Notices by groff 🇺🇦 (geoffl@mastodon.me.uk)

@whitequark I've already survived long enough to know it's fine for me. My family has stupidly resilient DNA. Probably because my ancestors survived mining toxic minerals in Cornwall for several hundred years so the selective pressure was great. Only one of my father's 5 siblings didn't make it to their 90s. The others can still drink me under the table from pewter goblets.

@whitequark But yes, a sudden drop in pH would be bad for me. Hard water here, not like the soft water in Cornwall (if the lead don't get you the Radon will).

@whitequark I also went to school downwind from an asbestos factory, so I should make the best of the time that's left.

@whitequark If it's made me dumber then I'm thankful.

@whitequark The water pipes in my house are lead.

@jeffowski Does than take into account the massive increase in house prices if everyone involved in house building also got a minimum of $66/hour?

@whitequark I'd rather watch Lost on loop 24/7 in solitary confinement for a year than deal with the IDE/CF/SD/MMC specs again.

@kajer @elfin @Viss @ryanc @sycophantic
"Our robots.txt file clearly explained what would happen if it was ignored and that by ignoring it you agreed to waive your right to any and all claims against us."

@killyourfm
In the UK "pack it in" means "stop doing that annoying, stupid and/or dangerous thing immediately or I won't be responsible for the consequences".

I assume one of the two didn't stop doing whatever it was.

@foone
Not trivial with the error correction and redundency in QR codes. This is a working QR code after all.

@waldi @lanodan @steph @mia @ShadowJonathan
That really depends on the flavour of passive or active audio throughput and the phone manufacturer. I've got a blackview phone with passive audio output (DAC on phone) that works well with their own headphones but the passive adaptors I've tried failed (there's no agreed standard). If I use an active adaptor the signal to noise ratio at low volumes is terrible and the USB output gets shut off after 15 minutes bacause the phone thinks it's inactive.

@GossiTheDog

I know how to install Win11 on an "incompatible" device. How do I fool Microsoft into detecting my Copilot+ compatible devices as incompatible?

@GossiTheDog Confused. Which one are you?

@ryanc If a Robin Smith married another Robin Smith, they had the same date of birth and lived together then each of them declaring a gender on a form might help distinguish them, but it also might not. People being allowed to state non-binary makes it even easier to distinguish individuals. DWP should embrace it.

@ryanc I wonder how much money they're wasting by denying you your rights?

@ryanc Obviously everyone named John Smith, with the same date of birth, in Britain, must have a unique gender...

@Arcaik @j_bertolotti @mansr @johncarlosbaez
That's kind of the point; the current variant of metric system, MKS, and the units people use, like litres, are not coherent (other metric variants include CMS and MTS). And while gramme is a unit of weight it is not a "base unit" so can't be used in other calculations, such as force = mass * acceleration.

"A coherent derived unit, for a chosen set of base units, is a product of powers of base units, with the proportionality factor being one."

@clacke

The decimeter is almost exactly the same measurement as a "hand" (equal to 4 inches) which is the unit most often used to measure the height of a horse.

@mansr @johncarlosbaez @j_bertolotti @Arcaik

@j_bertolotti @mansr @johncarlosbaez
The French also use a crazy system. The base unit of distance is metres (Earth's circumference/40,000 to make it roughly equivalent to a yard) but don't lead directly to volume in litres, you have to remember to do your measurements in decimetres. The unit of weight isn't the gramme but the thousand-gramme (kilogramme). Instead of a cube of sides 1 metre containing one litre and that volume of water weighing 1 gramme, it weighs 1 thousand thousand-grammes. ;)

@ryanc Every passenger is a sound emitting device. And I agree that they are all potential irritants.