Yes, I used videoconference at the Commission in about 1985-1986 when I worked there. We talked to the data centre in Luxembourg rather than two hours of train each time. Looked as though we were underwater sometimes, but they were well ahead.

As 'they' say. All the non-tech folks amongst friends and family, most degree educated, don't want this. Less educated ones fear it, maybe they're right?

Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... mainly the pretty deluded Herbert Spencer and not related to Darwin's discoveries.Tech-bros don't read or, anyway, don't read anything they disagree with.

https://permacomputing.net/ is also part of the 'answer' to energy usage, hence climate. I'm old, my first mainframe jobs were 96K memory, tape drives + 10m (washing machine size!) disk drives that managed large companies. More secretaries and clerks, which may not be a bad thing, entry level work.

Yes, sorry. Worse still.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... full of zombie creating aliens. That's my expert opinion.

I run the Elvis races every year: https://elvisraces.club/ and always refer to them as Elvae. Some v. rude people wince.

As they say, since they're just data.

Horrible company, expensive, weak, sugary water served by company that avoids taxes in Europe. Putting something in that will send me to the shithouse doesn't change my mind either.

I'm in my early 70s and have had Gleason 6: https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.12... diagnosis for about four years. I've chosen active surveillance, PSA tests and an MRI at defined intervals. It hasn't evolved according to the people watching it. If it does, I'll go to treatment, meanwhile I'll just get on with my life.

There's quite a lot of downside to both surgery and some of the treatments too. So, long story short, this is probably a good attitude as long as urology/oncology are paying attention.

https://perladvent.org/2023/ this is still a pretty good language with mature libraries. My partner wanted some CSV work and it took me about 15 minutes and 15 lines (no comments though!)...

I believe that actively building parallel and largely non-monetary household and local community economies with as little as 10% of the population has the potential to function as a deep systematic boycott of the centralised systems as a whole, that could lead to more than 5% contraction in the centralised economies': https://holmgren.com.au/writin...

There's quite a bit of criticism of this, as not being deeply researched. But intuitively buy less stupid shit, buy less often should have some beneficial effects, even if at the edges.

Slotin’s death has proven fascinating to writers. Probably the most sophisticated representation, on which I will focus in this article, is Dexter Masters’ novel, The Accident (1955; reissued in a new edition in 1985 to coincide with the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing), but versions of the experiment and the accident also feature in the novels Command the Morning (1959) by Pearl Buck, Stallion Gate (1986) by Martin Cruz Smith, Los Alamos (1997) by Joseph Kanon, The Gadget (2001) by Paul Zindels and Changing Light (2007) by Nora Gallagher. These cover a range of genres from the thriller, through young adult fiction, to literary fiction. The event also features in the film, Fat Man and Little Boy (USA, Roland Joffé, 1989), and is the subject of a play, Louis Slotin Sonata (1999), by Paul Mullin and a poetry sequence, Bloom (2010), by Michael Lista.

from: https://www.literatureandscien... I read The Accident as a science obsessed teenager in the 1960s. I'm not really sure why the BBC has revived this, the Oppenheimer film, I guess?

The BBC on Monday announced a partnership with Microsoft, Arm

Embrace, now wait for Extend and Extinguish. This is Microsoft creeping further into schools. I live in the East End of London, schools are under continuous financial pressure, so they take free stuff from Google (slick Chromebook presentations to officials) and now this. Gives them a chance to liaise etc. make sure there's no hippy dippy open source stuff going on.

However, given that it's a micro-controller at least there's no extra data gathering going on, compare Chromebook.

It still is. I grew up with COBOL and find it more readable too. Both fail as expressive languages.