Sailor, software engineer, musician, terminally online.
Englishman in Wales.
There’s a type of power cord
You’ll touch the end and see the Lord
And you wouldn’t want that current going through ya
While male on male is usually great
You’ll find yourself in a sorry state
You’ll learn volts jolt but milliamps will kill you
hallelujah etc
I’m used to the British plug which was over-engineered for our ring mains which economised copper after the war. Most plugs abroad feel pretty flimsy to me except the Schuko ones!
To what end though?
God: I’m not sure what you expected really, even before AI we were just hacking everything together in Perl.
‘Blocked in your country’ unfortunately but get what you’re on about. The loss of Test Match Special on 198 kHz was actually a mild cultural loss in my opinion, cricket is supposed to arrive on a crackly amplitude-modulated carrier.
Europe has (soon to be had) two AM broadcast bands; medium wave which is more or less the same as North America but it’s shorter and has 9 kHz channels, and long wave which goes down really low from 153 to 279 kHz. Long wave is properly antiquated tech, you need genuinely enormous aerials to efficiently put it out but it covers ludicrous distance over ground wave. It used to be used for broadcasting the UK’s main radio programme to ships and remote areas, and could get a thousand miles or so out to sea with just one transmitter.
AM is literally on its last legs in the UK, even BBC Radio 4 shut down on it recently. Soon it’ll be just Radio Caroline and the odd hobby pirate.
We’ll come to regret it I think, the old Radio 4 signal could be picked up all over the country from like three transmitters and received on something as basic as a razor blade and coil of wire. We’re so keen to turn the internet into a massive single point of failure, and it’ll bite us in the arse with the Russians going about cutting our cables.
It’s like asking what variety of the ebola virus I’d like to have the least, I’m too busy bleeding out of my eyeballs to give much of a damn.
Literally the mentality of the English land-owning gentry enclosing the ancient commons and driving people off the land into dependency on them. It was bullshit then, and it’s bullshit now.
It’s straight up kleptoparasite mentality.
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I make my lights a bit higher temperature. Still not the vile 5000 K nonsense usually put in offices though more like 3500 vs the usual 2200.
I’m still a fan of emoticons personally, can’t beat >:( to express irritation for example.
It takes a really bad politician to actually become a noun, for example with WW2 nearly out of living memory we all still know what a Quisling is and why you don’t want to be one. Apparently Liz Truss was spectacularly crap enough that she’s becoming to gross incompetence and doctrinaire policy what Quisling is to treason and collaboration.
undershined
This word will now live rent free in my vocabulary.
Take it from someone from the one country that developed then abandoned indigenous space launch capability; space infrastructure is insanely expensive.
Black Arrow was actually good though, and Britain was mad to cancel it. Also cheap for its day, the government was spaffing money on far worse at the time.
We’ll just have to sacrifice Luton in a heroic last stand that saves the day from the invading foe. We could do it preemptively in fact, just in case.
The chickens of security through obscurity are coming home to roost.
I agree. I didn’t leave the algorithmic echo chamber simply to change the colour of it to my own taste. I say block conservatively personally, I don’t even block the Putin apologist contingent because it’s important to know your opposition directly in my view.
I only block spammers and that’s because of their actions not their opinions.
In fairness the sort of person who needs a song to remind them why male-male mains leads are an idiotic idea probably isn’t going to appreciate Ohm’s Law in any sensible capacity.