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IIRC it was something like "hexagrams" which printed the I Ching hexagrams[0]

[0] https://www.iching-online.com/hexagrams/

That does not seem to stop the UK from wanting more surveillance.

UK politicians, perhaps. I'm not sure the UK public is entirely behind them.

Just bombard people with bad news 24/7 and they will believe the sky is falling and murderous mobs are roaming the streets.

That, alas, is sadly true.

Wikipedia[0] does have it as the SM83

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance - "Manufactured by the Sharp Corporation, the SoC contains two processors: the ARM7TDMI running at a clock rate of 16.776 megahertz (MHz) for GBA games, and the Sharp SM83 running at 4.194 MHz or 8.389 MHz for backward compatibility with Game Boy and Game Boy Color games."

I've used Seconds Pro[0] for this before - comes with a bunch of presets which were handy at the time but also has wide flexibility to create your own (a continuous 1 minute repeat with beep is easy.)

[0] https://www.intervaltimer.com/app

I've not seen any serious argument or evidence that Trump has experienced a cognitive decline

I don't know what to tell you if you can't see it from literally every public appearance he makes.

Not really, all three of them are sociological problems. And, at least for the first and last, we could already have mostly solved them but for the intransigent insanity of various political cults.

It's not technological progress we need; it's cultural progress.

I think people were probably offended by the lack of such covers relating to Trump's diminished mental acuity when it was on display for all to see in the brief period of 2015-present.

(Not just The Economist, mind; almost every MSM outlet has mostly ignored Trump's mental inadequacy from the moment he came down the escalator. If they'd reported on it honestly from the start, there would be no Trump presidencies.)

You know a gun or a bomb is dangerous, so you'll probably be careful with it.

The statistics on people killed/injured by their kids accidentally discharging firearms in the US disagree[0]

[0] eg. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unintentional-shootings... "At least 157 people were killed and 270 were injured last year in unintentional shootings by children" (2024)

Instagram does something similar - they have random ads in HDR which iOS will display at obnoxious brightness. Just what you want as you scroll by trying to find someone you actually follow.

Not to mention that there's a bunch of new anti-timewasting edicts that have come in for the World Cup and will eventually filter down to the various regional associations for implementation. Going to be interesting seeing how PGMOL use that to pick their winner for the 2026/27 EPL season...

There's a rope around the field, if the ball goes over it without hitting the ground (like a home run) it counts for 6.

On the larger grounds, it tends to be a decently-sized foam triangular prism (covered in advertising, obvs.) rather than a plain rope which leads to "if it hits the triangle" rather than "goes over the rope" (I believe "hits the rope" also counts but is much harder to judge for obvious scale reasons.)

Also, IIRC, the ball can go over the boundary without hitting the ground but a fielder can knock it back inside for a catch to be performed to get the player out[0].

Sorry, I'm just making this more complicated for the baseballers, aren't I?

[0] If they comply with the changes around that last year - https://www.cricinfo.com/story/mcc-changes-rule-to-make-boun...

And there is nothing wrong with vulgarization

My comment wasn't about vulgarisation - it was about Freakonomics' loose approach to rigour and consequent debunking of, IIRC, most of the book.

A quick search for "Bruce Bueno de Mesquita" throws up similar debunkings[0] and yeah, I'll not be reading his books after seeing how grandiose his claims are compared with the actuality of what happened.

[0] Including one which recommends Dan Ariely - somewhat awkward nowadays.

If the nation of immigrants is so great, why are so many people protecting themselves with guns

I think you'll find that's a particularly American problem - the UK, for example, is a nation of immigrants and we have basically zero guns (compared to the US.)

And why are so many people still talking and being unhappy about race and ethnicity if that's a total success?

Because they have been told that immigrants are bad, that immigrants take their jobs, that immigrants sponge off the state[0], that immigrants are eating their pets, etc. All easily fact-checked and debunked but people, alas, are easily lead by media-driven bigotry.[1]

[0] Schrodinger's Immigrants: simultaneously taking your jobs whilst also sponging off the state.

