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Yes, when I introduce my interests to new people these days I say "night-sky watching", instead of astronomy, just to avoid this problem. "Astronomy? You don't really believe in al…

Lying is a subversion of morality and strawmanning doesn't change that. If you can't state the truth, then don't answer.

"But there is something a little...alienating about advertising that's not meant for you." The vast majority of advertising isn't for any specific individual. I've no interest in p…

Syncing directly from a 4G signal would be a lot more practical than VLF or HF time signals, but I haven't found a wall clock that does so.

Because reproduction is reactive. If an organisation only clones others' style then they'll always be behind the curve and will be widely recognised to be derivative and lacking th…

"Device attestation is how you can use private keys you don't actually have access to." Read that phrase back and then ask "is this the future of computing that we wanted?" The lik…

I use my bank's card reader to authenticate in the hopes that it will signal a need to keep supporting it. But the vast, vast majority of people just use a banking app so I fear it…

Russia seldom publishes NOTAMs for offensive GPS interference

> No big deal. Sure, if it's obvious it's happening, like GPS being completely knocked-out. If it's a GPS spoofing nudge by a few dozen metres per minute, then it's not so obvious.…

> Yes. Be locked in. That'd be fine if the decision just affected the decision-maker's system. But the secondary effects are that it binds the external users of that system to the …

Which is now bigger than the Accord used to be, thereby proving the point.

Sadly, also hyper-unrealistic. Very few people can afford to save 20% of their income whilst maxing pension contributions, let alone maximising other accounts. Points 1, 3 and 5 ar…

I'll check it out. I'd love to learn more about John Bell, being from Belfast and having sat through many lectures in the Bell Theatre. But not being from a mathematical background…

The problem these days is that many drivers conflate 'beastly performance' with 'good to drive'. When a basic sedan weighs 1700kg, you can't fool physics - it's never going to corn…

> Saying they're not fit for purpose doesn't seem correct. I'll quite happily say they were never fit for purpose. C had a role in bootstrapping early software development in the a…

Unfortunately, being a weak VLF signal, it's very susceptible to interference and screening. My MSF clocks at the front of the house keep perfectly synced, the ones deeper in the h…

https://github.com/elegantalchemist/literaryclock

Clocks on microwaves seems to be a curiously American custom, driven by the fact that US outlet sockets generally don't have switches. In Europe, and the UK particularly, every soc…

Libraries in my area dispose of 'weeded' books by covert means, so that public ire isn't aroused by finding dumpsters full of discarded books. They are most assuredly destroyed.

You don't need AI to patch binaries, people have been doing it by hand for decades. It's this accelerating reliance on AI to do 'hard boring things' that really concerns me; it's n…

Premium Economy is so much more expensive than steerage class that it's not a realistic 'option' for the majority of potential passengers. > " OK well you made your choice...." The…

"Be a shame if you couldn't access them any more... Verify identity to continue"

I understand what you're saying about side projects but it just sounds... like buying a landscape wall print from IKEA instead of taking a photo and having it printed on canvas. My…

"An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid," Lord Rutherford of Nelson. There should be some name for the phenonenom of assigning anythin…