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The film I have seen more times than any other, as it was my daughter's favourite when she was small. I am so glad it was this and not Battlefield Earth or something.

I also think this.

The train track scene

Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers is very good, actually.

Because they operate on a shoestring budget

The thing I don’t get is why doors still have handles, surely by now we should be opening them from an app which you have to load every time you want to walk from one room to another

There's a Radio West?! Does it have its own Private Ear? And if not, why not? @celestialweasel.bsky.social

Because I would rather start by telling it what framework and language to us

Also I don't really have a PC to build it on so unless I could build it on my barely used RaP400 that would entail spending money

the more information you give it, the better the result will be. I refer to it as "the Rebirth of the Specification" -- that part, the requirement to think well first, is a salutary effect.

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I'm quite possibly the least cool person in Britain, and even I fucking cringed out of my skin at that.

Someone on here was offered an opportunity to use the "X is one of the dozens of people who is not an American" response on here and I am pleased to say they took advantage

It's difficult to believe Kemi Badenoch is in her mid 40s.
She has a real stroppy 17 year old's "Don't tell me what time I need to be home, you're not my real dad" vibe about her.
#PMQs

Why don't you give it a try?

I am vaguely interested what language / framework it used.

Absolutely this. My brother is a surgeon; he's used Claude to write an app for his patients. It's not a masterpiece and it won't change the economy, but it is easier for them than trying to fill in timesheets of how much exercise they are able to take. Sensible scepticism has to recognise reality.

A Dragon 32 home computer from the 1980s. It is a greige box with the qwerty keyboard fully integrated into it.

Fuller calculator - Wikipedia

A forerunner of the Curta - designed by someone born in 1829(!), it was in use until the HP electronic calculators went on the market in the 1970s
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller_...

occurs to me there must be a hundred tv shows / films being developed based on the Zizians, and none of them are going to make a shred of sense

En guise de représailles, Dubaï parachute 3000 influenceurs sur Téhéran Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires.

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Wondermark Comic - Time Travel Man says he feels like he is on the cusp of doing really great or really terrible when a time travelling assassin from the 28th century shows up to kill him only to be eliminated by a time cop. Man wishes the assassins would give him some more context on what made them so angry at him.

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

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That latter crank went straight into my DMs the moment he followed me there, and gushed in telling me how 'Shaun of the Dead' was one of his favourite films.

Cranks. Not doing research since the dawn of fucking time.

Way back when on the Hellsite, he used to follow me for a bit. I did not have a Scooby who he was, and he kept trying to interact with me over a few months.

I eventually realised he thought I was **that** one, and then when I followed up to correct, he blocked me immediately.

See also: Johann Hari

It’s okay, it’s not like we’re also inventing a technology that can deliver the largest labor market disruption in 200 years

excellent book, I think the sequels are even better (though the Japan one was a little weak)

coming up with a new theory that Keir Starmer is a somewhat degraded clone of John Major

There’s many a nap Twix cat and lap.