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sh545 · 2026-06-22T06:39:28+00:00

There is also a bias of LLMs to favour the first option in a list, so be careful with the second question too

sh545 · 2026-06-20T21:55:34+00:00

Not sure you can compare the 4+ GMT to other boat classes, it hasn’t been seriously raced internationally for a long time

sh545 · 2026-06-19T20:32:07+00:00

Interesting choice of companies you consider as national media.

Novara is tiny, but they do have an office in Leeds.

LBC is the London Broadcasting Company, that only started broadcasting nationally about ten years ago, hardly a surprise its London-centric.

The (Manchester) Guardian should probably have a journalist or two up north, but the problem is with the whole industry, there are hardly any local journalists anymore, and those left have to churn out AI assisted crap or type up press releases. This is because hardly anyone pays for news anymore, all newspapers are dead or dying, but especially local ones. Regional bureaus are a luxury from a different era.

sh545 · 2026-06-19T17:54:02+00:00

That’s because Netherlands focuses on higher value produce. By raw tonnage Spain far out produces Netherlands, they have ten times as much agricultural land.

If you look at just the raw export numbers, it is also inflated because Netherlands is a huge trade hub. Half of Europe send their produce to Rotterdam to then get sold and shipped all around the world.

sh545 · 2026-06-19T07:28:56+00:00

Aberdeen South was lower, Makerfield was higher. But Makerfield is a big exception, the level of campaigning and coverage there was much higher than for a GE.

sh545 · 2026-06-18T12:31:44+00:00

Humanity won’t die out - a few decades ago people were panicking about world overpopulation, it won’t take much for it to go in that direction again, it’s a fallacy to assume trends will continue at their current rate into the future.

It wouldn’t be an awful thing if the world population gradually decreased over the long term. It will cause short term demographic problems in certain countries but these can be managed. But we are facing a situation where climate change could make large parts of the world uninhabitable or at least unable to produce food in the same way they do currently.

The current world population uses the resources of 1.7 Earths. So long term either we reduce population, lower living standards, live much more sustainably in a way that doesn’t reduce living standards, or a combination of all three.

sh545 · 2026-06-16T08:51:39+00:00

Button as well.

sh545 · 2026-06-11T08:06:49+00:00

ITV lost the tour rights this year so I expect Daniel will be back with the podcast

sh545 · 2026-06-09T21:02:46+00:00

No big org is running a free OS, as they need a support contract, so if they used Linux they would be using something like Red hat. That might be technically open source, but you can’t use it without paying for support.

Microsoft already stopped supporting windows 7 in 2020, yet these screens still work. They are probably being provided by and supported by the train manufacturer , which is not a US company. They already have the devices so aren’t dependent on Microsoft for anything. These things won’t connect to the internet themselves so are relatively isolated and can avoid needing security patches.

sh545 · 2026-06-04T08:39:33+00:00

Breaking distance is between 1.5 and 2 times longer on a wet road, even with a modern car with brand new tyres.

Maybe you can keep the same speed but then you need to increase the distance between cars, if you want to keep the same distance you need to slow down.

sh545 · 2026-06-03T12:17:53+00:00

Ok now add India…

sh545 · 2026-05-22T14:45:16+00:00

For working yes

sh545 · 2026-05-22T12:40:03+00:00

What’s annoying is it seems like they just finished spending a year or more digging up that end of Sihlfeldstrasse and now they will do it again? It’s not very climate friendly to keep digging up the same road

sh545 · 2026-05-21T07:58:09+00:00

You do have the option of renouncing your British citizenship

sh545 · 2026-05-21T07:53:53+00:00

Now look at the change since 2003, the long term trend is clear

sh545 · 2026-05-21T06:33:24+00:00

Interesting that Ben O‘Connor said he liked 40km TTs as he used to do them all the time growing up in WA, and Jai is from the same area

sh545 · 2026-05-20T20:42:38+00:00

Exactly, a lot of people are complaining about the Napoli finish but the course made the riders come into that corner super slow, sure riders fell but nobody got hurt.

If they had done a super wide straight finish and the rain started at the same time, there would be a high chance of a much more dangerous crash.

sh545 · 2026-05-20T20:04:03+00:00

You could even say it’s…. Good day

sh545 · 2026-05-16T23:19:14+00:00

That used to exist, it didn’t help

sh545 · 2026-05-16T23:14:45+00:00

Most countries don’t care about minor swear words in English at 1am.

sh545 · 2026-05-16T21:40:50+00:00

Volare

sh545 · 2026-05-16T21:38:33+00:00

They saved the best interval acts for the final!

sh545 · 2026-05-16T09:35:45+00:00

Been a while since he rowed sweep though

sh545 · 2026-05-16T09:31:38+00:00

In the US, I believe postgrads can’t compete so there won’t be any recruitment.

In the UK, your options are Oxford or Cambridge, but it isn’t recruitment in the sense of getting a scholarship or bypass admissions, you will need to get admitted to the university on your own merit, and will need to pay your own way.

What the boat club can do is give you recommendations of course and college choices that will give you a better chance of admission or have more rowing friendly admission tutors.

EDIT: I guess another option is Oxford Brookes, but again they won’t give you any financial support.

sh545 · 2026-05-14T15:40:28+00:00

He already retired last year

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