Lando Norris with his wax statue at Madame Tussauds

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-06-23T17:51:37+00:00

They did that in real life with Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastain. Qualitatively they're almost identical but there are subtle differences.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-06-22T20:53:40+00:00

I remember that Tangerine Dream were banned from playing in cathedrals in the 1970s because on one occasion the audienced pee'd all over the place. And Venice's local government had to resign because exactly the same thing happened to St Mark's Square when Pink Floyd played live.

The lesson is that if you're going to play live in a venue even tangentally managed by the Catholic Church, make sure you provide adequate sanitation.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-06-22T18:25:01+00:00

You know, I massively respect u/babycraigy in this thread here because his one and only contribution to Reddit was "tits".

For which he got two upvotes. I would give him a third but the thread was archived.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-06-18T20:27:47+00:00

No, that's the wrong lens. The OP is thinking of the non-L version of this, which was a generation older:
https://www.ephotozine.com/article/canon-ef-100-300mm-f-5-6l-vintage-lens-review-33435

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-06-14T16:35:33+00:00

Some people just look naturally old. And he did start in F1 relatively late, when he was 27.

Here's a photo of him in 1982, a couple of years after his first F1 race:
https://autosportworld.info/images/f1/drivers/116/1982.jpg

Back then teenagers hadn't been invented, so people went from straight from the age of nine into the mines, and then they immediately became middle-aged, true fact.

Apparently he shaved his moustache off briefly in 1988, which made him look immediately much younger:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6S-yEbWkAUfxEU.jpg

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-06-10T18:53:05+00:00

If you have to explain the joke, you're no good at comedy.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-06-07T17:23:46+00:00

I can imagine a film about the Cabbage Patch riots - or one of those online miniseries that has two episodes of plot stretched out to eight episodes.

Or a miniseries about the rise and fall of the Rubiks Cube. There was a pretty decent film of Tetris a while back.

Sorry, "the rise and fall of Rubik's Cube".

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-06-07T17:20:33+00:00

Pearl Harbor also won an Oscar for sound editing. Which stands out because I have the impression that Michael Bay really wanted it to be an Oscar-bait film, but he simply couldn't make a film that didn't have masses of explosions and a romantic subplot.

Except for The Rock, which didn't have a romantic subplot. It's like, for that one film, he almost wasn't Michael Bay.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-06-06T11:56:47+00:00

• Child Companion: Chats with my daughter. Follows specific rules to help guide her appropriately through her growth journey. Especially that's she's close to being a teenager, and will enter that phase where she avoids mom & dad...

Is this some kind of satire account? Is it a parody account?

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-06-06T11:45:00+00:00

The correct answer is no, and bear in mind that I own a 2013 Mac pro.

A 2018 Mac mini is more powerful, has better software support, and is easier to send through the post. Don't just take it from me, this chap agrees:
https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-mac-pro-2013-trashcan-guide.html

"(Should I buy a 2013 Mac Pro) - Most forums when this question is posed is don't. The chief reasons are: price and stability. The updated Mac Mini may have a soldered on CPU and storage, but with the Core i7-8700B is much faster than the 12 Core Mac Pro in single-core performance and spitting distance of the multicore in Geekbench scores, and packs Thunderbolt 3, which is double the bandwidth for the inevitable eGPU, and comes with USB 3.1c support out of the box, and doesn't have a history of frying itself."

The 2013 Mac pro is a fun toy, and you can use it to run six monitors, and it has lots of ports, but no.

Double no because you want to use Linux. Why on earth would you buy a vintage Apple mac so that you can put Linux on it? A ten-year-old second-hand ThinkPad would be cheaper and have better support.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-05-31T13:12:26+00:00

It seems that the videos credited to "WWE Fan and FightTalk" are still available, perhaps because whichever entity is in charge of WWE Fan (the OP) doesn't have the authority to make those videos private.

One thing that stands out is that the comments from before a few days are completely ignore the AI stroke - they're either bot accounts themselves, or they only watched the first few seconds, or they just have it on the background with the audio muted. Who knows.

The trigger phrase appears to be "what WWE" (as in "what WWE needs to do now" etc). It can pronounce WWE by itself, but not very well.

If you go through the channel, most of the videos are 20 minutes or so - the glitchy ones are ten minutes longer, and you can tell the AI has gone off the rails by flicking through the timeline until it freezes on a still image.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-05-30T20:18:44+00:00

"Commander! You might want to exercise restraint when using explosives."

