Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 24/09/2026It's such a puzzle why vendors of more harmful product (A) want to be protected from having invest in producing a less harmful product (B). Nobody can solve this puzzle. 010
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 15/09/2026How about you take a haircut on your profits and pay for your pollution instead lads? 020
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 12/09/2026For the avoidance of doubt we have both in our home. There’s not much between them and I happily eat either version when in (metaphorical) Rome. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 11/09/2026This is correct: the economy isn’t overheating, so interest rate rises are a double punishment for normal people. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 10/09/2026Would there be any grid concerns about lots of buildings all generating 300kW on good days? I guess 300kW would be easily consumed on site, but am curious. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 08/09/2026Excellent cover of an excellent song from an excellent band by an excellent band. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 28/08/2026Previous me: Excessive insolation is a good thing! Current me: can we move further north? 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 28/08/2026Wow your man really thinks that feudal patronage is the way forward huh? Only his unfunny rhetoric is in anyway incompatible with unionisation, most else of what he says is perfectly compatible unless he's an ideologue (seems to be). Solidarity and mentorship. Unions and social networks. 120
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 27/08/2026Research job hiring! Novel database query language runtime systems at Neo4j (London office). Check out: www.linkedin.com/posts/jtc36_...linkedin.comWe're completely rethinking graph database runtime design from the ground up at Neo4j Research. The Aurendil project is building a graph database runtime for the AI economy, and our approach to… ...We're completely rethinking graph database runtime design from the ground up at Neo4j Research. The Aurendil project is building a graph database runtime for the AI economy, and our approach to imple... 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 25/08/2026I agree the UK needs to be predictable for fossils: no more. Make the call, rip off the band aid, ride out the media furore and move on. The current situation allows the wingnuts to continuously stir things up. Can't all the smart grown ups see that "pragmatic" continues the political self-harm? 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 21/08/2026It’s a spreadsheet exercise. But at that point my roof will be producing maybe 2.5kWp which is a lot less than a new array. Also my FIT generation payments will stop which reduces the incentive to keep the current system into old age. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 20/08/2026I'm around 7 years away from my 20 year lifespan for the main array. At that point it would double in power with fewer (larger) panels if your installation is a good guide. 100
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 20/08/2026Mine predates naming. Out of interest what are the physical dimensions of those whopper panels? 100
Reposted by Jim WebberNeo4j @neo4j.com · 18/08/2026Aura Graph Analytics is on-demand, session-based graph compute: pay-per-minute, isolated from your live database, and able to read graphs from any data source. What AGA is, when to reach for it, and how to drive sessions from any #Neo4j driver. 1-hour course! bit.ly/4qqgRNi bit.lyAura Graph Analytics fundamentalsAura Graph Analytics is on-demand, session-based graph compute — pay-per-minute, isolated from your live database, and able to read graphs from any data source. Learn what AGA is, when to reach for it... 001
Reposted by Jim WebberWolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 17/08/2026No, nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are not all equally affected by heatwaves. @carbonbrief.org - as so often - has this useful overview: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ho...carbonbrief.orgFactcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves - Carbon BriefAmid a slew of misleading claims, Carbon Brief explains how key power sources - nuclear, gas, solar, wind - cope with extreme heat. 16024
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 17/08/2026I wholeheartedly agree. Few, if any, benchmark papers seem to bear any resemblance to the contents of actual query logs. 010
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 17/08/2026I made inlays for all my cassette boxes with my mate's dad's printer - exactly the right width. Unfortunately the print faded quite quickly, leaving me with a box of indistinguishable sliver-clad tapes. Also it occurs to me that I never asked permission and it must have cost a fair bit. Eek! 010
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 16/08/2026Denser materials exist, but the ethics of pulping right wing opinion writers for renewables’ ballast is a blocker. 011
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 14/08/2026This is all quite reasonable and technocratic. The UK’s remainers were reasonable and technocratic. They also lost because these arguments do not work with most people. “Leave means leave” is so much more powerful and easy to amplify. It also requires little thought. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 13/08/2026We Brits also understand "collegiate" in the educational sense, but context matters. 020
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 13/08/2026TIL that the Brits use of "collegiate" (friendly, supportive environment) is the deviant and the US "collegial" is the purist version (that sounds naff here tbh). 100
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 04/08/2026TIL that the 100 came about because the ECB messed up 20:20 which it had itself invented. My MIL is a font of cricket knowledge. 110
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 04/08/2026Research by the UK’s National Innovation Centre for Data shows that graphs can significantly outperform vector-only LLM systems in accuracy and cost. @itpro.com writes: www.itpro.com/business/dat...itpro.comThis new technique could improve AI output accuracy by 80% – and tackle hallucinations once and for allResearchers believe the new method will improve accuracy and help reduce costs 022
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 25/07/2026There are some very decent people trying to rehabilitate the dismal science. And then there’s the rest of ‘em. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 22/07/2026While the press rabidly hallucinates about left-wing terrorists, and governments proscribe anti-fascist movements, today we simply remember the victims of Utøya. 001
Reposted by Jim WebberSinclair Research @sinclairresearch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Jonathan Cauldwell breaks down how enemy sprites work in ZX Spectrum games - from the simple back-and-forth patrols in Jet Set Willy to complex attack wave patterns. Pure Z80 assembly, beautifully explained. chuntey.wordpress.com 0142
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 21/07/2026Maybe the "moral crusade" helps move the Overton window back onto more fertile ground for politics, policy, and most people. 020
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 17/07/2026Last night I finished watching the first season of Star City. It's brilliant, anxiety-inducing, horrifying, uplifting, dark and a raft of other emotions. The cast is amazing, and Anna Maxwell Martin's character is stone cold terrifying. Looking forward, I think, to Season 2. 020
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 16/07/2026Last time ENG-ARG played this match, the score was counted in thousands of deaths. A poor way to celebrate a win from a consistently unpleasant set of men. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 16/07/2026Imagine threatening Amnesty and thinking you're the good guys. The rich need to be brought to heel. Duly donated. 010
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 16/07/2026Feels like a warm up to "we need more gas" and "hey, look - there's the north sea." Cynical beyond belief considering what her party did to the coal industry out of ideological spite, of course. 010
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 15/07/2026Some crackers and some clangers in here, but at least no C3PO or R2D2: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...theguardian.comBite my shiny metal ass! TV’s all-time top robotsFrom mechanical mutts to android assassins, our cybernetic companions have been entertaining us, their organic overlords, for decades. Here are the 20 best automatons ever to grace the small screen 010
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 14/07/2026Anyone got any opinions on 4G/5G home internet in an area where the signal is very weak (can't make phone calls indoors). I need backup internet and I don't really want to buy Starlink. 011
Reposted by Jim WebberAkshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...bloomberg.comWho’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? TaxpayersTo judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re... 22754461
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 07/07/2026#FashTag www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comFresh doubt over Marine Le Pen presidential bid as court orders electronic tagCourt shortens electoral ban but custodial sentence could complicate far-right leader’s campaign hopes 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 03/07/2026UK Labour watching this and then siding with Fox news, 100%. 111
Reposted by Jim WebberSinclair Research @sinclairresearch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The ZX Spectrum manual had a chapter on binary arithmetic. It explained AND, OR, and NOT to children who had not yet learned long division. Some of those children went on to design processors. The rest went into estate agency. Both groups blame the Spectrum. 1348
