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Could be a reference to the first webcam, which was set up to monitor a coffee machine
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_...
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In many cases the batteries were rechargeable anyway, the manufacturer just didn't include any charging circuit to save cost...
Seen some projects recycling them into larger batteries (but you need to know what you're doing) e.g.
hackaday.com/2024/11/07/d...
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If you have the contract it may be worth checking the termination clauses as they may have been in breach as Unbound (I am not a lawyer):
bsky.app/profile/alex...
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Stirling has gotten a lot more Island-y since I lived there.
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It is, I've spent way too much time building over engineered reservoirs and aqueduct systems to protect farms from drought and badwater.
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just to add it's clothespeg for UK & Ireland too.
Without context I'd assume clothespin meant something like a safety pin for attaching something to clothes being worn.
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To be fair it may not be the traditional farmers that are the main problem in this case.
(Moy Park are a relatively new/expanded mega farm):
Hundreds of environmental breaches by Moy Park
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Well the biggest UK freshwater lake (in Northern Ireland) has been covered in algal blooms periodically for the last two years. Although it's more to do with agricultural run-off rather than just temperature.
'No surprise' that blue-green algae back in Lough Neagh
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Wrong kind of football, but I now feel morally obligated to inform you that American Ice Football (sort of) exists.
(Players wear 10 pin bowling shoes for added jeopardy)
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Even then in the last few years there's been a bunch of cases where they've conducted DNA analysis and discovered that bodies they assumed were male warriors (due to being buried with weapons) had XX chromosomes.
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(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
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Not sure if you are aware, but tikka masala was more than likely invented in the UK (possibly Glasgow).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken...
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Yes, and that's why that now they've been caught Meta are arguing that the works are individually worthless, so it's fine that they stole them.
futurism.com/meta-copyrig...
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Absolutely! There was a time when I was decent enough at tennis (and badminton for reflexes) where I could sometimes return a full speed serve against someone who was semi-pro by doing exactly that, but they would absolutely destroy me on the next shot.
Serena would be another league entirely.
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Yeah, there may have been a time when my reflexes were good enough to stand a smaĺl chance at returning a serve, but not now, and it would've needed a lot of luck.
Absolutely no chance I'd have won a point by anything other than an unforced error, and the odds of that are vanishingly small.
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My first thought was about Football Special, then Tanora (Cork) and then Maine minerals (Ulster).
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Reminds me of Midgely, who invented the ozone layer destroying CFC freon to make up for inventing the highly toxic leaded petrol (and then was finally killed by his own invention designed to lift himself out of bed after he contracted polio).
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I saw someone else suggest internet top level domains, which is essentially the same list.
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There's a standard where you can specify which web crawlers are allowed to access which pages, but the AI scrapers ignore it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt
It's hard to block botnets if they are using IP addresses of legitimate users, and each IP only makes a few requests.
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Tell that to the open source community who are having to develop new tools to stop them? techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/o...
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Also still a thing in the UK.
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You can tell I still hold a grudge!
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I can definitely relate to that one
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I gave up reading a library book when I was 9-10 because it gave me a paper cut.
I checked it out again about a year later and it gave me ANOTHER paper cut.
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Rule 1. "Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men!"
Rule 19. "Always remember Rule One and ask yourself, why was it created in the first place."
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Looks similar to the "Patient Access" app my GP uses for repeat prescriptions.
Except I have the opposite problem of getting redirected to the website in order to sign in (it offers to save your fingerprint for easy access, but that has expired by the time I need it again).
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Only experience of being on the guest list was at an Ash gig (through a relation of one of the band members).
Met him on a couple of other occasions, genuinely nice guy!
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A few months ago I tried to install an earlier version of office on a VM using the deployment tool (for compatibility reasons) and it got stuck on 17%.
Tried the offline install instead and it still got stuck at 17%.
Tried a different VM and it finished but took over an hour.
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Yes, a pass where the only outcome is the receiving player getting tackled hard (i.e. setting them up for a trip in the ambulance).
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Ok, but that's a different claim from it not being an organisation.
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They are a non profit organisation of journalists: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organiz...
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Traditionally, the capital letters were stored in a separate drawer, or case, placed above the case holding the other letters (this is why the capital letters are called "uppercase" characters, and the minuscules are "lower case").[3]
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_case
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I did physics without maths (because I was also bad at it) for AS & A level in '07 but there were definitely things others had learned in maths that I had no clue about (although our teacher would also use trig functions not even taught in A level maths).
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Thanks, I knew of the other site mentioned in the article, but not Tanis.
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Yes! Part of the next paragraph:
As the heavens rushed in to close this hole [in the atmosphere], enormous volumes of earth were expelled into orbit and beyond—all within a second or two of impact. “So there’s probably little bits of dinosaur bone up on the moon?” I asked. “Yeah, probably.”
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The next bit is what has stuck with me:
"The pressure of the atmosphere in front of the asteroid started excavating the crater before it even got there"
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Possibly from The Ends of the World by Peter Brennan:
"The asteroid itself was so large that, even at the moment of impact, the top of it might have still towered more than a mile above the cruising altitude of a 747"
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Didn't know this was written by you! Only listened to the first 3 so far but the emu war episode had me in stitches.
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I tend to say 'Es cue ell' but that's because I learned how to do simple queries from examples years before I had any formal training on it, and that's how I pronounced it in my head. Most people I know pronounce it sequel.
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The original bananas were highly susceptible as they were all clones. So we replaced them with another variety which are also all clones, and are now under threat from a new variant of the same disease that wiped out the original...
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She was also against same sex marriage and recently called for the removal of trans /LGBTQ books from libraries, but she's been openly anti abortion from the start of her political career (Newsletter leans to the right so doesn't paint it in a good light)
www.newsletter.co.uk/education/du...
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Carla Lockhart has always been anti abortion (she's said it's why she became an MP), so at least she is consistent?
Campaigned against abortion reform and exclusion zones in NI.
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Was hoping someone had said Thursday Next!
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Motorola phones by default also have a gesture where you shake it twice.
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My favourite would be Transistor, but basically anything supergiant really.
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Been a while since I stopped at either and my photo library isn't organised enough, but I uploaded this one of Dunluce at night so it was easy to find.
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Dark Hedges has unfortunately lost a few trees in the last few years so it's less impressive.
Dunseverick Castle is the closest to the Causeway but there's basically nothing left. My guess would be the standing one was Carrickfergus (closer to Belfast) and Dunluce for the ruins.
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I may be biased being from NI but I'd say that the Causeway coastal route is worth doing even without the Causeway. Plus there's quite a few other picturesque places nearby (Carrick-a-rede, Ballintoy, Dunluce & Kinbane castles etc.)