Thomas Buck

I believe the traditional method involves oak barrels, though nowadays the fashion is for imported barrels previously used for bourbon.

Love to know what the Lizardman’s constant is for maps like these.

What in the ever loving Christ are they planning on doing with the west coast of Scotland???

Can't even set up a court in exile and plot to seize the throne anymore, because of woke

Give us a day off like when the arseholes get married.

I still don’t really get how they reconcile Christianity with, like, where the big guy himself was from.

It feels feature-vs-bug to me cos LLMs are probabilistic by nature, and as soon as you throw more compute at them, sure enough the odds shorten.

To my potentially jaded eye, the bigger issue is in recognising what output is a function of probability vs ai-aided insight.

guardian news update: Farage says defection from Labour he promised still 'work in progress' At his press conference Nigel Farage was asked happened to the Labour defector was was promising a few weeks ago. Farage claimed that was a “work in progress”. He said the party was talking to two or three “formerly quite senior Labour figures” about possible defections.

It was Mandelson wasn’t it.

No easy answers right 😭

I had a flex HD outside for a while and has that meshed to an otherwise inaccessible room. Eventually swapped for more painful powerline setup because of the wireless impact for the rest of the house.

Now, if I had a rat…

I hear you. My house is such a ridiculous mess I’ve resorted to running cat5 around three exterior walls before 😬

I suspect the networking tool that’d make the most difference to my life is a pet rat.

Second thumbs up for the Swiss Army knife from me. Blown away by its performance, albeit somewhat angle/lean position dependent in my Victorian house of a thousand poorly-built extensions.

If you haven’t watched A View to a Kill, I’m afraid it might shatter the too-comic illusion of his portrayal.

My wife and I were doing an all-the-films-in-order thing, and I remember us just sitting there with open mouths. This??? Mid eighties??? Dear lord.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea

This country’s morals are based on Christian… biblical values? Oh silly me, somehow I’d forgotten our national and time-honoured rejections of cheeseburgers and prawns.

The nonsense these people speak.

Why can't they all just fuck off back to Saxony and leave the place to us Welsh?

Hahaha i know that feeling far too well :)

Gotcha. While I get the distinction, if we’re talking within the context of unintended consequences, I think this particular battle is long over.

Is this happening already? I can’t think of a car maker without a cloud + phone app that uploads all movement data as a matter of routine, for their electric cars at least.

I’m under the impression that if the police asked, they’d have to hand it over?

and the signalling staff , in under 4 minutes they had to reroute the train and make sure that didnt lead to it hitting another train that was scheduled to be on that line.

(Also, I would point out that he wasn't a crank, he was one of the leading scholars of his day working on one of its most important topics, and he should be a constant memorial to modern researchers: one day all this will be a punchline.)

Counterpoint: the markets reacted and priced-in acts of madness a while ago. It’s easy to miss quite how much money professional investors have lost since January, especially anything that touches on exchange rates.

I mean…. and the home invasion assasination of the leader of the opposition party in a divided state house, by a christian nationalist goon, whose actions the right is trying to gaslight at massive scale.

a pigeon leans down and pecks at a clump of gum on the sidewalk, saying "some sort of sticky clump worm. Chewy. Just gotta pry it up and-" The pigeon, having wrested the gum from the pavement, blows a bubble, exclaiming "oh!" The pigeon with the gum begins to float up into the sky, carried by the gum bubble, saying "I can fly!! Dare I dream the impossible dream that I can soar above the earth?" A second pigeon interjects "you could already fly." The pigeon with the gum says "shut the fuck up. For once in your life get over your asinine need to feel smarter than everyone else and shut the fuck up. You're not adding anything."

a pigeon finds some gum on the sidewalk

A mastic gun cartridge held in hand. The cartridge’s label largely consists of a white background with thick black text written over it. Except for the colour description, which is a large outline font with thin black letter outlines, large white interiors, and again, printed on a white background. The colour printed is: BLACK.

The psychopath test: product design edition.

In my neck of the woods, the bus company keeps trying to drag down the less profitable routes by throwing progressively worse buses at them, driven by their most problematic drivers. And they never realise: it’s the only route to the train station and commuters will never stop taking it, lose/lose.

Yeah, that’s fair (and thanks for taking my reply in the spirit intended, just did a little eek reading it back)

I kinda see the OS stuff as a good warning beacon for future attempts. Like, the time and effort they must put into tweaking coordinates so that nothing aligns with UPRNs *rants to self*

A glorified vanity project that goes out of its way to harm its users and make any useful analysis pretty much well impossible? :-p

... slowly losing my marbles thanks to Open UPRN, USN, Roads, Names, Vector + Local Map trying to get them to play nicely with the lovely datasets from ONS 🤦‍♀️

Here's a pitch for what the National Data Library should actually be Do you want to be a National Data Librarian?

Here's a pitch for what the National Data Library should actually be - a guest post by @iosad.fyi ! (FREE TO READ!)

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/tbi-ndl

And to accompany the publication of our NDL paper, something of a bucket list item for me with a guest post for @jamesomalley.co.uk. You also have the opportunity to ask burning questions/hurl questionable fruit at me tonight at our long-planned in-conversation about AI in govt – info in the post.

While there's a lot of good data out there, even stuff from the OS is prone to being unreliable - or not as in-depth as a surface glance might lead you to believe *pointed stare at AddressBase Premium*. I think tidying up + validating will need some love - possibly even from obsessives like me.