Re: generally agree...
Somehow printers can smell fear, and act accordingly.
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Having a wry smile at the link to Nukemap, while talking about vaporising New York, as the guy who developed it, Alex, is based out of Stevens Tech in Hoboken (Go Ducks !!, spent a great year there as an undergrad) which if the bomb drops on Manhattan, is within the fireball.
No comment on the Stevens cafeteria food being better after nuclear fallout.
From what I've found doing "get kids interested in science" outreach over the years is, they both male and female, love doing the hands on, messy stuff, but hate the read chapter six and do the problems side of teaching.
So my thought is, maybe Comp Sci is going up against other subjects in the timetable that let you do fun stuff, with less reading, so those with only a passing interest go "well, could do that, but techy drawing* is less homework, so I'll do that instead"
know when it was my time to Choose standard grades (equivalent to English O levels) back thirty years ago- it was a choice of Chemistry, Computing or Geology as they were timetabled at the same time- Chemistry won, due to, well, a girl called Amanda....
* don't know what it's called now, was rebranded as Graphic Communication when my nephew failed it.
[Note not the G. Freeman mentioned in the article]
Yes, that's what's happened.
Back in the day, got EU funding to work at CERN on particle physics.
Then Brexit, plodded on until money ran out, wrote up research. Applied for UK funding to carry on- they hadn't set anything up yet, six months after we left.
As not in EU, can't apply for co-funding with EU projects, so most people moved away.
Then Plague happened, everything now Plague related funded apparently, if not just ignored (sent funding application May'20, still waiting for acknowledgement).
Also, CERN still working out things regarding visiting UK people- if working for CERN directly OK, but no word yet about collaborating staff.
Playing with his prey before destroying it.
Boss thinks he's got away with it, Will do something else stupid and then the BOFH will hurt him twice as much, or something even more creative.
My money's on the EMBA being from the BoFH University ltd, and as the course goes on more humiliation awaits for the Boss, at his own expense.
according to wiki;
During World War I, British secret services were divided into numbered sections named Military Intelligence, department number x, abbreviated to MIx, such as MI1 for information management.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate_of_Military_Intelligence_(United_Kingdom)
Wonder if MI16 is still going ?
One of my Pi3's is my day-to-day Work computer, has been for a number of years.
Does everything I need to do work-wise (read pdfs, check webmail/ wikipedia/ el Reg, libre office for when I do something) with no complaints from either of us- Pi or me.
Leaves plenty of desk space to play with things.
Bugger.
Like everyone of my generation in Dundee, had a factory second ZX Speccy, designed by the great man, at home.
For some of us, the computer games led to careers fixing computers, designing games, or a myriad of jobs in the great IT.
Me, it led to wondering what it was made of, what the metal inside was made of, and what was inside of the metal was made of.
Sir Clive, I thank you.
GOTO Valhalla
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From what I know of the Shetland Space Centre, they're using the old infrastructure of Saxa Vord, so it's not really construction, more "weeding and power washing the concrete", and the damage has already been done ecologically in that regard.
As for big rockets going boom and spilling fuel et.al all over the place, the land around there has been getting regular spills since the 60s on and off. I remember a small weather monitoring thing being launched into low-Earth orbit there in the early 90s, and it managed the sum total of 10 feet off the ground, taking out a seagull when it fell back down with a rather loud bang.
Know, how you feel, went back to the ancestral hometown last weekend for a look around, and introduce the youngling to family there.
The house I was born in, knocked down so they could widen the road to the 14th century abbey.
The one I grew up in (after moving) is now the site of said Abbey's car park.
Luckily, the house my parents had when I was at high school (third council house) is still there, so as my brother said "At least there's somewhere to put [my brother's] blue plaque".
That many changes to the old place, including renaming of school, you'd think I never lived there.
https://www.railfuturescotland.org.uk/img/Scotland-rail-decarbonisation-proposals-to-2035.png
The Scottish Government are talking about electrifying the lines up to Inverness and Aberdeen sometime between 2030 and 2045, (link above is the most optimistic) depending on who you talk to, with the line between them getting done...., well, early 22nd Century is the best guess.
Seeing as we've got these new 125 Trains going round now, don't expect a change for a while.
I was hoping by now we'd have those cool Maglev trains or something
"I can't wait to see what Slavery will be modernized euphemistically into by these clowns."
Through the Jobcentre (UK), they're called "workplace trials"- where you work 40 hrs for an employer for no wages (or even travel costs) to see if you are good enough to work for them.
Had three of the things before- one at a major grocery chain, one at a major high street discount retailer, and another at another retailer masquerading as a charity shop- each time just brought in as staff to cover shifts, then released after then 40 hours for someone else's turn.
Green ?
What luxury-
Mine was red, yellow, blue, black, white and grey- green was just coming in as a colour, for the forest men figures (who were re stickered as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles) as I was growing out of Lego for the first time.
Now, back into Lego again, surprised at the range of colours, but still miss my old sets.
Mine's the one with the Lego spacemen in the pocket.
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