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@cstross@wandering.shop @quixoticgeek@social.v.st Yeah. The last time I had 'flu, I was so unwilling to get out of bed that I ended up giving up a 20-a-day smoking habit
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@forthy42@mastodon.net2o.de @stevegis_ssg@mas.to @LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt Yeah, same here, under plain British law. My wife kept her maiden name when we married, but my first wife has retained my surname all these years later. So when I answer the landline to a telemarketing call who asks to speak to Mrs B, I truthfully answer that she doesn't live here
At the vet, I answer to Mr R as our cat is registered under her name
ETA: I should have said under English law, but I don't think the other nations differ
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@LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot @cstross@wandering.shop Me too - it must be half a century since I bought The Jonah Kit with my pocket money
"A Quarter and a half of Hearth"
My slightly confusing order at the bar
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@Gamrok I was employed by Acornsoft at the point that Elite was being produced (I was actually the play tester), and we knew how good that game was by the standards of the day. Management (primarily DJD) was happy to spend on that art and on the novella (by Robert Holdstock) that was in the box. IIRC there was one copy sold for every four BBC-B micros out there, and given a lot of those were owned by schools, that was amazing market penetration
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@ecoscore @lydiaconwell @cmconseils Are you trying to make it unreadable, or readable but with different data in it? Because QR Code is going to insist on much more than a handful of dots for the first, and a sizable proportion of all of them for the second. Just look at the pattern differences between adjacent tables
(Assuming the case where it includes your table number)
The view from our table this evening
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@golgaloth@writing.exchange @cstross@wandering.shop When I worked in Dundee, not only further north than Edinburgh but actually north of it, I had this problem too. OTOH it's a south facing city, and when I was commuting into work along the shoreline, it was enough for the winter low light not to affect me too much
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@tj What also works for me is a cheese slicer. My cheese slicer has a wider blade than my potato peeler
That thing where you think it's April 1st already and you're dubious about half the headlines
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@IngridHbn@mastodon.online @CatDragon@mastodon.world I'd count Ghislaine Maxwell as an immigrant to the US. Just not in the way most people think of immigrants
The view from the Paris Nord Café this lunch time
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@valcurious@lgbtqia.space @alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space I'm now wondering if anyone makes pomace fritters, and if so, what they're like
Boosted by @cstross@wandering.shop
@feorag@wandering.shop taking notes for the next Edinburgh Beltane
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@Pepijn Does this count former parliaments? If so, I'm counting the Þing in Iceland, at its original location of Þingvellir
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@0xabad1dea Last time we were in Amsterdam, we took the train over to Leiden, but we didn't get further than the café outside the station where we were meeting friends during their lunch break. Time to return and revisit the rest of the city
So home from Eastercon at the NEC Metropol, and our cat, when he finally wandered in, was glad to see us
One thing about our hotel room that puzzled me was that it was single glazed. There were two double power sockets each side of the bed, and those sockets had a total of 6 USB-A power sockets, so the room has obviously been refurbished at some point, without actually getting double glazing. Perhaps that's down to the balcony door framing
And home. I'm sure there's a cat around here somewhere, but we've not seen him yet
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@dtl @schmerg @simontatham It's something that I have known but tend to forget. I mean, if you do output that value using decimal formatting, it's what you get
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@mrotteveel @kevlin Indeed. That 09:50 figure being to the nearest 5 minutes is not, of itself, a problem. It will be calculated on the basis of the courier leaving the depot at time x, and having a number of journey segments of predictable length. So it's the earliest time that it might arrive. The 2 hour, or 5 hour, finger-in-the-air value? Yeah, it's adding that on and keeping the precision that's the problem
The expected arrival curve is nothing like a Bell curve
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@dwcon Happy American first day of Spring to you today
(And happy 20th day of Spring to us Brits, and 48th day of traditional Irish Spring, and ...)
