Been there too

Murray!

Technically, it was a display made from E. Coli cells, not actually programming the microbes to run it themselves…

… but yes, Doom has been used in a computer where the display was E. Coli.

“Actively Commissioning” and “Subsidizing” are two different contexts. Your points are all accurate, but commissioning a movie means actually going out and saying, “we want this movie, and will pay/provide resources to it in order for it to get done”, versus “your doing a movie with military, we’ll provide resources in compensation for a meddlers credit”.

The ICO in the UK is pretty good… I used to work on their CRM system and it was an eye opener how little, and also how big the things they investigated were.

I’m in the UK. I’ll never brag about our train system, not after Twatcher privatised them, and further back the horrific Beeching cuts.

The rest - yeah, worth it.

This is illegal in UK and Europe…

I was home taught in the UK. Have a real love for learning that’s kick-started me into a career in computing that I’ve kept going for over two decades. Can’t stop, won’t stop reading, learning and improving. The number of colleagues I’ve had who just want a TL;DR on a new tech, software, plugin or system is too many. It’s our job to understand it, so we can build something so that others don’t have to. If you don’t want to understand, you’re in the wrong job role.

No, that’s fair. Coffee at pressure is about 93 - 95°C… No idea for drip/french press/v60 etc. as I don’t use those For Aeropress, I’d wait until the kettle stopped making noise, that seemed to be a good balance without burning the oils.

Coffee isn’t a tea, as you don’t boil it. If you boil it, you burn the coffee! That’s an extraction - you can steep it, but it’s better if you just push the water through at high pressure (which will royally screw up a tea).

Ah, pedantry in pedantry. So - now for Lemmy to tell me what I’ve gotten wrong :⁠-⁠D

Challenger disaster

“just just” - another ohnosecond moment.

Fermi Estimation. Where you’re dealing with something so big, you’re just interested in the magnitude.

The bad ones…

They’re evil bushes all round… Fruits that if et raw will give you really nasty shits, thorns that will go through Kevlar reinforced gardening gloves and roots that are worse than mint for regrowing after cutting all of that bastard plant out.

But they make a fantastic privacy fence - even dogs, cats and squirrels ain’t getting through that shit.

Missing Willey, willeymoor and many other derivatives

Good luck with the update in (if I’m right in the timezone calculation) a couple of hours…

Lb-ft is force - the number of pounds per foot. Pounds is 1/14 of a stone, or a Stone is 14 pounds. 2.2 pounds per kilogramme.

Like having your own, internal, automatic Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses

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