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Billionaires don’t worry. Not in the main. We’re going through a series of ever record breaking heat waves where the only thing you can be sure of is that it will be worse next yea…

This is an interesting response. I think you know that “windmill” isn’t just a synonym for wind turbine but a politicised insult originating in the fossil fuel lobby.

Coal mines are often associated with massive slag heaps and they can be over 200m in height. They are not pretty but what they lack in beauty they make up for with danger to the lo…

Yeah, what is it with people calling turbines "windmills"? They don't grind corn. Is it supposed to be a some kind of cheesy insult? It just makes you sound stupid if you call them…

This is/was a project in the USA. Europe is baffled by this US administration but has no say if the US does something so short-sighted. It's not like the Trump administration is st…

Apparently the actual Yamaha CS-80 used by Vangelis on Blade Runner along with his patches is at Nemo Studios in London. That's like a priceless holy relic as far as I'm concerned.…

> Have you had any training? > Hans: Oh yes — I have had two weeks of piano lessons! Germans are much funnier than they are given credit for!

The really interesting thing about the MC-8 is that it’s pre-MIDI, so CV and gate. Tangerine Dream are listed as users on the wiki page so I guess he could have got it from them wi…

Of course. “Body count” is a poor proxy for fidelity. That doesn’t mean it hasn’t historically been used for that purpose.

Probably no one actually follows this rule. That doesn't mean that teenage boys are either the origin or the ones perpetuating it. They're just an easy target to throw crap at.

I believe it came from a womens' dating forum. Now do most women seriously follow it? Almost certainly not but I don't know any blokes that care about this rule. Why would they? Ar…

Depends on what the goal is. If it's just dating or a one night stand I think men can sometimes have potentially no standards at all. If it's about marriage then there's things lik…

> No one was talking about "body count" (at least not publicly) ten years ago. People have been talking about virginity and monogamy for 1000s of years. Men want to know that the c…

"Guys" that follow 6-6-6? This is a dating rule by women for women, not guys.

I think maybe the famous surviving Risc OS application might be Sibelius music notation program. It’s owned by Avid now but it started as the work of two brothers on an Acorn Archi…

This is a nice update. Is it possible to either have multiple ractors dispatching jobs with fibres or to set up multiple queues with different strategies? E.g. one for IO bound and…

You can fuck right off trying to create a closed league where only a "chosen" few clubs take part. It might just be an entertainment spectacle to you but for others it's very tied …

I also treat articles about production optimisation with a bit of caution when they don't include any numbers to back up the claims. If you're saying "do this, get that", you shoul…

Bukowski was a fan on new technology even towards the end of his life: > “Yes, you have a strange project: electronic books. It might be the future as more and more people find tha…

> the closer it is to what the artist intended, and to how it would sound if the artist was playing right in front of you This doesn't really bear any relationship to what happens …

> I have an Australian acquaintance who got into trouble recently since he was born in Scotland but moved to Australia as a child. He's not a member of ACDC is he? ;) I think many …

I would prefer to backup and wipe my phone before travelling. Then have some planned means of restoring the backup when it's safe to do so. Being caught with a honeypot looks much …