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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Damn. I wanted to post similar in the “Interviewer: explain this gap in your employment history” thread.

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I tried again in the late afternoon and it was functioning (whew!) Now just need to get IOG to correctly set up the charger so it doesn’t try to only use solar power in the middle of the night 😀

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hi @octopus.energy , I just updated the app on iOS and am now getting the following error message trying to log in: “You seem to have lost internet connection. Please check and try again” I’ve tried with both WiFi and 5G, and closing/restarting the app. Is anyone else experiencing this?

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not that I play games often these days, I think back to my “yoof” and wish I could type “tiltowait”

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FWIW, there are also 2 different tunes that Waltzing Matilda can be sung to - this is a version of the lesser known one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BO...

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"Waltzing Matilda" (Full version by the Stringybarkband).

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2/2 We asked Mr Ripling how he makes his “exceedingly good cakes”. How should I know? I’ve got a ruddy great factory to do it for me. We do note however that Mr Ripling makes exceedingly large amounts of money.

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1/2 It reminds me of a British Comedy show (The Goodies) I’d watch as a kid, where they’d put fake adverts midway through. One was a spoof of UK’s “Mr Kipling’s Cakes” which went something like…

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’d not heard of that so looked it up and I see one episode involves jelly beans… but the synopsis has left me none the wiser 😆

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You’re pulling our legs. ‘Fess up, that bottom right one is just jelly beans glued together 😝

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Are those fence panels down the side or more solar? (I have seen it suggested!)

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Massive linear motors embedded in the runway? Or Fireball XL5’s solution ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvm5...

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Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5 (1962) - HD Opening Titles

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I was in about grade 2, I knew how to spell its other name. Today I had to look it up, (ornithorhynchus) but was curious if it too needs a strange pluralisation?

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BTW I haven’t forgotten about looking through this .. just very busy on other stuff.

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ll try to give it a read when I’m next on a computer and not straining my poor eyesight on this phone!

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Apologies, only started skimming the paper (well, mainly the references section) but how old is it? It’s just that, IIRC, there have been a few k-DOP papers published in the past few years (eg at HPG).

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A “Mavi Boncuk” in Turkey. A standard tourist souvenir purchase 😀

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An alien's take on the Bayeux Tapestry.

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In case anyone needs it, to have the ‘mubble-fubbles’ (16th century) means to have a fit of despondency or low spirits, such as the end-of-summer blues.

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Has it got a mode for the monster seagulls that are found in the UK? i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/0...

A large seagull stealing a ladies ice cream in Brighton UK

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just switch to collusion, fusion, and the inevitable delusion 😝

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Maybe it’s just me, but I think I’d want even stronger safety standards than… “Also for the battery to not burn my house down while I'm asleep.”

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"We should never forget that Dolly Parton chose not to be a billionaire."

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A rattlesnake in Africa? Reminds me of all the kookaburra calls in Hollywood’s jungle scenes. 😀 (BTW I’m not 100% sure I get the reference… I can only think of a terrible, hand drawn cartoon/comic that was around in the late 70s)

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Woke up very early this morning, suddenly remembered your puzzle, and had a “doh” moment. I’d be fibbing if I said I didn’t find that sequence of events fascinating.

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Gratuitous plug for an HPG 2023 poster 😀 www.highperformancegraphics.org/posters23/Fa...

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A triangle pairing algorithm for low SAH AABBs?

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Not given much thought but I assume there’s something nicer than 10 choose 0 + 9 choose 1 + 8 choose 2 + … … 6 choose 4 5 choose 5?

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

And I thought only marathon runners would hit the wall.

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

2/2 On the graphics card one serial port fed the monitor while the other was used for video in (eg TV in a window). A Texas Instruments 340xx graphics chip used the random access interface for the usual Windows 2D rendering.

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

1/2 Another you might like was (IIRC) triple port DRAM. Around 1992 my employer, Videologic, made & sold a 24bit 2D graphics card that used it. Again, IIRC (and this was 30+ years ago so take with a grain of salt) the DRAMs had one standard, random access interface, and two serial interfaces.

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think one issue with Rambus was that, allegedly, (www.eetimes.com/submarine-pa... ) they may used the notorious US “submarining” patent practice, whereby a company kept tweaking an unpublished patent application. Thankfully the USPTO since changed its rules to match the rest of the world.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Curious about livecoding? Or always wanted to do creative things with computers? The Victoria and Albert's Digital Design Weekend is back this September, and I'm teaching two free livecoding workshops at it with fellow livecoder nadyaviaproxy! Pop it in your calendars: www.vam.ac.uk/event/xxlgbo...

A pixelated visual livecoding display projected onto a wall, with shadows of dancers over the top.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Gosh it's lovely

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Perhaps it’s just predicting Sydney’s inevitable western sprawl ?

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Minor nitpick: “Floating point keeps the highest B bits and throws the low bits away.” It rounds to produce those upper B bits, but you probably meant that and were just aiming to be succinct, unlike me.

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

(Or chicken if you prefer)

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Not with a predetermined format and fixed number of bits. It’s the pigeon hole principle.

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Andrew Glassner @glassner.com · 12/08/2026

Every day we're surrounded by beeps, from toasters and microwaves to cars and elevators. And they're all the same beep! Here's why: andrewglassner.substack.com/p/beep

A row of identical robins singing an identical note

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Amélie Heinrich @dispatchgraph.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I am looking for full-time work starting October. I am a graphics programmer with a AAA experience (Ubisoft, Quantic), where I worked with real-time rendering, RT, and console dev kits. DMs open. RTs appreciated!

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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 11/08/2026

"Census took an interest in me, instead of just rambling about their bets." chaser.com.au/general-news...

Chaser satirical headline: Single woman wishes men knew how to ask questions the way the Census does

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Simon F @sifee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

But don’t use the colander as a replacement for eclipse glasses as you will strain your eyes. (I’ll show myself out😝)

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...

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