Notices by Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im), page 2

@dalias @robpike Isn't it an ancient attempt at a security device, harking back to the days (last century?) when there were malware thingies called "key loggers" which could capture what you typed in a text box but couldn't capture what you selected in a scrolling widget?

@pvonhellermannn It exists. How can one not "believe in" it?

@ChrisMayLA6 @PaniczGodek Once Upon A Time mortgages were regulated and limited to three times salary.

Guess what houses cost then? Yup, you've got it, three times salary.

@Radical_EgoCom @cbontenbal @graemearthur I suspect the reference is to today's post-facts political climate, in which case your request for "proven" is also irrelevant.

@Radical_EgoCom @graemearthur As far as we know "free will" isn't a thing as there is no physical mechanism that can deliver it.

The usual way out of this seems to be to say "in practice it's too complicated to calculate what someone will decide to do, so we might as well live our lives as if free will is actually a thing".

@paraw @mekkaokereke @craignicol Someone called the cops on my grandma because she was going for a walk. In a Miami suburb were apparently nobody ever walked this counted as "suspicious". As she was elderly and white and female, rather than young and black and male, at least they stopped to talk to her rather than just shooting first.

@jwildeboer @Flo_Rian @gunstick Pessimists are happier people than optimists.

Because optimists only ever get nasty shocks, whereas pessimists sometimes get nice surprises.

@jwildeboer @gunstick Yes. The export price will come down and people will stop buying solar panels.

@Flo_Rian @jwildeboer @gunstick I've already got a battery that time-shifts from day to night. I don't see one on offer (at any price!) for domestic installations that time-shifts from summer to winter.

@jwildeboer @gunstick There is one worry about negative electricity prices on sunny days, though - the export rate that some suppliers pay for domestically generated solar energy might become unsustainable.

@lauren @mekkaokereke "... the widows and cripples in old London Town / who own their large pensions to Wernher von Braun." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

@wood5y Maybe. There's sometimes more to these stories than meets the eye, and more than it's appropriate to tell a newspaper.

(I know nothing about this case, but I have done council casework.)

@clacke It does work sometimes.

Once Upon A Time the whole office was chasing a bug and getting nowhere. I gave up, went home (it was just a two minute walk) and had a bath.

On return to the office I went back to my desk and started working on something else. After a couple of minutes I looked up and said "you did solve that one, didn't you?"

No, they hadn't, they were still searching for it. "It's the line of code that says such-and-such," I said, having worked it out whilst in the bath and assuming, wrongly as it turned out, that my colleagues would also have found it.

@GeofCox @Roadwarrior29 @CloudyMrs @ChrisMayLA6

I'd like to see some research on the cycle to work schemes. On the face of it such a scheme looks like it would subsidise well off middle class cyclists to buy more expensive bikes than the OK ones they're already using, rather than help people switch to cycling. There must, by now, have been some work done on outcomes?

@Indyposterboy @CloudyMrs @LillyHerself Oh dear oh dear. Someone somehow managed to leave Cornwall off that list.

@clacke @brianstorms @countcol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill

@frankrausch Bet they haven't though. Nobody is *ever* going to go through all the backup tapes with a pair of scissors and snip out your information, for example.

@EricAlper Our kids were not happy meeting a cassowary larger than they were by the side of the swimming pool in Mission Beach.

We rather suspect that the landlady of the holiday flats was in the habit of feeding it.

@EricAlper The thing is, after all, just a modern version of a velociraptor.

@goatsarah I haven't ridden a UK train since the before times[#] but the problem with connections in the UK is usually the other way round - "there's only four minutes for this connection, will I really be able to find the right platform and get their with my luggage?"

To which the answer is usually "yes", because the timetable has been designed that way, and they'll often wait until the stragglers have made it before releasing the new train.

[#] Apart from a couple of short rides in nearly-empty trains on tourist lines.