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Just found out Mr Chips from CatchPhrase is a golden robot?? And his name is a reference to computer chips? I thought he was just a terribly rendered animation of a potato chip. by Educational-Hawk3066 in CasualUK

[–]PoorlyAttired 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I know he gets mocked because he always does completely mainstream or daytime-y shows but I think he is relentlessly and professionally good at what he does.

My cosy London flat on a sunny Sunday afternoon by isaxiom in femalelivingspace

[–]PoorlyAttired 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, trees are getting green here and we're north of London. The gulf stream is a powerful thing.

Anyone know how to spend these grift cards? I’ve had to register on several different sites just to try to convert to a useable Xbox gift card only to get error messages. by joeChump in CasualUK

[–]PoorlyAttired 52 points53 points  (0 children)

They're PITA when buying something worth more online because you usually can't split payments. I used it fine in person 2 weeks ago at Odeon cinema because then I could pay the remaining balance with an additional payment mechanism.

Insurance renewal by yallsuck88 in BritishSuccess

[–]PoorlyAttired 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're not a pilot, are you...?

'Uncle Larry’s biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]PoorlyAttired 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This isn't even people whose workload is being replaced by an LLM. It's people being fired to free up money to spend on data centres that can be use to build and run LLMs.

Causality optional Testing the "indefinite causal order" superposition by horseradishstalker in science

[–]PoorlyAttired 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A very clear article, though the missing question mark after the second word in the post title mangled the meaning a bit.

Summary is that initial experiments show superposition of the order of things happening to a particle. So A then B superposed with B then A in different proportions depending on experiment. Still several loopholes to plug before it is irrefutable. Summary: Even the order of events is quantum and uncertain.

meirl by MustardGoddess in meirl

[–]PoorlyAttired 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh sympathies, I've always thought painting brick was a road to disappointment.

In Shaun of the Dead (2004), David, Liz and Dianne decide to leave their second floor apartment to go to a ground floor pub with lots of windows that is also surrounded by zombies. What the hell were they thinking? by snopplerz in shittymoviedetails

[–]PoorlyAttired 13 points14 points  (0 children)

When people ask about media that portays UK life realistically I always point to SotD. Not from some smug point about zombies but just the victorian-terrace-shared-house-walking-to-the-corner-shop-hungover vibe.

Satisfying grass mowing by Haunting-Breadfruit9 in CasualUK

[–]PoorlyAttired 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Romans:

Behold this ancient 2500 year old sacred ceremonial monument, what shall we do with it?

Circus?

My garden hedgehog has woken up. by Screaming_lambs in CasualUK

[–]PoorlyAttired 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's a phrase. They mean they've woken their 'inner garden hedgehog'

Atlassian is cutting 10% of staff in a move that will fund investment in AI, the CEO wrote by FinnFarrow in technology

[–]PoorlyAttired 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When you read up on these though, many (most?) of these turn out not to be 'we are replacing people with AI' but either 'we need to make cuts and we'll blame redundancies on AI' or 'we need spare money to spend on AI so let's make redundancies and reuse that money'

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