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

@aral The USA has been rampaging round the world bombing the shit out of people for no good reason for rather longer than 47 years, hasn't it?

@ai6yr Having said which:

(1) When I've taken passengers flying I've trained them in opening the door as part of the safety briefing.

(2) When I have overnight visitors I should them how to open all the outside doors in case of fire.

(3) It has *never* occurred to me that I need to give *car* passengers a safety briefing on how to open the door.

@ai6yr It's solved for pilots. It's called "training" and it works fine.

Oh wait ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESJH1NLMLs

@anon_opin You keep onions in the fridge?

@quinn What's a "food desert"? My wife has on business trips to the USA stayed in neighbourhoods where it's impossible to buy what we in Europe would regard as real food - the only thing on offer is (extremely) junk "food" that is completely incapable of sustaining normal life. Is that what "food desert" means?

@ChrisMayLA6 And if one day the Greens win power ...

... they will suddenly realise that FPTP isn't so bad after all, and that in fact voting reform is a long way down their priority list.

@bmacDonald94 The consensus seems to be something along the lines of:

"There is no physical basis for free will, therefore it does not exists. But ... as we can't in practice predict how anyone is going to behave in the future, including ourselves, we might as well live our lives as if free will is a thing after all."

@bmacDonald94 "The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that... we are responsible ... for our own destiny"

And the next stage of wisdom is to discover physics and learn that actually there is no such thing as free will ...

@bmacDonald94 On our open day at Churchill, before our exam results came out, one of the party asked "what happens if we fail the Use of English?" (this was a bunch of mathematicians who were taking science A levels).

After a pause ... "we don't know," said one of the dons, "it's never happened."

RE: https://wandering.shop/@vapaad/115975141052792861

Yes. This is how politics is done.

@forteller FSVO "we".

When I was on a council committee organising HMD events the other victims of the Holocaust, and other genocides (eg Rwanda), *were* given attention. YMMV I guess, depending on where you live.

@keefeglise And at a certain age when you're looking at a job offer from a young company what you want to ask is "what's your cash burn, and will you run out before my planned retirement date?"

@cmconseils I was required to fill in some career objectives for the next year on the HR web site.

One word was all I needed: "retire".

@Infoseepage I'm sure you know what to do - turn everything off, turn the power back on, then if it doesn't trip turn things back on one at a time until you find the faulty device.

@steter @hstone519 No such incidents have been punished over the last many decades of the USA rampaging round the world bombing whomever they like. Why would you expect this time to be any different?

@whitequark I've still got a tiny amount of 1970s real solder left - lead and nasty poisonous flux.

But I don't use solder very often, so this is probably enough to see me out.

@Flisty We got solar first. Our current idea is not to get a heat pump until the boiler dies and needs replacing anyway.

@briankrebs In any other walk of life, "it takes vast amounts of computer power to run this workload" would be responded to by "so how can we make this code more efficient?"

@hellomiakoda I have myself occasionally designed imperative languages that you code in YAML.

But YAML really isn't best suited to this particular job.

#HomeAssistant

@sidereal Once Upon A Time a company interviewed me (for a contract job), but it became clear that they didn't actually have a job, they were just after some free consultancy from the interview.

So when I got contacted by an agency a few years later saying that the same company wanted to interview me again I said:

"Fine, no problem. That'll be £500 up front for the interview, deductible from my first invoice."

That was, of course, the last I ever heard of them.