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If you find yourself in West London, also check out Brunel University, all of the older buildings are pure brutalism

Wearing this as an actual crown might leave one feeling light headed I'll get my coat

Very cryptic; what are you actually saying here?

I don't recall the bot he was using, it was a rushed portion of the presentation to make the point that "yes these tools exist, but be mindful of the output - they're not a magic w…

> If a data science team modeled something incorrectly in their simulation, who's gonna catch it? Usually nobody. At least not until it's too late. Will you say "this doesn't look …

While we're on an Olivia Colman thread, I can't leave 'Green Wing' unmentioned

How disappointing. Been using premium for a decade now (got it in a 10p sale back in 2015! Those were the days) Time to start scoping out replacements, this thread is a great start…

Land of the f(r)ee

I'm scrolling before coffee and initially took your acronym as India Pale Ale, which would certainly be a different cleaning experience...

That's a throwback! I remember being excited about the Optimus Maximus back around '06! Never heard of any actually making it out into the wild...

Managed to see them in London a few months back, can definitely echo the recommendation! (The warm up act could have done with a sound check but I was very impressed with his playi…

Volkswagen already had this idea... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

I am more familiar with (and more partial to) a California Roll consisting of 'crab' sticks, avocado, and cucumber, wrapped in seaweed and then rice.

This always gets the pearl-clutchers out of the woodwork - you're gathering a few hundred of the world's fittest people in peak performance mode in the same place for a few weeks, …

Totally personally skewed perspective, but thinking about the number of systems I've installed VLC on, some multiple times through rebuilds etc, 6 billion feels like a huge underes…

It's that old adage once again... throw enough goose shit at the wall and eventually you'll treat cancer.

I went to this exhibit at the weekend! Some truly awesome pictures (and a handful of runners up that left me wondering how easy it is to do, really) One of the most interesting com…

Most people have an above-average number of legs.

Unless the comment above has been edited, I make that 100 days?

Well, now I have a goal!

> bubbled (as another mentioned, yeah, probably chlorine gas) Suddenly I am reminded of my A-level Physics project, where I tested the relationship between salinity and conductivit…

If someone wanted to track me when I was a teenager they would have needed to access the mobile network and triangulate the signal from my 3310

Tangentially reminds me of how, in an early build of Win11, the localisation team at M$ changed 'zip' to 'postcode' for the GB language pack People then had a lot of fun being unab…

A highly necessary change, to be sure

Either the gif's not loaded right or I'm more broken than I thought, but I'm only seeing two distinct flashes - one left and one right...