It doesn't work for France... Ireland is higher therefore the way to raise birth rates is to promote Catholicism. Or Guinness. Let's go for the latter.
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It doesn't work for France... Ireland is higher therefore the way to raise birth rates is to promote Catholicism. Or Guinness. Let's go for the latter.
Nope. Totally different character and creator.
Ah, yes, bringing in a board member from a hate group as Director of Communications. That'll help restore Labour's moral authority.
I was today years old when I learned that there is completely different character called Dennis the Menace in the US to the character called Dennis the Menace in the UK.
As Yvette Cooper pushes forward new laws to make it harder for child refugees to get safe passage to join their parents in the UK, here's a picture of her from 2020 campaigning for the complete opposite.
Bloody hell! That's one hell of a margin of victory for the Boob Hypnotist. Twenty thousand some votes to three thousand some. Wishing Zack the best of luck as Green leader; perhaps he can do something to drag the political centre of the UK back towards sanity.
I don't know how but I'm pretty sure having PM who describes racist protesters as having "legitimate concerns" that he "gets" and who brings in a board member of a prominent hate group as an advisor in his core team is doing the opposite of helping.
If you're connecting from a PC/Mac you can use www.facebook.com?sk=h_chr to get your friends posts in time order (ish - by last interaction, and FB just hides some stuff for the lols). Otherwise it's a complete trash fire.
Keir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
I wouldn't go as a cishet male. Plenty of horror stories around detention without any extra "reason". That said, the actual people I know who've been recently have encountered no problems.
There's been a big fight over gender-affirming care after Gordon Guyatt and his team at McMaster released a statement contradicting their former funders' public policy. I wrote about the whole thing, and what "evidence-based medicine" really means. gidmk.substack.com/p/a-fight-ov...
A quick tip for those preparing celebration playlists for when THAT DAY comes: "Donald Trump is Dead" has the same number of syllables as "Down at Fraggle Rock".
RAW data files are easy to read as data by design. I'd read it as RAW into a chunk of memory, and create a Texture2d from it in code with whatever bit depth you want. But it depends on what exactly you want to do?
If your publisher is European, it doesn't need to be separately registered in the US, it is covered by the Berne (sp?) Convention.
What is the Labour Party process for ditching their leader? Not on the cards for now, but if Labour continues to plummet surely the knives will be getting sharpened.
Won't this cost just be passed on to tenants?
That "end of the Western Roman empire" is part of the problem. The people of the time did not think the empire had ended, and the Holy Roman Empire was still kicking around the best part of one and half millennia later dubiously claiming lineage.
The entire purpose of academic discourse is to explain - to make less obscure, to illuminate. Metaphorical language such as the ‘Dark Ages’ does the opposite. / fades to darkness
But it's the opposite of that. 0.769 is getting on for 5x 0.179 but the bar is only about twice as long. It's like it was made by someone who understood the form of a bar chart but had no idea how they are supposed to work.
What is with those bar lengths? They bare no relation to the numbers shown.
Exactly. It is their position that is ideological about gender. "You do you" is an ideology, but it's not about gender.
In trying to emulate the Far Right the Starmer Labour Party will lose the liberal and leftish voters that helped win it the 2024 election and fail to gain the right-wing voters that didn't vote for it then and never will in future
Deep irony in a group claiming to be about protecting children styling themselves "Spartans".
This is true. The period between 476 and 991 was invented some time in the 17th (i.e. really 12th) century.
I was also going to recommend Wise. You can set up an endpoint (i.e. account number) in any country as well and get it transferred in just as if you had a bank account in that country.
Buy Motorsport Manager or Golden Lap instead. They're both better F1 management games -- if not as pretty as the official title.
Free on the 4th and 5th September, and want to support a trans teen giving evidence against Graham Linehan? Good. Here’s how… #Trans #TransSky
Sinclair ZX81. It had 1K of memory (yes, 1024 bytes) with an expansion that gave it a whopping 16K but the connection was so cheap that it crashed if you typed too hard and dislodged it.
Picking one of them is a great choice; I'm not convinced picking both is.
Last panel should be at least X+1 :)
Happy to see Bottas back in #F1 but putting him alongside Checo gives Cadillac a rather uninspiring and unambitious driver line up. One of them makes sense, bringing in a wealth of experience to the team to help drive development, but a bit of youth alongside would have kept an eye on the future
I think the media are looking at America and thinking "look how exciting our jobs could be".
"Single handedly" being sex mad doesn't lead to reproduction. I'm a biologist, trust me on this.
Quick! Dispatch the Liz Truss to America!