[1] Now this we -do- have in the UK, largely from the same Murdochian sources.

"Michael C. Moynihan reviewing the book for The Wall Street Journal stated that the writing style is similar to that of Freakonomics."

Ouch. If someone said that about a book I'd written, I would simply move to a forest and never write a single word again. Quite the damning review.

My mistake, it was the Switch 2. Using JINGDU "Switch HDMI cable"[0] feeding into a UGREEN capture dongle[1] which then fed into my MacBook for capture.

(Super handy when you want a bigger screen on the train or wherever.)

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BVZDJ8MD

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BGMYPBF4

Take either of Nintendo's 2 most recent hardware platforms: it doesn't effin work!

Assuming this is the Switch and Switch 2 here, are you specifically talking about Gamecube titles? Because I've recorded video from my Switch over a USB-C->HDMI->USB-C dongle chain (Zelda:TOTK)

That's quite a novel negative counterpart to "the early bird catches the worm"

Viaweb was, after all, the first web application.

According to pg who is an unreliable narrator at the best of times.

I'd say Navisoft[0] might be a better candidate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaviSoft

Microsoft the new owner has no idea what Minecraft is about.

They've had 12 years to figure it out[0]. Now sadly they've spent those 12 years working out how best to milk every last microtransaction and merchandising cent out of the property rather than actually listening to anyone and improving the game(s) but whomst among us could have predicted that outcome?!

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/15/microsoft...

Well, pedantically, demonstrated 148 years ago by Muybridge[0]

[0] "In 1878–1879, Muybridge made dozens of studies of foreshortenings of horses and athletes with five cameras capturing the same moment from different positions." via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time

Ah, might have to try that. I've been getting adverts for "proper" versions of these (eg the Dispo Parallax) but no-one seems to sells them in a M4/3 mount (and I'm not keen on using adapters.)

Bedrock is far behind on features and is far buggier compared to java edition.

But does allow you render distances and frame rates that are impossible with the stock Java game (and can still be tricky even with mods.)

'pm215 posted [0] earlier which does seem to be individual locations and species for London.

[0] https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-and-strategies/environm...

London here: can see 12 trees within 30m from the back, 10 from the front; 50m from a neighbourhood park, 300m from Burgess Park (140 acres), probably 700m from Southwark Park (60 acres) (all of these are well tree-d)

Stopped at "bumbershoot" because that's a nonsense Americanism[0] and life's too short to be giving credence to that madness.

[0] https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/11/bumbershoot-it-mean... "the digital archive of the Times of London, comprising 7,696,959 articles published between 1785 and 1985, yields precisely zero hits for bumbershoot"

It was an utterly pointless measure that serves to achieve not a single one of it's initial goals.

Such is the way with UKGOV, sadly.

You mean the people's rights to lure and attack my children?

Most child abductions and abuse[0] are from within the family or by people known to the child. Internet strangers are the absolute least of your worries.

[0] At least in the UK

Most jurisdictions regulate gambling to reduce societal harm.

The UK tried to ban gambling advertising during football matches but... "There were over 5,000 visible gambling advertisements during a recent Premier League match despite a ban that was expected to result in a reduction, researchers found."[0] That's one (1) televised match (you'd expect 3-4 at least per weekend to be televised.)

Not to mention that the Sky Sports coverage is sponsored by Bet365 (a gambling company, obvs.)

I expect any regulation of social media dark patterns to be equally successful...

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce9ree15yd0o

Not terrible although I am somewhat insulted that QWEN3 8B hallucinated me as the chimp from Jimmy Neutron and no, MISTRAL 3.2 24B, I don't stream on Twitch.

Oh and KIMI K2 0905 completely hallucinated a real name for me (I don't work on Pygame!)

Years of driving experience gave me an intuition that [another motorist wouldn't be a complete blithering idiot]

I regret to inform you...