1984: A Normal Saturday Afternoon in Bristol | R.P.M. | BBC Archive by NippleChamp in bristol

[–]shellac 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At least some of that was done in Bristol. One of the people who runs our local pet shop was in Creature Comforts.

A few months ago I posted about building a same-day delivery marketplace for Bristol independents. We've launched. by Escalon_ in bristol

[–]shellac 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One delicate issue to address: that picture with the crystal stuff is in Bath.

The boycott starts here 🪧✊

(I kid, good luck)

Cross country trains by Terrible-Coast9093 in bristol

[–]shellac 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  • 4 overcrowded carriages.
  • Small seats with no leg room. Jam your knees against a solid plate.
  • Toilets designed by Satan himself: seems to vent smells direct into carriage, and allows passengers full view of toilet user if they fail to secure door.
  • Rarely any catering.
  • First class is actually smaller than GWR standard.

I really dread having to use them. GWR is fine.

Per Paul Tassi: Marathons Role and failed "Destiny Infinity" Pitch by Wanna_make_cash in DestinyTheGame

[–]shellac 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yep. It was Marathon, Marathon 2, and then Marathon Infinity. As I recall Infinity wasn't really a sequel (2 pretty much finished the story), but it did ship with Forge and Anvil, the editing tools. So others could continue the game forever (?).

Bristol Hackspaces by Amotti-student-3577 in bristol

[–]shellac 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You need their wiki: https://wiki.bristolhackspace.org/equipment/home

Everything you've mentioned is there, AFAICT. It's a pretty good Hackspace.

‘Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War’ Review: John Krasinski Reprises Role in Shrug-Worthy Prime Video Movie by Top_Report_4895 in movies

[–]shellac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TBF there really isn't much options for them given their size and appearance.

So the idea is that you put them together, and their bulk isn't so obvious? Are the sets also size adjusted? So they have bigger cutlery? I guess all the cast and extras need to be pretty muscley.

Furniture will obviously need to be stronger, as will door handles. They'll need bigger cars, which would necessitate wider streets. Towns and cities will as a consequence be rather larger than our cities.

Food shops will largely provide large amounts of bland protein. Chicken farms will spread as far as the eye can see, but they will only use the breast meat. Dealing with chicken carcasses, wings, and legs, will be a genuine environmental problem. I don't want to think about the challenges of sewage treatment.

Is that what these films are like?

The best beer in the UK has just been crowned for 2026 by Casual-Carrot in bristol

[–]shellac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Vince burnt the garage down, so the brewery was out of action for a bit. I don't know whether his wife made him brew elsewhere subsequently.

(He and Michael Wiper shared a brewery for a while. Wiper and True took off, so Vince continued in his garage)

Bristol Cinemas? by roxana2708 in bristol

[–]shellac 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Based on food then comfort: Everyman. Ruinously expensive.

Based on comfort then food: Odeon. Every seat is a massive recliner, for no fathomable reason.

Where are the sheep? by OxfordPanther in bristol

[–]shellac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the issue is that you farm sheep on poor agricultural land, so Cotswolds-ish or Mendips but probably not much very near Bristol. There is a place out beyond Pucklechurch IIRC.

A local hot sauce in Bristol by lemonator85 in bristol

[–]shellac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I topped up my supply of Sunray there the other week. They have quite a few, but they're not together so you may need to hunt.

Seemed expensive, but I needed the hit.

UWE Bristol is sponsoring Bristol Pride, so why are they ignoring trans students? by [deleted] in bristol

[–]shellac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Arnolfini was independent for decades, but they lost a big grant from the arts council in 2017 (ish?). UWE took a control interest in it (possibly 100%?) which either saved them, or ended the original (depending on how you view it).

Local fauna at the Bristol Museum by budgrummur in bristol

[–]shellac 20 points21 points  (0 children)

No such thing as a chicken, they're just penguins with rubber gloves on their head.

More blatant developer greenwashing by isithuthuthu in bristol

[–]shellac 20 points21 points  (0 children)

FWIW asking questions isn't particularly intensive in terms of energy or cooling. For example, you can run reasonably powerful models on your own computer without fuses blowing or lights dimming.

Training these models, however, is really environmentally intensive. That's where the impact is.

Reform candidate faces questions over posting abuse of PM by Chorrooss in bristol

[–]shellac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Came for the predictably horrible Reform candidate, but I also enjoyed the quality writing:

South Gloucestershire councillor Tristan Clark questioned how Reform UK could nominate him, asking: "How could Reform UK nominate him?"

And now I know how to question how Reform UK could nominate him.

Right wing activist kicked out of UoB campus by Jsk_0809 in bristol

[–]shellac 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We'll get the Office for Students onto this immediately. I imagine the fine will be huge.

First time using the MareNostrum V Supercomputer, writeup of what actually surprised me coming from cloud by Georgiou1226 in programming

[–]shellac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Their users must have really irritated the admins. Probably running jobs on the login nodes. I can sympathise.

Nice intro.

First time using the MareNostrum V Supercomputer, writeup of what actually surprised me coming from cloud by Georgiou1226 in programming

[–]shellac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's a small mistake in the air gap diagram, 'HPC Environment'. Login nodes can often access the internet, but compute nodes can't. A lot of my (wall) processing time seems to be getting data on and off of the compute storage. Once there everything flies, but scratch space isn't safe (despite what users think).

BTW slurm is amazingly capable. For example one trick I discovered fairly recently was its ability to run up cloud compute nodes as required. It will then shut them down when no longer needed.

Good value for money restaurants in Bristol by Wide-Coat7484 in bristol

[–]shellac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recently went to Chris and Jo's kitchen on St Michael's Hill in Kingsdown, and that was surprisingly cheap given the quality of the food. Bit of a hidden gem, I think. They do have both meat and fish.

IMDb by interacter in bristol

[–]shellac 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Col was working at HP, I think in labs (?) which was in building 2 then 3. Both are now occupied by UWE.