> seven-pointed beacons of light in the MIRI test. There are, of course, eight artefactual "rays" in the illustrated MIRI 7.7 Â image, (actually more but eight principal ones).

Why do programmers make so many mistakes? Because all the fecking non-programmers aren't cutting any code. Lazy bastards.

Search YouTube for 'flywheel trebuchet' by Tom Stanton. I don't know that it's relevant to the concept in TFA, but it's cool to watch: the stored flywheel energy is almost entirely dumped into the KE of the projectile, although the flywheel moment of inertia and the projectile weight have to be carefully matched.

... I let my mobile phone predict entire sentences, it having learned (I suppose) from recent messages I had sent. It's disturbing and funny at the same time:

Yes I am that you can get the encrypted file is still in town? I'm going shopping for tomatoes. Would you want me to feed the cats this is going on. Don't worry I hope you got a start to evolve flippers and I are thinking about hiking with you. Furthermore, and that's what time are you leaving? Twenty minutes of you journeying through it was odd and ice, but I have to say that hi-tech get the encrypted data backup and a flashlight. Finally got a good time there anything you need to! Sorry about the outlook for a while, I thought sausage n chips and a good time there was something amiss in your garage door is painted the phone to see you all those we love from mum and a flashlight. Easter eggs and best wishes for her lunch break down the garden. See you later! When does the new baby daughter of course I haven't been able to be there in time to reach the station. Question for the morning, but I don't want to get very close to those salt and pepper shakers. Cheddar and it's a good day for me to come over for a little late night in the garden and anchor the phone with the bath tub, I just picked it up and down the day before.

> because code competition makes typing them really fast. [emphasis added]
Excellent! You can't make this stuff up!

The authors wrote: "...thermally modulated LFP battery designed to operate at a working temperature around 60[deg]C [emphasis added]. They're scientists, after all...

You're right. All John Smiths should be made to change their names to "John Smith $(uuid)" immediately! /signed/ Jonathan_157d91f8-5974-11eb-99db-8bdf42d4c405

Never having heard anyone say the name of the barely-social network out loud, it had never occurred to me to pronounce "parler" to rhyme with "parlor"/"parlour". I thought it was as per the french verb, hence "to parlay". >

The ceramic spheres are not microscopic. From Szyniszewski et al. as linked at the end of TFA:
The ceramic spheres had 13mm mean diameter ...

That's slightly more than half of one inch, and even I can see that without my specs.

Christ, do they have to turn everything into a beauty contest??!1

> UK's current electricity consumption is about 5 GW
Hmm.

UK electricity generation in 2018 fell 1.6 percent to 333 TWh, the lowest level since 1996 [1]

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A bit of arithmetic
$ echo $((333000/365/24))
38
indicates that that is equivalent to 38 GW, hour in, hour out throughout the year. Peak power capacity is obviously much more than that.

[1] https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F820708%2FChapter_5.pdf

Also, prior art. I have literally just bought a Motorola One Zoom [1], the blurb for which says "the iconic Motorola logo on the back of the device doubles as an LED notification light" [emphasis added] [2] which functions as a notification.
[1] https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.motorola.com%2F2019%2F09%2F05%2Fmotorola-one-zoom-perfect-every-perspective%2F
[2] OK, it's not shaped like a bitten apple, but I imagine that's not one of Apple's patent claims.

hmm. The first words should have been </sarcasm> but Slashdot consumed the markup.

, I guess. But it *is* why thousands of USAns come to Britain and goggle at the Crown Jewels, etc.

> Who?
Probably the Attorney General at the time the Bill becomes law
>is that even relevant
(i) The United Kingdom is and remains a full member of the European Union, right up to the point when it leaves, which is probably two years away.
(ii)The European Convention on Human Rights is independent of the European Union. Unless Parliament repeals the UK Human Rights Act, the ECHR will continue to be relevant.