On a Eurostar TGV at Gare du Nord, waiting to depart
Argh. Bloody Germans doing border checks at this time of a morning
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@bellinghwoman @jackwilliambell There's also a Nescafé Dolce Gusto machine with coffee capsules
I have with me some Nespresso-compatible capsules we got in Luxembourg for the apartment there. Our room in the hotel in Basel a couple of weeks ago didn't have a Nespresso machine, and though @feorag 's room did, our capsules weren't her preference. So I still have them, and I brought them because the coffee machine here might have been Nespresso
Anyone want some capsules. 3 weeks old
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@patrick@mendeddrum.org @Tho99@mendeddrum.org We changed trains in Koblenz ten days ago, but didn't stay. We've wandered around it in the past and liked it. Bregenz is nice too
Which route across CH did you take? I can see a train to Zurich, and from there via Basel and Mannheim makes some sense
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@patrick@mendeddrum.org That's what I thought. It's just the alt-text disagrees
But enjoy your trip - I look forward to seeing where you get to
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@patrick@mendeddrum.org This time last week we were on a train between Düsseldorf and Mannheim, on that day's journey between Wuppertal and Basel. Not one of the trains we used had been planned, we just kept boarding whatever was best at each station - usually the train before, running late
In two weeks, we will be in Zagreb
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@tenkoman @cstross Hmm, 'cease' and 'seize' aren't usually homophones in English - 'cease' basically had an ß sound at the end - but frankly you write better English than I do German
(My wife and I have a Munich-origin honorary 'daughter', and she and her husband are also fluent in English these days, as are their kids who are trilingual English/German/Irish)
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@matth @diffrentcolours "NCSC advises against regular password expiry!"
Yep, that's an improvement
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@ariaflame@masto.ai @groxx@hachyderm.io @geeknik@infosec.exchange My wife and I are currently in Zagreb - can't think why - and have not scanned anything since we arrived. But riding trams and blasting is fun
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@davidallengreen@mastodon.green Ah, I was the play tester for that. The game that is, and the original BBC micro version at that. But I don't see the similarity in logos I'm afraid
I do note that the tRump grift machine logo has gone for the globe centred over Mar-a-Lago
Sooo ... as someone with Type 2 diabetes who is currently in the blood sugar good zone due to pills, would I want to switch to insulin?
(A local study is looking at closed loop insulin dosing)
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@Radgryd@mstdn.games @ariaflame@masto.ai @groxx@hachyderm.io @geeknik@infosec.exchange Scopely bought Niantic, Niantic Spatial was split off as a different company. All very confusing. Pokémon Go has the Niantic logo on the loading screen, Ingress had the Niantic Spatial logo
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@drchaos@sauropods.win @DrJLecter@beige.party @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Wait long enough and who knows, maybe it'll regain its old name. That happened with St Petersburg, which became Petrograd and then Leningrad before reverting
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@ariaflame@masto.ai @groxx@hachyderm.io @geeknik@infosec.exchange The article is talking about Niantic Spatial, which *is* the Ingress owner. Pokémon Go is owned by Niantic, now a different company
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@patrick@mendeddrum.org @Tho99@mendeddrum.org There could do with being a Basel to Amsterdam train. We've done it by ship, but that did take us a week
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@kwaktrap@mastodon.social I've played games on computers that aren't video games, and a 'choose your own adventure' game is a prime example. Therefore I reject your framing for two reasons rather than one
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@mfdeakin @mattblaze It's easy enough to decide. Are hotels interested in security or in cost? If the room number was on the key, it's extra cost to manufacture, it's extra cost because you'd need twice as many to allow for losses, it's extra cost because you'd need racks to store them, it's extra cost because reception would have to sort returned keys
So instead of having the room number on the key, it's quickly handwritten on the card folder, and you'd never lose that with the key
On board the train sleeper carriage, ready for the overnight journey from here in Zagreb to Stuttgart. Leaving in just under 20 minutes