Ah yeah, missed that 🤦‍♂️

Because this is the internet, I can’t tell if the whoosh goes to your downvoters or you. I think you were joking, but that second sentence makes me wonder…

I pay for Nebula - $30 a year which is about £22.50. That won’t even cover two months of YouTube Premium (£12 pm), and there’s not even the discounted yearly option in the UK.

And “if you’re not paying you’re the product” is wrong - YouTube/Google would still be datamining my viewing habits to sell to advertisers.

Rosie’s prize task was a worthy winner, brilliant entry.

I can’t believe they actually went with the smoothie idea, especially after Baba’s reaction.

“Creatures of habit, just like nuns.” With humour like that, I’m assuming Alex enjoys cryptic crosswords.

Anyone find the mannequins’ names familiar? I wonder if it was just a callback or if they’ll appear again.

I like the idea that someone forgot to wear the hotdog outfit and brings it out for the final’s studio task.

The mannequins had the same names as the Aussie Rules team from the first season (The Yank Tank stuck in my head). I wonder if they’ll make a reappearance since now the contestants (in theory) know their names.

Perhapsburg they are

Only if enough people do it. Then again, loads scrapers outside of AI already pretend to be normal browsers.

The phrasing of “First actual case of bug being found” definitely sounds like it’s a reference to an existing term. Nowadays maybe people would say “a literal bug lol”.

Edit: to be fair, OP doesn’t say that Hopper invented the term

I had a “T-Mobile MDA Vario II” (HTC TyTN 300) which was similar, and also had a collapsible stylus which lived in a little hole on the bottom. It was Windows Mobile, but it was great having the keyboard fully accessible (without that extra bottom bit the G1 had).

It looked like this, just less German:

That’s the first Android phone, the HTC Dream (or TMobile G1). I loved this phone, even if it was chronically underpowered.

I want David Mitchell to try this show at some point, but I doubt he’d be willing to do it.

Victoria Coren Mitchell did it, and she’s about the same “seriousness” (as comics go).

Jack Dee is a very well known face on British TV, in part for hosting Live at the Apollo before it became rotating hosts. Grumpy, dry and deadpan, he’s someone Alex has consistently mentioned when asked who he’d love to have on the show.

Rosie Jones has been on a lot of panel shows lately, and is quite a marmite taste - people seem to love or hate her. In my house we’re not a fan in large part because her punchlines are all shock humour, which doesn’t really work once you’re expecting it. I’m hoping she’ll grow as a comedian - Sarah Millican’s routine seemed to be 99% I’m fat earlier on but now she’s great.

I’ve not watched anything with Andy Zaltzman in and I don’t know the other two at all.

Andy Zaltzman’s bubbles task was a thing of beauty, it’s only right that he got the top marks.

Then him dragging that spot around on the final task, chef’s kiss

Talking of, Emma Sidi’s abysmal throwing was wonderful (and Baba channelling Dr McCoy).

Jack Dee is turning out to be the mostly-joyless joy we knew he would be.

In the studio task, did Rosie just completely fluke into the right answer with a vaguely plausible reason?

Shame on you APNews for not including any Hoiho memes

Seems to be based on Tragedy of the Aral Sea, or maybe vice versa.

The term you want is “cross compile”. I’ve developed simple programs for the Pi on Windows and it’s simple enough to produce a static binary (using Rust, anyway). When extra dependencies come in it’s better to develop on the same OS, but targeting different architectures is the easy bit.

stacking prefixes is disallowed (e.g. 10 k km), and because using mega is both correct and more concise (e.g. 10 Mm).

If you’re talking distances and you say Mm, I’m far more likely to assume you mean millimetres. It might be technically correct, but it’s bad communication.

Oh, you’re right - somehow I missed seeing the entire bottom third of the image.

And they’ve highlighted the whole of the UK for “England”. Scotland has the thistle, Wales has the daffodil and Wikipedia says that flax is widely used as a symbol of Northern Ireland.

I think of England’s rose as red, because of the rugby.

Why are you quoting a US site for a case in China?