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Ben Taylor
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Sci-fi, gaming, coding, some science (particularly marine/climate and remote sensing). Also random things that my cats or kids have done or grumping about politics, probably.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Do you ship outside the US and if so would it arrive in the UK in time for Christmas? I just wanted a few stickers for my kids...
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Well, they're not, because they're plastic. They're cheap and nasty and I imagine Louis XIV would have had anyone trying to put them in Versailles executed. So in that sense, not monarchical.
December 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Doesn't get in the news if you just call it a full moon, those happen every month and everyone's seen them already. A blood moon or a cold moon though, well...
December 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If he thought there were no survivors, why the double tap? He just likes to see expensive military hardware exploding for no reason?
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
It hadn't occurred to me they might be kisses until you said that. Some of these might get funnier if I read them that way now. 😂

(Yes, yes, wrong, I get it. But funny!)
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Sigh. I just got done with fourteen months of SQL and I'm starting on some more "coding" coding (if y'know what I mean tomorrow) and I only realised how much I'd missed it last week. Guess it ain't gonna last long!
November 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Interesting. I can't say I'm eager to develop my way out of a job, but I guess if I don't someone else will. ;-) I'll give it a go, thank you. :-)
November 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
So this is weird, because my experience of seeing LLMs write code is that they aren't very good at it if you want anything more than a toy. So we're doing different things - I have not spent a lot of time on it, but what are you doing that is producing good results that I am not doing?
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Once the claim has been evaluated and any disciplinary process has been gone through, the professor will either be fired (if it's bad) or returned to duty (if it's less bad). Being put on administrative leave in the mean time is normal.
November 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
From the look of the letter, procedure is that if a (not obviously vexatious) claim of religious discrimination is made, administrative leave is the normal immediate response. Administrative leave is not a finding of guilt, it is to prevent any existing situation worsening.
November 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Depends if he's going to enforce it. He gets to decide it if he wants to use the US military to enforce it, though you would imagine destroying Venezuela's air defences would require congressional authorisation for use of force.

If he's not going to enforce it, it's just bluster.
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
You aren't breaking the law. You've got no obligation to chase down their customer support email and send them your driver's license details. They're breaking the law, they're supposed to ask, but you aren't.
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Oh. That's disappointing. Sorry then!
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM