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Honestly future generations will be aghast at how we accepted road deaths caused by human drivers.

I want AI to be able to do everything so the I can choose to do anything.

In the UK people from Liverpool and Manchester are rivals until they meet someone from London when it becomes a North Vs South thing. That all changes again when they meet someone …

Maybe we already have Universal Basic Income, you just need to have a pointless job to collect it.

Personally always loved me a Bland-Altman plot ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bland-Altman_plot )

Manchester is slowly limping out the Bee Network (or whatever it's called now) which is modelled on Oyster. Tram and local train journeys can be mixed on a touch in/out system and …

Never thought I would see the Sleaford Mods mentioned in a Hacker News thread. As a 50-something UK male I agree the world has gone a bit weird when the rallying cry for revolution…

Absolutely. Another concern I have is the demonstrable incompetence of the UK government. If they have my data, which will only ever paint a partial picture of what I do, who knows…

Don't forget the Spectrum ZX Next ( https://www.specnext.com/ ) if you can get one. I managed to get a N-GO clone from ebay last year ( https://manuferhi.com/p/n-go-full-include-wi…

The United Kingdom has a constitution but not a specifically written one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...

Rik Mayalls acceptance speech at Exeter University when he was awarded a honorary Doctorate is a reminder of what genuinely beautiful human being he was. https://youtu.be/1jjFEFyI8…

Yep. Many years ago I was a junior at an engineering consultancy that specialised in noise & vibration. I spent many a happy hour out in the sun replacing melted loudspeakers that …

It's a while since I ran fMRI studies but my favourite analogy was to tell people that it was like trying to measure your electricity usage by watching your water meter.

Does this comparison account for the vaccinations being administered to specific populations? In the UK it's been targeted at the most vulnerable & elderly.

I think the management point is a good one. A valuable generalist role is working at the interface between management and the specialists in the team. As an engineer I was much mor…

This is the curse of the hacker mentality.

Rewriting in Ada means it will be easier for NASA to approve for use on a Mars colony. /joke

Similarly Nim ( https://nim-lang.org/ ).

Last I heard Duncan Jones was circling The Black Hole remake which I would be much more interested in.

Interesting read. I guess you can view what Amazon has done in this light. Provide the best solution to taking possession of things. The complement being the supply chain that mark…

It's surprising how often you can replace 'but' with 'and' in a sentence.

The half dose was an 'experimental endpoint'. Always planned but not seen as critical. FDA rules now stipulate you can only register on primary endpoints declared before the trial …

Yes I think they only need to hit 50% for approval. Conservatively they were getting 62% as I recall and the 'experimental endpoint' dose got them to 90%. The Oxford vaccine is far…

I suspect the bulk of the population will receive the 'Oxford' vaccine. It's still going through the approval process but the UK has ordered more of it. I believe the Pfizer vaccin…

Surely you don't think he invented the name 'Pussy Galore'?