Interesting Links for 13-01-2022
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andrewducker- Covid loses almost all its ability to infect after 20 minutes.
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- Lorries stuck at checkpoints for four days due to terrible new Brexit red tape
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- Having just finished re-reading Sandman I enjoyed this person documenting their re-read.
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- Using American spellings is cheating, Wordle told
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- Atomic mushroom clouds are big. Really big. You might think it's a long way up Mount Everest, but that's peanuts compared to an atomic mushroom cloud
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- Firefox bug is causing it to hang. Here's the solution
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- How a livestreamed roleplaying game's bid to make an animated version became the biggest kickstarter campaign ever, and got a Prime deal out of it.
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- Satisfying simulations of bouncing balls obeying physical laws; for a fleeting moment during the simulation, the balls pass through a beautiful regular pattern
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Date: 2022-01-13 12:40 pm (UTC)2. Depression in service to (a) dictatorship-building and money-laundering.
6. Okay...
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Date: 2022-01-13 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-13 05:31 pm (UTC)Is that a bug, or a feature? I mean, people who voted for Brexit wanted a customs regime erected between the UK and the EU, right? That was part of the whole point. And now they've got what they wanted.
"Here's the solution"
Here's what? What I read at that link is a bunch of techies arguing with each other as to what the best solution is, and expressing their ideas in forms that lay readers can't follow. Change the thingamajig from bip to bop - well, how do you change the thingamajig?
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Date: 2022-01-13 05:42 pm (UTC)I'm afraid you misunderstand, we were promised that Europe would give us an amazing deal that would be, if anything, even better than what we had before. I'm sure that will be along any minute now.
Brexit red tape
Date: 2022-01-13 06:12 pm (UTC)Re: Brexit red tape
Date: 2022-01-13 06:41 pm (UTC)Re: Brexit red tape
Date: 2022-01-13 07:54 pm (UTC)Re: Brexit red tape
Date: 2022-01-13 07:55 pm (UTC)Re: Brexit red tape
Date: 2022-01-14 04:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-13 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-19 08:11 pm (UTC)It's worth reading the text attached to the video. If I'm understanding it correctly, it looks improbably neat because they totally cheat -- they're starting with the nice brief image they want to show, and then run the physics backwards to get a starting point that produces that. It's a lovely proof of concept of what you can do when you completely control the world...