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@Persixty @straceX I think on most platforms there would be no packing. Happy to be shown wrong…

@babbageismus @straceX But an int precedimg...

every linked list in the linux kernel works like this. the list node lives inside your struct, not the other way around.

@stendec6 @renewablesmiffy Most come with a pipe to allow that, if you have a suitable drain available.

@renewablesmiffy Why don't they put the condensate down the drain?

You can use a heat pump tumble dryer in a flat. The expelled water is pushed into a sealed container to be poured down the sink so unlike the conventional drier doesn’t put moisture into the room. So an additional benefit to the significant cost savings

@ClarkeMicah Ever since the car was invented the demand from ordinary people has been overwhelming, despite the cost. Motorcycles with sidecars, the Austin 7. People made the choice and the train wasn’t it. Unless you understand the motivations of the public you have no chance.

.@alabanjones2 The country is already designed around the needs of cars. I don't like it, as I don't wish to use a car. My plan for changing this is to give people the choice they once had, but was stolen from them in the 1960s, to travel in other ways. No gulags.

@BskiMike22802 I think you need to work on your comprehension skills. Not surprising Albert dropped you.

He blocked me as he destroyed his own argument! LOL. In a debate, never ask a question that you don't already know the answer to.

@Devon_Eriksen_ By your second paragraph you appear not to have read Dawkins comment. At all. The rest may be interesting opinions but it’s not relevant…

Never send a biologist to do the work of a computer scientist. Dawkins doesn't understand that evolution built human computational abilities breadth-first — memory, language, object model, generalization and classification, agency, and so on, all in a primitive state, and then refined them. Computer science isn't doing that. It is building human capabilities depth-first. So we have something that emulates human language capabilities to an advanced degree... ... but nothing else. That's why there is a curious sense of something missing when you talk to Claude or Grok or ChatGPT. It's not some minor errors with use of language itself. Its language capabilities are quite advanced. What you are detecting instead is the complete absence of these other neural systems, which are what lies behind the use of language in people. Something that is very glib with language but has no object model, no mirroring ability, no understanding of the ground truth of the universe its in might be able to become president of the United States, or win a Nobel peace prize, but it isn't actually a person. It's more like a small slice of a person's brain, containing Wernicke's and Broca's areas, and very little else. We're not used to thinking of people as a collection of systems, but we're going to have to start, because we no longer have the luxury of dividing the universe in human and not, and automatically assuming every human is a person, and every non-human isn't. You can't evaluate a software neural net as if it were a proto-human, and try to decide on that basis whether it is a person that's allowed to do what we allow people to do. If you allowed a small slice of brain, containing Wernicke's and Broca's areas, to do things like vote or run for office, then it would be able to appear to do so, but have no actual understanding of what was going on, no coherent model of the universe or the task before it. This would lead to disaster for any number of issues, such as race relations or the medical industry. Let me be 100% clear... LLMs are not people. They are not people now. They will never be people. And anyone who thinks LLMs are people is probably not a person, either. We may someday make something that is a person. But it will have an LLM, not be one.

@Persixty @straceX An array of 16 char. Think it’s likely OK

@straceX With an int and char at the start, on many platforms that task struct is likely to include padding. declaring the members tasks, name, pid in that order is likely to be smaller.

@Platypustoo @DrHoenderkamp Most assertions like yours are drawn from single events where a woman has won, but these laudable achievements don’t generalise. And it doesn’t matter, we have women’s and men’s events so the extraordinary can be celebrated.

@Platypustoo @DrHoenderkamp But it’s an unavoidable fact that men run faster than women at all record distances and times. I suggest you visit a park run, or your local marathon or half-marathon and just watch.

If you don’t understand why women want their own timed record in park run… The fastest Male AMATEUR winner ran the London marathon 3 + minutes faster than the Female WORLD RECORD breaker. Men run faster than women. Fact.

@midkemia69 @GeoffBuysCars Might have a warning light. Seems like something that would preclude an Mot and should be sorted prior to sale….

@GeoffBuysCars what does "requires a new steering rack at some stage to run the lights off" actually mean?

There's a lovely ONE OWNER Lamborghini on Facebook Marketplace right now. Unfortunately that One Owner was a hire company. LJ69CVC is now the most famous Lamborghini in the UK.

@vaxryy I think the Linux scheduler has a limitation when it’s paging and every process is always ready. It thrashes and nothing gets done. So, more memory or ‘make -j N’ where N is less than the number of virtual cores.

I have 64G of RAM and yet /usr/bin/g++ stil finds a way once in a while to oom my entire system and cause a giga lockup and crashes

@Fozzie24Mark @DanNeidle In the year before entering parliament he wasn’t an MEP.

@DanNeidle So he recieved it as an MEP? He was an MEP for 20yrs. If an MEP's total outside income exceeds €5,000, they are required to declare all sources.

