Notices by penguin42 (penguin42@mastodon.org.uk), page 2

@jmorris It's a bit different isn't it; I mean with X you'd pick up that pile of books that everyone had, and a few examples and you had everything there was, and the API wasn't that hard. The early kernel perhaps wasn't that much harder; it's grown a little since then, people keep feeding it!

@jmorris Yeh, I think I used raw X for the stuff I played with in the mid 90's.

@jmorris Motif - fancy....

@edavies @inthehands @thephd That's very difficult; a chain of multiplications gives you a rapidly increasing type size unless you've bounded everything.

energy quiz: You replace a 58W Fluorescent tube (5200lm nominal) by two sets of 3x 8W/1100lm LED bulbs, with each set switched separately. How much energy do you save?
One set is placed directly over the main table.
Known unknowns:
a) How much does a florescent fitting take with that tube?
b) How much light does either combination actually give?
c) Will we turn both sets on or just one most of the time?

@mansr @clacke How's that pronounced?

@clacke Look back through your mail for stuff that worked well; especially something where someone else thanked you for fixing/doing something; double especially if they were more senior or from another group.

@clacke Are you sure that UK one is referencing the same version? |It sees to be talking about a 4-5 bivalent, where I thought the FDA approved a monovalent thing for XBB1.5?

@clacke Interesting, I'm not sure I ever watched S4; I have a feeling I gave up somewhere in the Temporal war thing and never came back, but I'm not sure I remember. I prefer episodic things rather than long running stories.

@clacke @n8 @petrichor @liw @mlinksva If they are I don't know their IDs, the two I recognise are people I've not spoken to in a LONG time.

@petrichor @clacke @n8 @liw @mlinksva Ah nice; I do recognise at least a couple of the Manchester people there; with some overlap of both the CS dept and what used to be Manchester Computing; which was a department that had existed for a long long time to help with computer use in other research areas.

@clacke Makes me feel sorry for Leon; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/characters/nm0001397

@jmorris Something truly wonderful on a 64bit host?

@mansr @clacke I think he used to be pretty good at it, but then as he said he found the spammier titles got him more hits.

@clacke and no bridges 🙂 The UK has a problem that a lot of the rail routes have bridges too low for double-decker passenger trains.

@clacke I often have this because both my names are reasonable first names. Generally I try and look for peoples signature line and hope they sign it with their first name so I can use it in a reply.

@clacke They did have a few bits in it about the reason it was secret was that no one could let on that it existed; I found it funny because it was running here just before Wikileaks.

@clacke You can compare there is no ordering of them.

@th That's insane - there's no 0?? What is it?

@clacke Yes, UK Manchester. (Well, actually we've got lots of microdialects around here, so hmm yes, still that's about right)