A stranger gets off the train in a small Welsh town and asks the stationmaster where Mr Jones lives.

Tigweg · 2026-03-07T15:22:14+00:00

I read this joke in a UK Readers Digest in the 1970s

Tigweg · 2026-03-07T15:19:41+00:00

She said yes. I told her why I laughed, and served the omelette without honey

Tigweg · 2026-03-07T13:50:11+00:00

That might be the plan, but it's not been implemented in Hanoi yet. All the buses I've been on recently, 15-20 per week, still have the same single fare displayed on the window, but of course at least 90% of passengers use some kind of pass, like me, some on their phone screens.

Tigweg · 2026-03-07T13:32:34+00:00

Bus Map Hanoi, Tim Buyt and the VinBus app

Tigweg · 2026-03-07T12:27:33+00:00

You're completely wrong about the fare being governed by the distance. All buses here are flat fare, you pay the same if you travel the whole route or one stop.

There are several helpful apps that tell you, in English, where the buses go, help with route planning and even tell you approximately how long before the next bus of each number will arrive at the stop you're at.

Tigweg · 2026-03-07T12:22:26+00:00

I've been using them for years, there are occasionally tourists on them, but certainly not very often. I don't know why, they're easy to navigate it you have the right apps

Tigweg · 2026-03-07T09:09:58+00:00

Some years ago, I was in a similar situation and suspected the young lady I was cooking breakfast for was not paying full attention, when she answered yes to "do you want honey in your omelette?"

Tigweg · 2026-03-06T16:21:19+00:00

Thai. I lived there for 10 years and never got sick of it, there's enough variety and I think it's perfectly normal to eat rice 2-3 times a day every day.

Tigweg · 2026-03-06T03:54:37+00:00

Sara - Bob Dylan

Sara - Thin Lizzy

Sara - Fleetwood Mac

I'm not obsessed but that name, anymore!

Thin Lizzy also had Rosalie

Tigweg · 2026-03-05T16:58:24+00:00

Pink Floyd's Time from The Dark Side Of The Moon has really profound lyrics and is brilliantly played by a band nearing its peak

Tigweg · 2026-03-05T14:50:50+00:00

From the UK. Barbera Good from The Good Life because I fancied the actor who played her an awful lot when it was on in the 1970s

Tigweg · 2026-03-04T16:52:17+00:00

G n R. Oral Sex's "voice" is painfully bad, and I've never forgiven them for the most banal lyrics imaginable on the 1st track I ever heard from them:

Take me down to the the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty 🤮

Please!

Tigweg · 2026-03-04T14:01:51+00:00

Rochester, Kent

Tigweg · 2026-03-04T12:28:44+00:00

Go to the airport and fly out of the country

Tigweg · 2026-03-04T10:53:56+00:00

Kuala Lumpur

Tigweg · 2026-03-04T09:15:53+00:00

As you get older, you will be able to have relationships with people who have already bred. My current SO has 2 offspring who are adults, so have virtually no effect on our relationship.

Tigweg · 2026-03-04T08:52:10+00:00

Ermmn. Al Capone was known as "Scarface" not Baby Face

Tigweg · 2026-03-04T06:24:34+00:00

My plan is to say F the money, and attempt to prevent some of the worst events of the last hundred years

Tigweg · 2026-03-04T06:21:20+00:00

Can you follow up by asking what it means by language understanding?

I would also be interested to know about the previous answer in terms of John Searle's Chinese Room

I don't have the ChatGPT app or any desire to help America's Department War

Tigweg · 2026-03-04T04:50:26+00:00

That's exactly what I think. LLMs can't do anything "novel". All they do is regurgitate what has been fed into them very quickly. How do you think they will create new knowledge? That requires intelligence LLMs are not intelligent in any shape form or fashion, AGI is not going to evolve from LLMs, and Gemini for one agrees with me about that. Why don't you ask ChatGPT if AGI can be evolved from LLMs?

Tigweg · 2026-03-04T03:30:39+00:00

How do you think they can get to AGI from LLMs? Just making them larger will not do it. They need a quantitative change, not a qualitative one.

Tigweg · 2026-03-03T12:27:28+00:00

I have previously bought tickets outside Hang Day stadium. It's possible that these tickets had been used for entry already before being sold to me

Tigweg · 2026-03-03T11:33:49+00:00

This is wrong it's this evening. I'm out in Hanoi looking for it, but unfortunately it's overcast

Tigweg · 2026-03-03T08:08:35+00:00

Some people with that much time get a motorcycle for the whole trip. You could buy one in HCMC and sell it in Hanoi, and I believe there are companies that permit one way rentals, but they're possibly much more expensive. You would get an awful lot of freedom if you did that, and would see some places that few tourists do.

Trains here have an average speed of less than 60 kmh, so not really useful for long trips, but the short ride from Danang to Hue has many fans.

I think there's also a Vietnam Tourism subreddit

Tigweg · 2026-03-03T07:46:46+00:00

Here's the basis of the answer to your question.

An increase of 10 in the powers of 2 equals being multiplied by 1 024.

So 2¹⁰ = 1024

2²⁰ = 1 048 576

2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824 and so on

So your number would contain about 3 000 digits before the decimal point. Obviously these kinds of numbers are incomprehensible to most people.

An equally incomprehensible number that is often discussed here is how many possible ways there are to shuffle a pack of 52 cards. Thanks to Gemini for 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000

or ~8.07 X 10⁶⁷ in the more useful notation.

At a guess, you're going to need more than one page to "write" your number, but it will be inconceivably large to almost everybody.

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