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    1. gomezz

      Assume v. Presume

      One modern language usage that bugs the hell out of me is saying "learnings" rather than "lessons". Seems to be a particular favourite of losing sports teams trying to take the positive out of a poor performance.
    2. gomezz

      5

      No matter which variant of 5/Five they go for it will always make them sound like fifth (out of four) in the pecking order of the main FTA broadcasters. Perhaps they need to bite the bullet and go extreme left field in a rebrand and call themselves Best (of the Rest) for example.
    3. gomezz

      Driving and Roads

      And yet aftermarket screens that plug into old DIN slots are readily available to provide older vehicles with the modern ICE experience. I recently changed to a newer car (from 1999 to 2019) yet was disappointed with its ICE screen. In particular when playing music/podcasts over Bluetooth from...
    4. gomezz

      Driving and Roads

      It is still a thing. We had a temporary replacement work van a couple of weeks ago with a radio that sat there saying WAIT 11 MINUTES THEN ENTER THE SECURITY CODE Except even after much longer than 11 minutes it did not let you enter the code. That is why I have a portable Bluetooth speaker...
    5. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Star Trek could have gone the other way and visited a planet that was -500K. "Its physics Jim, but but not as we know it!" :D
    6. gomezz

      Driving and Roads

      I got told off during an advanced driving session given by a police trainer for not using engine braking but braking and block changing down when approaching a junction. A little unfair as I used engine braking when in staccato traffic but which had the disadvantage of not alerting the driver...
    7. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      That will just about cover the few seconds it takes for a clerk to read the fixmystreet report and mark it as no action needed without any investigation.
    8. gomezz

      What happened to my lighting

      Presumably the upstairs bathroom plumbing runs close above the kitchen ceiling?
    9. gomezz

      What happened to my lighting

      One of the light sockets experienced some damp which shorted out the fitting? Steam from the kettle perhaps?
    10. gomezz

      Amusing Items

      <wrong topic>
    11. gomezz

      What happened to my lighting

      Is that true of all makes and models of circuit breakers? Just wondering if Martin left out telling us of another step involving turning off the whole consumer unit at some point which is when the circuit breaker then go reset? As for the initial issue then a nearby lightening strike (had one...
    12. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      By the 80s most people mindsets were being fixed in how the personal computer architectures worked ignoring what was going on in the wider world of computing. Another clue thing to think about: Ever had to work with ones-complement arithmetic and the use of negative zero?
    13. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      I am talking about an architecture that originated in the early 1960s.
    14. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Words can be subdivided into bytes.
    15. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      But how much smaller is not fixed. I have worked with six bit bytes and nine bit bytes in my time. Anyone with the right background can name that hardware platform. :)
    16. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      You are right of course and I am always irritated when I see them get mixed up as a scaling prefix: M for Mega and m for milli. In this case mixing up (m)etre with (M)olar concentration I see as less likely to cause confusion for the average reader.
    17. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Listening to this week's In Our Time about life in the universe one of the experts said a new 39M telescope would be four times larger than the currently largest 10M telescope. Surely it would be sixteen time larger, even more if you take the curvature of the dish into account?
    18. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      I guess the same kind of technology used to inject "painted ads" onto sports fields that aren't physically there.
    19. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      You can avoid both those issues by watching all BBC programmes on iPlayer. No Press Red Button clutter, no voice over on the closing credits. Presumably all part of "educating" the viewing masses that streaming is the future and broadcast TV (Freeview/DTT and satellite etc) will be turned off...
    20. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      In those days the viewers would (mostly) have known where the colours where spotted and it was only when a colour was knocked well away from its spot that extra info was useful.
    1. gomezz

      Assume v. Presume

      One modern language usage that bugs the hell out of me is saying "learnings" rather than "lessons". Seems to be a particular favourite of losing sports teams trying to take the positive out of a poor performance.
    2. gomezz

      5

      No matter which variant of 5/Five they go for it will always make them sound like fifth (out of four) in the pecking order of the main FTA broadcasters. Perhaps they need to bite the bullet and go extreme left field in a rebrand and call themselves Best (of the Rest) for example.
    3. gomezz

      Driving and Roads

      And yet aftermarket screens that plug into old DIN slots are readily available to provide older vehicles with the modern ICE experience. I recently changed to a newer car (from 1999 to 2019) yet was disappointed with its ICE screen. In particular when playing music/podcasts over Bluetooth from...
    4. gomezz

      Driving and Roads

      It is still a thing. We had a temporary replacement work van a couple of weeks ago with a radio that sat there saying WAIT 11 MINUTES THEN ENTER THE SECURITY CODE Except even after much longer than 11 minutes it did not let you enter the code. That is why I have a portable Bluetooth speaker...
    5. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Star Trek could have gone the other way and visited a planet that was -500K. "Its physics Jim, but but not as we know it!" :D
    6. gomezz

      Driving and Roads

      I got told off during an advanced driving session given by a police trainer for not using engine braking but braking and block changing down when approaching a junction. A little unfair as I used engine braking when in staccato traffic but which had the disadvantage of not alerting the driver...
    7. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      That will just about cover the few seconds it takes for a clerk to read the fixmystreet report and mark it as no action needed without any investigation.
    8. gomezz

      What happened to my lighting

      Presumably the upstairs bathroom plumbing runs close above the kitchen ceiling?
    9. gomezz

      What happened to my lighting

      One of the light sockets experienced some damp which shorted out the fitting? Steam from the kettle perhaps?
    10. gomezz

      Amusing Items

      <wrong topic>
    11. gomezz

      What happened to my lighting

      Is that true of all makes and models of circuit breakers? Just wondering if Martin left out telling us of another step involving turning off the whole consumer unit at some point which is when the circuit breaker then go reset? As for the initial issue then a nearby lightening strike (had one...
    12. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      By the 80s most people mindsets were being fixed in how the personal computer architectures worked ignoring what was going on in the wider world of computing. Another clue thing to think about: Ever had to work with ones-complement arithmetic and the use of negative zero?
    13. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      I am talking about an architecture that originated in the early 1960s.
    14. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Words can be subdivided into bytes.
    15. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      But how much smaller is not fixed. I have worked with six bit bytes and nine bit bytes in my time. Anyone with the right background can name that hardware platform. :)
    16. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      You are right of course and I am always irritated when I see them get mixed up as a scaling prefix: M for Mega and m for milli. In this case mixing up (m)etre with (M)olar concentration I see as less likely to cause confusion for the average reader.
    17. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      Listening to this week's In Our Time about life in the universe one of the experts said a new 39M telescope would be four times larger than the currently largest 10M telescope. Surely it would be sixteen time larger, even more if you take the curvature of the dish into account?
    18. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      I guess the same kind of technology used to inject "painted ads" onto sports fields that aren't physically there.
    19. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      You can avoid both those issues by watching all BBC programmes on iPlayer. No Press Red Button clutter, no voice over on the closing credits. Presumably all part of "educating" the viewing masses that streaming is the future and broadcast TV (Freeview/DTT and satellite etc) will be turned off...
    20. gomezz

      Media mistakes

      In those days the viewers would (mostly) have known where the colours where spotted and it was only when a colour was knocked well away from its spot that extra info was useful.
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