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full time physicist (detectors), part time electronics engineer and python/ c++ wrangler. Now available at @journeyman_pedant @mastodonapp .uk
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yes I have a phD doesn't make things I say necessarily correct - same is true for everyone else
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@Helenreflects
I wouldn't want to date anyone regardless of their religion who didn't have at least a vaguely progressive stance on Palestine. What's the problem?
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@psychkes
with mental health services in this country it's a complete joke. They give you a few weeks of crappy CBT sessions then ask you if it worked and you say "no it was shit" they're like "ah. Well, nevertheless...". Mum used to be a samaritan, seems like things have only got worse
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@butleriano
Am hearing from expert sources that prigozhin"s troop cap has been increased by 2 and that he will receive +100 resource per turn
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@jeremywhorebyn
imagine trying to own someone by going to grab an example of a curry that's "fake" because it was "invented in the UK" and deciding on .... butter chicken
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@cd_hooks
Making Jeb Bush in 2016 look like a thick skinned political battlewagon sure isn't a flattering thing to do
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@HKesvani
As soon as we find a way for "middle aged bald men of all races complaining to each other about how little parking there is and how bad cyclists are" to be monetised we will once again be an economic superpower
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@cushbomb
Pilot light on, engines thrumming to life. At this rate we'll see full military posting power restored in like 2 months
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@quendergeer
Yemeni Russel Crowe currently saying "mr Pullings, an extra ration of karkade for any man who tags a cargo ship"
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@RichardJMurphy
Richard you're better than most talking heads out there but even you wrote a guardian op ed calling for Corbyn to go in 2016, that was the only chance we had to have any form of social democracy in this country. I hope you realise that now
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@falseroxy
Hello, I'd like to pay for a house deposit with this "had a stern father growing up" please
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@katiedimartin
I mean he was an already highly famous iOS jailbreak hacker, but just goes to show that being good at one thing doesn't make you good at others
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@DrunkRoundhead
@Devon_OnEarth
Hot take: it probably was but since they didn't have strong diamagnets nor any way of measuring electrical resistivity accurately they didn't appreciate it
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@alexandrakuri
Ultimately this comes down to the existence of the Fourier transform - any smooth real valued function can be decomposed into a sum of sinusoidal variations, and reproduced from those, provided the so-called Nyquist criterion is fulfilled
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@StateOfLinkedIn
also the correct answer is $10M now, because any economics professor asking this is by my estimate about 80% likely to be title IX'd in the next 3 years
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@tom_usher_
I wonder if you asked all these millennials whether they'd happily go back to 3 broadcast terestrial TV channels in exchange for a rent cost < 50% of their take home what the answer would be
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@laura_estah
TBF I'm a bit of a coffee snob and would absolutely never touch anything not straight from the bean a minute before I drink it but holy shit. £10 for a jar of Kenco powdered sludge.
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@milspecshitpost
ssshhh nobody tell them that not only is the Carnot efficiency of a "Sterling"[sic] (Stirling) engine dogshit, but it's near enough impossible to build one to do a reasonable quantity of work even if you did happen to have a massive heat bath handy, it's a learning experience
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@DawnHFoster
How is 'no deal' different than "attempt to manage no deal"? Love the implication of not "attempting to manage"...
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@cd_hooks
hell yeah the outcome of the Korean war was "everyone came together" absolutely correct
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@MikeGapes
Fair enough to want to own people Mike but it doesn't work so well from a guy who quite literally left as a sitting labour MP to form a very silly centrist party and never once called for a by election
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@macrocephalopod
@mattyglesias
this explains his recent book "one billion americans", he thinks that "billion" and "million" are the same thing and one's just a more fancy way of saying it
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@Allison_Dupont
Personal finance calculations can be much easier "done on a computer" than this test which requires a CAS
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@keewa
I've spent a fair bit of time in the US and of these places I've not sampled "cracker Barrel" nor "Cheddar's scratch kitchen". But basically, imagine going to Frankie & Benny's at an out of town shopping centre but there's no cinema there. Wretched.
