Neil The Nellster
@nellster.bsky.social
ex-forester, ex-code-monkey, ex-husband, atheist, scientist, ancient history fan, bee-keeper, law-curious, lover, cyclist/car-driver/motorcyclist, politically centre/left of centre, vaguely pro-vegetarian but not there yet myself
Excessive user of - and /
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Science is about persuading the vast majority, and nuclear power and wars in the Neolithic definitely fails that basic test.
At best, it is fanciful
At best, it is fanciful
December 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Science is about persuading the vast majority, and nuclear power and wars in the Neolithic definitely fails that basic test.
At best, it is fanciful
At best, it is fanciful
There is lots I disagree with in that article:-
1. The Strait of Gibraltar was created by the Zanclean Flood 5.3 MILLION years ago (not 'towards 5000 BC')
2. The Black Sea deluge is highly disputed, no good evidence for it
3. Nuclear power back then is so unlikely, so irrelevant - Occam's Razor
1. The Strait of Gibraltar was created by the Zanclean Flood 5.3 MILLION years ago (not 'towards 5000 BC')
2. The Black Sea deluge is highly disputed, no good evidence for it
3. Nuclear power back then is so unlikely, so irrelevant - Occam's Razor
December 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
There is lots I disagree with in that article:-
1. The Strait of Gibraltar was created by the Zanclean Flood 5.3 MILLION years ago (not 'towards 5000 BC')
2. The Black Sea deluge is highly disputed, no good evidence for it
3. Nuclear power back then is so unlikely, so irrelevant - Occam's Razor
1. The Strait of Gibraltar was created by the Zanclean Flood 5.3 MILLION years ago (not 'towards 5000 BC')
2. The Black Sea deluge is highly disputed, no good evidence for it
3. Nuclear power back then is so unlikely, so irrelevant - Occam's Razor
... and everyone laughed
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
... and everyone laughed
It is extraordinarily painful to watch! The lighting is poor, the sound is dubious, the lack of simultaneous translation is very 3rd world, and the Orange Warmonger got a peace prize!
I wonder if many teams and their supporters will be allowed in?
I wonder if many teams and their supporters will be allowed in?
December 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It is extraordinarily painful to watch! The lighting is poor, the sound is dubious, the lack of simultaneous translation is very 3rd world, and the Orange Warmonger got a peace prize!
I wonder if many teams and their supporters will be allowed in?
I wonder if many teams and their supporters will be allowed in?
Bubble sort? Pffft!
I was always a big fan of 'binary chop' as we called it back in Victorian times of computering: binary tree, nowadays, apparently. Don't mention asymptotic efficient sort or Python Sort
Not sure my memory is accurate.
I was always a big fan of 'binary chop' as we called it back in Victorian times of computering: binary tree, nowadays, apparently. Don't mention asymptotic efficient sort or Python Sort
Not sure my memory is accurate.
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Bubble sort? Pffft!
I was always a big fan of 'binary chop' as we called it back in Victorian times of computering: binary tree, nowadays, apparently. Don't mention asymptotic efficient sort or Python Sort
Not sure my memory is accurate.
I was always a big fan of 'binary chop' as we called it back in Victorian times of computering: binary tree, nowadays, apparently. Don't mention asymptotic efficient sort or Python Sort
Not sure my memory is accurate.
WOW!
I mentioned this to a couple of people I bumped in to and they knew the story just as well as me. Surely they were .... sucks finger, puts it in the air ... 10 yrs old when it hit the interweb
15?
I mentioned this to a couple of people I bumped in to and they knew the story just as well as me. Surely they were .... sucks finger, puts it in the air ... 10 yrs old when it hit the interweb
15?
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
WOW!
I mentioned this to a couple of people I bumped in to and they knew the story just as well as me. Surely they were .... sucks finger, puts it in the air ... 10 yrs old when it hit the interweb
15?
I mentioned this to a couple of people I bumped in to and they knew the story just as well as me. Surely they were .... sucks finger, puts it in the air ... 10 yrs old when it hit the interweb
15?
Holy sh*t, I think I ought to understand that and agree
Re-reads it ...
tumbleweed
Re-reads it ...
tumbleweed
a blurred image of a desert landscape with trees and bushes
ALT: a blurred image of a desert landscape with trees and bushes
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November 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Holy sh*t, I think I ought to understand that and agree
Re-reads it ...
tumbleweed
Re-reads it ...
tumbleweed
I haven't watched a single second of it, but I am (fairly) sure that this episode scared the bejeebus out of me as 6yr old, and I really did hide behind the settee - but kept watching.
With excitement, I shall now watch...
With excitement, I shall now watch...
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I haven't watched a single second of it, but I am (fairly) sure that this episode scared the bejeebus out of me as 6yr old, and I really did hide behind the settee - but kept watching.
With excitement, I shall now watch...
With excitement, I shall now watch...
