Baggins @ baggins @beehaw.org

Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hert

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I read that in the voice of Jackie Chiles. Along with 'Yet another of my embarrassing architectural failures'.

Yes and it was a pile of steaming hotspur.

She's just following orders, a bit like the guards at Auschwitz.

What if you were conscripted into the medical corps? Or if you were military veterinary staff?

Not all military personnel serve on the front line.

This.

Cue cries of 'But bacun!'

Have to play devil's advocate here. I totally agree that naming your chatbot Aryan is a bit of a giveaway, but does it say that exactly anywhere? All I can see is Arya. That is a legitimate name, even more popular since Game of Thrones. This crap is bad enough without making false claims about it. We'd be quick enough to call the other side out when they made a false claim. We shouldn't adopt their practices. We're supposed to be better than that.

That'll be why I don't see them! Excellent. Many thanks.

How do I do that in Beehaw please, or do you just mean blocking them on mastodon itself? Thanks!

Yes, they had a million and one things designed to catch your head, knee, elbow, eye etc. What that diagram doesn't make clear is the bench seat running down the centre for the operators and Command Post Officer (CPO) to sit on. Underneath that were the batteries for FACE, 8 (or possibly 6) great big 12v 100ah lead acid things. Space was at a premium. In this pic I'm sitting with my back to the teleprinter and Bob Cooper was sitting on the commanders seat - it used to drop down and become a seat for a signaller :-) This would have been taken about 1983/4

Non gamer alert!

Started watching and have only see one and a bit episodes so far. I fell asleep so will have to go back to episode one and catch up.

Bearing in mind I know pretty much zip about the Fallout universe other than when I've seen it mentioned online, it looks pretty good from here - there's definitely a lot going on and it'll take a couple of watches before all the little details are picked up.

Seems to me to be a fun programme that doesn't take itself too seriously. Hope it continues.

The computer used by the Artillery (the one I was trained on in the 80s) was called FACE and had a magnetic core memory of about 8k https://nigelef.tripod.com/fc_computer.htm

Skimmed through the video and will watch at a later date. Absolutely fascinating. It used to work at a Raytheon company (Cossor in HarlowvUK) on kit that had similar electronics, back in the 70s. It was like being back in the factory :-)

When I was in the Royal Artillery (80-97) we had a system called PADS (Precision Azimuth Determining System) that was used for survey of gun positions. It had some fancy gyroscopes inside. I now know where that originated ;-)

None. Just the one built into Samsung.

You're reading that last bit out of context. As* far as the Chinese are concerned, *what the Taiwanese think is neither here nor there. The Chinese have decided its theirs. Nobody else gets a say.

Sorry typo. Fixed it.

This should come as no surprise. The UK's MOD did similar, albeit on a smaller scale, for training troops for deployment in Northern Ireland, and Germany/Europe.

I think we all know China is gearing up to attack Taiwan as they make no secret that, as far as they are concerned, it belongs to them. The fact that the Taiwanese don't agree is neither here nor there.

Same with Russia.

Full edition of The Lord Of The Rings. No question. It's not even difficult or a hardship. Just a nice long read. Don't even need feeding for that short time.

Excellent work - I currently run Endeavour on a PC and laptop. This article has almost made me brave enough to try a bare bones build of Arch on the laptop :-)

So say we all.

Been waiting to use that ;-)

If you're in the TNT market, I can understand why you'd need a tough phone 😉