Tim Sharrock

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Software Engineer, interested in energy and the green transition
I got a complementary copy of my new @OReillyMedia book Introducing C++
#fabulamurina (mouse story) 499
ecce! duo cuniculi Paschali ova colorata in plostello habent (Look! Two Easter bunnies have
coloured eggs in a little cart)
sed mane...sunt Silvius et Stephanus porcus! (But wait... it's Silvius and Steve the pig!)
In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly occurred to me that I had never seen anybody put together this particular demo before, and I realized it had to be done. Messy source code at https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs.
The Gorton and Denton by-election must be a wake-up call for the party – or it is doomed inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

Labour's ugliest-ever politica...
Labour’s ugliest-ever political strategy has utterly failed

The Gorton and Denton by-election must be a wake-up call for the party – or it is doomed

The i Paper
#fabulamurina (mouse story) 490
hodie mures coquunt (Today the mice are cooking). Minima sartaginem in mensam ponit; Silvius lucunculum spathā tollit (Minima puts the frying pan on the table; Silvius lifts the pancake with a spatula). bene sapiat (bon appetit)!
#pancakeday

RE: https://mas.to/@amPennyfeather/116081985139378332

It has arrived on my Kobo. Thanks. I am looking forward to reading it

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

The singularity has been cancelled.

What we're getting is wall to wall spam generators, optimized for passing the (modified) Turing test and convincing gullible humans that they are "intelligent".

Instead of the singularity, we are getting the spamularity.

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 488
investigatores antiquitatis nuper carnycem Britannicum in Icenis effoderunt (Archaeologists recently excavated a British war trumpet in Iceni territory). Minimus carnycem suum proprium inflat; Silvius tubum aeneum sustinet (Minimus blows his own war trumpet; Silvius holds up the bronze pipe).
for #SquirrelAppreciationDay I have added a bit more from this squirrel's visit.
An occasional vister in Formby, (North West England). A squirrel easily fits through the hedgehog hole, foxes and cats have to squeeze, and the hedgehog has not been active since November.