Lots of people asking if Farage would have been taxed on the £5m. The answer is: likely no. Gifts generally aren’t taxable. (save IHT, not relevant here)

@IanWessels2 @PaulinusOfTrier He presented an actual argument, you countered with ‘ludicrous’ and ‘preposterous’. Might be worth putting a bit more thought in lest readers think you to be a bit thick.

@PaulinusOfTrier Ludicrous defence of hereditary peers. Preposterous, that someone (mainly men) are in legislature, because someone is a descendant of a 11th century French, Flemish or Breton chancer or the by-blow of a lady who caught Charles II's eye or a Dutch crony of William of Orange

As a boy, I was at a boarding school very close to Parliament. I took the opportunity to go and watch the debates in both houses from the visitors' gallery; at that time it was not widely known that one could do this, so it was easy and quick to get in. I saw all the famous politicians of the 1970s. But what was self-evident, even to a teenager, was that whereas the elected members of parliament were out to score points in their speeches, before voting according to pre-set ideas, the hereditary Lords were genuinely issued in persuasion and had open minds. This was because, being hereditary, they were beholden to no-one and no party; ironically, they were much more representative of ordinary people with common sense than their political colleagues in the lower house.

@aakashgupta Slop. Delete your account.

Bugatti just lost its all-time speed record. To the Chinese EV in this video. 308 mph at Papenburg, on a battery. The Chiron Super Sport had held the record for six years. 1,600 hp, 8.0L W16, four turbochargers. Bugatti needed every horse of that to hit 304 mph. BYD's Yangwang U9 Xtreme did 308 with four electric motors and a battery pack. Marc Basseng, the driver, won the Nürburgring 24 Hours. He said the run was "technically not possible with a combustion engine." He's right. A combustion engine produces a power curve that peaks at a specific RPM and falls off either side. Past 9,000 RPM the valves float, the connecting rods stretch, the pistons can't reverse direction fast enough. The W16 is the absolute thermodynamic ceiling of 100 years of internal combustion. Every mph past 290 cost exponentially more engineering for diminishing returns. The U9 Xtreme uses four electric motors. Each produces 744 hp. Each spins to 30,000 RPM. No valves. No pistons. No connecting rods. Total system output is 2,978 hp, almost double Bugatti's W16. Power-to-weight is 1,217 hp per tonne. The motors were never the hard part. Mate Rimac said this years ago. The constraint was always the battery, because to deliver 2,978 hp into four wheels you have to discharge faster than any production EV ever has. BYD built the world's first 1,200-volt production car. Everyone else uses 800V. The Blade Battery runs lithium iron phosphate cells with a 30C discharge rate, ten times what a conventional EV battery handles. Heat generation falls 67% versus 800V at matching output. That last number is the whole game. Heat is what kills high-power EV runs. Other automakers derate within seconds at full power because the battery cooks itself. BYD's architecture lets the Xtreme hold maximum discharge long enough to actually approach the aerodynamic limit of the chassis. Bugatti spent 20 years engineering the W16 to its physical ceiling. BYD spent 18 months building the architecture that cleared it. They're making 30 of them. The crown for fastest production car on Earth has belonged to Bugatti, Koenigsegg, Hennessey, SSC. All combustion, all European or American. The crown is Chinese now, and it runs on a battery.

@Platypustoo @DrHoenderkamp This assertion isn’t supported in the records. Eg, men’s 6 day record, 1045km, women 928. Pro rata the women’s marathon record would be 2h15. Or are you talking about even more extreme running?

@DrHoenderkamp As ever, such a generalised unevidenced statement is wrong.

@SJG99 @JimCognito2016 Your point?

@babbageismus @JimCognito2016 Networking and socialising is part of lots of jobs. It doesn't require alcohol.

I'm sorry but I'm not buying the line "MPs have a tough job and work long hours so need to drink" The people they represent often work longer hours in tougher jobs & would be sacked for doing the same Want a drink? Fine, have one after you've done your job & pay for it yourself

@Tush27J Paramedics, bus drivers , nurses and doctors all depend on maintaining physical dexterity to work. You’re making a completely spurious point and clearly, like Hannah Spencer, have absolutely no idea what politics is.

I am finding some of the responses to Hannah Spencer's very serious point just baffling. Paramedics, bus drivers, nurses doctors all work late. They cannot drink alcohol whilst at work. Reeking of alcohol/being pissed is a serious disciplinary matter.

@Barry4EU @KTHopkins Lyndon was prepared to. Be like Lyndon.

@KTHopkins I wouldn’t shake hands with a fascist. Why would anybody? Don’t expect respect if you are a nasty little racist.

Well done to Lyndon Harrison in Newquay The Green Party moron has never been told no in her life has she? Let me guess… Miss Abigail is a pro-pally, vegan, trans-ally who took 28 boosters, adopted a pet Ukrainian & knits her own Birkenstocks.

@King_Rat_II @timdavies_uk A passenger in the stopped car died. Driver should be in court.

@babbageismus @timdavies_uk They’re dead.

Has the world gone mad here or is it just me? EVERYONE sits at 70 to 80 on the motorway and only fucking idiots stop in the fast lane.