Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you

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  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    veronese68 said:

    Similarly, idiots trying to run along the South Bank on a sunny weekend. If you want to run, rather than be seen to run, you wouldn't go along there.

    There’s definitely a lot of wanting to be seen running.

    Which I always find bizarre as I mush prefer running where I won’t be seen. Even when I wasn’t a slow old fart.

    Anyhow, on a lighter note…

    Did Cutty Sark today. Could never understand the whole glass dome thing around it as I thought it looked really ugly.
    As you walk over the bridge to exit the top deck, it suddenly all makes sense. Clever!

    And how much rigging? It’s an absolute dogs dinner of spaghetti to look at and fathom out.

    Wonder how many days have been lost at sea whilst sailors were working out what was what.

  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,172
    What's the most controversial flavour of crips Walkers could produce?
  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,787
    focuszing723 said:

    What's the most controversial flavour of crips Walkers could produce?

    Long pig?
  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,787
    focuszing723 said:

    What's the most controversial flavour of crips Walkers could produce?

    Catch of the Day.

  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,265
    focuszing723 said:

    What's the most controversial flavour of crips Walkers could produce?

    Refugees 'n' onion.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    morstar said:

    veronese68 said:

    Similarly, idiots trying to run along the South Bank on a sunny weekend. If you want to run, rather than be seen to run, you wouldn't go along there.

    There’s definitely a lot of wanting to be seen running.

    Which I always find bizarre as I mush prefer running where I won’t be seen. Even when I wasn’t a slow old fart.

    Anyhow, on a lighter note…

    Did Cutty Sark today. Could never understand the whole glass dome thing around it as I thought it looked really ugly.
    As you walk over the bridge to exit the top deck, it suddenly all makes sense. Clever!

    And how much rigging? It’s an absolute dogs dinner of spaghetti to look at and fathom out.

    Wonder how many days have been lost at sea whilst sailors were working out what was what.

    I look at the size of Cutty Sark and would think twice about going to the Isle of Wight yet they headed around the world with a compass and sextant.

    I could not remember the stat but looked it up and the Victory had 26 miles of rope
  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,787
    focuszing723 said:

    What's the most controversial flavour of crips Walkers could produce?

    Assault n Shake.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,297
    masjer said:

    focuszing723 said:

    What's the most controversial flavour of crips Walkers could produce?

    Assault n Shake.
    Gammon and curry sauce.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,602
    orraloon said:

    masjer said:

    focuszing723 said:

    What's the most controversial flavour of crips Walkers could produce?

    Assault n Shake.
    Gammon and curry sauce.
    Suella and Vinegar
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,602
    La manche sea salt and rubber
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,172
    I believe the Internet more than myself in terms of facts, especially when consulting multiple sources.

    Basically, I'm superceded by it in terms of memory.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,172
    edited March 2023
    Goatie flavour
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,914
    Virtue signalling salt and vinegar?
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,172
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e1_QhJ1EhQ
  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,963
    It's train strike day tomorrow so i consulted Google maps for the best route into work.
    The recommended route is 30 minutes slower than the second option, involves an additional connection and has a less frequent service if I miss a connection.
    Why would that be recommended?
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,172
    Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, says she is excited about the possibilities of AI, but she also had a warning.

    "What we are all seeing is the emergence of this extremely powerful technology. This is an inflection point," she told a conference panel audience. "All of history shows that these kinds of powerful new technologies can and will be used for good and for ill."

    Her co-panelist, Austin Carson, was a bit more blunt.

    "If in six months you are not completely freaked the (expletive) out, then I will buy you dinner," the founder of SeedAI, an artificial intelligence policy advisory group, told the audience.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64967627
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,172
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhJbKBuNnA

    I guess there were/are the same tadeoffs will nuclear power (generation and the other).

    Why is there always a yin/yang with everything?
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,172
    Debt~Credit
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,172
    War~Peace
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,172
    edited March 2023
    Oh and of course I forgot, most importantly, balance.

  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,172
    In whatever years will AI just have the same menagerie of problems as a Human Civilisation?
  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,720
    focuszing723 said:

    Oh and of course I forgot, most importantly, balance.

    Since the Universe does indeed like to keep things mostly in balance, the mere existence of the term "Artificial Intelligence" suggests that "Artificial Stupidity" is an unavoidable reality as well.



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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited March 2023
    How important a table is for any kind of meeting.

    A meeting with chairs and no table is immediately an "addicts anonymous" vibe.

    Gotta have a table.

    Tables are everything for a social interaction.
    _
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,656
    There'll be someone who has read some kind of hippy guide on management who thinks a table is a barrier. I remember a back in the 90s some big companies, who thought whatever the Japanese did in business was right, did the standing meetings as they are supposed to be better for sticking to the point and getting done quickly / efficiently.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,172
    rick_chasey said:

    How important a table is for any kind of meeting.

    A meeting with chairs and no table is immediately an "addicts anonymous" vibe.

    Gotta have a table.

    Tables are everything for a social interaction.

    You're all addicts of the companies which employ you (whether you like it or not). Or,



    It could have been a test.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,602
    Yet 'hot desking' was hip not so very long ago.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 2,150
    pinno said:

    Yet 'hot desking' was hip not so very long ago.

    Its now cold desking at home without the heating on.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,172
    secretsqirrel said:

    pinno said:

    Yet 'hot desking' was hip not so very long ago.

    Its now cold desking at home without the heating on.
    Down jacket required.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,569
    secretsqirrel said:

    pinno said:

    Yet 'hot desking' was hip not so very long ago.

    Its now cold desking at home without the heating on.
    Speak for yourself*. I am currently toasty with the hifi playing my choice of music.

    *I realise that you are joking. Probably.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,602
    secretsqirrel said:

    pinno said:

    Yet 'hot desking' was hip not so very long ago.

    Its now cold desking at home without the heating on.
    But you have a fur coat so you don't need heating.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!

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