Unreal documentation stinks. It's there, but any search for anything gets you Blueprint rather than C++ answers. Half the time it's easier to read the literal source code than persuade the documentation to answer. I gave up and went back to Unity.
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Correct. I'm not sure about the last point though. Wheeler mentions in the paper you referenced that they were thinking about subroutines as early as '48 and so I think it more likely that the E/G distinction was included for more general use and the issue here just tolerated.
... the same 'U 2 F' (00111 0 00000 00010 0). Add this to 'A 10 F' and you get 'E 12 F' -- which, looking at it now, I think only works because of arithmetic overflow.
And you need to return from the subroutine function with 'E 12 F' (because you want to skip before the accumulator and the jump instruction you return to the stored value + 2), which is '00011 0 0000001100 0'. Location 3 is used to store the difference between these two values which is always...
Command codes in EDSAC 2 were stored as a 5 bit command code, a spare bit, a 10 bit address, and a final bit indicating whether the command was 'F' (short) or 'D' (long). So, if you're calling a subroutine at position 10, you'd store the return address with 'A 10 F' which is '11100 0 0000001010 0'
No, location 3 is used to store the number that needs to be added to 'A m F' to turn it into 'E m+2 F'. The accumulator gets the entire command 'A m F' stored into it, this means when you add the number stored in 3 to the accumulator it can be stored as the return op without further manipulation.
... this is actually a negative number. The command 'G n F' is a conditional jump that jumps if the accumulator is negative. Once it reaches the subroutine it adds a pre-calculated constant to 'A m F' to convert it into 'E m+2 F' and stores it into the address at the end so that it will now return.
Ah, gotcha. I think your reference has slightly misunderstood, or you've slightly misunderstood it, if you look at the code from that paper you can see that what it's storing into the accumulator isn't the return address but the command 'A m F'. A is 11100 in the character table of the EDSAC2 so...
So on architecture which has a "negate" operator, then the efficient method of storing the address may just be to use that operator on the Program Counter. Without knowing the exact reference you're referring to, I can't say whether that's the correct explanation.
It's not a general feature of a Wheeler Jump but depending on architecture it could be an efficient way of doing it. The Wheeler Jump repurposes the arithmetic accumulator as the return address, but you can't usually write directly to the accumulator: you have to carry out a sum.
How are healthcare, pensions, and unemployment insurance handled in this? Here (in Germany), employees pay a %age of salary for all three of those on top of taxes, but in the UK money is taken for all three from taxes. Is the wider provision accounted for?
This feels like a very @swiftonsecurity story but I'm going to tell it. Chat bots (not just LLM driven) are surprisingly old. In the mid 90s, a mark up language for string-driven bots called AIML was released. A small community of early hackers and devs got really into it. I was part as a teen.
People are trying. Hopefully we'll get there :)
This figure is probably massively misleading since it is probably based on numbers from "Gemini Flash" which they use to handle a subset of queries and runs at much lower energy levels than the broader models There are other things I take issue with, but the choice of median is the biggest red flag
I read the paper for this, and I think it's far more of a propaganda exercise than an attempt to provide real or meaningful data. The biggest give away is that they choose to give median figures rather than the means they say they collect, and no indication of the distribution.
I assume you mean the Rance Tidal Plant? Yes, there are some tidal plants around the world: but they're small scale, largely on rivers rather than off-shore (meaning potential sites are highly limited), and costly compared to other renewals All that needs to be solved for it to play a large role
Because it's very hard to do. The Sea is just an incredibly hostile environment in which to put generators. People have been trying to develop the technology to do it for decades and there is some promising stuff on the horizon but it isn't there yet.
The insanity of the West's abandonment of nuclear is the worst legacy of the Green movement. But. We don't need "magic" to solve the energy storage problem, we just need to improve and deploy existing technologies at a faster rate.
You seem confused between having every detail nailed down and having a plan.
Members of my family were tortured and killed in the Holocaust because countries like Britain said it wasn't their problem. Everyone said never again. And here we are. It's sickening beyond belief.
Oh and, even if it was true: (3) getting lucky once, doesn't justify gambling again.
No, they weren't. (1) George had a plan for multiple episodes (if not a script) when the first was released, and (2) they weren't handing them off to different people each time. Also: the prequels were utter garbage. A plan helps but it's not sufficient.
I'm still completely baffled by the sequels: who thought it was a good idea to plan a trilogy without, you know, writing a trilogy? And why weren't they laughed out of the room? So much wasted potential from Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.
Bollocks. The minimum to prevent contagion was done. They'd have been better off defaulting. Not only that but the dismal lack of solidarity hurt the stronger states far, far more than stepping up to the plate would have done.