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@uaustinclassics
I find the idea of "big naturals" an epistemically and indeed ontologically flawed concept, rooted as it is in a western centric culture fetishizing and indeed reifying the sanctity of the bounty of nature and yet not placing it in proper historiographic context
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@ByYourLogic
Yeah I'm here to tell you about project Manhatten, built a bomb bigger than general Patten 🎵
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@lee_and_mopsey
@JadeMasterMath
This is all true because twitter famously runs its entire data centre on zilog z80s and PIC32s that don't have branch predictors not any form of vectored operations
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@OfSymbols
of all the things you can criticize about brexit, the lack of being able to buy Grzeki chocolate wafer bars in supermarkets isn't one of them. You literally still can
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@CariHovanec
Let the function W be a bijective map over the set of things such that for each object m in the space we thus define an object w linked through W. Then w can be said to be the "Wario" of m
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@keewa
weirdly has "techbro" in bio but other than this, this is the type of guy complaining families on benefits have a "flat screen TV", when we stopped manufacturing consumer grade CRT ones nearly 15 years ago
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@AyoCaesar
In all this talk about Rishi Sunak Vs Benjamin Disraeli as the first ethnic minority PM I feel we have forgotten the insane period in UK media where they tried to tell us Boris Johnson would be our first Turkish prime minister.
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@lib_crusher
and you had Belloq. Remember Belloq? He was friends with Colonel Dietrich, and we don't hear so much from them anymore, folks, not anymore. They said I'd go out like Belloq, but, and you know what, but he was a very nasty person. No, you don't hear much from Belloq nowadays
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@johnmcternan
nope, let the franchises expire. As you very well know, John, given how hard you were campaigning for Labour in 2017, this was actually a near enough cost neutral proposal.
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@politicalmath
The only thing that most of us mildly technically savvy plebs know about Twitter is that it's famous for being a company that actually doesn't use a commercial cloud and mostly does stuff in its own data centres.
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@focusfronting
I mean.... He wasn't like some huge name in physics really , still isn't. He became famous from the Cosmos job. That said I think he's definitely got worse over the years
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@Milo_Edwards
Uhhhh, c'est un rodent tres grand.. no, no m'eentende, c'est un rodent tres, tres, grand
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@LondonHoskins
@TheKafkaDude
@ricercata1
The price of your petrol is dependant on the list price of the car you hire, so this analogy works perfectly
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@inthesedeserts
I used to be neutral to possibly semi positive on the issue of ID cards when I was young. ("Like they have everywhere else in the EU!") As I've seen Blair push them more and more over the years I've become rabidly anti-id card.
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@evilokapi
call me an old fashioned liberal if you like but I tend to think that politicians lying about absolutely everything in their platform to get elected is not really an ideal situation
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@lastpositivist
the rise of a new, parallel legal system where both sides "lawyer up" by hiring researchers to check your past publications, and you can "settle out of court" by both sides ignoring the other sides' misattributed quotes
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@fzjmmd
been on this beat for years. Some years back there was an initiative at our workplace that used the phrase "BIPOC" and tried to have a quiet word with the organiser because indeed they were from the US and didn't realise the connotations of the "I" there (BNP usage etc)
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@briebriejoy
she has more in common with Joe Biden than we thought... at least she stole from an honestly great speech maker, rather than.. Neil Kinnock
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@MikeDrucker
This isn't just a spice we're talking about here folks. This is the geriatric spice. I have reverend mothers come up to me and they're saying, they're saying "the water of life is so hard to get now we don't have any water of life" and. Toughest people I ever met
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@jamesrbuk
@EmmaBurnell_
Oh, are you not happy with this? But it's exactly what you wanted...
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@paulmasonnews
Can't wait to see a diagram in 3 years time with an arrow between "south Pembrokeshire CLP executive committee" and "sputnik news"
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@allahliker
it could actually be that our theory of General Relativity is (like Newtonian Gravity) an approximation to the real theory, and that a more accurate gravitational theory would explain away the need for "dark energy"
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@carbdiem
I've visited LA several times and am literally about to move there next year. And like a bloody minded Brit I damn well walked everywhere lack of transport be damned and I will again.
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@paulmasonnews
@DannyBeales
Paul we are *completely literally* doing what Starmer and the rest of the Labour right told us to. They said they'd be "better off without us" and we are just going along with what they asked for.
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@bierkonceagain
Fiona Bruce: and this week on BBC question time we have: conservative MP sir Bernard Fucksley. For Labour, David Briefcase. Kate Pinochet-Wallington of the telegraph, and Nigel Farage (again)
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@BazakeMedia
How many points does he cost and can I take him as an HQ choice in my Imperial guard arny
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@rosielanners
Terrified at the implications of the existence of a person called "Alix Mountbatten"
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@LukasMukasPukas
if you want to get the bus from outside my mum's house you can't anymore. There's a bus stop right there that has "no routes service this stop" written on it. Only school buses stop there now but don't take on any passengers.
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@ByYourLogic
I've always admired the USA, definitely a more free country than we are in many ways (1st amendment), which is why you should be able to have a rule that anyone who gets a laugh like that in public woth a joke this shit immediately gets to take over presenting SNL
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@piercepenniless
This article just pulled over in a land rover discovery sport, rolled the window down, and asked me if I knew where the tennis club is
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@pgirguis
This is 100% true but they should have explained Shia labeoufs absence by him being a postdoc whose external funding ran out
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@johnb78
@chrisapplegate
Are you taking the piss/ have you ever taken a rail journey outside zone 6 in the UK?
