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NormanDunbar

@NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot

He/Him. Retired Oracle DBA, Toad MVP, developer, husband, geek, not a dad, open source contributor. McLaren & Mercedes F1 fan.

I own a Huawei P20 phone with the Leica camera. I try to take at least 1 half decent photo every day if I can.

In 2020, Apress published my first book, 'Arduino Software Internals'. My second, 'Arduino Interrupts' was published in Dec 2023. I'm writing another as well as a 2nd edition of 'Internals' to document recent changes.

No longer on Twitter as https://mastodon.scot/@NormanDunbar.

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NormanDunbar, to random
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When I was younger, I wanted to be a procrastinator when I grew up. However, as I got older, I just couldn't be bothered.

NormanDunbar, to random
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I always wanted to be a horologist. But I never had time.

NormanDunbar, to random
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I once dated an English Literature student. Conversation stalled, I'm no good at chatting, so I asked "Do you like Dickens?".
"Yes", she replied, "But not on the first date"!

NormanDunbar,
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Another question to the same English Literature student. "Do you like Kipling"?
"I don't know ", she said, "I've never kippled"!

EverMama8_, to random
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1/2
Avian flu outbreak raises a disturbing question: Is our food system built on poop?

“It seems ghoulish, but it is a perfectly legal and common practice for chicken litter — the material that accumulates on the floor of chicken growing facilities — to be fed to cattle,”

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-04-18/avian-flu-outbreak-raises-a-disturbing-question-is-our-food-system-built-on-poop

NormanDunbar,
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@EverMama8_ I once read, a blog post I think, by an American which said that his kids would never eat American meat. His reason was that they were fed on poultry litter, which contains some kind of cyanide.

I found that hard to believe, but now you mention the litter problem, I'm not so sure anymore.

Food production is a nightmare!

NormanDunbar, to random
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So, what's wrong with me Doctor?
You have Ed Zachery Syndrome.
What's that?
Your face looks Ed Zachery like your arse!

iangriffin, to Astronomy
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Bloody Elon Musk is destroying the night sky. This is a single one minute exposure of Comet Pons Brooks tonight.

NormanDunbar,
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@iangriffin Yup. I was in Tenerife recently and the whole night sky is full of the damned things. I only saw one satellite that wasn't a bloody Starlink. 😟

Melissabeartrix, to random
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A second

"the base unit of time in the International System of Units that is equal to the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom"

Hugz & xXx

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/second

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@Melissabeartrix @SeanHawley And GPS! 😉

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@Melissabeartrix @SeanHawley I'd be lost without it! 😉

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@Melissabeartrix @SeanHawley If I might add, and not able to connect to an NTP server?

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@Melissabeartrix @SeanHawley True. But at least everything would be "almost" accurate until it came back up again.

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@SeanHawley @Melissabeartrix Well now, that's today's "something learned"! GPS, I thought, was "global" given the name. And now you say it isn't? Wow!

I can see how that would lead to confusion. 😐

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@Melissabeartrix @SeanHawley Of course, this brings up the question of accuracy...which is more accurate, a stopped clock which shows the correct time twice a day; or a clock running slow which never shows the correct time? 😉

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@SeanHawley @Melissabeartrix Thank you.

NormanDunbar,
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@SeanHawley @Melissabeartrix Interesting. Thanks again. It appears, if I've read it properly, that the current standard, WGS24, is accurate to 2cm and is global. (I think!!!)

NormanDunbar, to random
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So, what's wrong with me, Doctor?
You have Tom Jones syndrome.
Is that common?
It's not unusual.

NormanDunbar, (edited ) to random
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Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to the weekend. And it's not even raining! (Yet!)

MrsD is not walking today, apart from with me and Wesley.

Have a great weekend, starting today

I took this photo yesterday while walking Wesley. It looks like it might be time to "cast a cloot" as the May is indeed "oot"!

NormanDunbar,
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@Steampunk_Prof It appears I spoke/typed too soon it's raining, just when Wesley and I were on his morning wander! Typical.

NormanDunbar, (edited )
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@davebainbridge I think, normally, the Gorse is first to bloom, Snowdrops excepted of course. But it was a bit late this year over here in West Yorkshire. Everything is kicking off now though.

MAKS23, to random Ukrainian
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HELLO DEAR WORLD ❤️👀
🗺️ Where are you from and what time is it in your city now?

P.S. ME: Vinnytsia, Ukraine 🇺🇦 23:07 ✊

NormanDunbar,
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@MAKS23 Evening.

Originally, I'm from Elgin, in Scotland but I'm currently living in Leeds, Yorkshire.

It is 21:11 right now.

randahl, to random
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Trump talks to the press, explaining he is not allowed to talk, which means he cannot testify in court.

Pardon my Danish — I am from Jutland, the farming region of Denmark, and I have seen stables with less horseshit than this.

Source: Fox News

video/mp4

NormanDunbar,
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@randahl Funny! The judge told him that the gag order didn't mean that he couldn't testify! 🙂

GrimmReality, to random
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She wins the bear v man thing. Put respect upon her name.

NormanDunbar,
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@amberage @justafrog @GrimmReality This is why I'll cross the road and slow right down if I ever find myself too close to a lone woman in the street.

A previous gf of mine had a stalker who, when Thatcher was visiting the town, lost her police protection officer. She was raped and stabbed. (She recovered).

She taught me a lot about women.

My advice? Keep men off the streets.

Ryanteck, to random
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From BBC - Apparently Alder Hey Hospital has banned EVs from one of their carparks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c90zjne2v0jo

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@piofthings @Ryanteck To be fair to the hospital, if the report is true of course, they were advised to do so by the fire brigade.

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@piofthings @Ryanteck Nah, it's worse putting water on a fuel fire. You have to quench EV "fires" with tonnes of water. For weeks! 😐

RosePuckey, to random
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The little things that make me smile. Nicely poached eggs on toast with too much butter and cayenne pepper, a walk on the moors, a BMW grounding out in a speed hump because it was driven too fast...

NormanDunbar,
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@RosePuckey Too much butter? Nope, sorry. You've lost me there. What do you mean? 😁

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