Andy Simpson

@ArmsControlWonk My new favourite ChatGPT query is asking it to show me the (non existent) seahorse emoji. These things still have hilarious limitations.

I give up.

@ChelFulhamBen Is the actual text of the white paper available? I can’t seem to find it on gov.uk. Speaking as a leaseholder in your constituency, I’d really like to see what plans there are for converting existing leaseholds to commonhold.

With managing agents ramping up charges for shoddy work and lacking transparency, I'm pleased the govt plans to replace new leaseholds with commonhold. I'll keep campaigning to end existing leaseholders' suffering by getting managing agents to improve. bbc.com/news/articles/…

@RRobovski There's an option for prescription lenses, so you don't need your glasses. Demo'd the Vision Pro at an Apple Store recently, they scanned the prescription from my glasses to get the right lenses installed. Watching TV is still a dumb primary use-case for VR/AR, though.

@JennyENicholson Glasses. As always, I wear glasses. 3D in movies? Nope, I wear glasses. Big headset so you can "enjoy" neckstrain to watch an image of a somewhat larger TV and your partner's crummy avatar? Welp, still need my glasses but it was sooo tempting right?

Me giving a softball review of a big heavy thing you wear on your head: "Once this tech is more affordable it will be a hit!" (not mentioning how bad it feels to have a big heavy thing on your head)

@whedonesque A dancing demon? No, something isn't right there.

Maybe we could have a movie musical about a vampire slayer, and some witches, and a vampire, and a dancing demon

@ZPostFacto Players are able to see just the FPS with the Steam overlay’s FPS display. Might be worth changing that too?

@tom_forsyth Graphics programmers know this, but is a massive uphill battle to get players to think about perf in these terms. I added "msPF" (lol) to the CS in-game frame rate display. You cannot hide it if you want to see fps. People still use the phrase "I lost 50FPS" without context.

A reminder:

Now do it for a family with two children on Universal Credit

@pcworld Nagle’s algorithm is only part of TCP. Things which are latency-sensitive, like games, typically use UDP, specifically to avoid latency introduced by things like Nagle in TCP. Counter-Strike 2, like all prior CS games, uses UDP.

Nagle’s Algorithm: The obscure router setting that can hurt PC gamers pcworld.com/article/246085… pcworld.com/article/246085…

@MentalMikko @bridges_tom @Sam77089690 HS2 was actually an integral part of creating a better link there, the plan was for Liverpool-Manchester trains to use HS2 track to get into Manchester.

@bridges_tom @Sam77089690 Or just spend a fraction of the budget for HS2, HS3, HS3.1 or whatever they come up with next on just improving and modernising the whole Northern rail network and linking Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Durham-Newcastle better!

Early start for the Leeds to Nottingham train. This service connects the West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and East Midlands conurbations which have a combined population of £6.3m and 3 core cities along a 70 mile corridor. The journey time is around two hours. Ave speed: 36mph 🧵

@S1m681155011 @nearlytoolate The article is from 2019. "19 years ago" from 2019 is 2000. As per your link, the vouchers were scrapped in 2002, which you can confirm without the mathematical abilities of a Fields Medallist is after 2000.

@nearlytoolate @bloggmeister @whippletom @DAaronovitch You sure ? news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/191614…

@jedisct1 I think this was written by ChatGPT. It reads like it, and something extremely similar (right down to the choice of words) to this post on the blog: scansio.hashnode.dev/beginner-devel… can be generated by ChatGPT with the title as a prompt: chatgpt.com/share/5b1c96e5…

@AdamRutherford “Shadow, what the fuck are you talking about?” youtu.be/n__GJuqLb00

'We discussed whether it’s necessary for elites to be red pilled on hereditarianism in order to stop woke.' The finest minds of their gener... wait what the actual gibbering fuckballs are you talking about.

@mattgodbolt The possibility of this sort of thing happening is why I started putting an AirTag in my luggage. Hope you're speedily reunited with your stuff!

...it has been radio silence on the luggage situation. Is there any update on all our luggage? It's not like it was "lost", we knew exactly where it was! Thanks in advance!

We very much appreciate the safety first aspect and the crew(s) were excellent. It was a very long delay but we accept that. 2am Friday we were told the original plane, with our luggage on, had been repaired. We have filled in all the forms but other than me chasing...

Fuck yeah theguardian.com/environment/ar…

@MoosicTeech @lammie_j And I live in the Labour-controlled Hammersmith & Fulham (next door to Kensington & Chelsea) and the rates are lower here.

@lammie_j And you’d be wrong …… since my council is Tory led. Yet I pay more than double the council tax of Kensington.

Blackpool is one of the poorest and most deprived towns in the country… Kensington and Chelsea is one of the most affluent areas of the country… Are you getting it yet???!!! 🤔🤬

@JacqBev I live in Hammersmith & Fulham, the Labour-controlled council which borders Kensington and Chelsea. Band A is £924.51, band H is £2773.54. lbhf.gov.uk/council-tax/co… The difference is mainly that London councils make more in business rates, so they charge residents less.

@SwiftOnSecurity A wise man plants trees in whose shade he knows he will never sit. A foolish man does whatever the fuck this shit is

“Don’t build children’s hospitals because they take longer than my attention span” is the hottest NIMBY update in years.

If it’s safe to bank, date and do your taxes online, why not vote? #GeneralElectionlNow

@TrevyLimited @alexjc Not my expertise to know if those are copyrightable or not. All I know is that there's a court judgement, which you failed to appeal, which says you don't have copyright in Iron Sky. Also, IMDB says Norway and the US definitely within 30 days.

@TrevyLimited @alexjc Note that under Article 3 4), the work can be considered to be simultaneously published in multiple countries if it's published in multiple countries within 30 days of the first publication. So just being premiered in Germany doesn't mean it's a necessarily a German work.

@TrevyLimited @alexjc In other words: signatories to the treaty can't discriminate against foreign works. Everything treated the same.

@TrevyLimited @alexjc Yeah. It says foreign works get the same protection as a domestic work. So, for example, a German work would get the same protection in Finland as a Finnish work would. So German law would in fact not apply: Finnish law applies in Finland.