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@meadwaj
it's ok, I hear Paul Mason has got a full tank of diesel in his Volvo and is ready to arrive at any selection meeting in the country in less than 19 hours notice.
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@romanhelmetguy
now I ain't no historian, but I do know that "liking cool guys" isn't synonymous with "studying history"
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@Dannyjm__
what's so "fearless" about them that the music journos are so off their tits about it? Did they write a sensible centrist "fuck brexit" song or something?
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@Women4Wes
a grand a week? I'm thinking I may have picked the wrong profession and following my dad's footsteps as a professional hole digger would have been a good idea
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@willuminare
junior Tory ministers on TV breathing from bags filled with asbesdos powder, like Obama drinking the flint water or Edwina Curry telling us eggs all had salmonella
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@carbdiem
At nearly 35 I am no longer a young person but 10 years post PhD with an easily 70 hour a week job that's allegedly hugely prestigious and rent on a shitty place on the outskirts of the city that still takes more than half my take home is a bit 💀
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@paulmasonnews
Lula, one of the only success stories of social democracy in the last 2 decades, getting an arrow drawn from him to Putin I see
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@combinatola
Or even : "here's 5 guys who have once had a half decent idea in their career". Get out of here with these high flyers who have no relevance to me
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@SzMarsupial
would be funny if all the people around him in the midwest were ostracising him because they felt he came across super weird and racist whenever he tried to bring up the problems of the "volk" at the local garage sale
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@tarenceray
The US navy is about to find out why America didn't have free healthcare and also why even mid level execs at Ratheon and general dynamics can afford 3 houses and a summer ski trip
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@JessicaLBarnard
Imagine knowing the word "tankie" and then thinking the most "tankie" publication going is... Jacobin
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@CerberusXt
@givinguponman
look I don't mind a bit of rough and tumble but it's way too soon to be posting this and mocking the dead.
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@cerrigydefaid
@EvaWiseman
I guess it's possible that she changed her view on this due to COVID and such. Which, fine, but if you actually read the two pieces the former is never referenced in the latter like "wow how silly I was being saying we shouldn't get extra bank holidays".
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@BareLeft
I occasionally read through it when I happen to be in a spoons and it is fucking crazy
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@nickw84
@dragondroptools
One girl I went to uni (yes, Cambridge) with who was very rich and privately educated once protested she wasn't that posh despite having a big townhouse in Hammersmith because "we don't have a range rover we only have a RAV4"
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@arusbridger
"impartiality" simply means "no reporting on Israel's war crimes nor anything the Torys have done. However, if Jeremy Corbyn says anything left wing we will accuse him of nationalising sausages"
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@jeremywhorebyn
I have to declare an interest as a Very White English Big Northern Lad who loves a good "fake curry", i.e. a Phaal. The idea that Murgh Makhani, of all things, was invented by the English actually is quite offensive to the subcontinent's cuisine in itself
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@bolton69420
Every time I've ever seen anything about early years maths education in the US it makes me insane. The only correct answer to this problem is that the notation isn't sufficiently unambiguous....
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@Maoskyist
@AaronBastani
Look there are things I like about Aaron and Novara and plenty I dislike but this "appearing alongside right-wingers " thing is just ridiculous. Yes he appears alongside right wingers, almost exclusively to tell them to fuck off. Would you rather they didn't get told to fuck off?
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@cymrurouge
this is one of those articles you give to your friends like a classic album they haven't come across
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@allahliker
and to make one final point, a lot of people don't like the name "Dark Energy", because it implies there is an actual _thing_ like a particle or whatever there. That may well be true, but it could also be just an actual property of spacetime itself.
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@ryfoxbread
B92CG-WHFPQ-H9K6.... and the rest of it is gone. I did a LOT of win98 SE installs back in the day
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@paulmasonnews
@ChloeSchlosberg
@STWuk
People who've just spent an hour on the Spectator podcast talking to Fraser Nelson perhaps shouldn't throw stones
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@mcmansionhell
You don't understand - the demand for completely windowless apartments would be very high because it's easier to decorate them to look like star trek
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@leechwaifu
I'm fully willing to believe Stephen Fry has faced hideous amounts of disgusting anti-semitism.... almost all of which will have been meted out by other pupils and teachers at Uppingham school
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@nise_yoshimi
Referring to gin soaked ancient oafs who can barely stumble out of the Nags head across the road to television centre to "tell it how it is" as "big beasts"
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