mike

mike, 3 days ago to random

Can someone help me identify this #insect that I saw crawling on a radiator in our home? The hind legs are noticeable longer than the front two pairs, sort of like a grasshopper (though it's obviously not one). You can get a sense of its size from the bit of AA battery at the top of the photo.

mike, 6 days ago to random

If at first you don't succeed ...

Here's ChatGPL opining confidently and being wrong wrong, wrong and wrong.
sigh

Still, I'm sure the LLMs that advise doctors and lawyers will be 100% reliable.

mike, 8 days ago to random

Harvey Elliott is well on my way to becoming my favourite #LFC player. His readiness to actually take a shot is part of this.

mike, 8 days ago to random

Jurgen Klopp already looks five years younger.
#LFC

mike, 12 days ago to random

… pray we do not update it further.

mike, 13 days ago to random

Is there a stupider error in the world than "The document XYZ.jpg can't be opened because it's in the Bin"?

How the heck is it the OS's prerogative to tell me I can't look inside the bin?

mike, 14 days ago to random

"This of course is the whole purpose of scholarly communication. It’s why we have academic publishers: to make it possible for us to progress our fields by standing on each other’s shoulders.

Unfortunately, the publishers are mostly standing on our toes."

https://svpow.com/2016/04/12/moral-dimensions-of-open-part-4-on-the-shoulders-of-giants/

mike, 14 days ago to random

Well, what a deeply disappointing match for #LFC. The thing is, Villa didn't have to do anything special to score three goals. We just handed the goals to them. Talk about self-destruction.

mike, 14 days ago to random

Minor programming-in-2024 irritant #3,456: remember which of the many many git repos I interact with daily have a master branch and which have main.

mike, 19 days ago to stackoverflow

"I don’t know why anyone would willingly submit more unpaid answers (or questions!) to Stack Exchange forums under these conditions. After all, huge pools of people in Africa and South America are being paid to write code examples for model-training companies right this minute. Why should I do it for free?"
https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/closed-as-unhelpful-an-elegy-for
#StackOverflow

mike, 19 days ago to random

I like Neil Young's album After The Gold Rush, and I like the song Oh Lonesome Me from that album. But there is absolutely no excuse to rhyme "arms" with "charms" in any song later than the Gershwins.

mike, 21 days ago to random

It seems my University of Bristol account for some reason doesn't have access to The Paleontological Society Special Publications. Can anyone please email me a PDF of this one?

https://doi.org/10.1017/S2475262200009436

dino@miketaylor.org.uk
#icanhazpdf

mike, 22 days ago to random

I don't think I've ever seen Harvey Elliott have a bad game. Sometimes I think we don't take him seriously because he's short (5'7") but really he has everything else but height. Speed of thought, speed across the ground, tenacity, creativity, shooting. Reminds me, more than anyone else, of Kevin Keegan. (Yes, I AM that old.)
#LFC

mike, 22 days ago to random

How on EARTH have #LFC conceded two goals in a game they have so comprehensively bossed?

mike, 23 days ago to random

@colin @ernie @jessamyn @mem_somerville @RustyBertrand Sorry bother you all, but I noticed each of you mention newspapers.com which I don't have access to and can't make an account on for some reason. I am trying to get this article about a Wyoming dinosaur from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat on 27 November 1898: https://www.newspapers.com/image/571391078/?match=1&terms=dinosaur

If anyone could email it to me I would be very grateful!
dino@miketaylor.org.uk

mike, 24 days ago to Wikipedia

One of the little joys of #Wikipedia is the pedantry in some of the entries.

For example, about the song Chattannogo Choo Choo:

• The train is described as departing from Track 29 in Pennsylvania Station. At the time, the facility only had 21 tracks.

• "You leave the Pennsylvania station 'bout a quarter to four", but The Birmingham Special departed at 12:30 p.m.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga_Choo_Choo#Inspiration

mike, 25 days ago to random

@llewelly I only just realised I wasn't following you!

mike, 26 days ago to random

The Brachiosaurus altithorax holotype FMNH PR 25107 in the ground

I was cleaning out my Downloads directory — which, even after my initial forays, still accounts for 11 Gb that I really need to reclaim from my perptually almost-full SSD. And I found this beautiful image under the filename csgeo4028.jpeg. The thing is, I have no idea where this image came from. The file's timestamp says it's been 16 months since I downloaded it from somewhere, but there is no associated…

http://svpow.com/2024/05/01/the-brachiosaurus-altithorax-holotype-fmnh-pr-25107-in-the-ground/

mike, 26 days ago to random

"Every founder behind every product that Zuckerberg has acquired — including Instagram, Oculus and WhatsApp — [left] the company and almost immediately talking about how much it sucked."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/managing-up/

mike, 27 days ago to random

Does anyone have access to www.newspapers.com? I tried to sign up for a free trial account, but it just says "Unable to create new account", no further information.

mike, 1 month ago to random

How Grav's not been booked for that pull-back, I don't know.

Even when it goes in #LFC's favour, the standard of officiating is abysmal.

mike, 1 month ago to random

For all Alisson's heroics today — three great saves in among the good ones — we've somehow contrived to concede two goals from 0.69 xG. how do we do it?

#LFC

mike, 1 month ago to random

I think the most disturbing aspect of recent #LFC performances is that the opposition is not having to do anything clever to score against us. It's enough just to lob a set piece into the box and nod it in; or kick it long and chase it. I don't understand how four such superb defenders and such a great goalkeeper can make up such an ineffective defence.

mike, 1 month ago to random

STOP LOBBING THE BALL GENTLY INTO PICKFORD'S HANDS.

Just an idea, like.

#LFC

mike, 1 month ago to random

#LFC should by now have learned that the Everton defence is very strong in the air. There is no point hanging crosses in. They need to be driven in low.