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@catsalad@infosec.exchange Daughter brought the collie pup home two years ago. The kids wanted a similar picture on the anniversary.
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AllyPally
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mastodon 4.7.2Scottish pensioner, engineer, mother, video editor, sea kayaker, curler, independence activist, knitter, SF & fantasy reader.
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@JackTheCat@mastodon.scot I got so annoyed by this nonsense I made a donation to the RNLI.
My recent knits have been hats and scarves and leg warmers. Take them off the needles, block them, job done. I’ve just finished knitting a cardigan. There’s a huge amount of sewing up. I HATE SEWING!
#knitting #JustHavingAMoan
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@MartinEscardo Way back in the day, when undergraduate projects were in Fortran IV, the big issue in computer science was how to make calculations more efficient. But they gave up on that and threw memory and power at it. Bloatware running on bloatmachines.
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space @ehurtley@pdx.social @Nentuaby@wandering.shop I once asked a sponsor for artwork to make a online movie advert. They *faxed* me their yellow pages entry. I made the ad and it’s one I’m quite proud of.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr We ran a video company from our rural home. The location was handy to deliver tapes to the city. We sent broadcasters full bandwidth sports highlights on a 512k up “broadband” connection, sending in chunks so that if one failed we’d have less to redo. We’d start in the afternoon after the edit, and first thing next morning I’d rush into the office to see what had failed, and restart it before deadline. Fibre rolled out here after we retired.
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@patrickhadfield Reminiscent of the Tory slogan from the 60s: “If you want a n****r for a neighbour, vote Labour”
How do these people live with themselves?
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@Roundtrip@federate.social @small_cypress@indieweb.social These are magnificent rules. I love that the speed prize for first place is at the bottom of the list, and seems to be fairly incidental.
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@kolya@social.cologne @wonderofscience@mastodon.social A solar day is from noon till noon. In that time the earth has moved in its orbit. A star-based day (sidereal day) would be from a particular star is due south, until the next time it’s due south. The earth moves along its orbit so the two are slightly different. 4 mins of time difference x 365 days in a solar year works out at about 24 hours as you’d expect.
I’m not an astronomer. If anyone has a better explanation please chip in.
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@chiffchaff @GreenSkyOverMe Dr Zhicago - what a wonderful typo. Please don’t correct it.
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Apropos to another thread which I don’t want to hijack, if you’re an art gallery check the pictures don’t have a reflection of the light above if you’re at wheelchair height. I went with an art teacher to see an exhibition of one of her favourite artists’ work and she could only see them if she sat to the side. So thoughtless.
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@kolya@social.cologne @wonderofscience@mastodon.social when I found there were different day lengths I t took me ages to work out what was going on. I’m glad you got it. The original diagram specifies sidereal day.
I liked your remark about speeding up, though. [Edit: slowing down!]
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@TheSnoopySnoop@mastodon.scot Not the sabre-toothed Loch Lomond midge then. They’d have been after you as soon as their radar picked you up.
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@yirggzmb Yes, for me it’s the process rather than the product. I have more fancy scarves than I could ever wear, but they are all different and were fun to make. And for every one I learned a new technique.
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@nobyeni I was inveigled into this one because of its unusual pattern (pictures when there’s enough of it sewn to make sense). But I’m not enjoying this bit.
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@Niall @Natasha_Jay At the 24 hour race at Le Mans a few years back, the queue for the men’s was enormous and the women could go straight in. Such an unexpected pleasure.
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@ChrisMayLA6 The answer is simple. Instead of one light above each picture, place two lights above, one at each side. Hey presto, no reflections. But more cost, more work.
Seriously, wheelchair users have enough to contend with, with whatever caused them to need the chair in the first place, without thoughtlessness where there’s an easy fix.
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@ChrisMayLA6 The particular one I’m thinking of was nicely lit for most standing heights, but hopeless for someone seated. I left a snottogram in the visitors’ book and also mentioned it to a member of staff.
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@ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social @jodotcom@mastodon.online Or they’re a carer, running back to the car for something. I got so many glares, but nobody actually said anything, so I couldn’t explain my wheelchair-using mother had left her shopping bag.
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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social Lovely visualisation. Presenting data well is a great skill.
“A system that can't shelter, feed, educate or care for its people is a failure. People in failed states will vote for anyone who promises to tear the system down.” Cory Doctorow.
I read this and immediately thought of how well Reform are doing. They’re against the system (though many of their high heid yins do quite well by it), but they don’t have any plan to replace it. They’re just against.
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I like the fireplace before the bling. Understated, and a nice bit of marble. I hope the rubbish hasn’t ruined it.
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@emery @sinituulia Or maybe use a kettle and a filter cone. You can get collapsible cones. And a filter paper so you just pick up the whole thing and put it in the recycling. Brilliant for camping, works fine at home.
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@LaChasseuse Cost, I suppose. They’re fewer in town, but the country areas are almost entirely overhead.
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@cflynnbooks@mastodonapp.uk An English friend was showing me round Amsterdam. “The old church is down that way,” he said. “And a newer one is along here.” “I can see that from the street names,” say I. “I didn’t know you spoke Dutch!” “I don’t, but the street names give it away.” Oudkerksplein and Niewe Kerkstraat were obvious to me, and completely obscure to him.
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@uc@mastodon.scot @HelenLockhart@mastodon.scot Are there still signs there for “Hatfield and the North”?
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@gregeganSF @jhertzli When did dictionaries start using “no object” instead of intransitive? I’ve just noticed this in the last few days.
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@LaChasseuse Ayrshire isn’t prone to earthquakes either, but we have lots of overhead wires.