Interesting Links for 17-01-2023
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andrewducker- 1. Dot Dot Dot - the finest review in the history of reviews (and a throwback to an earlier age of the internet)
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- 2. The art school reject who became one of the world's top glass artists
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- 3. The Bitter Lesson for AI - it's better to design general learning systems and wait for processing power to catch up than to try and simulate human approaches
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- 4. The sound of the dialup, pictured (For very old people, who remember when the internet had a sound)
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- 5. Why health-care services are in chaos everywhere
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- 6. UK government blocks Scotland's gender reform bill in constitutional first
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- 7. Lasers used to guide lightning strikes to a safe target
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- 8. Every so often I'm reminded that I'm really glad I don't have to date men
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- 9. Toddlers inventing words is cute and funny
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- 10. I'm sure that Apple used to at least *pretend* to do user friendly design
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- 11. What's the method that Westminster is using to block Scottish gender reform law?
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- 12. Amazon! Cancels! Clarkson!
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- 13. Dreamwidth is updating its anti-spam approach - please ensure your email address is confirmed
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- 14. A raccoon tries to catch falling snow
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- 15. NHS will be 'no better off' under Labour than the Tories, say GPs amid backlash over Keir Starmer comments
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- 16. Lethal radiation from space played role in Earth's biggest mass extinction
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- 17. Netflix Has Created A Self-Fulfilling Cancelation Loop With Its New Shows
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6 & 11
Date: 2023-01-17 12:18 pm (UTC)1) I think the UK government will win the upcoming court case on the GRA The UK Supreme Court is not (politically) there to overturn the principle of UK Parliamentary supremacy and will (I think) defer to the UK state's interpretation of when that Parliamentary supremacy is threatened. What else can it do?
2) Overall won't impact support for Scottish Independence or any particular political party. I don't think the GRA is a high priority issue for most voters. They might or might be more or less supportive of the GRA but most folks won't change their vote over it let alone riot over it.
3) The democratic mandate that underpins the politics of the outcome of the inevitable court case is mixed. Both the GRA on the one hand and the Scotland Act and the Equalities Act were manifesto commitments of the government who passed them. In a conflict between mandates I don't think it's clear that voters will preference one set of mandates over the other. (Bearing in mind always that most voters are not paying much attention to politics in any way other than in the 4 weeks before an election.)
4) Law students in 1st and 3rd year will be reading the judgement closely just before Christmas for the next twenty years. God help them I think it's going to be another Oil in Navigable Waters 1955 bun fight.
Re: 6 & 11
Date: 2023-01-17 01:00 pm (UTC)Re: 6 & 11
Date: 2023-01-17 01:10 pm (UTC)Year 1 as part of Legal System Law 101, powers of UK institutions and statutory interpretation.
Year 3 part of advanced Constitution Law or Human Rights Law or Employment law.
Re: 6 & 11
Date: 2023-01-17 01:24 pm (UTC)Point 4: The Internet Handshake Noises
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Date: 2023-01-17 01:27 pm (UTC)Scientist 2: Who decides what "no-one cares about"
Scientist 1: I have a *list*
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Date: 2023-01-18 08:45 am (UTC)Number 8
Date: 2023-01-17 02:25 pm (UTC)Last time I was single, I was utterly baffled as to why it was so hard to set up casual (but ideally regular) actual sex with men. Or indeed totally casual. It seemed many many were just not actually into the meeting up in person at all.
Not just on apps, I had the same issue with many of my circle of casual acquaintances (though there they'd more often make an arrangement to meet then cancel)
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Date: 2023-01-17 02:39 pm (UTC)Re: Number 8
Date: 2023-01-18 08:18 am (UTC)Re: Number 8
Date: 2023-01-18 10:53 am (UTC)17 Netflix
Date: 2023-01-17 02:37 pm (UTC)Re: 17 Netflix
Date: 2023-01-17 02:40 pm (UTC)Re: 17 Netflix
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Date: 2023-01-17 06:04 pm (UTC)Re: 17 Netflix
Date: 2023-01-17 07:07 pm (UTC)I think that syndication killed serial stories off a fair bit later on, but even then soap operas tended to have ongoing stories to make sure people kept tuning in every week.
Re: 17 Netflix
Date: 2023-01-17 07:32 pm (UTC)Yes, there have always been serial shows - in the US, mostly soap operas - that had continuing plots with no closure, but those were shown once and never syndicated. (As a result of which, back in the day, the plots were very repetitious with lots of overlap between episodes, in case viewers missed some, because there was no way to rewatch.)
But in US prime time television, major network shows, were - before 30? years ago or so - except for the occasional two-parters, always complete stand-alone episodes, that wrapped up the story completely every time and could be shown in any order. And the reason for that is that they were shown in any order. Both in summer re-runs (when no new episodes were produced) and in syndication after the show went off the air - sold to fledgling networks and individual stations and usually shown on weekday late afternoons - there was in those days no way to keep them in order, so there was no compulsory order.
Later on, as I understand it, technical improvements in distribution enabled episodes to be kept in the original order in syndication and re-runs, so it became possible to employ arc plots.
Re: 17 Netflix
Date: 2023-01-17 07:44 pm (UTC)And shows like early Doctor Who weren't designed to be reshown, which is why so many of them are now lost from the archives.
Even when Buffy was being shown in the UK you couldn't count on the channels to show them in the right order sometimes!
Re: 17 Netflix
Date: 2023-01-17 07:56 pm (UTC)Lost early television was not much of a problem in the US, mostly for geographic reasons. Even early programs that were shown live were often saved on kinescope before on-the-spot videotaping became a thing.
The reason for that was mostly geographical. If you put on a show at 9 PM on the East Coast, that was 6 PM in California, too early to put it on. So you'd take an electronic recording somehow, zip it over the phone lines, and California would put it on when their 9 PM rolled around. I'm fuzzy on the technical details here.
No 9.
Date: 2023-01-17 06:06 pm (UTC)Even many standard German words work like toddler-speak
E.g.
Gloves - Hand Shoes
Gravity - Heavy Power
Carbon - Coal Stuff
Vehicle - Travel Thing
Drumkit - Hitting Thing
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Date: 2023-01-17 06:11 pm (UTC)Hydrogen - Water Stuff
Oxygen - Sour Stuff
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Date: 2023-01-17 06:18 pm (UTC)Re: No 9.
Date: 2023-01-18 08:50 am (UTC)"Stoff" translates more as "material" or "substance" than "stuff".
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Date: 2023-01-18 10:54 am (UTC)but "Zeug" is "Thing"
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Date: 2023-01-18 08:22 am (UTC)English does it too. The only difference is that when we do it when speaking English, we tend to keep the spaces in. However, phrases like "food handler certificate" and "coffee table book" and "girl scout cookie season" and "crumb coffee cake" are still single lexical units. (They can get longer too - but at that point you're mostly in the realm of bureaucracy.)
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Date: 2023-01-18 07:11 am (UTC)https://at.tumblr.com/andrewducker/thelonelyskeleton-i-would-die/vax7vpfsatmh
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Date: 2023-01-17 08:03 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2023-01-18 09:11 am (UTC)Earlier today talking to myself, I called myself an "old person" but in a positive way.
#7 - I saw a headline about this and it made me think that lightning could be a great energy source if it could be captured safely into a systems built to withstand that magnitude of power, and if we could direct the lightning strikes to those systems.
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