Yeah, and that’s why it should be a cautionary tale for all other hugely important referendums.

I really didn’t like the Midnight story. You can’t go “behind” someone, but you can safely go partially behind them. The set design on that episode was annoying too. Aliss is perched exactly in the middle of a circular room, and never moves from that spot.

The Robot Revolution was also a really annoying episode. They had an opportunity to make Budd a three-dimensional character who was realistic in becoming a misogynist. Instead they showed him as normal, then suddenly revealed him to be horrible, and did a little flashback. It felt like they were checking boxes rather than developing a real character. It also had this really weird 1950s sci-fi vibe but with actual people getting actually disintegrated in a not-very Dr. Who way.

Lux was fun, but that nod to 1950s racism was really weird. I was watching it thinking “there’s no way that a black man and a brown woman would be simply accepted in 1950s Miami”. But, I was prepared to say “ok, they’re just ignoring the racism” and was prepared to suspend my disbelief. But, then they included the racism, but only in a “dream sequence”? That both acknowledges that the racism was massive in the 1950s, but somehow simultaneously pretends that in the “real world” it didn’t exist?

And then in the 4th episode, we have… yet another psychotic boyfriend. Out of the 4 episodes so far, 2 of them have revolved around asshole boyfriends? That one also annoyed me that they let the asshole boyfriend get a powerful machine gun and shoot on full auto for something like a minute and nobody was apparently worried that he might hit them. Also, the Doctor going off on the boyfriend while he is in prison felt very out of character for the doctor. Sure, sometimes the doctor gives speeches in tense moments in an attempt to prevent disaster. But, he has never taunted someone who was captured before. Much more doctorish would have been to attempt to reform him.

Sometimes things getting done is a good thing.

Why does 50%+1 represent the will of the people?

I used something recently where it wasn’t possible to use the traditional-style args. I think it was a “diff”, which meant I needed a “-f”. It wasn’t a big deal, but, occasionally it does happen.

He’s fine as a doctor, but the stories this season have been awful. The show has a huge budget, great actors, but it feels like they’re being written by ChatGPT.

That couch room is awful. No room for anything else in that room, and the way they took the picture it makes it seem like some people are going to sit on the couches and ambush / surprise someone who walks in through that single door.

The big empty white room with a small unplugged TV up on a mini stage is… a choice.

The decoration is pretty terrible. Insanely overly ornamental decorations on the wall mirror and the mirror in the bathroom, next to paintings with a very plain frame. A very bright blue toilet and sink in a bathroom where the rest of the theme seems to be metallic. A kitchen where there seems to be a mix of 70s style and modern stainless steel. Wow, and all the other bathrooms are very ugly. And how many bathrooms are there? The only decent one is the beige one. But, then there’s the all-beige office which is… wow.

The outside is nice. The floor-to-ceiling windows are awesome, but the heating cost would be pretty awful. Basically, good architecture, but some really questionable design choices.

Very patriotic.

Unlimited fusion power in a decade or so.

As it has always been.

Whatever happens, it should require a supermajority to leave. Say 50.1% of the population vote to leave so it’s on, then some people change their minds or some people die while others turn 18, then it’s 49.9% who want independence so it’s off. I don’t know if 55% is enough, or 60%, or 67%. But, it should be enough that whatever decision is made, it’s not going to immediately become unpopular.

If you want famous actresses who contributed to technology, you want Hedy Lamarr:

At the beginning of World War II, along with George Antheil, Lamarr co-invented a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of radio jamming by the Axis powers.

Why?

One reason is that tar supports both traditional style args “tar tf <filename.tar>” and unix-style args “tar -tf <filename.tar>” but there are subtle differences in how they work.

You can throw Margaret Hamilton in there, who was in charge of the software team that landed people on the moon. The picture of her standing next to a printout of the Apollo guidance software is iconic.

No, I don’t think so. It’s true that many of the earliest programmers were female, but there were very few of them, and that was a long time ago.

In a way, Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, but she never even touched a computer. The first programmers who did anything similar to today’s programming were from Grace Hopper’s era in the 1950s.

In the late 1960s there were a lot of women working in computer programming relative to the size of the field, but the field was still tiny, only tens of thousands globally. By the 1970s it was already a majority male profession so the number of women was already down to only about 22.5%.

That means that for 50 years, a time when the number of programmers increased by orders of magnitude, the programmers were mostly male.

I’m not angry, just confused as to why you weren’t watching the game.

You’d probably enjoy things more if you watched the game instead of just the stats.

English is pretty bad at naming these things. In North-American English they’re often called "Semi"s, which is short for either “Semi-Trailer” or “Semi-Truck”. Why? Who knows, I’m guessing it’s because the trailer part is only half of the whole. The front part with the engine and trailer hitch is sometimes called the Tractor Unit. But, that’s confusing because “Tractor” mostly means the thing you drive around on a farm. The purpose is basically the same, and the name comes from the fact it’s focused on something that pulls, but farming has such a hold of the “tractor” name that that’s what people think of when they hear that.

18 wheeler makes sense for the whole unit together. It’s also good because it identifies the thing that is instantly visually unique about these kinds of vehicles, all the various wheels. But, I’m sure there are many cases where it’s not 18 total wheels. And, when they’re used as road trains with more than one trailer, I’m sure it’s much more than 18 wheels.

The Brits like “lorry”, or “articulated lorry” but where does that come from? And sometimes shortened to “Artic” which makes it sound like it’s really cold.

Other names include “HGV” for “Heavy Goods Vehicle”, but that’s confusing because it’s not clear whether it’s the goods that are heavy or the truck. Presumably they’re also used for light but bulky goods.

Oh well, dumb language, we should start over with Spanish, I’m sure their name is better.

DeepSeek claims they spent six million, are they actually accounting for everything they spent, or are they trying to make it seem like they spent less than they really did?

Maybe the new Sporting Director will convince Arteta that he can widen his choices a bit. The absolute failure of Sterling should help. I’m sure it was partially Arteta’s choice, given that he’d worked with him at Man City, etc. If Arteta’s judgment of a player can be so far off that he didn’t realize Sterling was completely done, maybe he can put less confidence in his own judgment and trust the scouts and analysts to give him picks that he wouldn’t otherwise know about.