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"The scooter rider "underestimated the strength in his spaghetti legs", said Insp Luke Hughes, of North Wales Police."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-63417659

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63477302

I would much rather the Qatari Police do their thing and start a riot, leading to the end of tournament football in the Middle East. But no, British Police being sent to enforce 'cultural sensitivities,'.

I still predict some kind of mass arrest or riot, hundreds of thousands of European football fans in Qatar all at the same time.

 

Looks like my days of not watching football are certainly coming to a middle.

 

I wouldn't go to Qatar if I was on the squad, let alone as a fan.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63499057

Why is it that whenever someone lets a bot control something, it needs only a few days to start promoting Fascism?
Assuming it was actually a bot and not some marketing drone thinking he/she is being clever.

 

Sadly it's a far simpler explanation: human error. Someone found a list of holidays somewhere and wired it up to their automated Super Twitter Post-O-Matic Widget without first validating the list. Checks, reviews, and signoffs are boring, mundane, and thankless but they exist for a reason.

I've been working on a sentiment analysis model for a while and part of the data prep is to expand abbreviations and acronyms to their full form - e.g., "what the fudge" instead of "wtf". The data source used for that was a list of "common abbreviations/acronyms" that the original developer dumped from teh interwebs. I only spotted it because the word "sh!t" caught my eye - it was listed as an acronym for "sugar honey ice tea". Replacing "sh!t" with "sugar honey ice tea" fundamentally changes the meaning of a piece of text and produces a drastically different sentiment score. I had to spend hours manually reviewing over 4000 entries to remove the ones that were either flat out wrong or would change the meaning of the text. It was a boring, mundane, and thankless task, but it was a task that massively improved the accuracy of the process.

 

See I put that into category two, somebody thought they could automate something and save a few Euros by removing oversight, then probably thought they were ever so clever.

 

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Batman dying isn't on the news.

But Ash Ketchum winning the Pokemon Games, apparently that's worthy of the same page as the liberation of Kherson.

#Edit, it's up on te BBC front page now, I am less demote. But still devastated.

 

I was thinking about replacing my phone and, after a couple of minutes, I spotted this vid from last month.


I'm guessing it's more of an issue of storing the phones with the battery completely discharged, but it was an eye-opener to say the least

 

May have to dig through my drawers for the S2 and J5....

I know the S2 did it years ago but I put it down to being just duff, wonder if the replacement is hanging on.

 

Anything you store with a battery is worth a look and consideration of where it is place, My Sony Vita similarly put on a little extra weight around the battery compartment when up in the loft, usefully surrounded by spare bedding and other nicely combustible materials.



The fire risk aspect of storing batteries wasn't something I had considered but obvious really.

Similar is happening with the HP notebooks elite being used by my missus company and they are in use, not even being stored, though this was around the time of our heatwave, so may be related to that.

 

My works HP Elite;
PXL_20211012_152623234 (1) by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

 

Some time last year I came into the office for a several hour meeting for... something or other... My head of department sat down next to me and I absolutely shat myself when he got his laptop out. The front of it - exactly where the battery lives - had ballooned to at over double its normal size. He'd been using it like that for months without ever even realising that it could be dangerous. EDIT: And he'd been carrying it around in a rucksack every. working. day. Quite possibly the most terrifying spicy pillow I've ever seen in real life.

 

That had been like that for weeks, I knew what it was but couldn't persuade IT to get of their arses and get me new battery or laptop.
Took it out myself (I really need to get around to getting shot of it) and ended up being tied to AC power for a couple of months until I couldn't go on a site visit with no working laptop (client wouldn't let outsiders plug in)

 

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Nope, just a cock holster.