What book are you reading now?

25lbft.

 

Spoilt a good read !
So not particularly tight.

 

It's a challenge to get them that slack.

 

So do I Moony .. está es para usted

 

I'm working my way through these again. Half way through the 2nd one...

(Commonwealth saga, void trilogy...)

 

Nope. No real reason why they should come undone with the serrated washers.

 

The ones I took off had no washers...
the new ones have !

 

Excellent! The belleville washers act like a serrated cone spring to stop the bolts coming undone.

 

Just finished 'in montparnasse, the rise of surrealism from Duchamp to Dali'...now reading Moby Dock. (I like a classic now and then)

 

Still dipping into "Woke" by the queen of social justice warriors, Titania McGrath (aka comedian Andrew Doyle). It's bloody hilarious (but largely indistinguishable from the average Guardian article). Recommended, as are her tweets

https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

"Just wanted to say that I think the pandemic is a bad thing and I care about the elderly and the vulnerable. Please retweet so that everyone can appreciate my commendable moral stance."

 

I’ve read a couple, they all talk in abstract, this is along those lines.

The issue is everything in a book is out of date isn’t it!

 

Have you read matey’s (whoever he is) original paper on bitcoin? Worth a read - out there on’t web somewhere.

 

Keith Seume- Aircooled VW Engine Interchange Manual. I can dream.

 

Nah...Satorio or something?

Couldn’t give a crap about bitcoin etc, I looked at all of that years ago and blockchain is fatally flawed as a bedrock for any currency.

Tangle....that might work, but at the moment it’s all a big Ponzi scheme in the crypto currency space.

Blockchain for supply chain is far more of interest.

I’m looking at it for tracking people in physical locations, around building and out and about.

South Korea have central apps to enable people to ID sources if Covid-19. Their society will accept that level of intrusion, ours won’t.

I’m wondering if a non centrally held ledger, and thus not owned or controlled by a government or business might be more acceptable as South Korea have the only viable exit strategy I can see for Covid-19.

If it’s central, but each person is anonymised (bit like the bitcoin wallet) then your personal data isn’t a commodity, so can’t be sold or manipulated.

But you can identify as having it, thus self isolate and get help, and others can make informed decisions to physically avoid your last locations....it would allow us to cease home lockdown but kill off physical locations for incubation periods.


It’s not flawless or that well thought through as the book is throne room reading material at the moment.

 

Simply undo The two M10 bolts that hold the assembly in place
How come they don’t round off in the book

 

My brother got me this.
He got chatting to Nigel on Twitter .
I haven't started reading it yet but I am looking forward too.

 

What's gonna "after" Google..

 

Nice to be staying home..

 

Google has a model of knowing everything about everyone.

Their AI is based on if you know everything you can model everything to come.

The issue is that cloud datacentres need ever more and ever faster computational power....which in turns consumes more and more power.

It’s unsustainable.....and privacy matters. Currently only 1/30th of the world have access to technology.....I believe we need to step back from the brink.