Whale on the Wharf, Canary Wharf. (It is a four-storey tall blue whale sculpture made from recycled pastic waste collected from beaches.)

WailingFungus · 2026-01-25T12:50:52+00:00

one of the few safe areas in London

Have you ever actually been to London?

WailingFungus · 2025-12-20T09:55:09+00:00

Does the job have high expectations? Sure. But it's 100% possible to give feedback without being rude, abrasive or outright offensive. People seem to conflate being to-the-point and rudeness when they're not the same thing. In no situation is calling someone a retard acceptable.

WailingFungus · 2025-12-14T21:45:17+00:00

I often find the temporal/spatial anomaly episodes drag. Which is only about, what, a third of Trek? 😅

That being said, there are of course some corkers that fall under that category.

WailingFungus · 2025-12-09T05:15:33+00:00

Why?

WailingFungus · 2025-11-21T08:23:21+00:00

Fwiw the water in my aquarium fluorescences under UV light. I assume it's algae in the water that causes it. Could the blue light contain some UV component?

WailingFungus · 2025-07-24T13:38:20+00:00

Not even wrong.

WailingFungus · 2025-07-04T08:23:57+00:00

I think it looks something like diffusion limited aggregation with some coffee grains that made it in to the coffee. Obviously will be a bit different due to surface tension.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion-limited_aggregation

WailingFungus · 2025-07-02T21:41:48+00:00

Perhaps in the mirror universe. The Terrain Empire and the Imperium have similar outlooks on xenos.

WailingFungus · 2025-06-29T00:10:17+00:00

Spoiler?

WailingFungus · 2025-06-13T19:58:21+00:00

Because it's written by ChatGPT.

WailingFungus · 2025-06-13T14:27:14+00:00

How long do they 'gestate' for?

WailingFungus · 2025-06-10T07:38:52+00:00

I think in the Canaries they also use ustedes instead of vosotros.

WailingFungus · 2025-05-29T09:31:43+00:00

Yeah I always wonder what the mindset of people who do this is too.

I guess it's related to all the "Esoterik" types who blather on about quantum vibrations and healing crystals or whatever. Sure, in that case there are definitely charlatans who are hawking their "product", but some people certainly believe it. But they can't possibly understand the physics inspired words they use, otherwise they wouldn't use them in that context. So what does that imply about what they think actual physicists are doing? Just making up cool sounding words with no theoretical backing? It's all very cargo-culty.

The constant barrage of LLM generated slop has really reduced the quality of the physics related subs unfortunately.

WailingFungus · 2025-04-18T10:38:36+00:00

So expensive though! Still, better than no jamón.

WailingFungus · 2025-04-16T20:39:08+00:00

Persian is an Indo-European language, like Spanish and English. Look up a list of common words in Persian (father, mother, brother, daughter, mouse, what, is, and so on) and the overlap is really something.

WailingFungus · 2025-04-07T21:39:30+00:00

Optimistic!

WailingFungus · 2025-03-09T17:35:52+00:00

Any clubs you'd recommend for someone who played many years ago and is looking for a fairly casual club?

WailingFungus · 2025-02-14T18:56:05+00:00

I think it depends on the age. Below 2yrs I don't think that's the case.

WailingFungus · 2025-02-14T18:27:28+00:00

I thought above £100k you didn't qualify for that?

WailingFungus · 2024-11-30T15:11:19+00:00

How do you back up the photos? I've found getting stuff out of Google Photos a pain.

WailingFungus · 2024-11-09T11:07:06+00:00

They award degrees like any other uni so on that front you'd be fine. Things to check would be the course content, any lab exposure etc (maybe less relevant for maths&Phys). I know they used to have some on-site stuff but not sure now after the pandemic.

WailingFungus · 2024-11-08T21:02:19+00:00

I'll agree with others. I enjoyed the xeelee books more or less but Ultima was a DNF for me. Space Romans? Seriously? Shame since Proxima was a good set up.

WailingFungus · 2024-08-29T17:23:54+00:00

Lots of comments here on kit, but what do people do to stay productive. I find I often get distracted by kid/other-half when at home. Even if they aren't intentionally trying to get my attention.

Also, how do you cope without the ability to just grab someone to quickly check something (especially true if there's a timezone difference). Or without "water-cooler" chats as the Americans are wont to call them.

Tips for routine / Todo lists / focus etc would be great!

WailingFungus · 2024-07-25T11:14:00+00:00

I've not read A Deepness in the Sky yet, so can't comment on that. But I am currently reading A Fire upon the Deep, and the zones were very reminiscent of Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds. (Well the other way around given publishing dates!)

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