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  • The extreme masochists begin to back slowly away in alarm.

  • That would make sense. Unfortunately, first class is at the front, and that boards first. It sort of flows from there.

    I've also seen enough people abusing the overhead lockers to completely break back to front boarding. They get on and just stick their bag in the first available space, before heading back. Now, when the people at the front board, their bag space is taken up already. They now have to fight to the back, on landing to get their bags.

  • The fuse is in the plug itself. It goes with the cable. That's the point of it! 🤣 It lets you down rate your cables from the breaker rating.

  • The fuses aren't to protect the circuit, they protect the end and intermediate devices. The breakers protect the actual circuit.

    E.g. you've got a thin flex for a low power lamp. You don't have to worry about a short allowing 40A to flow down a 2A cable.

  • Fuses mean protection is localised. If the socket is good for 13A, but the cable is only safe to 5A, you can fuse at 3A or 5A, and know it's safe.

    This is partially useful for extension leads. We don't have to worry about overloading a multiway extension. If we do, it will pop a 10p fuse, rather than cause a house fire.

  • For safety, the BS1363 (UK, type G) is by far the best.

    • It's fused. (Seriously why the hell aren't all plugs fused!)
    • Live and neutral can't be reversed.
    • Holes are gated (so no kids sticking spoons in).
    • High capacity, 240V at 13A gives 3kW of power.

    It's only real downside is its size.

  • It has several modes. The most basic is speech to text, pattern match, then implement. It also has text to speak for feedback. No actual AI in the loop.

    It's also capable of tying to AI models in various ways. It's mainly intended for question answering. Either general, or about your data.

    I personally don't trust a non-deterministic AI having direct control of my house, so the split is useful.

  • It also needs to fail gracefully. A smart switch needs to fail to a dumb switch, not "no switch".

  • Home assistant is capable of it. Unfortunately it's not yet overly user friendly about it, but it's getting better rapidly.

  • The goal is to stop them building up any momentum. If the credit companies get used to flexing their power like this, and steam gets used to folding to it, then things will escalate.

    Right now it's porn games. Who the hell would defend them. But it won't end there. You honestly don't think they would go after games that mock religion, or are trans positive?

  • It's definitely needed. I watched a relative pass. Her brain was gone from stroke damage. It took almost a fortnight for her to pass however. It was horrible.

  • Old Age Pensioners.

    The age group most likely to drop dead, and so have the least scrutiny.

  • Fyi, the bat thing was while he was high as a kite. He thought it was a plastic bat, someone had thrown on stage. He discovered he was wrong the hard way!

  • Officially no. It's actually something Ozzy was involved in the campaign for. There's a religious crowd who freak out at the very idea. No government has yet had the will to push updates past them.

    There are however doctors who will happily make a pain med prescription that is "incompatible with life". If the patient happens to die, while dealing with the pain, well at least they weren't in pain.

    I believe the police also have a similar mindset. They won't look too deeply, if they suspect it happened that way, with the patient's consent. They do have the shadow of Harold Shipman hanging over them however. They missed a serial killer for years, since he was targeting OAPs.

  • There are already plans for metadata signing. I think some high end Canon cameras might do it already. It basically allows proof (via public private key of the hash) that a particular camera took that photo.

    The idea is that you can create a chain of custody with an image. Each edit requires a new signature, with each party responsible for verifying the previous chain, to protect their own reputation.

    It's far from perfect, but will help a lot with things like legal cases.

  • Apparently the chains started when he was a bouncer. Sometimes people would lose them, while getting kicked out. He would wear them, so that had to come and ask him politely for them. His collection built when they were either too scared, or too egotistical to ask for them back.

  • For many places, your signal isn't the bottleneck. It's the back haul from the tower to the main internet. 5G won't help if there's a straw connected to the fire hose of 5G.

  • Conspiracies need to be small and self contained. The more people involved, and the longer it needs to hold, the less likely it is.

    E.g. 9-11 being a government conspiracy with 1000s involved in the cover up? Likely false. George Bush getting info about an imminent attack, then having the info buried, since it would be useful? Far more plausible.

    In this case, the elite standing in lockstep to cover their own arses is quite plausible. It also fits that the group is already too large to keep the conspiracy contained, and so information is leaking like a sieve.

  • I have both forms. The inner monologue voice is a common learned way of thinking. For me it's a way of testing how things sound, before using it in public. It also formalises ideas for memory.

    Below that, I have my mindstream. It's the active amalgamation of ideas, images and concepts that forms my intellect. It's difficult to map to language, since it's not bound by language.

    The inner monologue is useful, but not required for intellectual thought. In fact, it can be a detriment. It's hard to process things, when you don't have the language for it. It is, however quite useful for presenting ideas. An inner monologue lets you practice what you will say, and how you will explain things to someone else. I'm autistic, so I often need to preprocess what I am about to say. My inner monologue lets me test if it's "socially inappropriate" (aka batshit insane) before it comes out my mouth.