Philip Bragg

Maybe the tiny circular hole beside the viewfinder lens is metering

I think the upper smaller window is optical viewfinder but might also be metering.

The lens cover is closed in the lower picture, to add to the confusion

Stopping people from thinking is an awfully effective measure against thought crime and the revolution it might foment.

And yet we’re happy to manufacture our own suppression based on the magical thinking that 10x the output will somehow 10x the return.

For them it's very appealing, the improved link between search queries and results that's the inevitable fruit of throwing lots of compute at the world's largest and hottest corpus is also perfect for steering people towards helplessness and inhibiting their autonomy.

The better brain is stolen goods. Why are we legitimising stolen property? Why are we letting the stolen goods machine steal more, quicker? Why are we building data centres to facilitate more of this sort of thing? It's too late to put this thing back in the lab but it's not too late to constrain it

I've a growing fatigue of intelligent people defending LLMs on the basis that they nearly do good stuff in specific areas sometimes. This is a technical wonder, brought about by nothing more than scaling a toy chatbot from the 1990s up and giving it a better brain, it's "cool" but it's not thinking.

Not completely.

Temporary Closure
Little Point
Sudden Nausea

That's named similarly to a village near the Belgian town of Dessicant.

Today's quintessentially English village names:
Modified Starch (formerly Modified Corn Starch)
Rinse Thoroughly
Discard-After-Use

Also check that you're not using a headset style plug, as these aren't always compatible with older sockets, though that normally shows up as a missing ground rather than a channel failure

Do check first for bad joints. The mechanisms in these are brilliant so it's worth saving, if you can't get the correct socket you can likely hang a line socket on a short length of wire poking out of the hole (with appropriate strain relief). Ugly but works.

My memory of the connectors on these is that they fracture internally, the springy bit of metal that presses against the jack plug comes adrift from the pin that takes the signal to the PCB. The proper fix was a replacement socket.

copper horse statue long walk

It’s a blue sky day here near Windsor

We use a fairly big laundry basket to take Waitrose delivery items from the doorstep to the kitchen. It's almost the same size as a single crate that deliveries arrive in but because it's only going on a short trip it will hold more, so usually takes two crateloads. I transfer the items.

It's definitely not just you. I've a book that explains it all and what all the matrices do. Maybe a QL or Spectrum book, anyway, I distinctly remember a moment when I definitely understood what all the things were, then revisited it several years later it was all gone. This was "a while ago" now.

I've a particularly tenuous connection to Supergrass. My brother did some graphic design for Gaz Coombes' brother's first band, Tumbleweed. Or something like that. It was a long time ago. I quite liked their album at the time, not sure if it was ever released.

I saw a Reed Bunting on the bird feeder, that's unusual.

I guess if the funding isn't disclosed and highly visible when looking at the site you have to assume bias. On reflection that the high profile but rubbish tactical voting site was likely only there to make the other high profile but run by the Tories tactical voting site seem more credible.

I remember some years ago there was a new one that was giving out unlikely choices and when challenged they said something along the lins of "You should trust our algorithm, which uses demographic shift and blah blah". But it was just plain wrong. It didn't seem to be biased, just bad.

They always get compiled, too, which suggests that they may contain the work of various artists.

Thanks for the reminder, I've just done ours. Only a tiny bit of fluff, a purple plastic clothing retail tag and a snipped component lead in there. I've cleaned it and sprayed anti-bacterial stuff in there.

I've occasionally bought interesting displays for this sort of project, one is a bar comprising 101 tiny red LEDs. It's an old HP part, I suppose the meter bridges of some very high end audio mixers might've used them.

I wonder if there are any fake TO99 metal can CA3080s

I have several of these 0-1mA meters, with a 0-100 scale. I'm considering making one into a clock, where 23:59:59 is 100

Also there are so many redundant analogue meters sitting around, saved from scrap by enthusiasts because they're too good to throw away. This one's at least 70 years old, I reckon.

diecast aluminium box with a vintage moving coil meter, rotary switch and two LEDs

I am putting a project in a box. Maybe.

Justin Webb again, though. He's the worst interviewer I've ever heard, he has two modes, nodding along with right-wingers or laughing at the left.

As far as I know there was never a rubber switch 5335A, but many other instruments received the treatment.