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Many thousands if they're traction trebuchets

It's pretty much a rule for funerals: wear black clothes and if you wear a tie, use a black one, if you wear a ribbon, make it a black one

I felt I needed more than 1L of DHMO after breakfast, I have been a habitual user for pretty much my whole life

It's there hope for me‽

Australian magpies have a much nicer song than any corvid

Public owned Telecom Australia charged like a wounded bull and provided poor service in connection or repair.

Telecom disabused me of the idea that government monopolies wouldn't exploit their monopoly position

The secure solution is electronic access control on the door. A key box is very hard to secure

Kelvins are abbreviated to capital K

Cool to 25, heat to 20 (Canberra, Australia)

IRL 1984 was fine. America was still good; the Soviet Union didn't nuke us all

Musk is a shit, but lying doesn't help

I really loved my Trinitron, but it needed so much space

Flat CRTs were excellent though.

That's been the military's job for most of history - keep the king in power

You can make a date from a datetime in cell A1 with

=Date(year(A1), month(A1), day(A1))

The old way of saying that is close to obsolete. One now must take it from context whether the "you" means you or one.

A human artist might have said "1/2 full" instead of "half full" but LLMs don't understand jokes so there's no hope they'll be able to make the joke easier

That do. The failure comes if the spacecraft use lower air pressure, then the ink is pushed out of the pen by the pressurised gas in the ink

The same thing causes some pens to leak in aeroplanes.

If you want the joke decoded:

-e return immediately for some failed commands

-u throw an error for unset variables

-s non functional

-a everything is marked for export

My favourite AI code test is code to point a heliostat mirror at (lattitude, longitude) at a target at (latitude, longitude, elevation)

After a few iterations to get the basics in place, "also create the function to select the mirror angle"

A basic fact that isn't often described is that to reflect a ray you aim the mirror halfway between the source and the target. AI Congress up with the strangest non-working ways of aiming the mirror

Working with AI feels a lot like working with a newbie

Sure, but don't lick your lips after