#WritersCoffeeClub May 28: Do you have advice for other authors that you haven't heard from different sources?
Yes: "there's more than one way to do it." (For almost any value of "it" that doesn't involve mathematics or formal logic.)
This is actually advice from a programmer, Larry Wall (inventor of Perl) but it applies especially strongly to writing fiction. Whatever you're trying to do, consider alternative ways of doing it.
@cstross Yeah. There were reasons that he was respected enough to get a Nobel, but it's a shame that some of his views could have done with re-examination
So this happened. Given the colour and the fact they were working with nitric acid, I'm feeling somewhat doubtful this was (relatively benign) nitrous oxide.
@cstross@mmby@nyrath@pauldrye I was in a meeting once, with the window beside me, and noticed something flying through the air outside with an orange smoke trail. This was followed by an orange column of smoke
It turned out to be an abandoned large plastic tank of picric acid used for etching circuit boards had decided to blow its top
We dialed 999, and ended up evacuating north Royston, including the HO of Hotel Chocolat which was just to the side of the smoke
Microsoft Recall in Windows 11: in what way can this be POSSIBLY compliant with the requirements of GDPR?
(Same goes for Office365 requiring autosave to stash files in OneDrive, and Outlook slurping all your emails into Microsoft's cloud and using them for AI training.)
