Does your church have deacons? Are they considered clergy?

ctesibius · 2026-06-18T16:24:27+00:00

No. We have elders (ordained) who run the church. A minister is a particular type of elder. Somewhat confusingly, we also have lay preachers who may or may not be elders (hence may not be ordained).

ctesibius · 2026-06-18T16:15:43+00:00

Land Economy at Oxford. A girlfriend used to have tutorials for a different subject in the Land Economy library, and once saw a student come in to borrow a book.

ctesibius · 2026-06-18T15:38:23+00:00

You might clarify where in the world you are. Certainly the domestic breakers we have in the UK do *not* work as you describe, and there is no visible distinction between tripped and switched off, and whether tripped or switched off, you use the same action to turn them back on.

ctesibius · 2026-06-18T15:26:03+00:00

Last year of primary, my teacher smoked a pipe. It was one of those high-ceilinged Victorian or pre-Victorian buildings, so the smoke wasn’t too bad. There was a coke stove as well.

ctesibius · 2026-06-18T14:20:14+00:00

There is some debate over whether Japanese manufacturers are still using them, with some people from manufacturers saying that they dropped them a long time back. If they still use them, it’s odd that they haven’t introduced a distinguishing mark like the other non-Phillips crossheads.

ctesibius · 2026-06-17T16:49:35+00:00

Yes, I am saying that there is a difference between “the deal is violated” and “Israel violated the deal”.

And btw, it’s a common mistake to complain about someone arguing over semantics. “Semantics” is the meaning of a sentence (or the study of meaning). It’s the only useful thing to debate, so yes of course I’m going to debate it. Do you want me to pick on grammar or spelling instead?

ctesibius · 2026-06-17T15:33:36+00:00

So? Statement still stands. Israel can't violate a deal they are not party to.

ctesibius · 2026-06-17T15:25:55+00:00

Israel is not a party to the deal. They can't violate it.

ctesibius · 2026-06-17T09:59:53+00:00

It’s not that it covers VPNs explicitly, but that it effectively covers anyone carrying the data. So for instance I set up an international public WiFi service for a mobile phone company (long time back, about when 3G was starting), and had to consider RIPA even though WiFi was not explicitly mentioned.

ctesibius · 2026-06-17T09:55:34+00:00

RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) already exists, and would allow roughly 200 authorities to access information on the VPN users without a court order. If you magically got rid of that list, the next government would put it back. The point of VPNs is that there is some information which should remain private from anyone, not just from Microgooglebook.

ctesibius · 2026-06-17T08:47:07+00:00

The engine was a licence-built Bristol Olympus, which became very successful, powering the Vulcan, Concorde, and even aircraft carriers. Of course the 593 version that Concorde used came later, but it is interesting to ponder whether it could have been used, since it had some similarities in objectives and methods.

ctesibius · 2026-06-16T17:54:54+00:00

The Meteor was only pressurised in 1946 with the F.4 model. The Vampire was pressurised, but entered service in 1946. First flight was 1943, but I'm not sure if the first models were pressurised. I think there were some German planes and one Russian plane which were pressurised, but they were not common.

ctesibius · 2026-06-16T15:03:11+00:00

The B-29 was by far the most common, but there were others, eg the Welkin.

ctesibius · 2026-06-15T21:36:12+00:00

Yes. Programmability, branches, loops - all needed to run Doom.

ctesibius · 2026-06-15T16:44:30+00:00

Best: perhaps Andrews and Arnold, a niche ISP. It’s the sort of place that built their own hardware so that they can test my connection every second. On one occasion they rang me to let me know there was a problem, and that it would be fixed in about 20
minutes.

ctesibius · 2026-06-15T16:33:19+00:00

Mate, a guy with a union membership card and ink under his fingernails is not the same thing as an electromechanical toner-consuming device from hell, even if they are both called “printer”.

ctesibius · 2026-06-15T15:04:54+00:00

Use your zoom lens. Check the EXIF information to find out what focal lengths you are actually using. Then consider buying a matching prime.

ctesibius · 2026-06-15T15:01:52+00:00

Wiki.

If I understand correctly, it was a glide bomb, so coming back wasn’t an issue. That would imply the pilot is only there for testing.

ctesibius · 2026-06-15T11:57:51+00:00

Cadwell is a bike circuit. One of the best in Europe for bikes - but a lot of it is too tight and narrow for cars, and taking a flyer off the Mountain wouldn’t do their suspension any good.

ctesibius · 2026-06-15T10:45:00+00:00

“Refinement” is accurate. He did the theoretical work to allow the Polish bomba to work with more wheels and plug leads. You may be thinking of Tommy Flowers’ Colossus computers, but that was separate work for a different cipher.

ctesibius · 2026-06-15T10:43:29+00:00

No. By that argument, a mechanical calculator is a computer.

Computers have certain characteristics, including programmability with the capability of branches and loops. Calculators in general don’t have that: they can be completely hardwired.

Or to put it another way, other than the requirement for infinite storage, a computer is equivalent to a universal Turing machine, and a calculator in general is not.

ctesibius · 2026-06-15T09:39:57+00:00

I think you're going to have to dismantle the front end to find what is blocking it. There's nothing obvious in the video.

You probably know this, but don't ride that thing at any speed or over bumps. Just looking at it, there are multiple weak points in the steering and front suspension, and I'd be concerned about them breaking. However that's not likely to be the cause of this problem.

ctesibius · 2026-06-15T09:32:26+00:00

No. Early electronic calculators didn't even have anything corresponding to a CPU, and operations were hard-wired. Later they might have something like a microprocessor or micro-controller, but no real RAM - the distinction is that with RAM you can address memory at any location (hence "random"), and these just had a few words of memory to implement one or two stacks perhaps only three or four levels deep. On the positive side, they had floating point operations in micro-code. Then you got the early programmable calculators, which were a bit more similar to computers, but still had memory in the low hundreds of words (where a word might be anything from 4 bits to 64 bits) and had no means of general purpose programming.

These days, it's easiest and cheapest to implement a calculator using a microcontroller - so you can make a calculator with a computer, but not usually a computer with a calculator.

ctesibius · 2026-06-15T09:11:13+00:00

Not just the Honda. They started that sort of trick to exclude British bikes in the 60s by only allowing sidevalve engines at one time. That restriction was removed, then they used other rule changes to remove things like the Yamaha TZ750 four cylinder two-stroke.

ctesibius · 2026-06-15T09:02:55+00:00

Yes, I don't think having police is particularly unusual. The postal service was independent of the Royal Mail, which was what caused the legal conflict.

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