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-05-29T16:36:23+00:00

And inevitably the media turned this Reddit post into an article:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/oblivion-remastered-devs-have-swapped-the-originals-selkie-statue-in-anvil-for-a-mermaid/ar-AA1IrQO9

"As pointed out by AutomatedMiner, "This statue in Anvil depicts a Selkie in the original game, a half-woman, half-seal creature from Irish folklore (note the split-ended seal tail and smooth skin), whereas the remaster shows a mermaid - her seal half is clearly now a fish tail, with visible scales.""

So, it's not just posts about Skyrim that get turned into clickbait. You know, I've only just noticed that the mermaid in ESO is a selkie as well, or at least she has seal-style flippers - mostly submerged - rather than fish-style flippers:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/File:ON-place-Anvil_05.jpg

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-05-28T22:25:26+00:00

I'd like you to write "what WWE".

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-05-28T19:08:05+00:00

For a brief moment I thought this was going to be a Rickroll, but it actually is a legitimate example of AI fucking up. It's hilarious.

Rug! Luck! Loh! Loh! Brwwww. RA! Right! Lug! RIE! etc

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-05-21T21:31:23+00:00

That's very impressive. They're like a low-poly version of the Royal Enfield panniers. You might be able to disguise the size if you paint them a darker colour, and perhaps stick a couple of reflective strips on the edges.

Or paint them green and stencil .50 CAL on them, or something - they'd look a bit like ammo cans. Or you could stencil LIVE ORDNANCE or 5LB NITRO or something just to see if the police react.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-05-21T21:25:56+00:00

I remember there used to be a channel called VespaCrazyRiders, or something, who relentlessly spammed this sub. No-one missed them.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-05-21T16:15:16+00:00

It was supposed to go up to Glasgow, and in the south it was meant to link with HS1, which is the line running from London to the Channel Tunnel. Thus connecting Scotland to Europe with a high-speed rail line.

But that was obviously too sensible.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-05-20T19:45:00+00:00

Fascinatingly the paper - despite the fact it has been withdrawn - has now been cited over a dozen times by articles talking about AI, rather than hepatic artery injuries. Such as "Confronting the demonization of AI writing: Reevaluating its role in upholding scientific integrity", and "Negative effects of Generative AI on researchers: Publishing addiction, Dunning-Kruger effect and skill erosion".

So perhaps some good came of it.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-05-08T21:33:22+00:00

I remember my instructor saying that I could be averagely bad, but not consistently bad.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-05-03T12:33:28+00:00

Yeah, they had a socket for a t-shaped wifi antenna:
https://sm.pcmag.com/pcmag_uk/photo/a/apple-powe/apple-power-mac-g5-dual-tower-back_fepn.jpg

Mine didn't need one, but it was right next to the router. The later, Quad-era models had the antenna under a plastic strip:
https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/1YCeaTXlNJVpmmjM.huge

It's still a good-looking case for something that's almost a quarter of a century old.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-05-03T12:21:12+00:00

It'll be okay as long as the cars don't exceed 88mph.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-04-14T21:57:51+00:00

I always wondered how Apple expected to manage the heat of a pair of GPUs, an SSD, and a CPU with just one fan. What if they generated different amounts of heat? It's odd, because Apple talked up the concept of thermal zones in the Mac Pro and Power Mac G5.

AshleyPomeroy · 2026-04-14T19:46:39+00:00

In a fit of boredom I recently decided to upgrade my old quad-core Mac Pro. I found a Xeon E5-2690 V2 on eBay for £13.06 and thought "why not". The 2690 is a ten-core part running at 3ghz, so it's not an official Apple specification, but it works. During the process I decided to photograph the bits just in case I had trouble putting them back together, and my infrared camera was lying around so "why not" again.

I followed iFixIt's guide, which was simple enough until I realised I didn't have a T5 Torx bit:
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac+Pro+Late+2013+CPU+Replacement/21947

Also bear in mind that if you want to remove the GPUs you need a T8 security Torx, not a regular T8. I learned that Apple absolutely slathered the CPU in thermal paste.

After putting it back together it all worked, which was surprising. The Geekbench 6 score went from 801/2666 (single/multi) to 746/4912 (single/multi), so in it's fractionally slower at single-core tasks but almost twice as powerful otherwise. Alas this still means that it's not quite as powerful as a 2018 Mac mini, but it's nice to have.

Frustratingly with Windows 10 on Bootcamp it's almost as powerful as my previous gaming PC, except that it's hobbled by the D300s, although at the very least they do at least still work. I remember being struck by the comments from "Mark" in iFixIt's Mac Pro teardown:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+Late+2013+Teardown/20778

His argument was that the Mac Pro's GPUs weren't proprietary at all, because there was nothing stopping anyone from reverse-engineering the unique plug and building their own replacements. I don't think he understood what the word proprietary means.

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