Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

Nobody remembers it I've asked except people in my own family. Since my mother's and father's side came from 300 miles apart, it seems odd two completely different areas called it that.

I detest the mme.

But for some reason prefer tre. Perhaps to avoid the Americanism.

Actually, the Merkins changed those as part of their simplification proceedings.

That is why I use program, because it's illogical to have two for what means the same thing. It's a sequence of events in both cases.

Unless you pronounce it gay oll, the spelling is absurd.

I virtually never see disc.

No, I write compact disk. Why on earth would you write disc?

Americans are just lazy.

I say an otel or a hotel. But never an hotel (although I've heard it said that way). An historic event is also common and very stupid.

Well f*ck me I just mentioned that. Now did I see it out of the corner of my eye? I've often read something a long way from my centre of vision. If only I could train my eyes/brain to do that on purpose.

Ax is too short to be a word.

Indeed, that would only make sense if you pronounced the acronym as a word.

Not sure what you mean. Is that like "affection"?

Bollocks, logic beats rules.

As in a ukulele.

Those are vowels.

That sounds so utterly stupid. Merkins, do you really want to sound thick?

It's a gay name.

We can't imitate the language of every tiny obscure impoverished island on the planet.

Programmers do that all by themselves.

Not if they are good, and not continually.

A formally released firmware package can be bug-free and is not updated every week like most software is. The software model of multiple people editing millions of lines of code on github, and pushing updates out to users often and randomly, isn't safe for hardware.

ML and NNs are self-modifying code.

A quibble but I don't consider modifying the weights and biases self- modifying code. Now if it decided it needed another layer of neurons and a different activation function that would be self-modifying.

Putting on airs, like some Liverpool yob trying to use RP.

As are is, to, be, a, and as.

iirc, that was how Wilde became so familiar with Reading Gaol.

Execution paths change as a function of input history. That is effectively self-modifying no matter what you call it. It's unpredictable and uncontrolled so can create bugs.

Why automate bug creation when people do it so well already?

But it's much easier to say Covid had a higher fatality rate among non- Hispanic blacks because of societal factors.

We discern red by comparing the relative stimulation of the three cones.

(Most people would say violet, but there isn't much difference.)

So what about orange? Don't you see orange? (People used not to have a word for it before the fruit was imported.)

Note that I said "discern" above, not "see". There are tests involving putting coloured tiles in order (online versions are available); most people can *distinguish" between 30 and 40 different colours. Clearly we don't have 30 different kinds of cone.

As well as distinguishing colours in a test, there is the question of how many spectral colours we regard as distinct. This is a subjective matter, dependant on culture, occupation and whether we have names for the colours. For example, I can see that orange is a bit reddish and a bit yellowish, but (to me) it has a distinct quality of orangeyness.

I've tried, but I can't honestly see indigo as a distinct colour; it's more like an intermediate between violet and blue. (We are only taught that indigo is a colour of the spectrum thanks to Newton and his liking for the number seven.)

It does fit in with our knowledge of how colour vision likely evolved in us and other primates. Other mammals have just two kinds of cones: blue and yellow and effectively have red/green colour-blindness. The gene for the yellow cone could have duplicated and one copy mutated so that it responded to a slightly different wavelength of light. This was perhaps useful in our ancestors at it would enable us to distinguish red fruit from green leaves, or ripe from unripe fruit.

The retention of red/green colour-blindness in some people could be because such distinctions aren't all that important, or it could be that such colour-blindness defeats the camouflage that some predators adopted.

Your preceding paragraph would indicate that you too think it's odd that violet appears to be between blue and red; opposite ends of the spectrum.

Parrots and ultraviolet are irrelevant as we can't see ultraviolet.

Look. Every LNB can be tuned to a different MUX or polarisation. They are smart, not dumb head amps. LF or DC Signals go to them down the coax to tell them waht to do.

You need one per active watching session and one per active recording session unless you are recording of the same Mux you happen to be watching In general two or more cables from tow or more LNBs will feed a set top box and recorder.

8LNB units are available.

That is why it is conventional these days and bugger if I know what its called, to feed a house with a coaxial cable whose outer is Neutral and which is well earthed by the electricity network. Mine is earthed this way AND has a copper rod in the ground too. Belt and braces.

If you have a combined neutral and earth and lose it, you lose all your leccy. That is usually noticeable

Yes you could still get a shock BUT the RCD would be totally unbalanced and would trip

Well its politically correct. In fact IIRC the biggest death rate was among asian medical workers