallaig by Somhairle MacGill-eain. And, ideally, go and visit a cleared township. https://maps.app.goo.gl/nc8uhBogrBCjgjYs9 I used to walk out there most weekends when I was at school. Until about 175 y
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
> Maybe but at this point I no longer think it's fair to be quite this dry on something that quite so many people would be legitimately sincere about Yeah, but I'm from the UK so I should be able to detect dry humour. It's
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
Mostly yes, you need to vacuum it down well and make sure you have compatible oil in the compressor. Some types of plastic tubing aren't particularly compatible but for cars it's okay.
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
The neat thing about propane as a refrigerant is that it's a really powerful one, actually rather better than R12 in practical applications. If you replaced an R134a fill with R290 you'd need about half as much gas and if it got o
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
CO2 has a surprisingly feeble greenhouse effect. Almost anything else you could use as a refrigerant is worse. Even water vapour is a worse greenhouse gas. Edit: wait, have I been whooshed? Apologies if so... ;-)
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
Underfloor heating works best with air source heat pumps, so just switch to that. Then run a wee bit hot water through your cast iron rads for the look of the thing.
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
When EBv2.0 was tiny, like could walk but not really talk tiny, and I was WFH Because Coronapocalypse, he one day did a straight deadass impersonation of me. Picked up a cordless mouse and held it up to his little ear like a phone, "He
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
> I look at my cohort who I schooled with, and they are all so terrifyingly sober and adult, and take themselves so very seriously. They toil, they spin, they die. Ah, this is the problem, I work with people who take themselves so terrib
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
> And he talks about how you can choose to change your perspective or mindset and see work as a form of play, where you live in the moment. I think it's hilarious that they just let me play with a £150k Nexus 9000 stack at work, lik
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
One of the first emails from the school when my small son was in Primary 1 was that they'd been making some pancakes in class and he'd picked up a Big Sharp Knife and began slicing some strawberries to put on them, and this was Ve
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
"But it's okay if a battery goes on fire daddy, I'll put carbon dioxide on it!" - EBv2.0, aged 3 and a half
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
Runrig's song "Fichead Bliadhna", too, but that's more kind of a protest song: Ruith sa mhonadh, ruith nam beann ’S mar sin dhan sgoil aig deireadh samhraidh Nar clann aig còig bliadhna dh’aois ’S gun facal Beurla nar ce
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
Most people don't drink and drive. It's really only in the US where people still seem to think it's acceptable to drive drunk.
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
But they still cannot drive cars. All this stuff can do is react very slowly, maybe, if it detects it, to a change in the environment. Self-driving cars will never be safer than human drivers. If you believe otherwise, show actual proof of
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by ErroneousBosh 16d ago
You have to remember that this is data from the US, where the road death rate is just about level with Somalia, something like 30% of road deaths involve drunk drivers, and something like 50% of fatalities overall are because the casualty w
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by ErroneousBosh 17d ago
Look, I know you believe in the Mystical GPU Sky Fairy, but AI is not in any sense "intelligent". It doesn't think. It's a pattern-matching system like an Eliza bot with a huge corpus to draw from. It is not thinking. It
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by ErroneousBosh 18d ago
Occasionally I browse the comments when something I've worked on is misunderstood on there. You should never read the comments.

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