True, and I don't want to belittle that. But it's not been enough to bring an end to the war nor drive Russia out of Ukraine. Ukraine needs protection that will stop Russia from reinvading and I just don't think vague promises will do that.
If countries aren't willing to risk mere cents in their own interest, can we really believe they'll put bodies on the line?
Before 2014 Ukraine had promises of protection from the most powerful nations in the world, those words turned out to be utterly hollow. Personally, I don't believe we'll see Ukraine in the EU in my lifetime, but we saw how little European solidarity meant in the credit crunch.
It's less than it had in 2014. What happened then?
The leader doesn't seem to have the first clue, so why would the MPs?
Season 2 is very good. Not quite as good as season 1 but very very good indeed.
Once spent ages trying to figure why we couldn't send a zip file to a client. Turned out the corporate profanity filter was failing the Scunthorpe test and viewed as ASCII a certain sequence of four letters appeared in the file.
An excellent no nonsense statement from the Women's Institute.
And more than that: the very firm narrative frame of asylum seekers being a threat, rather than a responsibility, a moral duty, or an opportunity.
It can't be completely independent of what they're saying, no, but it should presents facts ahead of what people are saying regardless of where the people saying those things sit on the political spectrum. The BBC needs to be much better at living up to its duty to inform.
Looks like someone fed that into ChatGPT, tbh. Complete with getting the numbers wrong.
Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...
True. But (and I don't have data so might be wrong) there are many, many more films made each year than there used to be. Not least non-US film makers in China, India, etc.
1990 is 35 years ago. I dunno, seems pretty likely that it's true by sheer weight of numbers. Since 1990 hasn't meant "modern" since we were disturbingly younger than we are now.
But... but... now I want a local bar called "Pour Decisions".
In my new #MotorSport column I make the case for Damon Hill, who IMHO absolutely belongs on the list of #F1’s great Britons alongside his own dear father Graham Hill, Stirling Moss, Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart, Nigel Mansell & Lewis Hamilton. Click below. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...
I totally agree, but this feels like the opposite of the point the person you quoted was making. Protect transfolk because they deserve protecting not just because divided we fall.
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www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.
The freakin' SUN had more moral clarity a decade ago than the BBC allows itself today.
Whereas the short term increase in infection rates I believe you're referring to is an effect over the few months following infection with Covid. Both short term, but different meanings of how short exactly.
Without wishing to talk for Adam: it's both. The short term effect referred to in Adam's piece is very short term - a couple of weeks at most - resulting from the increased activation of the innate immune system in response to a variety of viruses.
This is the remnant of a lost Ice Age culture I can get behind.
Personally, I'm entirely happy to call exactly zero fascist-sympathisers friends. YMMV, I guess.
How are they so clueless about this? How are they not even speaking to people with a whiff of a clue?
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 6336675: You have to actually WANT to write. The world is filled with would-be writers fantasising about lunch with agents, foreign tours, prizes, six-figure book deals, meeting movie stars. But that’s all mostly fiction. None of it makes you a writer.
The UK government is advising people to delete old emails and pictures to save water at data centres (right at the bottom of link). Does this work? Anyone have data? I'd have expected storage like this to produce minimal amounts of heat compared to the energy needed to find and delete old data.
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He's done a number on AI and LLMs. The key bit to understand is what the Transformer does. Usually I'd be more specific but I'm on holiday this week and only have my phone with me.
Those are videos by 3brown1blue on YouTube, if you are interested.
The best explanation I've seen is a sequence of half hour videos, which are great but I hate coming back to people asking for explanations with that kind of answer. They're the kind of thing that just easy that amenable to simple explanations, I guess.
There's a grain if truth in that description, but it's misleading enough that I think it shouldn't be used. It is not calculating the likelihood that one word follows another or even that one word follows the twenty or ten thousand before.
Yeah, me too. There just isn't good vocabulary for this stuff yet, it's either woefully stilted or misleadingly anthropomorphic.
Remember that viral story last week about Angela Rayner bulldozing allotments? Which even the allotment society somewhat debunked? I looked into one of the sites and it’s wilder still: they are *increasing* the number of allotments, not cutting them. capx.co/angela-rayne...
I disagree, this is very good news. Where the government passed bad law it should be forced to reckon with and resolve those problems not have them swept under the carpet by the courts.
I admire Mo Salah's restraint. "Farewell". Really? Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.
In 1999/2000 I wrote a WWI aerial combat game, along with an artist and a game designer. The artist I worked with was fresh out of a BA in Fine Art, and he wasn't very used to Photoshop, so he did a bunch of the textures in watercolor and scanned them in. Anthony Callaghan, you mad glorious bastard.
Plus, you know, a GRC allows you to change your birth certificate.
The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
